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London : T.Badeslade & W.H.Toms, 1741. An attractive mid 18th century map of the county, incorporating a panel of text giving details of principal towns, market days, Members of Parliament, etc. Originally published by the surveyor, Thomas Badeslade, and the engraver, William Henry Toms (fl.1723-1758), for their "Chorographia Britannia" series (London 1741-1742).
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 153 x 146mm (approx. 6" x 5-3/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£50

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[London : 1718]. A delightfully engraved scroll-style road map from the scarce early road-book "A Pocket Guide to the English Traveller". This portion of the eighteenth century road takes the traveller from Chipping Campden to Montgomery via Evesham (Evesholme vulgo Esam), Fladbury, Spetchley, Worcester, Hallow, Stockton on Teme, Newnham, Tenbury Wells, Ludlow, Onibury, Edgton and Bishop's Castle. The map is dedicated to John Pugh.
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 160 x 268mm (approx. 6-1/4" x 10-1/2"). A little marked in one margin, but in very good state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£75

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[London] : sold by Abel Swale, Awnsham & Iohn Churchil, [1722]. A handsome antique map by the London mapmaker Robert Morden. When they were first published in 1695, Morden's county maps were advertised as being "much the fairest and most correct of any that have yet appear'd". The help of "knowing gentlemen" in each county had been sought "to supply the defects, rectifie the positions, and correct false spellings". Originally produced for the 1695 edition of "Camden's Britannia". Further corrections were made for this second edition of 1722.
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 361 x 418mm (approx. 14-1/4" x 16-1/2"). A few faint creases, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£200

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[London] : sold by Abel Swale, Awnsham & Iohn Churchil, [1695]. A rare separately published state of the first issue of Morden's map of the county, originally produced for the 1695 edition of "Camden's Britannia", but here dissected, mounted on linen, and folding into (eighteenth century) marbled guards, with a manuscript label. Morden's maps from this series have not previously been recorded in this form. On their first appearance they were advertised as being "much the fairest and most correct of any that have yet appear'd" and the help of "knowing gentlemen" in each part of the country had been sought "to supply the defects, rectifie the positions, and correct false spellings".
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 360 x 420mm (approx. 14-1/4" x 16-1/2"). Some mild tanning to folds, but in very good state for an ephemeral item of this type.

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[London : George Humble, 1627]. A curious and very attractive miniature map of the county, based on the Saxton map of 1577, engraved (almost certainly by Pieter van den Keere) in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, and first published under this title by George Humble in 1627 as part of his abridgement of the "farr larger voulume" of the John Speed atlas of 1610.
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 85mm x 122mm (approx. 3-3/8" x 4-7/8"). Just a touch dusty, two small holes in outer blank margin, but overall in very good state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

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London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Co., [ca.1860]. A clearly engraved map of the county from the Admiralty engravers John & Charles Walker - on a scale of just over three miles to the inch, particular attention being given to the newly built railways. Originally published in 1835, but here in a later and updated version.
Line engraving on paper, with original hand colour. Engraved surface 340 x 387mm (approx. 13-3/8" x 15-1/4"). Folding into a contemporary glazed paper case with printed label; case rubbed; some splits and clumsy repairs to folds, with loss of some minor detail. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£40

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