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Lot 615

After Cornelius Danckerts - `Nova Persiae Armeniae Natoliae et Arabiae` (Map of the Countries), 18th Century engraving with near period colour.

Lot 648

After John Cooke - `A Map of the United States of America with Part of the Adjoining Provinces from the Latest Authorities`, early 19th Century engraving with later colour, together with three further maps.

Lot 656

After Robert Morden - `Barkshire` (Map of the County), 18th Century engraving, together with another similar engraved map.

Lot 698

After Robert Morden - `Gloucestershire` (Map of the County), early 18th Century engraving with later colour, together with another engraving, Map of Ceylon.

Lot 707

After Hondius - `Turcicum Imperium` (Map of the Turkish Empire), early 17th Century engraving with later colour.

Lot 770

After Henricus Hondius - `Sveciae, Norvegiae et Daniae, Nova Tabula` (Map of the Scandinavian Countries), late 17th/early 18th Century engraving with later colouring, approx 48.5cm x 57.5cm, together with a printed document.

Lot 777

After Thomas Jefferys - `The County of Buckingham` (Map of the County), monochrome engraving, circa 1770, laid onto cloth, approx 131cm x 86cm.

Lot 613

A Westermann wall map of the British Isles

Lot 714

A framed city map of Paris, after S Jacobs, also a Bouchard`s wine domain framed poster, 43 x 131cm (2)

Lot 725

`MACMILLAN`: A folio of prints, various humorous pen and ink cartoons signed `Macmillan`, including wartime subjects, animal studies, relationships,also a Mercator`s Map of Edinburgh (re-strike) and GE Fripp, A Dash For Bulawyo, inset in pencil, pen and ink, 17 x 32cm

Lot 305

MAPS - "CHRISTOPHER SAXTON A map of Warwickshire "Wigorniensis", hand coloured with dividers and compass rose, 28cm x 31cm, in glazed frame"

Lot 21

Wallis (John, publisher). The Book-Case of Knowledge, 1800, ten miniature vols., comprising: Geography and Astronomy Familiarized for Youth of Both Sexes (hand-col. double-hemisphere map frontis. and uncol. eng. plt. of the solar system); A Familiar Introduction to Botany (five hand-col. eng. plts.); A Natural History of Birds and Beasts (sixteen eng. plts.); The History of England, from the Conquest to the Death of George II (eng. frontis., and hand-col. circular ports. on letterpress); Rewards for Attentive Studies (lacking frontis.); Mythology (eng. frontis.); A Compendium of Simple Arithmetic (eng. frontis.); Scripture History (eng. frontis.); Short and easy Rules for Attaining a Knowledge of English Grammar (eng. frontis.); British Heroism (eng. frontis.), occn. foxing and marks but generally clean internally, some endpapers lacking, all with contemp. pencilled ownership signature on front free endpaper (where endpaper present), sime with stitching broken, orig. coloured paper boards, with printed paper label on upper cover, all dusty and worn, two sometime rebacked with paper (now split), remainder with spine deficient (four with old sewn repair to spine), approx. 94 x 58 mm (3.75 x 2.25 ins), contained in orig. wooden box, lined with pink paper, lacking shelf for books to stand on above drawer (drawer present but without handle) and lacking sliding lid, box 147 x 99 x 75 mm (5.75 x 4 x 3 ins) Alderson, Miniature Libraries for the Young, 4. (1)

Lot 27

Jigsaw map. The World, Dissected on the Best Principles for teaching Geography, c.1815,. eng. map of the two hemispheres joined at the equator, with the surround cut away, hand-col. in outline, Peru, Patagonia, and Madagascar all lacking and facsimile pieces supplied, browned, and lightly rubbed in places, 357 x 692 mm (14 x 27.25 ins), orig. mahogany box with printed paper label on sliding lid (label rubbed and chipped) A small unnamed island in the Southern Ocean has printed note ‘Isle seen in 1808’. Australia is labelled both New Holland and Australia. Louisiana is not marked as a state. (2)

Lot 83

Golden Cockerel Press. Napoleon’s Memoirs, edited by Somerset de Chair, 2 vols., 1945,. frontis. to each vol., map endpapers, orig. green cloth gilt with design to upper covers by John Buckland Wright, 4to. Limited edition. Number 175 of 500 copies. (2)

Lot 158

Milne (A.A.). Winnie-the-Pooh, with Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard, 1st ed., Methuen, 1926, b & w illusts. and decs. throughout, map endpapers, free endpapers lightly partially toned, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. gilt dec. green cloth, spine sl. darkened, in dusty d.j. (later issue, advertising 169th thousand of ‘When We Were Very Young‘), with extrems. rubbed and some edge-fraying, spine darkened, 8vo, together with Now We Are Six, with Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard, 1st ed., Methuen, 1927, b & w illusts. and decs. throughout, half-title browned, pictorial endpapers, child’s name in ink on front pastedown, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. gilt dec. red cloth, rubbed and faded, 8vo (2)

Lot 241

Adams (Richard). Watership Down, pub. Penguin/Kestrel, 1976, illustrations by John Lawrence, folding map at end, original cloth, price-clipped d.j., slipcase, 8vo. Presentation copy, inscribed: “To Susanna, with best wishes, Richard Adams”.. (1)

Lot 261

Milne (A.A.). Toad of Toad Hall, A Play from Kenneth Grahame’s Book ‘The Wind in the Willows’, 1st ed., Methuen & Co., 1929, endpapers browned, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt in d.j., slightly torn & frayed at head & foot of d.j., 8vo, together with A Gallery of Children, 1st ed., George G. Harrap & Co., 1939, frontis., plts. & illusts. by A.H. Watson, contemp. inscription to front free endpaper, orig. cloth in price-clipped d.j., frayed to d.j. at head & foot of spine, 8vo, with Year in, Year Out, 1st ed., Methuen & Co., 1952, b & w illusts. by E.H. Shepard, orig. cloth in slightly browned d.j., 8vo, and Grahame (Kenneth), The Wind in the Willows, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953, double-page map and illusts. by E.H. Shepard, orig. dec. cloth in slightly frayed d.j., 8vo, and The Golden Age, pub. John Lane, 1904, photogravure frontis., title and plts. illustrated by Maxfield Parrish, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. pictorial cloth gilt, 8vo, plus thirteen others, mostly A.A. Milne & Kenneth Grahame related (18)

Lot 262

Milne (A.A.). Winnie-the-Pooh, 1st ed., Methuen & Co., 1926, b & w illusts. by Ernest H. Shepard, contemp. ink inscription to front blank, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. printed map endpapers, orig. green cloth gilt in d.j., d.j. dust-soiled, frayed to edges at head & foot of spine, darkened to spine, 8vo, together with Now We are Six, 1st ed., Methuen & Co., 1927, b & w illusts. by E.H. Shepard, contemp. ink inscription to half-title, orig. printed endpapers, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt in d.j., slightly dust-soiled, slightly frayed & worn to edges of d.j., 8vo, plus The House at Pooh Corner, 1st ed., Methuen & Co., 1928, b & w illusts. by E.H. Shepard, orig. printed endpapers slightly browned, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, slightly faded, d.j. frayed & torn with loss, 8vo (3)

Lot 270

Pearce (A. Philippa). Tom’s Midnight Garden, 1st ed., OUP, 1958,. b&w illusts. by Susan Eimzig, orig. cloth in frayed and creased d.j., together with Garner (Alan), The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. A Tale of Alderley, 1st ed., 1960, map endpapers, orig. cloth in frayed d.j., with nine others by/about Alan Garner, plus Mayne (William), The World Upside Down, 1st ed., OUP, 1954, b&w illusts. by Shirley Hughes, orig. cloth in sl. frayed d.j., 8vo, and ten others by William Mayne (22)

Lot 317

[Fleming, Ian]. The Traveller’s Tree, A Journey through the Caribbean Islands, by Patrick Leigh Fermor, 1st ed., 1950,. author’s first book, b & w illusts., double-page map, b & w illusts. from photos at rear, a few neat ink corrections of French quotes (in author’s hand?), ownership signature of Ian Fleming, 16 Victoria Square, SW1, to front free endpaper, marginal pencil lines presumed to be in Ian Fleming’s hand with reference to sections on Haiti and voodoo (pp. 263 ff), orig. cloth, dampstained and worn with spine near-detached, 8vo. Patrick Leigh Fermor or Paddy as he was known to his friends including Ian Fleming and his wife, established his reputation as Britain’s greatest living travel writer with this account of his travels through the Caribbean in the 1940s. James Bond refers to this book in ‘Live and Let Die’ (1954) to get up to date with Haitian voodoo before setting off to New York. See pp. 29-33 of the first edition which acknowledges the origin of the work in the footnote to page 29: ‘This, one of the great travel books, is published by John Murray at 25s’. Provenance: From the family of Frank Beckett, gardener for Ian Fleming at his house in Sevenhampton, near Swindon, Wiltshire in the mid 1970s. Very good for rebinding. (1)

Lot 381

Lewis (C.S.). The Silver Chair, 1st ed., 1953, illustrations by Pauline Baynes, minor browning and price 2/- to front map endpapers, original cloth, spine faded at head, professionally restored d.j., 8vo. (1)

Lot 408

Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Hobbit, Or There and Back Again, 1st ed., 2nd imp., 1937, four coloured plates by the author, b & w illustrations, map endpapers, one or two light spots, previous owner inscription, original green pictorial cloth, joints and edges rubbed, slight lean, 8vo. The second impression was published in the same year as the first, and is the first edition with coloured plates.. (1)

Lot 196

A quantity of maps and charts including Antarctic Peninsula and Falkland Islands, Galapagos, Baltic, English Channel, South America, Grand Union Canal Map and Mediterranean Archipelego

Lot 212

After Robert Morden, The County Palatine of Lancaster, engraved map, later hand-coloured, 17th century, 40cm by 35cm, and another, after Johannes Bleau, Insulae Albion et Hibernia, 42cm by 48cm (2)

Lot 213

After Herman Moll, England and Wales, engraved map, later hand-coloured, unframed, 30.5cm by 26.2cm

Lot 5

Beattie (William). The Danube Illustrated in a Series of Views taken Expressly for this Work by W.Henry Bartlett, 1842, title page with dec. topographical vignette, spotted, half title with wood eng. vignette, one uncoloured eng. map and seventy-eight b & w engraved views (complete as list), wood engraved chapter headings and vignettes to text throughout, a.e.g., hinges and joints weak, contemp. diced calf with gilt dec. spine, rubbed, worn and frayed, 4to (1)

Lot 7

Beattie (William ed.). The Danube, Its History, Scenery and Topography, Splendidly Illustrated from Sketches taken on the Spot by Abresch and Drawn by W.H.Bartlett Esq., pub. Virute & Co., n.d., c.1835, title page and dec. half title with uncoloured eng. topographical vignette, one b & w engraved map and seventy-eight b & w engraved views (complete as list), each with tissue guard, numerous wood engravings to text, occ. spotting, orig. pubs. blue cloth gilt, worn, frayed and bumped at extrems., 4to, together with, Fearnside W.G. ed.), Tombleson’s Views of the Rhine, 1832, title page with uncoloured eng. topographical vignette, sixty-eight b & w engraved views, folding engraved panorama of the river at rear of binding, slight fraying to margins., contemp. half morocco gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, with, Wright (Rev. G.N. & Buckingham L.F.A.), Belgium, The Rhine, Italy, Greece and the Shores of the Mediterranean, vol.1 (only), n.d., c.1835, title page and dec. half title with b & w eng. vignette, seventy-two engraved plts. (correct as list), occ. spotting throughout, marbled end papers, a.e.g., contemp. morocco gilt, rubbed and frayed at extrems., 4to (3)

Lot 16

Craig (John). A New Universal Technological, Etymological and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, Embracing all the Terms used in Arts, Science and Literature, vols. IV, V, VII & XI only, 1849, sixteen engraved folding maps with original outline colouring, contemp. pubs. cloth gilt, rubbed and bumped at extrems., 4to, together with, The New National Encyclopedia Atlas, pub. William Mackenzie, 1868, thirty-four folding colour litho. maps (only), gutta percha perished, contents loose and shaken, hinges and joints broken, boards near detached, spine partially lacking, contemp. pubs. cloth gilt, worn and frayed, 4to, together with an an uncoloured eng. eight sheet Russian map, sectionalised and laid on linen, 1839, each sheet approx. 680 x 430mm, contained in orig. marbled card chemise, in slip case with gilt morocco spine, the case worn and rubbed (6)

Lot 19

Gamble (C.F. Snowden). The Story of a North Sea Air Station, being Some Account of the Early Days of the Royal Flying Corps (Naval Wing) and of the part played thereafter by the Air Station at Great Yarmouth and its Opponents during the War 1914-1918, pub. OUP, 1928, b & w plts. from photos., large folding map at rear, orig. cloth gilt, lightly rubbed and marked in places, small nick in upper joint, 8vo (1)

Lot 20

Guthrie (William). A New Geographical, Historical and Commercial Grammer; and Present State of the Several Kingdoms of the World, 1770, uncoloured engraved folding hemispheral map of the world by Thomas Kitchin and a further seventeen folding engraved maps, one map with closed tear (England) and one map with crude later hand colouring (Ireland), boards near detached, text block split into two parts, contemp. speckled calf, rubbed worn and frayed, 8vo, together with, Blair (Rev. D.), The General School Atlas of Modern Geography in a Series of Twenty three Maps of the Principal States & Kingdoms throughout the World Embracing the Most Recent Discoveries, pub. T.J.Allman, 1860, calligraphic title page, twenty-three lithographic maps with orig. outline colour (complete as list), occ. marginal finger soiling, some juvenile pencil scribbles to end papers, boards near detached, contemp. half calf gilt, rubbed, worn and frayed, 4to, with, Kelly (Christopher), A New and Complete System of Universal Geography or an Authentic History and Interesting Description of the whole World and its Inhabitants....., vol. 2 (only), 1817, lacking dec. half title, fourteen uncoloured engraved maps (including several folding) and twenty-three uncoloured engraved plts. some dust soiling and spotting throughout, lacking last few pps. and all end papers, lacking boards, spine cracked and frayed with slight loss, 4to, with one other similar. Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (4)

Lot 26

Jamieson (Alexander). A Celestial Atlas Comprising a Systematic Display of the Heavens in a Series of Thirty Maps Illustrated by Scientific Descriptions of their Contents and accompanied by Catalogues of the Stars and Astronomical Execrcises, pub. G & W.B.Whittaker and N.Hailes, 1822, calligraphic title and dedication pages, thirty engraved celestical charts, twenty-eight with sparse early colouring (complete as list), tissue guard to each map, some damp staining and spotting throughout, upper hinge weak, contemp. half morocco gilt with pubs. printed label to upper board. rubbed, frayed and worn, oblong 4to (1)

Lot 27

Johnston (Alexander Keith). Handy Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, 1873, title and dedication page, frontis. of folding map of the Arctic, forty-five folding engraved maps with orig. outline colouring (complete as list), a few maps with splits to central fold, occ. marginal finger soiling, a.e.g, contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed, frayed and worn, folio (1)

Lot 29

Kaempfer (Engelbert). Amoenitatum Exoticarum Politico-Physico-Medicarum. Fasciculi V, Quibus Continentur Variae Relationes, Observationes & Descriptiones Rerum Persicarum et Ulterioris Asiae..., Lemgo, 1712, eng. frontis. (frayed to fore-edge), title printed in red & black with eng. illust., fifteen folding eng. plts. (inc. folding map) and sixty-three full-page eng. illusts. (one folding to lower edge, inc. 8 full-page woodcuts), eleven other smaller eng. & woodcut illusts. to text, occ. scattered spotting & browning, full-page illust. to leaf 4D4 torn with slight loss and repaired, contemp. vellum, blind arabesque to centre of each board, upper joint cracked, 4to. Armorial bookplate to verso of title of Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home (c.1566-1619). Hunt 427. (1)

Lot 33

Lang (John Dunmore). An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales: Including a Visit to the Gold Regions, and a Description of the Mines; with an Estimate of the Probable Results of the Great Discovery..., Bring Down the History of the Colony to the First of July, 1852, 2 vols., 3rd ed., 1852, occ. minor spotting, orig. cloth gilt, slightly frayed at head & foot of spine, 8vo, together with Meredith (Mrs. Charles), Notes and Sketches of New South Wales, During a Residence in that Colony from 1839 to 1844, 1st ed., John Murray, 1844, bound with Drinkwater (John), A History of the Siege of Gibraltar, 1779-1783, with a Description and Account of that Garrison, from the Earliest Periods, pub. John Murray, 1844, folding wood eng. plan, some browning and spotting throughout, contemp. half calf, paper library label to upper board, covers rubbed & worn, 8vo, plus Meredith (Mrs. Charles), Notes and Sketches of New South Wales, During a Residence in that Colony from 1839 to 1844, pub. John Murray, 1849, few wood eng. illusts., browning and some dampstaining, modern half calf gilt with red morocco title label, 8vo, and Trollope (Anthony), Australia and New Zealand, 2 vols., 3rd/New ed., 1876/75, folding col. litho maps frontis. to each vol. (map in vol. 1 with short closed-tears to folds), two other folding maps, orig. cloth, rubbed and slight wear, 8vo, with Stuart (E.J.), A Land of Opportunities being an Account of the Author’s Recent Expedition to Explore the Northern Territories of Australia, 1st ed., 1923, b & w frontis. and plts., folding map at rear, rear free endpaper torn with loss, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, and Calvert (F.), The Exploration of Australia, 2 vols., London & Liverpool, 1895, b & w frontis. to vol. 1, numerous port. plts., one folding col. litho map, orig. cloth gilt, spines darkened and spotted, 4to, plus The Discovery of Australia, 2nd ed., 1902, b & w frontis. and plts., a.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, 4to (10)

Lot 43

Paris. Paris sous Napoleon III (so titled on upper cover), n.d., pub. Lebrasseur & Dutot, c. 1860s, eighteen eng. plts., orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, rubbed and somewhat soiled, oblong 4to, together with Views of Paris, pub. Rock & Co., c. 1860s, fifty steel-eng. vign. views on twenty-five leaves, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, slim 8vo, plus A Map of the Kingdom of France according to the Treaty of Paris, November 20, 1815, Divided into Departments and Districts from the Map of M. Cassini de Theury, Sold by W. Faden, December 4, 1815, hand-col. eng. map, sectionalised on four sheets, overall size approx. 48 x 47 in (122 x 119cm) in orig. card slipcase, with a large collection of late 19th/early 20th c. Paris guides and maps, etc. (2 cartons)

Lot 44

Peary (Robert E.). Northward Over the “Great Ice”, A Narrative of Life and Work along the Shores and upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891-1897, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1898, b & w port. frontis. to each, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, folding map at rear of vol. 2, both volumes lack front free endpapers, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. cloth in bright condition, 4to (2)

Lot 47

Radclyffe (C.R.E.). Big Game Shooting in Alaska, 1st ed., Rowland Ward, 1904, frontis. and b & w illusts. from photos., folding map in pocket at rear, ad. leaf, dec. endpapers, orig. cloth gilt, slightly rubbed to extrems., tall 8vo (1)

Lot 48

Rennell (James). Illustrations (chiefly Geographical) of the History of the Expedition of Cyrus, from Sardis to Babylonia; and the retreat of the ten thousand Greeks, from thence to Trebisonde, and Lydia. With an Appendix, containing an enquiry into the best method of improving the geography of the Anabasis, 1st ed., 1816, folding eng. map frontis., without the two maps contained in separate folder (as often), minor spotting to one or two leaves, modern good-quality half calf gilt, with black morocco label to spine, 4to (1)

Lot 52

Shackleton (Sir Ernest). South, The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917, 1st ed., 1919, col. frontis., b & w plts. from photos, folding map at rear (with closed-tears repaired with adhesive tape), text block generally toned as usual, orig. dec. blue cloth, frayed at head & foot of spine, large 8vo. The 1st ed. was printed on poor quality paper, hence the toning. Spence 1107. (1)

Lot 60

Wyld (James). An Atlas of the World Comprehending Separate Maps of its various Countries Constructed & drawn from the latest Astronmomical & Geographical Observations, 1870, calligraphic title page with heraldic vignette, four b & w eng. ‘comparative’ plts., forty-four (of 46), engraved maps with original outline colouring, including two folding (lacking France in Provinces & Guatemala), one folding map with long closed tear, contemp. half morocco gilt, upper board detached, rubbed and worn, small folio (1)

Lot 63

Baker (J.). The Imperial Guide with Picturesque Plans of the Great Post Roads, containing Miniature Likenesses, engraved from real sketches, of the Cities, Towns, Villages, Seas, Islands, Mountains, Public Edifices and Private Buildings, Situated in and near such thoroughfares, pub. C.Whittingham, 1802, fourteen pictorial linear road maps all with orig. hand-coloured borders (of 20), five aquatint topographical plts. only (of 13?), sewing weak and few leaves detached, edges untrimmed, upper inner hinge broken, contemp. half vellum, dust-soiled, 8vo, together with [West, Thomas], A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, 4th ed., 1789, eng. frontis. and folding eng. map, contemp. half calf, joints cracked, worn, 8vo, with Skrine (henry), A General Account of all the Rivers of Note in Great Britain..., 1801, double-page aquatint frontis., seventeen eng. maps, slight offsetting to text, contemp. half calf, gilt dec. spine, upper joint slightly cracked, 8vo, with [Feltham, John], A Guide to all the Watering and Sea-Bathing..., new & improved ed., [1815], folding eng. frontis., twenty-two eng. maps (inc. 6 folding), twenty-eight eng. plts., 20th c. sheep, 8vo, plus eight others, including five other editions of Watering & Sea-Bathing guides (12)

Lot 65

Bartlett (W.H. & J. Stirling Coyne). The Scenery and Antiquites of Ireland, 2 vols., George Virtue, c.1840, eng. port. to vol. 1, addn. eng. vign. title to each vol., single page eng. map of Ireland, 118 steel eng. views, correct as list, foxed, vol. ii with prelim. blank torn out, marbled endpapers and edges, hinges split, contemp. gilt dec. green calf, rubbed, vol. 2 with sl. loss at head of spine, 4to (2)

Lot 68

Cary (John). Cary’s Traveller’s Companion or a Delineation of the Turnpike Roads of England and Wales shewing the Immediate route to every Market and Borough Town throughout the Kingdom laid down from the best Authorities on a new set of County Maps, 1840, calligraphic title page with near contemp. manuscript ownership signature, title page and front free end papers detached, contents list and advertisement, forty-three engraved maps with original outline colouring (complete as list), including one folding (Yorkshire), folding map repaired on verso, very occ. ink marginalia, occ. spotting, upper hinge broken, contemp. half calf, rubbed worn and frayed, 8vo. A late edition of the ‘Travellers Companion’ with nine of the county maps showing railways. Not listed in Chubb. (1)

Lot 69

Cary (John). Cary’s New Map of England and Wales, with part of Scotland on which are Carefully laid down all the Direct and Principal Cross Roads , the Course of the Rivers and Navigable Canals, Cities, Markets and Borough Towns, Parishes and most considerable Hamlets, Parks, Forests &c. &c....., pub. 11th June 1794, engraved title, dedication and explanation leaf, engraved general map with orig. hand colouring, seventy-seven engraved maps with orig. outline colouring numbered to eighty-one, index to rear, book plate of Hon.ble Henry F. St. Clair Erskine to front paste down, upper board detached., contemp. half calf gilt, spine partially lacking, rubbed, frayed and worn, 4to (1)

Lot 79

Kitchin (Thomas & Jefferys, Thomas). The Small English Atlas being a New and Accurate Sett of Maps of all the Counties in England and Wales, pub. Kitchin & Jefferys, 1751, dec. allegorical title page and preface, two general maps of England and Wales and forty-eight b & w engraved county and regional maps each with descriptive and explanatory text below map, last map ( The Isles of Scilly) split along central fold, very occ. spotting, later ink annotations on verso of a few maps, later end papers, book plate to front paste down, later qtr. gilt calf with marbled boards, small 8vo. Chubb CXCIII. Uncommon. (1)

Lot 82

Moll (Herman). The Geography of England and Wales; or, A Set of Maps of all the Counties in England and Wales with the Great Roads and Principal Cross-Roads and the Distances from Town to Town, pub. Thos. Bowles & J.Bowles, 1747, title page torn with slight loss, laid on near contemp. paper, fifty-one uncoloured engraved maps with decorative engraved borders, including three folding (complete as list), one map (Devon) stained, bound with, Moll (Herman), Scotland Delineated or Thirty-Six New and Correct maps of North-Britain, pub. Thomas Bowles and John Bowles, 1745, title page with near contemp. ink annotation, thirty-six uncoloured engraved maps, including two folding (complete as list), contemp. half calf with contrasting morocco gilt label to spine, rubbed and worn, oblong 4to. An unusual varient combining two of Moll’s county atlases. Not described in Chubb. (1)

Lot 86

Scott (Richard). A Topographical and Historical Account of Hayling Island, Hants., pub. I.Skelton, Havant, 1826, folding b & w engraved map, title page with eng. topographical vignette, b & w litho. plts., pp. 55 with closed tear, hinges and joints weak with upper board near detached, contemp. pubs. boards, lacking spine, 8vo (1)

Lot 87

Stockdale (F.W.L.). Excursions in the County of Cornwall, Comprising a Concise Historical and Topographical Delineation of the Principal Towns and Villages..., 1st ed., 1824, engraved title, engraved folding map, 48 engraved plates, some light spotting and browning, previous owner stamps, contemporary half calf, some wear to spine, 8vo, together with A History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments, ed. by John Keltie, 2 vols., 1875, colour map, chromolithographed plates of tartans, engraved portraits, illustrations, bookplates, contemporary green half morocco, rubbed, 4to, with others including J.C. Atkinson’s History of Cleveland Ancient and Modern, 2 vols., 1874 (lacking one plate as usual) and vol. III only of William Dugdale’s Monastici Anglicani, 1673 (with engraved Hollar plates) (8)

Lot 88

Wallis (James). Wallis’s New Pocket Edition of the English Counties or Travellers Companion in which are carefully laid down all the Direct & Cross Roads, Cities, Townes, Villages, Parks, Seats and Rivers, with a General Map of England i Wales, [1810], calligraphic title page, forty (of 42) engraved maps with orig. hand colouring (lacking Cheshire & Durham), occ. spotting throughout, partially disbound with several maps loose, upper board detached with pubs. label to upper board, contemp. half morocco, rubbed soiled and worn, 12mo, together with, Bacon (George W. pubs.), New Large Scale Ordnance Atlas of the British Isles with Plans of Towns....., n.d., [1883], 101 colour printed lithographic county, regional and town plan maps (complete as list), some marginal dust soiling, gutta percha perished, contents loose and shaken, contemp. cloth gilt, stained and bumped at extrems., folio, with another copy of the same, with two others similar. Sold as a colllection of maps not subject to return. (5)

Lot 91

Wright (G.N.). Ireland Ilustrated from Original Drawings by G.Petrie, W.H.Bartlett & T.M.Baynes, pub. H.Fisher, Son & Jackson, 1833, title and dec. eng. half title, eighty uncoloured eng. plts. printed on forty sheets (correct as list), occ. spotting throughout, a.e.g., contemp. qtr. morocco gilt, rubbed, frayed and worn at extrems. 4to, together with, Bartlett (W.H.), The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland, 2 vols., n.d., c.1840, title page and half title with uncoloured eng. vignette to each vol., lacking engraved map, numerous b & w eng. plts. occ spotting throughout, a.e.g., non matching bindings, vol.1 gilt dec. morocco, rubbed and worn at extrems., vol.2 orig. half morocco gilt, rubbed frayed and worn at extrems., 4to (3)

Lot 108

Africa. D’Anville (Jean Baptiste Bourguignon & De Vaugondy Robert Didier), A New Map of Africa wherin are particularly express’d the European forts and Settlements drawn from the most approved Geographers, pub. Robert Sayer, n.d., c.1760, engraved map with original outline colouring, with some later enhancement, decorative b & w cartouche, occ. repaired marginal closed tears, backed with archival tissue, 575 x 955mm (1)

Lot 110

America. Speed (John), America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde, both people and manner of buildings, pub. Thos. Bassett & Richard Chiswell, [1676], uncoloured engraved carte a figures map, ten costumed figures in the vertical margins, eight oval city prospects in the upper horizontal margin, central fold with closed tear, some fraying to margins causing very slight loss to image, 400 x 520mm, English text on verso, mounted (1)

Lot 112

Arctic. Quad (Matthias), Plus Arcticus sive Tract, Septentrionalis, Cologne, c.1600, uncoloured engraved map of the North Pole engraved by Johannes Bussemacher, some near contemp. ink marginalia, water staining to upper margin, slight text show through, 215 x 280mm, Latin text on verso. This is a reduced version of an earlier map by Gerard Mercator. It shows the North Pole divided into four islands by four fictional rivers which were supposed to drain the oceans of the world. Burden.P.D. The Mapping of North America, no.134. (1)

Lot 114

Asia. Danckerts (Cornelius), Accuratissima totius Asiae Tabula Recens Emendata, Amsterdam, [1680 or later], engraved map with original outline colouring, decorative cartouche, trimmed to neat line on vertical margins, slight browing, 495 x 580mm, together with, De Vaugondy (Robert), Archipel des Indes Orientales qui comprend les Isles de la Sonde Moluques et Philippines tiress des Cartes du Neptune Oriental, Paris, c.1750, engraved map with orig. outline colouring, decorative b & w cartouche, 490 x 610mm (2)

Lot 118

Austria. Mercator (Gerard), Stiria, c.1620, hand coloured engraved map, 310 x 420mm, French text on verso, together with, Saltzburg archiepiscopatus cum ducatu Carinthiae, [1613 or later], hand coloured engraved map, strapwork cartouche, slight overall toning, 345 x 480mm, French text on verso (2)

Lot 119

Bedfordshire. Speed (John), Bedford Shire and the Situation of Bedford described with the armes of thos Honorable Familyes that have borne ye titles of Dukes and Earls thereof. pub. George Humble, c.1627, hand coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Bedford, elaborate strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, vertical borders professionally re-margined, 385 x 510mm, English text on verso (1)

Lot 121

British Islands. Jansson (Jan), Holy Island, Garnsey, Farne [and] Jarsey, n.d., c.1680, engraved map with naive original colouring, four maps on one sheet (as published), each with a strapwork cartouche, compass rose and rhumb lines, some off setting and toning, 410 x 510mm (1)

Lot 122

British Isles. Munster (Sebastian), Engellandt mit dem anstossenden Reich Schottlandt so vor zeiten Albion und Britannia haben geheissen, Basle, [1588 or later], uncoloured wood block map orientated to the east, stained and toned, trimmed inside neat line on lower margin, German text and decorative wood cut panel on verso, 310 x 360mm. R.W.Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles 1477-1650, no.148. (1)

Lot 123

British Isles. Ruscelli (Girolamo), Tabula Europae I, Venice, [1561 or later], uncoloured engraved Ptolemaic map, trimmed along upper margin with slight loss to title, 185 x 260mm, Latin text on verso. Rodney.W.Shirley, Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1477-1650, no.67. (1)

Lot 125

British Isles. Munster (Sebastian), Engellandt mit dem anstossenden Reich Schottlandt so vor zeiten Albion und Britannia haben geheissen, Basle, [1588 or later], hand coloured woodcut map, orientated to the west, light overall toning, 310 x 360mm, German text on verso. R.W.Shirley, Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1477 - 1650, no. 148. (1)

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