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réf. 31738 — London: Printed for Moses Pitt at the Angel in St.Paul's Church-yard 1685 First edition. Hardcover Book. Original or very early binding in full brown leather with no title and incised border lines to front and back covers. Title page A3 contents 81pp 15.5 x 10cm. The title page states: 'With a large map of the said Level as Drained Surveyed & Described by Sir Jonas Moore.' : note that this copy lacks this map. Otherwise a Good copy of a rare and very early book on the surveying and draining of the Fens that appears to have belonged at a later date to Lord Milton of Peterborough as a plain bookplate Milton Peterborough is pasted inside the front cover this partly obscures the Bookseller's text to the Reader which is printed on the front pastedown. The probable original owner's name is inscribed on the back of the title page: Geo. Underwood 1699; he has also inscribed his name in the margins of three pages in 1699 and 1704 with a correction to the text possibly made by him on one of those pages. A later hand has added a note in pencil on title margin that the author was Samuel Fortrey surveyor of the Middle Level. Other than this the text is generally clean with the odd spot or brown mark; the binding is sound though stretched and the covers rubbed to edges and spine. Pictures available. London: Printed for Moses Pitt at the Angel in St.Paul's Church-yard, 1685 hardcover