Greece from Bryars and Bryars

London, Edward Stanford Ltd, 1919. Lithographed map, 70.5 x 55.5 cm, printed in colours, old folds, blank verso. Soteriadis’ map was first published by Stanford’s in 1918, and remained topical enough to be reprinted for British periodical ‘The Sphere’ the following year. Soteriadis produced his map in the year that Allied victory - with Greece on the winning side… Read more about this item

London, Baldwin &: Cradock, 1832. Steel engraving, 34.5 x 39.5 cm, engraved by Josiah Henshall after William Barnard Clarke, original hand colour, a couple of light spots, margins trimmed close as usual with this plate, numbered in an old hand, blank verso. The map focuses on the antiquities: in the lower border are reconstructed elevations of the principal ancient… Read more about this item

Halle, Johann Justinus Gebauer , 1747. Copper engraving, 22.5 x 37 cm, black and white, blank verso. Coronelli’s plan retains features of the earliest modern map of Athens, which was drawn by French Capuchin monks circa 1670 as a mixture of conventional plan and bird’s eye view. The first printed version was originally published in Paris in 1675 to… Read more about this item

Frankfurt, 1702. Copper engraving, 21.5 x 30.5 cm, black and white, blank verso. Map of Chios, originally drawn by David Funck and also published by Homann; this version published by Merian’s heirs in the Theatrum Europaeum. The title refers to the brief Venetian occupation of 1694-95, during the Morean War. Zacharakis, Printed Maps of Greece, 2295/1513. Map

London, 1831. Copper engraving, 27 x 21.5 cms, original hand-colour in outline, blank verso. From ‘A Modern and Ancient General Atlas, comprehending all the Empires, Kingdoms, States in the World’. Lizars trained as a painter, but in 1812 took over the Edinburgh publishing and engraving business established by his father. Map

Venice, c. 1696-1708. Copper engraving, 46 x 62 cms, black and white, blank verso. Map of Greece prepared for Coronelli's monumental 13 volume ‘Atlante Veneto’, published 1690-96 in continuation of Blaeu's ‘Atlas Major’; this map was also included in his ‘Corso Geografico Universale’, ‘Il Medittaraneo’ and finally, c. 1708, his ‘Teatro della guerra. Morea, Negroponte, & Adiacenze’. Zacharakis… Read more about this item

Antwerp: Plantin-Moretus , 1624. Copper engraving, 36 x 48 cms, modern hand colour, Latin text on verso. Ancient Thrace, extending from Macedonia to Byzantium, following the cartography of Gastaldi supplemented by information from classical sources including Herodotus, Strabo and Pliny. Our example was published by Balthasar Moretus at the Plantin Press, in the final edition of the Parergon. Ortelius's… Read more about this item

Genoa: Yves Gravier, 1804. Copper engraving, 14.5 x 20 cms, black and white as issued, blank verso. Astypalaia in the Dodecanese, Greece. Map

Genoa: Yves Gravier, 1804. Copper engraving, 14 x 20 cms, black and white as issued, blank verso. Foça, Turkey; near Smyrna. Map

Genoa: Yves Gravier, 1804. Copper engraving, 14 x 20 cms, black and white as issued, blank verso. The port of Ios in the Cyclades. Map

London, 1876. Lithographed map, 45 x 57 cms, original colour, light waterstaining in upper margin, blank verso; from the ‘Royal Atlas of Modern Geography’. Map

Venice,, 1605. Copper engraving, 10.8 x 14.7 cms, engraved by Girolamo Porro, set in descriptive Italian text with woodcut headpiece and historiated initia, recent hand-colour. From L’Isole piu famose del Mondo, one of the most beautifully engraved of the Italian Isolaria or Island books. Map

Venice,, 1605. Copper engraving, 10.8 x 14.7 cms, engraved by Girolamo Porro, set in descriptive Italian text with woodcut headpiece and historiated initial, recent hand-colour. From L’Isole piu famose del Mondo, one of the most beautifully engraved of the Italian Isolaria or Island books. Map

Venice,, 1605. Copper engraving, 10.8 x 14.7 cms, engraved by Girolamo Porro, set in descriptive Italian text with woodcut headpiece and historiated initial, recent hand-colour. From L’Isole piu famose del Mondo, one of the most beautifully engraved of the Italian Isolaria or Island books. Map

Venice,, 1605. Copper engraving, 10.8 x 14.7 cms, engraved by Girolamo Porro, set in descriptive Italian text with woodcut headpiece and historiated initial, recent hand-colour. From L’Isole piu famose del Mondo, one of the most beautifully engraved of the Italian Isolaria or Island books. Map

Venice,, 1605. Copper engraving, 10.8 x 14.7 cms, engraved by Girolamo Porro, set in descriptive Italian text with woodcut headpiece and historiated initial, recent hand-colour. From L’Isole piu famose del Mondo, one of the most beautifully engraved of the Italian Isolaria or Island books. Map

Venice,, 1605. Copper engraving, 10.7 x 14.5 cms, engraved by Girolamo Porro, set in descriptive Italian text with woodcut headpiece and historiated initial, recent hand-colour. From L’Isole piu famose del Mondo, one of the most beautifully engraved of the Italian Isolaria or Island books. Map

Venice,, 1605. Copper engraving, 10.8 x 14.7 cms, engraved by Girolamo Porro, set in descriptive Italian text with woodcut headpiece and historiated initial, recent hand-colour. From L’Isole piu famose del Mondo, one of the most beautifully engraved of the Italian Isolaria or Island books. Map

Venice,, 1605. Copper engraving, 10.8 x 14.7 cms, engraved by Girolamo Porro, set in descriptive Italian text with woodcut headpiece and historiated initial, recent hand-colour. From L’Isole piu famose del Mondo, one of the most beautifully engraved of the Italian Isolaria or Island books. The battle of Lepanto, 1571, was the first great defeat of the Turkish navy, and… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, Henricus Hondius, 1633. Copper engraving, 35 x 49 cm, recent hand colour, French text on verso. Crete, with inset maps of Corfu, Zante, Milos, Nicsia, Santorini and Scarpanto. The Mercator-Hondius-Janssonius cartographic publishing house was one of the leading firms of the Dutch Golden Age, at a time when the Low Countries were at the forefront of the international… Read more about this item