Borlase, Antiquities, historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall. Consisting of several essays on the first inhabitants, druid-superstition, customs, and remains of the most remote antiquity in Britain, and the British isles, exemplified and proved by monuments now extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, with a vocabulary of the Cornu-British language. By William Borlase, LL. D. F.R.S. Rector of Ludgvan, Cornwall. revised By Francis Darwi. Consisting of Several Essays on the First Inhabitants, Druid-Superstition, Customs, and Remains of the most Remote Antiquity. With a Vocabulary of the Cornu-British Language Second edition, revised. London, Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1769. Folio. xvi, 464. 2 copper-engraved maps (1 folding), 25 engraved plates (1 folding), and 10 text engravings. Contemporary full leather binding with gilt title on spine. Red and green morroco lettering (rubbed and worn). The hinges are rebacked, the plates are a bit browned, intermittend foxing, the large map has a small blank piece torn from its margin, otherwise good.

Nevertheless a wonderfully illustrated work by William Borlase was a Cornishman by birth, who discovered the Cornish antiquities and natural history. One of the first treatiesabout physical remains of he megalithic era and other stone monuments.
The folding map did not appear in the first edition and plates 22 and 28 are also new to this second revised edition.

• Kategorie: Geographie
• Schlagwörter: England
• Bestellnummer: 20311CB

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