Author: (Thompson, Thomas:)
Title: Ocellus Promontorium; or, Short Observations on the Ancient State of Holderness. [and] Historic Facts Relative to the Sea Port and Market Town of Ravenspurne, in Holderness.
Description: Hull: printed by Thomas Topping, Lowgate, 1822; 1821. 2 vols., 8vo., pp. 117, [I] + folding map frontispiece and 1 further plate (Outhorne); [iii], 122-270 + engraved frontispiece and 2 further plates (the monument of Sir Martine de la Mare, and coins). Continuous pagination. Occasional pencil underlings and marginal marks. Sporadic toning, light foxing and mottling with some leaves more affected. Recent quarter calf (tan, sprinkled), abbreviated titles to spines, marbled boards, original paper wrappers bound in, edges uncut, very good. Original blue sugar paper wrapper with MS titles to each and to Ocellus: 'To Arthur Clifford Esq with the Author's most respectful compliments'. To front paste-down of each volume, modern bookplate of Stephen Bryant. Ravenspurne is a town lost to coastal erosion, one of over 30 along the Holderness Coast which have vanished into the north Sea since the 19th century. It sat close to the end of the peninsula known as Spurn Head, near Ravenser Odd.

Keywords: British & Irish History & Topography;Middle Ages & Renaissance


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