Bromley, Kent. Kelly’s Bromley, Chislehurst and Bickley Directory for 1891-2, large folding map (detached), illustrated commercial ads., orig. red cloth, lettered in gilt, chipped with minor loss at head of spine, together with Kelly’s Bromley Directory (with which is amalgamated Strong’s Bromley Directory) Revised for 1906, large folding map (detached), b & w illusts. from photos, illustrated commercial ads., orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, rubbed and a little darkened on spine, plus Kelly’s Directory of Bromley, Bickley, Chislehurst, Orpington and District, 1925 & 1935, large folding map to each (detached), b & w illusts. from photos, illustrated commercial ads., both orig. printed wrappers, some minor wear to extremities, all 8vo (4)
We found 108737 price guide item(s) matching your search
There are 108737 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribe- List
- Grid
-
108737 item(s)/page
[Cromwell, Thomas]. Excursions in the County of Surrey, 1st ed., 1821, additional engraved title, folding engraved map and plan, 45 engraved plates (complete), one or two light spots, a.e.g., contemporary blue straight-grained morocco gilt, lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Excursions in the County of Sussex, 1822, additional engraved title, folding map (close trimmed shaving imprint), folding plan, 43 engraved plates, previous owner signature, a few spots, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, 8vo, with one other (3)
Easton (J., pub.). The Salisbury Guide, Giving an Account of the Antiquities of Old Sarum, and of the Subterraneous Passage lately discovered there: the Ancient and Present State of New Sarum, or Salisbury, a Copious Description of the Council House, and a correct List of the Corporation: The Cathedral, Stonehenge, and Seats of the Nobility and Gentry..., 19th ed., Salisbury, 1797, four eng. plts. (3 folding) and one single-page eng. strip map, advertisement leaf at rear lined to verso, lacks initial leaf (advertisement leaf), few leaves strengthened to corners, modern brown morocco, 12mo (1)
Greenwood (C.). An Epitome of County History, wherein the most Remarkable Objects, Persons, and Events are Briefly treated of; the Seats, Residences, Etc..., vol.1 [all published], The County of Kent, 1838, hand-col. double-page eng. map, eighty-two litho. plts. on india paper (inc. frontis.), occ. scattered spotting, endpapers renewed, orig. cloth gilt, frayed to joints and extrems., 4to (1)
Grose (Francis). The Antiquities of England and Wales, A New Edition, 8 vols., 1787, eng. frontispieces & titles, eng. portrait to vol.I, folding eng. index map with orig. outline colouring, numerous eng. plts. & few folding plans, eng. maps with orig. hand colouring to text, armorial book plate of Alington family to front paste down or 1st. end paper, two vols. with armorial book plate of Charles Short, contemp. marbled calf with elaborate gilt. dec. spines with contrasting morocco labels, a little rubbed and bumped at extrems., 4to. A handsome set. (8)
Langford (John Alfred, Mackintosh, C.S. & Tildesley, J.C.). Staffordshire and Warwickshire, Past and Present, n.d., c.1870, title pages printed in red & black, twenty-eight uncoloured engraved views and portraits, two colour printed county maps, all with tissue guards, occ. spotting to prelims., a.e.g., contemp. dec. cloth gilt, spines faded, rubbed and worn, 4to, together with Baines (Thomas),Yorkshire, Past and Present: A History and a Description of the Three Ridings of the Great County of York, from the Earliest Ages to the Year 1873; with an Account of its Manufactures, Commerce and Civil and Mechanical Engineering, 4 vols., n.d., c.1875,twenty-seven uncoloured engraved views and portraits, one folding colour printed county map, occ. spotting throughout, a.e.g., contemp. dec. cloth gilt, spines faded, rubbed frayed and worn, 4to (8)
Chapin (James P.). The Birds of the Belgian Congo, 4 vols., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1932-39-53-54, num. b & w illusts. from photos, folding map, a few leaves sl. frayed or chipped at edges, vol. 1 bound in recent cloth with amateur labels to spines, vols. 2-4 bound in orig. printed wrappers (vol. 3 crudely repaired on spine with brown tape), 8vo. This work is not often found complete due to the fact that the individual volumes were published over a span of more than twenty years. Binding copy? (4)
Clancey (P.A.). The Birds of Natal and Zululand, 1st ed., 1964, col. and b & w illusts., folding map at rear, orig. cloth in sl. frayed d.j., large 8vo, together with Game Birds of Southern Africa, 2nd ed., 1967, col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in sl. frayed d.j., 4to, and A Handlist of the Birds of Southern Mocambique, 1st ed., pub. Lourenco Marques, 1971, col. and b & w illusts., orig. printed wrappers, a little soiled, 4to, plus Bannerman (David Armitage), The Birds of West and Equatorial Africa, 2 vols., 1st eds., 1953, num. col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in frayed and torn d.j., 8vo, and others related (approx. 60)
Hume (Allan O.). The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, 3 vols., 2nd ed., ed. Eugene William Oates, 1889-90, twelve woodburytype ports., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and marked, a little worn at extremities, 8vo, together with Baker (E.C. Stuart), The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma, 3 vols. (Birds), 2nd ed., London, Calcutta and Bombay, 1922-26, col. plts., b & w illusts. to text, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and faded, minor wear to extremities, 8vo, plus Vaurie (Charles), Tibet and its Birds, 1st ed., Witherby, three col. plts., double-page map, b & w illusts. from photos, t.e.g., orig. cloth in sl. frayed d.j., 8vo, and others (30)
Wolley (John & Newton, Alfred). Ootheca Wolleyana: an Illustrated Catalogue of the Collection of Birds’ Eggs, 4 parts in 2 vols., 1864-1907, separate title page to each part, photo. port. frontis. to volume one, 21 chromos. of eggs, 16 other litho. plates, one folding map, old water stain to contents of vol. 1, contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed, thick 8vo. Nissen 1014; Anker 541; Wood p. 633. (2)
Grieve (Symington). The Great Auk, Or Garefowl (Alca impennis, Linn.). Its History, Archaeology, and Remains, 1st ed., London & Edinburgh, 1885, frontis. of a stuffed speciment, two col. plts. of eggs, six other illusts., folding map at rear, orig. cloth with paper label to spine, rubbed and marked, some wear to extremities, 4to, together with Palmer (Ralph S., editor), Handbook of North American Birds, vols. 1-3 (Loons through Flamingos/Waterfowl, Parts 1 & 2), pub. Yale University Press, 1976, col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in sl. frayed d.j.s, 4to, plus Friedmann (Herbert), The Parasitic Cukoos of Africa, 1st ed., 1948, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, and other miscellaneous ornithology (3 shelves)
Napier (William John). A Treatise on Practical Store-Farming, as Applicable to the Mountainous Region of Etterick Forest, and the Pastoral District of Scotland in General, 1st ed., Edinburgh, printed for Waugh and Innes, 1822, half-title present, three eng. plts., two folding (map with small paper repair on verso), plts. foxed, marbled endpapers and edges, armorial booplate of Lord Napier, contemp. calf gilt, sl. rubbed, 8vo sw (1)Amendment: Lacks the folding table
Somerville (John Lord). Facts and Observations Relative to Sheep, Wool, Ploughs, and Oxen: in which the Importance of Improving the Short-Wooled Breeds of Sheep, by a Mixture of the Merino Blood..., 3rd ed., 1809, half-title, eng. frontis. and nine eng. plts. (inc. 3 folding), few leaves with manuscript notes to margins, edges untrimmed, orig. boards with later spine, 8vo, together with Bakewell (Robert), Observations on the Influence of Soil and Climate upon Wool; from which is Deduced, a Certain and Easy Method of Improving the Quality of English Clothing Wools, and Preserving the Health of Sheep; with Hints for the Management of Sheep after Shearing..., 1808, 2pp. pubs. ads. at rear, ink marks to title and first leaf of preface, edges untrimmed, modern cloth, 8vo, plusDublin Society, Transactions of the Dublin Society, for the Year MDCCXCIX, vol. 1, part 1 only, pub. Dublin, 1800, 284pp., one folding eng. map and nine eng. plts., occ. minor spotting, contemp. half calf gilt, joints cracked and torn at head of spine, 8vo (includes `An Essay on the Practical History of Sheep in Spain, and of Spanish sheep in Saxony, Anhalt Dessau...,’ by George Stumpf) (3)
Africa. Ruscelli (Girolamo), Africa Nuova Tavola, [1561 or later], uncoloured engraved map of South Africa, three small rust holes along central fold, some marginal soiling, 190 x 260mm, Italian text on verso, together with, Bowen (Emanuel),A New and Accurate Map of the Southern Parts of Africa Containing Lower Guinea, Monoemugi, Zanguebar, the Empire of Monomotapa, Count’y of the Cafres &c. and the Isle of Madagascar, n.d. c.1760,hand coloured engraved map, elaborate cartouche, some spotting, 350 x 430mm, with Buache (Philippe),Carte de la Partie de L’Ocean vers L’Equateur entre les Cotes D’Afrique at D’Amerique....., Paris, 1737,engraved chart with original outline colouring, inset map of the Island of Fernand de Noronha, decorative cartouche, 495 x 650mm, with three other maps of Africa by Bonne and Levasseur, various sizes and condition (6)
America. De Vaugondy (Robert), Amerique Septentrionale dressee sur les relations les plus modernes des Voyageurs et Navigateurs et divisee suivant les differentes possessions des Europeens, 1750, engraved map with original outline colouring, elaborate uncoloured cartouche, occ. marginal closed tears, 495 x 620mm, together with Delisle (Guillaume),Carte D’Amerique, Dressee pour L’Instruction, 1790,hand coloured engraved map, decorative cartouche, inset map of the Bering Straits, slight spotting, central fold strenghthened on verso, 490 x 610mm (2)
![Balearic Islands. Blaeu (Joan), Insulae Balearides et Pytiusae, [1650 or later], hand coloured engraved map, slight restorati](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2787348/180_468x382.jpg)
British Isles. Speed (John), Britain as it was Devided in the tyme of the Englishe Saxons especially during the Heptarchy, pub. John Subury & George Humble, 1st ed., [1611], uncoloured engraved map, fourteen panels in the vertical margins depicting portraits and scenes of Saxon royalty, decorative cartouche and mileage scale, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, 385 x 510mm, English text on verso, mounted. A fine dark mpression. Shirley, Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, no. 317. (1)
British Isles. Ruscelli (Girolamo), Anglia et Hibernia Nova, Venice [1598], uncoloured engraved Ptolomaic map , graduated scale to margins, decorated with sea monsters and a sailing ship, 190 x 255mm, Italian text on verso, mounted. Shirley, Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, no. 217. (1)
Devon. Speed (John), Devonshire with Excester Described and the Armes of such Nobles as have borne the titles of them, sold by Thomas Bssett & Richard Chiswell, [c.1676], uncoloured engraved map, inset town plan of Exeter, elaborate strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, old fold, water stained at base of image, 390 x 515mm, English text on verso (1)
England & Wales. Seaton (Robert), This New Plan of England and Wales, with the Adjacent Countries, compiled by Surveyors employed in the Ordnance Department, is Respectfully Dedicated to the King by his most Obedient Servant & Geographer, [c.1830], lg. folding map with orig. hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, lg. vignette engraving of Windsor Castle, margins decorated with portraits of famous men from Great Britains historical past, edged in purple silk, 1200 x 960mm, contained in contemp. slip case, rubbed and worn, together with Philip (G. & Son, pub.),Perrier motor Map, [1906],colour printed map dissected and laid on linen in two sections, inset advertisement for Perrier mineral water, overall size approx. 1450 x 1900mm, contained in pubs. orig. red & green slip case, rubbed and soiled (2)
Europe. Wyld (James), Europe Describing all the Changes of Territory together with their Deviations in the Boundary Lines of its several Empires and States Agreed to and Confirmed by the Definitive Treaty of Paris, 1838, large engraved map with original outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen on two sheets, each sheet edged with green silk, calligraphic title, slight off setting, very occ. spotting, each sheet 1540 x 800mm, pubs. advertisements on verso, contained in contemp. slip case with printed label to upper board, rubbed and worn (1)
Gillray (James). The French Invasion; - or - John Bull bombarding the Bum-Boats, pub. H.Humphrey Nov. 5th 1793 but H.G.Bohn edition of 1849, uncoloured etching, slight overall toning, 350 x 250mm. A gloriously rude cartoon which depicts a stylised map of England and Wales complete with the face of King George III, defecating on France. The king’s faeces gradually evolve into warships which threaten the French coast. One of Gillray’s most vulgar cartoons which brilliantly captures the beligerent spirit of `John Bull’ in the face of the tyranny of France and Napolean. (1)
![Glamorgan & Monmouthshire. Drayton (Michael), South Wales, the Bristol Channel and North Somerset, [1612 or later], uncol](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2787348/210_468x382.jpg)
Glamorgan & Monmouthshire. Drayton (Michael), South Wales, the Bristol Channel and North Somerset, [1612 or later], uncoloured engraved map, numerous allegorical figures, 250 x 325mm, mounted, framed and glazed. Arguably the most attractive of all of Michael Drayton’s maps, and certainly the most charming with its depiction of a Welsh and English choral orchestra singing to each other across the River Severn. This musical theme gives it its colloquial title of `The Choirs map’. (1)
![* Gloucestershire. Drayton (Michael), Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, [1612 or later], uncoloured engraved map, numerous](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2787348/211_468x382.jpg)
* Gloucestershire. Drayton (Michael), Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, [1612 or later], uncoloured engraved map, numerous allegorical figures, old folds, 255 x 335mm, mounted, framed and glazed. The map has a charming and vigorous depiction of the Robert Dover games, or `Cotswold Olympics’ which are held annually just outside Chipping Campden on Dovers Hill. (1)
Gloucestershire. Bryant (Andrew), Map of the County of Gloucester from Actual Survey by A. Bryant in the years 1823 & 1824, large engraved map with original hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen on two sheets, calligraphic title, uncoloured vignette of Gloucester Cathedral, slight off setting and toning, overall size approx. 1880 x 1740mm, contained in contemp. dec. gilt calf solander box, rubbed (1)
* Holy land. Stoopendaal (Daniel), De Gelegentheyt Van’t Paradys en’t Landt Canaan Mitsgaders D’eerst bewoonde Landen der Patriarchen...., pub. Hendrick Keur & Marcus Doornic, Amsterdam, [1688 or later], hand coloured engraved map, four oval vignettes depicting scenes from the Old Testament with a larger engraving of Noah’s Ark, 350 x 460mm, mounted, framed and glazed. A decorative Dutch `Bible map’ showing numerous biblical sites including the wanderings of the children of Israel, the Garden of Eden and the Tower of Babel. (1)
Homann (Johann Baptiste). Comitatus Hannoniae in suas quasque Castellanias Balliviatus... [1695 or later], engraved map with original hand colouring, 485 x 580mm, mounted, together with Seutter (Georg Matthaus),Alsatia Landgraviatus .... [1730 or later],engraved map with original hand colouring, 580 x 505mm, with Homann (Johann Baptist, Heirs of),Ducatus Silesiae Tabula Geographica Prima, Inferiorem Eius Partem...., 1745,engraved map with original hand colouring, 425 x 575mm, mounted, together with another eight similar maps including examples by De Vaugondy, Blaeu, Ortelius and Sanson, various sizes and condition (11)
Indian Ocean. De La Rochette (Louis Stanislas D’Arcy), A Chart of the Indian Ocean Improved from the Chart of M. D’Apres de Mannevillette with the Addition of a part of the Pacific Ocean as well as the Original tracks of the Principal Discoverers, or other Navigators to India and China, pub. W.Faden, June 4th 1803, engraved map with original outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, two inset maps of the Anemo-Hydography of the Monsoons, 620 x 1160mm, pubs. printed label to verso (1)
Ireland. De Vaugondy (Gilles Robert), Royaume D’Irlande divise en ses quatre Provinces, et subdivise en Comtes, Paris, 1750, engraved map with orig. hand colouring, decorative cartouche, very slight staining just affecting image, occ. marginal closed tears, 495 x 545mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
Map Collector’s Circle. A broken run of eighty vols., nos. 1-7, 10-12, 15-32, 37-38, 40, 42-45, 47-48, 50, 53-54, 56-57, 59-62, 64-69, 72, 75, 77-87, 90-97, 99-101, 103, 106, 108 & 110, 1963-75, occ. b & w illusts. throughout, orig. pubs. printed wrappers. slight dust soiling, occ. rust marks to spines, 8vo (80)
![Moxon (Joseph). Paradise , or the Garden of Eden with the Countries circumjacent Inhabited by the Patriarchs, [1661], uncolou](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2787348/231_468x382.jpg)
Moxon (Joseph). Paradise , or the Garden of Eden with the Countries circumjacent Inhabited by the Patriarchs, [1661], uncoloured engraved map after N.Visscher, strap work cartouche, armorial crest and an engraved vignette of the expulsion of Adam and Eve, left vertical margin trimmed to plate mark, one closed tear affecting image, 320 x 470mm, together with A Map of all the Earth and how after the Flood it was Divided among the sons of Noah, [1671 or later],uncoloured engraved oval map of the world, California shown as an island twelve vignettes from the old testament surrounding map, right hand vertical margin trimmed to or on neat line, 320 x 455, with Jerusalem, [1671 or later],uncoloured engraved aerial city plan, title displayed in `ribbon cartouche’, table of explanation supported by an eagle, one armorial crest, 320 x 460mm, together with another seven uncoloured engraved `biblical’ and Holy Land maps by Lindenberg and Moxon, with nine engraved biblical scenes, various sizes and condition (19)
* Northamptonshire. Jansson (Jan), Comitatus Northantonensis vernacule Northampton Shire, [c.1650 or later], engraved map with original hand colouring, decorative cartouche and mileage scale, 390 x 510mm, central fold partially strengthened on verso, Dutch text on verso, framed and double glazed (1)
Ogilby (John). The Road from London to Portsmouth in com. Southhamp: Actually Surveyd & Delineated by John Ogilby Esq., [1675 or later], hand coloured engraved strip road map, toned overall, 330 x 440mm, together with Bowen (Emanuel),An Accurate Map of Cambridgeshire Divided into its Hundreds..., pub. J.Bowles, [1760 or later],engraved map with original outline colouring, engraved panorama of Ely, elaborate cartouche, slight water staining, 705 x 540mm, with three town plans by Thomas Moule each approx. 270 x 200mm (5)
![* Ortelius (Abraham). Tartariae Sive Magni Chamiregni typus, Antwerp, [1570 or later], hand coloured engraved map of North Ea](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2787348/235_468x382.jpg)
* Ortelius (Abraham). Tartariae Sive Magni Chamiregni typus, Antwerp, [1570 or later], hand coloured engraved map of North East Asia, the Northern Pacific, Japan and North West America, elaborate cartouche, 350 x 465mm, mounted, framed and glazed. Koeman. vol. 3, p.25, Burden. The Mapping of North America, no.41. Marcel van den Broecke, Ortelius Atlas Maps, no.163. (1)
Plancius (Petrus). Tabula Geographica in qua Paradisus nec non Regiones Urbes oppida et loca describuntur quorum in Genesi menio fit: Pet Planc, pub. Jan Evertss Cloppenburgh, Amsterdam, [c.1653], uncoloured engraved map of the Holy Land alongside a depiction of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, borders comprised of fifteen oval vignettes depicting various scenes from the book of Genesis, 290 x 490mm, Dutch text on verso, mounted. A very good dark impression of this scarce and highly decorative map. Originally published in a Dutch bible, the map shows paradise located just south of Babylon. (1)
Rose (F. W.). `Serio-Comic War Map for the Year 1877, lithographic map with original hand colouring, explanation and reference tables printed in German and English, some spotting but largely confined to margins, old folds where previously rolled, `Bacon’s Historical Map of Europe’ printed on verso, 440 x 610mm. Known as the `Octopus Map’, this socio-political map shows the sinister coils of Russia reaching out to envelope its neighbours in its tentacles. Scarce. (1)
Rose (F. W.). `England on Guard, A Serio-Comic Map for 1878’, pub. G.W.Bacon & Co., lithographic map with original hand colouring, slight spotting, old creases, one closed tear, 595 x 445mm. A belligerent British guardsman with his sabre half drawn defends the British standard which is firmly planted in the soil. A Russian makes an ineffectual attempt at chopping at the pole which supports the flag. Cannon balls cover the country and the caricaturist mocks the timidity of the aristocracy and the avarice of the industrialist Quakers. Scarce. (1)
Shirley (Rodney W.). The Mapping of the World, Early Printed World Maps, 1472-1700, pub. The Holland Press, 1983, col. and b&w illusts. of maps throughout, orig. cloth gilt, in d.j., folio, together with Tooley (R. V.), Collectors’ Guide to Maps of the African Continent and Southern Africa, pub. Carta Press, 1969, col. and b&w illusts. of maps., orig. cloth gilt, in d.j., slight tear to upper fold, small 4to, plus Ptolemy (Claudius), Geographia, Strassburg, 1513, pub. Amsterdam, 1966, b&w illusts. of maps, orig. cloth gilt, some fading to covers, folio, together with approx. sixty others, mostly map reference and travel related incl. Pitcairn: The Island, the People, and the Pastor..., by Rev. Thos. Boyles Murray, 1853, and nine Hakluyt Society vols. (approx. 60)
South America. Wyld (James), Colombia Prima or South America Drawn from the large Map on Eight sheets by Louis Stanislas D’Arcy Delarochette, 1838, engraved map with orig. outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, edged in green silk, calligraphic title, tables of civil divisions and population, cross section of the Andes showing altitudes, 1095 x 790mm, publishers advertisement to end papers, contained in orig. slip case with orig. printed label to upper board, together with Andriveau-Goujon (E.),Confereration Argentine et Chili, Paris, 1891,hand coloured lithographic map, sectionalised and laid on linen, pubs. label to verso, contained in orig. green marbled chemise and slip case, contrasting gilt calf label to spine, worn and rubbed, with Waterlow & Sons Ltd, (pubs.),Argentine Railways, 1904,folding litho. map, printed in colours, with `Argentine Great Western Railway’ printed on verso, 600 x 620mm, together with a general letter from the secretary of the `Argentine Great Western Railway Company’, loose (3)
Spain & Portugal. Ruscelli (Girolamo), Tabula Europae II, [1561 or later], uncoloured Ptolemaic map, trapezoidal border with engraved scale, decorated with sea monsters and a sailing ship, 190 x 260mm, Italian text on verso, together with, Allard (Hugo),Nova et accurata Tabula Hispaniae, 1662 or later,engraved map with original hand colouring, central fold strengthened and restored on verso, toned overall, 445 x 555mm (2)
Spain & Portugal Homann (Johann Baptist), Regnorum Hispaniae et Portugalliae Tabula generalis de L’Isliana.... n.d., [1720 or later], engraved map with original hand colouring, elaborate b & w cartouche and mileage scale, additional title in Spanish above image, slight marginal staining, one printers fold running through cartouche, 515 x 605mm, together with Schenk (Pieter),Europa Excultissima, n.d., [1695 or later],engraved map with original hand colouring, decorative b & w cartouche, green watercolour has cracked with resulting slight loss, trimmed to plate mark, 505 x 580mm, with Mercator (Gerard),Morea olim Peloponnesus, n.d. c.1620,uncoloured engraved map, three worm holes to image, some place names underlined in brown ink, 345 x 415mm, Latin text on verso, with Ortelius (Abraham),Frisia Occidentales, [1584],hand coloured engraved map, separation along central fold with slight loss, strengthened on verso, 370 x 500, Latin text on verso (4)
Spain. De Wit (Frederick), Novissima et Accuratissima Regnorum Hispaniae et Portugalliae Tabula Auctore, Amsterdam, 1705, hand coloured engraved map, elaborate cartouche, central fold restored on verso, 505 x 590mm, together with De L’Isle (Guillaume),L’Esapgne Dressee sur la Description qui en ete faite par Rodrigo Mendez Sylva..., pub. Amsterdam, J.Covens & C.Mortier, n.d., c.1730,hand coloured engraved map, elaborate cartouche, central fold restored on verso, 500 x 605mm, with Visscher (Nicholaes),Hispaniae et Portugalliae Regna, Amsterdam, [1683 or later],engraved map with original outline colouring, slight spotting and staining, central fold strengthened on verso, 470 x 580mm (3)
![Spain. Blaeu (Joan), Valentia Regnum; Contestani, Ptol. Edentani, Plin., [1650 or later], hand coloured engraved map, elabora](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2787348/248_468x382.jpg)
Spain. Blaeu (Joan), Valentia Regnum; Contestani, Ptol. Edentani, Plin., [1650 or later], hand coloured engraved map, elaborate cartouche, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, central fold strengthened on verso, 390 x 500, together with Arragonia Regnum Auctore Joanne Baptista Labanna, [1650 or later],hand coloured engraved map, elaborate cartouche, 420 x 525mm, with De Wit (Frederick),Accuratissima Principatus Cataloniae et Comitatuum Ruscinonis et Cerretaniae Descriptio, [1670 or later],hand coloured engraved map, elaborate cartouche and mileage scale, central fold strengthened on verso, 495 x 575mm, with another seven regional maps of Spain by J.Blaeu, various sizes and condition (10)
![Switzerland. Munster (Sebastian), Nouvelle Description du Pais de Souysse, [c.1560], hand coloured woodcut map, title above i](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2787348/249_468x382.jpg)
West Indies. Moll (Herman), A Map of the West-Indies or the Islands of America in the North Sea with ye adjacent Countries; explaining what belongs to Spain, England, France, Holland &c., n.d., c.1710, large engraved map with orig. outline colouring, inset panorama of Mexico City and five inset maps of St. Augustin, La Vera Cruz, Havana, The Bay of Porto Bella and Cartagena, old folds, some fungal staining, one fold frayed and cracked with slight loss, strengthened on verso, trimmed to neat line on vertical margins, 600 x 1020mm (1)
Wiltshire. Greenwood, (C. & I.), Map of the County of Wilts, from an Actual Survey, 1829, engraved map with original hand colouring, calligraphic title, inset vignette of Salisbury Cathedral, 570 x 690mm, together with Bowen (Emanuel),An Improved Map of Wilt Shire, Divided into its Hundreds, pub. T.Bowles, [1760 or later],engraved map with original outline colouring, uncoloured cartouche, trimmed to plate mark at upper margin, marginal repaired tears, central fold strengthened on verso. 525 x 685mm, with Cary (John),A New Map of Wiltshire, Divided into Hundreds Exhibiting its Roads, Rivers, Parks &c., 1811,engraved map with original hand colouring, 580 x 520mm, and Ogilby (John),The Road from the City of Salisbury com. Wilts. to Campden com. Gloc. [1675 or later],hand coloured engraved strip road map, slight loss at central fold with strengthening to verso, 350 x 460mm, together with another four similar maps (8)
![World. Moxon (Joseph), A Map of all the Earth and how after the Flood it was Divided among the Sons of Noah, [1671 or later],](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2787348/258_468x382.jpg)
World. Moxon (Joseph), A Map of all the Earth and how after the Flood it was Divided among the Sons of Noah, [1671 or later], hand coloured engraved map on an oval projection, California shown as an island, twelve decorative biblical vignettes, 320 x 450mm, mounted. A bible map dedicated to Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury. Shirley, The Mapping of the World, no. 457. (1)
World. Buache (Philippe), Carte de Lieux ou Les Differentes Longuers du Pendule a Secondes ont ete Observees...., 1740, engraved map with original hand colouring, world map on a Mercator projection and two Polar maps on one sheet, each map approx. 250 x 385mm, together with, De L’Isle (Joseph Nicolas),Carte Generale des Decouvertes de L’Amiral Fonte, Paris, 1762,uncoloured engraved chart of the Bering straits, 315 x 395mm, with Geelkercken (Nicolaes van),Orbis Terrarum Descriptio Duobis Planis Hemisphaeriis Comprehesa, pub. J.Jansson 1632,uncoloured engraved hemispheral map, trimmed inside vertical margins with loss, several closed tears, map strengthened on verso and recto with archival tissue, 415 x 485mm, Shirley, Mapping of the World, no. 295, with one other similar map by Buache (4)
![* World. Ruscelli (Girolamo), Orbis Descriptio, Venice [1561 or later], uncoloured engraved hemispheral map of the world, 190](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2787348/260_468x382.jpg)
* World. Ruscelli (Girolamo), Orbis Descriptio, Venice [1561 or later], uncoloured engraved hemispheral map of the world, 190 x 260mm, mounted, framed and glazed. This is the first hemispheral map of the world to appear in an atlas. Based on Gastaldi’s map it show a land mass joining Asia to North America, and there is no southern continent (although this was amended on later editions). Shirley. The Mapping of the World, no. 110. (1)
* Gordon (Charles George, 1833-1885). A long autograph letter signed `C.E. Gordon’, Khartoum, 27th November 1878, to Sir Samuel [Baker], `Thank you for your kind letter, 16 Oct. How well you write, I fear you have difficulty in reading my scrawls’, the letter continuing in a difficult hand, `Although I have made my apologies to you for my rudeness years ago, I think you will not think me breaking(?) impudence, if I mention what happened, at the same time, as I saw the McM[illan] advertisement. They were [?] the church Miss. Nyanza Expedition, and I have been writing to Grant, saying that Utesa was a Negro &c. &c. & that he & the troops might come into collision... `, continuing to give an account of why he had been cross with Baker and apologising once more then moving on to two numbered sections `Cairo Affairs’ and `Slave Trade’, the latter beginning, `Wylde tells me that our slaves have come to Jeddah & that the people are in despair. You must know I advised the seizure of III Dhows belonging to the Turks of Jeddah, who came over with water & food, evidently for slaves. We annexed the Dhows & sent the crews to Jeddah, this has stopped these people ...’, continuing which much detail about the slave trade and politics of it plus some account of his own actions and affairs, ending `As for trade with Blacks or any hope of getting any more ivory, it is over, each [?] having cost us 80 pounds & nothing, but misery. I hope you will come out. As for [?] tribunals, it has been this year, a terrible unhealthy year & I fear if any Europeans could stand the climate, you know the demands for high salaries & compensation which these men would bring forward (I think justly), and it makes me quail to think of the bother & expenses’, sending regards to Lord and Lady Baker and their nephew and finishing with postscript hoping he can ask Lieutenant Watson, R.E., to send Baker a copy of the Equatorial map, 15 pp. on four numbered bifoliums, a few spots and small marginal splits, final leaf sl. browned and worn on centrefold, 4to, together with Baker (Samuel), `The Albert N’yanza, Great Basin of the Nile’ [contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, vol. 10, no. 1, 14th December 1865, Baker’s first printed account of the discovery of the Albert Nyanza, folding map and 29 pp., orig. printed blue wrappers, a little soiling and wear to spine ends, slim 8vo (2)
* Nicholson (William, 1872-1949). Autograph letter signed `William Nicholson’, Sutton Veny, Wiltshire, 15th December 1925, to Phillis, thanking her for her letter, `I am sure your duties as night Nurse are hard enough without having to write letters of thanks but I am grateful just the same’ telling her that if she is in Southampton she might care to look in at a shop he has found that sells `clothes and things for sailor men and in the window you will see amongst other curious things some yellow gloves like this priced I think 3/6 a pair can you without worry try and send me two pairsÓ, hoping to see her at new year and saying that he is enclosing some money should she manage to get the gloves, written in red ink with a sketch map of the shop’s location at the foot of page one and a small picture of the gloves on page 2 inserted into the text with yellow and grey colouring, a little creased and soiled, 2 pp., 4to (1)
Mela (Pomponius). De Orbis Situ Libri Tres, Accuratis Sime Emendati..., Basel, 1522, titles within decorative woodcut border, second title part coloured, woodcut initials, lacking map as usual, Bb with small marginal repair, Ff6 with small strip torn away from inner margin, contemporary ownership inscription to first title (small marginal insect damage), occasional underlining and annotation, a few spots, near contemporary calf, insect damage at foot of spine, a little rubbed and stained, folio. Adams 1056. (1)
Stevenson (Robert Louis). Treasure Island, 1st ed., pub. Cassell, 1883, half title, three-colour map frontispiece, 8pp. publisher’s list coded 5R-1083, occasional light soiling and corner creases, small marginal burnhole, previous owner inscription to front endpaper, rear hinge weakening, original brown/green cloth, rubbed with a few stains, slight lean, 8vo. Prideaux 11. With the issue points: ÒDead man’s chestÓ not capitalised on pp. 2 and 7; no ÒaÓ in line 6 on p. 63; no ÒperiodÓ after ÒopportunityÓ in line 20, p. 178; ÒworseÓ for ÒworstÓ in line 3, p. 197. (1)
Kircher (Athanasius). Mundus Subterraneus, in XII Libros Digestus... 2 parts in one, 1st ed., pub. Jansson & Weyerstraet, Amsterdam, 1665, two additional engraved titles, engraved portrait of Pope Alexander VII (without the portrait of the author), thirteen engraved plates, two smaller plates, six engraved maps, folding tables, numerous illustrations, scattered minor spots, reference label to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, manuscript title label to spine, lacking three ties, light soiling, folio. Kircher’s influential survey of subterranean world, the first serious attempt to describe the geological and geographical makeup of the earth. The world map is one of the earliest to depict the movement of ocean currents with any degree of accuracy. Fergusson I, p.467; Sabin 37967. (1)
Haggard (H. Rider). Allan’s Wife and Other Tales, 1st ed., 1889, 32 pp. pubs. cat. at rear (dated September 1889), minor spotting or soiling, old ink price to half title, contemp. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and soiled, together with Black Heart and White Heart and Other Stories, 1st ed., 1900, first issue with Ò18Ó misprinted for Ò16Ó in the list of illustrations on page xi, occn. spotting and soiling, orig. cloth gilt, sl. rubbed and marked, spine cocked, plus King Solomon’s Mines, 34th thousand, 1886, folding colour map frontis. (two closed tears), pubs. ads. at rear, orig. dec. cloth gilt, somewhat rubbed and soiled, spine faded and frayed at ends, plus other Haggard titles including five MacDonald reprints in d.j.s., all 8vo (14)
Loading...-
108737 item(s)/page