Attractive copy of James Pigot’s atlas of the British Isles

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Pigot & Cos. British Atlas.

Comprising the Counties of England... Separate Large Sheet Maps of England and Wales, Ireland and Scotland... A Circular One of the Country Round London...

PIGOT, J[ames]
London,
J. Pigot & Co. 59, Fleet Street,
1832
Folio (410 by 300mm), title, 41 engraved maps (of which four are folding), all with fine original outline hand-colour, later green calf, title lettered in gilt to spine.
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The atlas contains a general map of England and Wales, a map of Ireland, a map of Scotland, 39 maps of the English counties. Before each map of the county is a brief description giving information on its situation, name, history, soil, produce, climate, manufactures, trade, rivers, civil and ecclesiastical divisions, and population. The maps themselves each bear a small pictorial vignette, and show roads, rivers, canals, railways, towns with there distance from London, vill...

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