ANTIQUE MAPS OF HUNTINGDONSHIRE AT
ASH RARE BOOKS
43 HURON ROAD
LONDON SW17 8RE
UNITED KINGDOM

London : W.H.Toms, 1742 (or later). An attractive mid 18th century antique map of the county, incorporating a panel of text giving details of principal towns, market days, Members of Parliament, etc. Originally published by the surveyor, Thomas Badeslade, and the engraver, William Henry Toms, for their "Chorographia Britannia" series (London 1741-1742).
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 151 x 146mm (approx. 6" x 5-3/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£50

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[Amsterdam : 1645 (or later)]. One of the finest antique maps of the county, handsomely decorated with a ribanded display of coats or arms, the Stuart royal arms, and a splendid hunters and hounds title-piece, with stags, falcon, boar, hare and rabbit. Originally produced by Blaeu in 1645 and here in a fine early impresssion.
Copper line engraving on paper. Full original hand colour. Engraved surface 390 x 498mm (approx. 15-3/8" x 19-5/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£400

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London : W. Owen, 1760. A most attractive mid eighteenth century map, with a pretty rococo cartouche, by Emanuel Bowen, Geographer to George II. Originally produced for the February 1760 issue of "The General Magazine of Arts and Sciences".
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 197 x 1745mm (approx. 7-3/4" x 6-7/8"). Old folds, faint browning to one blank margin, but in very good state indeed for a map of this type. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£50

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[London : 1832 (but later)]. A fine antique map of the county originally engraved by William Schmollinger (fl.1831-1837) for the part-work "English Counties Delineated" (London 1830-1837) prepared by the antiquary Thomas Moule. Decorated with five coats of arms, an ornate gothic border, a ribbon title intertwined with flowers, and inset views in roundels of Hinchingbrook and Brampton Park. Originally engraved in 1832, the present version, showing some development of the railway system, is dated to about 1848.
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 267 x 198mm (approx. 10-1/2" x 7-3/4"). Cropped close at head and tail, with short tear into upper margin, but otherwise in very good state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£60

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London : C. Smith, [1828]. One of the scarcer nineteenth century maps of the county, originally engraved by James Gardner (fl.1822-1846) for Charles Smith's "New English Atlas" (London 1822). This slightly later edition was published in 1828.
Copper line engraving on paper. Original hand colour. Engraved surface 253 x 185mm (approx. 10" x 7-3/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£40

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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 something 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 394 x 332mm (approx. 15-1/2" x 13"). Folding into a contemporary glazed paper case with printed label; case lightly rubbed, a few faint marks, but overall in very good and clean condition.

£50

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