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[London : Samuel Lewis, 1834]. A neat and clear antique map of Guernsey and Sark, with Alderney shown in a separate inset. 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 - and here in a slightly later impression.
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 182 x 233mm (approx. 7-1/4" x 9-1/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed antique map.

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[London : Samuel Lewis, 1831 (or later)]. A neat and clear antique map of nineteenth-century Jersey, 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. Engraved surface 184 x 235mm (approx. 7-1/4" x 9-1/4"). A couple of faint spots, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed antique map.

£75

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[London] : for R. Baldwin, [1753]. A most attractive map of the Channel Islands, with a delicately engraved cartouche featuring Castle Cornet. Originally produced by Kitchin to accompany the December 1753 issue of the "London Magazine: or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer".
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 224 x 167mm (approx. 8-3/4" x 6-5/8"). Faint old folds, minor creasing to left-hand margin, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£125

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London : R. H. Laurie ... sold also, by P. Perrot, Royal Square, Jersey, 1837. A very handsome map of Jersey at a one inch to one mile scale, the landscape conjured up by deep hachuring, stylised rock formations, and a plethora of soundings and sandbanks out to sea.
Line engraving on paper. Original hand colour to roads and parish boundaries. Engraved surface 314 x 474mm (approx. 12-1/4" x 18-5/8"). Unobtrusive repaired tear to left-hand margin; two small holes neatly repaired, with loss of a handful of letters; a few small marks; just a touch dusty, but a good example of a rare map. Faint ownership inscription in upper margin. Editions dated 1825 and 1842 are known in public collections, but this 1837 edition would appear to be unrecorded.

£200

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London & New York : John Tallis & Co., [ca.1850]. A most attractive mid-nineteenth century composite map - Guernsey above, Jersey below - the two maps set in a single floral border and decorated with vignette views of St. Peter Port, Castle Cornet, a druidical altar, Mont Orgueil, St. Helier, etc. The map was drawn and engraved by John Rapkin with the additional decorative work by Henry Winkles (1800-1860) and Edward Radclyffe (1810?-1863).
Steel line engraving on paper. Original outline hand colour, augmented with later wash. Engraved surface 351 x 250mm (approx. 13-7/8" x 10-1/8"). Faint crease to one corner, not affecting engraved surface; one slight nick, but in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£125

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[London : 1694?]. A charming and rare small map of Guernsey by John Seller. Originally produced for a set of maps which first appeared under the title "Anglia Contracta", dated to between 1689 and 1694 by Skelton and generally ascribed to somewhere near the latter date. The maps in their original form were subsequently reissued a number of times between 1696 and 1711, with the present example dating from no later than 1697.
Copper line engraving on paper. Original hand colour. Engraved surface 118 x 142mm (approx. 4-5/8" x 5-5/8"). Mild tanning to the original colour, but still in very good state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

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[London : S. Hooper, 1787]. A charming small map of Guernsey. Originally produced by John Seller for a set of maps which first appeared under the title "Anglia Contracta" in about 1694, but here in the much later revised version issued with Francis Grose's: "The Antiquities of England and Wales".
Copper line engraving on paper. Original hand colour. Engraved surface 120 x 148mm (approx. 4-3/4" x 5-5/8"). Mild tanning to the original colour, but still in very good state and clean state. With explanatory text and on verso.

£60

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