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Lot 147

World.- Sanson (Nicolas) and Pierre Mariette. Orbis Vetus, et Orbis Veteris Utraque Continens, Terrarumque Tractus Arcticus, et Antarcticus ex Platone, Thopompo, sive Aeliano, Manilio &c., double-hemisphere map of the ancient world, with present-day North America labelled 'Atlantis', and South America 'Sula Platoni', showing California as an island beneath a largely undefined north-western landmass, engraving with hand-colouring on laid paper with watermark of an armorial device containing a bunch of grapes, sheet 430 x 580 mm (17 x 22 3/4 in), central vertical fold, minor spotting and surface dirt, unframed, 1657.

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Lot 138

*** Please note the description of this lots has changed.Atlases.- SDUK. Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 2 vol., 218 engraved maps as called for, some double-page, a few folding, the Geological Map of England and Wales with full hand-colouring, the rest uncoloured, includes the six celestial maps, each leaf approx. 415 x 335 mm (16 1/4 x 13 1/4 in), scattered surface dirt and minor browning, with spotting throughout, contemporary half vellum, spine gilt, red label to spine with vol. number, joints splitting, rubbed and scuffed, folio, Chapman and Hall, 1844.

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Lot 23

China.- Guide to "Peking", 2 folding maps, uniform browning, modern cloth, 1935 § A Guide to Peiping and Its Environs, additional pictorial title, 3 folding maps, uniform browning, modern cloth, 1946 § China Proper, 3 vol., folding map, bookplates and library stamps, original cloth, sunned and scuffed, 1944, plates and illustrations, v.s. (3)

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Lot 204

India.- Great Trigonometrical Survey of India.- Surveyor General's Office (Calcutta, India) India, sixth edition, detailed map of India and Ceylon, with part of the Indochinese Peninsula, after the original drawing by Indian cartographer Sunawullah, lithograph printed in blue and brown ink, by Romanath Dass and Buloram Nath, with some additional hand-colouring and plotting of trade routes, sheet 600 x 640 mm (23 1/2 x 25 1/8 in), dissected and mounted on linen, edged with green-coloured silk/linen, some splitting to folds, scattered spotting and surface dirt, owners ink inscription in the upper left corner that reads 'Return to H.J. Thompson/ 19 Portman Square/ London W', additional index maps of India pasted on verso, one section with marbled ends, 1865.

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Lot 191

France.- Moll (Herman) A New and Exact Map of France Divided into all its Provinces and Acquisitions, according to the Newest Observations, and that accurate Survey made by the King's Command by Mr Picar and de la Hire, with the Post Roads and the Computed Leagues from Town to Town, the Passes of the Pirenean Mountains, and many other Remarcks &c, engraved map on two sheets joined, overall 615 x 970 mm (24 x 38 1/4 in), with outline hand-colouring, large title cartouche and side panels with distances of towns from Paris, old folds (as issued), some splitting with a few old repairs verso, numerous nicks and tears to edges, unframed, printed for H. Moll, J. Bowles, P. Overton, T. Bowles and John King, [circa 1730]; together with 6 further maps of France and its regions, including a hand-coloured Ortelius 'Nobilis Hannoniae comitatus descriptio', Hondius's 'Namurcum comitatus', De L'Isle's 'The Province of Artois and the Country Adjacent', and Homann's 'Tabula Geographica Campaniae', and others, all unframed, mainly 17th and 18th century (7)

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Lot 152

World.- Jefferys (Thomas) The World, agreable to the latest discoveries, double-hemisphere world map with vignette illustrations to each segment, engraving with hand-colouring on laid paper without watermark, 205 x 410 mm (8 1/8 x 16 1/8 in), old folds, lightly pressed, unframed, [circa 1760].

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Lot 242

Birmingham.- Smith (J. Pigott) To the Right Honourable William Earl of Dartmouth... This Map of Birmingham, engraved from a minute trigonometrical survey made in the years 1824 & 1825, large folding map of Birmingham, engraving, 1380 x 1300 mm (54 1/4 x 51 1/4 in), dissected and mounted on modern linen, even toning throughout, some signs of careful repairs to splitting and minor loss, some spotting and faint damp-stains, folding with marbled endpapers, 4to, Beilby Knott & Beilby, 1828.

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Lot 201

NO RESERVE India.- Faden (William) An Epitome Geographical and Political of Hindoostan, engraving with hand-colouring, on Whatman wove paper, platemark 355 x 310 mm (14 x 12 1/4 in), wide margins, some surface dirt and browning, marginal nicks to edges, unframed, [1788]; together with another map of India published as a supplement to 'The Queen, The Lady's Newspaper', titled Map of India shewing the Route of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, on his visit 1875-76, lithograph, 550 x 420 mm (21 5/8 x 16 1/2 in), unframed; with a deceptive facsimile after Earlom's mezzotint of Zoffany's painting 'Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match', and Harrison's map 'Drawn from D'Anville's Map of the Coast of Guinea, Between Sierra Leona and the crossing of the Line, 1788, all unframed (4)

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NO RESERVE Crimea.- Hamley (Lt.-Col. E.Bruce) The Story of the Campaign of Sebastopol, first edition, 9 lithographed plates, 2 folding, large folding map at end, scattered faint spotting and staining, related newspaper clippings loosely inserted at end, contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, slight bumping to spine extremities, 8vo, 1855.

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Lot 255

East London.- [Gascoyne (Joel)] [An Actuall Survey of the Parish of St Dunstan Stepney alias Stebunheath...], large map of East London, including the 'Eight Hamlets contained in the said Parish', notably Whitechapel, Mile End, Spitalfields, Wapping etc., without the title/upper sheet(s) with cartouche, engraving by John Harris, originally printed on six sheets, now split into 3, laid paper without watermarks, if joined total sheet approx. 1250 x 1110 mm (49 1/4 x 43 3/4 in), split along folds into three sections, with associated losses to edges, some loss within engraved parts of the map itself, nicks and tears, some surface dirt and toning in places, edges slightly brittle, unframed, [1703].⁂ Rare at auction. Copies are held in the British Library, Guildhall Library, and one with Tower Hamlets. We can trace no examples at auction. The London Topographical Society produced a facsimile edition in 1995 (Publication no. 150), including the present map, which contains extensive discussion on the life of Gascoyne, as well as of the features of the map itself.

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Lot 228

West Indies.- Bowen (Emanuel) A New and Accurate Map of Terra Firma and the Caribbe Islands, showing most of the Caribbean from the southern part of Cuba through the Lesser Antilles and the northern part of South America to the Amazon Basin, engraving on laid paper, platemark 360 x 425 mm (14 1/4 x 16 3/4 in), small margins, central vertical fold with fine splitting to lower central section, irregular margins, some splitting and handling creases, lower left corner with small repair, handling creases, unframed, [c. 1747].

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Lot 274

London.- Tallis (John) Tallis's Illustrated Plan of London and its Environs in commemoration of the Great Exhibition of Industry of all Nations, with paneled border containing 49 views of buildings and monuments, the map showing from Highgate Cemetery to Brixton, and from Shepherd's Bush to Greenwich Marshes, engraved map with fine hand-colouring, 555 x 730 mm (21 3/4 x 28 3/4 in), under glass, old folds, a few minor splits, very minor browning and surface dirt, framed, 1851.

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Lot 183

NO RESERVE Central & Eastern Europe.- Bohemia.- Cloppenburg (Johannes) Regni Bohemiae Nova Descriptio, a good impression of Pieter Karius' map of Bohemia, with inset vignette views of 'Praga', and 'Kaisers Hof', engraving on laid paper without watermark, platemark 390 x 500 mm (15 1/4 x 19 3/4 in), sheet 450 x 530 mm (17 3/4 x 20 3/4 in), central vertical fold reinforced verso, some spotting and browning, unframed, [1642]; together with Abraham Chatelain's 'Carte du Royaume de Boheme La Chronologie de ses Rois...', an example of Laurie & Whittle's 'A New Map of The Kingdom of Poland...', and two others, including a small map of 'XX Haupt Karte Bavaria' and Charles Smith's 'The World', engravings, various sizes, scattered spotting and browning, minor nicks and tears, all unframed, 18th and 19th century (5)

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Lot 77

Middle East.- Baedeker (Karl) Palestine and Syria. Handbook for Travellers, half-title, short tear with tape repair, folding colour map frontispiece, short tear with tape repair, lacking front free endpaper, folding plates and maps, hinges strengthened with tape, original cloth, rubbed, tape repair to spine head, rubbed, Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 1876 § Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine, half-title, 2 folding maps, 2 large folding maps in pockets, one or two short tears to folds, illustrations, scattered spotting, strengthened hinges, original cloth, rebacked, gilt, a little rubbed, 1892 § Jahshan (Ghattas J.) & Maheeba Akra Jahshan. Guide to the West Bank of Jordan, 6 folding maps and plans, illustrations, original paper wrappers, previous owner's ink signature to upper cover, 1961 § Cook's Tourist Handbook for Egypt, the Nile and the Desert, folding maps, one in pocket at end, pocket with short tear, tape repair, bookplate, previous owner's ink signature, advertisements, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1897; Cook's Handbook for Palestine and Syria (Galilee and Syria Section), folding maps, original cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, 1907; Cook's Handbook for Palestine and Syria (Lower Palestine Section), folding maps, illustrations, previous owner's ink signatures, original cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, 1907; and others, guides and handbooks for the Middle East, 8vo (c.90)

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Lot 217

Middle East.- Arabian Peninsula.- Israel Defence Forces [Tel Aviv] (General Staff) Ha-mizrach ha-karov [The Near East], map of the Middle East with Hebrew text, produced by Israel's General Staff soon after the Suez Crisis, showing the Arabian Peninsula and adjoining countries with major roads, Mecca, railroads, and petroleum pipelines, colour printed map, 820 x 960 mm (32 1/4 x 37 3/4 in), old folds, a few small splits, some minor handling creases, unframed, [circa 1957].

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Lot 257

London.- Maitland (William) A View of London about the Year 1560, bird's-eye view looking north over the Thames, from Westminster Abbey to the Tower of London, with title banderole and armorials in the sky, and key below, engraving, 305 x 470 mm (12 x 18 1/2 in), trimmed within the platemark, left margin repaired, some damp-stains, central vertical folds, surface dirt and light browning, handling creases, unframed, 1738; together with John Stow's 'The City of London as in Q. Elizabeth's Time', 1755, Wilkinson's 'The London Directory, or a New and Improved Plan of London, Westminster & Southwark...', 1784, and an Anonymous two-sheet map of London from 1765, 'A New and Accurate Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster...', not joined, slightly rough edges, engravings, various sizes, all unframed, 18th century (4)

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Lot 12

America.- Murray (Hugh) Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in North America, 2 vol., folding map, torn, some foxing, contemporary calf with red morocco spines, gilt, lightly scuffed, 1829.

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Lot 295

Somerset.- Saxton (Christopher) Somersetensem Comitat (agri fertiltate Celebrem) hec ob oculos ponit Tabula, a good impression with large strapwork title cartouche surmounted by the royal arms, putti and drapery in the upper left corner, and with arms of Thomas Seckford in the lower right corner, large compasses, scale and banderole lower left, ships and sea monster, engraved map with early hand-colouring, on laid paper with indistinct watermark, 395 x 515 mm (15 1/2 x 20 1/4 in), trimmed to border with restored margins inset at edge, old folds with some thinning and minor splitting, slight browning, minor handling creases, unframed, [1579]

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Lot 293

NO RESERVE Scotland.- Jansson (Jan) Extimae Scotiae pars Septentrionalis in qua Provinciae Rossia, Sutherlandia, Cathenesia, et Strath-Naverniae, engraving with original hand-colouring, platemark 440 x 520 mm (17 1/4 x 20 1/2 in), sheet 510 x 595 mm (20 x 23 1/2 in), central vertical fold, some repairs verso to splitting within green pigments at centre of map, numbered with ink in upper corner of margin, minor spotting and surface dirt, unframed, Schenk and Valk, 1705; together with 3 further maps of Scotland, including R.W. Seale's 'A Map of the Kingdom of Scotland' for Mr Tindal's Continuation of Mr Rapin's History, a hand-coloured impression of Bonne's 'Carte du Royaume D'Ecosse', 1771, J. & C. Walker's 'Scotland', and Phillip Lea's 'An Epitome of Sr. William Petty's Large Survey of Ireland, various sizes, all unframed, 18th and 19th century (5)

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Lot 198

Greece.- Central Europe.- Dufour (Auguste-Henri) Carte physique, politique & comparee de la Turquie d'Europe, large folding map in two sections, showing from modern-day south-western Ukraine south to the island of Crete, engraving with some outline hand-colouring, each section approx. 615 x 935 mm (24 1/4 x 36 3/4 in), dissected and mounted on linen, edged with green silk, some spotting and browning, some off-setting and surface dirt, presented in book-style slipcase with marbled covers, spine gilt 'Map of Turkey in Europe', 4to, [Paris], 1827.

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Lot 79

Middle East.- Brocquiere (Bertrandon de la) The Travels of Bertrandon de la Brocquiere ... to Palestine and his return from Jerusalem overland to France, translated by Thomas Johnes, engraved folding map frontispiece, full-page illustration, scattered spotting, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, a little rubbed, at the Hafod Press, 1807 § Walch (George Friedrich) Calendarium Palaestinae Oeconomicum ..., scattered spotting, ex-library with occasional blind-stamps, previous owner's ink signature, bookplate, later half-calf, a little rubbed, small paper label to spine foot, Göttingen, Sumtibus Vandenhoeckianis, [1785] § Smith (George Adam) The Historical Geography of the Holy Land, folding colour map frontispiece, 3 folding maps, one large folding map in pocket at end, occasional underlining, previous owner's ink signature, cracked hinges, original cloth, a little rubbed, spotting to upper cover, short split to upper joint, tape repair, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1894; and others similar, v.s. (c.90)⁂ The second is rare with only one copy on Library Hub at Oxford University.

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Lot 238

NO RESERVE England & Wales.- Lewis & Co. (Samuel) A Map of England & Wales Divided into Counties, Parliamentary Dioceses, four large engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, N.E., N.W., S.E., and S.W., each approximately 1070 x 890 mm (42 1/8 x 35 in), dissected and mounted on linen, some spotting and browning, light offsetting, folding with paper ends into contemporary straight-grained morocco covers, gilt and blind tooled, spines slightly faded, some splits, rubbing and scuffs, worn, 4to, 1840; together with Phillips' 'The Grand Southern Tour of England including the Principal part of the East, West & Inland Counties...', folding into slipcase, and Bowen's 'An Accurate Map of Northampton Shire Divided into its Hundreds', folding into slipcase, 4to, 18th and 19th century (3)

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Lot 154

World.- Krevelt (A. van) Mappe-Monde ou Description du Globe Terrestre..., double-hemisphere map of the world, with a suggested Northwest Passage, Alaska is shown in dotted outline, Australia is attached to both Tasmania and New Guinea with a conjectural eastern coastline, while New Zealand is shown with a partial coastline in the South Pacific, engraving with hand-colouring on laid paper with text-based watermark, sheet 265 x 395 mm (10 1/2 x 15 1/2 in), central vertical fold as issued, minor spotting and handling creases, unframed, 1773.

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China.- Barrow (John) Some Account of the Public Life, and a Selection from the Unpublished Writings of the Earl of Macartney. the latter consisting of ... a journal of an embassy from the King of Great Britain of the Emperor of China, 2 vol., first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, without half-titles, scattered spotting, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining original backstrip, 1807 § Huc (M.) The Chinese Empire, 2 vol., folding colour map, previous owner's ink inscription, contemporary calf, gilt, 1855; and another similar, 4to & 8vo (5)

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Lot 218

Netherlands.- Homann (Johann Baptist) Belgii Pars Septentrionalis Communi Nominee Vulgo Hollandia, map of the Netherlands with inset portions showing key Dutch colonial regions in the East Indies and New England (view of New Amsterdam), engraving with hand-colouring, platemark 485 x 570 mm (19 x 22 1/2 in), good margins, central vertical fold with repairs verso to minor splitting, minor surface dirt and light browning, unframed, Nuremberg, [circa 1740].

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Lot 224

Sri Lanka.- Münster (Sebastian) Sumatra ein grosse insel so von den alten Geographen Taprobana ist genent worden, large vignette of an elephant in the upper left corner, text cartouche below, the map of Sri Lanka to the right, woodcut, 270 x 360 mm (10 3/4 x 14 1/4 in), under glass minor, minor spotting, handling creases, framed, [c. 1550].

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Lot 190

NO RESERVE France.- Münster (Sebastian) Gallia IIII Nova Tabula, woodcut map, the place names both Ptolemaic and modern, sheet 310 x 400 mm (12 1/4 x 15 3/4 in), verso with text panel within a woodcut border attributed to Hans Holbein the younger, central vertical fold handling creases, surface dirt, [Basel, Heinrich Petri, circa 1540 or slightly later]; together with 19 further maps of France, including Edward Wells' map 'Gaul', Covens & Mortier's regional map of Picardy, plans of Marseille, Grenoble, Landau, Dunkirk, a Münster panorama of Poitiers, and others, engravings, various sizes, all unframed, mainly 18th and 19th century (20)

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Lot 85

Middle East.- Mills (Charles) The History of the Crusades, for the Recovery and Possession of the Holy Land, 2 vol., engraved frontispiece, folding engraved map, 2 folding tables with short tears, occasional faint spotting, occasional pencil annotations, bookplate, contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, vol. 2 with broken upper joint but holding firm, rubbed and worn, small split to spine foot (vol. 2), 1822 § Smith (George Adam) Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land, double-page colour maps, neat pencil note to title, original cloth, small ink-stain to upper cover, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1915 § Lamartine (Alphonse de) A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, 2 vol., front free endpaper detached (vol. 2), scattered spotting, contemporary half-morocco, gilt, cracked joints, small loss to spine heads, rubbed and worn, Philadelphia, 1835; and others, the Holy Land, v.s. (c.70)

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Lot 231

British Isles.- Speed (John) The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland, First edition, map with strapwork title cartouche, inset views of London and Edinburgh, small map of the Orkneys, and decorated with ships and sea-monsters, engraving by Joducus Hondius, with hand-colouring, sheet 400 x 525 mm (15 3/4 x 20 3/4 in), English text verso, central vertical fold reinforced verso with careful repairs to splitting, some parallel creases and minor splits repaired, rough edges with nicks and tears to extremities, upper right and lower right corners with some loss replaced in facsimile, handling creases, unframed, [c. 1611].

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Lot 8

Africa.- Stanley (Henry Morton) In Darkest Africa, 2 vol., 3 folding colour maps, 2 torn (one quite severely), folding table, 1890; My Kalulu, Prince, King, and Slave, 48pp. publishers' catalogue at end, 1873 § Baker (Sir Samuel White) The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, 2 colour maps, one folding, 1867; Ismailïa: a Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, 2 vol., 2 colour maps, one folding, 55pp. publishers' catalogue at end vol.1, 1874 § Aylward (Alfred) The Transvaal of To-day: War, Witchcraft, Sport, and Spoils in South Africa, folding colour map and 24pp. catalogue at end, Edinburgh & London, 1878, first editions, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, some hinges weak, original pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed, spines darkened, all but the first and last worn at head of spines, 8vo (7)

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Lot 269

London.- Cruchley (George Frederick) Cruchley's New Plan of London and its Environs, large impressive map showing from Highgate to River Lea, Dulwich to Hammersmith, decorated with ornamental border, title to upper centre, engraving with full contemporary hand-colouring, 1345 x 1410 mm (53 x 55 1/2 in), dissected and mounted on linen, extensive splitting to folds, one area of significant loss to border and just within the map to left of Shepherd's Bush, numerous stains, areas of abrasion, some damp-stains, spotting and browning, folding with marbled endpapers, worn, 8vo, 1828Literature:Howgego 320, unrecorded state before (1)

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Lot 144

World.- Kitchin (Thomas) A General Atlas, describing the whole Universe, letterpress title, with 24 map sections only (of 35), including maps of The British Isles, Europe, Russia, Asia, and South America, many folding, various sizes, some outline hand-colouring, minor offsetting in places, handling creases, minor surface dirt, some nicks and tears to extremities, title and maps mounted stubs, a few loose, some missing, marbled boards, rubbed and scuffed, very worn, folio, [circa 1773 or slightly later]Literature:cf. Phillips, Atlases 653 and 3514

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Lot 185

China and Japan.- Covens & Mortier (Publishers) Imperii Sinarum Nova Descriptio, the Chinese Empire based on the compilation of the Jesuit Father Martino Martini who traveled through the region between 1643 and 1650, the map by Blaeu, engraving with hand-colouring, platemark 460 x 590 mm. (18 x 23 1/4 in), under glass, minor off-setting, some spotting and light browning, framed [circa 1695].

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Lot 248

Essex.- Speed (John) Essex, devided into Hundreds, with the most Antient and fayre Towne Colchester..., First edition, county map with inset town plan of Colchester, engraving with original hand-colouring, sheet 435 x 520 mm (17 x 20 1/2 in), trimmed to left and right edges but well outside platemark, exposure line just outside borderline, minor surface dirt, unframed, George Humble, [c. 1611].

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Lot 292

NO RESERVE River & Canal Maps.- Whitworth (Robert) and others. Collection of canal survey maps, including '...Navigable Canal from Basingstoke in the County of Southampton, to the River Wey...', 'A Plan of the River Lagon, and of the intended Navigable Canal from Belfast to Loughneagh...', ...'River Salwarp and of the Navigable Canal from Droitwich to the River Severn', '...City of Coventry to Communicate with the Grand Canal upon Fradley Heat...' '...Navigable Canal... the City of Coventry to the City of Oxford', '...Chesterfield... to the River Trent...', ...'Leeds and Liverpool Canal near Eccleston..., to Kendal in Westmorland...', and two further similar maps, and seven further diagrammatic plans relating to Canals, engravings, various sizes, each map approx. 200 x 350 mm (7 7/8 x 13 3/4 in), some laid onto support with repairs to splitting of old folds, occasional surface dirt and browning, modern red cloth, oblong 4to, [circa 1770]; together with 4 folding maps, including Airey's Railway Map of England & Wales, Seventh Edition, a "Geographia" Map of Hampshire and Berkshire, and Walker's map of Kent and Hampshire, 8vo and 12mo, 19th century (5)

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Asia.- Rein (J. J.) Japan: Travels and Researches, frontispiece, plates, illustrations, previous owner's signature, original decorative cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1888 § Savage-Landor (A. Henry) The Gems of East, 2 vol., plates, folding map, folding table, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1904; and another, Japan, 8vo (4)

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Lot 146

World.- Goos (Abraham) Typus Orbis Terrarum, miniature map of the world in two hemispheres, commissioned by Jansson to replace his father in law, Jodocus Hondius's version from 1628, California shown as an island, engraving on laid paper without watermark, sheet 170 x 215 mm (6 3/4 x 8 1/2 in), minor marginal nicks, some repaired in the lower margin, unframed, [circa 1630s or slightly later].

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Lot 145

World.- Rosaccio (Giuseppe) Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio, double-hemisphere world map based on Mercator's map of 1587, originally from Rosaccio and Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, but this impression from Lasor a Varea's Universus Terranam Orbis Scriptorum, engraving with stipple, a good impression on laid paper without watermark, platemark 195 x 255 mm (7 3/4 x 10 in), sheet 220 x 285 mm (8 3/4 x 11 1/4 in), without text verso, one vertical fold, lightly pressed, unframed, [1598 but circa 1713].

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Lot 254

London & Middlesex.- Seale (Richard William) To the most noble Thomas Holles Pelham, Duke of Newcastle..., This map of the county of Middlesex is dedicated by his Graces's most humble servant..., ninety-two armorials of the Free Companies and livery of The City of London to the vertical margins, engraving with some original hand-colouring, platemark 525 x 730 mm (20 3/4 x 28 3/4 in), sheet 565 x 760 mm (22 1/4 x 29 7/8 in), central vertical fold with associated creases, upper left corner with loss repaired, lower right corner with loss and very small amount of text loss replaced in facsimile, other marginal repairs to small nicks and tears, handling creases, surface dirt, unframed, [1756].

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Lot 118

World.- Mayhew (Henry) The Rhine and its Picturesque Scenery, 2 vol., half-titles, steel-engraved frontispieces, additional titles, and 36 plates, very occasional light spots, original decorative cloth, gilt, joints lightly rubbed, extremities bumped and creased, 1856 § Dennis (George) The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, 2 vol., third edition, plates and illustrations, some folding, original cloth, gilt, lightly rubbed, 1883 § Ragozin (Zénaïde) Vedic India, third edition, half-title, folding frontispiece and map, illustrations, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine ends bumped but overall a bright copy; and 25 others, mostly travel, some topography, v.s. (30)

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Lot 262

London.- Overton (Henry) A New & Correct Map of Thirty Miles Round London Shewing all the Towns, Villages Roads &c..., circular map of the environs of London, showing from Great Marlow in the West, clockwise to Baldock, Chelmsford, Canvey Island, Maidstone, Horsham and Godalming, with extensive key of place names to left and right edges, engraving with outline hand-colouring, on laid paper without watermark, 650 x 950 mm (25 5/8 x 37 1/4 in), old folds and handling creases, a few splitting and repaired verso, some rough edges with small nicks and losses, surface dirt, unframed, published by Laurie & Whittle, [circa 1720 but 1794]Literature:Howgego 67 (2)

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Lot 95

Polar.- Du Chaillu (Paul B.) The Land of the Midnight Sun, 2 vol., first edition, frontispieces (1 folding), plates and illustrations, large folding linen-backed map at end vol. 1., spotting to first and last few leaves, near contemporary half-morocco, gilt, 1881 § Kane (Elisha Kent) Arctic Explorations: the Second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin ..., 2 vol., portrait frontispieces, additional engraved titles, 18 plates, 1 folding isothermal chart. 3 maps (1 folding), illustrations, scattered faint spotting, contemporary half-calf, gilt, lightly sunned spine, slight bumping to corners, Philadelphia, 1856; and another similar, 8vo (5)

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Lot 253

London & environs.- Speed (John) Midle-Sex described with the most famous Cities of London and Westminster, First edition, with inset plans and views of St Paul's and Westminster Abbey, engraved map with hand-colouring, on laid paper with armorial watermark, platemark 380 x 510 mm (15 x 20 in), under glass, central vertical fold with careful repairs to splitting, small perforation to sheet in the lower right corner just above St Paul's, faint even toning, framed, George Humble, [c. 1611].

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Lot 162

Africa.- War Office (Geographical Section) South West Africa. Transvaal. Third Edition. Army/Air Style, map extending from Cape Town to Rhodesia, lithograph printed in colours, 980 x 1350 mm (38 1/2 x 53 1/8 in), dissected and mounted on linen, folding with green endpapers into original green cloth boards, printed label to upper cover of George Philip & Son, 4to, 1943; together with 3 duplicates of the same map (4)

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Lot 235

NO RESERVE British Isles.- Geological map.- Loader (T.B.) T. B. Loader's Scientific and Commercial Map of England and Wales in which are delineated the canals, rail-roads & navigable rivers, large calligraphic cartouche, compass rose, table of geological references and table of geological productions peculiar to each county and a table of explanation, fourteen geological cross sections, lithograph by W. Day, with hand-colouring, 1340 x 1100 mm (52 3/4 x 43 1/4 in), mounted on linen with old discoloured varnish, numerous areas of loss, splits, nicks and tears, rough edges, presented on contemporary wooden rollers, rolled, 1831.

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Australia.- Hydrographic Office of the Admirality (British) Australia South Coast - Port Phillip, chart of Port Phillip Bay with Melbourne in the upper centre, surveyed by Lieutenants T.M. Symonds and H.R. Henry of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, with inset map 'The Entrance Channel Enlarged' in the lower right corner, engraving on wove paper without watermark, by J.& C. Walker, sheet 510 x 660 mm (20 x 26 in), carefully edged with linen, minor surface dirt, handling creases, unframed, June 13th 1838 with additions to 1842.

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NO RESERVE Portugal.- Kinsey (Rev. W. M.) Portugal Illustrated; in a Series of Letters, double-page engraved frontispiece, 25 engraved plates, 14 hand-coloured, double-page engraved map, illustrations, 8pp. musical score, scattered spotting, contemporary calf, gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, 1828.

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Lot 285

Railways.- Bradshaw (George) Map & Sections of the Railways of Great Britain, with inset map of London in the lower left corner, engraving with some hand-colouring, 1650 x 1040 mm (65 x 41 in), dissected and mounted on linen, some light offsetting, spotting and browning, folding with marbled endpapers, green silk edges, contemporary purple straight-grain morocco, gilt and blind tooled with title to upper cover, rebacked, rubbed, 4to, 1839; together with 'Plan & Section of the Oxford & Great Western Union Railway with a branch to Abingdon', seven sheets of plans and sections with outline hand-colouring, loose, held within contemporary straight-grain morocco case with metal clasp, gilt lettering to flap, with GWR ownership label inside front cover, rubbed and slightly worn, oblong 4to, 19th century (2) ⁂ Bradshaw's first railway map.

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Railways.- Early Cumbrian railways.- Stephenson (George) Plan and Section of the Maryport and Carlisle Railway in the Country of Cumberland, the plan only (lacking "Section), strip railway map, lithograph by Cheffins, with some outline hand-colouring, 305 x 2730 mm (12 x 10 7 1/2 in), dissected and mounted on linen, some losses, tears, nicks and surface dirt and stains, folding with cream endpapers, without slipcase, 4to, 1836; together with two others similar, including the earliest plan of the Furness Railway system, 'Plan and Section of an intended railway from Rampside and Barrow to Dalton and Ulverston and to the existing railway at or near Sandside', surveyed by J. Robnson Wright, and also with a similar plan titled 'Furness Railway 1846', including extensions to Broughton, Roe Island, and at Lindal, 860 x 1140 mm (34 x 45 in), and 710 x 150 mm (28 x 59 in), respectively, both dissected and mounted on linen, folding with marbled endpapers, 1840s (3)

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America.- Stone (George W.) Geologic Map of North America, lithograph printed in colours, 980 x 1380 mm (38 1/2 x 54 1/4 in), minor nicks and tears to extremities, spotting and surface dirt, handling creases, unframed, rolled, published by the Geological Society of America, 1946; together with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey's 'The World on the Azimuthal Equidistant Projection centered at New York City, published in Washington, 1949, and with the Washington Hydrographic Office's two-sheet 'World Chart', first edition, 1952 (3)

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Central & Eastern Europe.- Mortier (Pierre) Estats De Pologne Subdivises suivant l'estendue des Palatinats Parle Sr. Sanson, large map of Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, and part of Russia, first published by Hubert Jaillot in Paris based on the cartography of Nicholas Sanson, engraving with outline hand-colouring, on two sheets of laid paper conjoined, without watermarks, platemark 585 x 875 mm (23 x 34 1/2 in), sheet 660 x 1050 mm (26 x 41 1/4 in), some nicks and tears with small losses to extremities, occasional spotting and browning, minor handling creases, unframed, Amsterdam, [circa 1700].

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NO RESERVE Asia.- Carruthers (Douglas) Unknown Mongolia, 2 vol., first American edition, half-titles, frontispieces, plates, illustrations, 6 maps (4 folding, 2 in text), pp.xv-xviii and folding map detached and loosely inserted, original cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 8vo, Philadelphia, 1914.

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Lot 225

NO RESERVE Switzerland.- Blaeu (Willem Jansz.) Das Wiflispurgergow, map of Southwestern Switzerland after Mercator, with ornamental title cartouche and showing Geneva, Lake Geneva, Lake Neuchatel, Lake Biel, Bern, Freiburg, Lake Thuner, and others, engraving with outline hand-colouring, 395 x 515 mm (15 1/2 x 20 1/4 in), under glass, presented in cassetta-style frame by Sebastian D'Orsai, [1647]

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Lot 277

London.- Davies (Benjamin Rees) Davies' New Map of London and its Environs showing the New Railways, Stations & other Modern Improvements, large folding map of London, showing from Tottenham to Woolwich, and Lower Streatham to Hanwell, map affixed with text collage strips showing boundaries , engraving with hand-colouring, 730 x 1120 mm (28 3/4 x 44 1/8 in), dissected and mounted on linen, extensive splitting to folds, linen fraying, some browning, damp-stains and surface dirt, unframed, [Stanford's Geog Estab., 1887]; together with a good mixed group of 12 maps showing the environs of London, including Seale's 'New Map of the Countries Ten Miles round the Cities of London & Westminster...', two copies of Chatelain's 'Nouvelle Carte du Gouvernement Civil d'Angleterre', Thornton's ' A New and Correct Map of the Counties upwards of Twenty Miles Round London', and others, engravings, various sizes, all loose, some occasional nicks tears, and losses, all unframed, 18th and 19th century (13)

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Polar.- Arctic.- M'Dougall (George F.) The Eventful Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ship "Resolute" to the Arctic Regions in search of Sir John Franklin..., first edition, half-title, folding engraved map with partial hand-colouring and routes supplied in red and blue, 8 tinted lithographed plates, some finished by hand with colouring of flags, wood-engraved illustrations, 24pp. publishers' catalogue at end, light spotting, old book-label of Thomas Kemp 1871 and bookplate of John R.Anderson, pencil note re restoration to front free endpaper, original cloth, rubbed, rebacked & recased preserving original spine, [Sabin 43183], 1857 § Kane (Elisha Kent) Arctic Explorations in Search of Sir John Franklin, wood-engraved plates, some double-page, and illustrations, some marginal staining, contemporary calf prize binding, rubbed, spine defective at head, 1892, 8vo (2)⁂ The Resolute set out as part of Belcher's relief expedition in 1850 but became stuck in the ice and was abandoned in May 1854. It was found by a American whaler, bought by the U.S. government and returned to Britain where it was presented to Queen Victoria. A desk was later built using its timbers and presented to the President of the United States in thanks; it is now situated in the Oval Office in the White House where it has been used by most of the intervening Presidents.

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Lot 282

Railways.- Merret (H., Surveyor) Map of certain Intended Lines of Railway from St Helens to West Bank at Runcorn Gap..., manuscript plan, signed and dated by Merret, and also signed by the engineer, Charles Vignoles, the plan showing alternative routes for the proposed line with several branches, pen and ink, watercolour, 600 x 1850 mm (23 3/4 x 72 3/4 in), dissected and mounted on linen, several areas of small loss, repaired tears, surface dirt and stains, folding with purple-coloured endpapers, slightly worn, large 4to, 1829.

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Polar.- Royal Geographical Society.- Sketch Map Showing Route of the 'Fram' and Nansen's and Johansen's Sledge Journey, leaflet map printed for the 'Nansen Meeting' held at the Albert Hall, 8th February, 1897, illustrating their North Pole journey, lithograph printed in colours by John Bartholomew, on thick wove paper, sheet 270 x 440 mm (10 3/4 x 17 1/4 in), old folds as issued, printed title verso, some careful repairs to old perforations within the map, visible verso, unframed, The Edinburgh Geographical Institute, 1897.

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Lot 237

England & Wales.- Walker (John) Map of the Inland Navigation, Canals, and Rail Roads with the Situations of the various Mineral Productions throughout Great Britain, large detailed folding map with calligraphic title and dedication, compass rose and table of explanation, with inset map of Scotland in the upper right quadrant, engraving, an excellent crisp impression with with original hand-colouring, 1910 x 1570 mm ( 75 1/4 x 61 3/4 in), dissected and mounted on linen, some offsetting and light browning, edged with green linen, some edges a little rough, folding with marbled ends, ink stamp verso of 'Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation Library', presented in contemporary book-style slipcase, gilt and blind tooled, scuffed and very worn, 4to, 1830.

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Middle East.- Escape map on silk.- War Office (Geographical Section) Tabriz (verso); Tbilisi (recto), "restricted" military intelligence escape map, fifth edition, lithograph printed in colours on silk, sheet 540 x 610 mm (21 1/4 x 24 in), some surface dirt and abrasion, old folds, thinning in places, unframed, 1951.

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World.- Morden (Robert) A New Map of ye World, double-hemisphere world map, engraving with hand-colouring on laid paper without watermark, platemark 95 x 170 mm (3 3/4 x 6 3/4 in), sheet 145 x 195 mm (5 3/4 x 7 3/4 in), minor spotting and surface dirt, unframed, [circa 1680].

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