[Atlas] Moll (Herman, Geographer), A Set of Fifty New and Co...

Hammer

£420

[Atlas] Moll (Herman, Geographer), A Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales, &c. With The Great Roads and Principal Cross-Roads, &c. [...], first edition, London: Sold by H. Moll over-against Devereux Court in the Strand, Tho. Bowles, et al., 1724, double-page letterpress title, 50 engraved maps, of which 2 are folding maps of Roman Britain and England & Wales with the Channel Islands, and 48 double-page county and regional maps, the latter with antiquarian borders of antiquities and coins, some bound out of sequence and transposed, title-page with pencilled scribbles, the first quarter or so of the atlas with a gnawed upper-right margin, with paper loss but not affecting any map or marginal vignette, and growing fainter throughout, additionally the Sussex leaf is repaired, Herefordshire margin chipped with loss, yet not affecting map, Yorkshire repaired and its margin defective, as well as the following maps, the West, East and North Ridings of Yorkshire and then much less apparent come The County Palatine of Durham, Westmorland margin stained, some chips and uneven margins in places throughout, contemporary speckled calf, outlined in gilt, disbound, the boards chipped, scuffed and rubbed, 4to