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266.OGILBY, John; John
Owen, Emanuel Bowen.
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Britannia Depicta or Ogilby
Improv’d; Being a Correct Coppy
of Mr. Ogilby’s Actual Survey of all
ye Direct & Principal Cross Roads
in England and Wales: Wherein are
exactly Delineated & Engraven,
All ye Cities, Towns, Villages,
Churches, Seats &c. scituate on
or near the Roads, with their
respective Distances in Measured
and Computed Miles … The fourth
Edition.
London, by Tho. Bowles, 1751 [31652] £1750
Small 4to (195 × 138 mm). 19th-century full calf to period
style, spine lettered gilt, double gilt rules, boards with floral
roll in blind, red sprinkled edges. Gift inscription dated 1884
on front free endpaper. Engraved title, 4 ff. letterpress tables, &
273 engraved plates. Prelims bound out of order but complete,
small amount of worm at head and tail of front inner hinge,
one or two trivial marks, but an excellent copy.
Fourth Edition of this popular reduced version of John
Ogilby’s 1675 road atlas augmented by fifty-four county
maps and historical notes by John Owen, the whole
engraved on 273 strip-maps by Emanuel Bowen. First
published thus in 1720, this fourth edition formed the
basis of several reissues over the next forty years. “Ogilby
made the first survey of the roads of England and Wales,
and is probably best known on this account … Sir
John Fordham … says [the survey] ‘is of particular and
historical importance, as it displaced the old British mile
of 2,428 yards, and substituted it for the statute mile of
1,760 yards, thus effecting a revolution in customary
measurements’” (Chubb, p. 444).
RARE HAND-COLOURED
LITHOGRAPHS OF ALPINE
SCENERY
267.[PEZOLT, Georg]
Album vom Salzburger Alpenlande.
Wildbad Gastein: J. Schoen, in Commission bei H. Abel in Salzburg, [c.
1850] [18946] £3500
Oblong 8vo (162 × 220 mm). Contemporary brown moroccograin
lacquered cloth, covers stamped in blind with thick-andthin
outer border, front cover with the word “Album” stamped
in blind, brown cloth backstrip. Chromolithograph title
Catalogue 57: Travel Section 6: Europe, including Constantinople
and 30 hand-coloured lithographic views, each with green
tissue guard. A couple of tissue guards creased, occasional
light foxing to margins, one plate with two small marks, an
excellent copy.
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. An extremely rare item.
We cannot locate any copy in institutional holdings
worldwide; only COPAC has anything close with an
undated folio “Album vom Salzburger-Alpenlande (nach
d. Natur gez. v. Gg. Pezolt. Lith. v. Leop. Rottmann.)” in the
National Library of Scotland. The plates, showing Alpine
scenery around Salzburg, including Wildbad Gastein and
Berchtesgarten, are signed “Gez. v. G. Pezolt / Stahlstich
u. Druch v. Serz & Cie. in Nürnberg”. The firm of Serz & Cie.
was founded in 1848.
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