Estimate: | £50 - £80 |
Hammer price: | £40 |
WILKINSON, Robert (c.1768-1825). Atlas Classica. Being A Collection of Maps of the Countries Mentioned by the Ancient Authors Both Sacred and Profane. London: Robert Wilkinson, 1808. 4to (343 x 280mm). Title with engraved allegorical vignette dated 1797, 51 hand-coloured engraved maps and charts only (of 53, lacking the world map and "The Land of Moriah"), 3 double-page, one folding (some mainly marginal staining and spotting). Contemporary calf (worn, covers detached, endpapers torn). Provenance: George E. [?]Berry, 1846 (signature on front free endpaper); a few miscellaneous engraved maps loosely-inserted.