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| SCHEDEL, H. - Anglie Provincia (Tercia estas mundi Foliu XLVI ) / Salomon's genealogy tree (XLVI) / Genealogy tree & Abner & Joab (XLVII) / Judgment of Solomon (XLVII). Nuremberg, 12 July 1493, Coloured.. 456x645mm. In excellent good condition, wide margins and attractive colours. Two folio sheets. Woodcuts depicting an imaginary England countryside, showing a fortified city above a fast-flowing river. According to Rodney Shirley "[the two woodcuts] are masterful examples of the medieval woodcutter's skill.". And a large illustration of the Judgment of Solomon (140x225mm.). VERSO : S... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| JANSSONIUS, J. - Angliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae, sive Britannicar : Insularum descriptio. Amsterdam, 1621, Uncoloured.. 340x490mm. Paper slightly age-toned. Repair of tear lower part center fold, hardly notable and no paper missing. Good and dark impression. A rare and ornate map with inset portraits of James First, Henry Prince of Wales Princess Anne of Denmark. Janssonius acquired the copperplate of van den Keere's 1604 British Isles map following Ortelius' outline and reissued it in 1621 with his own imprint in place of Keere's. The same plate ... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| VISSCHER, N. - Tabula Magnae Britanniae continens Angliam Scotiam.. Amsterdam, c.1630, Coloured.. 455x548mm. Lower part of border cut off, paper now professionally re-enforced and missing area re-drawn. Extremely rare map of the British Isles designed by Claes Janszoon Visscher some time in the early 1620s. The engraving is by Abraham Goos. This is the later state with the date 1630 added to the plate. The map follows John Speed's British Isles map for outline and topographical details. ... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| BLAEU, W. - Anglia Regnum. Amsterdam, 1634, Uncoloured.. 383x500mm. Paper slightly age toned, top margin frayed, paper crease to centerfold - else very fine. Wide margins, a strong impression. German text to verso. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THIS MAP. A scarce first edition (often listed as proof state) of Willem Blaeu's map of England and Wales. Blaeu was the first publisher to bring out a new map of England and Wales. The outline and place names are taken from English cartographer John Speed with ... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| CHATELAIN,H. - Carte Genealogique De La Maison De Stuart, Dans La Quelle L'On Fait Observer Son Origine, Ses Branches. Amsterdam, 1719, Uncoloured.. 380x475mm. In very good condition. Fine. Fine example of Chatelain's attractive plate showing the genealogy of the House of Stuart, decorated with four coats-of-arms pertaining to military alliances. Zacharie Chatelain (d.1723) was the father of Henri Abraham (1684-1743) and Zacharie Junior (1690-1754). They worked as a pa... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| BOWLES, C. / CARVER - Bowles's new four-sheet map of England and Wales. . . London, 1801, In original o/l colours.. 385x718mm. Slight browning along centre fold with repairs of several splits, no paper missing. Bowles's new four-sheet map of England and Wales: Comprehending all the Cities, Boroughs, Market and Sea-Port Towns, Villages, Lakes, Rivers, Forests, Ruins, Canals, and Principal Seats of the Nobility, with the Roads ... To which is added The South Part of Scotland, and East of Ireland, with the Ma... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| MALLET, A.M. - Londres - die Stedt Londen. Frankfurt, 1684, Uncoloured.. 143x98mm. Good impression. Very good condition. A finely engraved perspective view of the city of London, with people, animals and buildings in the foreground, on the south side of the river, London Bridge across the Thames with sailing ships and the city beyond. The title appears on a banner in the sky. From the German text edition of Des... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| HOMANN, J,B. - Urbium Londini et West-Monasterii nec non Surburbii Southwark Accurata Ichnographia ,., Neuester Grundris der Staedte London und West-Munster, Samt der Vorstadt Southwark ,., Nuremberg, 1736, In original colours,. 508x1660mm. A 3-sheet plan, some light water staining, discolouration along joints, a few printer's creases. Lower margin cut to neat line. Overall still in good condition for such a large view. Detailed plan of London, extending from Grosvenor Square in the west to Mile End to the east, To the right inset views of St, James's Square, and Custom House, elevations of St, Paul's and the Royal Exchange, shipping on the Thames and a compass rose off Millbank, only included in a deluxe edition,... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| CHEREAU, J. / AVELINE, P.A. - A view of Westminster bridge. Vue du pont Westminster. Paris, ca.1750, Uncoloured.. 370x578mm. A larger paper copy (495x645mm.), in very good to mint condition. A very decorative and extremely rare town-view of river Themes and Westminster bridge in London, including a six line description in French and English. Published by Jacques Chéreau, (1688 - 1776). With the address " A Paris chez Chéreau rue St. Jacques au Coq proche la ... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| ANONYMOUS - A View of S. James's Palace Pall Mall. - Vues du Palais royal de S.Jacques Pall Mall. Paris, 1753, In attractive strong original colours.. 232x381mm. A fine copy. Mint condition. As a result of their constant handling, optical prints - as here - in pristine condition are extremely rare. So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of St James's Palace, Pall Mall. The gatehouse of St James's Palace is on the left. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London which produced optical viewing d... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| DAUMONT - Vue Interieure de la Bourse Royale à Londres. Paris, 1760, Original colours.. 270x408mm. Paper slightly age-toned as usual. So-called optical print of the London stock exchange. Daumont was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Paris. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London which produced optical viewing devices and ... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| HUQUIER - Vüe de la Place de Grosvenor a Londres. Paris, 1760, Original colours.. 265x373mm. A fine copy. Very good condition. As a result of their constant handling, optical prints - as here - in pristine condition are extremely rare. So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, London. The centrepiece of the 100 acre Grosvenor Estate, it was built between 1725-31, laid out with large handsomely equipped houses, and has always attracted residents of the highest soc... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| DAUMONT - 6e Vüe d'Optique Représentant Le Chœur de la Cathedrale de St. Paul de Londres. Paris, 1760, Original colours.. 278x412mm. A fine copy. Some paint smudge on the title. Very good condition, dark impression. As a result of their constant handling, optical prints - as here - in pristine condition are extremely rare. So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of the interior of the Saint Paul Cathedral in London. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London which produced optical viewing devic... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| DAUMONT - 5e Vue d'Optique Representant La Vue interieure de la Cathedralle de St. Paul de Londres. Paris, 1760, Original colours.. 245x388mm. A fine copy. Very good condition and dark impression. As a result of their constant handling, optical prints - as here - in pristine condition are extremely rare. So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of the interior of the Saint Paul cathedral in London. Engraved by la Marcade. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London which produc... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| DAUMONT - 39e Vüe d'Optique Representant L'Hotel du Lord Maire de Londre. Paris, 1760, Original colours.. 240x380mm. A fine copy. Very good condition. As a result of their constant handling, optical prints - as here - in pristine condition are extremely rare. So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of Somerset House on the Strand in London. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London which produced optical viewing devices and speci... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| DAUMONT - 26e Vüe d'Optique Representant L'Abbaye de Westminster et de l'Eglise Ste. Marguerite à Londres. Paris, 1760, In attractive strong original colours.. 255x390mm. Mint. condition. As a result of their constant handling, optical prints - as here - in pristine condition are extremely rare. So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of the Westminster Abbey, in London. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London which produced optical viewing devices and special en... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| ANONYME - Vuë du dedans de l'Eglise de St. MARTIN à Londre. Paris, 1760, In attractive strong original colours.. 272x410mm. A fine copy. Very good condition. As a result of their constant handling, optical prints - as here - in pristine condition are extremely rare. So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of the central aisle of St. Martin's church, in London. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London which produced optical viewing devi... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| HUQUIER - Vüe Perspective du Pont neuf construit sur la tamise a Hampton-Court. Paris, 1760, In attractive strong original colours.. 242x376mm. Faint traces of marginal water staining. Very good condition. As a result of their constant handling, optical prints - as here - in such a good condition are rare. So-called optical print illustrating a bridge on the river Thames at Hampton-Court. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London which produced optical viewing devices and special engravings t... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| HUQUIER - Vüe Perspective de l'Hospital de Greenwich prise de la Thamise. Paris, 1760, In attractive strong original colours.. 260x407mm. As a result of their constant handling, optical prints - as here - in pristine condition are extremely rare. So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of Greenwich Hospital, illustrating its close proximity to the River Thames. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London which produced optical viewing devices ... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| DAUMONT - 77e Vüe d'Optique Représentant Les Cascades du Jardin de Vauxhall a Londres. Paris, 1760, In attractive strong original colours.. 300x420mm. As a result of their constant handling, optical prints - as here - in pristine condition are extremely rare. So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of the fountains and artificial cascades in Vauxhall Gardens, London. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London which produced optical viewing devices and spe... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| WALLIS, E. - Wallis's Guide for Strangers Through London. London, E.Wallis, ca. 1840, In attractive strong original colours.. 535x675mm. Dissected and mounted on linen. Age toned and signs of use, but generally very good condition for such a type of map. Engraved plan with original hand-colouring, with title and alphabetical list of the principal streets below. Published by Edward Wellis 42 Skinner Street. With "An alphabetical list of 450 principal streets, with references to their situation" underneath the plan. This edition shows the London... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| LEBRETON, L. - AFFAIRES D'ORIENT Départ des Grenadiers de la Garde Anglaise, à bord du Steamer transatlantique l'Orenoco. . . Paris, Lemercier, c.1860, In original colours.. 195x276mm. Lithography on tinted grounds finished by hand. Some light marginal discolouration. Good condition. Beautiful lithography of the departure of the British steamboat "l'Orenoco" from Southampton in May 1854, with soldiers leaving for the Crimean War. After a design Louis by Le Breton. Louis LeBreton was a surgeon in the French Navy from 1836-1848. During that period he made several very ... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| WAGHENAER, L. J. - De zee cuften tufschen Dovere en Orfords nesse, daer de Teemse de Vermaerde Rivire van Lonen gelegens is. . . Leiden, Plantijn, 1585, Coloured.. 325x510mm. Marginal discolouration and paper slightly age-toned. Left and right margins underlaid. Else good condition. A detailed chart of the English channel coastland. Decorated by a colourful title cartouche and scale cartouche, one compass rose, several vessels and sea monsters. A very early edition rare Dutch text edition of this landmark contribution to the science of navigation. Waghenaer''s own personal ... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| WAGHENAER, L. J. - Belchrijuinghe vande zee custen van Engelandt. . . Leiden, Plantijn, 1585, Coloured.. 325x510mm. Paper slightly age-toned. Repair of a few marginal tears. Else good condition. A rare Dutch text edition of this early detailed chart of the northern coast of England. West to the top. Mileage cartouche has no Latin captures. Decorated by a colourful title cartouche and scale cartouche, one compass rose, several vessels. A early Dutch text editi... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| BLAEU, J. - Insula Sacra; vulgo Holy Iland; et Farne Amsterdam, 1646, In original o/l colours.. 390x470mm. Lower right margin restored. A fine copy. Farne and Holy Islands off the coast of Northumberland. The Abbey, the Old Fort and the town are clearly marked. - German text edition.... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| BLAEU, J. - Middle-sexia. Amsterdam, 1662, In attractive strong original colours.. 415x478mm. Fine original colour, heightened in gold, light overall age-toning, slightly darker along the top edge, two small worm holes in the lower margin, otherwise a fine example. Double-page map of the old Middlesex County, including a marvelous depiction of London on the Thames in the lower right corner. Decorative cartouche and coat of arms. Latin text on verso. Also on verso illustration of Stonehenge. Also on verso illustration of Stonehenge. Blaeu established his f... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| GOOS, P. - Het Canaal tusschen Engeland en Vranciick. Amsterdam, after 1666, Coloured.. 429x545mm. On very thick double-ply paper as issued. Paper browned and water marks in left and right hand part. An eye-catching chart of the Channel. Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was one of the most important cartographer, engraver, publisher and print seller of Amsterdam. His widow continued business at her husband's death. She re-issued the 'Nieuwe Groote Zee-Spiegel (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| JAILLOT, H. - Carte de la Manche. . . Amsterdam, 1692, In original o/l colours.. 578x785mm. Printed on two joined sheets. Paper along the centerfold slightly age-toned. Very good condition. Chart showing the Chanel, with the coastline of France from La Baie de Douarnenez to Dunkerque, and the coastline of England from Stroble head to Manning Tree. Boundaries outlined in hand colour. The map is fully and richly engraved. The map notes Nicolas Sa... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| CORONELLI, V.M. - Parte settentrionale dell' Irlanda / Irlanda parte meridionale . . . Venice, 1696, Uncoloured.. 885x610mm. Very good condition. Two joined sheets. With Italian text on verso. A beautiful and flamboyantly engraved grand two-sheet map of Ireland. Embellished with two cartouches, a vessel under sail and a sea monster. The map is the product of the late 17th century Venetian cartographer, Vincenzo Coronelli. A decorative title cartouche appears bottom left i... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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