£3000 Luffman County Atlas
1806 Lackington Allen 1806 Ref: a7002
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A New Pocket Atlas and Geography of England and Wales...By John Luffman Geogr. London. Printed for Lackington, Allen & C.o Temple of the Muses Finsbury Square. 1806.
18mo. (10x16cm) Half red morroco, rebacked, pasted label to front board. Title. 2pp preface dated March 1803. Half title: England. 42 hand coloured engraved circular county maps above text description printed one side only. Half title: Wales. 12 hand coloured engraved circular county maps above text description printed one side only. Fold-out hand coloured map of England and Wales. Index.
Original boards with label: LUFFMAN'S ATLAS & GEOGRAPHY OF ENGLAND AND WALES. Price 7/6 Plain, or 10/6 in Colors. Neatly rebacked . Owners manuscript signature to front endpaper; H Garvey (?) 1809. Complete but with some errors to text: Huntingdon map with text description of Lancashire below; Norfolk map with Middlesex text (see 3rd image); Warwickshire map with Westmorland text: Westmorland Map with Warwickshire text.Folding map with short split at fold intersection and trimmed with loss of right margin.
A very good clean example of an uncommon and unusual little atlas in neat hand colour.
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