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The Broad Highway. This Perspective is...

Stock# 62463

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Gilbert Anthony Pownall

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The Broad Highway. This Perspective is faithfully designed from the notes & descriptions of the learned Mr. Neronius Quarrell Gent, Antiquary & Traveller, who disappeared in the year 1765, when it was thought by some that he was taken by Barbary Pirates and sold into captivity, by others that he was drowned when the Brigg Nellie of Lowestoft was lost on the High Seas in the Great Storm of that Year.

Publication Place / Date

London / 1924

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7.5 x 10 inches

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VG+

Stock# 62463

$ 125.00

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Description

Golden-Age of Illustration Road Map of the Fictional Journey of Mr. Neronius Quarrell.

Color-lithographed fantasy road map by Gilbert Anthony Pownall, published in London in 1924.

The map was published in Traveller's Joy A Device, written by Dion Clayton Calthrop and illustrated by Gilbert Pownall.

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