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London & Edinburgh : A. Fullarton & Co., [ca.1885]. A neatly worked late nineteenth-century town-plan of Glasgow on a scale of some two-and-a-quarter inches to the mile. Originally produced for an unidentified edition of one of the Fullarton gazetteers.
Lithograph on paper. Original printed and hand colour. Printed surface 143 x 224mm (approx. 5-5/8" x 8-7/8"). In very good and clean condition. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

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London & Edinburgh : A. Fullarton & Co., [1857]. An attractive antique map - Innerleithen, Galashiels, Selkirk, Yarrow and the country south to Ettrick Pen on a scale of five miles to the inch - the map displayed within a decorative border. Originally produced for John Marius Wilson's "The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland", published in parts between 1854 and 1857.
Lithograph on paper. Original hand colour. Printed surface 170 x 119mm (approx. 6-3/4" x 4-3/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£40

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London & Edinburgh : A. Fullarton & Co., [1857]. An attractive antique map - Stranraer, Wigton, Whitehorn, etc. on a scale of just over seven miles to the inch - the map displayed within a decorative border. Originally produced for John Marius Wilson's "The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland", published in parts between 1854 and 1857.
Lithograph on paper. Original hand colour. Printed surface 120 x 173mm (approx. 4-3/4" x 6-3/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

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[London : for W. Johnston, 1762]. A neatly worked antique map of Scotland by the well-known Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to King George III. With a separate inset of the Shetlands and a decorative cartouche of eagle, fish, barrels, etc. Originally produced for an edition of Thomas Salmon, "A New Geographical and Historical Grammar".
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 184 x 197mm (approx. 7-1/4" x 7-3/4"). Faint old folds, mild tanning to extreme outer edges of margins, but still in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

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[London] : for the London Magazine, [1764]. A charming antique map of the most remote corner of mainland Scotland as it was known in the eighteenth century - one of a series originally produced by Kitchin for the "London Magazine : or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer". The present map first appeared with the August 1764 issue of magazine.
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 172 x 219mm (approx. 6-3/4" x 8-5/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£100

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[Amsterdam] : Paul de la Feuille, [1711 (or later)]. A most attractive antique map Scotland - the side-margins embellished with miniature bird's-eye views of the chief towns, etc. - Edinburgh, Dundee, St. Andrew's, Stirling, Dunnottar, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Berwick, Dunkeld, Dunblane, Elgin, Montrose, Inverness and Perth. The map was originally produced for the "Oorlogs Tabletten" published by Daniel de la Feuille (1640-1709) at Amsterdam in 1706, and is here in a later edition pubished by his successor, Paul de la Feuille.
Copper line engraving on paper, with original hand colour. Engraved surface 179 x 257mm (approx. 7" x 10-1/8"). Minor tanning, repairs and reinforcement to old vertical folds, mild spotting to outer blank margins, but still a most attractive example, with warm and rich original colour. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

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[London : 1723]. A compact and closely worked antique map of Scotland by the German-born mapmaker Herman Moll. Originally produced for Moll's "A System of Geography" (London 1701), and here in a slightly later impression.
Copper line engraving on paper. Original outline hand colour. Engraved surface 184 x 181mm (approx. 7-1/4" x 7-1/8"). Very mild tanning to central fold; a few faint marks to margins; cropped close to lower neatline, but in very good state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£150

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[London : 1744]. A handsome mid eighteenth century map of Scotland, on a scale of some nineteen miles to the inch, decorated with a beflagged cartouche. Interspersed among the place names are some interesting notes and comments - "Aggat & Chrystal Marble found here", "Abundance of Herrings taken here", etc. The Shetlands are shown in a separate inset. Drawn and engraved by Richard William Seale for Nicholas Tindal's "The Continuation of Mr. Rapin de Thoyras's History of England" (London, 1744-1747).
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 480 x 387mm (approx. 18-7/8" x 15-1/4"). Cropped to neatline at right margin; two old horizontal folds; but in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Moir I.184.

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London : For the Authors, 1776. First edition. Although volumes of strip-maps of the roads of England and Wales had been available since the seventeenth century, this is the first comparable exercise for the Scottish roads - a sequence of sixty-one maps, each of three strips, covering in all over 3,000 miles of road. The maps are drawn at a scale of one inch to the mile, the first published surveys of Scotland at what was later to become a standard scale for the Ordnance Survey. They are finely and cleanly worked by a group of nine or more engravers, the principal of whom were Stephen Pyle, Thomas Bowen, Garnet Terry and John Luffman. The whole project is an interesting one in that the costs survive - survey £306, engraving, etc., £487, etc. Approximately half of the copies printed remained unsold in 1778, at which date Taylor and Skinner were seeking government subsidy to cover their substantial losses. They subsequently became surveyors for the army in North America (Moir I.122-123).
Long folio - 225 x 540mm (approx. 9" x 21-1/4"). Engraved title-page by Luffman, general map by Pyle, letterpress index leaf, and sixty-one engraved road maps on thirty-one leaves (all but the last printed back-to-back). Bound in a contemporary wallet-style sheep, with three folds, enabling the atlas to slip into a greatcoat pocket; the binding repaired and restored, with portions of leather renewed; endpapers tanned; some browning, wear, fraying and repair to outer leaves; some occasional minor creases and small flaws, but overall a very good copy of a highly uncommon survival - a utilitarian working copy of an eighteenth-century road-book.

£1,250

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