Antique Maps of the British Isles

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556

[The Earliest Available Map of the British Isles] PTOLEMY, Claudius.
[British Isles.]. Ulm, Leonard Holm, 1482. Woodcut. Coloured. 370 x 560mm.
The British Isles from the first German edition of Ptolemy, a trapesium with metal-type lettering within a coloured border, with Scotland orientated eastwards and Ireland too far north. On the verso is a Latin-text description, within a wood-engraved border.
Ptolemy of Alexandria published his 'Geographia' in the Second Century AD, when Britain was at the edge of the known world; however the earliest surviving manuscript dates from the 12th or 13th centuries, so it is uncertain whether he compiled maps himself or they were created later from his writings later. The maps of this edition were based on a manuscript atlas prepared by Dom Nicolaus Germanus of Breslaw for Pope Paul II (1464-71): it was sent to Ulm for copying but was never returned, and now is in Schloss Wolfegg.
The first edition of Ptolemy with printed maps was published in Bologna in 1477: this edition was only five years later, the first to use woodcuts and first illustrated edition to be printed outside Italy. SHIRLEY: British Isles 1477-1650, 4, illus.

£15,000

557

[Uncommon Two-Sheet Map of Great Britain] PRICE, Charles.
A new map of Great Britain corrected from the observations communicated to the Royal Society at London. London. c.1728. 960x660mm. Double-page engraved map, printed on two sheets, joined, hand-coloured in outline. Small Margins Minor restorations.
Originally prepared by Price for the unsucessful partnership of Price, John Senex and John Maxwell (1708-1711). After the partnership broke up, each member took the plates that they engraved with them, the majority of which were engraved by Senex and were re-issued in his 'English Atlas' from 1714. In 1713, Willdey acquired the remainder of Price's stock and began to issue them with his own imprint and in a further ill-fated partnership with Timothy Brandreth. The partnership was not a commercial success and, by later the same year, Willdey was advertising the remaining stock of maps at a heavily discounted price.
Imprint now reads: " by John Senex F.R.S..". Senex became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1728 but the map is still dated 1714. Shirley Price 2 State 5.

£1,000

558

[Anglo-Saxon Britain]BLAEU, Johannes.
Britannia prout divisa fuit temporibus Anglo-Saxonium presertim durante illorum Heptarchia. Amsterdam, 1645, French text edition. Old Colour. 415 x 530mm.
One of the most decorative maps of the British Isles available: England is divided into the seven Saxon kingdoms, and down each side are vignettes in full colour. On the left are full-length portraits of the Anglo Saxon founders of the kingdoms: on the right are the various methods used to convert their successors to Christianity, including violence and nagging. This map closely follows Speeds prototype edition of 1611 KOEMAN: Bl 42A; SHIRLEY: British Isles 1477-1650, illus.

£2,600

559

[Saxon Heptarchy] JANSSON, Jan.
Britannia prout divisa suit temporibus Anglo-Saxonium presertim durante illorum Heptarchia. Amsterdam, c.1646, Latin edition. Original colour with additions. 415 x 530mm. Some reinforcing of verdigris cracks.
One the most decorative maps of the British Isles: England is divided into the seven Saxon kingdoms, and down each side are vignettes in full colour, with gilt borders. On the left are full-length portraits of the founders of the kingdoms: on the right are the various methods used to convert their successors to Christianity, including violence and nagging. First published 1646. SHIRLEY: British Isles 577, plate 154; KOEMAN: Me 152.

£2,500

560

BLAEU, Willem Janszoon.
Insulæ Albion et Hibernia cum minoribus adjacontibus. Amsterdam, 1662, Latin text edition. Coloured. 380 x 440mm.
The Ptolemaic British Isles, with Scotland slanted to the east and Ireland too far north. First published in Blaeu's Scottish Atlas of 1654 it was the first new Ptolemaic British Isles map for over 50 years. Like the maps of the Scottish counties the map was provided by Robert Gordon, who also wrote a text (on verso), comparing the ancient cartography with modern knowledge. SHIRLEY: British Isles 165-1750, Blaeu 1.

£680

561

[First Edition of a landmark map of the British Isles] SPEED, John.
The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland. London, Sudbury & Humble, 1611-12. Coloured. 385 x 510mm. Very fine impression, good margins.
The increasingly rare First Edition of the British Isles, engraved by Jodocus Hondius for Speed's 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine'. Speed has compiled the map from various sources: Saxton for England & Wales, Hondius's map of 1591 for Ireland & Mercator for Scotland. The two views show London c.1600, with St Pauls and the Tower on the north bank and the Globe and the Bear-baiting ring on the South; and Edinburgh, showing the city under seige c.1544. SHIRLEY: 316.

£3,000

562

CASSINI, Giovanni Maria.
Le Isole Britanniche O Sieno Li Regni di Ingilterra, Scozia ed Irlanda. Rome, 1796. Coloured. 495 x 360mm.
A rare and decorative map of the British Isles with a title cartouche of fishing and an inset map of the Shetlands.

£330

563

JANSSON, Jan.
Insularum Britannicarum Acurata Delineatio ex Geographicis Conatibus Abrahami Ortelii. Amsterdam, c.1690. Coloured. 400 x 515mm.
Classical Britain, after Ortelius. The title cartouche features two ancient Britons. SHIRLEY: British Isles 1477-1650, 575.

£450

564

[Ptolemaic British Isles] MERCATOR, Gerard.
Tab. I. Europæ, Continens Albion, Britanniam, et Hiberniam. Utrecht, François Halma, c.1695. Coloured. 340 x 400mm.
First published 1578, this map comes from Mercator's edition of Ptolemy's 'Geography', with the maps updated to Mercator's Projection. However the famous east-west angle of Scotland is retained. This example is of the second state, with a new title cartouche replacing the original strapwork one. See SHIRLEY: British Isles 1477-1650, 123 for details.

£1,000

565

[Saxon Heptarchy with Magnificient Original Colouring] JANSSON, Jan.
Britannia prout divisa suit temporibus Anglo-Saxonium presertim durante illorum Heptarchia. Amsterdam, c.1700, blank verso. Original colour. 415 x 530mm.
One the most decorative maps of the British Isles: England is divided into the seven Saxon kingdoms, and down each side are vignettes in full colour. On the left are full-length portraits of the founders of the kingdoms: on the right are the various methods used to convert their successors to Christianity, including violence and nagging. First published 1646. SHIRLEY: British Isles 577, plate 154.

£3,250

566

[British Isles, with Portrait of George I] HOMANN, Johann Baptist.
Magna Britannia complectens Angliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae Regna.... Nuremberg, c.1715. coloured. 480 x 580mm. Centerfold reinforced on verso.
A very attractive map of the British Isles, with a large cartouche incorporating a portrait of George I. The first editions of this map had a portrait of Queen Anne, but this was re-engraved with George dressed in ermine to celebrate his accession in 1714. SHIRLEY: British Isles 1650-1750, Homann 2, plate 1, state 5.

£460

567

MERIAN, Mattheus.
Magnæ Britanniæ et Hiberniæ Tabulæ. Die Britannischen Insulen. Frankfurt, c.1660. coloured, 270 x 350mm.
A very decorative map of the British Isles, with an ornate baroque title cartouche, compass rose and armorial, as well as an inset of the Orkneys.

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568

[A Classic 16th C. Map of the British Isles] ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Angliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae, Sive Britannicar: Insularum Descriptio..Antwerp, 1592, Latin text edition. original colour. 345 x 500mm. Centerfold reinfoced on verso. A fine crisp example with fine original colouring.
The British Isles, oriented with north to the right, published in the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'. A classic collector's map, first published in 1570 SHIRLEY: British Isles 1477-1650, 86 - 'more sophisticated and ebullient style of engraving'; VAN DEN BROECKE: 16.

£925

569

PHILIPPE DE PRETOT, Etienne André.
Les Isles Britanniques... Paris, 1787. Coloured. 280 x 410mm.
Engraved by Moithey.

£240

570

[An Uncommon Variant of Munster's Map of England] MUNSTER, Sebastian.
Anglia II Nova Tabula. Basle, Henri Petri, 1552, Latin text edition. Woodcut, image size 290 x 375mm. In excellent condition
Munster's 'modern' map of England, Wales and Scotland south of Edinburgh. It represents a great leap forward in the mapping of Britain, with many of the 80-odd towns appearing on a map for the first time. This edition is the only one with the grid borders around the map. SHIRLEY: British Isles 1477-1650, 55, and see 28 for the first edition, 'substantially in advance of any others printed hitherto'.

£850

571

JAILLOT, Alexis-Hubert.
Le Royaume d'Angleterre distingué en ses Provinces. Amsterdam, Pieter Mortier, c.1693. Original colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 790 x 585mm. Very fine impression, wide margins.
A fine, large and decorative map of England from Mortier's issue of Jaillot's 'Atlas Nouveau', with fine baroque title and scale cartouches. It is based on Sanson's map, which Jaillot had redrawn on a larger scale at the request of Sanson's heirs. The title cartouche features the arms of William of Orange, with his pledge 'Je Maintiendray', 'I will Maintain' [the Protestant religion]. SHIRLEY: Jaillot 2.

£750

572

[A large-scale and detailed map of England & Wales] MOLL, Herman.
The South Part of Great Britain, called, England and Wales.London: Moll, John Bowles, Thomas Bowles, Robert Taylor & John King, c.1740. Original outline colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 610 x 960mm.
Moll's large-format map of England & Wales, showing the Post Roads, with lateral strips comprising an extensive gazetteer. SHIRLEY: British Isles 1650-1750, Moll 6, state 6.

£750

573

MERCATOR, Gerard.
Anglia regnum. Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1613. Coloured. 350 x 470mm. Two small chips in margin repaired.
A strong impression of Mercator's own map, first published 1595, filled with names taken from the Saxton maps. With a highly decorative strapwork title cartouche. KOEMAN: ME 23A; SHIRLEY: British Isles 181 & 336.

£680

574

BLAEU, Willem Janszoon.
Anglia Regnum. Amsterdam, 1640, French text edition. Original colour. 385 x 500mm. Some restoration to margins.
A decorative map of the England. An unusual edition, added as a supplement to Volume III, the Italian volume. SHIRLEY: British Isles 1477-1650, 440.

£450

575

[England] HOMANN, Johann Baptist.
Magnae Britanniae Pars Meridionalis in qua Regnum Angliae tam in Septem Antiqua Anglo-Saxonum Regna... Nuremberg, c.1715. Original colour with later additions 575 x 490mm.Elaborate cartouches and Vignette at bottom showing king holding court.

£480

576

SPEED, John.
The Kingdome of England. London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 390 x 515mm. Some minor restoration to centrefold and margins.
An example of the second plate, engraved by Abraham Goos in 1630 to replace the original Hondius plate which had worn out. When it was engraved it was a close copy, but in 1646 a few changes were made to the plate, including a new date and hats on three of the figures reflecting the Puritan ascendancy. For this edition Bassett & Chiswell added their names bottom right. See SHIRLEY: British Isles 1477-1650, 588 for 1646 changes.

£1,500

577

DE WIT, Frederick.
Anglia Regnum in Omnes Suos Ducatus, Comitatus, et Provincias Divisum. Amsterdam, c.1688. Original colour. 580 x 490mm.
Fine map of the England & Wales, with a decorative cartouche with mermaids holding up the arms of England. KOEMAN: Wit 16; SHIRLEY: De Wit 5, state 3 of 7.

£480

578

[Two-Sheet Map] CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
Parte Settentrionale del Regno D'Inghilterra...; Parte Meridionale... Venice, 1691. Two sheets conjoined, total 900 x 615mm.
Highly decorative map of England and Wales in Coronelli's unique style. Each sheet has a title within a cartouche, and there is an inset map of the British Isles in the top right corner. SHIRLEY: British Isles 1650-1750: Coronelli 2, 'well engraved'.

£850

579

NOLIN, Jean Baptiste.
Le Royaume d'Angleterre... Par le P.Coronelli. Paris, 1689. Original outline colour with additions. 445 x 590mm. Trimmed into the printed borders bottom and right, false margins added with mss. fill.
Decorative map of England, with a large title cartouche designed by Nicolas Guérard, inset map of the Channel Islands and a table of counties. The map is dedicated to James II, the year after he lost his crown in the 'Glorious Revolution'. When this map was published the Catholic French had not recognised the Protestant William of Orange as king.The Venetian cartographer Coronelli worked in Paris during the 1680s, providing Nolin with a number of maps. It predates Coronelli's own two-sheet map of 1691. Few were published in atlases, so are scarce. SHIRLEY: Coronelli 1.

£500

580

CLOPPENBURG, Johannes.
Angliae Regnum... Amsterdam, 1630, French text edition. First Edition. 190 x 260mm. Fine impression.
England & Wales from Cloppenburg's version of the Mercator 'Atlas Minor', probably engraved by Van den Keere. SHIRLEY: 413; KOEMAN: Me 198.

£175

581

OGILBY, John.
A New Map Of The Kingdom Of England & Dominion Of Wales..London, 1675, coloured, 370 x 490mm.
This map was engraved to accompany the 100 plates of strip roads in his famous "Britannia". It is embellished with various Baroque cartouches, the largest containing both the title and an explanation of the mapping of the roads. The Royal coat of Arms appears reflecting Ogilby's appointment as His Majesty's Cosmographer in 1671 (William III was reigning at the time), as do ships flying both the St George Cross and the Dutch flag presumably underlining the amity between the two countries since the succession of a Dutch King to the English throne. Shirley; Ogilby 1, Pg. 104.

£875

582

[British Roads] FADEN, William.
A Map of England, Wales, & Scotland, describing all the Direct and principal Cross Roads in Great Britain, with the Distances measured between the Market Towns and from London; to accompany Paterson's Book of the Roads... London, Faden, 1801. Original colour. 750 x 620mm. Binding folds flattened.
Large and detailed map of the roads, originally published as the general map in Paterson's important roadbook, this example comes from Faden's folio General Atlas, so has fewer folds and better colour. The counties of England and Wales are delineated with body colour: although the roads of Scotland are marked, those of the south on the main map and of the north in an inset, Scotland is not coloured.

£260

583

[A Beuatiful Sea-Chart] MOUNT & PAGE.
The River Of Thames From London To The Buoy Of The Noure. London, R. Mount, c.1693, 590 x 930mm Fine impression.
From "Great Britain’s Coasting Pilot ... by Captain Greenvile Collins". A superb and detailed map of the Thames, its estuary and the coast right up to Lincolnshire. With wind roses, soundings and rhumb lines to aid navigation and an inset of the Thames showing it in greater detail, and embellished with a depiction of "Father Thames" holding a cornucopia at the source of the river.

£1,400

584

[Rare Sea Chart of the Eastern English Channel] DONCKER, Hendrik.
Ooster-deel van T Canaal. Amsterdam, c.1676. Original colour. 535 x 610mm. Some minor cracking to the verdigris. Laid on thich paper as issued.
A rare sea chart of the etasern English Channel, marking the English coast from Portland to Thanet, and the French coast from Cape de la Hague and Alderney to Cape Griz-Nez near Boulogne. An inset shows the Isle of Wight. First published in Doncker's 'Zee Atlas'. KOEMAN: Don 16.

£850

585

BACON, G.W.
Bacon's Map Of The River Thames From Its Source To The Sea... London, 1869, original colour, 340 x 910mm Originally dissected and mounted on linen.
Binding folds flattened with some reinforcements on verso. A very attractive and detailed map in fine original colour of the course of the River Thames.

£650

586

[South West England] MERCATOR, Gerard.
Cornubia, Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria, Monumetha, Glamorgan, Caemarden, Penbrok, Cardigan, Radnor, Breknoke, Herefordia & Wigornia. Amsterdam, Jan Jansson & Henricus Hondius, 1638. Latin text edition. Coloured. 360 x 425mm. Some restoration at centrefold.
South west England and southern Wales by Mercator himself. KOEMAN: Me 51a

£460

587

[Bedfordshire] SPEED, John.
Bedford Shire And the Situation of Bedford described with the armes of thos Honorable Familyes that have borne ye titles of Dukes and Earls thereof. London, George Humble, 1627. Coloured. 385 x 505mm. Tip of bottom right border made up.
Engraved by Jodocus Hondius, this is one of the most decorative maps of the county, with an inset plan of the city of Bedford, armorials and large cartouches for title and scale. SKELTON: 16.

£450

588

[Cambridgeshire] BOWEN, Emanuel.
An Accurate Map of Cambridgeshire Divided into its Hundreds. Tinney, Bowles & Son, Sayer, London, c.1760, original outline colour, 700 x 515mm.
A large and attractive map of Cambridgeshire, with a detailed inset view of Ely in the top right hand corner. The title contained in a cartouche with locals catching eels on the fens. With a dedicatory text contined in a rococo cartouche surmounted by a coat of arms and a large amount of inset explanatory text giving information about the county in the left and bottom margins.From Kitchin's "Large English Atlas".

£250

589

[Cambridgeshire] BLAEU, Johannes.
Cantabrigiensis Comitatus. Cambridge Shire. Amsterdam, 1662, Latin text edition. Original colour. 415 x 525mm. Excellent example with wide margins.
Decorative map of the county, with two royal crests, the arms of seven noble families and the University and 16 colleges.

£650

590

[Cheshire] TUNNICLIFF, William.
A New Map of Cheshire. London, 1786, coloured, 310 x 395mm.
A detailed and attractive map of Cheshire with its divisions, towns and forests marked. With a decorative wind-rose and title cartouche depicting a ruined castle.

£200

591

KITCHIN, Thomas.
A New Improved Map of Cornwall from the best Surveys. London, c.1780. Original outline colour with later additions. 535 x 705mm. A good example.
From the "Large English Atlas". The largest and most important atlas map of Cornwall from the 18th century. Notable for the detailed geography and extensive text around the map. The map has the large inset of the Isles of Scilly and a large title piece set in a pastoral scene. It is dedicated to Richard Lord Edgecumb, Lord Lieutenant.

£700

592

[Cornwall] SPEED, John.
Cornwall. London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 380 x 500mm. Small tear affecting printed border expertly repaired.
Engraved by Jodocus Hondius, this is one of the most decorative maps of the county: a large Royal crest, 8 armorials, a prospect of St Michael's Mount, four antiquities and galleons and sea-monsters fill the space around the peninsula. The English text on verso gives a history of the county and an extensive list of towns and villages.

£1,680

593

[Derbyshire] SPEED, John.
Darbieshire described. Anno 1666. London, William Humble, 1646. Coloured. 385 x 515mm. Centrefold reinforced.
Engraved by Jodocus Hondius, this is one of the most decorative maps of the county, with insets showing a plan of the city of Derby and an elevation of Buxton Castle, armorials and a large compass rose.

£600

594

[Devon] SPEED, John.
Devonshire with Excester Described And the Armes of such Nobles as have borne the titles of them. London, Henry Overton, c1743. Coloured. 385 x 520mm.
Engraved by Jodocus Hondius, this is one of the most decorative maps of the county, with inset plan of Exeter, royal crest and armorials.

£850

595

[Dorset] SPEED, John.
Dorsetshyre With the Shyre towne Dorcester described, as also the Armes of such noble families as have bene honored with the Titles there of since the Normans Conquest to this present Anno. 1610. London, George Humble, 1627-32. Coloured. 385 x 515mm. Narrow margins, as issued.
A very decorative map of the county, with strapwork cartouches for the title, plan of Dorchester, armorials and scale, and the seas filled with galleons, monsters and a seal.

£650

596

[Durham] SPEED, John.
The Bishoprick and Citie of Durham. London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 385 x 505mm.
Engraved by Jodocus Hondius, this is one of the most decorative maps of the county, with a large royal crest, a plan of the city of Durham, and a vignette scene depicting the Battle of Nevil's Cross, between the English & Scots.

£500

597

[Hants] SPEED, John.
Hantshire described and devided. London, George Humble, ca. 1627. Coloured. 375 x 505mm. Trimmed to the engraved border, remargined.
Engraved by Jodocus Hondius, this is one of the most decorative maps of Hampshire. At top left is a plan of Winchester and at top right the Royal arms. The map is flanked by the arms of various of the Earls of Winchester, for a long time England's second city, and the Earls of Southampton.Rare separately issued example, printed without text on the reverse, at one time folded to fit a small format volume, hence the trimmed margins. SKELTON: 16.

£1,000

598

[Herefordshire] SPEED, John.
Hereford-Shire described With the true plot of trhe Citie Hereford, as alsoe the Armes of thos Nobles that have bene intituled with that Dignity. London: Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 385 x 515mm.
Engraved by Jodocus Hondius, this is one of the most decorative maps of the county, with a town plan of Hereford, a strapwork title cartouche, a stylised battle and two cartographers in the lower corners. On verso is an English text history of the county.

£400

599

[Hertfordshire] KITCHIN, Thomas.
A New & Improved Map of Hartfordshire From the Best Surveys & Intelligence.. London, c.1770, original outline colour, 530 x 650mm.
With a decorative title cartouche in the bottom right hand corner depicting country folk at a classical well, with a plough in the foreground and harvesters and gleaners taking refreshment, and a dedicatory text in the top left hand corner in a rococo cartouche surmounted by Earl Cowper's armorials. From Kitchin's "Large English Atlas".

£480

600

[Hunts] SPEED, John.
Huntingdon Both Shire and Shire Towne With the Ancient Citie Ely Described. London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 385 x 515mm.
Engraved by Jodocus Hondius, this is one of the most decorative maps of the county, with inset plans of Huntingdon and Ely (in Cambridgeshire!) and a title cartouche featuring huntsmen, including one holding a falcon.

£320

601

[Kent] JANSSON, Jan.
Cantium Vernacule Kent. Amsterdam: Heirs of Jan Jansson, 1666, Latin text. Original colour. 385 x 495mm.
This example was published in the 'Atlas Contractus', a two-volume atlas, published two years after Jansson's death by his son-in-law, Jan Jansson van Waesbergen. KOEMAN: Me 184 & 185.

£650

602

[Kent] SPEED, John.
Kent with Her Cities and Earles Described and observed. London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 380 x 510mm. Some creasing flattened.
Engraved by Jodocus Hondius, this is one of the most decorative maps of the county, with town plans of Canterbury and Rochester, a royal crest and armorials. On verso is an English text history of the county.

£900

603

[Leicestershire] SPEED, John.
Leicester both Countye and Citie described. London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 380 x 510mm. Lower centerfold restored with slight manuscript reinstatement.
Engraved by Jodocus Hondius, this is one of the most decorative maps of the county, with an inset town plan of Leicester, a royal crest and armorials, and a vignette scene of the Battle of Bosworth. On verso is an English text history of the county.

£650

604

[Decorative Map of Lancashire] JANSSON, Jan.
Lancastria Palatinatus Anglis Lancaster & Lancashire. Amsterdam, Schenk & Valk, c. 1700, Coloured. 375 x 495mm.
A later issue of Jansson's map of Lancashire, with a grid added.

£500

605

[Lincolnshire] SPEED, John.
The Countie and Citie of Lyncolne Described with the Armes of Them That Have Bene Earles Thereof since the Conquest. London, William Humble, 1646. Coloured. 385 x 505mm. Narrow left margin.
Engraved by Jodocus Hondius, this is one of the most decorative maps of the county, with a town plan of Lincoln, a strapwork title cartouche with a royal crest and a compass rose, a scale cartouche with compass and putti, armorials and a stylised battle. On verso is an English text history of the county.

£850

606

[Middlesex] SEALE, Richard William.
To the Most Noble Thomas Holles Pelham, Duke of Newcastle, ... This Map of the County of Middlesex is dedicated. London, Thomas Bowles, John Bowles & Son, & Robert Sayer, c.1763. Original outline colour. 525 x 730mm. Dissected and laid on linen, publication line trimmed.
A detailed map of Middlesex, published in the 'Large English Atlas' alongside maps by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchen. Down the sides are the arms of all 92 City Free Companies.

£380

607

[Middlesex] SPEED, John.
Midlesex described with the Most Famous Cities of London and Westminster. Described by John Norden... London, George Humble, 1646 Coloured. 390 x 515mm. Very good impression.
John Norden was a contemporary of Saxton and was the first to plan a series of county histories; however he failed to attract sufficient backing for his enterprise and never completed it. His surveying was superior to Saxton's, and Speed preferred to use Norden as a source where possible. The map has inset town plans of London and Westminster, and views of St Paul's and Westminster Cathedral. This example comes from one of the rarer editions: the English Civil War increased the demand for portable single sheets rather than atlases, and these are generally without the text on verso. SKELTON: 36.

£1,500

608

[Northamptonshire] SPEED, John.
Northamton Shire. London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 380 x 510mm. Split in centrefold repaired.
Engraved by Jodocus Hondius, this is one of the most decorative maps of the county, with inset town plans of Northampton and Peterborough, a royal crest and armorials, and a compass rose. On verso is an English text history of the county.

£600

609

[Northumberland] SPEED, John.
Northumberland. London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 380 x 510mm.
Engraved by Jodocus Hondius, this is one of the most decorative maps of the county, with inset plans of Berwick and Newcastle, armorials and antiquities.

£490

610

[Nottinghamshire] SPEED, John.
The Countie of Nottingham described The Shire Townes Situation and the Earls There of observed. London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 390 x 500mm. Some minor creasing, small split in centrefold margin.
Engraved by Jodocus Hondius, this is one of the most decorative maps of the county, with inset plan of Nottingham, armorials and cartouches for the title scale and plan.

£480

611

[Rutland] SPEED, John.
Rutland. London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 390 x 510mm.
Engraved by Jodocus Hondius, this is one of the most decorative maps of the county, with inset plans of Oakham & Stamford and armorials.

£380

612

[Oxfordshire, surrounded by armorials] PLOT, Robert.
To the Right Reverend Father in God by divine permission Ld Bishop Oxon The Map of Oxfordshire .... Oxford, 1677. Coloured. 510 x 490mm. Binding folds flattened as usual.
A superbly decorated map of the county, surrounded by 181 armorials of colleges and noblemen, with a title/dedication cartouche featuring the escutcheon of the Bishop of Oxford, a pillar for the key, a scale with putti holding surveying instruments and a compass rose. It was engraved by Michael Burghers for Plot's 'The Natural History of Oxford-shire', a study of Oxfordshire encompassing everything from farming techniques to geology. Plot made an extensive study of ‘formed stones’ or fossils, arguing that fossil shellfish were crystallizations of mineral salts and that large quadruped fossils were the remains of giants, except for one he believed to be an elephant. The illustration of this is considered the first depiction of a dinosaur fossil.

£1,400

613

[Staffordshire] SPEED, John.
Stafford Countie and Towne, with the ancient citie Lichfeild described. London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 385 x 510mm.
Engraved by Jodocus Hondius, this is one of the most decorative maps of the county, with inset plans of Stafford & Lichfield, armorials and vignette battle scene.

£620

614

[The So-Called "Anonymous" Map of Surrey] SMITH, William.
Surriæ Comitatus Continens in Se Oppida Mercatoria VII. Ecclesias Parochiales CXL. London: John Overton, c.1665. 385 x 485mm. Narrow margins as issued, otherwise a very good example with a dark impression.
A close copy of John Norden's map of Surrey, but on a larger scale. It is one of a collection of twelve county maps drawn by William Smith and believed to have been engraved by Jodocus Hondius in Amsterdam in 1602-3. On the map Smith has marked the major roads, something which did not become a feature on other county maps until after Ogilby's 'Britannia' in 1675. The other counties were never engraved, possibly because Hondius dropped the project in favour of Speed's atlas. About 1650 the plates came into the possession of Peter Stent, who added "Printed andd Sould by P.Stent" bottom left; this example comes from the third and final state, with "Sould by Jo: Overton at the white horse without Newgate neere y fountaine tauern" centre bottom.

£2,000

615

[Surrey] NORDEN, John.
Surrey olim sedes Regnorum. London, Andrew Heb, 1637. Coloured. 290 x 380mm.
Surrey, engraved by William Kip after Norden, published in Camden's 'Britannia'.Most of the maps in the 'Britannia' were copied from Christopher Saxton, whose county atlas of 1579 contained the first set of printed English county maps. However Saxton had chosen to include the four counties of the south east on one sheet, so Camden decided to copy Norden's unpublished map instead. SKELTON: 23.

£325

616

[Wall Map of Surrey in Fine Colour] GREENWOOD, C. & J.
Map of the County of Surrey From an actual Survey Made in the years 1822 & 1823. London: George Pringle jnr., 1823. Fine original colour. Four sheets conjoined, laid on canvas and mounted on rollers, as issued, total 990 x 1220mm.
A large and detailed map of Surrey on scale of 1" to a mile, or 1:65,000. In the top left is a vignette of Kew Palace. The Greenwood brothers surveyed all the English counties on this scale, publishing them as each was completed. Once they finished they reduced the maps and published a large folio county atlas in 1834.

£2,500

617

[A Separate-Issue Example of the So-Called "Anonymous" Map of Warwickshire] SMITH, William.
Warwici Comitatus Descriptio... Anno 1603.London: John Overton, c.1665. Original outline colour. 385 x 460mm. Trimmed to printed border.
A close copy of Christopher Saxton's map of Warwickshire (which Smith acknowledges), but on a larger scale and with the major roads marked, something which did not become a feature on county maps until after Ogilby's 'Britannia' in 1675. This example has no centrefold, suggesting it was never bound.It is one of a collection of twelve county maps drawn by William Smith and believed to have been engraved by Jodocus Hondius in Amsterdam in 1602-3. The other counties were never engraved, possibly because Hondius dropped the project in favour of Speed's atlas. About 1650 the plates came into the possession of Peter Stent, who added "Printed andd Sould by P.Stent" bottom left; this example comes from the third and final state, with "Sould by Jo: Overton overagainst St.Pulchers church" bottom right.

£750

618

[Westmorland] SPEED, John.
The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne Described With the Armes of such Nobles as have bene Earles of either of them. London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 390 x 510mm.
Engraved by Jodocus Hondius, this is one of the most decorative maps of the county, with an inset plan of Kendal, armorials and strapwork cartouches for the title and scale.

£490

619

[First Edition of Speed's Map of Wiltshire] SPEED, John.
Wilshire. London, John Sudbury and George Humble, 1611-1612. Coloured. 385 x 510mm. Trimmed at edges, re-margined.
Engraved by Jodocus Hondius, this is one of the most decorative maps of the county, with an inset town plan of Salisbury, a view of Stonehenge, armorials, and a vignette battle scene. On verso is an English text history of the county.

£700

620

[Yorkshire] SPEED, John.
York Shire. London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 390 x 515mm. Old repair in margin.
Engraved by Jodocus Hondius, this is one of the most decorative maps of the county, with a Royal Crest, compass rose and strapwork cartouches for the title, publication lline and scale.

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621

[North & East Ridings of Yorkshire] SPEED, John.
The North & East Ridins of Yorkshire. London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 395 x 520mm. Split in lower centrefold margin.
Engraved by Jodocus Hondius, with inset plans of Hull and Richmond, armorials and strapwork title cartouche.

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622

[First Edition example of Speed's West Riding] SPEED, John.
The West Ridinge of Yorkshyre with The most famous and fayre Citie Yorke described 1610. London, John Sudbury & George Humble, 1611. Coloured. 385 x 510mm. A few old repairs.
Engraved by Jodocus Hondius, this is one of the most decorative maps of the county, with an inset plan of York, Royal Crest and five 'Armes of such Royal Princes as have bourne the Title of Dukes of Yorke since the Normans Conquest'. First edition examples are increasingly uncommon, and are in demand because of the strength of their impressions. SHELTON: 7.

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623

[Broadsheet map of the Great Fire of London] VENCKEL, Jacob.
Platte Grondt der Verbrande Stadt London. Amsterdam: Jacob Venckel, 1667. 210 x 285mm, with letterpress text underneath. Narrow left margin.
A scarce broadsheet (i.e. issued loose) account of the Great Fire of London, published only a year after the event. The main map shows the extend of the destruction, with an inset prospect of the City in flames and a map showing the Hooke's plan for rebuilding the city. Under the map is an extensive Dutch text detailing the devastation. HOWGEGO: 24.

£1,900

624

[London] STRYPE, John.
A New Plan of the City of London, Westminster and Southwark. London, 1720. Coloured. 500 x 680mm. Narrow margins, Some restoration.
Published in 'A Surevy of the Cities of London & Westminster', the map shows Hyde Park Corner, Sadler's Wells, Mile End Road & Lambeth. Three large cartouches contain the title, the City Arms, and a dedication to George Thorold, the Lord Mayor. The style of the lettering would suggest that the map was engraved by Herman Moll. HOWGEGO: 66.

£1,750

625

[Beautiful Early 18th C. Plan of London] SEUTTER, George Matthäus.
Londinum celeberrima Metropolis, splendissima Regia et opulentissimum Angliae Emporium, .. Augsburg, c.1720. Original colour. 510 x 585mm. Very fine condition, wide and uncut margins.
Map of London extending west to east from Marylebone to Limehouse and north to south from Islington to Bermondsey,, decorated with the Hanover Royal Arms and a prospect of the The City and London Bridge from Southwark underneath. Both the map and the prospect have extensive keys. HOWGEGO: 68.

£1,900

626

[London] HOMANN HEIRS.
Urbium Londini et West-Monasterii nec non Suburbii Southwark accurata Ichnographia... 1736. Nuremberg, 1736. Original colour. Three sheets conjoined, total 520 x 1720mm.
A long town plan of London, showing from Grosvenor Square and Buckingham House in the west to Stepney Church in the east, Clerkenwell in the north and Southwark in the south. Many of the most important buildings are shown in profile. A large title cartouche with the Royal arms of George II completes this very striking map. This map often appears just as a two-sheet map. The right sheet here, half of which is taken up with a view of St James's Square and elevations of St Paul's, the Royal Exchange and the Custom House, appears to have been only included in a deluxe edition. HOWGEGO: 81.

£2,800

627

[London] Illustrated London News.
Sketches in London in 1851. London, 1851. Coloured. Wood engraving on two sheets conjoined, total 700 x 940mm. Some restoration.
Published to coincide edwith the Great Exhibition.

£1,100

628

MYLNE, Robert.
Geological Map Of London And Its Environs. London, E. Stanford, 1871, original colour, 400 x 615mm.
A very interesting map of the geological make-up of London and its surrounding region, in fine original colour, dissected and laid on linen. State three of five. HYDE No. 16 .

£850

629

[Scarce Plan of London] FOSTER, George.
A New and exact Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster & the Borough of Southwark to this present year... London: Robert Sayer, 1778. Original outline colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 565 x 1020mm.
A large and detailed plan of London, decorated with inset prospect of London, and viewss of St James's Palace, the Queen's Palace, Westminster Abbey & St Paul's. Tables give a key for the wards, and rates for hackney coaches and watermen. Bottom right are the arms of 12 city compamies. HOWGEGO: 82, this state not listed.

£3,850

630

[London after the Fire] LEAKE, John.
An Exact Surveigh of the Streets, Lanes, and Churches, Comprehend within the Ruins of the City of London... London, 1723. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 535 x 1260mm.
Copied from Leake's map of 1667 (etched by Hollar), the map shows the extent of the Great Fire, and marks the buildings lost to the flames, with pre-fire elevations of some of the buildings. HOWGEGO: 21, derivative 1.

£1,500

631

LAURIE & WHITTLE.
A New Plan Of London, Westminster And Southwark 1813. London, c.1810, original colour, 420 x 640mm Folding plan as originally issued. Fine condition.
An attractive and detailed plan of early 19th century London in original colour engraved by S.W. Cooke. The City boundary is picked out in red whilst main roads are picked out in yellow. Underneath is a list of Public Offices & buildings. HOWGEGO No 225.

£525

632

[London] NEELE, S.J..
A Plan of London, with its Modern Improvements. London: Richard Philips, 1804. Coloured. 250 x 600mm. Binding folds flattened.
Engraved by Neele for "The Picture of London". HOWGEGO: 229.

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633

[London] MUNSTER, Sebastian.
Londinium Feracis: Ang. Met. Basle, c.1628, German edition. Coloured. Woodcut map, printed area 245 x 360mm. A very fine example with wide margins.
A woodcut version of the Braun & Hogenberg map of London, published in the 'Cosmographia'. HOWGEGO: 6, first issued 1598.

£1,100

634

[Elizabethan London] WELLER, Edward.
London in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. London, Cassel, Petter and Galpin, 1863. Coloured. Lithograph, two sheets conjoined, total 460 x 1240mm.
A reduced version of one of the first plans of London, incorrectly attributed to Agas. The style is much the same as Braun & Hogenberg, with the buildings shown in profile. St Paul's Cathedral is in the centre of the map, London Bridge has buildings on it, and The Globe and the Bull-Baiting Ring can be seen on the south bank of the river. Published in the 'Dispatch Atlas'.

£750

635

[London during the first quarter of the 16th century] NEWTON, William.
London, Westminster and Southwark as in the Olden Times, shewing the city, and its suburbs with the churches, monasteries and all the important buildings as they stood in the reign of Henry VIII before the Reformation. London, 1855, coloured, 1020 x 1360mm.
A birds-eye view of early 16th century London with a 436 point key naming all the numbered buildings. TOOLEY Pg. 320.

£2,800

636

[London with vignettes] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
London. London, Baldwin & Cradock, c.1836. Coloured. 400 x 650mm. Binding folds flattened.
Highly detailed double-page map, showing from Kensington Palace east to the Isle of Dogs, and the Oval north to Islington. The SDUK published two versions of this map: this is the more desirable, with two vignette views under the title, showing the Tower and London from Holloway. HOWGEGO: 354.

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637

[The Great Fire of London, 1666] GUALDO PRIORATO, Gabriel.
Londra. Incendio Della Gran Citta di Londra Metropoli del Regno d’Inghilterra succæsso ADI 21 Settembre 1666 ... Italian, c.1675. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 280 x 880mm. Binding folds flattened and reinforced as normal on this panorama, left margin extended.
The Great Fire, as seen from above Southwark. The extend of the flames can be seen, with the burning St. Paul's Cathedral dominating the centre. In the foreground are the Globe and Swan Theatres, and the bull-baiting ring. The heads of traitors adorn the gates of London Bridge.Gabriel Gualdo Priorato, Conte del Galeazzo, was a soldier, historian, tactician, diplomatist and military draughtsman.

£3,000

638

[The First Printed Map of London] BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.
Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis. Cologne, 1574, coloured, 330 x 490mm.
The earliest printed map of London to survive, a 'map-view' with the major buildings shown in profile, with no consideration for perspective. Published for the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the first series of printed town plans. The second state, with the spelling 'West Muster', issued two years after the first.
In the centre of London is the old St.Paul's Cathedral, showing its spire. When the building was finished the spire was the tallest in the world. However it was hit by lighting and destroyed in 1561, and was not replaced before the Great Fire of London destroyed the building in 1666. The inclusion of it here suggests that the plan was completed at least a decade before publication.

£6,200

639

[Facsimilie of Morgan's Twelve Sheet Map of London] MORGAN, William.
London &.c. Actually Survey'd by Wm. Morgan, His Matie's Cosmogr. 1681/2. London: London Topographical Society, 1901. 12 sheets conjoined, total 1550 x 2200mm (c.5½ x 8 feet). Laid on linen.
A full-size facimilie of a massive map, on a scale of 300 feet to an inch, the largest to show London and the surrounding area until John Rocque's map of 1746. Around the map are elevations of government houses, a vignette scene of John Ogilby being presented to Charles II, and the title on a garland banner. Underneath is a prospect of London and Westminster by Robert Morden & Philip Lea. See Howgego: 33.

£3,200

640

[London Bridge] NICHOLLS, Sutton.
The West-Side of London-Bridge. The East-Side of London-Bridge. London: John Smith, c.1705. Two sheets conjoined, total 570 x 880mm. A few small repairs, laid on paper.
Elevations of either side of London Bridge at the beginning of the C18th, filled with buildings. Underneath is a text, 'An Historical Description of the great and admirable Bridge in the City of London over the River Thames'. Like its predecessor, this bridge was destroyed by fire in 1725. Nicholls, the engraver, worked for a number of map publishers. He engraved some of the Morden county maps and updated the Saxton plates for Philip Lea.

£1,250

641

[Panorama of Pre-Fire London] MERIAN, Mattheus.
London. Frankfurt, c.1650. 220 x 690mm.
A pre-Fire prospect of London, with a 43-point key underneath. The view shows from the King's Palace at Whitehall to the Tower of London and St Katherine's Church in the East. London Bridge still has buildings across it, and several traitors' heads decorate the bridge's southern gate. The Globe (Shakespeare's theatre) and the bull-baiting ring can be seen in Southwark. HOWGEGO: p.7.

£2,400

642

[Prospect of London] KIP, Johannes.
La Ville de Londres. Prospectus Londinensis. London, c.1720. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined as issued, total 485 x 1180mm. Laid on canvas, a few small repairs
Prospect of London from south of the river, showing St Clement's Church to the Tower. St. Paul's Cathedral is shown as complete except for the scrolled parapet above the East apse; St Clement Danes lacks the upper stages added by Gibbs in 1719-20, and the Custom House is Wren's burned down in 1718. Moored off Bankside and flying the City flag is the 'Folly', a barge adapted as a floating concert room, usually anchored near the Savoy. The Royal Arms depicted date from 1707-14.

£3,750

643

[London] MEYER, Joseph.
London 1845. Hildberghausen, 1845. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 410 x 650mm.
A fine example with wide margins.Steel-engraved townplan from Meyer's 'Handatlas', with 23 elevations of important buildings under the map.

£680

644

[Panorama of London] RUPPRECHT, Marcus Abraham.
Londinum. Londen. Augsburg, Johann Christoph Haffner, c.1750. Two sheets conjoined as issued, total 285 x 620mm.
Prospect of the City of London with a 53-point key in Latin and German. North of the Thames the view concentrates on the churches built by Christopher Wren after the Great Fire of 1666; in Southwark both the Globe and Swan theatres can be seen.

£2,800

645

[A Very Scarce Broadsheet Plan of London] THOMPSON, George.
"A New & Accurate PLAN of the CITIES of LONDON & WESTMINSTER .... "Publish'd Jan.y 1, 1798 by G. Thompson N.o 43 Long Lane West Smithfield", original colour, 565 x 1055mm.
A very fine, rare and large engraved broadsheet map of London in original colour, printed on two joined sheets. With vignettes of St James's Palace, The Monument, the South West Prospect of St Pauls, a View of the cities of London and Westminster, a Front view of Westminster Abbey and a Front View of the Queen's Palace. The various Parishes of London are listed in a table at the bottom left and the old city is denoted by being stippled rather than hatched .

£2,800

646

[Large London Panorama] Illustrated London News.
Panorama of the River Thames in 1845. Given with the Illustrated London News. London, William Little, 1845. Two wood engravings, each printed area 370 x 1210mm.
A two-strip panorama: the western sheet shows the Serpentine and Belgrave Square to St Paul's; the eastern sheet continues to the Isle of Dogs and Greenwich. Points of interest include the mass of shipping filling the river and the East and West India Docks; Nelson's Column, only erected three years before; the short-lived Hungerford Suspension Bridge (1845-1862, when it was removed and the chain used on the Clifton Suspension Bridge over the Avon); and Buckingham Palace, completed 1837, still with the Marble Arch as the gateway, re-erected in Hyde Park 1851.

£2,400

647

[The Most Famous pre-Fire London view] HOLLAR, Wenceslaus.
London. London, R. Martin, 1832. Lithograph, five sheets conjoined, total 450 x 2310mm. Splits to binding foids restored.
A lithographed copy of Hollar's famous pre-Fire prospect of London, published by Danckerts in Amsterdam 1647. It is a perspective view, drawn as if the viewer was in the tower of St. Mary Overy in Southwark. The amount of detail is impressive: Inigo Jones' alterations to the south transept of St. Paul's are shown, despite only being finished 1642; there are examples of the different types of boats using the river above and below London Bridge (still with buildings across it); and the Globe and the bull-baiting ring can be seen in Southwark. The title is above the panorama in a decorative cartouche, with Mercury and other figures filling the skies. Putti, one of whom is trying to ride an ostrich, represent some of London's commercial interests abroad. Hollar started work on the original in London, but completed it in Antwerp: he had to flee England because his Royalist sympathies put him at risk during the Civil War, although he was able to return in 1652. HOWGEGO: p.8, 'the most accurate of the pre-Fire panoramas of London'.

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648

[Prospect of Pre-Fire London] WYNGAERDE, Antony van den.
London, Westminster and Southwark, as they Appeared A.D. 1543... London: H.A. Roger, c.1900. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, 400 x 1440mm. A few small repairs. minor creasing.
An exceptionally detailed prospect of London, over a century before the Great Fire of 1666, attributed to Wyngaerde due to the similarity in style to other topographical drawing by him. This version was engraved by N. Whittock from the manuscript, originally in the Bodleian Library, now in the Ashmolean Museum, both in Oxford.

£2,000

649

[Cambridge] BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.
Cantebrigia, opulentissimi Anglie Regni, urbs celeberrimi nominis, ab Academie conditore Cantabro, cognominata. Amsterdam, Janssonius c.1657. Coloured. 325 x 440mm.
The scarce Janssonius edition of the earliest printed map of Cambridge, a 'map-view' with the major buildings, in this case the colleges, shown in profile, with no consideration for perspective. With an elaborate title cartouche and a nineteen point key.Published for the "Theatrum Præcipuarum Urbium", which was issued by Janssonius using many original Braun & Hogenberg plates and some new additions . The only difference in the present example from it's "Civitates" counterpart is the deletion of the figures that appear in the bottom right hand corner in the earlier map. KOEMAN Vol II: Ja 15.

£800

650

[Large Scale Plan of Manchester] LAURENT, Charles.
A Topographical Plan of Manchester and Salford, with the Adjacent Parts; shewing also the Different Allotments of Land proposed to be built on, communicated to the Surveyor by the respective Proprietors. London: John Stockdale, c.1793. Four sheets conjoined, total 1040 x 920mm. Binding folds flattened.
A large and detailed plan of Manchester, marking the planned developments in the north east of the city. The insets are a plan of the city c.1650, the route from London to Manchester and the environs of Manchester. Originally published by Laurent in 1793, Stockdale saw the potential market for this map and bought the plates the same year, using them to illustrate Aikin's 'Description Of The Country From Thirty to Forty Miles Round Manchester'. The engraver was John Cary, who also became a successful map publisher.

£920

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[Channel Islands] SPEED, John.
Holy Iland; Farne; Garnsey; Jarsay. London, George Humble, 1627. Coloured. 380 x 510mm. Printer's crease near centrefold, affecting the sea area.
Four maps on one sheet, engraved by Jodocus Hondius for The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine...'. With an English text describing each island on verso. SKELTON: 16.

£550

660

CLOPPENBURG, Johannes.
Anglesey; Wight, Vectis Olim; Garnesay; Iarsay. Amsterdam, 1630, French text edition. First Edition. 190 x 260mm. Fine impression.
Four maps on one sheet: Anglesey, Isle of Wight, Guernsey & Jersey. Published in Cloppenburg's version of the Mercator 'Atlas Minor', probably engraved by Van den Keere. KOEMAN: Me 198.

£160

661

[The Channel Islands] DE LA ROCHETTE, Louis Stanislas d'Arcy.
A Chart of the Islands of Jersey and Guernsey, Sark, Herm and Alderney, with the Adjaicent Coast of France. London, William Faden, 1781-94. Original colour. 720 x 530mm.
A very detailed chart of the Channel Islands, also showing Cherbourg, Mont St Michel & St Malo, with coastal progiles of the main islands. Although the engraved date is 1781 the map is printed on high-quality Whatman paper watermarked 1794.

£485

662

[Channel Islands] TALLIS, John.
Channel Islands. London, John Tallis & Co., c.1851. Original outline colour. Steel engraving, 350 x 250mm.
Guernsey & Jersey, with four vignette scenes, including St Peter's Port and Castle Cornet.

£70

663

STANFORD, Edward.
Isle of Wight. London, 1889, original electrotype colour, dissected and laid on linen, 520 x 970mm.
The Isle of Wight in great detail with fine original colour, dissected and laid on linen as issued, from Stanford's Ordinance Survey Map of England. With blue marbled endpapers and in its original blue buckram covered case.

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664

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665

HOMANN, Johann Baptist.
Magnæ Britanniæ Pars Septentrionalis qua Regnum Scotiæ. Nuremberg, c.1720. Original colour with additions to the cartouches. 575 x 480mm.
Scotland, with two large cartouches in full colour, the title cartouche representing Hermes (wisdom) and Ceres (abundance).

£550

666

[A Sumptuous 17th C. Italian Map of Scotland] CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
Scotia Parte Settentrionale...; Scotia parte Meridionale. Venice, c.1690. Two sheets conjoined, coloured, total 890 x 630mm.
Highly decorative map of Scotland in Coronelli's unique style. Each sheet has a title within a cartouche, the southern sheet a scale cartouche, the northern sheet a table of counties and towns on a hanging banner.

£1,100

667

[The Scottish Section from Camden's Britannia] CAMDEN, William,
Scot-Land. London: Bishop & Norton, 1610. Extract, rebound in blue cloth gilt; pp. 60, with old ink marginalia, double-page map of Scotland by William Hole.
Camden's Britannia was the first British atlas to have a separate map of Scotland. This was engraved by William Hole, who took the Mercator map of 1595 as his source (not Saxton as written on the spine!). The text is a brief history and description of the country and the regions.

£550

668

JANSSON, Jan.
Scotia Regnum. Amsterdam: Heirs of Jan Jansson, 1666, Latin text. Original colour. 390 x 505mm. Lower centrefold split repaired.
Scotland, decorated with two armorials and an inset of the Orkneys. This example was published in the 'Atlas Contractus', a two-volume atlas, published two years after Jansson's death by his son-in-law, Jan Jansson van Waesbergen. KOEMAN: Me 184 & 185.

£650

669

SPEED, John.
The Kingdome of Scotland. London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 390 x 510mm. Split in centrefold margin repaired, edge of left margin reinforced.
A rightly famous map of Scotland, with an inset of the Orkneys. First issued 1611-12, the plate originally had portraits of James VI of Scotland and I of England, his wife Anne and their two sons. However in 1652 the Puritan ascendancy made it politic to re-engrave the plate: away went the Royal family, to be replaced by costume vignettes of a "Scotch" (i.e. lowland) man & woman and their wilder "Highland" neighbours. The checked garments worn by the second pair are considered to be one of the earliest depictions of tartan.

£2,400

670

LE ROUGE, George Louis.
Le Royaume d'Ecosse Divisé en ses parties Meridionale et Septentrionale. Paris, c.1748. Original colour. 285 x 215mm. slight colour offsetting.
An attractive and detailed map of Scotland.

£150

671

[Two-Sheet Map of Scotland] CLOPPENBURG, Johannes.
Scotia Regnum. Amsterdam, 1630, French text edition. First Edition. Two sheets, each c.190 x 260mm. Fine impression.
Two-sheet map of Scotland from Cloppenburg's version of the Mercator 'Atlas Minor', probably engraved by Van den Keere. KOEMAN: Me 198.

£280

672

TALLIS, John.
Scotland. London, John Tallis & Co., c.1851. Original outline colour. Steel engraving, printed area 350 x 260mm.
Detailed map with an attractive border of entwined thistles and six inset decorative vignettes of Edinburgh, deerstalking, etc. With an inset of the Shetland Isles.

£220

673

CLOPPENBURG, Johannes.
Scotia Regnum. Amsterdam, 1630, French text edition. First Edition. 190 x 260mm. Fine impression.
Scotland from Cloppenburg's version of the Mercator 'Atlas Minor', probably engraved by Van den Keere. KOEMAN: Me 198.

£200

674

[Two-Sheet Map of Scotland] MOLL, Herman.
The North Part of Britain called Scotland. London, Moll, John Bowles, Thomas Bowles & John King, c.1730. Original outline colour with additions. Printed on two sheets and conjoined, total 600 x 1000mm. Repairs to binding folds, as usual.
Moll's large-format map of Scotland, flanked by a chart of the Orkneys & Shetlands and eleven view of Scottish cities, engraved by John Kip. A striking map, first published 1714. Moll was very political, using this blanks areas of his large-format maps to express his views, for example his dislike of the Dutch & French, especially their mapmakers. (See MapForum.Com: Issue 6, Treacle & Vinegar). Here his target is not foreigners (Moll was a German emigré!) but the failure to capitalise on Scotland's resources. He marks the fishing grounds and states 'if things were rightly managed, there would be no reason to go to Norway for wood or New-found-land for fish; seeing North Britain can Plentifully furnish us with both'.

£1,500

675

[Scarce Two-Sheet Plan Of Edinburgh] JOHNSTON, Andrew
'The Plan of Edenburgh exactly done From the Original of ye famous D: Wit.. London: Joseph Smith, ca. 1724; coloured, 420 x 1040mm. Restoration to some cracks in the paper, rebacked.
Fine two-sheet plan/view of Edinburgh, originally composed by James Gordon who, with his father Robert, was joint editor of the first printed atlas of Scotland, published by Johannes Blaeu in msterdam in 1654. From the materials they supplied, Blaeu also published a large plan of Edinburgh but, gor some reason, the plan was not used in the atlas. The plates survived and passed to Frederick de Wit. It was this printing that Johnston, a Scotman working in London, used as his model.The plan, taken from the south, has the Castle prominent at the left and Holyrood House at the right. For this version, however, Johnston has inserted two small views of Edinburgh also drawn by Gordon, which Blaeu printed on a separate sheet from this map.

£2,500

676

[Wall Map of Scotland] CAMPBELL, Lieut. Robert.
A New and Correct Map of Scotland or North Britain with all the Post and Military Roads, Divisions &ca. Drawn from the Most Approved Surveys Illustrated with Many Additional Improvements, and Regulated by the Latest Astronomical Observations by Lieutenant Campbell. London, Laurie & Whittle, 1794. Original outline colour. Four sheets conjoined, total 1230 x 1070mm. Some repairs to folds and marginal tears.
A huge map of Scotland by an Admiralty surveyor, with an inset of the Shetlands on the same scale and a table of distances on the stage routes.

£700

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[Uncommon Two-Sheet Map] CASSINI, Giovanni Maria.
La Parte Settentrionale della Scozia...; Parte Meridionale della Scozia... Rome, 1795. Coloured. Two sheets, ea. c.350 x 485mm.
A fine impression of Cassini's two-sheet map of Scotland, each with a decorative title cartouche relating to fishing. As the publication of Cassini's atlas was a financial disaster his maps are uncommon.

£480

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[Unusual Prospect of Edinburgh] MEISNER, Daniel.
Edenburck in Schottl. Nuremberg: Paulus Furst, 1638. 100 x 150mm. A very fine and crisp example.
A very unusual view, copied from the Braun & Hogenberg view published 1572. However Meisner has added a cavalier-like figure, with swords hanging in his line of sight, a quote from Virgil, 'Vim Suscitat Ira, and more lines of verse in Latin & German. Neither the figure nor the text appear to have any connection with Edinburgh. Meisner's book of townplans originally appeared in 1623 with only 52 plates. In 1624-6 it was re-issued with 416, and again in 1638-42 with a new title, 'Sciographia', and 800 plates. This example comes from the last edition.

£230

679

[View of Edinburgh] CHEREAU, Jacques.
Edimbourg Ville Capitalle du Royaume d'Ecosse Evesché et Université. Paris, Chereau, c.1750, 155 x 220mm.
Prospect of the city from the south, with a 14-point key.

£480

680

[Lothian] JANSSON, Jan.
Provincæ Lauden seu Lothien et Linlithouo. Amsterdam: Heirs of Jan Jansson, 1666, Latin text. Original colour. 365 x 535mm.
Centred on Edinburgh, decorated with cartouches for the title and scale, the Scottish Royal arms and a compass rose. This example was published in the 'Atlas Contractus', a two-volume atlas, published two years after Jansson's death by his son-in-law, Jan Jansson van Waesbergen. KOEMAN: Me 184 & 185.

£525

681

[North Wales] JANSSON, Jan.
Principatus Walliæ Pars Borealis Vulgo North Wales. Amsterdam: Heirs of Jan Jansson, 1666, Latin text. Original colour. 385 x 495mm.
Wales north of Aberystwith, decorated with cartouches for title and scale and two armorials. This example was published in the 'Atlas Contractus', a two-volume atlas, published two years after Jansson's death by his son-in-law, Jan Jansson van Waesbergen. KOEMAN: Me 184 & 185.

£480