The history or narrative of the great level of the fenns, called Bedford level, : with a large map of the said level, / as drained, surveyed, & described by Sir Jonas Moore, Knight, His late Majesties Surveyor-General of his ordnance.
Sir Jonas Moore (1617-1679)
Category
Books
Date
1685
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101674
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], 81, [1] p., [1] leaf of folded plates : map ; 8vo. Imperfect: wanting map. Booksellers' pencil notes on front pastedown: "4 Genrl[?] Fens", "3", "£5/10/- 494", "H[?] 51", "map published separately", "bc". Pencil notes on rear pastedown: "c/-", "6/38" and "£ n.". Manuscript note on front pastedown in nineteenth-century hand: "Note. This History or Narrative / is referred to by Badeslade / as having been written by / Samuel Fortrey Esq. / F. Micaslade[?]". Pencil notes below (in different hands): "Fortrey" and "by Sir Jonas Moore". Manuscript inscription in margin of p. 9 (in a nineteenth-century hand): "Received of them Jan 26th Monday". Provenance: Manuscript inscription on front pastedown (eighteenth?-century hand): "John […ift?]". Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late seventeenth-century full calf; double blind fillet to form a border; sewn onto recessed cords.
Makers and roles
Sir Jonas Moore (1617-1679) , author