Tag Archives: Roads

The post-roads in France

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  • Author: France. Administration des postes.
  • Title: The post-roads in France : with the routes which conduct to the principal cities in Europe / being a translation of the État général des postes. For 1815. Published by authority.
  • Publication: London : Printed by Samuel Leigh, No. 18 Strand; by Shulze and Dean, 13, Poland Street, MDCCCXV [1815]

Catalog Record

82 814Pl v.2

Acquired February 2020

Proposals at large, for the easy and effectual

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  • Author: Gentleman.
  • Title: Proposals at large, for the easy and effectual amendment of the roads, by some further necessary laws and regulations, concerning the wheels of all carriages ; / by a gentleman.
  • Publication: London : Printed for C. Davis, opposite Gray’s-Inn-Gate, Holburn; M. Cooper, in Pater-Noster-Row; and J. Barnes, opposite the Hay-market, Charing-Cross, MDCCLIII [1753]

Catalog Record

63 753 G338

Acquired September 2019

 

Cary’s survey of the high roads from London to Hampton Court

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Covers south east portion of England.
Roads are from London to: Hampton Court, Bagshot, Oakingham, Binfield, Windsor, Maidenhead, High Wycombe, Amersham, Rickmansworth, Tring, St. Albans, Welwyn, Hertford, Ware, Bishops Stortford, Chipping Ongar, Chelmsford, Gravesend, Rochester, Maidstone, Tunbridge Wells, East Grinsted, Ryegate, Dorking, Guildford, Richmond.

  • Author: Cary, John, approximately 1754-1835.
  • Title: Cary’s survey of the high roads from London to Hampton Court, Bagshot … Guildford, Richmond : on a scale of one inch to a mile, wherein every gentleman’s seat, situate on, or seen from the road, (however distant) are laid down, with the name of the possessor : to which is added the number of inns on each separate route, also, the different turnpike gates, shewing the connection which one trust has with another.
  • Published: London : Printed for J. Cary, engraver & map seller, the corner of Arundel Street, Strand, July 1st 1790.

Catalog Record

15 790C

Acquired March 2017