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[London] : W. Owen, 1759. An attractive map of the county by the Welsh mapmaker Emanuel Bowen, Geographer to George II. Originally produced as one of a series of maps engraved for the "General Magazine of Arts and Sciences", published monthly between 1755 and 1764. With a rococo cartouche, etc.
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 193 x 171mm (approx. 7-3/4" x 6-3/4"). Old folds, but in very good and clean state for an ephemeral map of this type. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£75

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London : Vernor & Hood, 1804. A neatly worked and detailed town plan of Cambridge as it stood at the beginning of the nineteeth century, with a keyed index to thirty-five colleges and halls. Engraved by John Roper (fl.1792-1810) from a draught by G. Cole - probably the surveyor George Cole of Soho. The map is decorated with the coats of arms of the city and the university - and a vignette view of King's College Chapel, the University Library and the Senate House - the last engraved by William and George Cooke from an original study by George Sidney Shepherd (1784-1862). Originally produced to accompany the part-work "Beauties of England and Wales" (London : 1801-1818).
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 237 x 178mm (approx. 9-1/4" x 7"). Faint original crease, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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[London : 1831 (or later)]. A neat and clear antique map of Cambridgeshire, compiled by R. Creighton and engraved by the admiralty engravers John and Charles Walker. Originally produced for the "Topographical Dictionary" published by Samuel Lewis of Aldersgate in 1831.
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. 230 x 175mm (approx. 9-1/8" x 6-7/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed antique map.

£50

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[London : 1770]. An attractive eighteenth century map of the county from a series originally published by the printer Thomas Read between 1743 and 1746 under the title "The English Traveller" and revised by the surveyor John Rocque (fl.1734-1762) for his "Small English Atlas" in 1753. The present issue is dated to 1770.
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 205 x 159mm (approx. 8-1/8" x 6-1/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£75

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London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Co., [ca.1860]. A clearly engraved map of the county from the Admiralty engravers John & Charles Walker on a scale of approximately three and one third miles to the inch - particular attention being given to the newly built railways. Originally published in 1835, but here in a later and updated version.
Line engraving on paper, with original hand colour. Engraved surface 399 x 324mm (approx. 15-5/8" x 12-3/4"). Folding into a contemporary glazed paper case with printed label; a few very minor signs of age and use, but overall in very good and clean condition.

£60

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