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Britannia depicta or Ogilby improv'd; being a correct coppy of Mr. Ogilby's Actual survey of all ye direct & principal cross roads in England and Wales: ... And to render this - work universally usefull & agreeable, ... are added ... 1. A full & particular description & account of all the cities, borough-towns, towns-corporate ... By Ino. Owen ... 2. The arms of the peers of this realm ... 3. The arms of all ye bishopricks & deanaries, ... 4. The arms, & a succinct account of both universities & their respective colleges, ... Lastly particular & correct maps of all ye counties of South Britain; with a - summary description of each county, ... By Eman: Bowen engraver
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.Date: 1730- Books
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The relation of a journey into England and Holland, in the years, 1706, and 1707. By a Saxon physician, in a letter to his friend at Dresden, wherein are contain'd many remarkable Passages and curious Observations in Anatomy, Surgery, Physick, and Philosophy. By Ch. Ed. Physician in ordinary to the King of Poland, Elector of Saxony, &c. Translated from the Latin.
Erndl, Christian Heinrich, 1676-1734.Date: 1711- Books
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A new geographical description of England and Wales: containing a distinct view of the air, soil, produce, Manufactures, Cities, Boroughs, Market-Towns, and Principal Villages, giving an exact account of all the market and fair days, and Interspersed with the Name of the most eminent Personages born or residing in each County. Together with authentic lists of the seats of the English nobility. To the whole is prefixed Kitchin's most accurate map of the roads, with The Distances by the Mile Stones, and other exact Admensurations between Town and Town, Carefully correct to the present Time.
Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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Description des royaulmes d'Angleterre et d'Escosse. Composè par Estienne Perlin. Par. 1558. Histoire de l'entree de la Reine Mere dans la Grande Bretagne. Par P de la Serre. Par. 1639. Illustrated with cuts, and English notes.
Perlin, Étienne.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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Magnæ Britanniæ notitia: or, the present state of Great-Britain, With divers remarks upon The Ancient State thereof. By John Chamberlayne, Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society. And more exact and larger Additions in the List of the Officers. &c. than in any former Impressions. With His Majesty's Royal Privilege.
Chamberlayne, John, 1666-1723.Date: MDCCXVI. [1716]- Books
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The British monarchy: or, a new chorographical description of all the dominions subject to the King of Great Britain. ... To which are added alphabets in all the hands made use of in this book. The whole illustrated with suitable maps and tables; ... and engrav'd by George Bickham.
Bickham, George, -1758.Date: 1748- Books
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The agreeable historian, or the compleat English traveller: giving a geographical description of every county in that part of Great-Britain, call'd England. Together with the antiquities of the same. With a Full and particular Account of all the Cities, Market Towns, Villages, Royal Palaces, and Gentlemen's Seats; of the Sea Ports and Fortifications, the Course of the Rivers and the Inland Navigation; of all the Fairs, and Market Days; and of the Trade, Commerce, and Product; with a map of every country [sic] prefix'd to each, from the best and latest Observations, after the designs of Herman Moll, and others. ... . Containing the following Counties, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, and the Isle of Man, Derbyshire, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Durham, and Essex. Compiled from Camden, Leland, Dugdale, Ogilby, Morgan, and other authors, by Samuel Simpson, gent.
Date: 1746- Books
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Owen's new book of fairs, published by the King's authority. Being a complete and authentic account of all the fairs in England and Wales, As they have been settled to be held since the Alteration of the Stile. Noting likewise the Commodities which each Fair is remarkable for furnishing; also the Days on which Markets are respectively held; with the Distances from London; and the Number of Members which each Place sends to Parliament. A new edition. To which is added, an abstract of all the acts of Parliament relating to fairs.
Owen, W. (William), -1793.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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Britannica curiosa: or, a description of the most remarkable curiosities, natural and artificial, of the island of Great Britain in the several counties, cities, Towns, Villages, &c. the Principal seats of the Nobility and Gentry, Public Buildings, Places of Resort and Entertainment, &c. &c. In six volumes. The second edition. Illustrated with fifty-nine copper plates. ...
Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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Magna Britannia antiqua & nova: or, a new, exact, and comprehensive survey of the ancient and present state of Great-Britain. Consisting of I. A Compleat and Accurate Description of the Cities, Boroughs, Towns and Parishes in the Kingdom. II. Their Antiquities. Their Ecclesiastical, Civil, Natural, and Literary History; with a View of the Manners, Policy and Customs of the Inhabitants. III. A Copious Account of the Foundations, Endowments, Original State, and present Condition of the Cathedrals, Monasteries, Churches, Palaces, and other publick Structures. IV. Compleat Lists of most of the Church Livings in England, and in what Hundred or Deanary they lye: Their Value in the King's Books, and real Income; also an Account of many of their Present Patrons and Incumbents. V. A full History and Description of all the Noblemen and Gentlemen's Seats and their Present Possessors, with Pedigrees of their Families, Ancient and Modern, according to the best Accounts. Likewise Memoirs of the Lives and Actions of such eminent Persons as have particularly signalized themselves by their Conduct or Writings. The whole being more Comprehensive and Instructive than Camden, or any Other Author on this Subject. And Illustrated not only with General Mapps, but also particular ones of each County, and other Plates curiously Engraved, representing the Roman, Saxon and Danish Antiquities found in this Island: As likewise Tables shewing at Sight the Distances of Market Towns and other remarkable Places not only from one another but also from London. With many other Particulars that are curious and worthy Notice. Collected and compiled from the antiquities and histories at large of each county. With many Accounts accurately taken on the Spot, and communicated by several judicious hands. ...
Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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A tour through the south of England, Wales, and part of Ireland, made during the summer of 1791.
Clarke, Edward Daniel, 1769-1822.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Books
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The present state of Great Britain, under the auspicious government of Her Most Sacred Majesty Queen Anne. Containing, I. A general description of England, Scotland, and Wales, through their several Cities, Counties, Districts, Principalities, &c. II. Of the Present Genius, Language, Trade, Laws, and Religion of the Britains. III. Of the several Ranks and Orders of Men; the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Commonalty. With a particlar Account of Precedency, from First Peer, to the Meanest Peasant. Taken from the Authorities of the best Lawyers, both Common and Civil, as well as Antiquaries, Heralds, &c. such as Cambden, Selden, Segar, Ferne, and many others. IV. Of the Present Monarchy of Great Britain; its Greatness and Power; the Sovereign's Prerogative, Dignity, Title, and Arms; Her Court, Forces, and Revenues of the present Princes and Princesses of the Blood Royal, and the Succession to the Crown, as settled by Act of Parliament. V. Of the High-Court of Parliament, Privy-Council, and all Courts of Judicature. With the Newest and most Perfect List of Her Majesty's Officers in church and State, and of the present Parliament and Convocation of Great Britain.
Date: 1707- Books
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Ogilby's and Morgan's Pocket-Book of the roads, with their computed and measured distances, and the Distinction of Market and Post-Towns. Also a table for the ready finding any Road, City, or Market-Town, and it's Distance from London: a sheet-map of England, fitted to bind with the Book: and an exact account of all the fairs, both fixed and movable, in Alphabetical Order, shewing the Days on which they are held. By William Morgan, Cosmographer to their Late Majesties.
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.Date: 1745- Books
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A new and accurate description of all the direct and the principal cross roads in Great Britain. Containing, I. An Alphabetical List of all the Cities, Towns, and remarkable Villages in England and Wales, with their Market-Days, and Counties they are situated in. II. The Direct Roads from London to all the Cities, Borough, Market, and Sea Port Towns in England and Wales, 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 situated near the Road. III. The Cross Roads of England and Wales. IV. The Direct and the Principal Cross Roads of Scotland. V. The Circuits of the Judges in England. The Whole executed on a Plan entirely new, and far preferable to that of any Work of the Kind Extant. The third edition, corrected, and greatly improved; with additions. By Daniel Paterson, Assistant to the Quarter-Master-General of His Majesty's Forces.
Paterson, Daniel, 1738-1825.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Bibliotheca topographica Britannica. No IX. Containing sketches of the history and antiquities of the parish of Stoke Newington, in the county of Middlesex.
Date: 1783- Books
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A voyage to England, containing many things relating to the state of learning, religion, and other curiosities of that kingdom. By Mons. Sorbiere. As also observations on the same voyage, by Dr. Thomas Sprat, Fellow of the Royal Society, and now Lord Bishop of Rochester. With A Letter of Monsieur Sorbiere's, concerning the War between England and Holland in 1652: To all which is prefix'd his Life, writ by M. Graverol. Done into English from the French original.
Sorbière, Samuel, 1615-1670.Date: 1709- Books
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The traveller's companion, from Holyhead, to London.
Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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Additional collections towards the history and antiquities of the town and county of Leicester. Published by John Nichols, F.S.A. Edinb. & Perth.
Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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The new present state of Great Britain. Containing a succinct account of the climate, divisions, and inhabitants of Great Britain: An ample Description of the several Counties into which that Kingdom is divided; their Air, Soil, natural Productions, Trade, and Manufactures. The government of Great Britain: the Power, Prerogatives and Revenues of the King: the Laws, Customs, and Privileges of Parliament; and the Power and Methods of Proceeding in the several Courts of Justice. A Copious Description of the Capitals of England and Scotland, their Government, Courts of Justice, Principal Buildings, Trading and other Companies, Privileges and Commerce. To which are added, complete and accurate lists of all the civil, ecclesiastical, and military offices in Great Britain.
Date: 1770- Books
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A tour through parts of England, Scotland, and Wales, in 1778. In a series of letters. By Richard Joseph Sulivan, Esq. Second edition, corrected and enlarged. In two volumes. ...
Sulivan, Richard Joseph, Sir, 1752-1806.Date: 1785- Books
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Some account of the parish of Great Coxwell, in the county of Berks.
Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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Royal recollections on a tour to Cheltenham, Gloucester, Worcester, and places adjacent, in the year 1788.
Williams, David, 1738-1816.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]- Books
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Royal recollections on a tour to Cheltenham, Gloucester, Worcester, and places adjacent, in the year 1788.
Williams, David, 1738-1816.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Collections towards the history and antiquities of the town and county of Leicester. Published by John Nichols, F.S.A. Edinb. & Perth.
Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni, a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of The marriage act a novel. ...
Shebbeare, John, 1709-1788.Date: printed in the year M DCC LV. [1755]