Ramusio’s "Delle Navigationi et Viaggi” - Here with the third volume on the Americas in its First edition from 1556 which used the original woodblock - The only edition with 1st State Maps - £27,500 -Giovanni Battista RAMUSIO -Published in Venice by Stamperia de Giunti -3 volumes. Mixed edition set as usual. Text in Italian. -Volume 1: 1563 (3rd) ; Volume 2: 1574 (2nd) ; Volume 3: 1556 (1st) Volume I. [4], 394 leaves (Complete). 30x20 cm (12x8") approx, Modern full vellum to style. 3 Double page maps of Africa, India and the Far East. Slightly shorter and ?supplied from another copy. Third edition. Volume II. 5, [1], 9-30, 248 leaves (Complete). 30x20 cm (12x8") approx. 18th Century full vellum, Second edition. A few leaves browned and one gathering loosening. Volume III. 6, 34, 453 leaves (Complete). 6 folding copper-plate maps with in-text woodcut illustrations and maps.30x20cm (12x8") approx. 18th Century full vellum, FIRST EDITION. Some toning to pages with worming and repairs at places. Old wax stains to maps of first volume. Maps to third volume folding with some repairs. Very good condition overall. Ramusio's immense compilation is the most important travel collection of the 16th Century. It would directly influence the works of Hakluyt and De Bry and was a key reference work for centuries after its publication. Ramusio was secretary to the council of 10 in Venice for 43 years. Given Venice's importance to global trade, he had access to, and was able to collect, accounts of all the important global voyages of the period. Nearly all the important early voyages in the age of discovery are present, including those of Columbus, Da Gama, Marco Polo and Magellan. The maps are hugely important and were produced by the geographer Gastaldi. The map of South East Asia is particularly important as it is the first to name the Philippines "filipina" and the earliest "accurate" obtainable map of the area. The maps of the Americas include the first map to focus on North East America and includes Manhattan, based on Verrazzano's voyage. A further important map in this volume is the first to show montreal, depicting the meeting between Jacques Cartier and the first nations by the royal mountain - Monte Real. The maps in the third volume are here in the RARE 1st STATE from 1556. The woodblock of this state was destroyed in a fire in 1557 so all subsequent editions were created using different woodblocks. A nice complete set of Ramusio, here with the 3rd volume on the Americas in the rare first edition.
£27,500

A map of the British Army with battle honours and militray achievements and Regimental Badges . . . Maker / Publisher: HMSO Place & Date: London, 1952 Shows English County Regiments, Battle Honours and Military Achievements. Bordered by Regimental Badges. A fascinating piece of British history.

A View of S. James's Palace Pall Mall. - Vues du Palais royal de S.Jacques Pall Mall. Place & Date: Paris, 1753 So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of St James's Palace, Pall Mall. The gatehouse of St James's Palace is on the left. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, there were many popular specialty establishments in Paris, Augsburg, and London that produced optical viewing devices and special engravings to be viewed through them. In the 18th century the optical print or vue optique came into existence, whose exaggerated converging lines were intended to produce the optical illusion of deep recession. The viewing devices for which these perspective prints were produced consisted of a lens and a mirror, which required the use of reversed or mirror-image pictures.

Maker / Publisher: CHEDEL, H. Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493 Large woodcut depicting an imaginary English town (235x223mm.) and on verso the genealogy of King David. Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Chronicle Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year that Columbus returned to Europe after discovering America. In May of 1493 appeared in the Latin language one of the earliest voluminous books, fully illustrated with 1809 woodcuts printed from 645 woodblocks. The woodblock cutters were Michael Wolgemut, the well-known teacher of Albrecht Dürer, and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Wohlgemut was Albrecht Dürer's tutor between 1486 and 90, and recent scholarship has shown that Albrecht Dürer may also have collaborated, since some of the cuts bear a remarkably close resemblance to the Apocalypse illustrations. The printing was carried out under the supervision of the great scholar-printer Anton Koberger, whose printing was famous throughout Europe.

The earliest obtainable plan of New York City BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas. Ville de Manathe ou Nouvelle-Yorc. Paris, 1764. Second state. Copper engraving, hand coloured. Size (neatline): 16.4 x 21.2 cm / 6.5 x 8.3 in. This fascinating chart depicting colonial New York City is from Jacques-Nicolas Bellin’s Le Petit Atlas Maritime. With close to 600 charts and a strong focus on harbour cities and towns, this atlas is considered the leading publication of its kind at the time it was issued. The chart focuses on what today is the Financial District at the southern tip of Manhattan, at the confluence of the Hudson and East rivers. These are respectively displayed as Riviere de Hudson ou Riviere d’Orange, i.e. Hudson River or Orange River, with the latter so named by the Dutch in honour of their royal House of Orange, and Canal de la Longue Isle ou Riviere d’Yorc, i.e. Long Island Canal or York River. The town is shown as strongly fortified and with a fort at its western end. Established by the Dutch in 1626 as Fort Amsterdam, it was later renamed Fort James, then Fort George, by the British, before its eventual destruction in 1790. A legend with references from A. to M. identifies 12 important landmarks, such as the port, freshwater wells, the governour’s house, the town hall, gunpowder stores, and the lower town. Separately, just outside the city walls, a Batterie de Mortiers, i.e. cannon battery, is shown and named. Taking into account further artillery batteries installed in the vicinity over the years, this is what ultimately gave today’s The Battery its name. The chart uses hachures to depict relief and arrows to show the direction of flow of the Hudson. Soundings are shown in fathoms. The distance scale shown at the bottom of the legend is in “Cent Toises”, i.e. one hundred fathoms. Bellin’s chart is based on a manuscript map by Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin, drawn in 1693. Franquelin was the first official cartographer of Canada (then New France) as well as royal hydrographer to Louis XIV. Against the background of the King William's War between France and Britain over territorial control in North America, Franquelin had been tasked to map the coast of New England with view to a possible French invasion from sea. Although other maps of New York City were created before Bellin’s, his is today considered the earliest obtainable. An intriguing artifact from a time when New York’s population counted just a few thousand. Condition: A clear impression on a clean, watermarked sheet. Wide margins. One minute spot in upper left margin. Else clean. Overall, excellent.
USD 3,000 / GBP 2,260 / EUR 2,

Ortelius's two-sheet map of Ancient Egypt. ORTELIUS, Abraham. Aegyptus Antiqua. Antwerp, 1584, Latin text edition, first atlas issue. Old colour, with later additions. Two sheets conjoined, total 790 x 480mm. An impressive map of Egypt drawn by Abraham Ortelius himself for his 'Parergon', his atlas of the Ancient World. The Nile is shown south to Philae, with the known cities and temples of Ancient Egypt along its length. Using classical writers like Diodorus, Herodotus, Strabo and Pliny as his sources, Ortelius created a map described by Peter Meurer of the University of Utrecht as 'an outstanding example of early scientific research on Egypt'. This map is relatively scarce: first published in 1584, it was replaced in 1595 by a single-sheet version. Van den Broecke estimates only 1825 examples were printed.
£2,600

One of the earliest world maps available to the collector. SCHEDEL, D. Hartmann. Secunda etas mundi. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493, Latin text edition. Woodcut, printed area 370 x 520mm. Old colour refreshed. A very fine example of the first edition of this incunable world map from the the 'Nuremberg Chronicle', published a matter of months after Columbus' return to Spain after his first voyage to the New World. Appropriately for a history of the world, it takes a retrospective view, with the cartography that of Ptolemy, with a land-locked Indian Ocean with the island of Taprobana, but given a biblical theme by depicting the three sons of Noah in the borders. Down the left are seven vignettes of bizarre mythological creatures, with a further 14 on the reverse, taken from the works of Herodotus, Solinus and Pliny. These include figures with six arms, four eyes or a bird-neck and a centaur. The text describes which parts of the world they inhabit.
£15,000

THE ONLY KNOWN MANUSCRIPT ON ASTROLABS BY COIGNET MICHAEL COIGNET. Astrolabii sive Ptolemaei Alexandrini Planisphaerii descriptio et usus.Studio et Industria Michaelis Coigneti Sem belgii principum Mathematici, ex praecipuis huius eximij Instrumenti scriptoribus colletum,ab multis noms ac necesariis additionibus auctum. Antwerp circa 1621 Folio, 252x 298 mm. 40 leaves ( last blank).Handwritten text on paper illustrated with 22 large drawings representing astrolabs and other instruments used to takes measures for sailing .Original vellum binding with gilt panelled on boards; rubbed on corners, green cloth ties. Some pages with old restorations but not affecting neither the text or drawings. Contents: Declaratio Partium Astrolabii (1v) Catalogus Auctorum Astrolabio feriserunt ( 2r) Index Capitum in hoc libro (2v-3 r) The index describes 30 chapters that are explained and some of them accompanied by extraordinary drawings by Coignet ,some of them full page size like the Astrolab by Stoffler on both sides or the sundial. The treaty introduces Coignet as court mathematician of the Princes Albertus and Isabella Clara Eugenia who ruled the Low Countries from 1598 to 1621. Michael Coignet (1549-1623) was mathematician and scientific instruments maker active in Antwerp.He was the son of Gilles Coignet(died 1563) also a reputed mathematician.Coignet was under the influence of Gemma Frisius as Coignet employed Ferdinand Arsenius in his workshop until 1579 and cooperated with Gualterius Arsenius in different works. Coignet published books on arithmetics(1573) and navigation(1580).Coignet took the challenge to determine longitude that was crucial to navigate along the oceans and his work “Instruction Nouvelle” treated Gemma Frisius ?s solution to find longitude on sea. In 1595 Coignet became mathematician to the Hapsburg Archduke Albert and Isabella and his advise was used during some sieges during the war. In 1601 he edited the new editions of Epitome Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius and wrote the introduction to De Jode ?s rare atlas Speculum Orbis Terrarum (1593). It is in the period between 1601-1610 that Coignet seems to have written his first manuscript on the Sector ( compas de proportion).There is a census of manuscripts by Coignet compiled by Prof Ad Meskens in his seminal work . “ Practical mathematics in a commercial Metropolis, mathematical life in late 16 th century Antwerp”, where he lists 21 manuscripts by Coignet but none on Astrolabs( pg 231) . This manuscript remained in a noble spanish collection and therefore is unknown to prof Meskens and any other author and bibliographies. Nowadays there are only 8 astrolabs instruments known signed by Michael Coignet: -Berlin,Kunstgewerbemuseum ,dated 1572 229 mm -Madrid( Maritime Museum) dated 1598, 152 mm -Leiden( Museum Boerhaave) dated 1601 227 mm -Private collection (circa 1602) 230 mm -Madrid ( Archeological national Museum) dated 1618, 406 mm -Hamburg (Kuns Museum) not dated , 330 mm -Oxford( Museum history of science) not dated 258 mm -Milan( Castello Sforzesco),not dated, 270 mm Michael Coignet ?s workshop received some orders from Benito Arias Montano as librarian of king Phillip II who was in Antwerp to prepare the publication of the Polyglot Bible with Christopher Plantin.Montano joint with Jean Moflin(King ?s chaplain) made some orders to Coignet as well as some orders for spanish customers came from Spain through Jean Boyer (bookseller active at Medina del Campo and its important annual fair). This is the only manuscript known by Michael Coignet on Astrolabs and an important reference for the history of science in Europe in the XVI century Ref: -Ad Meskens. Practical mathematics in a commercial metropolis, mathematical life in late 16 th century Antwerp. Archimedes 31, Springer 2013. -Antonio Davila Pérez. Arias Montano y Amberes. Enlaces espirituales bibliófilos y comerciales entre España y los Paises bajos. Excerpta Philologica 9 ( 1999) pp 199-211. -Instrumentos cientificos del s XVI. (Exhibition) carlos de Amberes Foundation, 1997. Catalogue pp 188. This manuscript has a Spanish export license.
85,000 euros

Monte Carlo DOMERGUE, Jean Gabriel (1889-1962). Monte-Carlo. Original lithograph with colour, linen backed, printed by Nationale, Monaco, c.1960. 990 x 620 mm. In good condition with vivid strong colours. Only some minor staining to lower right corner. Domergue was born in Bordeaux and studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In 1911, he was a winner of the Prix de Rome. From the 1920s onwards he concentrated on portraits, and claimed to be "the inventor of the pin-up".
£2,750

CARY, John. Cary's New and Accurate Plan of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark and parts adjacent: viz. Kensington, Chelsea, Islington, Hackney, Walworth, Newington &c with an Alphabetical list of upwards of 500 of the most principal streets with references to their situation, and Plans of the New London & East & West India Docks. London, 1816. Original engraved map of London (8o x 148.5 cm) with contemporary wash colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, with a list of over 500 of the principal streets printed below the map, three inset tables of reference to churches, parishes and public buildings, a printed list of streets and their altitude above sea level pasted to the right-hand margin, bookplate of Alexander Boetefeur pasted to the upper right corner, marbled endpapers, housed in a contemporary marbled card slipcase (worn) with printed label to upper board. Two faint manuscript circles in upper right corner, slight staining, generally an excellent copy with beautiful wash colouring. Originally published in 1787, this map went through several editions with constant changes; in 1811 an extra section was added, extending the map to show the East and West India Docks. James Howego. The Printed Maps of London, no.184, state 14 (of 20).
£7,500

Mappa Humoristico da Europa. Maker / Publisher: SOARES, A. Place & Date: Lisbon, 1914 This is a really unusual and lovely map, published in Portugal at the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. This outbreak of war in Europe was the result of a complex sequence of events and longer-term factors. Humorous, satirical maps such as this example were produced for a popular audience and synthesized the road to war in a graphic, single visual image. The protagonist states are represented by animals reflecting an aspect of their behavior or their heritage, play out the political situation by either biting and clawing their neighbors or warily watching on. The upper left corner, below the title, has a numerical designation of the nation key (1-21). The map is 'signed' by A. Soares; third edition. (48336)

Pieter Van der Aa: Celeberrima urbs Venetiae. Leiden, c. 1722 Copper engraving, two sheets, joined, 42 x 103 cms, blank verso, published in the ‘Thesaurus Antiquitatum et Historiarum Italiae’ and others works. It is a larger, revised and anonymous version of the Merian plan, and was first published in one of Janssonius’ great ‘town books’ in 1657. Revisions include the addition of a beach on the south side of the Giudecca, a stretch of lagoon beyond it, and further buildings on the island of St Elena. The copper printing plates were purchased by Frederick de Wit, and his imprint was added after 1694. This was erased and replaced by van der Aa’s imprint on a stone tablet, and published in this form in Graevius’ ‘Thesaurus’ (1722) and the ‘Galerie agréable du Monde’ (1729). A bird's eye plan of the city and the larger islands, it is both detailed and decorative, with compass rose, allegorical figures flanking the cartouche and a great deal of traffic on the water. It is among the most handsome of the large-scale panoramas of Venice. The pleasure-seeking Venetian Giacomo Casanova was born in 1725. Venice was just passing the peak of her military and commercial prime (the Ottoman Empire recaptured the Morea in 1718), and was fast becoming the pleasure capital of Europe - an unmissable destination for anyone on the Grand Tour. Schulz, Printed plans of Venice, VII.2 (iii).
£3,500

John Tallis Illustrated Atlas, c.1851 81 Maps, complete binding, re-backed. Vgc internally good original outline colour to maps.
£4,250

Atlas Minor by Gerald Mercator c1609 1st German edition original vellum bindings 145 maps and allegorical copperplate maps are complete, but without title page. Bindings worn but holding. Internally good some minor browning/light foxing
£7,500

UERL: Underground Electric Railways of London. London: Waterlow and Sons, Ltd 1907 Lithographed 12 panel folding passenger map, 32.5 x 42 cm, printed in red and black, trivial wear at fold intersections, advertising on verso, including for the ‘Piccadilly Tube... London’s latest Tube’. As Leboff and Demuth note, this is the first passenger map printed with the title ‘Underground Electric Railways of London’, emphasising the integrated network formed from the lines under the UERL umbrella. Non UERL lines with which the Underground Group had agreements are depicted as bold black lines; those with which there were no arrangements are thin. In 1908 the ‘common design’ gave equal weighting to all the lines, regardless of ownership, and passengers began to be encouraged to use the whole Underground as a network. Leboff and Demuth, No Need to Ask! p. 45
£1,000

Atlantis Insula Mortier, Pierre Copper engraved with early hand colour Amstelodami. Apud I. Covens et C. Mortier. Cum Privilegio [Amsterdam, c.1720] 405 x 550 mm The Atlantean myth transposed upon the Americas, engraved by Pierre Mortier following a design by the great French cartographer Nicolas Sanson. The map shows the American continent at centre, with parts of western Europe and Africa, and Eastern Asia and Australasia. California is shown as an island, Greenland is joined to Canada, a putative Alaskan coast stretches towards Kamchatka, and isolated coasts in the bottom left corner of the map represent parts of northern Australia and Carpentaria, New Zealand, Tasmania, the Solomon Islands, and New Guinea. By far the most interesting aspect of the map though is the way in which the classical traditions related to Atlantis have been interpreted for application to the Americas. Burden 405 (Derivative)
£1,250

The Plan for the Colonies The Bureau of Current Affairs Chromolithograph Published October 9th, 1948. Map Review is Produced Fortnightly by The Bureau of Current Affairs, 117 Piccadilly , W.I. Subscription 30/- Per Annum. 1/6 Per Copy Post Free. Printed by Fosh & Cross Ltd. London. 760 x 1015 mm A large and colourful infographic map of the world, outlining development plans in the the British colonies, published by The Bureau of Current Affairs to coincide with the third meeting of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference. A large descriptive text below the map explains the main aims of the Colonial Development Act, passed in 1929 but interrupted by the second world war. As part of the welfare program of Clement Attlee’s Labour government, £250 million was earmarked for development plans in the Colonies, primarily to raise living standards of local people. Surrounding the central world map, a set of four smaller maps, illustrating commonwealth nations in the West Indies, West and East Africa, South-East Asia and the Pacific, and Other Islands, show details of spending in each region. The five main aspects to the plan are shown in a key below the map of the West Indies, with icons represanting Communications, Education, Agriculture, Housing, Health, and Universities. Historically the map was issued at an interesting time for the Commonwealth in terms of its identity and relevance. The third Conference was the first to be attended by the leaders of the newly independent India, Pakistan, and Ceylon, leading to discussions about the future status and involvement of republics, particularly India, and Ireland, which had not attended similar meetings in an official capacity since the elections of 1932. The third meeting also marked an official end to the use of the Imperial-era term ‘Dominion’ for Commonwealth nations.
£500

Herrera y Tordesillas and Le Maire. 1622. Novus Orbis Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis. The first Latin edition of one of the most important 'atlases' of the Americas. It is important for the inclusion of the first printed account of Jacob le Maire's voyage of 1615-17 that discovered Cape Horn. The title page to the work is significant as it includes a map of the American continent. “This small map's chief claim to fame is in being the first map to delineate California as an island." 11081

Joan Blaeu. 1662. America. A superb example of Blaeu's 'Atlas Major' volume on America expanded with a further 9 maps, 5 of which are from Barlaeus' highly regarded ‘Rerum per octennium in Brasilia’. All are in superb original colour heightened in gold. 11082

1956 Quad Royal London Underground Station Map - HC Beck. Designed by HC Beck. Printed by Waterlow & Sons for London Transport (LPTB). Print Code: 1256-2837D -2500. Quad Royal 127cm x 101cm (50 x 40 inches). Linen Backed.
£2,950

Van Geelkercken (Nicolas), Orbis Terrarum Descriptio Duobis Planis Hemisphaeriis Comprehesa, published by Jan Jansson, Amsterdam, circa 1618

‘An important milestone in geology, for it established the oldest fossil-bearing classification then known’ (ODNB) MURCHISON, Roderick Impey (1792-1871) The Silurian System, founded on geological researches in the counties of Salop, Hereford, Radnor, Montgomery, Caermarthen, Brecon, Pembroke, Monmouth, Gloucester, Worcester, and Stafford; with descriptions of the coal-fields and overlying formations. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1839. 2 parts in one volume, quarto (320 x 270mm); pp.xxxii, 768, 3 engraved topographical maps on 2 sheets, 14 lithographic plates of which 2 folding and 3 hand-coloured, 9 folding hand-coloured engraved geological sections, 31 plates of fossils of which 25 are engraved and 6 are lithographs, 112 wood-engraved text illustrations (occasional spotting affecting some plates more heavily). Contemporary half morocco over marbled-paper covered boards (rebacked, preserving original spine, extremities rubbed, recently refurbished with expert repair to hear inner hinge). [Complete with:] one very large, hand-coloured engraved geological map of 'The Silurian Region and adjecent counties of England and Wales Geologically Illustrated', printed on 3 sheets, together 1500 x 940mm, to a scale of 3 miles to one inch, 1:190,080, signed 'Drawn & Engraved by J. Gardner. Regent Street. London.' and in the lower-right corner 'Rod. S. Murchison', with inset map to top-left corner of the geological systems of England and Wales, and two geological sections along the bottom edge, dissected and mounted on linen (a fresh, clean copy); housed in a contemporary half calf over buckram solander box, gilt stamp of the Wigan Public Library to upper cover (extremities lightly rubbed, one hinge expertly repaired). First edition complete with the very rare map. Murchison was born in Tarradale, Easter Ross, into a prosperous family. He was educated at Durham School and the military college at Great Marlow, later serving in the British Army during the Peninsular War. After leaving the army in 1815 and marrying Charlotte Hugonin, Murchison initially pursued art and antiquities on the Grand Tour, and then settled at Castle Barnard, Co. Durham, where he seems mainly to have enjoyed field sports. However, inspired by meeting Sir Humphry Davy in 1823, Murchison turned to science, and moved to London. Geology attracted him immensely, and by January 1825 he was a fellow of the Geological Society. The following year, his star had risen sufficiently for him to hold the position of Secretary, and five years later, in 1831, he was elected President. Murchison had a talent for organisation and an understanding of the work required to sustain a learned society; he was a member of Raleigh Travellers' Club, and was present at a meeting on 24 May 1830 at Raleigh's to found the Royal Geographical Society. He was also a founder member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, attending its inaugural meeting at York on 27 September 1831, where he described the preliminary results of his fieldwork undertaken that summer in south Wales. This fieldwork – an attempt to discover whether the greywacke rocks underlying the Old Red Sandstone could be grouped into a definite order of succession – resulted in the establishment of the Silurian system under which were grouped, for the first time, a remarkable series of formations, each replete with distinctive organic remains other than and very different from those of the other rocks of England. 'Murchison was the first to establish a uniform sequence of Transition strata, to which he gave the name "Silurian" after a British tribe; these strata constituted a major system with uniform fossil remains, displaying an abundance of invertebrates and a complete lack... of the remains of vertebrates or land plants' (Norman). Thus, the implications of Murchison researches for the evolutionary history of the Earth were enormous. However, with his old friend Adam Sedgwick working in the northern part of Wales, and Murchison to the south, they failed to realise that the lower part of Murchison's system of strata was equivalent to the upper part of that called Cambrian by Sedgwick. Murchison's pride in his work led to such territorial possessiveness, that he destroyed his friendship with Sedgwick over the Cambrian-Silurian boundary, and although he won the day through advocacy, the dispute was settled only after several decades of controversy with the adoption of Charles Lapworth's 1879 proposal that an ‘Ordovician system’ define the debatable ground. Today, the Silurian is understood as a geologic period and system that extends from the end of the Ordovician Period, about 443 million years ago, to the beginning of the Devonian Period, about 416 million years ago. As with other geologic periods, the rock beds that define the period's start and end are well identified, but the exact dates are uncertain by several million years. The base of the Silurian is set at a major extinction event when 60% of marine species were wiped out. A full history and bibliographic description of the work is given by Thackray, although he omits mention of the 3 engraved topographical maps (some copies only contain 2 such maps). Suffice to mention here that Murchison received substantial help from Arthur Aikin with notes on Shropshire, while J. de C. Sowerby described the shells, Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) the fishes, William Lonsdale (1794-1871; curator of the Geological Society's museum) the corals, while Charles Stokes (1783-1853) aided Murchison on describing the trilobites. Delays in publication were caused in the main by Sowerby's slow delivery of the plates, combined with Murchison's changes of mind, leading to errors which needed to be corrected. Printing was completed by the end of December 1838, with the book published on, or shortly after 1st January 1839. In the final publication, the only corrigenda is a slip issued on 5th January 1839 which is pasted opposite the first plate drawing attention to the incorrect arrangement of shells on plates 21 and 22. 398 subscribers accounted for 452 copies; the entire print-run was probably around 800 copies. Despite the rarity of the large map today – most copies in commerce are lacking it – every copy of the book was published with the map. Silurian System remained available from John Murray for two years at 8 guineas, and by 1841 H.G. Bohn was offering a few remaindered copies at 6 guineas. References: Challinor 141; Donovan p.117; Norman 1569; F. J. North. Geological Maps: their history and development, with special reference to Wales (Cardiff, 1928), 10 (map); .J.C. Thackray, ‘R.I. Murchison’s Silurian System (1839)’, Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 9 (1978), pp.61-73; Ward & Carozzi 1620; cf. Martin J.S. Rudwick. The meaning of fossils: episodes in the history of palaeontology (London, 1972), pp.191-203.
£12,000

Only one other copy recorded in institutions JUKES, Joseph Beete (1811-1869) Geological Map of Ireland. London: Edward Stanford, and Dublin: Hodges & Smith, 2 December 1872. Folding lithographic map (1005 x 783mm), coloured by a contemporary hand, dissected and mounted on linen, covering from Fastnet Rock in the south to Tor Rocks at Malin Head in the north, and from Tearaght Island off Dingle Bay in the west to Strangford Loch in the east, roads and railways shown, scale of 1½ inches to 10 miles (1:422,400), two publisher’s ads printed on yellow paper pasted onto two panels on verso (some light thumb-soiling to ads, very faint insignificant crease to lower blank margin, but otherwise near fine); folding to octavo (200 x 130mm) and housed in the original green cloth slipcase with green printed paper label to upper cover (small gouge to label just touching one letter, otherwise near fine). Extremely rare third edition of Jukes’ geological map of Ireland. Born in 1811, Joseph Beete Jukes was educated at Merchant Taylor's School, Wolverhampton, and King Edward VI's School, Birmingham, before entering St John's College, Cambridge. There, his interest in geology was nurtured by Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), with whom he maintained a lifelong correspondence. Later, He was appointed geological surveyor of Newfoundland (1839-1840), at a time when there were no maps of the country, and from 1842 to 1846 he was naturalist aboard HMS Fly, sent to survey the coast of Australia and New Guinea. His publication, A sketch of the physical structure of Australia (London, 1850), included the first geological map of that continent. Upon his return to England, Jukes became a member of the Geological Survey of Great Britain (1846-1850), and on the back of successful and important work in north Wales and the South Staffordshire coal field, he was asked to become director of the Irish branch of the geological survey which he held from 1850 until his death. Under his direction the survey mapped in detail the geology of more than half of Ireland, producing some 1,100 six-inch geological field maps. The survey also published 117 of the 205 one-inch maps needed to cover Ireland, and Jukes edited, and partially contributed to, ‘Explanations to accompany sheet ...’ with each map. It was while working on the memoir relating to the valley of the River Blackwater around Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, that Jukes noted the action of rivers on topography and their relationship to the underlying geological structure, which resulted in his most significant contribution to geology: ‘On the formation of some of the river-valleys of the south of Ireland’ (abstract in the Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin, x [1862-4], 51-2, 72-4, and fully in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, xviii [1862], 378-403). This was a pioneering contribution to the understanding of the making of the Irish landscape, and is recognised as having international relevance and has become a classic in geomorphology. From 1864 Jukes’ health deteriorated, but he still managed to produce the present small-scale Geological map of Ireland. The first edition bears the publication date of 1st July 1867, and became known as ‘Jukes's map’; it is well represented in institutional holdings. Jukes died in 1869, and there were a series of posthumous editions. A second edition was published in 1870; this is extremely rare, with only one record of this in an institution, namely the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, Germany. The present work is the third edition, we can only trace the National Library of Ireland’s copy in institutional holdings. A further issue was made in 1874, before publication of Edward Hull’s revision of 1878 which is much more common, both in institutions and on the market. Gordon L. Herries Davies, Sheets of Many Colours. The mapping of Ireland’s rocks 1750-1890. Dublin: 1983, p.190; – North from the Hook. 150 years of the Geological Survey of Ireland. Dublin: 1995, p.69.
£3,500

A geological map by Darwin’s mentor HENSLOW, John Stevens (1796-1861) Geological Map of Anglesey. Cambridge: Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1822. 285 x 445mm, hand-coloured, together with two plates of parallel sections from the NW to SE of the island, also hand-coloured, (3) Near fine condition; a few very small chips to the edges. Provenance: Cambridge Philosophical Society, retained from the time of publication until 2024 A stunning hand-coloured geological map by John Stevens Henslow, printed to accompany his first published scientific paper – but here offered in its pristine unfolded state, having been retained by the Cambridge Philosophical Society as part of a collection of unissued archival materials. Although Henslow was to become most famous as a botanist, like his pupil Charles Darwin he began his scientific career in geology. His fieldwork in on Anglesey initiated the scientific study of the island: The history of geological study on Anglesey goes back to John Henslow (1796–1861) even though geologists first think of Edward Greenly when they hear of Anglesey. Henslow was educated at St John’s College, Cambridge where he graduated in 1818, the year in which Adam Sedgwick became Woodwardian Professor of Geology. He developed a passion for geology and accompanied Sedgwick on fieldwork. He arrived on Anglesey to investigate aspects of the island’s geology, recognising the belts of ‘chloritic schists’ and other exotic rocks, and published his observations in the first volume of the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society in 1822. (Geomon website) Charles Darwin took a copy of Henslow’s paper with him on the Beagle Voyage, and used the map as a model for his own geological studies of the Falkland Islands.

The second of Munster's Ptolemaic world maps, in original colour. MUNSTER, Sebastian. Ptolemeisch General Tafel / die halbe Rugel der Welt begreissende. Basle, Sebastian Petri, c.1588. German text edition. Woodcut with contemporary hand colour. Printed area 320 x 360mm. A decorative map of the world according to Claudius Ptolemy, set within a decorative border of clouds and wind heads. This new block was introduced into Munster's 'Cosmography' in 1588 to replace the earler map cut in 1540. Very rare to find these Munster maps in original colouring.
£3,500

LONDON TOURIST STREET ENAMEL SIGN MAPS X2 C2000/S THAMES EMBANKMENT TO WESTMINSTER AREA 90CM X 49CM AND 80CM X 49CM BOTH VGC/FINE CONDITION.
£495 PAIR

FIRESTONE ENAMEL SIGN MOTORING MAP OF ENGLAND AND WALES C1930/S 122CM X 73CM VGC FLANGED EDGES MINIMAL WEAR AT CORNERS ONLY
£1,250

1931 Fritz Khan's 'Der Mensch Als Industriepalast' Poster Designed by Fritz Khan (1888-1968). Printed by Offsetdruckerei Fricke & Co, Stuttgart. Colour lithograph. Measures 38” x 20.5” (97cm x 51cm).
£995

1935 'Air Mail Routes' Quad Royal Poster By Edward McKnight Kauffer. Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954) for General Poster Office (GPO). Colour lithograph on paper. 1935. Quad Royal format (127cm x 101cm). Print Code P.R.D. 123.
£2,500

Russel Casson & John Berry. c.1746. A Plan of the Towns of Manchester & Salford. This is the first known plan of the cities of Manchester and Salford. It is an extremely ornate plan complete with inset views of significant buildings and a fine panorama of the city below. It illustrates the cities as the population was growing rapidly but still arguably before the industrial revolution was to re-write its character. 11193

1933 London Underground Map 1st Edition HC Beck £2,500 Designed by Harry Charles (HC) Beck. Printed by Waterlow & Sons for London Underground Group. Print Code 750M-1-33. 22.8cm x 16cm. Card, folded twice as issued.
£2,500

1915 London Underground Enamel Map - Vitreous enamel and rolled iron. Manufactured by Chromo Wolverhampton for the Underground Electric Railways of London. Circa 1915. Size: Map 127 × 96cm / Framed 133cm x 101cm x 4cm.
£13,995

1930 London Underground Poster - Knightsbridge - by Herbert Ashwin Budd - Designed by Herbert Ashwin Budd (1881-1950). Printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd for Underground Electric Railways of London Company Ltd. Print Code: 1382.1100.16.7.30. Colour lithograph on paper.
£1,950

Wonderground Map of London Town –1927 Delightful (third state) poster map of the London Underground designed by MacDonald Gill and first published, in a larger format, in 1914. Due to its popularity, the map was subsequently published in a reduced form in three states that can differentiated by the contents of a small triangle in the top left of the map. In the first state (1914) there are only houses in the triangle, while in the second state (1924) a British Imperial Lion appears to commemorate the British Empire Exhibition and in the third and final state (1927) a racing dog replaces the lion. This colourful, decorative map is filled with numerous details and commentary concerning London and its underground system. Blank verso. A fine example of this colourful, iconic map in excellent condition. (Comes with its original paper envelope which has some chips and repaired tears) 74.5 cm x 93.5 cm
£2,500

The Countie Pallatine of Lancaster Described and Divided into Hundreds – 1616 Old coloured county map of Lancashire taken from the rare Sudbury & Humble Latin edition of John Speed’s “Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain” published by John Sudbury and George Humble and engraved by Jodocus Hondius. One of the most desirable of all Speed’s county maps, it is highlighted with portraits of the York and Lancastrian kings and queens involved in the 15th century Wars of the Roses, which resulted in the fall of the Plantagenet reign and creation of the Tudor dynasty. A plan of the city of Lancaster with a key identifying 22 important sites is placed top right and the map is further decorated with the royal coat of arms, sailing ships and sea monsters. A description of the county appears on the verso in Latin. The map is a lovely, old coloured, dark impression on heavy stable paper in excellent condition. 38.5 cm x 51.5 cm
£1,550

Virginia (Erforshet und Beschriben durch Capitain Iohan Schmidt) - ca 1627 Coloured map of Virginia and the surrounding region that first appeared in the 13th part of Theodore de Bry’s Grand Voyages, “Dreyzehender Theil Americae”, published by De Bry's son-in-law, Mattheus Merian, in 1627. The plate is based on the sixth state of John Smith’s map of 1612 with a few alterations, including the removal of both the ship in the lower left and decoration around the scale. The map shows the discoveries of John Smith from his surveys in 1608, with crosses marking the extent of his explorations and the locations of native Indian settlements identified with symbols as displayed top right. The scene of the chief of the Powhatan with members of his tribe in a lodge (top left) and the Susquehanna Indian (top right) are derived from John White’s drawings that were published in 1590. Smith’s map is considered to be one of the most important early printed American maps and remained the prototype for the region until Augustine Herman’s 1673 publication. Blank verso. Other than some minor fraying to the edges of the blank margins, it is a finely coloured example of this uncommon map in excellent condition. 29 cm x 36 cm (Burden # 219)
£4,500

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula ex officina F. De Wit. – ca 1670 Old coloured, double hemisphere map of the world that was prepared for Frederick De Wit’s maritime atlas entitled “Orbis maritimus ofte Zee Atlas”, first published in 1675. The map, which is highlighted in gold and finely engraved and etched by the important Dutch artist Romeyn de Hooghe, displays allegorical scenes of the four elements in each corner. Clockwise from top left, Fire is represented by war and destruction, Air by a scene of the heavens, Water by sailing ships and sea creatures and Earth by harvesting and husbandry. (Shirley - Mapping the World # 444). Circular projections of the North and South Poles are shown in the centre top and bottom, respectively. In common with most world maps of the later 17th century, California is depicted as an island and the northwest coast of North America is missing. This example is the first state of the map as the plate was acquired in the early 18th century by Louis Renard and then by Reinier & Josua Ottens, each of whom amended the title cartouche with their names. Blank verso. The map has a repaired bottom centrefold split, a few short tears to the blank margins and minor cracking due to verdigris oxidation that has been reinforced with Japanese paper on the verso; otherwise a beautiful, old coloured example with full margins in very good condition. 48 cm x 56.5 cm
£4,750

The Royal Game of British Sovereigns Exhibiting the Most Remarkable Events in Each Reign From Egbert to George III, Maker / Publisher: WALLIS, J. / E. Place & Date: London, ca. 1817 Engraved goose game with 53 illustrations culminating in a view of Napoleon on the Bellerophon, four further spandrel vignettes, and a central oval filled with title and rules of the game. Dissected into 12 sections, linen-backed and handcolored, folding with explanation booklet into slipcase with publishers hand-colored pictorial title pasted on the upper cover. Together with the rule book (Explanation to the Royal Game ). A fine regency historical game published at J. & E. Wallis, 42, Skinner Street, London. . And J.Wallis Jun.r Marine Sidmouth.". Reference: Gaming Empire in Children's British Board Games, 1836-1860

Perpetual Ocean- Eastern Hemisphere Porcelain charger inlaid with bronze slip coastlines of the Eastern Hemisphere, and inlaid with cobalt and copper oxides depicting the major ocean currents. Made after the exhibition 'Mapping Earth' Director’s Gallery RGS 2024, this is the companion piece to Perpetual Ocean - Western Hemisphere, which is now in the collection of The Royal Geographical Society. This work was inspired by the 17th Century Tien Pau Japanese plate in The RGS collection. The drawing of the ocean currents into the porcelain was the visceral response to repeatedly watching NASA's data visualisation film Perpetual Ocean. Charger 34 x 4cm Unique in variable edition number 1 2024
£1,250

Orbis Vetus cum Origine Magnarum in eo Gentium a Filiis et Nepotibus Noe Rothgiesser, Christian and Meyer, Johann Copper engraved with hand colour Casparus Danckwerth, D. Christian Rothgießer Husum sculpsit Ano 1651. [Husum, 1652] 430 x 525 mm A rare mid-sixteenth century map of the Old World, divided according to the biblical Table of Nations, from Caspar Danckwerth’s Newe Landesbeschreibung der zweij Hertzogthuemer Schleswig und Holstein. The map is presented in a single hemisphere, with Europe, Asia, and Africa labelled Japheth, Schem, and Cham after the sons of Noah. The map is based on the cartography of the Danish mathematician Johann Meyer, and was one of a suite of maps engraved to embellish the text of Danckwerth’s atlas of his native Schleswig-Holstein. Notable anomalies are the depictions of the polar regions, with the arctic, following Mercator, shown as a group of four large islands around a central pole, and much of the region below the Tropic of Capricorn shown as a supercontinent labelled ‘Terra Australis Veteribus Prorsus Incognita’ - The Southern Land totally unknown to the Ancients. Shirley 388
£1,200

A late-18th century terrestrial pocket globe with a celestial case. CARY, John & William. Cary's Pocket Globe agreeable to the latest Discoveries. London, Strand J. & W. Cary, 1st April 1791. 3" (80mm) globe, 12 engraved gores with original hand colour, varnished over papier maché sphere, metal pivots. With original shagreen case with two brass clasps and hinge, lined with Cary's 'New Celestial Globe'.Outer surface of case cracked, very minor staining on globe. A fine pocket globe by brothers John Cary (c.1754-1835) and William (c.1760-1835), who had separate businesses as a map publisher and a scientific instrument maker respectively, but worked together to produce globes. This globe was their first, and does indeed show the latest discoveries, for example those of Alexander Mackenzie in Canada, 1789. The routes of Cook's three voyages are also marked. This globe was sold in different combinations: as part of an orrery and tellurian; as a pair with a celestial globe, with a map of the world in the time of Caesar as the case lining; and, as here, with the gores used for the matching celestial globe as the lining.
£9,000

ZUDA ROKASHI, Priest Hotan. Nanzenbushu Bankoku Shoka No Zu. [Outline Map of All Countries of the Universe]. Kyoto: Bundaiken Uhei, 1710. Original woodblock printed map, (118.5 x 144.5 cm.), folding into original blue grey covers (24 x 18.5 cm) preserving original paper label to upper cover. The celebrated first Buddhist world map printed in Japan illustrating "the fusion of Buddhist dogma and Western geographical knowledge" (Jones). The author, Hotan (1654-1728), was a scholar-priest and founder of the Kegonji Temple in Kyoto. The earliest known example in Japan is the Gotenjiku Zu (Map of the Five Indies) by the priest Jukai dating from 1364 and now preserved in Horyuji Temple in Nara. However Hotan's map was revolutionary in being the first printed Oriental map to introduce detailed Western cartographic information into this traditional Buddhist cosmological view and to attempt to merge the two together into a comprehensible form. Europe is depicted as a series of islands in the upper left of the image whilst South America is likewise another island in the lower right of the image. Africa is omitted completely. China and Japan are clearly defined in the upper right of the map.
£12,500

RIO TINTO MINING COMPANY: R.T.M General Plan Of Works: Privately printed. Not dated but circa 1873-5. Dissected on linen. Size when unfolded: 140.5cm x 101.5cm. Contained in original leather binding. Scale: 1:10000. Condition: Binding a little chipped, rubbed and frayed. Two very short splits to the linen at the edge. Minor manuscript additions to the map. Map bright and clean. In lovely condition overall. This is the map that helped to launch the £75billion multi-national corporation. Since 3000BC this site along the Rio Tinto river in Huelva, Spain has been continuously mined for metals including copper, gold and silver along with many other minerals. Following its purchase from the Spanish Government in 1873, Hugh Matheson and his partners, including Deutsche Bank, formed the Rio Tinto Company and began to expand their mine at Huelva. This map was produced to illustrate their plans for expansion in order to attract investors. Shows the Riotinto railway which was built between 1873 and 1875 along with projected railways, company housing, reservoirs. worked and projected open cast mines, Roman slag heaps, lodes, roads and existing and proposed tunnels. It became the world's largest producer of copper in 1877 and maintained this feat until 1891. This exceptionally scarce lithographic map is not held institutionally in the UK and we can find no copy in commerce. Of impressive size and on a scale of 1:10000, such is the importance of Rio Tinto that it could grace boardrooms around the world.
£15,000

A Cold War treasure featuring a "fake" Lufthansa BORMANN, G. Deutsche Lufthansa : Deutsche Demokratische Republik : Die wichtigsten Flugstrecken der Deutschen Lufthansa und ihrer Vertragspartner. East Berlin, 1962. Lithography, printed colour. Size (image): 54.7 x 37.2 cm / 21.5 x 14.6 in. There is more to this mid-century pictorial world map than meets the eye! A quick, first glance at it shows an airline route network covering the globe, with “Deutsche Lufthansa” featuring as the main title, towards the bottom of the map. This is even accompanied by the airline’s well-known logo – a stylised crane – incorporated into a compass rose. A closer look, however, reveals a continuation of the title, in smaller, less legible font, almost as if to be kept secret, showing “Deutsche Demokratische Republik”, i.e. German Democratic Republic or, simply, former East Germany. This seems an oxymoron – an airline which, during the time of the post-war division of Germany, was founded in, and operating from, former West Germany, portrayed as East German. How is this possible? The answer is hidden in peculiarities only possible during the Cold War. The very original Lufthansa was founded in 1926 as “Deutsche Luft Hansa AG”. It served as German flag carrier until the outbreak of World War II, then coming under the command of the Luftwaffe, and eventually ceasing operations just a few days before Germany’s surrender in 1945. Following the war, during Allied occupation of Germany, all German aircraft were seized and the Deutsche Luft Hansa AG liquidated. For a period of about 10 years, there were no German airlines, and all aviation in Germany was controlled by the Allied forces. In the early 1950s, following the separate foundation of two German states in 1949, West Germany started working towards reestablishing a German airline. The resulting legal entity adopted the branding of the former Deutsche Luft Hansa AG by acquiring its name, logo, and colours, and started calling itself Deutsche Lufthansa AG. In 1955, it commenced scheduled flights and has been operating as the German flag carrier and commonly known airline to this day. With West Germany having its own airline, East Germany did not want to be left behind. It established and commenced operating its own national airline, in the same year as West Germany did, calling it … Deutsche Lufthansa GmbH! This meant that two airlines of the same name existed now, just in a different legal form, with “GmbH” representing a limited liability company in German law. The present map was published by this East German copycat Lufthansa in 1962. It shows a route network that integrates the airline’s own destinations with those of its partners – all Eastern Bloc flag carriers, listed on the map’s verso, along with descriptions of the respective capital cities that served as their home bases. The map is adorned with the image of a Soviet-made Ilyushin Il-18 turboprop airliner, along with pictorial representations of key sights and typical architecture of major destinations as well as caricature-style depictions of natives of these places. Various ships, some reminiscent of those often rendered in 17th century Dutch maps, complete the picture. In the very same year the map was published, the East German Lufthansa lost protracted legal undertakings by its West German counterpart over its company name and logo. One year later, in 1963, the airline was liquidated, with Interflug taking over as East Germany’s flag carrier. An intriguing relic from the time of Germany’s division.. Condition: A bright print on a clean sheet. Issued folding. No visible flaws, and no repairs. Overall, excellent.
USD 550 / GBP 415 / EUR 485

MONTGOMERIE, Thomas George. Jamoo, Kashmir and Adjacent Districts. Surveyed between the Years 1856 & 1860 under the Superintendence of the Lieut. Colonel Sir Andrew Scott Waugh… Surveyor General of India and Superintendent G.T. Survey by Captain T.G. Montgomerie Engineers F.R.G.S. 1st Assistant G.T. Survey of India and the Assistants under his Orders. Scale: 4 Miles to 1 Inch. [Calcutta: Survey of India, January, 1861]. Original large lithographed map (150.5 x 128.5 cm) annotated with a route into the Himalayas, dissected into 80 sections and backed onto linen, title to top right, inset plan to bottom left of 'Srinagar or city of Kashmir and environs', printed label of Edward Stanford 'wholesale & retail mapseller' of Charing Cross pasted at foot printed advertisements on yellow paper for 'Stanford's Maps' and 'Stanford's Atlases' visible to front and back when folded. Lithographed by 'J. & C. Walker lith.' A little foxing, some pin holes at head, ink note at head and route drawn out in red ink (see below), lower quadrant a bit more toned than the others, generally a very good example. A scarce large scale map of Jammu and Kashmir in northern India by Thomas George Montgomerie (1830 1878), executed as part of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India under the superintendence of Sir Andrew Scott Waugh (1810 1878). Montgomerie gave K2 its name (K for Karakoram), and Waugh is credited with naming Mount Everest. This particular copy was clearly used by a near contemporary French expedition to the region. It bears the inscription 'Voyage au Cashmire [Himalaya] Légende' in red ink at the head and a route is mapped out, also in red ink, from 'Raul Pinde' to 'Lahore' (both off the map). This runs east from Muzaffarabad to Baramulla, Wular Lake, Srinagar, Anantnag, and the Warwan Valley. Here the expedition undertook a circular loop into the Himalayas some elevations are noted in red ink (e.g. '12000' at 'Sangam') before heading south to Jammu. Rarity: OCLC records only one copy in the US (University of Minnesota), one in Australia (University of Melbourne), one in Japan (National Diet Library), one in France (Bibliotheque Nationale), one in Germany (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin), and two in the UK (Bodleian, National Library of Scotland).
£4,000

The elusive FIRST STATE of the earliest available printed map of London. BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans. Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis. Köln: 1572, FIRST EDITION, Latin text. Coloured. 330 x 490mm. The earliest town plan of London to survive, a 'map-view' with the major buildings shown in profile, and no consideration for perspective. This example is from the first state of the plate, before the addition of the Royal Exchange, with 'West Mester' rather than 'West Muster' for Westminster and without 'Cum Privilegio' lower right. This state is particularly rare: Howgeo states that it only appeared in the first edition of the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', 1572 and had been altered before the first German and French-text editions (1574 & 1575). However we have seen an example of the first edition of the atlas that already contained the later state. The plan was engraved by Frans Hogenberg, probably reduced from a 15-or-20-sheet wall map commissioned by the merchants of the Hanseatic League, of which there is no known example. The League had significant commercial interests in England, benefiting from tax and customs concessions on wool and finished cloth, allowing them to control that trade in Colchester and other cloth-making centres. It is believed they commissioned the wall map in the 1550s to curry favour with Queen Mary I in an attempt to retain these concessions. Certainly the survey must predate 1561 because the Norman St Paul's Cathedral still has the spire destroyed by lightning that year and never replaced. Mary's death in 1588 made the large and expensive map superfluous, as her successor Elizabeth revoked the League's privileges. However the engraver Franz Hogenberg was allowed to copy the plan for his atlas of town plans, ensuring this view of Tudor London survived for posterity. The League's base in the City was the Steelyard (here 'Stiliyards', by the side of the Thames), which is described in the Latin text panel lower right. They purchased the building in 1475; part of the deal was their obligation to maintain Bishopsgate, the gate through the city walls that led to their interests in East Anglia. The rump cities of the League sold the building in 1853 and it is now the site of Cannon Street Station.
12,500

De Jode's rare cordiform world map in fine original colour. DE JODE, Gerard. Universi Orbis seu Terreni Globi in Plano Effigies. Cum privegio. Antwerp: G. Smits, 1578. Fine original colour. 335 x 520mm. An important and rare map of the world, engraved by brothers Jan and Lucas van Doetecum inspired by Abraham Ortelius's eight-sheet map of 1564. It uses a cordiform (heart-shaped) projection, with wind-heads around the map and terrestrial and celestial spheres in the bottom corners. On the map above North America. a 'north-west passage' connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, running outside the Arctic Circle, with Japan at the Pacific end. The Great Southern Continent follows the southern border of the map. The map was ready for publication in 1571, but De Jode could not get a license to publish his atlas, apparently because of interference by Ortelius, who wanted to protect his own 10-year privilege for the 'Theatrum'. It was only in 1578 that the 'Speculum Orbis Terrarum' was issued, by which time the title of this map had been altered, removing Ortelius's name as the source. This map only appeared in the first edition of the atlas: the second, expanded edition of 1593, published by Gerard's widow and sons, contained two new world maps, on Mercator's Projection and a polar double-hemisphere. Neither edition of the 'Speculum' sold well, as Ortelius's 'Theatrum' already dominated the market. The second edition was to be the last: after 1600 the plates were bought by Jan Baptiste Vrients, who also acquired the Ortelius rights, to ensure they were never printed again. Thus all editions of the De Jode maps are scarce.
£90,000

The Stock Exchange London 1933. The Financial News Map of the Stock Exchange. 1933 (dated) 16 x 21.5 in (40.64 x 54.61 cm) Opportunity, globalization, regulation, and barriers to entry.
$6,500.00

A selection of maps from Ortelius’ Parergon, 1624, Latin text.

London - Flood map Greater London Council If London Flooded Tomorrow, What Would You Do? Greater London Council London 1981 This 1981 GLC map demonstrates the London's flood risk prior to Thames Barrier completing in 1982 [ref: 5112]
£200

Ptolemy/ Sylvanus: World map from Ptolemy’s ‘Geographia’, published in Venice in 1511, and edited by Bernard Sylvanus. On versa, as issued, part of the map of Great Britain.
£6,000

Silk Road Globe A porcelain relief pocket globe, scale 1:170 000 000 inlaid with the Silk Road routes. Housed in a Travel Box turned from Mulberry Wood, and lined with a hand-painted celestial chart, which features Northern Constellations in the lid and Southern Constellations in the base. Inspired by the Molyneux Globes at Middle Temple Library made by Emery Molyneux 1598, this edition number 1 of a limited edition of 3 was exhibited alongside Molyneux's masterpiece in the 2021 exhibition 'From Middle Temple to Manoa'. The exhibition was curated by Drs Lauren Working and Emily Stevenson and explored the libraries collection of Early Modern travel literature. This Silk Road globe was also exhibited at Homo Faber Biennale 'The Journey of Life ' at The Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice 2024. Globe 7.5cm diameter Mulberry Travel Box 10 x10 x 10 cm Edition 1 of 3 2021
£2,000

2. Celestial Navigation A porcelain relief pocket globe scale 1:170 000 000 with a porcelain pebble base. Inlaid with a bronze slip depicting the major constellations. Inspired by Early Modern cartography, in particular the Molyneux Globes at Middle Temple Library. The first edition was made for the exhibition 'From Middle Temple to Manoa' held at the library in 2021. Globe 7.5cm Base 10 x 13 x 4 cm Unique in variable edition number 4 2025
£850

47 Manuscript County Maps of England and Wales - game - cartographical curiosity A unique collection of manuscript maps! anon Manuscript maps of 47 Counties of England and Wales. 1856 47 gilt-edges paper cards with ink and watercolour drawn maps; each card 9 x 12,5 cm; in handmade modern box with marbled paper, 15,5 x 10 x 4 cm; some light dusting and soiling on cards; some paperloss and paper lift on box; 2 embossed cards with titles: ‘England and Wale’l, and ‘Wickham 1856’. A very charming and unique collection of 47 manuscript maps of the counties of England and Wales. Each map is expertly drawn, showing the most important towns and rivers, and shows the names of the surrounding counties. It has been suggested that this set was used as an educational toy, challenging players to guess the surrounding counties, or indeed identifying the county by its neighbours. The name Wickham might point towards the name of the artist. [ref: 5144]
£900

Very rare French edition of Scull & Heap’s seminal plan of Philadelphia le ROUGE, Georges-Louis. Environs de Philadelphie. par Scull et Heap, Publie á Londres par Faden en 1777. Traduit de l'Anglais. Paris, 1778. Copper engraving, uncoloured. Size (neatline): 45.0 x 57.7 cm / 17.7 x 22.7 in. This important plan of Philadelphia from the time of the American Revolutionary War was published by Georges-Louis le Rouge in 1778. It is based on a 1777 William Faden edition of a plan originally issued by Nicholas Scull and George Heap in 1752. The plan shows the city and its surroundings from German Town in the north to Billingsfort in the south, and from Derby in the west to Gloucester in the east. The city is shown with its early grid plan, as laid out by Thomas Holme, first surveyor general of the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania. It does not feature any specific or named landmarks. Philadelphia’s environs are shown with numerous named houses and settlements, along with churches, various types of mills, ferry wharves, and the road network. Notable features include: • Govr. Penns house, possibly the home of one or several of the four generations of Penns that governed Pennsylvania before independence • German Town, a place rich in history – among other, considered the starting point of the antislavery movement and the site of a Revolutionary War battle in 1777 • Fair Hill Temple, a site associated with Quaker history and a historic cemetery • Batterie demolie, indicating a demolished artillery battery • military installations in the Delaware, between Fort Red Bank and Billingsfort. The original Scull & Heap plan was to promote Philadelphia and stimulate settlement. Over the years, it was published in many editions. Particularly following increased European interest in the events of the unfolding American Revolution and the areas affected by it, publishers in England, Germany, and France reissued in the plan, also varying its size and layout as well as updating underlying cartographic information. The present French edition is from le Rouge’s Pilote americain septentrional, a rare atlas prepared for the French Navy, to aid its efforts in support of the Americans during the American Revolutionary War. Le Rouge’s plan is – other than the exceedingly rare original issue by Scull & Heap – the rarest of all editions on the market. An elegant and important historic plan of Philadelphia from the time of the American Revolution. Condition: A crisp impression on a clean, watermarked sheet. Wide margins. One tiny spot in image, at upper right, else clean. Minor soiling along upper and lower right edge. Clean verso. Overall, very good.
USD 12,000 / GBP 9,040 / EUR 1

Very rare plan of London by Bellin BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas. Plan de la Ville de Londres. et ses Fauxbourgs. Paris, 1764. Copper engraving, uncoloured. Size (neatline): 17.4 x 22.8 cm / 6.9 x 9.0 in. This detailed London city plan is oriented to the east. It shows London and its surrounds from Islington in the north to Newington in the south and from the Isle of Dogs (Marshwal) and Deptford (Depford) in the east to Hyde Park in the west. A legend with references from a. to m. identifies 12 important landmarks, such as St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Bridge, Charing Cross, and Westminster Abbey. The plan features a simple compass rose to the upper right. The delicately decorated title cartouche contains a distance scale in “mille toises”, i.e. a thousand fathoms, which equals about 1.8 km or 6,000 feet. The engraver of the chart is not indicated. However, we believe this to be either J. Arrivet or Jean-Baptiste Croisey. An insightful plan from a time when London was only a fraction of its current size. Condition: A clear impression on a clean, watermarked sheet. Wide margins. No visible flaws, and no repairs. Overall, excellent.
USD 520 / GBP 390 / EUR 460

Scarce Lafreri-school map of the Great Siege of Malta. MALTA: Kst.- Karte, v. A. Lafreri bei Henricus van Schoel, "Melita insula divi Pauli apostoli quondam hospita", dat. 1602, 37,6 x 49,6 cm € 12.000,- * Bifolco/Ronca (2018), Tav 875, state 4 (von 5). Sehr seltene Karte von Malta aus der Vogelschau, erstmals 1565 anlässlich der Großen Belagerung bei Lafreri erschienen. In diesem Jahr unternahm das Osmanische Reich den letzten Versuch, die Insel einzunehmen. Dem etwa 40.000 Mann starkem Eroberungsheer standen ursprünglich 9350 Verteidiger unter dem Kommando von Jean Parisot de la Valette gegenüber. Nach verlustreichen Kämpfen um das Fort St. Elmo konnte dieses im Juni von den Osmanen erobert werden, eine Eroberung der beiden auf der anderen Hafenseite gelegenen Forts St. Michael und St. Angelo scheiterte aber. Als Anfang September ein Entsatzheer aus Sizilien eintraf, befahl der Osmanische Oberbefehlshaber Mustafa Pascha den Abzug. Als er jedoch bemerkte, wie relativ klein der Entsatz war, ließ er einen Teil seiner Truppen wieder ausschiffen, und es kam zu schweren Kämpfen, bei denen aber die Männer aus Sizilien die Oberhand behielten und den Türken nochmals schwere Verluste bescherten. Diese flohen daraufhin unter Zurücklassung allen schweren Gerätes. Die Karte ist mit zahlreichen Details der Kampfhandlungen ausgeschmückt. Wie fast immer knapprandig. An einer Querfalte iim unteren Drittel zahlreiche kleinere Fehlstellen, diese restauriert und ergänzt. Bifolco nennt von diesem Zustand nur 4 weitere Exemplare. (331299)
€ 12.000,-

Clark, Samuel: Reuben Ramble's Travels in the Counties of England. London: Darton and Clark, c. 1843-1845 £2500 First edition, small 4to. (22cm) pp. [iv], [80]. Lithographic frontispiece, extra title, and forty decorative maps, all with attractive original hand colour. Original red cloth, blocked in gilt and blind; rebacked, restored and refurbished, with expert repairs to spine and endleaves; internally a few minor, marks, spots and small flaws, with a slight nick to one map, but overall a very good copy of a notable rarity. Contemporary (1859) gift inscription to the eight-year-old Randall Proctor Burroughes Spinks (1851-1898) from his aunt. A county atlas designed for children or ‘the little geographer’, with simple text by Samuel Clark (1810-1875) relating to the size, position, resources and history of each county, and forty maps by Robert Miller, which were first published in 1821 but are here newly surrounded by vignettes of local scenes intended ‘effectually to fix the counties on the recollection’, according to the preface. It was issued in parts, and sometimes sections (southern, western, eastern northern and midland counties) are found separately, but this is the complete work. The authority on Darton publications, Jill Shefrin, has firmly attributed the new illustrations to James Richard Barfoot (1796-1863; attribution via Laurence Worms). Generally dated to about 1845, a copy has recently been reported with an ownership inscription dated 1843 (Worms), which is perhaps closer. It was advertised for sale in the June 1844 issue of The Publisher’s Circular, and in a list of new publications in the November 1844 issue of The Gentleman’s Magazine.
£2,500

A North and South Polar Projection of the Earth. Stock#: 112738 Map Maker: Trippit Date: 1665 circa Place: n.p. (England) Color: Pen & Ink Condition: VG Dimensions: 26.5 x 18 inches Description: A Unique 17th-Century English Manuscript World Map. This remarkable and highly unusual English manuscript map of the world presents the globe in twin polar azimuthal equidistant projections, centered on the North and South Poles. Signed “Thomas Trippit."
$49,500.00

Hendrick de Leth. c.1755. Carte Nouvelle de la Mer du Sud. One of the most attractive maps of America ever published. Separately published it extends to cover both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans along with their Asian, European, and African coastlines. The map displays the tracks of famous navigators such as Ferdinand Magellan and Willem Schouten, along with the tracks of the Spanish Manila galleons across the Pacific Ocean. 11138

Norway LINGSTROM, Freda (1893-1989). Norway, for real Winter sport. Original lithograph with colour, linen backed, published by Norwegian State Railways, printed in England, c.1922. 1010 x 630 mm. Lingstrom gained her first job at Alf Cooke's London works as a designer, where she stayed for 15 months. After periods at Carlton Studios and Norfolk, Lingstrom decided in 1922 to work on her own. Her first clients were railway companies, including the London and North Eastern Railway, the Underground Group and the Norwegian state railway. The Norwegian and Swedish government commissioned her to design Scandinavian travel material for the English market. Freda and her friend Maria Bird together went on to create Andy Pandy and The Flower Pot Men. In 1940, Lingstrom was hired by the BBC. In 1947, she was asked to take the role of Assistant Head of BBC Schools Broadcasting and created the lunchtime programme Listen with Mother. She was then approached by the Head of Television Talks, Mary Adams, to create a programme for an experimental slot aimed at very young children and called For The Very Young. Eventually, Lingstrom and Maria Bird set up Westerham Arts (named after Westerham, where they lived) to produce the first pre-filmed version of their Andy Pandy. Lingstrom and Bird wrote the scripts and Bird composed the music. A chance meeting on a train introduced Lingstrom to Audrey Atterbury, who was persuaded to study under the puppeteer John Wright of the Little Angel Theatre in London. Lingstrom lived in Chartwell Cottage, Mapleton Lane, Chartwell, near Westerham in Kent, with Maria Bird, a close friend and co-creator of her TV characters. Both had lost fiancés in the First World War. This is a very rare poster and one of the earliest examples of a Norwegian skiing scene on a poster.
£8,500

BRODERS, Roger (1883-1953). Rome, Par le Train de luxe "Rome Express." Original lithograph with colour, linen backed, printed by Cornille & Serre, Paris, 1921. 1060 x 760 mm. Restored fold and some minor creasing contained during linen backing.
£3,950

A rare Italian serio-comic map of Europe in 1871. MANFREDO, Manfredi. L'Europa Geografico-Politica Veduta a Volo d'Oca. Bologna, c.1871. Chromolithograph. Sheet 470 x 670mm. An extremely scarce Italian serio-comic map of Europe, with the multitude of figures explained in archaic verse styled on the work of Petrarch (1304-74). Published in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, it shows a German gorging himself on the spoils of Alsace and Lorraine; Bismarck wearing the victor's laurel wreath and playing a violin; and Wilhelm I leaning against a cannon marked 'Divine Providence', ruling over the new German Empire. However Austria looks away. Meanwhile, in France, the three-headed Hydra of the Spanish Commune lies dead. In North Africa a French soldier is being spanked by a figure in Arab dress, representing the initially successful revolt in Algeria led by Muhammad al-Muqrani. In Italy the Pope has been knocked from his throne by the unification of Italy. As usual the map is dominated by Russia, this time depicted as a Cossack with a bloody knife raised high, with poor Poland at his feet, chained to the Cossack, a German wearing a pickelhaube, and a 'Constitution' banner held by the Austrian. One Englishman sits on a pile of merchandise, gnawing on a bone marked India. A Scot blows paper boats, one marked 'Alabama': this is probably Sir Alexander Cockburn, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, who ruled that CSS Alabama, a warship built in Liverpool for the Confederacy during the American Civil War, did not violate Britain's neutrality. He also sat on the post-war tribunal that debated the claims for reparations from Britain for the damage caused in Alabama's two-year campaign, settled in 1871.
£20,000

Raleigh's Search for Eldorado and Blemmyes: Brevis & admiranda descriptio regni Guianae, auri abundantissimi, in America, seu novo orbe, sublinea aequinoctilia siti: Quod nuper admodum, annis nimirum 1564 [i.e. 1594]. 1595 & 1596.- £12,500 "A Brief and Admirable Description of the Kingdom of Guiana, most Abundant in Gold, in America, or in the New World, Situated under the Line of the Equator: 1594, 1595, 1596" -Published in Nuremberg by Levinus Hulsius in 1599. -Complete: [6], 12, [2] pp with engraved title page, 1 folding map (laid down) and 6 engr. plates -4° in contemporary calf, rebacked. -Margins restored in places, outer margin of some plates cut slightly short, some marks and stains This is a hugely important contemporary account of Raleigh's voyage in search of El Dorado. The expedition set out to explore the Orinoco river during the English war against Spain in 1595. Raleigh first captured a Spanish settlement on Trinidad, before exploring Guiana some 400 miles inland. He failed to find the city of El Dorado, or any gold, but on his return published this exaggerated account to try and encourage funding for future expeditions. The account is punctuated by mythical accounts which dated back to the mediaeval period and earlier accounts by Pliny. These include the Ewaipanomas (people with faces on their bodies) and Female Amazonian warriors, which decorate the title page. Included is a rare map of South America by Hulsius. This includes depictions of the fabled Lake Parime, illustrations of the flora and fauna of the region, and cannibalism - a common trope on European imaging of South America at the time. The Latin edition of this work was published as a stand alone work, alongside the large series of works by Hulsius. A rare work which uncommonly occurs at auction or appears on the open market.
£12,500

Item 3 16 Later Manuscript Oterschaden Globe gores (16 of 24) - £2000 -Original gores produced c1603, but these are a later manuscript productions of uncertain date -Each gore on a single sheet c29x21 cm -Includes engraved horizon rings -Text label "Terra nondum plene cognita inuenta A 1499" -On old paper with some mild toning and scattered marks These gores are something of a curiosity as the cartographic detail was quite out of date even when the globe gores were first engraved. The information is largely based on cartographic knowledge from the 1550s incluing Portuguese findings, while Oterschaden engraced the gores in the early 1600s. Because of this much of the Southern Hemisphere is unknown with imaginary land borders and the label "Terra Incognita"
£2,000

The first geological map of europe MURCHISON, Roderick Impey (1792-1871) and NICOL, James (1810–1879) Geological Map of Europe Exhibiting the Different Systems of Rocks According to the Most Recent Researches and Unedited Materials. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood & Sons, & W. and A.K. Johnston, 1856. Folding engraved map (1300 x 1077mm), coloured by a contemporary hand, dissected and mounted on linen, scale of 1 inch to 76 miles (1:4,800,000). Very good condition: cloth binding somewhat frayed; one flattened fold to a corner of one segment, otherwise the map itself is in excellent condition. A high point of Victorian geology, and a stunning large-scale geological map – over a metre tall. Murchison and Nicol give a first overview of European stratigraphy and make a bold visual argument for deep geological time. In 1839 Murchison published his monumental work The Silurian System (also on show at the London Map Fair), establishing the Silurian Period (now understood as 443–419ma) and making a vital contribution to the understanding of the first phase of fossil-bearing rocks. During the composition of The Silurian System Murchison had entered into a famous dispute with Henry De la Beche over the correct age of certain rock formations in Devon – the so-called ‘Great Devonian Controversy’. Murchison’s proposal, with Adam Sedgwick, was to designate a new period, the Devonian, between his Silurian and the more recent coal-bearing rocks of the Carboniferous. To do this Murchison undertook and ambitious geological survey of the Rhineland and parts of Russia, resulting not only in the confirmation of the Devonian but the further establishment of the Permian Period as a sequel to the Carboniferous. In 1849, with the account of west-Russian geology published, Murchison conceived of an ambitious large-scale geological map of Europe: the first of its kind ever produced. By the middle of the nineteenth century Murchison’s pioneering work accounted almost the entirety of Victorian understanding of the period before the arrival of the dinosaurs: it is this vast achievement that is represented in the present map, which stretches from the south-west tip of Portugal to the edge of Siberia, and from Iceland in the north to the far shores of the Mediterranean in the south. The only comparable project was that of the Belgian geologist André Dumont, whose European map was completed in 1857. Murchison saw a copy of this map while visiting Poppelsdorf, but perhaps predictably he considered it to be derivative of his own work.

Planisferio o Carta General de la tierra,segun los ultimos descubrimientos/ por Juan Antonio Gonzalez Cañaveras.....; sale a la luz a expensas de Vicente Garviso. Madrid ,Imprenta de Cano 1800. 138x 147 cms Dedicado a Doña Josefa Vertiz de Vertiz y Oteyza. Large and extremely rare world map designed by Juan Antonio Gonzalez Cañaveras professor at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Cadiz (1767-82). The map is extremely rare of which only two other copies are known: -John Carter Brown Library, Map Collection -Zacatecas Covent-Museum Library ,Mexico The sponsor Vicente Garviso was a leading trader in commodities specially gold and silver and was in joint venture with Juan Jose de Oteyza y Vertiz as member of the Consulate of Mexico city and leading figure in the trade between Acapulco and Mexico-Veracruz.Garviso dealt with Asian products that arrived to Acapulco from Manila in the famous Manila galleons with destination to Mexico city and was a ship agent of the silver fleets based at Veracruz with destination to Spain and for the transport of silver ( lingots and minted coins) the “situado” that was the contribution of the Viceregal of Mexico to support the administration of the Philippines islands and payments of army and civil servants that was sent every year through the Manila Galleons. The map has two large cartouches at bottom corners and a large inset with allegorical figures and explicative text for the use of the planisphere and the solution of different geographical questions. On the map appear different naval routes of ships during the XVII and XVIII century, most of them spanish at the south Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans (icebergs sightings). The map was conceived as a teaching tool to show the relationship between sunrise,sunset,seasons and weather patterns around the world. At the borders are represented the relationships between geography and different times of sunrise,sunset and the seasons. Provenance: private euroepan collection.
65,000 euros

Mora, Sylwester (Stanlislaw Staszewski); Zwierniak, Piotr (Kazimierz Zamorski): Map of Concentration Camps in Soviet Russia. Rome 1945 Lithographed map, 49.5 x 69.5 cm, printed in black and red, old folds, blank verso. An important map of the ‘Gulag’, the Soviet system of forced labour camps, seemingly the earliest published example of what was to become one of 'the most widely-circulated pieces of anti-Communist literature' (Timothy Barney, Mapping the Cold War, 2015, p. 120). It was published in a work titled, with heavy irony, Sprawiedliwosc Sowiecka (‘Soviet Justice’), which was also published as La Justice Sovietique and Giustizia Sovietica. There was no English edition, but English may have been chosen as a common language for the map. The authors were both Polish army officers in II Corps, a Polish unit serving with the British Eighth Army in Italy; it was published pseudonymously to protect their families - still living in Soviet occupied Poland - from reprisals. Many Polish prisoners had been held in the camps between 1939 and 1941, while the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact (the Nazi-Soviet non aggression pact) lasted. After the German invasion of Russia, Poles were released to fight alongside the Allies, bringing with them first-hand knowledge of the Gulag camps. Persuasive Maps: The PJ Mode Collection, #1330..01; David Rumsey Map Collection (variant), #10518.000. 7 examples located on Worldcat: OCLC: 30774307; 1129044311; 556399217; 494888464.
£2,500

East Africa Vernon, Leo East Africa. Original lithograph with colour, published by The British Information Service, 1947. 760 x 505 mm.
£2,150

1478 / 1490 Ptolemaic Map of the Arabian Peninsula Arabia-ptolemy-1478 Earliest Acquirable Printed Map of Arabia.
$65,000.00

1871 Husni Efendi Ottoman Wall Map of Arabia First Islamic Wall Map of the Arabian Peninsula.
$85,000.00

GEOLOGICAL MAP OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: Published in Beijing. Date: 1976. Text in Chinese. Size when unfolded: 161cm x 115cm. The one sheet edition housed in a paper sleeve. Scale: 1:4000000. Condition: Short closed tear to one edge else very bright, crisp and clean. A very nice copy indeed. Includes an inset key and an inset map of the South China Sea. A large scale and highly decorative map of China.
£125

ZATTA, Antonio. Le Colonie Unite dell' America Settentr[iona]le di Nouva Projezione ASS. EE. Li Signori Riformatori Dello Studio di Padova. Venezia [Venice]: Presso Antonio Zatta con Privilegio dell'Eccellentissimo Senato, 1778. Original large engraved map of America (148 x 196 cm when joined together) comprised of twelve sheets (each 37 x 49 cm) with original hand-colouring. The first sheet an elaborate "frontispiece" to the series in full original colour, featuring illustrations of flora and fauna with wildlife, and with an inset map of Bermuda coloured in outline to left edge of sheet. The remainder of the set comprises 11 double-page regional maps in original outline colour based on John Mitchell's map of colonial North America dated 1755. Each map approximately 30.5 x 42.5 cm. A few minor spots, generally an excellent example. Italian version based on John Mitchell's map of the English and French colonies (1755), published during the American War of Independence. Cf Phillips, 650.
£5,000

Andorra - folding map Scarce map of Andorra. Deverall, F.H. Andorra/ Mapa de las Valls de Andorra. Edward Stanford Ltd. London 1890 Andorra is the sixth smallest independent country in Europe, situated between France and Spain in the Pyrenees mountains. It’s known for its ski resorts and a tax-haven status that encourages duty-free shopping. The capital is Andorra la Vella. Only one known copy in the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya. [ref: 5157]
£700

A rare poster map of New Zealand, GILL, Leslie MacDonald. 1931 A Map of New Zealand Portraying Her Agricultural Products and Fisheries London: The Empire Marketing Board, 1931. Colour lithographic poster. Sheet 1020 x 1530mm. Near mint. A large and colourful map of New Zealand illustrating the spread of agricultural products on the land and where different fish can be found around the coasts. Quotes from authors including Rudyard Kipling and Isaak Walter appear in the seas. Also contained within the decorative border are tables of statistics for 1929-1930. Leslie MacDonald Gill (1884-1947, known as Max), younger brother of Eric Gill, specialised in graphic design in the Arts and Crafts style. His most important commission was from the Imperial War Graves Commission, designing the script used on Commission headstones and war memorials, including the 'Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme'. His 'Wonderground Map of London', originally drawn as an advertising poster for London Electric Underground Railway Company in 1914, was such a success it is credited with saving the 'UndergrounD' advertising campaign.
£10,000