J B HARLEY, WITH A CARTO BIBLIOGRAPHY BY RICHARD OLIVER, AND TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS BY RODNEY FRY (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: F/F/VG++. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. HARDBACK "RARE VOL VII IN THE SERIES," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st * Date of Publication: 1991. * Publisher: Harry Margary, Lympne Castle, Kent. * Binding and cover condition: Dark blue cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine only. No visible marks or wear. FINE.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing the armorial bearing of the Ordnance Survey with red titles to spine and face. No visible shelf wear to top or bottom edges, head or tail of spine, some spotting to front & rear of jacket. Now in a clear un-attached protective wrapper. VG++.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible marks to page edges, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Some b/w line drawn illustrations & b/w full page plates to introduction. Numerous single sided map section reproductions throughout. * Pages: 252 pp. text. lxxiv pp. introduction and appendices at front & blank pages at rear.* Description: Volume 8 is the rarest volume in the series; it has been rumoured that much of the stock was destroyed in a warehouse fire, and it certainly went out of print extremely quickly. A reproduction of the 110 sheets of the survey in early state in ten volumes of which this is volume VIII containing those for Northern England and The Isle Of Man, (Cumberland, Durham, Isle of Man, Northumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire, North Riding and Parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire, East and West Ridings.). Scale one inch to the mile.* A FINE text copy of the 1st./1st. with some slight marks to jacket now in a clear un-attached protective dust jacket.*.

Zustand: Good. First edition (hardback), volume 8 (Northern England). 4to (34cm by 25cm), lxxii, 125 pages of maps. Original blue cloth, but lacks the dustwrapper. This book was formerly in a reference library, with a couple of discreet stamps, but the book is nonetheless in good to very good condition overall. High-quality reproductions of sheets 91-110 of the old series of the ordnance survey, covering England north of the Preston-Hull line, plus the Isle of Man. The editors used the earliest copies of the maps they could get their hands on; in this volume the maps were published between 1847 and 1874. Volume 8 is the rarest volume in the series; it has been rumoured that much of the stock was destroyed in a warehouse fire, and it certainly went out of print extremely quickly. ISBN 0903541459.

Zustand: Near Fine. First edition (hardback), volume 7 (north-central England). 4to (35cm by 26cm), lxx. 103 pages of maps. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. The book iand the dustwrapper are in very good condition High-quality reproductions of sheets 61-63, 71-73, 80-82 and 87-90 of the old series of the ordnance survey, covering Cheshire. Derbyshire, most of Flintshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire, southern Lancashire and Yorkshire, and parts of Denbighshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire. The editors used the earliest copies of the maps they could get their hands on; in this volume the maps were published between 1833 and 1844. ISBN 0903541076.