Great Britain - Description and travel - 18th century
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The english traveller giving a description of those parts of Great-Britain called England and Wales. Containing I. A particular Survey, both Geographical and Historical of every County in the same. II. An Ample and Accurate Account of all the Cities, Boroughs, Market-Towns, Villages, Rivers, Royal-Palaces, Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats. III. The Fairs, Trade, Commerce, and Product of each County; of the Rarities both natural and artificial; of the eminent Persons born, or who have resided in them, and of the extraordinary Events that have happened in the same. IV. A map of every County, from the best and latest Observations; wherein are mark'd the Number of measured Miles, and the usual Roads from one Post-Town to another, after the Designs of Herman Moll. V. Of the Isles of Wight, Man, Jersey, Guernsey, and other British Isles, with the Maps of the same.
Read, Thomas, Printer.Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]- E-books
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Bibliotheca topographica Britannica. No II. Part I. Containing Reliqu? Galean?; or miscellaneous pieces by the late brothers Roger and Samuel Gale. In which will be included their Correspondence with their learned Contemporaries, Memoirs of their Family, and an Account of the Literary Society at Spalding
Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- E-books
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The new annual register , or general repository of history, politics, and literature, for the year 1780. To which is prefixed, a short review of the principal transactions of the present reign.
Date: 1793- E-books
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Owen's new book of roads or, a description of the roads of Great Britain. Being a companion to Owen's complete book of fairs. Containing, I. An Alphabetical List of all the Cities, Towns, and remarkable Villages, in England and Wales; the Counties in which they are situated, and the Market-Days. II. The Distance in measured Miles from London, to the several Towns, &c. and from one Town to another on the several Roads. III. The Cross Roads. IV. The High Roads and principal Cross Roads in Scotland. V. The general Roads of the Judges Circuits, VI. A concise Account of the Noblemens and Gentlemens Seats upon each Road. VII. The Post-Master-General's Account of the Nights that Post Letters are dispatched. The fourth edition, corrected and greatly improved. Illustrated with a neat and correct map of Great Britain, describing the principal Roads and chief Towns, &c. on a large Scale.
William OwenDate: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- E-books
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Bibliotheca topographica Britannica. No VII. Containing the history and antiquities of Hinckley, in the county of Leicester; including the Hamlets of Stoke, Dadlington, Wykin, and the Hyde. With a large appendix
Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]