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[London : 1720]. A fine eighteenth century map of the adjacent wards of Coleman Street and Bassishaw in the centre of the City of London. The map runs northwards from Lothbury and Old Jewry to London Wall and what were then the Lower Walks of Moorfields - now Finsbury Circus. The modern Moorgate Street was not then built, but the route it takes parallel to Coleman Street is covered and the Gate itself is shown. Originally produced by Richard Blome in the late seventeenth century, the map remained unpublished until the present version appeared with the 1720 edition of John Stow's "Survey of London".
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 355 x 291mm (approx. 14" x 11-3/8"). Old fold, faint press crease, but in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Adams 25/036. Hyde (Ward Maps) 57/2.

£200

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[London : R. Baldwin], 1772. An attractive eighteenth-century map of the adjacent wards of Coleman Street and Bassishaw in the centre of the City of London. The map runs northwards from Lothbury and Old Jewry to London Wall and what were then the Lower Walks of Moorfields - now Finsbury Circus. The modern Moorgate Street was not then built, but the route it takes parallel to Coleman Street is covered and the Gate itself is shown. The map (here in its later state, with the compass rose correctly orientated, etc.) is decorated with views of the churches of St. Michael Bassishaw and St. Stephen Coleman Street. Originally produced for the "London Magazine" in 1767, the present (slightly revised) version of the map was utilised in John Noorthouck's part-work "A New History of London including Westminster and Southwark" (London : 1772-1773). Other maps in this series were engraved by Thomas Bowen and this would also appear to be his work.
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 229 x 169mm (approx. 9" x 6-5/8"). A few faint marks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Adams 51/007. Hyde (Ward Maps) 59/2.

£75

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[London : J. Booth, 1812. A handsome antique print - the exterior of the now-demolished Wren church of St. Michael Bassishaw on Basinghall Street, with its distinctive trumpet-cone and ball and finial (perhaps designed by Robert Hooke). Engraved by Joseph Skelton (1781?-1850) from an original drawing (dated 1811 and now in the British Museum) by John Coney. Originally produced for the part-work series "Architectura Ecclesiastica Londini; being a Series of Views" (London : 1810-1823) - "the first artistically competent and exhaustive illustration of the golden age of London church building" (Adams). Below the image are several lines of explanatory text.
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 255 x 164mm (approx. 10" x 6-1/2"). A few tiny marks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 129/090.

£75

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[London : Jones & Co., 1831]. A pleasing antique print of old Basinghall Street and the old hall (demolished in 1865), with urban traffic, etc. Engraved by John James Hinchliff (1805-1875) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of 19th century London. From Shepherd's part-work series "London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century" (London 1829-1832).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 117 x 149mm (approx. 4-5/8" x 6"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£25

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[London : Jones & Co., 1831]. A pleasing antique print of old Basinghall Street and the old hall (demolished in 1865), with urban traffic, etc. Engraved by John James Hinchliff (1805-1875) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of 19th century London. From Shepherd's part-work series "London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century" (London 1829-1832).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 117 x 149mm (approx. 4-5/8" x 6"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£20

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[London : Jones & Co., 1830]. An antique print of the pillared portico of the old Girdlers' Hall, destroyed in 1940. Engraved by John Greig (fl.1800-1843) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of 19th century London. From Shepherd's part-work series "London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century" (London 1829-1832).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 114 x 66mm (approx. 4-1/2" x 2-5/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/082.

£25

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