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[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Hollar (1607-1677) and dated both 1662 (very faintly) and 1667 in the plate, the map appears to have remained unpublished until its appearance in Blome's "Speed's Maps Epitomiz'd" in 1681.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.
Etching and line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 144 x 205mm (approx. 5-5/8" x 8-1/8"). Mild tanning to faint old folds, but overall in very good state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Skelton 104. Hodson 139-141.

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London : J. Cary, 1806. An attractive miniature map by John Cary, originally produced for "Cary's Traveller's Companion" (London : 1806). What are now the northern and western London suburbs are portrayed as a series of country villages spread out around the capital. Sir George Fordham wrote of Cary as the prototype of the modern mapmaker, "the most prominent and successful exponent of his time", the cartographer who "first combined care and beauty of design, with something really approximate to geographical accuracy".
Copper line engraving on paper. Original hand colour. Engraved surface 146 x 92mm (approx. 5-3/4" x 3-5/8"). Small and faint mark in upper blank margin, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£50

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London : J. Cary, 1786. A neatly worked late eighteenth century map of the area - centred on Southall, with Greenford and Northolt to the north; Norwood Green, Lampton and Hounslow to the south; and Heston, Hanwell and Osterley Park prominent to the east. One of the fifty sections of "Cary's Actual Survey of the Country Fifteen Miles round London, on a Scale of One Inch to a Mile ..." (London : 1786). Sir George Fordham wrote of Cary as the prototype of the modern mapmaker, "the most prominent and successful exponent of his time", the cartographer who "first combined care and beauty of design, with something really approximate to geographical accuracy".
Copper line engraving on paper. Original hand colour. Engraved surface 158 x 92mm (approx. 6-1/4" x 3-5/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£40

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[London : 1643 (or later)]. A rare and curious miniature map of the county, framed by a neatly worked distance table. Originally produced for Jenner's "A Direction for the English Traviller" (1643) - earlier editions having the same distance-table but an even smaller map.
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 102 x 102mm (approx. 4" x 4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£100

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[London : 1708]. A most attractive map of Middlesex - 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 were not published until 1701. After Robert Morden's death in 1703 the plates were reworked by Herman Moll - 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.

£250

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[London : ca.1720]. A most attractive map of Middlesex - 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 were not published until 1701. After Robert Morden's death in 1703 the plates were reworked by Herman Moll - and the present edition (with Moll's additions) is dated to about 1720.
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 165 x 207 (approx. 6-1/2" x 8-1/8"). Faint original vertical folds, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£150

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[London : George Virtue, 1848]. One of the most attractive and popular of all antique maps 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 a foliate border, coats of arms, allegorical figures and inset views of Westminster Bridge and Buckingham Palace. Originally engraved in 1831, the present version, showing some development of the railway system, is dated to 1848.
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 195 x 258mm. Faint horizontal folds; a touch of discolouration to outer margin, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£125

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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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