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[London : 1718]. A delightfully engraved scroll-style antique road map - the eighteenth-century road taking the traveller from St. Albans to Oakham in Rutland via Luton, Silsoe, Bedford, Chellington, Wellingborough, Kettering, Rockingham and Uppingham. The map is dedicated to Daniel, Lord Finch. Originally produced for the scarce early road-book "A Pocket Guide to the English Traveller"
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 168 x 271mm (approx. 6-5/8" x 10-3/4"). A touch wrinkled and tanned at extreme outer margins, but otherwise in very good state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£75

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London : J. Harrison, 1788. An uncommon late eighteenth century map of the county - neatly engraved by Edward Sudlow on a scale of 0.37 inches to the mile.
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 333 x 460mm (approx. 13-1/8" x 18-1/8"). Slight nicks to blank margins; mild press-crease to one corner, but in very good state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Hodson 50/1.

£200

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[London : 1748 (but later)]. A very attractive antique map of the county, with a pleasant title-piece decorated with swags of fruits and flowers, produced by Thomas Kitchin, one of the best known of English mapmakers of the period and later to become Hydrographer to the King. One of a series originally produced by Kitchin for the "London Magazine: or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer" between 1747 and 1763. The present map first appeared with the May 1748 issue of magazine, and is here in a later state dating from the late eighteenth century.
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 180 x 228mm (approx. 7-1/8" x 9"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Hodson 33.

£125

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[London] : 1748. A very attractive antique map of the county, with a pleasant title-piece decorated with swags of fruits and flowers. Compiled and engraved by Thomas Kitchin, one of the best known of English mapmakers of the period and later to become Hydrographer to the King. Originally produced for the May 1748 issue of the "London Magazine: or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer".
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 181 x 225mm (approx. 7-1/8" x 8-7/8"). Slight nick to upper margin, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Hodson 33.

£125

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[London : George Virtue, 1831 (but later)]. A highly attractive "gothick" map of the county originally produced for the part-work "English Counties Delineated" (London 1830-1837) prepared by the antiquary Thomas Moule. Decorated with an ornamental border, coats of arms, and inset views of Cashiobury and St. Alban's. Originally engraved in 1831, the present (slightly revised) edition is dated to about 1850.
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 200 x 261mm (approx. 7-3/4" x 10-1/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£125

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London & Liverpool : George Philip & Son, [ca.1890]. A neatly worked map of Hertfordshire on a scale of some two-and-a-half miles to the inch, showing in particular the main roads, cross-roads and railways, the daunting and dangerous hills, and with further neat symbols indicating the presence of Consuls of the Cyclists' Touring Club in the various towns, hotels appointed and recommended by cyclists, and places where bicycles might be repaired. The recommended hotels are listed and named on the reverse of the map, with further indications of temperance hotels, etc.
Lithograph on paper, with additional original hand colour. Printed surface 337 x 422mm (approx. 13-1/4" x 16-5/8"). Mounted on linen and folding into the original cloth gilt case; a couple of small spots and some very minor signs of age, but a very good copy.

£40

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[London : 1694?]. A charming and rare small map of Hertfordshire 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 119 x 145mm (approx. 4-3/4" x 5-3/4"). Short tear to lower margin, just touching the map border; a touch dusty, but still in very good state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£125

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London : J. & C. Walker, [ca.1864]. A clearly engraved map of the county from the Admiralty engravers John & Charles Walker - on a scale of under three 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 329 x 399mm (approx. 13" x 15-3/4"). Folding into a contemporary glazed paper case with printed label; the faintest of wear to folds, but in very good and clean condition. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Hodson 103.(xii).

£75

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