Powell, PM. (c1823). Hastings Guide: a Concise Historical and Topographical Sketch of Hastings, Battle, Winchelsea, and Rye. Hastings: author, and London: Longmans et al. 3^rd edition, 92pp. Hardback, original green paper covered boards with later brown tape binding. Original title paste down label on cover. Cover worn, bumped, soiled, binding sound. Text age-toned, untrimmed, clean. Fold out maps of Hastings town, and of Environs, five plates and a Geological Map. Manuscript notes regarding accommodation in two different hands on back free endpaper. In good condition.

       This must be one of if not the earliest geological map in a local guide book. It appears to be a trace from Wm. Phillips Geological Facts.of the region along south coast. It is not coloured, the formations are numbered. The only topographic reference is the coast line and a few ports along it. There is a one page not very helpful geological commentary.