[Gough (Richard)], An Essay On the Rise and Progress of Geog...

Hammer

£240

[Gough (Richard)], An Essay On the Rise and Progress of Geography in Great-Britain and Ireland, Illustrated with Specimens of our Oldest Maps, London: Printed by J. Nichols, Printer to the Society of Antiquaries, 1780, pp: vii, 90 (mispaginated 1-78, 81-92), xii, illustrated with 8 fold-out plates of maps (Plate VIII in 3 parts) and one additional extra-illustrated plate after title-page, [bound with], Bannister (S.), A Brief Description of the Map of the Ancient World, Preserved in the Cathedral Church of Hereford, Hereford: Printed and Published by T. T. Davies, [...], 1849, 12pp, six-fold chromolithograph facsimile after B. Tucker, mid-19th century green quarter-calf over marbled boards, fragmentary gilt-lettered spine, the base with the crest of Rylands, 4to, [1] Provenance: Thomas Glazebrook Rylands (1818-1900), of Highfields, Thelwall, Cheshire, his Plain Armorial bookplate to recto pastedown; by descent to his son, John Paul Rylands, FSA (1846-1923), his Golden Age Armorial bookplate below the latter.