- 127
Rocque, John.
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1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description
- A New and Accurate Survey of the Cities of Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, with the County about it for nineteen Miles in Length and thirteen in Depth [title repeated in Latin and French]. London: John Rocque, [1747]
Folio (530 x 380mm.), title printed in red and black, engraved title vignette, index and list of subscribers, and 16 double-page mapsheets, contemporary mottled calf, binding slightly worn
Catalogue Note
This map, and the companion plan of London (see lots 171 and 172), are the twin pinnacles of Rocque's achievement, and the principal record of London in the mid-eighteenth century,
Unrecorded first state not in Howgego: Printed Maps of London, but cf. 94, (1): the earliest state recorded by him, and 94, (2), describing the alterations to sheet VI.