MAP OF CHESHIRE Reduced from the Ordnance Survey by Edw. Weller. by Bacon's

United Kingdom: G. W. Bacon & Co. . Folding map with a pictorial cover + 19 pages booklet and adverts attached to inner cover. A few darkened marks to cover and also some normal wear and light creasing around corners etc. Staples are rusty but sound. Size 47cm x 68 cm. Slight tear to one fold of map see image from Winghale Books. (no date but census used for statics is 1901 so Edwardian....) . Good. Soft cover. 1911.

Hardcover. Good. .. London. G. W. Bacon & Cº. s/f. 40 págs. 1 gran plano plegado a color, tela edit. Impresa.

London, circ. 1920's Folding Map. Covers Scuffed. Cellotape Repairs to Folds. Good

c1885. . Colour printed map size approx. 12«" x 18", central fold. Reduced from the Ordnance Survey, scale ¬" to 1 mile. Divided into 5 mile squares. From 'Bacon's Atlas of The British Isles'. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include HERTFORDSHIRE [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] - --

London, circ. 1913 Folding Map. Covers Scuffed. Good

United Kingdom: G. W. Bacon & Co. Ltd . Scale 18 miles to the inch. No date but appears to be for WW1. Size 82 c 57 cm. A few minor tears and creasing mainly to folds. Some minor browning/dust marking. Wear/fading around cover edges and cover corners rather creased. (Bacon's Map of the Seat of the War in North Sea, Belgium and Eastern France. Showing Forts, Fortified Towns, Railways, Roads, Etc.) . Good. Soft cover. 1918.

c1914.. 27 double-page colour-printed maps, plus tube map. Guide of 18pp at rear, with photographs, plus alphabetical index of streets. Size 7" x 4«", pictorial cloth wraps, which are slightly darkened in places, in a couple of the double pages there is a split down the hinge. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include LONDON [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] ---

c1885.. Coloured plan, size approx 12«" x 18", single fold at centre. Scale 6" to 1 mile. Small tear at central fold neatly repaired on verso. With street index in margins. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include SCOTLAND [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] ---

[London: G.W. Bacon, c.1880].. Original hand-coloured lithographed map overall 75 x 54 cm. backed on linene and folding into original green blind-stamped cloth with title to upper cover in gilt. Covers rubbed, gilt faded, map itself very good. Bookseller's ticket of G.G. Walmsley, Liverpool to front paste-down.

12mo in contemporary leather, 3.5 x 6 inches; frontispiece, xii, 384, [30]; worn, rear board scorched with damage to last two leaves of text; binding loose. A well used non-institutional copy that has not been messed with.This is the first edition in English of the only parts ever published of Bacon's projected natural history -- his more or less complete natural history of the winds and fragmentary works on the history of life and death and the history of density and rarity. As described in the Dictionary of National Biography, "The section of the Instauratio magna that Bacon most urgently tried to accomplish was the natural histories... In November 1622 he published a volume entitled Historia naturalis et experimentalis ad condendam philosophiam; sive phaenomena universi. It contained the first installment of his natural history project—a natural history of the winds, Historia ventorum—and a plan for five others to be published on a monthly basis. In January 1623 the second part of the… Read More