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London : W. J. Adams & Sons, (1882). "Third edition" - although this is the first appearance of this slightly enlarged version of a popular late Victorian map. Prepared on a scale of roughly three and three-quarter inches to the mile, and extending north to take in Highgate Road and Hampstead Heath stations, east to Stepney Junction, south to Wandsworth and Putney stations, and west to Ealing Broadway. The primary emphasis is on the London railway system, with the emerging underground system overlaid in bright red on a detailed street-plan, the overground and electric railways in blue, together with all the proposed extensions and sections under construction, the connecting omnibus routes, etc.
Coloured lithograph on paper. Printed surface 643 x 1030mm (approx. 25-5/8" x 40-1/2"). Mounted on linen and folding into the original pictorial stiffened wrappers; wrappers lightly worn; one minor scuff affecting a few letters; a few very faint signs of age and use; pencilled inscription to margin, but overall a very good copy. Hyde 176B.(1).

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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 : 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).

£250

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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 : James Reynolds & Sons, 1882. A good and workmanlike late nineteenth-century map of central London giving good detail on a scale of three-and-a-half inches to the mile, extending north to include Kentish Town station, south to Camberwell Station, east to Bow Station and west to Notting Hill Station. Originally engraved by Richard Jarman (1807-1877) for James Reynolds in 1857 and here in a revised and updated version published by his sons, William Henry and Frederick Reynolds. The map is laid out in quarter mile squares and also shows the rail and tram routes, the postal districts, etc.
Lithograph on paper, with original hand colour. Printed surface 510 x 740mm (approx. 20-1/8" x 29-1/4"). Mounted on linen and folding into the publisher's cloth case. Some very minor wear, but overall in very good and clean state. The present example is particularly interesting in that it has been adapted by an earlier owner, identified only by the initials W.S.L. on a label attached to the upper cover, for use as a "reference & key" map to his or her set of Walter Thornbury and Edward Walford's "Old and New London" (1873-1878), with manuscript numerals identifying relevant passages of text. Other reference symbols proposed by W.S.L. and given in a list attached to the inside of the case appear not to have been used.

£200

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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.

£200

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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 : Sampson Low, Marston & Co., [1898]. Sixth edition. A handsome map of late Victorian London on a scale of roughly three and three-quarter inches to the mile, extending north to Haverstock Hill, east to Stepney, south to Clapham Common, and west to Ealing Broadway. The primary emphasis is on the London railway system, with the emerging underground system overlaid in bright red on a detailed street-plan, the overground and electric railways in blue, together with all the proposed extensions, the connecting omnibus routes, etc. The area from Putney Bridge to Wimbledon covered by the District Line is separately shown in an inset. The map was first published some twenty years earlier and continued to be regularly updated on into the twentieth century.
Coloured lithograph on paper. Printed surface 670 x 1035mm (approx. 26-1/4" x 40-3/4"). Mounted on linen and folding into the original pictorial card case; map a little tanned, with some wear and some minor loss at folds; pinholes at corners, suggestive of prolonged working life and display; the card case worn, broken and split, with remains of crude repairs; but overall a good and still attractive map. With the assertive pencilled ownership inscription of G. M. Powell of 57 Charterhouse Street on verso of map. Hyde 176.(8).

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London : C. Smith & Son, [ca.1888]. An attractive and uncommon late Victorian map of the Greater London area on a scale of three-quarters of an inch to the mile - the area covered extending north to include Enfield, east to Purfleet, south to Caterham and west to Windsor. Some prominence is given to the railway network.
Lithograph on paper, with original hand colour. Printed surface 585 x 740mm (approx. 23" x 29-1/4"). Dissected, mounted on linen, and folding into a contemporary roan case; case damaged and defective at spine; some slight browning to the map from the adhesives used in constructing the case, but otherwise the map in very good state. With the contemporary armorial book-label - with a stamped accession date of 11th November 1891 - of the scientist and lawyer Sir David Salomans J.P. (1851-1925) of Broomhill, Tunbridge Wells, High Sheriff of Kent, Mayor of Tunbridge Wells, etc. Hyde 232.

£150

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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.
Lithograph on paper, with original hand colour. Printed surface 670 x 1001mm (approx. 26-1/2" x 39-1/2"). Dissected, mounted on linen and folding into purple roan guards with a manuscript label; some minor external wear; small area of discolouration at eastern edge of map; one small nicks and a slight hole to folds, but otherwise in very good state. Hyde 105.(17).

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London : J. Reynolds, [ca.1876]. New edition. A handsome panoramic map of the Thames from Cirencester via Lechlade, Oxford, Reading and London, to Sheerness and Southend, also showing the Medway from Eden Bridge through Tonbridge, Maidstone, Rochester and Chatham to the sea. Showing detail of the "picturesque scenery, and principal objects of interest on its banks", the map was originally produced by the artist and engraver William Tombleson (fl.1824-1841) to accompany his part-work series "Tombleson's Views of the Thames and Medway" (London : 1833-1834), and is here in a lithographic transfer from the original plate, updated to include the railways, etc., and published by James Reynolds (1817-1876).
Lithograph on paper, with full original hand colour. Engraved surface 1256 x 254mm (approx. 49-1/4" x 10"). Printed on two joined sheets and folding in eight panels into the original printed wrappers; wrappers worn and detached; slight wear and nicks at extremities to some folds, but overall the map in very good and clean state for a fragile and ephemeral production.

£850

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London : John Wallis, 1783. The first appearance of this attractive circular map - the terrain measured out in radiating mile circles - and extending south to Crowhurst, west to Slough, north to Ware, and east to Tilbury.
Copper line engraving on paper, with original hand colour. Engraved surface 590 x 585mm (approx. 23-1/4" x 23"). Dissected into sixteen sections, now relaid on archival paper, with the original linen backing (with a 1784 ownership inscription) separately preserved; folding into the original marbled slip-case, with the oval engraved label of the Piccadilly printseller, Samuel William Fores; case rubbed and restored, but the relaid map in very good state. Howgego 176.(1).

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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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