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World. Jannot (J. B.), Le Tour du Monde en 120 Images Grand Concours du Chocolat Menier, Paris, 1956, colour lithographic map, three inset maps of Israel, Tibet and the Belgium Congo, old folds, very slight wear where folds cross, 720 x 1055 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:A highly decorative map of the world by Chocolat Menier. A red line of travel connects each place name on the map and the seas are coloured by their distance from the equator. Underneath the map is an area to fix 120 ‘tickets’ collected from Menier chocolate products, with three that give clues to ‘Enigmas’ that had to be solved. When completed this part of the map was cut away and sent to Chocolat Menier for a prize. With this example, none of the 'tickets' have been collected.

Gilbert (Charles Sandoe). An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall: To which is added, a complete heraldry of the same, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Plymouth-Dock: J. Congdon, 1817-20, engraved frontispieces and additional titles, engraved dedication, double-page map, 48 engraved plates, including aquatints and wood-engravings, 25 pages of armorials (close-trimmed), additional plates noted at pp. 720, 741, 850 & 864 in volume 2 according to a note tipped-in at front of volume 1, occasional light offsetting, contemporary half calf, rebacked with original spines relaid, a little rubbed and scuffed, 4to, together with Gilbert (Davies). The Parochial History of Cornwall, founded on the manuscript histories of Mr. Hals and Mr. Tonkin: with additions and various appendices, 4 volumes, 1st edition, London: J.R. Nichols and Son, 1838, half titles, some light spotting and small marginal stains, top edge red, later half calf, spines with red and black labels, a little rubbed at spine ends, 8voQTY: (6)

* Japanese Scroll. Portrait of a woman with a dog, early 20th century, colour printed portrait, 960 x 595 mm, mounted on a paper scroll and edged with blue silk, secured on a wooden roller and a wooden batten with a hanging cord, with another portrait similar of a Japanese diety 1140 x 880 mm and another late 20th-century portrait of a mounted Samurai warrior, mounted on a paper scroll faced with blue silk, 1275 x 645 mm, secured on a wooden roller and a wooden batten with a hanging cord, with another four scrolls similar, all of natural history subjects, various sizes, good condition, plus Souvenir Handkerchief. Nippon Times. Unconditional Surrender by Japs completed at 20- Minute Ceremony, The End of the Long Road Back, September 2nd 1945, map of Japan on silk and printed in green, appears to be laid on later card, 415 x 425 mm, framed and glazedQTY: (8)

Illustrated London News. 91 volumes, an unbroken run, 1842 - 87, numerous illustrations throughout, including double page, folding panoramas and chromolithographs, a few panoramas torn with long closed tears, uniformly bound in contemporary cloth gilt (with the crest of the Athenaeum Club to the spines), folioQTY: (91)NOTE:An unusually near complete run, retaining many of the city panoramas and chromolithograph plates, including Panorama of the Thames (1844), Paris (1848), Edinburgh (1868), Rome (1850), The Great Exhibition (1851), The British Fleet (1853), Map of the Environs of London (1855), Niagara Falls (1860), Plymouth (1872) and New York (1876). It appears to lack the panoramas of Dublin and London.

* Metamorphic Print Stand. Stained wood and brass mechanical print/map stand, circa 1860, stained wood and brass print stand on ceramic casters, when upright and folded, height 1000mm, depth 800 mm, the stand folds flat to create a slatted table, when flat, height 700 mm width 1230 mm depth 800 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:The stand is stamped 'Patented F. C. McLaughlan'.

Petrarca (Francesco). Il Petrarca con l'espositione d'Alessandro Vellutello di novo ristampato con le figure a i triomphi, et con piucose utili in varii loughi agguinte, Venice: Gabriel Giolito, 1544, woodcut title, woodcut initials and illustrations to text, full-page engraved map of Vaucluse, armorial bookplate of Marie-Elise Mann and bookplate of Nicholas Mann to front pastedown, ownership inscription of Charlotte Maria to A3, lacking S8 and T1 (supplied in manuscript facsimile), C6 & 7 heavily stained (C6 lacking large portion of leaf), Z7 with paper repair to lower margin (not affecting text), obtrusive early notations to a few leaves, front hinge split, near-contemporary vellum, title in manuscript to backstrip, ownership inscription of Charlotte Maria to front board, rubbed, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Adams 809.

Fuller (Thomas). The Historie of the Holy Warre, 2nd edition, Cambridge: R. Daniel for Thomas Buck, 1640, additional engraved title (shaved at head with some loss), folding engraved map, occasional pale water stains, manuscript annotations at front, bookplates of Rev. John Holmes, Gawdy Hall & John Sparrow, later half calf, some wear at corners, folio, together with Thomas Fuller's The Holy State, 1st edition, 1642 (lacking printed title and 3 engraved plates, leaves towards end insect-predated), folioQTY: (2)NOTE:STC 11465 (Fuller's Holy Warre).

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New, newly translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesties special command. With most profitable annotations upon all the hard places..., [Amsterdam]: 1683, additional hand-coloured engraved general title (detached and torn to margins, ink stamp to verso), letterpress general and New Testament titles (general title detached), 4 hand-coloured folding maps by Joseph Moxon published by Nicolaus Vischer and folding hand-coloured engraved plan of Jerusalem, verso of each map and plan repaired to folds and edges where torn and also with old library stamps to verso of each, first leaf of Genesis detached, bound with at rear The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others, London: Company of Stationers, 1679, occasional ink stamps, browning, marks, some closed tears and few repairs throughout volume, early ownership signature John Morton to front free endpaper, library labels to front endpaper (endpapers frayed and worn), contemporary calf over wooden boards, brass corner pieces and lacking clasps, old reback, worn, folio (38.2 x 24 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow & Moule 616; Herbert 782; Wing B2330.King James' version, with Geneva notes. Place and printer's name not given. Probably by, or for, Swart in Amsterdam. No Apocrypha. Herbert notes that the BM copy has the Apocrypha present.

Mead (Richard). A Mechanical Account of Poisons in Several Essays, 1st edition, London: Printed by J.R. for Ralph South, 1702, early signature E. Adey to title, some toning and occasional light spotting, 19th-century bookplate of Samuel Holdsworth to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, joints split and upper board loosening, extremities worn, 8vo, together with:Teresa (of Avila, Saint), Vida da seraphica madre Santa Teresa de Jesus..., Lisbon: Antonio Vicente da Silva, 1761, engraved illustration laid-down on front free endpaper, contemporary limp vellum, with leather ties, 4to,Chambaud (Lewis), A Grammar of the French Tonge, with a prefatory discourse..., 6th edition, revised and corrected, London: C. Bathurst, W. Strahan [& others], 1775, contemporary calf, spine without title label, rubbed, 8vo,Vyse (Charles), The New London Spelling-Book; or, the Young Gentlemen and Ladies' Guide to the English Tongue..., new edition, with alterations, improvements, and additions, London: Published by all the booksellers, and R. & W. Dean, Manchester, 1807, wood engraved portrait frontispiece, front free endpaper inscribed 'Miss Lough's Book April 9th 1809 Bainton', contemporary sheep, lacking spine, upper board loose, worn, 8vo,Bertrand de Moleville (Antoine-Francois), Annals of the French Revolution; or, a chronological account of its principal events, with a variety of anecdotes and characters ... translated by R.C. Dallas, 4 volumes, London: Printed by S. Low, 1800, contemporary diced calf, joints split, lacking spine labels, worn, 8vo,Clarke (Samuel), Homeri Ilias Graece et Latine, new edition, 2 volumes, London: J. Nunn, Baldwin, Cradock & Joy [& others], 1825, folding engraved map frontispiece to each with some offsetting to titles, armorial bookplate of Thomas Fletcher Twemlow to upper pastedowns, contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spines with contrasting labels, 8vo, plus other 17th-19th century antiquarian volumes, including grammars etc., some odd volumes, and two 18th century vellum documentsQTY: (34)

Rutherford (William). A View of Antient History; including the progress of literature and the fine arts, 2 volumes, London: Printed for the author, 1788-91, engraved folding map frontispieces, armorial bookplates of Sir William Young to front pastedowns, occasional spotting, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, morocco title and volume labels, rubbed, 8vo, together with:Strickland (Agnes). Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman conquest, new edition, 6 volumes, London: George Bell & Sons, 1889-96, portrait frontispieces to each, armorial bookplate of Sir Fresham Lever to front pastedowns, occasional light spotting, contemporary black half calf gilt over red marbled boards, red morocco title labels, rubbed, 8vo, withThornbury (Walter). Old and New London, a narrative of its history, its people, and its places, 6 volumes in 3, London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, circa 1875, frontispieces, black and white illustrations throughout, contemporary green half morocco gilt, all edges gilt, 4toQTY: (11)

Fischer von Erlach (Johann Bernhard). Entwurff Einer Historischen Architectur, in Abbildung unterfsciedener beruhmten Gebaude, des Alterthums und fremder Volcker..., 2nd edition, Leipzig, 1725, engraved title, engraved dedication, 5 engraved part titles, double-page map and 85 double-page and folding copper-engraved plates (complete), folding text in French and German, some light spotting and toning, hinges reinforced, contemporary speckled calf gilt, spine rubbed, some edge wear, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Fowler 121 (for the first edition of 1721); Millard 31."This is an interesting work by the great Viennese baroque architect. The first three books show the approach to archaeology that is characteristic of the time, the fourth book treats of the author's own work and is particularly interesting, while the vases shown in the fifth book are all imbued with the baroque feeling, whether antique or modern." (Fowler).

Bayardi (Ottavio Antonio, editor). The Antiquities of Herculaneum; Translated from the Italian, by Thomas Martyn and John Lettice, Vol. I, Part I. Containing the Pictures, [all published], London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, for the translators, 1773, [A]4-[B]2, b-k4, l1, B-Z4, Aa-Hh4 (Hh4 a blank), xi, [1], lxxiii, [1], 236, [2] pp., 50 fine engraved plates, numbered in roman numerals, including two folding, bound without the single-page map frontispiece found in other copies, an attractive copy printed on heavy laid paper, some light offsetting (from plates to text only), wide margins, marbled endpapers, contemporary diced full calf, gilt-decorated spine with dark green morocco title label, rubbed and joints cracked, with a little wear to extreme head and foot of spine, 4to (31 x 25 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC T86930.A translation of the first volume of of Le antichita di Ercolano esposte edited by Ottavio Antonio Bayardi, published by the Reale Accademia Ercolanese di Archeologia in Naples in 1757, thus providing the English public with a first view of the remarkable discoveries at Herculaneum, as well as a source of inspiration to neoclassical interior design.

Hardy (Thomas). The Woodlanders, 1st one volume edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1887, half title, all edges gilt, modern green morocco gilt by Bayntun Riviere, 8vo, together with Waugh (Evelyn). Black Mischief, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1932, half title, map frontispiece, top edge gilt, modern half morocco by Bayntun Riviere, slight bowing to covers, 8vo QTY: (2)

Extraordinary Editions, publisher. The Waterloo Commemorative Anthology, limited edition, 2015, numerous colour plates, illustrations & maps, all edges gilt, original embroidered full calf, plus map volume containing 4 folding maps, original full calf, all presented in a hand crafted, wooden writing slope, designed to replicate the traditional travelling desk that an officer would have taken on the campaign, folio, limited to 1815 copies, this copy numbered E22QTY: (1)

De Bry (Theodore). Brevis Narratio eorum quae in florida Americae provi[n]cia Gallis acciderunt...quae est seconda pars Americae, 1st edition, Frankfurt: Theodor de Bry, 1591, engraved title, engraved section title, 33 engraved plates (out of 42, plates 1 & 7 present but lacking text), lacking engraved map and 2 text leaves, scattered spotting, some margins trimmed, some loss to lower & outer margins of a few plates, disbound, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Church 145. Sold not subject to return. Collected from two or more copies.

Testa (Carmel). The French In Malta 1798-1800, limited edition, Malta: Midsea Books Ltd, 1997, signed by the author to the limitation page, colour folding map and monochrome illustrations, faux leather in dust jacket, lightly rubbed to head and foot, small white mark to spine, 8vo, 754/1000, together with;Uythoven (Geert Van), The Secret Expedition, The Anglo- Russian Invasion Of Holland 1799, 1st edition, Warwick: Helion & Company, 2018, numerous monochrome illustrations, original printed boards, 8vo, plus,Lloyd (Clive L.), A History of Napoleonic and American Prisoners of War 1756-1816, 1st edition, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 2007, numerous colour and black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 4to, and other modern Napoleonic reference & related including publications by Parragon, Spellmount and Arms and Armour, all original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves )

Hutchings (W.W). London Town Past and Present, 1st edition, 2 volumes, London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1909, black and white frontispiece, black and white illustrations throughout, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, 20th-century blue half morocco gilt by Zaehendorf & Bumpus, rubbed, 4to, together with: Brayley (E.W). History of Surrey, 1st edition, 4 volumes, London: Virtue & Co [1880], lithographic frontispieces, vignettes to title, numerous lithographs, bookplate of Madeleine Midleton to front pastedown, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, spotting (heavier to preliminary leaves), contemporary brown half morocco gilt over marbled boards, backstrip worn, generally rubbed, 4to, plusRossetti (William Michael). The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 3 volumes, London: Reeves and Turner, [1890], frontispiece and additional illustrated title to each volume, lightly spotted and dust-soiled, gift inscription to front blank of volume 1, 20th-century blue half morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, slightly rubbed, 8vo, andLambert (Uvedale). Bletchingley: A Parish History together with some account of the family of De Clare, chiefly in the South of England, 2 volumes, London: Mitchell Hughes and Clarke, 1921, frontispieces, folding genealogy and map to volume 1, folding map to rear pocket of volume 2, armorial bookplates to front pastedown, inscription to front free endpaper of volume 1, lightly spotted, original red cloth, top edge gilt, boards stained, rubbed, 4to plus other 19th & 20th-century miscellaneous literature & reference, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)

Einstein (Albert). Mein Welt Bild, 1st edition, Amsterdam: Querido Verlag, 1934, some light spotting & toning, original wrappers, rear cover torn, front cover & spine slightly rubbed with minor loss to head & foot, 8vo, together with:Aldin (Cecil), Old Manor Houses, limited edition, London: William Heinemann, 1922, signed plus an original sketch by the author to the limitation page, 12 tipped in colour plates with tissue guards, numerous monochrome illustrations & vignettes, some very minor toning, top edge gilt, original gilt decorated quarter vellum, boards & spine lightly toned, large 4to, 25/380 copies, plusMontgomery (Archibald), The Story Of The Fourth Army in the Battles of the Hundred Days, August 8th to November 11th, 1918, 2 volumes (including the Map volume), London; Hodder and Stoughton, 1919, numerous monochrome illustrations, 19 colour folding maps & 5 monochrome folding panoramic photographs [numbers 1, 4-7] to the Map volume, original uniform gilt decorated red cloth, spines slightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, and other early-to-mid 20th-Century literature & reference, including Encyclopaedia Of Superstitions, by E. & M. A. Radford, 1st edition, London: Rider and Company, 1947, signed to the front endpaper by 'Alison Uttley, Jan 17. 1949', original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, 8vo, mostly original cloth, some ex-library copies with associated marks, G, 8vo/4toQTY: (5 shelves)

Rosenthal (Earl E.). The Cathedral of Granada, A Study in The Spanish Renaissance, 1st edition, Princeton: University Press, 1961, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers torn with some loss, large 8vo, together with:Trachtenberg (Marvin). The Campanile of Florence Cathedral "Giotto's Tower", 1st edition, New York: New York University Press, 1971, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, plusBlunt (Anthony), Philibert De L'Orme, 1st edition, London: Zwemmer, 1958, monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed, 8vo, and Pevsner (Nikolaus), Studies in Art, Architecture and Design, Volume 1, From Mannerism to Romanticism, 1st edition, London: Thames and Hudson, 1968, monochrome illustrations, ex-library copy with associated marks, original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, spine lightly faded, large 4to, and other architecture reference & related, including H.M.S.O, publisher, An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City Of Cambridge, 2 volumes plus map volume, 1959, original cloth in dust jackets, 4to, The London Town Garden 1740-1840, by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001, large 4to, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/4toQTY: (6 shelves )

Amazonia. Parcar (Petro), Maragnony sive Amazonum Fluminis Terrarum in Orbe Maximi quo ad Hispanicae Potestai subest Cursus cum Fluviis et Regionibus finitimis Utilitati Publicae probatissimis e Documentis accuratus novissime descriptus a quodam pereas provincias olim S.I. Missinario delineatus a Petro Parcar, Nuremberg, 1785, uncoloured map engraved by J. Kellner of Ecuador, Peru, northern Bolivia and the Brazilian Amazon State, old folds, some offsetting, 485 x 565 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:A rare Jesuit map of the Upper Amazon. The map was created to illustrate the journal of Franz Xavier Veigl, an Austrian Jesuit missionary who served in the region from 1753 to 1777. The map is centred on the Upper Amazon and Ucayali Rivers and extends south to the Lima area and southeast to Exaltacion in Bolivia and shows the missions and settlements and the general geographical knowledge known to the Jesuits at the time of their expulsion from the region in 1767. This is the second state of the map (with the spelling of Maragnonii changed from Maragnony, and the addition of some place names) and was published in Franz Veigl's 'Reisen einiger Missionarien der Gesellschaft Jesu in America. Aus ihren eigenen Aussagen herausgegeben von Christoph Gottlieb von Murr. Mit einer Landkarte und Kupfern'.WorldCat lists three copies: The British Library, Harvard University and Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

America. Forlani (Paulo), Il Disegno del discoperto della nova Franza, il quale s'e havuto ultimamente dalla novissima navigatione de' Franzesi in quel Luogo: Nel quale si vedono tutti l'Isole, Porti, Capi et luoghi fra terra che in quella sono, Venice: Bolognini Zaltieri, 1566, uncoloured engraved map, strapwork cartouche, margins of 10 mm with extended margins displaying 16th century watermarks including a star and a crossbow (similar to Briquet 749 & 750), map size 280 x 395 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:Burden, Mapping of North America, 33. The first published map to show the whole of America and to display it as a separate continent, and the first to show the Straits of Anian (The Bering Straits) between Russia and America. This very rare and important map was published and engraved by Paolo Forlani. At the same time, he also published La Descrittione di tutto il Peru, a map which completed the coverage of the American continent. Formerly attributed to Bolognino Zaltieri, it was David Woodward's recent study of the works of Paolo Forlani that brought this error to light. Zaltieri is now known to have purchased some copperplates from Forlani sometime around late 1565 or early 1566 and he then proceeded to place his own imprint beneath the title, thereby generating the misattribution.

Asia & China. Sanson (Nicolas), La Chine Royaume, Paris, circa 1680, hand-coloured engraved map, 415 x 540 mm, together with Kitchin (Thomas). Map of the European Settlements in the East Indies and on the Eastern Coast of Africa including part of Europe, circa 1776, hand-coloured engraved map, inset map of Southern India, old folds, 325 x 460 mm, with Tirion (Isaac & Albrizzi Giambatista). Nuova Carta dell Asia..., circa 1740, hand-coloured engraved map, 290 x 355 mm, plus Valentyn (Francois). Kaart der Zuyd-Wester Eylanden van Banda. J. van Braam et G.O. Linden execud cum Privel. Amsterdam, circa 1726, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, old folds, 345 x 475 mm, and Wells (Edward). A New Map of Present Asia..., circa 1700, hand-coloured engraved map, 365 x 500 mm, with another five maps similar, including examples by or after Barron, Mentelle, Stackhouse, Commelin and Malte-Brun, various sizes, good condition QTY: (10)

Australia. Arrowsmith (J.), Sketch of the Coast from Darling Harbour to Elizabeth Bay shewing the Grants to Mr McLeary and six other Gentlemen, Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, James and Luke Hansard & Sons, 16th July 1832, uncoloured lithographic map of the Sydney harbour coastline, old folds, slight staining to the margins, but not affecting the printed image, 320 x 360 mmQTY: (1)

Australia. Arrowsmith (John), Map of the Southern Coast of Australia, from Encounter Bay to King George's Sound, Shewing Mr. Eyre's Track in the Years 1839, 1840 & 41 in his Attempt to Penetrate into the Interior, circa 1841, lithographic map with contemporary outline colouring, old folds, slight offsetting, trimmed to the neat line, 315 x 775 mmQTY: (1)

Australia. Arrowsmith (John), Map shewing the Special Surveys in South Australia to the Eastward of the Gulf St. Vincent from Lat. 33º to 35° 40' S from Documents in the Survey Office Adelaide, June 21st.1841, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, old folds, slight offsetting, 610 x 515 mmQTY: (1)

Australia. Arrowsmith (John), The Colony of Western Australia from Surveys of John Septimus Roe Esqr. Surveyor Genl. and other Official Documents in the Colonial Office and Admiralty, October 1st. 1842, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, slight mount staining, 540 x 620 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:John Septimus Roe (1797–1878) was the first Surveyor-General of Western Australia. He was a renowned explorer and a member of Western Australia's legislative and executive councils for nearly 40 years. In 1829, he took the position of Surveyor-General of Western Australia, attached to an intended new settlement at the Swan River. Roe accepted on the condition that the position was a civilian appointment, as he was keen to leave the Royal Navy. He proceeded to survey the region over the course of the next several years.

Australia. Arrowsmith (John), The District of Adelaide, South Australia; as Divided into Country Sections from the Trigonometrical Surveys of Colonel Light, late Survr. Genl. 1842, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, old folds, 620 x 500 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:A scarce cadastral plan of Adelaide and its surroundings which covers an area from Port Adelaide in the North down to Brighton in the south.

Australia. Arrowsmith (John), The Maritime Portion of South Australia from Captn. Flinders and from more recent surveys made by the Survr. Genl. of the Colonies, 1841, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, inset maps of Encounter Bay, Nepean Bay & Kingscote Harbour, The City of Adelaide and the Gulf of St. Vincent, old folds, very faint offsetting, 525 x 625 mmQTY: (1)

Australia. Arrowsmith (John, publisher), South Australia shewing the Division into Counties of the Settled Portions of the Province, from the Surveys of Capt. Frome, Rl. Engrs. 1843, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, old folds, slight offsetting, left-hand vertical margins trimmed to just within the neatline, 625 x 495 mmQTY: (1)

Australia. Ham (Thomas), Map of the Purchased and Measured Lands, Counties, Parishes &c. &c. of the Melbourne & Geelong Districts. Carefully Compiled from the Maps in the Survey Office Port Phillip..., Engraved and Published by Thomas Ham, Melbourne, sold by Edward Stamford, 1849, folding engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, calligraphic title, table of explanation, two inset topographical vignettes, geographical and statistical tables to the vertical margins, slight fraying to the lower right corner, 720 x 1060 mm, marbled endpapers, contemporary cloth boards with publishers label to the upper cover, slight bumping and wear, size when folded 200 x 125 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:An extremely rare and important map showing how Melbourne and Geelong districts were divided and sold to settlers in the middle of the 19th century. WorldCat lists only four institutional copies, all in Australia. We can find no records of this map appearing at auction. The map shows southern Victoria with relief shown by hachures. It includes a list of sections, purchasers and acreage in each county, special surveys and other cadastral information.

Lizars (W. H., publisher). Lizars' Edinburgh Geographical General Atlas: Containing Maps of Every Empire, State and Kingdom, with a Tabular View of the Heights of the Great Mountain Chains....., Edinburgh, circa 1840, printed title and index, 68 engraved map sheets (complete as list) with contemporary outline colouring, an uncoloured table of mountain chains, occasional offsetting and slight spotting, index bound at rear, hinges weak and cracked, later endpapers, early 20th century half calf, retaining the morocco gilt title label to spine, rubbed at extremities, folioQTY: (1)

Australia. Panoramic View of Sydney Harbour from the North Shore, circa 1900, panoramic photolithograph of Sydney looking towards Circular Quay, inset key plate, slight overall toning, old folds, two folds strengthened on verso, 220 x 940 mm, together with Johnson and Ward (publishers). Johnson's Australia [1866], engraved map with contemporary hand-colouring, waterstained in the margins, just affecting the image, 340 x 400 mm, English text on verso, with Bonne (Rigobert). Nlle. Galles Méridle. ou Cote Orientale de la Nouvelle Hollande..., Paris, circa 1788, uncoloured engraved map, Inset maps of the Northern extension of the Queensland east coast, the Southeast Tasmanian coast, Botany Bay and the mouth of the Endeavour River, slight spotting and marginal creasing, 355 x 245 mm, plus Druck u. Verlag (publishers). Neu Süd-Wales, circa 1870, lithographic map with contemporary outline colouring, inset map of Sydney, slight spotting and water staining, 420 x 335 mmQTY: (4)

Australia. Stirling (James, Surveyor), Chart of the Swan River from a Survey by Captn. James Sterling R. N. 1827, ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, James & Luke Hansard & Sons, 13th May 1829, folding lithographic map by James Basire with contemporary hand-colouring, map size 285 x 635 mm, bound with 'Copies of the Correspondence of the Colonial Department with certain Gentlemen proposing to form a Settlement in the neighbourhood of the Swan River in Western Australia', comprising of 12 pages of correspondence, near contemporary marbled paper wrappers, overall size 340 x 205 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:One of the first published charts of the survey of what would be the Swan River Colony, now Perth in Western Australia. It extends as far as Cape Naturaliste in the south, to about 200 miles north of Rottnest Island. The majority of the land is marked in green as "intended for Settlers and Public purposes", but land adjoining the river is marked in yellow and is "to be granted to Mr T. Peel, on condition of his landing 400 Persons before the 1st of November, 1829", along with two parcels of land marked in red to be granted to Stirling (including the Ile Buache which he had renamed Garden Island).

Blaeu (Johannes). Cantium vernacule Kent, Amsterdam, circa 1645, engraved map with contemporary hand-colouring, large decorative cartouche and mileage scale, large margins, 385 x 530 mm, Latin text on verso, together with Middle-Sexia, Amsterdam circa 1672, engraved map with contemporary hand-colouring, large decorative cartouche and mileage scale, large margins, slight text show through and slight overall toning, some fraying to the lower corners but not affecting the printed image, 390 x 405 mm, Spanish text on verso, with Ducatus Eboracensis pars Orientalis, The East Riding of Yorkeshire, Amsterdam, circa 1646, engraved map with contemporary hand-colouring, large margins, 385 x 510 mm, Dutch text on verso, plus Comitatus Nottinghamiensis; Nottingham Shire, Amsterdam, circa 1646, engraved map with contemporary hand-colouring, large decorative cartouche and mileage scale, 385 x 500 mm, French text on verso, and Leicestrensis comitatus Leicester Shire, Amsterdam, circa 1646, engraved map with contemporary hand-colouring, decorative cartouche and mileage scale, very slight spotting to the margins, 385 x 500 mm, French text on verso, with Rutlandia comitatus Rutland Shire, Amsterdam, circa 1646, engraved map with contemporary hand-colouring, large decorative cartouche and mileage scale, 380 x 500 mm, French text on verso, plus Ogilby (John). The Road from London to Chichester in com. Sussex, 1675 or later, uncoloured engraved strip road map, slight dust soiling, 325 x 450 mm, mountedQTY: (7)

Boston. Gentlemans' Magazine (publisher). A New and Correct Plan of the Town of Boston, 1775, uncoloured engraved map, old folds, some offsetting, 270 x 195 mm, together with A Plan of the Town and Chart of the Harbour of Boston Exhibiting a View of the Islands Castle Forts and Entrances into said Harbour, Feby. 1st. 1775, uncoloured engraved map, old folds, some offsetting, two folds partially strengthened on verso, 270 x 330 mm, with A Map of 100 Miles round Boston [1775], uncoloured engraved map, old folds, some offsetting, some folds strengthened on verso, 235 x 245 mmQTY: (3)

Polar Regions. Map of the Polar Regions, Edinburgh: A. Constable and Co, 1822, engraved map by W.H. Lizars, some light spotting and offsetting, closed tear to inner fold, 420 x 410 mm, together with Scott (Robert Falcon). 'Farthest South', pamphlet advertising public lecture by Scott at The Dome, Brighton, circa 1905, 4pp., 3 black and white illustrations after photographs, map of the South Pole, two central folds, light spotted (mostly confined to margins), 8vo, plus Evans (Edward). Souvenir of Lecture "The British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913", Bristol: Geo, Gordon & Son, [1913], map of the Antarctic Regions to title, black and white illustrations after photographs throughout, original grey paper wrappers, black and white portrait of Scott mounted to front cover, 8voQTY: (3)

British Isles. Munster (Sebastian), Engellandt mit dem anstossenden Reich Schottlandt so vor zeiten Albion und Britannia haben geheissen, Basel: Sebastian Petri, [1588 or later], uncoloured woodblock map orientated to the west, slight toning to the central fold, 320 x 360 mm, German text on verso, together with Merian (Matthaus). Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae Tabulae. Die Britannischen Insulen, circa 1640, uncoloured engraved map, inset map of the Orkney Islands, 275 x 355 mm, with Saxton (Christopher & Kip W.). Dunelmensis Episcopatus qui comitatus est Palatinus olim pars Brigantum [1637], hand-coloured engraved map, strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, 285 x 345 mm, framed and glazed, plus Morden (Robert). The North Riding of Yorkshire [1695 or later], hand-coloured engraved map, trimmed to the printed margin, 355 x 410 mm, framed and glazedQTY: (4)

British Isles. De Lisle (Guillaume), Les Isles Britanniques ou sont le Royaumes d'Angleterre, tiré de Sped celuy d'Ecosse tiré de Th. Pont et celuy d'Irlande tiré de Petti..., J. Covens & C. Mortier, Amsterdam, circa 1760, hand-coloured engraved map, large decorative cartouche and mileage scale, 480 x 580 mm, together with Homann (Johann Baptist, heirs of). Regnorum Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae Mappa Geographica..., Nuremberg, 1749, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring and later enhancement, additional title in English above the map, inset map of the Shetland Islands, slight dust soiling, central fold strengthened on verso, 490 x 555 mmQTY: (2)

British Isles. Hollar (Wenceslaus), Untitled map of the British Isles, [1643 or later], uncoloured etched map surrounded by sixteen vignettes with descriptive verse (if somewhat cryptic) below the image,QTY: (1)NOTE:Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, 529. A scarce allegorical map which offers a satirical political commentary on the Thirty Years' War and the English Civil War.

British Isles. Mercator (Gerard & Hondius Henricus), Anglia, Scotia et Hibernia, [1595 or later], uncoloured engraved map, large margins, some creasing parallel to the central fold, very slight staining, slight fraying to the margins but not affecting the printed image, 330 x 410 mm, Latin text on verso, together with Anglia Regnum [1595 or later], uncoloured engraved map, large strapwork cartouche, slight staining, 355 x 465 mm, Latin text on versoQTY: (2)NOTE:Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles 1477 - 1650, 180 & 181.

British Isles. Ortelius (Abraham), Angliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae sive Britannicar: Insularum Descriptio [1592], hand-coloured engraved map orientated to the east, large strapwork cartouche and panel of descriptive text, slight creasing, central fold strengthened on verso, 345 x 495 mm, Latin text on versoQTY: (1)NOTE:Van den Broecke, Ortelius Atlas Maps, 16, Shirley, Early Printed Maps of the British Isles 1477 - 1650, 86.

British Isles. Waldseemuller (Martin), Tabula Moderna Hiber, Strasbourg, [1525], uncoloured woodblock map, title in a decorative scroll above the map, several repaired tears affecting the printed image, but professionally restored on verso, 320 x 410 mm, Latin text (with title Tabula Nova) set into decorative columns to versoQTY: (1)NOTE:Shirley, Early Printed Maps of the British Isles 1477 - 1650, 18.

British Isles. Waldseemüller (Martin), Tabula I Euro, Johannes Gruninger, Strasbourg, 1522, uncoloured woodblock on a trapezoidal projection, very slight staining to the central fold, 300 x 445 mm, Latin text on verso (with the title 'Principium Europae') contained within elaborate Renaissance woodcut panels attributed to Albrecht DürerQTY: (1)NOTE:Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, 17. A Ptolemaic map which has been re-drawn and reduced in size by about 25% -with some minor alterations to the lettering - of an earlier Waldseemüller map of 1513-20 (Shirley 10-13). The authorship of this map is sometimes attributed to Lorenz Fries.

California. Clavigero (Francesco Saverio), Carta Della California Suo Golfo E. Contracoste della Nuova Spagna, Venice, 1788, uncoloured map engraved by J. Zambelly, pediment and landscape cartouche, old folds, slight spotting to the margins. 370 x 300 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:Originally published in Clavigero's 'Storia Della California Opera postuma'. One of the primary source books for the history of Baja California, which describes the peninsula, its natural history, resources, Indian tribes, and colonies from the early explorations to the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767. The map is based upon the earlier 1757 map by Father Fernando Consag.

Comparison Chart. Smith (Charles), A Combined View of the Principal Mountains & Rivers in the World, Accompanied by a Table shewing their Relative Heights & Lengths, 1825, engraved and aquatinted comparison sheet with contemporary hand-colouring, engraved by W. R. Gardner, old folds, laid on linen, one small marginal repaired closed tear, 540 x 720 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:A rare separately published plate comparing the world's mountains and rivers in a pictorial fashion on one sheet. An illustrative conceit only preceded by the Gardner & Darton chart of 1823 and one that would perpetuate throughout the 19th century. The chart has extensive information included within the illustrations regarding volcanoes, vegetation and snow levels. The map exists in a dissected format, and in a single sheet (as in this example). The chart was first published in 1824 and updated in 1825, 1830 & 1835. The plates then were purchased by the American firm of Colton who incorporated the chart into their 1855 atlas.

Cumberland. Speed (John), Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile Described with many Memorable Antiquities therein found Observed, John Sudbury & George Humble [1616], hand-coloured engraved map, inset plan of Carlisle, small areas of repair to the margins but not affecting the printed image, central fold strengthened on verso, 390 x 510 mm, Latin text on versoQTY: (1)

England & Wales. Hole (G.), Englalond Anglia Anglo Saxonum Heptarchia, circa 1610, hand-coloured engraved map, large strapwork cartouche, mileage scale and compass rose, 275 x 325 mm, together with Homann (Johann Baptist). Magna Britannia complectens Angliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae Regna in suas Provincias et Comitatus divisa..., circa 1720, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring and some later enhancement to the cartouche, central fold partially split at top and base, 485 x 575 mm, with another approximately 50 maps of England & Wales and The British Isles, including examples by or after Moll, Morden, Harrison, 'Illustrated London News', Bowen, Teesdale, Cary, Kelly, Bell, Badeslade & Toms, Dower, Archer, Fullarton, Stockdale, J. & C. Walker, Bonne, Wilkinson and Bingley, some duplicates, various sizes and condition QTY: (approx. 52)

France. Speed (John), France revised and augmented, the attires of the French and situations of their cheifest cityes observed..., Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell [1676], hand-coloured engraved 'carte-a-figures' map, 10 costumed figures to the vertical margins and 8 oval vignettes of principal cities to the upper margin, some staining, right-hand vertical margin extended, central fold strengthened on verso, 405 x 525 mm, English text on versoQTY: (1)

* Gloucestershire. Speed (John), Glocestershire contrived into thirty thre severall Hundreds & those againe into foure principall devisions. The citie of Glocester & Bristowe discribed with the armes of such noble men as have bene dignified with ye titlles of Earles & Dukes thereof, John Sudbury & George Humble, circa 1627, hand coloured engraved map, inset town plans of Gloucester and Bristol, central fold partially strengthened on verso, 385 x 510 mm, framed and double-glazed, English text on versoQTY: (1)

Greenwood (C. & J.). Atlas of the Counties of England made from Actual Surveys made from the years 1817 to 1833..., 1834, calligraphic title with an engraved map of England & Wales, 35 (only) engraved maps with contemporary hand-colouring, contents partially loose and with some maps detached, the map of Lincolnshire frayed and stained along the horizontal margins, hinges and joints weak and near broken, contemporary half calf gilt over marbled boards with morocco gilt label to the upper cover, worn and frayed, large oblong folioQTY: (35)NOTE:Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. The maps present are, Bedford, Buckinghamshire, Cambridge, Chester, Cumberland, Derby, Durham, Essex, Gloucester, Hereford, Hertfordshire, Huntingdon, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincoln, Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottingham, Oxfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Somerset, Staffordshire, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Westmorland, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, North Riding of Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, Anglesey Caernarfon & Merioneth [and] Flint Denbigh & Montgomery,

Guyana. Schomburgk (Robert H.), Map's [sic] of the limits of British Guiana surveyed under Her Majesty's Commission by Robert H. Schomburgk..., General Map No. 1. The Limits between British Guiana and Venezuela. Drawn and coloured by Robert H. Schomburgk, 1896, large colour zincographic map, old folds with slight wear where old folds cross, some splits along old folds, some folds strengthened on verso, 765 x 980 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:A large map, which was first published in 1841 and then re-issued in connection with the boundary settlement with Venezuela.

India. Sudder Board of Revenue (publishers), Map of the North Western Provinces, under the Jurisdiction of the Sudder Board of Revenue, circa 1840, unattributed (but probably by J. Arrowsmith) lithographic map with contemporary hand-colouring, old folds, slight staining, 1120 mm, together with Arrowsmith (J.). Sketch of the Island of Ceylon, Q. M. Genls. Office, Columbo, 1848, lithographic map with contemporary outline-colouring, old folds, slight staining, 710 x 475 mmQTY: (2)

AFTER D LIZARS "Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland" black and white engraved map, later coloured, published Edinburgh 1809, 50 cm x 39.5 cm

AFTER LUCAS JANSZ WAGHENAER "A map of the Coasts of Flanders, Normandy and England", together with a description of the coast of Flanders and Picardy, a black and white engraved print by Johannes Van Doetechum, circa 1584, with script verso, page size 40 cm x 54 cm

AFTER JOHN SPEEDE "York Shire", a black and white engraved map, later coloured, published by Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, circa 1610, with script verso, page size 43.5 cm x 54 cm

A collection of 18 various engraved continental maps, mainly 17th and 18th Century, including AFTER SEBASTIAN MUNSTER "Transsylvania XXI Nova Tabvla", a black and white monochrome woodblock print, mid 16th Century, with script of Page 49 verso, page size 30.5 cm x 38.5 cm, various black and white engraved maps, including "Transylvania or Siebenbvrgen", Page 175, with script of Page 176 verso, 28.5 cm x 18.5 cm, a similar map of "The Kingdome and Electorship of Bohemia, The Marqvisship of Moravia" (x 4), "Stiria or Stirmarck" (x 6) and four other various small maps, together with one volume "The Comprehensive Atlas and Geography of the World", published by W G Blackie, London, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin 1882, cloth board bound with tooled and gilded leather spine

AFTER JOHANNES BLAUE “Svffolcia/Svffolke” a black and white engraved map, later coloured, 38 cm x 49.5 cm

AFTER EMAN. BOWEN “An accurate map of the East Riding of Yorkshire …” black and white engraved map, published 1750, later coloured, 53 cm x 65 cm

AFTER JOHN SPEEDE “Somerset-shire” a black and white engraved map, later coloured with cartouche of Bathe top left and details of the Hundreds verso, 38 cm x 51.5 cm

AFTER JOHN OGILBY “The road from London to Flamborough Head ...” black and white strip map, later coloured, 35 cm x 44 cm