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London, 1844. Copper engraving, 55.5 x 78 cm, original hand colour, light spotting, blank verso; from Wyld's New General Atlas. James Wyld senior established a highly successful firm of map publishers, which passed to his son when he died relatively young in 1836, apparently from 'overwork'. He introduced the new process of lithography to map printing, was a founder… Read more about this item

Paris, c. 1770. Copper engraving, 49.5 x 58.5 cm, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. A later state of Robert de Vaugondy’s road map of the Iberian peninsula. The original date (1757) and privilege have been burnished from the plate. Pedley, Bel et Utile: the Work of the Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers, 303. Map

London, , [1841]. Lithograph, two sheets joined with linen tape, sheet size 125 x 83 cm, original hand colour heightening troop dispositions, roads etc, slight spotting, blank verso. Lithographed by A.R. Grive and printed by Day & Haghe, and published by Wyld in ‘Maps & plans showing the principal movements, battles and sieges in which the British Army was… Read more about this item

Paris, c. 1770. Copper engraving, 49.5 x 63 cm, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. A later state of Robert de Vaugondy’s road map of northern Castille. The original date (1756) and privilege have been burnished from the plate. Pedley, Bel et Utile: the Work of the Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers, 327. Map

London, , [1841]. Lithograph, 85 x 66 cm, original hand colour heightening troop dispositions, slight spotting and light dampstaining, blank verso. Two plans printed on one sheet, lithographed by Edward Culliford and printed by Day & Haghe, and published by Wyld in ‘Maps & plans showing the principal movements, battles and sieges in which the British Army was engaged… Read more about this item

London: Baldwin & Cradock, , 1833. Steel engraving, 34 x 40 cm, original hand colour including the city walls outlined in red, engraved by Josiah Henshall after William Barnard Clarke, numbered in an old hand, blank verso. At the foot is a view of Lisbon, ‘from the Quinta da Torrinha Val de Pereiro’, and in the upper right hand… Read more about this item

London: Edward Orme, 1806. Early broadsheet plan of the battle of Trafalgar. Stipple engraving, 43.5 x 28.7 cm, sheet size 49.5 x 34.5 cm, engraved by James Godby after William Marshall Craig, the upper portion with a pale yellow tint, and the map beneath with original hand colour; one ore two short marginal nicks and tears without loss,… Read more about this item

Paris, 1704. Copper engraving, 44.5 x 55.5 cms, original hand colour in outline, a couple of vertical creases, and trivial waterstain in the upper margin, blank verso. Old and New Castile in central Spain. Map

London, c. 1780. Copper engraving, 46 x 52 cms, original hand colour, additional light vertical creases to either side of centrefold, blank verso. Combined title and key in the panel, upper left. This may be one of Wilkinson’s earliest publications, printed as a companion to his reissue of ‘Several Prospects of the Rock, Town, Castle, Fortifications, & Bay of… Read more about this item

Augsburg , c. 1770 . Copper engraving, 49.5 x 59 cms, original hand-colour, blank verso. The map shows the Straits, the prospect at the foot is a bird's-eye plan of the Rock itself and its fortifications; the key is in both French and German. Tobias Conrad Lotter inherited half of the business established by his father-in-law, Matthäus Seutter; in… Read more about this item

Tolosa: Graficas Laborde y Labayen for Ediciones Banco de Bilbao, 1957. Folding map of Biscay, 65 x 96 cms, printed in colours, marginal spotting and pin holes, folding into stiff card covers. Published to mark the centenary of the Banco de Bilbao, one of the big four Spanish banks. Map

Leiden, c. 1707. Copper engraving, 13 x 16.5 cms, modern hand colour, blank verso. Plan of Madrid which appeared in various works including ‘Les Delices of I'Espagne et du Portugal’ and ‘La galerie agréable du monde’. Map

Antwerp: Plantin-Moretus , 1624. Copper engraving, 37.5 x 49.5 cms, modern hand colour, small burn hole in table of peoples and places, Latin text on verso. Our example was published by Balthasar Moretus at the Plantin Press, in the final edition of the Parergon. Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is generally considered the first modern atlas of the world, originally… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, 1640. Copper engraving, 42 x 52.5 cms, original hand-colour, French text on verso. Aragon in northeastern Spain, engraved after a map by João Batista Labanha (1555-1624). The Blaeu firm was official cartographer to the Dutch East India Company (VOC), and Blaeu globes were carried on all VOC vessels; its map-making was of the highest quality at a time… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, 1640. Copper engraving, 38.5 x 50.5 cms, original hand-colour, French text on verso. The Kingdom of Valencia. The Blaeu firm was official cartographer to the Dutch East India Company (VOC), and Blaeu globes were carried on all VOC vessels; its map-making was of the highest quality at a time when the Low Countries were at the forefront of… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, 1640. Copper engraving, 38.5 x 50.5 cms, original hand-colour, French text on verso; the region around Bilbao. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Bl 18A Map

Frankfurt, c. 1650. Copper engraving, 29.5 x 37 cms, black and white, blank verso. Map

London: John & Paul Knapton,, 1745. Copper engraving, 38 x 48.5 cms, engraved by Isaac Basire, recent hand-colour, blank verso. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 14.5 x 10.5 cms, recent hand-colour, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

Amsterdam, 1636. Copper engraving, 36.5 x 49.5 cms, distinctive original English colour and English text on verso: ‘The description of Arragon’; margins renewed and neatlines made good top-right and bottom-left (some of the new maps Hondius created for his edition of the atlas were prepared on larger copper-plates, as is the case here, than many of the earlier Mercator… Read more about this item