Roads & Turnpikes - Hounslow & London, The New District, or ...

Hammer

£120

Roads & Turnpikes - Hounslow & London, The New District, or Isleworth Turnpike Acts of Parliament, with A Correct List of the Trustees, Printed by Order of the Board of Trustees of the 10th Day of January, 1814, presentation copy to the treasurer-chairman of the trustees, Brentford: Printed by P. Norbury, 1815, pp: [iv], 106, [1], ten-fold copperplate engraved map frontispiece of the district, contemporary Regency calf (disbound, some losses), tooled in gilt and blind, marbled endpapers and edges, recto endpaper inscribed in ink MS: Presented to The Rev:d E[dward] Scott DD - The Treasurer & Chairman, later ownership inscription: W Scott_ (?the son), 8vo, (1); Springwood Park Copy, Parnell (The Right Honourable Sir Henry, Bart), A Treatise on Roads [...], London: Printed for Longman [...], 1833, pp: xii, 438, 7 fold-out engraved plates to recto, contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, Plain Armorial bookplate: Sir George Douglas, his ancestral seat's library label: Springwood Park, Kelso, [Scotland], 8vo, (1); McAdam (John Loudon), Remarks on the Present System of Road Making [...], fifth edition, London: Printed for Longman [...], 1822, the whole prefixed by a 16pp Whittaker's catalogue of latest publications, original publisher's boards, 8vo, (1); Digests of the General Highway and Turnpike Laws [...], An Appendix on the Construction and Preservation of Roads by John Scott [...], London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilley, 1778, contemporary publisher's boards only, 8vo, (1); A Collection of the Acts of Parliament Now in Force for Regulating the Turnpike Roads in Englands, with a Copious Index, London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1837, rebacked publisher's boards, 8vo, (1); another earlier copy, London: 1823, publisher's boards (disbound), 8vo, (1), [6]