LOT 3053
23rd July 2025

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LOT 3053
GARRETT, John (publisher). A Direction For the English Traveller By which he shall be enabled to Coast about all England and Wales. [London:] Printed and are to be Sold by John Garrett at the South Entrance of ye Royall Exchange in Corn-hill, [1677.] 12mo (131 x 67mm.) Engraved double-paged title and 2 double-paged engraved leaves of ‘Use of all the ensueing Tables’, 40 double-paged engraved ‘Thumbnail’ maps with distances, including 3 folding. (Browning to margins, a few short minor tears, occasional creasing, lacking folding ‘Yorkshire’ map(?)) 20th century calf with original calf covers laid-down (endpapers replaced). Note: rare. Originally published by Matthew Simmons with maps engraved by Jacob van Langeren where the triangular ‘thumbnail map’ is incorporated into a distance table for the county- an innovation of John Norden’s in 1625.
Estimate: £400 – £600
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