Printed for and Sold by W.H. Toms, Engraver in Union Court, near Hatton Garden, Holborn,
1742
4to, First edition (250 by 270mm), title, hand-coloured dedication, forty-six engraved maps, (of which 42 are county maps), all with fine original full-wash colour, five engraved tables, original full red morocco,a.e.g., gilt fleur-de-lys to corners, coat-of-arms of Frederick the Prince of Wales to centre of upper and lower cover, rebacked preserving original spine, gilt.
Dedication copy of Badeslade's 'Chorographia Britaniae'.
Badesdale's fine county atlas of England and Wales. The atlas contains forty-two engraved maps of the counties, and four of England and Wales, together with the five engraved tables detailing high roads, cross roads, and principal towns.
"The atlas was perhaps one of the two or three of the best-selling county atlases to be published before Cary's New and Correct English Atlas appeared in 1787. I...
Dedication copy of Badeslade's 'Chorographia Britaniae'.
Badesdale's fine county atlas of England and Wales. The atlas contains forty-two engraved maps of the counties, and four of England and Wales, together with the five engraved tables detailing high roads, cross roads, and principal towns.
"The atlas was perhaps one of the two or three of the best-selling county atlases to be published before Cary's New and Correct English Atlas appeared in 1787. It was the first eighteenth-century county atlas to be truly pocket size (when the sheets were folded and bound on guards), and like its road-book equivalent, Britania depicta, it immediately found a substantial and hitherto unexploited market" (Hudson)
The atlas is dedicated to the Prince of Wales (1707-1751) the eldest son of George II and father of George III, as well as the great-grandfather of Queen Victoria. The present copy bears his coat-of-arms to the upper and lower cover together with the badge of the Prince of Wales of three fleur-de-lys rising through a coronet.
First edition of John Ainslie’s Landmark Map of Scotland
1 × £6,000
First edition of John Ainslie’s Landmark Map of Scotland
1 × £4,000
Rare chart of New Jersey published in “the first maritime atlas to be devoted to the Americas”
1 × £35,000
A map of Japan by Edward Weller from the ‘Weekly Dispatch Atlas’
1 × £150
Homann’s map of the Caspian Sea
1 × £500
Hong Kong – the ailing Qing dynasty leased to Great Britain, 1898
1 × £7,000
John Ainslie’s Landmark Map of Scotland
1 × £5,000
First edition of John Ainslie’s Landmark Map of Scotland 
Rare chart of New Jersey published in “the first maritime atlas to be devoted to the Americas” 
A map of Japan by Edward Weller from the ‘Weekly Dispatch Atlas’ 
Homann’s map of the Caspian Sea 
Hong Kong – the ailing Qing dynasty leased to Great Britain, 1898 
John Ainslie’s Landmark Map of Scotland 
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