The history of the ancient and present state of the navigation of the port of King's-Lyn, and of Cambridge, : and the rest of the trading-towns in those parts: and of the navigable rivers that have their course through the Great Level of the Fens, called Bedford Level. Also the history of the ancient and present state of draining in that level, in the province of marshland, and the hundreds and parts adjacent. From authentick records, and ancient manuscripts; and from observations and surveys carefully made upon the spot these three years last past. / With the method proposed for draining the said fens, and amending the harbour of Lyn: by Col. John Armstrong, Chief Engineer of England. Illustrated with maps.
Thomas Badeslade (fl.1712 - 1742)
Category
Books
Date
1766
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3245760
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 148 p., [7] leaves of plates (4 folded) : maps ; fol. Pencil number "12" on front free endpaper. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Eighteenth-century quarter cream paper, blue paper over boards; sewn onto five recessed cords (spine wanting).
Makers and roles
Thomas Badeslade (fl.1712 - 1742), author Colonel John Armstrong (1674-1742), author