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Click here to subscribe`Lysons Cheshire`, being volume two, part two of Magna Britannia, by the Reverend Daniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons, printed for T Cadell, London 1810, containing fold-out hand tinted map of Cheshire, further map of Chester cathedral, plan of Chester etc, rebound in dark green half calf with green marble boards and gilt lettering
`Didsbury sketches, reminiscences and legends`, by Fletcher Moss, printed by George Falkner & Sons Manchester, 1890, bound with red boards and black cloth spine with black lettering, `Walks through Kent`, containing a topographical and statistical description of the county, by GA Cooke esq, printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, London 1819, with fold out coloured map of Kent, bound in black half calf with marble boards and gilt lettering, `A selection of pamphlets and leaflets` published by the Liberal publication department London 1929, containing numerous colour copies of Liberal campaigning posters of this period, together with a photograph of the Right Honourable David Lloyd George MP, bound in black half calf with green cloth boards and gilt lettering, `Routledge`s guide to London and its suburbs`, published by George Routledge & Sons London 1880, with fold out map of London, together further illustrations of landmarks, bound in blue cloth with black lettering, `Chapel-en-le-frith`, being a text book with various newspaper cuttings from the late 19th/early 20th century period relating to subjects of Chapel-en-le-frith, Whalley Bridge, Furness Vale, etc, together with a list of various payments etc made to the Midland Railway for periods 1899-1900, bound in brown cloth, a photograph album containing numerous black and white photographs of the area around Buxton etc, six bundles of The Derbyshire and North Cheshire Advertiser for the period 1882 onwards, and a large bundle of ordinance survey maps for the area around Whalley Bridge, Chapel-en-le-frith etc
`Fullarton Map of Cheshire`, a steel engraved and hand coloured map, c.1835, 17x23cm, framed and glazed, `Cooper/Phillips Map Of Cheshire`, a copper plate engraved and hand coloured map, c.1808, 10x18cm, framed and glazed, `Moule Map Of Cheshire`, a steel engraved and hand coloured map, c.1840, 17x25cm, framed and glazed (3)
`J. Roque Map Of Cheshire`, a copper plate engraved and hand coloured map, c.1740, 16x19cm, framed and glazed, `Badeslade And Toms Map Of Cheshire`, a copper plate engraved and hand coloured map, c.1741-1742, 15x15cm, framed and glazed, `Places Of Meeting Of The Cheshire Hunt`, a steel engraved and hand coloured map, c.1850, 22x19cm, framed and glazed (3) (illustrated)
`Hinton Map Of Westmoreland`, a copper plate engraved and hand coloured map, c.1760, 17x21cm, framed and glazed, `Eman Bowen Map Of Westmorland`, a copper plate engraved and hand coloured map, dated 1762, 19x18cm, framed and glazed, `J Rocque Map Of Westmorland`, a copper plate engraved and hand coloured map, c.1770, 16x19cm, framed and glazed, `Laurie & Whittle Completion Of The Roads To The Lakes With Roads To Whitehaven, Workington, Maryport And Carlisle By Lancaster`, a copper plate engraved and hand coloured map, c.1820, 29x25cm, framed and glazed (4)
`Kitchen/Jeffreys Map Of Cheshire`, a copper plate engraved hand coloured map, c.1765, 18.5x14cm, framed and glazed, `Bowen Map Of Cheshire`, a copper plate engraved and hand coloured map, c.1770, 19x24cm, framed and glazed, `Cary Map Of Cheshire`, a copper plate engraved hand coloured map, c.1787, 21x26cm, framed and glazed, `Stockdale Map Of Cheshire`, a copper plate engraved and hand coloured map, c.1794, 21x26cm, framed and glazed, `Cary Map Of Cheshire`, a copper plate engraved hand coloured map, c.1794, 25x20cm, framed and glazed (5)
`John Ogilby Road Map From Kendal To Cockermouth And Egremond To The City Of Carlisle`, a copper plate engraved and hand coloured road map, c.1675 to 1698, 34x45cm, framed and glazed, `H Moll Map Of Westmorland`, a copper plate engraved and hand coloured map, c.1724, decorated with archaeological finds, 20x33cm, framed and glazed (2) (illustrated)
`Peter Crosthwaite Map Of Broadwater Or Bassenthwaite Lake Near Keswick Cumberland`, a copper plate engraved and hand coloured map, c.1794, 21x45cm, framed and glazed, `Peter Crosthwaite Map Of Lake Derwent`, a copper plate engraved and hand coloured map, c.1809, 21x41cm, framed and glazed, `Peter Crosthwaite Map Of Windermere`, a copper plate engraved and hand coloured map, c.1809, 21x59cm, framed and glazed (3)
`A New Map Of The Country Round Manchester`, being published in 1794 by John Stockdale of Piccadilly, London, this originally accompanied the book Aikins Fifty Miles Round Manchester, with hand colouring, 80x85cm, framed and glazed, this map was originally part of the book `A Description Of The Country From 30 to 40 Miles Round Manchester` by J Aikins, a copy of this book lacking maps is included in the sale (lot 295)
A large hand tinted map entitled `A Topographical Plan Of Manchester And Salford` with the adjacent parts, showing also the different allotments land proposed to be built on as communicated to the surveyor by the respective proprietors, published December the 9th 1793 by C Laurent Geographer, the map also has a road plan for the journey from Manchester to London and a further inset map of the county around Manchester from actual survey, 106x95cm, framed and glazed, this map was originally part of the book `A Description Of The Country From 30 to 40 Miles Round Manchester` by J Aikins, a copy of this book lacking maps is included in the sale
`John Speed Map Of The County Palatine Of Lancaster Described And Divided Into Hundreds`, a copper plate engraved and hand coloured map, c.1610, illustrated with various plantagenet kings and queens, 38x50cm, framed and glazed, a coloured map of Shropshire by J Pigot c.1831, 35x22cm, framed and glazed, `Emery Walker College Of St Mary De Winton Or New College Oxford From The West`, a coloured engraving, published in 1907, 32x41cm, framed and glazed (3) (illustrated)
A hand coloured map of the County Palatine of Lancaster by Robert Morden c.1700, 42x36cm, framed and glazed, a mid 19th century pencil sketch highlighted in white body colour of the Market Cross, Lymm, Cheshire dated September 1858, initialled LN, 18x25.5cm, framed and glazed, and an aerial photograph of Knutsford c.1960`s, showing Marshall House as a school etc, 26x36cm, framed and glazed (3)
A large map of the Ottoman Empire by Rizi Zannoni 1774, showing the Black Sea, Crimea, part of the Caspian sea etc, the central inscription stating that the map was dedicated to a Monseigneurle Comte De Vergennes, together with further description in French regarding the map, the whole surrounded by an elaborate engraved decoration surmounted by coat of arms, map laid in sections onto a canvas backing, 71x154cm, this map originally belonged to the Royal Society of Greenwich (illustrated)
A hand tinted early 18th century map of the North of Scotland by Pergerardum Mercatorem Cum Privilegio, showing the Isles of Sky and Orkney islands, 33x44cm, a similar hand tinted map of Scotland, 33x44cm, and a hand tinted map of Scotland, Northern England, Northern Ireland and the Shetland islands, printed by Antonio Zatta Venezia 1776, 28x39cm (all unframed) (3) (illustrated)
A set of four unframed mid 18th century hand coloured maps of counties by Eman Bowen comprising Cambridgeshire with inset view of the city of Ely, 69x50cm, map of Oxfordshire 69x50cm, map of the county of Kent with inset panel being the correct draught of the Downes, 50x68cm, a map of Devonshire with an inset plan of the town and citadel of Plymouth, 50x66cm, all printed for Carington Bowles in St Paul`s Church yard and Robert Sayer in Fleet Street (4)
A set of four mid 18th century hand coloured maps by Eman Bowen comprising Oxfordshire 69x50cm, Cambridgeshire with inset view of the city of Ely 69x50cm, Leicester and Rutland 51x68cm, Cornwall with inset map of the Isle of Scilly 50x68cm, all printed for Carington Bowles in St Paul`s Church yard and Robert Sayer in Fleet Street (4)
Ptolemy Sexta Asie Tabula being a rare map of Arabia, printed by J Schott Strazzburg, 1513 published by J Eszler and G Ubelin, being in black and white, 33.5 x 57.5cm, framed and glazed, (originally bought for £850 in 1978), also a late 18th century map of the Arabian Gulf or Red-Sea from D`Anville`s Atlas, engraved for John Harrison, 115 Newgate Street, being a black and white map of the Yemen, Bahr Kolzum region with inset maps of Suakem, Matzua et Arkiko and Albabo, 45 x 33cm, framed and glazed (2) (illustrated)
Blaeus`s map of Arabia, this being a hand coloured map from the Atlas Maior Series c.1662, with illustrations of the various towns of Arabia including camels etc with inset title piece at the bottom left with Arabs in traditional dress, 41 x 51cm, framed and glazed, (originally bought for £235 in 1978), also a loose black and white engraved map of Arabia c.1548 12 x 16.5cm (2) (illustrated)
A hand coloured lithograph of `Over Tabley Church, Cheshire` c.1860 18x26cm, with oak veneered frame with gilt slip and glazing, a hand coloured print of Tabley Old Hall c.1930 6.5x9.5cm, framed and glazed, a view of Tabley House after Neale, engraved by Cruse c.1829 9x13cm, framed and glazed, a hand coloured steel engraving of `Tatton Park, Cheshire` after Neale, engraved by Barber c.1823 9x12.5cm, framed and glazed, a hand coloured engraving of `Tatton` from the park entrance c.1875 8x23cm, framed and glazed and a map of Cheshire, North West from London according to `The Act of Parliament` engraved by G Bickhan, c.1754 showing an imaginative topographical scene with water mill and two figures in the foreground with named villages and towns including Knutsford and Altrincham 25x14cm, framed and glazed (5) (illustrated)
The Fens A Discourse touching the draying the Great Fennes lying within the severall counties of Lincolne Northampton Huntington Norfolke Suffolke Cambridge and the Isle of Ely as it was presented to his Majestie by Sir Cornelius Vermuiden Knight. Published by Authority London. Printed by Thomas Fawcet dwelling in Grub Street neere the lower Pumpe 1642. 4to 32pp lacking folding map (a photograph of which is loosely inserted) title page soiled with two chips and one small area of tape repair otherwise contents good. Pagination error to pp 14 & 15 which are paginated `10 & 11`. Modern boards. Wing V241. An extremely rare publication. We have managed to trace only two other copies appearing on the market in the last 30 years. Vermuyden the great Dutch engineer was appointed by Charles I in 1639 to undertake the epic task of draining the fens and thus reclaim hundreds of square miles of land from the sea – one of the greatest engineering achievements of all time. His famous discourse appeared in 1642` and in it he sets out his methods – which included a radical new approach of providing `washes` – areas of land which could be flooded in times of excess rain in order to absorb the extra water. The work continued into the 1650s and provided us with what is today most of East Anglia.
Ephemera – A late 18th c road gazetteer The Selby Traveller`s Pocket-Book or Ogilby and Morgan`s Book of the Roads 1775 being a small 4to gazetteer of all the roads in England with distances between principle towns with notes and information and notes on the postal system in Britain with a further section detailing all the fairs in England and Wales. 191pp lacking folding map. With ms account written on the inside cover detailing the journey between London and Newcastle – which in 1775 took 46 hours!
Wales – Antique Maps Montgomeryshire fine map of the county c1730 or later modern colour with the strip road map from Gloucester to Hereford to verso matted for framing together with two further strip road maps the first showing the roads from Monmouth to Cardiff and Llandaff to Burton and the second showing roads through Montgomeryshire and Brecknockshire. From Owen & Bowen`s road atlas Britannia Depicta.
Ephemera – Royalty – Queen Victoria fine printed linen sheet issued to commemorate the reign of Queen Victoria (presumably issued at the time of the Diamond Jubilee in 1897) featuring a number of images including the Queen and various technological achievements during her reign such as the comparison between the stage coach and the motor car the development of railways etc. In fine clean condition together two further issues to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee a printed linen handkerchief issued to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of George V a silk handkerchief printed in colour to celebrate the coronation of Edward VIII in 1837 (which never took place) and a Boer War vintage printed linen sheet featuring a map of South Africa a portrait of Lord Roberts and the text (by Kipling) and music (by Sullivan) of the song `The Absent Minded Beggar`. Note: sold as a collection not subject to return.
WWII – a German issue aerial navigation wall map showing most of Germany and surrounding areas with Nazi eagle and swastika emblems to head dated 1936. Printed on paper approx 48x38ins worn in original folds and with some fraying to edges but otherwise in generally good order. An interesting map issued at a time when Germany should not have had an air force under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
SHEFFIELD. Hunter, Joseph. Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield, Lackington, Hughes, Mavor & Jones, London 1819. Boards, plate illustrations, tall quarto; Freemantle, W.T. A Bibliography of Sheffield and Vicinity, Section 1, to the end of 1700, Pawson & Brailsford, Sheffield 1911. Green cloth, illustrations, octavo, SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR; Leader, John Daniel. The Records of the Burgery of Sheffield, Elliot Stock, London 1897. Two-tone cloth, folding map, octavo; Gatty, Rev. Alfred, & Hunter, Joseph. Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield, Pawson & Brailsford, Sheffield 1869. Maroon cloth, plate and text illustrations, tall quarto; and two other works of related interest, (6).
Buller, Rev. James. Forty Years in New Zealand: including A Personal Narrative, An Account of Maoridom, and of the Christianization and Colonization of the Country, first edition, Hodder & Stoughton, London 1878. Bevelled pictorial blue cloth gilt, portrait frontispiece, folding map, sixteen plate illustrations, octavo, SIGNED & INSCRIBED `Miss Randerson / with the very kind regards / of the author / July 14. 1879`.
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