Cartography - Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex's Co...

Hammer

£500

Cartography - Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex's Copy - Ogilby [(John)], Owen [(John)], & Bowen (Em[manuel]), Britannia Depicta, or Ogilby Improv'd [...], first edition thus, London: Printed for & Sold by Tho: Bowles Print & Map Seller next ye Chapter House in St. Pauls Church-Yard & Em: Bowen next ye King of Spain in S: Katherines, 1720, the whole printed in copperplate, pp: [6], 273 full-page road and county maps as called for, allegorical title-page, relaid contemporary blind-panelled calf, rebacked spine of six-compartments with raised bands, the second-compartment, lettered in gilt, 8vo, [1] Provenance: Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, KG, KT, GCB, GCH, PRS, FRSA (1773-1843), sixth son and ninth child of King George III and Queen Charlotte., his armorial bookplate incorporating the royal arms, ink MS shelf numbering within the platemark: IV B. a. 4; presumably one of the five parts of his sale, R.H. and T. & C. Evans, Bibliotheca Sussexiana: The extensive and valuable Library of [...] the late Duke of Sussex, K.G., 1st July 1844 - 11th August 1845; further pencil inscriptions to recto endpapers in a later 19th century hand.