Lot 565
![[BLOOME Richard]](https://media.app.artisio.co/media/104cbde6-0d38-43cb-9e0f-bb721ef57bcf/inventory/5cef57a0-8785-4947-9dce-f9eed58e636f/d8c12447-24c6-448d-a852-9bad41fe100d/0001_brVmAg_original.jpg)
[BLOOME Richard]
Auction: 1 February 2005 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Britannia: or, a geographical description of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the isles and territories thereto belonging ... there is added an Alphabetical table of names and titles, seats of the nobility and gentry that each county of England and Wales is, or lately was, enobled with ... 1st edition, titlepage in red and black, with 49 maps (of 50, lacking that of the Isle of Wight, etc.), and a plan of London, also with 24 plates illustrating 812 coats of arms, contemporary calf, repaired and rebacked, 3 leafs of the illustrations of arms with 2 inch splits at the inner margin affecting the engraved surface of the plates (but with no actual loss), folio, London: Roycroft, 1673
Note: Chubb 99; Wing 3027; Tooley p. 53; Skelton County atlases 90; Sabin 5965. Includes a chapter on the "Isles and territories belonging to His Majesty in America." as well as briefe chapter on "Isles and territories ... in Africa, Asia, and the Indies.2