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Click here to subscribeA selection of maps from around the globe, 18th century and later. Inc Ptolemy's Universal Map. Spain and Portugal by H Moll. 18th cent, Brussels by J Watkins 19th cent. Constantinople with its suburbs by J Dower 19th cent. Independent Tartary by J Rankin, Western Africa, The Black Sea, British Guyana 19th cent. Antarctica 1843, and an Essai sur la Bataille de Platee pour Le Voyage Du Jeune Anachrsis by M Barbie du Boucage, 1784. 6 1/2" x 8"+ (12 Approx)
A selection of maps from around the globe, 17th century and later, including Belgium by Tallis c1850. Countries on the South Seas, from Panama to Guoyquil by Thomas Kitchin Snr. For the Rev Dr Robertson's History of America 1770. Persia by Wuld, Western Africa by Tallis c1850. Russia and Europe by Fullerton c1850, Madras and Fort St George taken by the French under the command of M. Mahe de la Bourdonnais 1746, Lower Saxonny from the best authorities by G Rollos 1790, Palestine with parts of Syria by W Hughes, c1850. The Navigation of The North c1683, Natoile, Lorrainne, and Biledul Gerid, 18th cent. Adelie regions circa polaires, Par Mr Vin Sendon -Dumoulin a bord de la Corvette L'astrolabe expedition au pole Austral et don l'oceanie. 1840 5 1/2" x 3" + (13 Approx)
A late 19th to early 20th Century Stourbridge crystal cameo vase possibly Thomas Webb, the vase of footed compressed globe and shaft form with a graduated flared neck. The whole cased in cranberry over clear crystal and cut back with a wild flower design below a foliate and lattice collar, the clear ground detailed with a fine hatched pattern, height 6.25".
The Chartist Circular, 36 orig. issues, a broken run, numbers 3-6, 9, 15, 20-22, 24, 26-32, 35-36, 38-39, 41, 45-47, 49-50, 57-60, 72-74, 77 & 97, Glasgow, October 12, 1839-July 31, 1841, single folded sheet forming four pages, as issued, some marks and minor soiling, folio, together with approx. ninety other various 19th c. newspapers, mostly The Evening Mail and The Globe, c. 1830-37, but including several issues of The Guardian, 1850s, The Cincinnati Daily Gazette, January 1 & 2, 1873, The Daily Gleaner, Kingston, Jamaica, October 21, 1902, etc., all folded as issued, folio (approx. 150)
Lewine (J). Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books. Being a Guide to Collectors of Illustrated Works in English and French of the Period, 1898, some b&w plts., occ. spotting, untrimmed, later cloth, sm. folio, (one of 1100 copies), together with Simpson (N. Douglas), A Bibliographical Index of the British Flora, Privately Printed, 1960, orig.(?) buckram, a little rubbed, plus Globe (Alexander), Peter Stent, London Printseller Circa 1642-1665, being a Catalogue Raisonne of his Engraved Prints and Books.., Vancouver, 1985, b&w plts., orig. cloth in d.j., sl. rubbed, both 4to, plus other illustration reference, etc. (18)
An early 19th century oak longcase clock, the hood with broken swan neck pediment and central brass globe above a crossbanded long trunk door, box base and plinth, the 31 cms square dial with floral spandrels, Roman numerals, seconds subsidiary dial and calendar aperture, the eight day movement striking on a bell, 219 cms high.
Anon. The Traveller; or, An Entertaining Journey Round the Habitable Globe. London: Harris, n.d. [circa 1854]. 4th edn, small 8vo, quarter crimson roan with pict. boards (spine scuffed and with loss at head; upper joint cracked); Ison, Walter. The Georgian Buildings of Bristol. London: Faber, 1952. 1st edn, 8vo, illus., grey cloth, dustjacket (jacket torn, with losses); Smith, A. Croxton. About Our Dogs. London: Ward, Lock & Co., n.d.. 8vo, 8 col. plates by Ward Binks, 64 full-page b. & w. illus. from photographs, green cloth, dustjacket with pict. onlay (jacket chipped); and a further twelve assorted vols, (15).
Coronelli (Vincenzo Maria). A collection of approx. 90 good quality modern reproduction globe gores, covering most of the surface of the World with a few missing (some parts of North America), and some duplicates, equatorial sections approx. 260 x 300 mm, polar sections approx. 260 x 440 mm (approx. 90)
Spender (Stephen). Poems, 1st ed., Faber, 1933, signed by the author on title, light spotting, orig. cloth in sl. rubbed and chipped d.j., 8vo, together with Auden (W.H.) and Christopher Isherwood, On the Frontier, 1st ed., Faber, 1938, with a copy of the programme for Rupert Doone's production at the Globe Theatre loosely inserted, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus Auden (W.H.), The Orators, 1932; Look, Stranger!, 1936; New Year Letter, 1941, all 1st eds., pub. Faber, all orig. cloth, second and third vols. in rubbed and chipped d.j.s, 8vo (5)
A French gilt brass four-glass mantel clock, circa 1880, the eight-day two-train bell-striking movement with mercury compensated pendulum and visible brocot escapement to the centre of the two-piece Roman numeral white enamel dial, the case with cast globe and telescope foliate draped trophy crest, over leafy mount applied caddy moulded angles and plinth base with foliate feet, 36cm high.
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