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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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BARTHOLOMEW, J.G. (John George), 1860-1920 : HANDY REFERENCE ATLAS OF LONDON AND SUBURBS. London : John Walker & Co., 1917. Third edition. An attractive and clearly laid-out London atlas (first produced in 1908), the principal maps showing London from Wood Green and Tottenham down to Tooting and Streatham, and from Ealing, Acton and Chiswick across to East Ham and Barking on a scale of three and one quarter inches to the mile. Additional smaller scale maps cover the electric railways, the theatres, and the environs, with an index map, plans of St. Paul's, Westminster Abbey, the Tower and the metropolitan boroughs, and there is also statistical information, including population figures for the boroughs, etc., and a complete index to streets, public buildings, etc. Pencilled ownership inscription. £100 To confirm availability and to purchase this print please note the stock number 36259 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 books@ashrare.com. |
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[BOWEN, Emanuel, fl.1714-1767] : 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 : for J. Wilkie; T. Lowndes; G. Kearsly, and S. Bladon, 1772]. 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 detail, on a scale of some six-and-a-half inches to the mile, gives a very good and clear image 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 on an earlier map by Wenceslaus Hollar and was originally produced for William Maitland's "The History of London, from its Foundation" (London : 1739) - with the present issue (with Bowen's name burnished out) dated to 1772. SOLD To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 36713 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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[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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DAVIES, Benjamin Rees, 1789?-1872 : DAVIES'S MAP OF THE ENVIRONS OF LONDON. London : Edward Stanford, 1887. A handsome and delicately detailed Victorian map of the Greater London area on a scale of one inch to the mile, extending north to include South Mimms and Potters Bar, east to Grays Thurrock, south to Leatherhead, and west to include Amersham, Windsor and Chobham. Originally produced by Davies in 1855, the map was routinely updated and reissued over the next forty years. Prominence is given to the suburban railway system, and a circle marks the extent of the twelve-mile postal radius. £250 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 37887 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 NEW AND COMPLETE PLAN OF LONDON WESTMINSTER AND SOUTHWARK WITH THE ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS TO THE YEAR 1777. [London : John Cooke], 1777. A neatly worked map of the whole of the built-up area of London in the eighteenth-century - on a scale of about 3-1/2 inches to the mile. The area shown extends from Hyde Park in the west to Mile End and Shadwell in the east, and from the borders of Islington down to Lambeth. Originally produced for John Cooke's part-work publication Walter Harrison : "A New and Universal History, Description and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster" (London : 1775-1777). £250 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 37771 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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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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MOGG, Edward, 1769-1851 : MOGG'S TWENTY FOUR MILES ROUND LONDON. London : Edward Mogg, 1821. A striking map of the Greater London area - a circular image extending north to include Ware, east to Gravesend, south to take in Reigate (Ryegate) and Dorking, and west to Windsor. Compiled on a scale of a half-inch to the mile, the detail is sufficient to show a great many individual houses, churches, etc., especially in the more rural areas. Distances from central London are marked on the major roads and the boundary of the twopenny post is marked in red. The map was originally engraved by Mogg in about 1805 and he continued to issue updated versions throughout his working life. £350 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 37888 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 : 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. £100 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 37514 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] : PLAN OF THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER IN THE TIME OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. London : J. Coxhead, 1813. A neatly worked map, copied from the John Norden plan of 1593 and showing Westminster as it stood at the close of the sixteenth century. Engraved by Vincent Woodthorpe (1764?-1822) and 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. £75 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 37515 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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REYNOLDS, James, 1817-1876 : REYNOLDS'S NEW MAP OF LONDON AND ITS SUBURBS. London : James Reynolds & Sons, 1888. An attractive late nineteenth-century map of London giving good detail on a scale of three-and-a-half inches to the mile, extending north to Finsbury Park Station, south to take in part of Clapham Common, east to Canning Town and west to Ravenscourt Park. First produced by James Reynolds in 1867 and here in an updated version published by his sons, William Henry and Frederick Reynolds, giving some prominence to the public transport routes, and with a referenced grid. Included in the case are a London guidebook, tables of cab fares, a street index, etc. £200 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 36693 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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ROCK & CO., William Frederick, 1802-1890 - publishers : ROCK'S ILLUSTRATED MAP OF LONDON. [London : Rock & Co., ca. 1845]. An unusual and attractive street-plan of London on a scale of just under four inches to the mile. The principal buildings are shown pictorially in thumbnail sketches, and the area covered extends north to Highbury College, east to Stepney Green, south to Walworth and west to Bayswater. The earliest state of the map, before the addition of the Rock imprint. £200 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 36615 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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SAYER, Robert, 1724?-1794 : THE LONDON DIRECTORY OR A NEW & IMPROVED PLAN OF LONDON, WESTMINSTER & SOUTHWARK; WITH THE ADJACENT COUNTRY, THE NEW BUILDINGS, THE NEW ROADS AND THE LATE ALTERATIONS BY OPENING OF NEW STREETS, & WIDENING OF OTHERS 1788. London : Robert Sayer, 1788. A neatly worked map of London on a scale of four inches to the mile, the area covered extending from Hyde Park in the west across to Mile End, and from the southern fringe of Islington down to Newington Butts. A keyed and lettered table of references below the map gives the location of the churches, public buildings, etc. The contemporary popularity of the map meant that it was republished annually from at least 1776, with editions as late as 1792 also known. £200 To confirm availability and to purchase this map please note the stock number 36317 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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WYLD, James, 1812-1887 : 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 (1749-1836) 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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