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London : William Faden, 1795. A handsome and clearly laid-out road map of England, Wales and Scotland, neatly differentiating between the great roads, turnpike roads and cross-roads, with notes of distances between town and town, and notes of distances from London of the major towns. The northern part of Scotland is shown in a separate inset. Originally published in 1781 and here in a third edition. The map is dedicated to John Henniker F.R.S.
Copper line engraving on paper. Original outline hand colour. Engraved surface 740 x 590mm (approx. 29-1/8" x 23-1/4"). Dissected and mounted on linen. Some very minor wear, thinning and atnning to folds, and lacking the original slip-case, but overall in very good condition indeed for a map of this type. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

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London : Robert Sayer; John Bowles, and Carington Bowles, 1767. First edition. A handsome eighteenth-century road-atlas, showing the major roads and highways in scroll form, with mileages, local detail and directions to cross-roads, tables, etc. Based on a 1719 publication by John Senex, but the maps re-engraved, corrected, updated and with the addition of fresh material.
Long crown 4to. [8]pp + general map and 103 engraved strip-maps, printed back-to-back. Bound in a neat contemporary half calf; marbled sides; paper title-label; lightly worn; slight splitting to upper joint, but still firm; ink-blot to upper cover; clean tear to one leaf neatly repaired; occasional mild tanning, but a very good copy of an attractive and interesting production. Chubb CXLI.

£1,000

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Paris : Chés le Sr. le Rouge, [1748]. A neatly worked and attractive antique map of the British Isles. Originally produced by George Louis le Rouge (d.1778), French military engineeer, "ingenieur geographe du roi" and publisher, for his "Atlas Nouveau Portatif" (Paris 1748 and later editions).
Copper line engraving on paper. Original outline hand colour. Engraved surface 275 x 207mm (approx. 10-7/8" x 8-1/8"). Trimmed a little tight to right-hand margin, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£125

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London : Orr & Co., [1856]. An interesting and uncommon map, giving particular attention to mountain ranges, isothermal lines, etc. Constructed by the Prussian-born geographer, August Petermann during his early career in England. Originally produced for the part-work publication "The Land We Live In" (London : 1854-1856).
Lithograph on paper. Printed surface 211 x 170mm (approx. 8-1/4" x 6-5/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£40

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London : Laurie & Whittle, 1794. A pleasant and useful map of England and Wales, with part of southern Scotland and the west coast of Ireland, giving distances from town to town, distances from London for the principal towns, etc. The counties are differentiated by coloured outlines, and a decorative title-piece incorporates horses, riders, a coach-and-four, etc. Originally published by Robert Sayer in 1771.
Copper line engraving, with original outline hand colour. Engraved surface 530 x 522mm (approx. 20-7/8" x 20-1/2"). Dissected, mounted on linen, and folding into the original marbled slip-case with Laurie & Whittle's printed label; case a little worn; linen slightly thinned at some joints, with a couple of short splits, but overall in very good and clean condition. With the dated 1799 ownership inscription of S. J. Cassam on verso and case, along with the later inscriptions of R. T. Jenkins. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

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Augsburg : Tob. Conrad Lotter, [ca.1760]. A fine and scarce antique map of the British Isles, with an elegant military lion and unicorn cartouche. In another corner an angel with a trumpet bears aloft the arms of the four nations, and there are sailing ships off the coast. Originally engraved by Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717-1777) for Seutter's "Atlas Minor" in the 1740s and here in a slightly later state with Lotter's own imprint.
Copper line engraving on paper, with original hand colour. Engraved surface 201 x 256mm (approx. 8" x 10-1/8"). Faint tanning to outer margins, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Shirley : Seutter 3 (Figure 82).

£250

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