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Description
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The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain, Presenting an Exact Geography of the Kingdom of England, Scotland, Ireland and the Isles adjoyning........ A Prospect of the most Famous Parts of the World........ With many Additions never before Extant, pub. Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, 1676, dec. engraved title-page and achievement of Charles II, additional title-page printed in red & black, dedications to the Lord Mayor of London, King James and 'the Well-Affected and Favourable Reader', contents and sectional titles, sixty-eight engraved general and county maps, five printed road tables, the 'Prospect' with twenty-eight maps of all parts of the world (including the double-hemisphere map of the world), together ninety-six engraved maps (complete as lists) all with bright early hand colouring, woodcut initials throughout also with contemporary hand colouring, occ. short closed tears to margins not affecting images, map of Radnorshire with closed tears repaired on verso, occ. short splits to base of central folds with some strengthening on verso, near contemp. mottled calf with central blind-stamped panel, neatly rebacked, some slight wear to extremities, folio
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