Kitchin's Post-Chaise Companion, though England and Wales;
containing All the Ancient and New Roads...
London,
Printed for John Bowles, Carington Bowles, and Robert Sayer,
1767
Oblong 4to (200 by 250mm), title, 103 engraved road strip maps, printed on recto and verso, later panelled calf, rubbed.
2509
notes:
First edition of this early English road atlas.
The scroll-form strip maps show the highways and major roads. A great deal of information is included on the maps including mileages, local details, directions, with cross-references to tables. The maps were first published by John Senex in 1719, for the new work Kitchin has reworked the plates adding new information. ...
The scroll-form strip maps show the highways and major roads. A great deal of information is included on the maps including mileages, local details, directions, with cross-references to tables. The maps were first published by John Senex in 1719, for the new work Kitchin has reworked the plates adding new information. ...
bibliography:
Chubb CXLI
provenance:
The scarce English edition of the Mercator/Hondius atlas in original colour
Ptolemy’s first projection, with the “finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator”
The first atlas printed in Venice, the first wholly printed in colours, incorporating the first map to indicate Japan, the second map in a Ptolemaic atlas to show America. 



