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The natural history of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak, in Derbyshire: with an account of the British, Phoenician, Armenian, Gr[eek] and Rom[an] antiquities in those parts

Leigh, Charles, 1662-1701? · 1700 · Oxford : Printed for the author, [etc.] · 24 pictures

The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak is a 1700 county natural history and antiquarian survey by Charles Leigh, printed at Oxford for the author and covering the north-west of England. Its plates are engraved copperplates, and the four shown pair rows of coins with fossils, shells and minerals arranged on the page. A designer could draw on their orderly grid layouts, the fine line hatching that models each coin and shell, and the cataloguing habit of numbered specimens on a neutral ground.

Antiquities · Natural history · England

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