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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.
Aquatint and line engraving on paper, with original hand colour. Engraved surface 681 x 1082mm (approx. 26-7/8" x 42-5/8"). Dissected, mounted on linen, and folding into the original cloth case, with Stanford's pictorial label and cover title "View of London Shewing the Public Buildings, Parks, Palaces, Squares, Streets, Railway Stations, &c". Minor wear and discolouration to case; light spotting and discolouration to backing linen, but the map itself in very good, sharp and clean state. Hyde 3/5.

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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.
Demy 8vo (23cm). xii,64,68,[iv]pp - the sixty-four principal map pages printed in colour, with the omnibus and tram-routes given a distinctive hue. Original cloth; lightly sunned, with small mark to spine; a little shaken; endpapers slightly cracked, but a good and serviceable copy.

£100

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[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.
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 219 x 332mm (approx. 8-5/8" x 13"). Some very mild browning to outer blank margims, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Adams 38/007. Howgego 19a.

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[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.
Etching and line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 154 x 111mm (approx. 6-1/8" x 4-3/8"). Text and further image on verso. Very faint areas of mild yellowing and discolouration, but still a most attractive item. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Howgego 104.

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[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.
Lithograph on paper, with printed colour. Printed surface 310 x 510mm (approx. 12-3/8" x 20"). Central fold. Similar maps of Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow on verso. Short nicks, and a short tear in upper margin, extending 250mm (approx. one inch) into title, but otherwise in very good and clean state. Hyde - not listed.

£75

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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.
Lithograph on paper, with original hand colour. Printed surface 670 x 887mm (approx. 26-3/8" x 35"). Mounted on linen and folding into the original cloth case, with Cruchley's blue and white label; within the case is a 36pp index and guide; the faintest of thinning at a handful of joints, but in very good and clean state. Hyde 121.(6).

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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.
Copper line engraving on paper, with original hand colour. Engraved surface 390 x 559mm (approx. 15-1/4" x 22"). Pressed, with some minor repairs to a few small holes, and completely remargined, but overall in very good state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Howgego 240a - not listing this late variant.

£400

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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".
Lithograph on paper, with printed linen tape attached on a metal rivet. Printed surface 383 x 671mm (approx. 15-1/8" x 26-3/8"). Folding into the original cloth case, with 46,[ii]pp printed index also inserted. Map a little worn, with some creasing, short splits and slight tears, but the case and tape very good and overall a pleasant example of a scarce and fragile production. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Hyde D&H 404.(6).

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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.
Steel line engraving on paper, with full original hand colour. Engraved surface 750 x 1060mm (approx. 29-1/2" x 41-3/4"). Dissected, mounted on linen, and folding into the publisher's cloth case; a few trifling marks, case slightly bruised at head, but overall in very good state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Hyde 39 - an unrecorded intermediate state dated 1887 between 39.(15 ) and 39.(16).

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[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).
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 265 x 490mm (approx. 10-1/2" x 19-1/4"). Trimmed tight to neatlines at head and sides; laid down on backing paper; some minor creasing and slight dustiness, but overall in good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Adams 57/039. Howgego 169.

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[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).
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 219 x 330mm (approx. 8-5/8" x 13"). Faint vertical folds; slight vertical creasing; a few minor marks and mild evidence of age and use, but still a very good, clean and still most attractive map. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Adams 51/001. Howgego 19b.

£350

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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.
Copper line engraving on paper, with full original hand colour. Engraved surface 1033 x 1254mm (approx. 40-5/8" x 49-1/4"). Dissected and mounted on linen, and folding to 220 x 178mm. One tiny hole to linen joints; minor discolouration to outer folds of the linen backing, but the map itself in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Howgego 188/6.

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[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).
Etching on paper. Contemporary hand colour. Engraved surface 168 x 276mm (approx. 6-5/8" x 10-3/4"). One minor mark; some spotting to blank margins, but otherwise in very good and crisp state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Howgego 15/2.

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[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.
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 166 x 209mm (approx. 6-5/8" x 8-1/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Hyde 15.

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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.
Copper line engraving on paper, with full original hand colour. Engraved surface 590 x 545mm (approx. 23-1/4" x 21-1/2"). Dissected and mounted on linen. A few minor marks, and pinholes at the four corners indicative of use as a wall-map, but overall in very good state. Some extensive contemporary annotation, mainly in the lower margin, principally in a Chinese or other oriental script (although including the place-names Aldershot, Guildford and Dorking in English) suggests that the map belonged to and was evidently used by a foreign visitor. There is also an inserted manuscript wheel-symbol near Merton which evidently had significance for this earlier owner. Howgego 235/7.

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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.
Copper line engraving on paper. Original hand colour. Engraved surface 165 x 207 (approx. 6-1/2" x 8-1/8"). Some very minor browning and spotting to outer margins, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Hodson 127.

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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.
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 200 x 240mm (approx. 7-7/8" x 19-1/2"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Adams 107/005. Howgego 15a.

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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.
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 214 x 264mm (approx. 8-3/8" x 10-3/8"). Imprint at foot partially erased, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Adams 107/006.

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[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.
Copper engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 274 x 335mm (approx. 10-3/4" x 13-1/8"). Small repairs to minor tears to margins in two places, the first just extending into the engraved area; some slight vertical creasing near old central fold, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£750

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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.
Etching and line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 116 x 185mm (approx. 4-1/2" x 7-1/4"). Mild fingering and slight creasing to outer blank margins, one small mark, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Adams 111/002.

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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.
Etching and line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 121 x 194mm (approx. 4-3/4" x 7-5/8"). Trimmed a little tight at head, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Adams 111/005.

£75

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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.
Lithograph on paper with full original hand colour. Printed surface 670 x 990mm (approx. 26-1/2" x 39"). Folding into the original cloth case, with printed label. Some minor spotting and faint tanning; a few short splits, but overall in very good order. Hyde 114/14.

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[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.
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 460 x 597mm (approx. 18-1/4" x 23-1/2"). Dissected, mounted on linen, and folding into a slightly later cloth case; some slight wear to folds; some mild browning and a few spots, some largely illegible pencilled annotation to margins, but otherwise in very good state. Howgego 394/01.

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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.
Copper line engraving on paper, with original hand colour. Engraved surface 401 x 507mm (approx. 15-7/8" x 20"). In indifferent condition - the printed surface significantly spotted and stained (although nowhere illegible) and with some wear, marginal splits and short tears - but with an attractive and interesting contemporary provenance in being inscribed on the verso, "Dr. Lettsom / Sambrook Court / Basinghall Street / from S. J. Neele / engraver / No. 352 Strand" - the former being John Coakley Lettsom (1744-1815), the physician and philanthropist, and the latter Samuel John Neele (1758-1824), the prolific map-engraver. Howgego 138/11.

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[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).
Etching and line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 120 x 193mm (approx. 4-3/4" x 7-5/8"). Trimmed within imprint at foot, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Adams 96/027.

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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.
Line engraving on paper, with original hand colour. Engraved surface 1035 x 1282mm (approx. 40-3/4" x 50-1/2"). Dissected, mounted on linen, and folding into the original cloth slip-case, with Wyld's engraved label; case a little worn, but in the map in very good state. Hyde D&H 188.(2).

£400

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