Description: I have here for sale a book entitled A NEW AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE DIRECT AND PRINCIPAL CROSS ROADS IN ENGLAND AND WALES Containing I. An Alphabetical List of all the Cities, Towns, and remarkable Villages; with their Market Days, and the Counties in which they are situated. II. The Direct Roads from London to all the Cities, Borough, Market, and Sea-Port Towns; shewing the Distance from each City, Town, or Village, to the next on the same Road; with their Distance from London, and an Account of the Remarkable Seats that are near the Road. III. The Cross Roads of England and Wales. IV. The Circuits of the Judges of England. V. An Index to the Country Seats. The Whole on a Plan entirely New, and far preferable to any Work of the Kind extant. By DANIEL PATERSON The Ninth Edition: with the Addition of near Eighty Pages, including considerable Improvements in the direct Roads, many new Cross Roads, and a great Number of Noblemen and Gentlemen's Seats. Printed for T N Longman, London, in 1792. This comprehensive directory of roads includes a double-page Map of A General View of the Roads of England and Wales on the frontispiece.This is bound with: A TRAVELLING DICTIONARY; or, ALPHABETICAL TABLES Of the Distance of all the Principal Cities, Borough, Market, and Sea Port Towns in Great Britain, from each other. Shewing by Inspection The Number of Miles every City or Town in the Kingdom is Distant from any other, according to the nearest Direct or Cross Road. Comprehending above Fifth Thousand Distances, carefully collected from the nest Authorities, and arranged in a Manner entirely new and plain. To which is Added, A Table, shewing the Distance of the Towns, Bridges, etc., upon the River Thames, from each other by Water. The whole being a Second Part to the New and Accurate Description of the Roads by DANIEL PATERSON The Sixth Edition, Improved and Corrected. Printed for T N Longman, London, in 1792.Also bound with A NEW AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE DIRECT AND PRINCIPAL CROSS ROADS OF SCOTLAND The Seventh Edition Corrected and Improved; with Additions by DANIEL PATERSON printed for T N Longman, London, in 1792. Brown leather boards which have minor marks and wear along the edges, particularly at the corners. Five raised bands with a burgundy title block, gilt lettering and gilt bands on the spine; there is wear along the hinges and a minor vertical crack. Very light foxing to endpapers and prelims with name of previous owner on the prelim. All pages are tight and the book is in very good condition indeed for its age. xxxvi, 386 pages. Travelling Dictionary: 216 pages. Roads of Scotland: ii, 31 pages. 19.5 x 12 cm.We have over 2000 items in our Ebay shop on a range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if anything else takes your fancy.Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.
Price: 89.99 GBP
Location: Whitegate, Cheshire
End Time: 2024-11-08T20:39:31.000Z
Shipping Cost: 40.17 GBP
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Binding: Leather
Non-Fiction Subject: Topography & Local Interest
Language: English
Region: Europe
Original/Reproduction: Original
Author: DANIEL PATERSON
Publisher: T N LONGMAN
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Year Printed: 1792
Original/Facsimile: Original
