Britannia, Volume the First: or, an Illustration of the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales... a... Description of the Principal Roads..
by OGILBY, John
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
(London: Alexander Duckham, 1939).. Oblong 4to. 108 pp, including 100 pp of facsimile road maps plus a general map of England and Wales and the frontispiece, all colour. Publisher's grey-green cloth, gilt lettered russet panels to the spine and upper cover. Some wear to the spine labels, minor marks and sunning to the cloth, else very good. Facsimile edition of the 1675 edition.
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- Bookseller
- Bow Windows Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45747
- Title
- Britannia, Volume the First: or, an Illustration of the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales... a... Description of the Principal Roads..
- Author
- OGILBY, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (London: Alexander Duckham
- Date Published
- 1939).
- Keywords
- Maps & Atlases British Isles
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About the Seller
Bow Windows Bookshop
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Lewes, East Sussex
About Bow Windows Bookshop
Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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- Facsimile
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- Gilt
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