BOWLES, Carington (1724-93). Post-Chaise Companion ... Second edition, London, 1782, 2 volumes, small 8vo, 101 double-page engraved maps, attractively bound in later full vellum gilt. With 5 other books of related interest. (7)

BOWLES, Carington (1723-93).  Bowles's Post-Chaise Companion; or, Travellers Directory through England and Wales: being an Actual Survey of all the Direct and principal Cross Roads, with the Mile-Stones expressed as they stand at present ... The Second Edition, Corrected, and greatly Improved; with Additions. London: "Printed for the Proprietor Carington Bowles, At his Map and Print Warehouse," 1782. 2 volumes, small 8vo (157 x 100mm). Double-page engraved map at the front of vol. one, 100 double-page engraved "strip maps" (some very light staining). Attractively bound in later full vellum gilt, tan lettering-pieces, gilt edges. Provenance: Archibald Philip, Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929), and former Prime Minister (label). Goldsmiths' 12339. With 5 other books of related interest, namely A Direction for the English Traviller [sic] By which he shal [sic] be inabled to Coast about all England and Wales ([London], Thomas Jenner, 1643, map sheets inset, re-margined and extended, later red morocco gilt, title lettered in gilt on upper cover, defective), John Norden's Speculum Britanniæ: An Historical and Chorographical Description of Middlesex and Hartfordshire [sic] (London, 1723, 4to, engraved maps, contemporary calf), Benjamin Pitts Capper's A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom (London, 1808, large 8vo, engraved maps, contemporary half calf), Leigh's New Pocket Road-Book of England and Wales (London, 1839, 12mo, engraved frontispiece and 55 engraved county maps (only), later green leather) and Reuben Ramble's Travels through the Counties of England ([London, c.1845], 4to, hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece, title and county maps, a few cropped or shaved, contemporary half calf gilt, RARE). Provenance: The Property of the late Frank Graham (1913-2006), and thence by descent. The lot sold not subject to return. (7)