CARY, John (engraver). 'Cary's New Map of England and Wales,...

Hammer

£200

CARY, John (engraver). 'Cary's New Map of England and Wales, with Part of Scotland. on which are carefully laid down, All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads, the Course of the Rivers and Navigable Canals,' Half leather, rubbed and bumped with splitting to joints, engraved title and hand-coloured general map, 80 of 81 maps with map 62 missing as is the norm, ex libris of J. J. Pitcairn (R. Austin Freeman and Clifford Ashdown) with owner stamp to the head margin of titlepage and front endpapers, later newspaper articles pasted to front pastedown and front free endpaper, index to rear pp.85, three pages of subscribers, some toning, light spotting to margins but otherwise a vg textblock, J. Cary, London, 1794. Cary's map incorporated the latest cartographic techniques of the period, including precise surveying and engraving methods. It set a standard for mapmaking that influenced future cartographers and contributed to the development of modern cartography. This is a good example of this aesthetically pleasing atlas, with a rather interesting former owner.