( Plymouth / River Tamar ) . Sheet 9. From A New Map of the County of Devon by DONN, Benjamin - 1765

P. Lund, Humphries, January 1965. Oversized Hardback . Fair - Cash/No Jacket. Red cloth hardboards with gold gilt lettering on spine. Heavy rubbing to corners edges and surfaces. Small tears to the top, bottom and edge of spine with fraying. Corners bumped. Slight soiling to cover. Soiling to edge of textblock. Uneven pages. Pages have white cloth tape going down the gutter. Thick quality paper. Clean crisp pages with fold out maps. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good. 1965. No edition remarks. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white maps. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with mild thumb-marking. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Visible crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall.

Devon and Cornwall Record Society (and the University of Exeter), 1965. Facsimile of the 1765 edition (hardback). 4to (34cm by 28cm), v, 20pp. 2 plates, 42pp facsimile maps. Original brown cloth, dustwrapper. The book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in near-VG condition (light chafing of the extremities). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it. Devon and Cornwall Record Society, New Series, Vol. 9.

London and Bradford: Percy Lund, Humphries and Co. Ltd, 1965. Devon and Cornwall Record Society, New Series, Vol. 9 (issued to members of the Society, 1963) and the University of Exeter. Reprinted in Facsimile. Cloth covered boards rubbed in places, stained along edges, corners and spine ends bumped, gilt lettering to spine, spotting and browning to endpapers and closed edges, pp very clean and bright, 2 folded maps in very good condition, full page maps throughout, pp secure in binding.. Cloth Covered Boards. Good Minus/No Dust Jacket. Folio. Facsimile.

Percy Lund, Humphries & Co, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1965. Facsimile edition. Unpaginated. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white maps throughout. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Boards are slightly bowed. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.

595 x 463 mm (23.42 x 18.23 inches), a fine clean uncoloured large scale, 1 inch to the mile, copper engraved map of part of Devon, in an attractive gilt frame with a mount. Our price includes only the postage of the map itself. The cost of postage with frame, mount (if any) and glass will be extra. We will quote for this on request. This is an original antique map. We do not sell reproductions or facsimiles

London: Self-published, 1765. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good. Jefferys, Thomas. First printing. Elephant folio size, about 21" tall by 15" wide. Includes one general index map plus XII large, detailed double-fold maps, index of estates/farms with details/owners, etc., index of subscribers. Map boundaries are hand-coloured. Bound in marbled boards in three-quarters leather, possibly original with no sign of restoration, gilt-ruled spine with gilt titles. Gift inscription inside, in calligraphic script, dated 1816. Contents in excellent condition with no significant wear nor foxing. Slight offsetting as expected. Binding is firm, not shaken. Covers quite worn at extremities as expected. A very nice complete, original copy. Photos available.

Bristol & London,: Published by the Author, According to Act of Parliament, Sold By B. Law & J. Johnson Booksellers: also by Heath & Wing Instrument Makers,, Jany. 1st, 1770.. 330 by 203mm (13 by 8 inches).. Engraved analemma with rotating volvelle, calendar scales and principal stars' positions. The instrument consists of a rotating celestial planisphere graduated with right ascension and declination. Below is a list of the principal stars, with an analemma charting the sun's position throughout the year. The analemma is nowadays considered to be the 'figure- of-eight' device employed in a mean-time sundial to correct for the equation of time. however, in late antiquity the term was applied to a subsidiary instrument, in the form of a graphical projection, which facilitated the construction of a principal work such as a sundial. This was usually a planispheric projection, i.e. an orthographic-stereographic projection of the celestial sphere, as explained by Dr John Twysden (1607-1688) in his work… Read More