Cape of Good Hope naval prospect

AA, Pieter van der.

Le Cap de Bonne Esperance comme il a ete ci-devant.

Leiden, c. 1719. Coloured. 320 x 400mm.

Stock ID : 24077

£400

A classic 16th century map of the Duchy of Milan

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Ducatus Mediolalensis, Finitimarumq. Regionu. Descriptio, Auctore Joanne Georgio Septala. Mediolanense.

Antwerp, 1609-12. Latin text edition. Original colour. 360 x 480mm.

Stock ID : 24385

£400

18th century English map of the East Indies

BOWEN, Emanuel.

An Accurate Map of the East Indies Exhibiting the Course of the European Trade both on the Continent and Islands.

London, 1752. Coloured. 380 x 460mm.

Stock ID : 21763

£440

The only map by Timothy Pont published in his lifetime

PONT, Timothy.

A New Description of the Shyres Lothian and Linlitquo. Be T.Pont.

Amsterdam: Jan Jansson & Henricus Hondius, 1638. Fine Original Colour. 370 x 540mm.

Stock ID : 23842

£450

A sperm whale beached near Scheveningen in 1598

MATHAM, Jacob.

Een Walvisch, Lang 70 voeten, gestrandt op de Hollandise zee-kust, tusschen Scheveningen en Katwyk, in Sprokkelmaandt, 1598.

Dutch, c.1700. 275 x 340mm.

Stock ID : 24030

£450

A very scarce Italian playing card of South America

Anonymous.

XVII America Meridionle.

Bologna: Tipografia de' Franceschi alla Colomba?, c.1790. Engraved playing card, sheet 115 x 60mm, with red woodcut design on reverse.

Stock ID : 24230

£450

An uncommon Italian map of the western United States

MARMOCCHI, Francesco C.

Stati e Territorii Occidentali della Unione Americana

Genova: Paolo Rivara, c.1858. Original colour. 360 x 300mm.

Stock ID : 24374

£450

Decorative 18th century map of Norway

HOMANN, Johann Baptist.

Regni Norvegiae Accurata Tabula in qua Praefecturae quinque Generales Aggerhusiensis Bergensis Nidrosiensis Wardhusiensis et Bahusienis...

Nuremberg, 1720. Coloured. 600 x 500mm.

Stock ID : 24171

£460

Pair of 19th century map of the world's hemispheres

TALLIS, John.

Western Hemisphere. [&] Eastern Hemisphere.

London, John Tallis & Co., 1851. Original outline colour. Pair of steel engravings, each sheet 265 x 365mm.

Stock ID : 23387

£500

Gwynn's proposed improvements to London Bridge and Custom House

GWYNN, John.

Part of London shewing the Improvments propos'd about London-Bridge, the Custom-House, tower &c.

London, 1766.Original colour. 320 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 24128

£500

A detailed map of Knightsbridge, Chelsea and Kensington

WELLER, Edward.

Cassell's Map of London (South West Sheet) Scale 9 Inches to the Mile.

London: Cassell, Petter & Gilpin, 1863. Lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 510 x 685mm.

Stock ID : 24168

£500

A 16th century Dutch map of Portugal

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Portugalliae que olim Lusitania, novissima & exactissima description, Auctore Vernando Alvaro Secco.

Antwerp, 1584, Latin text edition. Coloured. 340 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 23875

£550

A rare issue of Speed's map of Westmorland

SPEED, John.

The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne Described With the Armes of such Nobles as have bene Earles of either of them.

London: Roger Rea & Son, 1665. Coloured. 390 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 24006

£550

Map of London's Underground as run by separate companies

GILL, Leslie MacDonald.

UndergrounD. Map of Electric Railways of London.

London: Dangerfield Printing Company for Electric Railway House, 1921. Colour-printed folding map. 280 x 340mm.

Stock ID : 24029

£550

Highly decorative map of Liverpool with vignettes

TALLIS, John.

Liverpool

London, John Tallis & Co., c.1851. Original colour with additions. Steel engraving. 375 x 525mm.

Stock ID : 24113

£550

An uncommon map of Sicily

QUAD, Matthias.

Sicilia.

Cologne: Johann Bussemacher, 1600, German text edition. 210 x 305mm.

Stock ID : 23948

£600

A rare issue of Speed's map of Herefordshire

SPEED, John.

Hereford-Shire described With the true plot of the Citie Hereford, as alsoe the Armes of thos Nobles that have bene intituled with that Dignity.

London: Roger Rea & Son, 1665. 385 x 515mm.

Stock ID : 24001

£600

A scarce issue of John Speed's map of Northumberland

SPEED, John.

Northumberland.

London, Roger Rea & Son, 1665. Coloured. 380 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 24023

£600

A scarce issue of John Speed's map of Rutland

SPEED, John.

Rutland.

London: Roger Rea & Son, 1665. Coloured. 390 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 24025

£600

Map of London's Underground as run by separate companies

GILL, Leslie MacDonald.

Map of the Underground Railways of London.

London: Waterlow & Sons Ltd for Electric Railway House, 1923. 365 x 440mm.

Stock ID : 24033

£650

An unusual Italian map of Australia

MARMOCCHI, Francesco C.

L'Australia con la divisione delle sue coste Proposta dal Capit.o Vetch.

Genova: Paolo Rivara, c.1858. Coloured. 295 x 365mm, publisher's blind stamp in lower margin.

Stock ID : 23588

£650

A scarce issue of John Speed's map of Northamptonshire

SPEED, John.

Northamton Shire.

London: Roger Rea and son, 1665. Coloured. 380 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 24022

£650

A scarce issue of John Speed's map of Leicestershire

SPEED, John.

Leicester both Countye and Citie described, The Honorable Famylies that hasve had the titles of Earls thereof. With outher accidents therin observed.

London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 380 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 24021

£700

A scarce issue of John Speed's map of Cumberland

SPEED, John.

Cumberland and the Ancient Citie of Carlile Described with Many Memorable Antiquities Therein Found Observed.

London: Roger Rea & Son, 1665. Coloured. 390 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 24024

£700

Gwynn's proposed improvements for modern Leicester-Square and Covent Garden.

GWYNN, John.

Part of Westminster at large shewing the Improvements props'd about Leicester-Fields, Covent Garden, the Mewse &c.

London, 1766. Original colour. 300 x 495mm.

Stock ID : 24129

£700

An 18th century map of the Virgin Islands

EDWARDS, Bryan.

Map of the Virgin Islands, for the History of the West Indies by Bryan Edwards Esq.r.

London: John Stockdale, 1794. Coloured. 195 x 250mm.

Stock ID : 24169

£700

Five scarce Italian playing cards depicting Sweden and the Baltic

Anonymous.

XV Svezia. [&] Nord II. Svezia. [&] Nord 8. Svezia ha 7. [&] Nord 7. Svezia ha. 7. [&] Isola 7. Nel Mar Baltico all' Est della Svezia.

Bologna: Tipografia de' Franceschi alla Colomba?, c.1790. Five playing cards, one engraved, one woodcut and letterpress and three letterpress, each sheet 115 x 60mm, with red woodcut design on reverse.

Stock ID : 24237

£700

Pimlico and Belgravia from an important large-scale survey of London

HORWOOD, Richard.

[Untitled plan of Pimlico and Belgravia.] B. 4.

London: 1795-99. 570 x 520mm.

Stock ID : 24400

£700

A Victorian plan of London

WYLD, James.

Wyld's New Plan of London for 1859.

London, 1859. Original colour. dissected and laid on linen, as issued, total 580 x 750mm, folded into the original slipcase with publisher's title label.

Stock ID : 23945

£750

Four scarce Italian playing cards depicting Scotland

Anonymous.

XI. Scozia. [&] Isole 1. Scozia Nell' Oceano al Norde dell'Inghilterra. [&] Isole 4. Nell Oceano al Nord della Scozia. [&] Isole 5. Nell' Oceano All' ouest della Scozia, all' ouest della Inngilterra.

Bologna: Tipografia de' Franceschi alla Colomba?, c.1790. Four playing cards, one engraved, the others letterpress, each sheet 115 x 60mm, with red woodcut design on reverse.

Stock ID : 24234

£750

Early 18th century French map of Scandinavia

JAILLOT, Alexis-Hubert.

La Scandinavie...

Paris, Jaillot, 1709. Original colour with additions. Two sheets conjoined as issued, total 590 x 890mm.

Stock ID : 24377

£750

A pair of scarce Italian playing cards depicting Ireland

Anonymous.

X Irlanda. [&] Isole III. Irlanda.

Bologna: Tipografia de' Franceschi alla Colomba?, c.1790. Two playing cards, one engraved, one woodcut and letterpress, each sheet 115 x 60mm, with red woodcut design on reverse.

Stock ID : 24236

£800

An early 20th century wall map of Asia

JOHNSTON, W. & A.K.

The World Wide Series of Library and Office Maps. Asia. Constructed, Engraved & Printed by W. & A.K. Johnston, Ltd.

Edinburgh, Glasgow & London, 1907. Colour-printed map, dissected and laid on linen as issued, total 1070 x 1325mm. With publisher's 'Review Copy' ink stamp in bottom margin.

Stock ID : 24222

£825

The largest representation of Hawaii to appear in an atlas

VANDERMAELEN, Philippe.

Océanique. Iles Sandwich. No.3.

Brussels, 1827. Lithographic map with original hand colour, 490 x 550mm, with wide margins.

Stock ID : 24396

£900

16th century map with Cyprus & Crete

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Cyprus Insula; Candia olim Creta.

Antwerp: Christoph Plantin, 1573, Latin edition. Coloured. 365 x 430mm.

Stock ID : 24407

£900

An early issue of Jansson's map of Ireland

JANSSON, Jan.

Hibernia Regnum Vulgo Ireland.

Amsterdam, 1638, Latin text edition. Fine original colour. 390 x 500mm, with wide margins.

Stock ID : 23865

£950

18th century map of the Caspian Sea & Uzbekistan

MAAS, Abraham.

Nova Maris Caspii et Regionis Usbeck...

Nuremberg: Homann's Heirs, c.1735. Original colour with additions. 500 x 600mm.

Stock ID : 24091

£950

An upside-down bird's-eye view of Italy from the Alps

VALLARDI, Antonio.

Italia come si presenta nella sua configurazione naturale all'altezza di circa 20, mille metri.

Milan, 1865. Chromolithograph. Sheet 395 x 550mm.

Stock ID : 24387

£950

An early map of Berkshire, with a prospect of Windsor Castle

SPEED, John.

Barkshire Described.

London, Roger Rea and Son, 1665. Coloured. 385 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 24017

£980

A view of the Great Fire of London, 1666

MERIAN, Matthaus.

Abbildung der Statt London, sambt dem erschrocklichen brandt daselsten, so 4. tagen lange gewehrt hatt A.º 1666 im 7bris.

Frankfurt: Heirs of Matthias Merian, c.1690. Coloured etching. 220 x 350mm.

Stock ID : 24367

£980

A 17th century English panelled map of France

SPEED, John.

France revised and augmented, the attires of the French and situations of their cheif cityes observed by John Speede.

London; Roger Rea and Son, 1665. Coloured. 405 x 525mm.

Stock ID : 23995

£1,000

18th century map of Ukraine

HOMANN, Johann Baptist.

Ukrania quae et Terra Cosaccorum vicinis Walachiae, Moldaviae, Minorisque Tartariae Provinciis exhibita.

Nuremberg, c.1720. Original colour with additions. 480 x 570mm.

Stock ID : 24394

£1,000

An important 19th century map of Sardinia

Ferraro della Marmora, Alberto.

Carta dell'Isola e Regno di Sardegna dedicata alla Maestà del Re Carlo Alberto Primo dal suo umilissimo e devotissimo suddito il Maggior Generale C.te Alberto ferrero della Marmora Comandante la Regia Scuola di Maria di Genova, Membro della R. Accademia delle Scienze di Torino; già colonnello - ajutante - generale nel R. Corpo di Stato Maggiore Generale, assistito dal suo Collaboratore il Cav.re D. Carlo de Candia Maggiore nel R. Corpo suddetto.

Paris & Turin, 1845. Dissected and laid on linen, as issued, total 1400 x 885mm, folded into the original slipcase.

Stock ID : 24225

£1,100

A rare broadsheet chronology of the kings of Spain

NEGGES, Johann Simon.

Chronologia Hispanica seu Regum Hispaniae Series...

Augsburg, c.1760. Engraving, sheet 695 x 445mm, including map with original hand colour. Mezzotint portrait, 325 x 220mm, pasted on as issued.

Stock ID : 24389

£1,100

17th century map of India after Cantelli da Vignola

CANTELLI DA VIGNOLA, Giacomo.

Penisola Dell India di qua dal Gange et Isole intorno ad essa adiacenti...

Rome: G.G. de Rossi, 1683. Coloured. 520 x 420mm.

Stock ID : 24409

£1,100

A scarce 18th century double-hemisphere world map

BOURGOIN, Pierre.

Mappe Monde Carte Universelle de la Terre Dressée Sur les Nouvelles Observations de M.rs de l'Académie Royale des Sciences.

Paris, c.1766. Coloured. 325 x 450mm.

Stock ID : 22916

£1,200

Scarce town plan of Singapore in the 1950s

FEDERATION OF MALAYA SURVEY DEPT.

City of Singapore.

Malaya, c.1953. Lithograph, printed in red and black. Sheet 720 x 495mm.

Stock ID : 23955

£1,200

An 18th century maritime explanatory print

CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham.

Nouvelle Carte pour conduire a la Connoissance de la Marine et a demontrer la plus part des Instrumens.

Amsterdam, 1720. Coloured. 500 x 600mm.

Stock ID : 24154

£1,200

An early example of this 17th century map of Lithuania

HONDIUS, Henricus.

Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae...

Amsterdam, 1637, Latin text edition.Original colour. 375 x 505mm.

Stock ID : 24390

£1,200

The title page to a sea atlas in superb colour

HOOGHE, Romeyn de.

Atlas Maritime.

Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1693. Original colour with gold highlights. 530 x380mm.

Stock ID : 24410

£1,200