The first published volume of Booth's 'Labour and Life' in London

BOOTH, Charles.

Labour and Life of the People. Volume I: East London. Second Edition, with a Coloured Map.

London & Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1889. 8vo, original cloth with black lettering, marbled edges; pp. iv + 598; 4 wood-engraved maps printed in browns, folding map with hand colour at rear, backed with linen as issued.

Stock ID : 21934

£3,500

A rare map of Cyprus in classical times

MORTIER, Pierre.

Cyprus Insula Cujus circuitus est. Si intrentus Sinus, Stadiorum MMM CCCC XX. longitudo verõ. à Clidibus ad Acamantem Stadiorum MCCCC.

Amsterdam, 1725. Original colour. 335 x 425mm, with wide margins.

Stock ID : 23552

£3,000

A detailed map of the Moon issued for the Apollo landings

CHEMLA-LAMECH, Felix.

Carte Générale de la Lune Dressée d'Après l'Observation par Félix Chemla Lamech. Troisiéme Édition.

Paris: Girard & Barrère, 1969. Chromolithograph, sheet 1020 x 740mm.

Stock ID : 23650

£2,500

A two-sheet map of the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico

BUACHE, Philippe.

Carte du Golphe du Mexique et des Isles Antilles Reduite de la Grande Carte Angloise de Popple.

Paris, Dezauche, c.1780. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 500 x 940mm.

Stock ID : 23455

£1,900

Ortelius's famous early map of Russia

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio. Auctore Antonio Ienkensono Anglo.

Antwerp: 1595, Latin text edition. Old colour. 360 x 450mm.

Stock ID : 20317

£1,900

The Adriatic under the control of Venice

MORTIER, Pierre.

Le Golfe de Venise, Avec les Principaux Caps, Promontoires, & Ports de Mer. Dressé sur les Memoires les plus Nouveauz du P.Coronelli, & Autres, par le S.r Sanson, Geographe du Roy.

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, c.1690. Original colour. 575 x 740mm.

Stock ID : 23446

£1,800

Early 17th century map of Iceland in fabulous early colour

MERCATOR, Gerard.

Islandia.

Amsterdam: Jocodus Hondius, 1608-12, Latin text edition. Original colour. 285 x 430mm.

Stock ID : 23475

£1,800

A Dutch edition of rhe first printed map to accurately plot the Mississippi River

DELISLE, Guillaume.

Carte du Mexique et de la Floride des Terres Angloises et des Isles Antilles, du Cours et des Environs de la Riviere de Mississipi. Dressée Sur un grand nombre de memoires principalement sur ceux de M.rs d'Iberville et le Sueur.

Amsterdam, Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier, 1722. Original colour. 500 x 615mm.

Stock ID : 23463

£1,700

A detailed plan of the Mont-Blanc massif

BARBEY, Albert.

Carte Albert Barbey au 1/50,000éme La Chaine du Mont Blanc...

Berne: Kummerly & Frey, 1924. Chromolithograph. Dissected and laid on linen, as issued, total 530 x 100mm, with title label.

Stock ID : 22980

£1,600

A French edition of an important map of the St Lawrence valley

CARVER, Jonathan.

Nouvelle Carte de la Province de Quebec selon l'Edit du Roi d'Angleterre du 7. 8.bre 1763 par le Capitaine Carver et autres Traduite de l'Anglois.

Paris: Georges-Louis Le Rouge, 1777. Original outline colour. 510 x 680mm.

Stock ID : 23477

£1,600

A fine townplan of Biblical Jerusalem with a contemporary prospect

SEUTTER, Matthäus.

Prospectus Sanctae olim et celeberrimae urbis Hierosolymae... Prospect der vormals Heiligen und Welt Berühmtem Stadt Jerusalem...

Augsburg, c.1735. Fine original colour. 500 x 575mm.

Stock ID : 23451

£1,500

A classic 16th century Dutch map of Cyprus

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Cypri Insulae Nova Descript. 1573.

Antwerp, 1579, Latin edition. Coloured. 350 x 500mm.

Stock ID : 23476

£1,500

17th century old maps of the West Indian Islands

HONDIUS, Jodocus.

Cuba Insula; Hispaniola Insula; Insula Jamaica; Ins. S.Joannis: I.S.Margareta cum Confiniis.

Amsterdam, Henricus Hondius, 1623, Latin text edition. Original colour. 355 x 495mm.

Stock ID : 23456

£1,200

A pre-Cook discoveries map of Australia

BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas.

Carte Réduite des Terres Australes... 1753.

Paris, 1753. Coloured. 210 x 280mm.

Stock ID : 22937

£1,000

The 'Stetson' Map, with an early mapping of the United States

HOMANN HEIRS.

Charte über die XIII vereinigte Staaten von Nord-America, Entworfen durch F.L.Güssefelt...

Nuremberg, 1784. Original colour. 460 x 575mm.

Stock ID : 23452

£1,000

Map of Ancient Greece by Ortelius, rare first printing

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Graecia Sophiani.

Antwerp, 1587. French text edition. Original colour. 350 x 490mm.

Stock ID : 23549

£1,000

A French edition of Rocque's vintage map of London

TARDIEU, Pierre François.

Londres (avec le Bourg de Southwark).

Paris, 1765. Fine contemporary colour. 330 x 470mm.

Stock ID : 23454

£980

16th century map of the Grand Duchy of Florence

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Florentini Dominii, Fidelissima et Nova Descriptio. Auctore D. Stephano Monacho Montisoliveti.

Antwerp, 1595, Latin text. Original colour. 340 x 465mm.

Stock ID : 20312

£980

The Muscovy Company whaling at Svalbard

EDGE, Thomas.

['Greenland' & 'Edges Island'.]

London: Henry Featherstone, 1625. 295 x 335mm.

Stock ID : 23464

£950

A rare early 19th century geographical card game

JOUY, Victor-Joseph Etienne de.

Jeu de Cartes Geographiques, Orné de figures gravées avec soin et représentant les différens peuples de la terre dans le costume particulier à chacun d'eux; destiné à l'instruction et à l'amusement de la jeunesse des deux sexes. Sixieme Jeu.

Lille: Vanackere, & Paris: H. Nicolle, c.1806. Original paper box (110 x 75 x 25mm), with title label; 47 (of 48) cards, folding rule sheet and folding world map.

Stock ID : 23826

£950

Blaeu's striking two-sheet map of the Rhine, Meuse and Moselle

BLAEU, Willem Janszoon.

Rhenus Fluviorum Europae celeberrimus cum Mosa, Mosella, et reliquis, in illum se exonerantibus fluminibus.

Amsterdam, c.1635. Original colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 420 x 960mm.

Stock ID : 23490

£850

A 17th century old map of Ireland

VISSCHER, Nicolas.

Hiberniae Regnum...

Amsterdam, Peter Schenk c.1700. Original colour with later additions. 575 x 480mm.

Stock ID : 23553

£850

A 17th century chart relating health to planetary alignment

ZAHN, Johann.

Pro Crisibus Morborum et Aspectibus Planetarum.

Nuremberg: J.C.Lochner, 1696. Coloured. 360 x 425mm.

Stock ID : 23563

£800

An allegorical map of map of England

ALEPH [HARVEY, William].

England.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1869. 250 x 210mm.

Stock ID : 23751

£750

Early 19th century original table of maritime flags

ROSSI, Luigi.

Prospetto generale delle bandiere che si inalberano a bordo dei bastimenti di guerra e mercantili di tutte le nazioni all'epoca del primo Giugno 1820...

Milan: Batelli & Fanfani, c.1820. Original colour 450 X 610mm.

Stock ID : 23465

£750

A Georgian board game based on the British monarchy

WALLIS, J. & E.

The Royal Game of British Sovereigns, exhibiting The most remarkable events in each Reign from Egbert to George III.

London J. & E. Wallis, and Sidmouth: J. Wallis Jn.r, c.1820. Original colour. Dissected and laid on linen, as issued, total 490 x 620mm, lacking 'Explanation' booklet.

Stock ID : 23564

£750

Cook's mapping of New Zealand

BONNE, Rigobert.

Carte De La Nouvelle Zéelande.

Paris, c.1778. Coloured. 360 x 240mm.

Stock ID : 19641

£750

A 17th century old map of Italy according to Ptolemy

MAGINI, Giovanni Antonio.

Italia Antica di Cl: Tolomeo

Venice: Fabio Magini, 1620. Coloured Sheet 335 x 470mm.

Stock ID : 20903

£750

18th century map of Ireland with bright original colour

SEUTTER, Matthäus.

Regnum Hiberniae, tam secundum IV Provincias Principales Ultoniam, Connaciam, Lageniam, Momonium...

Augsburg, c.1742. Original body colour. 585 x 500mm.

Stock ID : 22406

£750

A panorama of Rio de Janeiro on tour in Edinburgh

BURFORD, Robert.

Description of a View of the City of St. Sebastian, and the Bay of Rio Janeiro, Now Exhibiting in the New Rotunda, Mound. Painted by Robert Burford, Leicester Square, London, from Drawings Taken in 1823.

Edinburgh: Printed by T. Turnbull and Sons, 1830. Pamphlet, 8vo, later wrapper and case; letterpress title, pp.12, with folding wood-engraving, sheet 280 x 430mm.

Stock ID : 23828

£700

Pictorial map of Russia

ALEPH [HARVEY, William].

Russia

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1869. 250 x 210mm.

Stock ID : 23747

£650

Caricature map of Italy

ALEPH [HARVEY, William].

Italy.

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1869. 250 x 210mm.

Stock ID : 23748

£650

A satirical map of Scotland

ALEPH [HARVEY, William].

Scotland.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1869. 250 x 210mm.

Stock ID : 23749

£650

A satirical map of Ireland

ALEPH [HARVEY, William].

Ireland.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1869. 250 x 210mm.

Stock ID : 23750

£650

Early view of the Great Mosque in Mecca, with the Kaaba

CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham.

Le Temple de la Mecque avec une Description Exacte de tout ce qu'on y Voit & Des Ceremoniesqu'on y fait.

Amsterdam, 1720. Coloured. 380 x 440mm.

Stock ID : 23462

£600

A 18th century world map in a single sphere

BUACHE, Philippe.

Planisphere Physique Où l'on voit du Pole-Septentrional ce que l'on connoît de Terres ete de Mers Avec les Grandes Chaînes de Montagnes, qui, traversant le Globe...

Paris: Dezauche, 1781. Original colour. 345 x 450mm, with very wide margins.

Stock ID : 22532

£500

A satirical map of Holland & Belgium

ALEPH [HARVEY, William].

Holland & Belgium.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1869. Original colour. 250 x 210mm.

Stock ID : 23754

£500

A satirical map of Spain & Portugal

ALEPH [HARVEY, William].

Spain & Portugal.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1869. 210 x 250mm.

Stock ID : 23755

£500

17th century prospect of Jerusalem

MERIAN, Matthaus.

Ierusalem.

Frankfurt, c.1650. Coloured. 215 x 335mm.

Stock ID : 23237

£500

A 17th century townplan of Cambridge

HERMANNIDES, Rutger.

Cambridge Cambrids.

Amsterdam: Aegidius Janssonius Valckenier, c.1661. Coloured. 110 x 130mm.

Stock ID : 22774

£350

Early Italian plan of London

VALEGIO, Francesco.

Londra.

Padua, Lasor à Varea, 1713, set in a page of text. 85 x 120mm.

Stock ID : 18640

£350

Map of New Zealand with decorative vignettes

TALLIS, John.

New Zealand.

London: John Tallis & Co., c.1851. Steel engraving, printed area 350 x 260mm.

Stock ID : 23502

£320

Map of the United States with decorative vignettes

TALLIS, John.

United States.

London, John Tallis & Co, c.1851. Original outline colour. Steel engraving, printed area 255 x 340mm,

Stock ID : 23481

£300

19th century map of Scotland with decorative vignettes

TALLIS, John.

Scotland.

London, J. & F. Tallis, c.1851. Original outline colour. Steel engraving, printed area 350 x 260mm.

Stock ID : 23492

£280

Victorian map of Southern India

TALLIS, John.

Southern India.

London, John Tallis & Co., c.1851. Original outline colour. Steel engraving, 350 x 240mm.

Stock ID : 23533

£280

19th century illustration of Mars

BLUNT, Charles F.

The Planet Mars.

London: David Bogue, c. 1845. Wood engraving on thick paper. 150 x 190mm.

Stock ID : 22365

£275

19th century decorative map of the British Isles

TALLIS, John.

The British Isles.

London, John Tallis & Company, c.1851. Original outline colour. Steel engraving, printed area 350 x 250mm.

Stock ID : 23507

£260

Mid 19th century map of North America with decorative vignettes

TALLIS, John.

North America.

London, John Tallis & Co., 1851. Original outline colour. Steel engraving, sheet: 365 x 265mm.

Stock ID : 23386

£240

17th century plate illustrating the Solar Year

MALLET, Alain Manesson.

De la Sphere XXIV.

Paris, 1683. Coloured. 145 x 95mm, set in letterpress.

Stock ID : 23835

£225

17th century plate representing the science of cosmography

MALLET, Alain Manesson.

Cosmographie ou Science du Monde.

Paris, 1683. Coloured. 140 x 100mm, set in letterpress.

Stock ID : 23836

£225