MANCHESTER AND LANCASHIRE
AIKIN (JOHN) A Description of the Country from Thirty to Forty Miles Round Manchester, engraved vignette on title, frontispiece, 69 plates on 61 sheets, 3 folding maps (short tears to inner folds, one repaired with cellotape), contemporary morocco, 4to, John Stockdale, 1795--LEIGH (CHARLES) The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire and the Peak in Derbyshire, 3 parts in one vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece portrait, double-page map hand-coloured in outline, and 23 plates, hole to margin of 2R, book one, tear to upper margin of E, book 3, bookplate of William Bentham, later calf boards, modern calf spine, rubbed [Wing L975], folio, Oxford, for the Author, 1700--WHITAKER (JOHN) The History of Manchester. In Four Books, 12 engraved plates (9 folding), contemporary calf, boards loose, 4to, Dodsley, White and Lowndes, 1771 (3)
Saleroom notices
- 4 books, not 3 as catalogued.