OWEN & BOWEN BRITANNIA DEPICTA 1720 FINE CALF COPY Start Price GBP 1,495.00 Current Price GBP 1,495.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, October 09, 2008 End Time Sunday, October 19, 2008 Location Oxford See more about 'OWEN & BOWEN BRITANNIA DEPICTA 1720 FINE CALF COPY' Description SquareTrade © AP6.0  Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv'd ; Being a Correct Copy of Mr Ogilby's Actual Survey of All Ye Direct and Principal Cross Roads of England and Wales - 1st Edition of 1720 in Two Volumes - Owen (John) and Emanuel Bowen Thomas Bowles and Emanuel Bowen, London, 1720. 1st edition. 8vo. Bound in full contemporary speckled and panelled tan calf. Raised bands to spine. Corners a trifle bruised. Very superficial cracking to joints but overall a remarkably original and tidy copy. Bookplate stating 'Milton, Peterborough' to front pastedown.  (6), 273 pages of maps. Collates complete. Some of the earlier pages are a little closed cropped to the fore margin, resulting in the loss of the '1' to the corner of map 10, but whilst impinging inside the platemark it does not affect the marginal notes. Internally very sound and tidy, externally with a bit of minor wear. Very original and tidy first edition of this classic work of English cartography with all 273 road maps engraved by Emanuel Bowen. Emanuel Bowen was a print and map seller by trade, he was also engraver to both George II and Louis XV of France. From 1714 onwards he worked in London and began to produce some of the finest and most appealing maps of that era. Along with various maps and Atlases, Bowen produced this popular book of road maps, very much in keeping with those of Ogilby, although much like the maps his 'The Large English Atlas', Bowen embellished them with historical detail and heraldic images which set them apart from others as his own work. His son, Thomas, also produced some beautiful maps, having started helping his father when he was young, he continued by himself long after Emanuel's death.                     ONE OF SEVERAL RARE AND ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS WE HAVE FOR SALE TODAY. Buy with confidence I am a member of the PBFA (Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association) and operate according to its professional code of conduct which includes a full refund if items are mis-described. For more details go to www.pbfa.org WE CAN NOW OFFER THE FOLLOWING RATES FOR ANY AMOUNT OF PURCHASES UP TO 30KG Postage within the UK is £7 Parcelforce 48 hour courier delivery Shipping overseas by Parcelforce Euro 48 is - Ireland, France, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Monaco, Corsica £16. Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal and Sicily £27 Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden £40. THE FOLLOWING RATES ARE FOR THIS EBAY ITEM ONLY Postage within the UK is £7 Parcelforce 48 hour courier delivery. USA/Canada by courier £12.50 Australia/NZ/Japan £24 All our books are packed using purpose-made bookboxes and wrapped in bubblewrap before shipping. We do not make any charge for Paypal payments. We do have to allow 5 working days for cheques to clear after banking. Powered by eBay Turbo Lister adrian-greenwood store Place a Bid!