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London, c. 1851. Two steel engraved map sheets, each approx. 26 x 34 cm, original hand colour, imprint in lower margin cut close, blank verso; engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘Illustrated Atlas’, with vignettes of animals and peoples of the world engraved by John Rogers after H. Warren. The map of the Eastern Hemisphere tracks the overland… Read more about this item

London, c. 1851. Steel engraving, 25 x 32 cms, modern hand-colour, blank verso; engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘Illustrated Atlas’, showing tracks for all three of Cook’s voyages, and with a vignette at the foot which presumably depicts HMS Endeavour. Map

[Constantinople (Istanbul), Amire Printing House, AH 1333], 1917. World map in Arabic, 29 x 29.5 cm, printed in colours, old folds, lower left hand corner unobtrusively reinstated (no loss of image), blank verso. This is the first printed edition of a world map in Arabic, which was originally drawn in the 11th century CE to illustrate Mahmud al-Kashgari’s ‘Diwan… Read more about this item

London: George Philip & Son, Ltd, 1942. Pictorial world map on Mercator’s projection, 90 x 114 cm, printed in colours, a couple of short, closed tears, pin holes in corners, recently lined on paper and linen. First published in 1942, a second edition bears a new copyright date of 1944 in the lower margin; a third edition, revised with… Read more about this item

London, Baldwin &: Cradock, 1834. Steel engraving, 40.5 x 32.5 cm, engraved by Thomas Starling, original hand colour in outline, trivial spotting, numbered in an old hand, blank verso. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was founded in 1826 with the high-minded aim of making 'useful' information available to self-taught members of the working and lower middle… Read more about this item

Denbigh, c. 1861. Welsh language map of the World, sheet size 24.5 x 34 cm, original hand colour, blank verso; published in the Encyk clopediae Cambrensis. Thomas Gee (1815-1898) was a Welsh Nonconformist preacher and Welsh-language publisher. The son of a printer, he honed his skills in London. The ‘Encyclopaedia Cambrensis’ or ‘Y Gwyddoniadur Cymreig’, edited by Gee’s brother… Read more about this item

London, George Philip &: Son, Ltd, 1922. Folding map, 50 x 63.5 cm, printed in colours, laid on linen and folding into stiff card covers, which are a little rubbed and worn. Founded in 1894, on the cusp of the Anglo-German naval arms race, the Navy League was a pressure group seeking to influence politicians and popular opinion (including… Read more about this item

Edinburgh, 1855. Steel engraving, 44.5 x 53 cm, original hand-colour, blank verso. A highly decorative map of the British Empire by John Bartholemew, with British possessions coloured red. Ethnographic figures engraved by Andrew Thom surround the map, representing the inhabitants of each colony or dominion, whether settlers or indigenous to the region. The tables detail the total size and… Read more about this item

London &: Edinburgh, John Bartholomew &, 1946. Folding map, 70 x 96 cm, printed in colours, laid on linen as issued, printed labels on verso: title and advertisement for the 1948 first edition of Bartholomew’s ‘Regional Atlas of the World’. The United Nations was established in October 1945, and Bullock’s map is a joyful celebration of what promised to… Read more about this item

London, 1894. Two lithographic map sheets joined, overall size 74 x 96 cm, map approx 62 x 94 cm with extensions across the neatline (Greenland, Antarctica etc), printed in colours, narrow left and right hand margins, blank verso; published in the second trade edition of Stanford’s London Atlas. Edward Stanford (senior) acquired Arrowmsith's stock in 1874. His own version… Read more about this item

London, 1894. Double hemisphere world map, lithograph, 49 x 61 cm, colour printed, blank verso; published in the second trade edition of Stanford’s London Atlas. Edward Stanford (senior) acquired Arrowmsith's stock in 1874. His own version of the London Atlas, first published in 1887 and dedicated to Queen Victoria in the year of her Golden Jubilee, is considered to… Read more about this item

London, 1831. Steel engraving, 36.5 x 44 cm, engraved by John Dower, original hand colour, numbered in an old hand, blank verso. Coloured by continent, with the exception of Russian America which is coloured as an extension of Asia; published in Teesdale’s ‘New General Atlas of the World’. Map

London, c. 1884. Lithographed map, printed in colours, blank verso, from ‘Letts’s Popular Atlas’. Our example is from one of the last editions of the atlas published by the original firm of stationers, map and diary makers. Charles Letts, grandson of the firm’s founder, remained in business under his own name, but in 1884 the Letts, Son & Co… Read more about this item

London, 1844. Steel engraving, 36.5 x 44 cms, engraved by John Dower, original hand colour, blank verso; published in Teesdale’s ‘New General Atlas of the World’. British possessions denoted in red; tracks the voyages of James Cook and John Gore. Map

Paris: Maison Basset, 1843. Steel engraving, 23 x 30.5 cms, a couple of trivial marginal stains, blank verso. Decorative world map with somewhat rococco border; note that Texas is marked separately (the Republic of Texas existed 1836-1846). Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cms, recent hand-colour, light waterstaining in upper margin, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

Augsburg, c. 1770. Copper engraving, 43.5 x 63.5 cms, original hand colour with later additions to the cartouche, left and right hand margins cut close (but still 0.5 cms remaining), blank verso. Lotter’s map, after Guillaume de l’Isle, reflects the typical extent of mid-eighteenth century European knowledge, with various incomplete and conjectural coastlines, notably the west coast of north… Read more about this item