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Condizione: Very Good. Recently rebound hard back binding in quarter olive cloth, blue paper sides, cream and black paper label to the spine, fore and lower page edges untrimmed. 8vo. 9½'' x 6''. Contains frontispiece, (xvi), 296 printed pages of text with folding monochrome illustrations throughout. In Very Good clean condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [Technique & Materials].…

No binding. Condizione: Good. Small quarto (190 x 110 mm.), two volumes, full contemporary tree calf, gilt ruled boards, spines with ornate gilt ruled compartments, blue calf gilt title labels and gilt volume numbers worn, light wear to board volume 1, complete with blank endpapers. Volume 1 with engraved general double-page map of England and Wales, engraved title page, dedication to the King, General Contents, Preface, Index, 340 engraved road strip maps (2 to a page), Direct Roads of a lesser notes paginated 341-403, pp. xxxv, blank. Volume 2: Engraved title page, 46 [cross] road strip maps (2 to a page numbered contiguously from 404-449 in two columns), pp. 450-634, in good condition. Daniel Paterson (1738-1825) was born at Duddingston, Edinburgh in 1738. He was commissioned in the army in 1765 and served in the Quartermaster General's department until 1812. He made Assistant Quartermaster General for the last eight years before his retirement. He then became Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec until his death in 1825. According to the ODNB it seems unlikely that he ever went there. 'Paterson's Roads' was first published in 1771 and it proved to be a popular work being published into the nineteenth century. It only contained one general map. In 1785, this rarer profusely illustrated work was published by Carington Bowles (1724-93) running to only five editions. There are two road strips per page, each individually numbered. It is notable for including some of the first road maps of many parts of Scotland. Paterson made no significant cartographic contribution but did however compile useful works containing much information on the roads. This second edition of 1796 is by Bowles' successors, Henry Carington Bowles (his son, 1763-1852) in partnership with Samuel Carver. In this issue there is a change of format, the direct roads are all consecutive in the first volume. The cross roads are in the second volume. All plates and text pages are numbered consecutively throughout the two volumes. The general map has had the engraved dividing line marking the two volumes erased. Provenance: Burden collection duplicate, acquired 1978 from an unknown source. Carroll (1996) Appendix 15; Fordham (1924) p. 37; Fordham (1925b) 'Paterson's Roads' pp. 344-55; ODNB; Shirley BL T.Pat 1c (lacking the second volume).…

No binding. Condizione: Good. 470 x 590 mm., in fine early wash colour, in very good condition. In about 1780 Carington Bowles first published "Bowles's Universal Atlas". An example of this edition appears to be in the Library of Congress. It was quite possibly intended to be a smaller and more manageable version of Kitchin's "General Atlas" first published in 1773. Those maps were often multi sheet and folding making their use difficult. In the Bowles atlas the majority of the maps are single sheet. Bowles appears to have re-issued the atlas with revisions just prior to his death in 1793. He was succeeded by his son Henry Carington Bowles (1763-1852) who shortly after formed a partnership with Samuel Carver. The firm was renamed Bowles and Carver and continued trading at No. 69 St. Paul's Churchyard. Most publications by this firm are rare and "Bowles's Universal Atlas" is no exception. Undated as before the atlas is usually ascribed the date of 1798 or thereafter based on internal evidence. Refer Shirley 'Atlases in the British Library' T.Bowl 2a; Tooley's 'Dictionary of Mapmakers'.…

No binding. Condizione: Good. 640 x 470 mm, in fine early wash colour. With small area of slight foxing in the centrefold on the right otherwise on fine thick paper and in excellent condition. In about 1780 Carington Bowles first published "Bowles's Universal Atlas". An example of this edition appears to be in the Library of Congress. It was quite possibly intended to be a smaller and more manageable version of Kitchin's "General Atlas" first published in 1773. Those maps were often multi sheet and folding making their use difficult. In the Bowles atlas the majority of the maps are single sheet. Bowles appears to have re-issued the atlas with revisions just prior to his death in 1793. He was succeeded by his son Henry Carington Bowles (1763-1852) who shortly after formed a partnership with Samuel Carver. The firm was renamed Bowles and Carver and continued trading at No. 69 St. Pauls Churchyard. Most publications by this firm are rare and "Bowles's Universal Atlas" is no exception. Undated as before the atlas is usually ascribed the date of 1798 or thereafter based on internal evidence. This fine map of Portugal was first issued in the 1780 edition and here appears in fine full wash colour. Earlier examples are usually in outline colour. An attractive title cartouche appears upper left. "Olhar o Mundo ler o Territorio" Exhibition Catalogue p. 174 illustrating the earlier issue; refer Shirley "Atlases in the British Library" T.Bowl 2a; Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers.…