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ASHBY, Harry, 1744-1818 : A NEW PLAN OF LONDON WESTMINSTER AND SOUTHWARK. [London : R. Baldwin], 1772. An attractive antique map of the whole of the built-up area of London in the second half of the eighteenth century. On a scale of just under six inches to the mile, the coverage extends north to the fringes of Islington, east to Mile End, south to Lambeth Palace and west to Hyde Park and Paddington, and includes the New Road from Paddington to Islington (the modern Marylebone Road, Euston Road and Pentonville Road artery), and the new roads south of the just-built Blackfriars Bridge (the modern Blackfriars Road, St. George's Circus, Borough Road, etc). Engraved by Harry Ashby and originally produced for John Noorthouck's part-work "A New History of London" (London : 1772-1773). £500 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 33778 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail maps@ashrare.com. |
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BACON, G.W. (George Washington), 1830-1922 : BACON'S NEW MAP OF LONDON, DIVIDED INTO HALF MILE SQUARES & CIRCLES. London : G.W.Bacon, [ca.1890]. A popular and very clearly designed map of Victorian London, issued in various formats by George Washington Bacon from the mid 1870s onwards. The present edition, showing Tower Bridge, is dated to about 1890. The map shows central London on a scale of four inches to the mile - from West Kensington in the west across to the West India Docks in the east, and from Hampstead down to North Brixton and Camberwell. The case and the verso of the map offer a fine array of contemporary advertisements. £125 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 26913 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail maps@ashrare.com. |
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[BANKS, John Henry, 1816-1879] : A BALLOON VIEW OF LONDON. London : Edward Stanford, 1859. An iconic representation of mid nineteenth-century London - the metropolis spread out as though seen from a balloon positioned high above Primrose Hill - with streets and public buildings individually named and depicted (on a mean scale of over seven inches to the mile) from Camden High Street as far south as Albany Road in Camberwell, and extending east to Greenwich Reach and west to Kensington High Street. The view, said to based on a daguerrreotype, was originally published by Banks in 1851, and is here in its penultimate appearance, with the addition of such new features of the London landscape as King's Cross railway station in the foreground and the Crystal Palace at Sydenham (with the balloon itself) on the far horizon. SOLD To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 31848 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail maps@ashrare.com. |
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BLOME, Richard, 1635-1705 : [MIDDLESEX] A MAPP OF THE COUNTY OF MIDLESEX WITH ITS HUNDREDS. [London : Thomas Taylor], 1667 [but 1715]. A most attractive map of the county on a scale of four miles to the inch - seventeenth century London and its penumbra of northern and western towns and villages, with Highgate and Hampstead on the hills north of the city, and Chelsea, Fulham, Chiswick, Hammersmith, Twickenham, Hampton, Sunbury and Shepperton strung out as isolated settlements along the Thames. Engraved by the celebrated Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) and dated both 1662 (very faintly) and 1667 in the plate, the map appears to have remained unpublished until its appearance in Blome's "Speed's Maps Epitomiz'd" in 1681. The present armorial dedication to Sir Charles Gerard of Harrow on the Hill was inserted for the edition of 1693, and the map was reissued in its present form, with only minor reworking, by Thomas Taylor in 1715. £250 To confirm availability and to purchase this print please note the stock number 30383 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail prints@ashrare.com. |
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[BOWEN, Emanuel] : A PLAN OF THE CITY AND LIBERTIES OF LONDON AFTER THE DREADFUL CONFLAGRATION IN THE YEAR 1666. THE BLANK PART WHEREOF REPRESENTS THE RUINS AND EXTENT OF THE FIRE; & THE PERSPECTIVE THAT LEFT STANDING. [London : 1756]. A handsome antique map of the City of London and its surrounds, designed to show the vast extent of the Great Fire of 1666. The excised detail leaves a good clear outline of the streets of the seventeenth century city and the principal sites and buildings are given in keyed indices. The map was based by Bowen (fl.1714-1767) on an earlier map by Wenceslaus Hollar. Originally produced for William Maitland's "The History of London, from its Foundation" (London : 1739), and here in a later edition, with Bowen's name burnished out. SOLD To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 29508 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail maps@ashrare.com. |
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CHICHESTER, Francis (Sir Francis Charles), 1901-1972 : CHICHESTER'S PICTURE MAP OF LONDON. London : Francis Chichester, 1955. A revised version of the original 1951 edition - an attractive map of central London on a scale of a little under six inches to the mile, with the principal buildings shown in elevation. The area shown extends north to the Zoo, east to the Tower, south to the Oval, and west to Earl's Court. On the reverse of the map are separate underground and bus maps, along with details of all-night chemists, petrol stations, theatres, cinemas, etc. There is also a separate 36pp index of street-names. £40 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 32551 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail maps@ashrare.com. |
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CHOFFARD, Pierre Philippe, 1730-1809 : PLAN DE LONDRES. [Paris : de l'imprimerie de Didot], 1756. A charming miniature map of London set within an elaborate rococo border of cornucopia, shell, etc. Originally produced for Jacques Nicolas Bellin, "Essai géographique sur les Isles Britanniques" (Paris : 1757). Dated 1756 and signed by Choffard in the plate. £200 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 32825 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail maps@ashrare.com. |
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COLTON, J.H. (Joseph Hutchins), 1800-1893 : THE ENVIRONS OF LONDON. New York : J. H. Colton & Co., 1855. An attractive and clearly-worked map of the London area - extending north to Southgate, east to Chadwell Heath, south to Kingston, Mitcham and Bromley, and west to Harrow and Isleworth - on a scale of 5/8 of an inch to the mile. Reputed to be the earliest map of London to appear in an American atlas - "Colton's Atlas of the World". The map is set within an ornamental strapwork border. SOLD To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 26651 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail maps@ashrare.com. |
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[CRAM, George Franklin, 1842-1928] : LONDON (ENGLAND). [Chicago : 1892]. A late nineteenth century American map of London - giving particularly good coverage of West London, and extending west to Acton, north to Haverstock Hill, east to the London Docks, and south to Denmark Hill. £75 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 26652 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail maps@ashrare.com. |
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CRUCHLEY, G.F. (George Frederick), 1797-1876 : REDUCED ORDNANCE MAP OF LONDON. London : Cruchley, [ca.1875]. A good and detailed map of central London on a scale of five inches to the mile - extending north to Kentish Town, east to Bethnal Green, south to Battersea Park and the Oval, and west to Notting Hill. Colour is used to show the omnibus routes, and railway lines built and proposed - including the beginnings of the underground system. SOLD To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 28035 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail maps@ashrare.com. |
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DARTON, William, 1781-1854 : A NEW AND CORRECT PLAN OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER, WITH THE LATEST IMPROVEMENTS. London : William Darton, 1828. An attractive plan of early nineteenth-century London giving good detail on a scale of 3-3/4 inches to the mile - the coverage extending north to the Angel, east beyond Stepney Green, south to Walworth and the Oval, and west to Chelsea. Originally published by the elder William Darton (1755-1819) in 1807, but here expanded in scope, revised and corrected to January 1828 by the younger Darton. A keyed index below the map gives references for 200 principal streets. £400 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 32563 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail maps@ashrare.com. |
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[DAVIES, Benjamin Rees, 1789?-1872] : LONDON. 1857. DRAWN & ENGRAVED EXPRESSLY FOR THE POST OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY. London : Kelly & Co., 1857. An unusual mid nineteenth-century map of London - fitted with the tape-indicator recently patented by the German-born stationer Joseph Schlesinger and "enabling any place to be found on the map with mathematical certainty". Although tape-indicator maps from the latter part of the nineteenth-century are not uncommon, examples from the mid-century undoubtedly are. Examples from 1854 are recorded, but this is the earliest we have seen on the open market. The map itself (originally published in 1847) covers London from Bayswater across to Canning Town, and from Dalston down to Camberwell, on a scale of three inches to the mile, shows the newly introduced postal districts, and comes with a 46pp index giving the co-ordinates and instructions for using the tape-indicator. Cover title, "Post Office Directory Map of London with Patent Index". £250 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 33779 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail maps@ashrare.com. |
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[ENGLISH SCHOOL] : A PLAN OF THE CITY AND LIBERTIES OF LONDON; SHEWING THE EXTENT OF THE DREADFUL CONFLAGRATION IN THE YEAR 1666. [London : R. Baldwin], 1772. A handsome antique map of the City of London and its environs, designed to show the vast extent of the Great Fire of 1666. The excised detail leaves a good clear outline of the streets of the seventeenth-century City and the principal sites and buildings are given in keyed indices. The map is based on an earlier map by Wenceslaus Hollar and was originally produced for John Noorthouck's part-work "A New History of London" (London : 1772-1773). £350 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 33771 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail maps@ashrare.com. |
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FADEN, William, 1749-1836 : THE COUNTRY TWENTY-FIVE MILES ROUND LONDON, PLANNED FROM A SCALE OF ONE MILE TO AN INCH. London : W. Faden, 1802. The third edition of this large and handsome map of the Greater London area - extending on a one-inch scale northwards to take in Tring and Hertford, east to Chelmsford and Basildon, south to Tonbridge, Dorking and Guildford, and west beyond Beaconsfield and Windsor. Faden was a maker of serious maps for serious purposes - "the turnpike roads are all laid down from an actual measurement with a perambulator" - and this map, originally published in 1788, was the best of its period. It was regularly updated and remained in print until at least 1880. £500 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 32804 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail maps@ashrare.com. |
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[FADEN, William, 1749-1836] : A NEW MAP OF THE COUNTRY TWENTY-FIVE MILES ROUND LONDON. London : James Wyld, [ca.1869]. A large and handsome map of the Greater London area - extending on a one-inch scale northwards to take in Tring and Hertford, east to Chelmsford and Basildon, south to Tonbridge, Dorking and Guildford, and west beyond Beaconsfield and Windsor. Originally published by William Faden in 1788, but here much modified and updated to show the latest extensions to the railway system, etc. £400 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 28033 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail maps@ashrare.com. |
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HOLLAR, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677 : LONDON. [London : 1673]. An attractive early map of London, decorated with the coats of arms of the City of London, fifteen of the great Livery and Merchant Companies, and those of Sir Robert Vyner or Viner (1631-1688), Lord Mayor of London in 1674. Etched by the celebrated Wenceslas Hollar for the London publisher Richard Blome (1635-1705). SOLD To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 29642 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail maps@ashrare.com. |
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HUGHES, William, 1817-1876 : THE ENVIRONS OF LONDON. [London : 1848]. A neatly designed and engraved map of the Greater London area by William Hughes F.R.G.S. Extends west to Harrow, north to Edgware, east to Barking and south to Wimbledon. £100 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 30262 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail maps@ashrare.com. |
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KITCHIN, Thomas, 1719-1784 : A MAPP OF THE COUNTRIES THIRTY MILES ROUND LONDON : DRAWN & ENGRAVED FROM ACCURATE SURVEYS BY THOS. KITCHIN HYDROGRAPHER TO HIS MAJESTY. [London : R. Baldwin, 1773]. An attractive antique map - London and as far afield as Stevenage, Rayleigh, Crawley and High Wycombe on a scale of .375 inches to the mile. An attempt is made to show the outlying towns and villages ichnographically, and there are symbols for churches, country seats, parks, windmills, watermills, county boundaries, the bounds of the penny post, distances from London, etc. Originally published by the well-known London mapmaker Thomas Kitchin in 1758, this later, slightly revised, edition was issued with John Noorthouck's part-work "A New History of London including Westminster and Southwark" (London : 1772-1773). £400 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 33781 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail maps@ashrare.com. |
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MORDEN, Robert [& MOLL, Herman] : MIDDLESEX. London : Robert Morden, [1708]. A most attractive map of the county - the metropolitan county with Highgate and "Hampsteed" on their hills north of the city, and the riverside villages of Chelsea, Fulham, Chiswick, Hammersmith, Twickenham, Hampton, Sunbury and Shepperton strung out along the Thames. Although probably engraved in the early 1690s, the maps in this series of maps were not published until 1701. After Robert Morden's death in 1703 the plates were reworked by Herman Moll (fl.1678-1732) - and the present edition (with Moll's additions) is dated to 1708. £250 To confirm availability and to purchase this print please note the stock number 30384 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail prints@ashrare.com. |
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NEELE, Samuel John, 1758-1824 : [MAP OF LONDON] LONDON, WESTMINSTER & SOUTHWARK. London : [James Cundee, 1808]. A very clearly engraved map of central London at a scale of a little under two inches to the mile. Extends from Paddington in the west across to the East India Docks, and from Islington in the north down to the Borough Road. SOLD To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 10850 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail maps@ashrare.com. |
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NEELE, Samuel John, 1758-1824 : PLAN OF THE CITY OF LONDON BEFORE THE FIRE. ANNO DOMINI 1666. London : John Stockdale, 1796. An attractive engraved plan of mid seventeenth-century London - from St. James's Park across to Limehouse, north to the head of Bishopsgate and south to St. George's Fields. An extensive keyed index identifies the major streets, buildings, river-stairs, etc. Originally produced for Henry Hunter's part-work "The History of London and its Environs" published serially between 1796 and 1811. SOLD To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 32839 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail maps@ashrare.com. |
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NEELE, Samuel John, 1758-1824 : LONDON AFTER THE FIRE ANNO DOMINI 1666. London : John Stockdale, 1796. A neatly engraved plan of the City of London showing the area impacted by the Great Fire - from Fleet Street across to Tower Dock, north to Cripplegate and south to London Bridge. An extensive keyed index identifies the major buildings, churches, etc. Originally produced for Henry Hunter's part-work "The History of London and its Environs" published serially between 1796 and 1811. £75 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 30259 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail maps@ashrare.com. |
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NORDEN, John, 1547?-1625 : MIDDLESEX OLIM A TRINOBANTIBUS HABITATA. [London : 1637]. A fine early map of the metopolitan county - London and its northern and western environs, the coverage extending up to Enfield Chase and westwards beyond the Middlesex border to Eton and Windsor, with also a number of place-names to the south and east (Kingston, Richmond, Putney, Wandsworth, Clapham, Deptford, Greenwich, Stepney, Hackney, Leyton, Walthamstow, etc). Originally produced for the 1607 edition of William Camden's "Britannia", the present example is dated to 1637. Decorated with a strapwork title-piece topped with birds and snails, a compass rose, etc. £750 To confirm availability and to purchase this print please note the stock number 30385 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail prints@ashrare.com. |
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[NORDEN, John, 1547?-1625] : PLAN OF THE CITY OF LONDON IN THE TIME OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. London : J. Coxhead, 1813. A neatly worked map, copied from the John Norden plan of 1593 and showing London as it stood at the close of the sixteenth century. Originally produced for B. Lambert, "The History and Survey of London and its Environs from the Earliest Period" (London : 1805-1806) - and here in a slightly later impression. SOLD To confirm availability and to purchase this print please note the stock number 30137 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail prints@ashrare.com. |
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SMITH, W.H. (William Henry) & SON - publishers : ENVIRONS OF LONDON. London : W.H.Smith & Son, [1879?]. A nicely detailed Victorian map of the whole of the Greater London area on a scale of one-inch to the mile - extending east-west from Chadwell Heath to Windsor, and north-south from Potters Bar to Ashstead. Advertised as "very suitable for pedestrians", the map pays particular attention to railway stations and footpaths. Undated, but evidently completed before the extension of the District Railway to Putney Bridge in 1880. £100 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 21656 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail maps@ashrare.com. |
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STANFORD, Edward, 1827-1904 : STANFORD'S MAP OF THE COUNTY OF LONDON, ACCORDING TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT. 1888. London : Edward Stanford, 1889. An attractive and highly useful map of late Victorian London - extending from Crouch End and Snaresbrook in the north to Anerley in the south, and from Kew across to Plumstead Marshes. Giving good detail on a scale of two inches to the mile, the map is particularly important in showing the electoral divisions and the urban sanitary and road authorities as reconstituted after the great overhaul of London's government represented in the formation of the London County Council in 1888 - the most ambitious municipal authority then conceived. Stanford's base-map had first appeared some twenty years earlier to show the Metropolitan Board of Works area and, although independently produced, the successive versions of the map were widely used both by the MBW and the LCC and came to have a quasi-official status as London Government Maps. £250 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 34138 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail maps@ashrare.com. |
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WOODTHORPE, Vincent, -1822 : PLAN OF THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER, IN THE TIME OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. [London : T. Hughes, 1805]. An attractive antique map of Elizabethan Westminster, nestling on the curve of the Thames, based on the 1593 map of John Norden. Originally produced for B. Lambert, "The History and Survey of London and its Environs from the Earliest Period" (London : 1805-1806). £100 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 32826 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail maps@ashrare.com. |
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