John Adams - Index Villaris: Or, an Exact Register, Alphabetically Digested, of All the Cities, Market-Towns, Parishes, Villages, the Hundred, Lath, Rape, Ward, Wapentake, or Other Division of Each County

London, T. Sawbridge and M. Gillyflower, 1690 . Leather. The very scarce expanded and enlarged second edition of cartographer John Adams's detailed and informative gazetteer. First published a decade prior, this is the very scarce second edition, with 'elaborate additions' according to the Dictionary of National Biography.Lacking the hand coloured folding map, as is frequently the case with this work.Alphabetically arranged, this work includes over 24,000 entries detailing key information about locations in England and Wales, and includes geographical coordinates for every place, calculated by triangulating the distances between places reported by his correspondents and between points indicated on earlier maps.ESTC R172081[6], A-4P2. Collated, text leaves complete. With contemporary owner's inscriptions to the front free endpaper.Adams was an English cartographer best known for this work. In the original full calf binding. Lacking spine label. Losses of leather to back strip head and tail, with rubbing to boards and back strip. Joints starting, with rear board firmly held. Lower two cords of front board broken, with board held by top three cords only. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Light tide mark to leaf following title page, with spotting and handling marks to title page. Pages otherwise bright and generally clean, with the odd spot. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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