A superb 16th century map of Denmark

JORDAN, Mark.

Danorum Marca, vel Cimbricum, aut Daniae Regnum...

Cologne, c.1588, Latin text edition. Original colour. 390 x 470mm.

Stock ID : 23176

£2,000

A French edition of an important map of Northern India

THEVENOT, Melchisedec.

Description de la partie des Indes orientales qui est sous la dominations du grand Mogol.

Paris, c.1666. Coloured. 280 x 365mm.

Stock ID : 23405

£450

An 18th century prospect of Corfu city

SALMON, Thomas.

La Citta di Corfu Capitale dell'Isola di Corfu e del Levante Veneto.

Naples: Francesco Ricciardi, 1759. 130 x 320mm.

Stock ID : 23408

£150

A miniature map of Asia

SANSON, Nicolas.

L’Asie Par N. Sanson d’Abbevilles Geographe ordinaire du Roy.

Amsterdam: Zacharie Chatelain, 1735. Coloured. 150 x 170mm.

Stock ID : 23409

£180

18th century map of Europe

ALBRIZZI, Giovanni Battista.

Carta Nuova dell'Europa secondo le ultime osservazioni fatta in Amsterdam appresso Issa. Tirion.

Venice, c.1740. Coloured. 295 x 360mm.

Stock ID : 23165

£280

An Italian edition of Hadol's serio-comic map of Europe

HADOL, Paul.

Carta Figurata d'Europa 1888. La Pacifica Baracca.

Bologna: Casanova e Farinelli, 1888. Tinted lithograph. Sheet 305 x 410mm.

Stock ID : 23202

£1,200

MacDonald Gill's 'Great Circle' world map

GILL, Leslie MacDonald.

Cable & Wireless Great Circle Map. Mark Your Cables Via Imperial.

London: Edward Stanford for Cable & Wireless, 1945. Colour printed map. 980 x 1220mm. Laid on canvas

Stock ID : 23374

£15,000

A wall map of the Moon in preparation for the Lunar Landing

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE.

USAF Lunar Wall Mosaic. LEM-1.

Washington, D.C.: Superintendent of Documents US Government Printing Office, 1962. Lithograph. Sheet 850 x 880mm.

Stock ID : 23376

£2,500

A two-sheet sea chart of the coast between Mumbai and Karachi

IMRAY, James & Son.

Coast of Western India from Bombay to Karachi Compiled Chiefly from the Surveys Made by Order of the Honorable East India Company.

London: James Imray & Son, 1866-7. Touches of original hand colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 1025 x 1310mm. With edition label with Imray's monogram and two original text labels pasted on.

Stock ID : 23377

£1,800

The beginning of the 'Special Relationship'

GILL, Leslie MacDonald.

The ''Time and Tide'' Map of the Atlantic Charter.

London: George Philip & Son, 1944. Colour lithographic map. Sheet 890 x 1135mm.

Stock ID : 23430

£5,000

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, c.1923. 365 x 440mm.

Stock ID : 23431

£650

The first Western publication of a Chinese map of China

PURCHAS, Samuel.

The Map of China.

London: Henry Featherstone, 1625. Coloured. 300 x 370mm.

Stock ID : 23432

£5,000

A beautifully-engraved wind rose

SEUTTER, Matthäus.

Tabula Anemographica seu Pyxis Nautica, vulgo Compass Charte.

Augsburg, c.1730. Original colour. 500 x 590mm.

Stock ID : 23433

£2,500

A pre-Beck map of London's underground Railways

PERMAN, E.G.

Underground Railways of London.

London, Summer 1928. Chromolithograph. Sheet 445 x 365mm.

Stock ID : 23434

£600

An uncommon English map of the Holy Land

BLOME, Richard.

Canaan commonly called the Holy Land or the Land of Promise being ye Possession of ye Israelites & travelled through by our Lord & Saviour Iesus Christ and his Apostles.

London, c.1687. Coloured. 270 x 460mm.

Stock ID : 23248

£320

Eighteenth century map of Europe

DELISLE, Guillaume.

Carte d'Europe Dressée pour l'Usage du Roy sur les Itineraries anciens en modernes et sur les Routiers de mer assujetis aux observations astronomiques.

Paris: Philippe Buache, 1745. Coloured. 490 x 610mm.

Stock ID : 23351

£490

17th century Dutch map of Sardinia

JANSSON, Jan.

Insulae Sardiniae Nova & Accurata Descriptio.

Amsterdam, c.1650, French text edition. Original colour, 415 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 23352

£1,250

A rare Italian serio-comic map of Europe in 1871

MANFREDO, Manfredi.

L'Europa Geografico-Politica Veduta a Volo d'Oca.

Bologna, c.1871. Chromolithograph. Sheet 470 x 670mm.

Stock ID : 23283

£20,000

A rare broadsheet map of the Great Fire of London of 1666

DE WIT, Frederick.

Platte Grondt der Stadt London met Nieuw Model en hoe die Afgebrandt is.

Amsterdam, 1666. 560 x 530mm.

Stock ID : 23286

£8,000

A scarce prospect of London after Visscher

PICART, Hugues.

Profil de la Ville de Londre Cappitalle du Royaume DAngleterre.

Paris: Jean Boisseau, 1648. Two sheets conjoined, total 260 x 705mm.

Stock ID : 23297

£12,000

The first issue of this 16th century map of Africa

MERCATOR, Gerard II.

Africa Ex magna orbis terre. descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris desumpta studio et industria G.M. Iunioris.

Duisburg: Heirs of Gerard Mercator, 1595. Coloured. 385 x 475mm.

Stock ID : 23299

£1,500

A satire of Napoleon Bonaparte's ambitions for world domination

HOLLAND, William.

An Attempt to Swallow the World!!!

London: William Holland, 1803. Etching with original hand colour. 325 x 250mm.

Stock ID : 23323

£680

An unusual illustration of 1783 Great Meteor in mezzotint

ROBINSON, Henry.

An accurate Representation of the Meteor which was seen on Aug.t 18.th 1793. _ At first in appeared as one Ball of Fire, but, in a few Seconds, broke into many small ones. It's Course was from N.W. to S.E. _ This extraordinary Phaenomenon was of that Species of Meteor which the great Phisiologist Dr. Woodward and others call the Draco volans or Flying Dragon. _ The above View was taken at Winthorpe near Newark upon Trent, by Henry Robinson, Schoolmaster.

Winthorpe: Henry Robinson, 1783. Mezzotint with hand colour. 190 x 250mm.

Stock ID : 23330

£2,000

A rare 17th century French map of the Americas

BERTIUS, Petrus.

Carte de L'Amerique Corrigeé et augmenteé; dessus toutes les aultres cy devant faictes par P. Bertius.

Paris: Melchoir Tavernier, 1627. Coloured. 385 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 23333

£2,400

An early example of this classic 17th century map of Oxfordshire

SPEED, John.

Oxfordshire described with ye Citie and the Armes of the Colledges of ye famous University. Aº 1605.

London: John Sudbury and George Humble, 1614-16. Coloured. 390 x 530mm.

Stock ID : 23334

£1,800

An 18th century prospect of Barcelona

DAUMONT, Jean François.

Barcelone, Ville Capitale de la Principauté Catalogne scituée sur la Mer Mediterranée.

Paris: Daumont, c.1740. Original colour. 350 x 525mm.

Stock ID : 23335

£2,000

An Air France poster map of the world in a double hemisphere

BOUCHER, Lucien.

Air France. Sur les Ailes d'Air France Decouvrez Le Monde a Votre Tour.

Paris: Perceval, 1950. Colour lithographic map. 600 x 950mm.

Stock ID : 23336

£1,900

A two-sheet map of 18th century London

SMITH, Joseph.

A New and Exact Plan of thew Cities of London & Westminster and the Borough of Southwark.

London: Bowles & Carver, c.1795. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total. 580 x 975mm.

Stock ID : 23337

£2,200

Plan of London during the reign of George IV

TEGG. Thomas.

Tegg's, New Plan of London, &c. With 360 References to the Principal Streets &c. 1826.

London: Tegg, 1826. Original colour. Dissected and laid on linen, as issued, total 440 x 615mm, folded into publisher's marbled slipcase.

Stock ID : 23338

£700

A 16th century woodcut map of the British Isles

MUNSTER, Sebastian.

Engellandt mit dem anstossenden Reich Schottlandt so vorzeiten Albion und Britannia haben geheissen.

Basle, Sebastian Petri, c.1588, German text edition. Contemporary colour. Woodcut, sheet 330 x 410mm.

Stock ID : 23340

£1,600

The famous sea-monsters map of Iceland

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Islandia.

Antwerp, 1595, Latin text edition. Original colour with additions. 390 x 490mm.

Stock ID : 23343

£13,500

The First Edition of Speed's map of Gloucestershire

SPEED, John.

Glocestershire contrived into thirty thre severall hundreds & those againe into foure principall devisions. The Citie of Glocester & Bristowe discribed with the armes of such noble men as have bene dignified with ye titles of Earles & Dukes thereof.

London: John Sudbury & George Humble, 1611. Coloured. 380 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 23344

£1,800

A 16th century prospect of Krakow from the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum'

BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.

Cracovia Minoris Poloniae Metropolis.

Cologne: George Braun & Abraham Hogenberg, 1617. Coloured. 310 x 550mm.

Stock ID : 23345

£2,400

A French serio-comic map of Europe for the Great War

CRETE, B.

Carte Symbolique de l'Euope. Nouvelle Edition. Europe in 1914. Guerre Libératrice 1914-1915.

Paris: Editions Delandre, 1915. Tinted lithograph. Sheet 495 x 650mm.

Stock ID : 23347

£1,850

Six early illustrations of ther Aurora Borealis

GAIMARD, Paul.

Apparence de L'Aurore Boréale dans le Nord, à Bossekop (Finmark) le 11 Novembre 1838, vers 8.h 20.m de soir. [&] ... dans le Sud, é Bossekop, (Finmark), le 6 Janvier 1839, à 6.h 4.m de soir. [&] ... dans le Nord, à Bossekop, (Finmark), le 6 Janvier 1839, à 6.h 27.m du soir. [&] ... dans le Sud, à Bossekop, (Finmark), le 19 Janvier 1839, à 7h 40m du soir. [&] ... dans l'Est, à Bossekop, (Finmark), le 19 Janvier, à 9.h 27.m du Soir. [&] ... dans le Nord, à Kaafiord, (Finmark), le 24 Kanvier 1839, à 7.h 25.m su soir.

Six tinted lithographs with hand colour. each sheet 315 x 515mm.

Stock ID : 23350

£1,650

An 18th century three-sheet sea chart of the Mediterrean Sea

DHEULLAND, Guillaume.

Carte Reduite de la Mer Mediterranée Pour Servir aux Vaisseaux du Roy Dressée au Dépost des Cartes et Plans de la Marine Par Ordre de M.gr Le Comte de Maurepas 1737.

Paris: Depot de la Marine, c.1737. Three sheets, each plate c. 630 x 545mm, with good margins.

Stock ID : 23353

£1,600

Five early illustrations of ther Aurora Borealis on one sheet

GAIMARD, Paul.

Apparences successives de L'Aurore Boréale dans le Nord-Nord-Ouest, à Bossekop (Finmark) le 12 Janvier 1839

Tinted lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 515 x 315mm.

Stock ID : 23354

£300

Wyld's large format map of Australia

WYLD, James.

Map of Australia, Compiled from the Nautical Surveys made by Order of the Admiralty and other Authentic Documents.

London, 1841. Original colour, 565 x 810mm.

Stock ID : 23355

£900

Early 19th century map of Arabia

PINKERTON, John.

Arabia.

London, Cadell & Davies, 1813. Original colour. 540 x 730mm.

Stock ID : 23356

£900

A plan of London in the mid 19th century

SMITH, Charles.

Smith's New Map of London and Environs.

London, 1855. Original colour. Dissected and laid on linen, as issued, total 705 x 1090mm.

Stock ID : 23357

£1,800

The Holy Land after Adrichom in fine original colour.

HONDIUS, Henricus.

Situs Terrae Promissionis. S.S. Bibliorum intelligentiam exacte aperiens per Chr. Adrichom.

Amsterdam: Jan Jansson, 1662. Original colour. 370 x 500mm.

Stock ID : 23358

£1,000

A caricature of George IV

HEATH, William.

Parish Characters in Ten Plate, by Paul Pry Esq.r Pl. 1st. M.r George King - the Parish Overseer.

London: Thomas Mclean, 1829. Etching with original hand colour. 350 x 250mm.

Stock ID : 23361

£350

An impressive 16th century two-sheet plan of Antwerp

HOEFNAGEL, Joris.

Antwerpia.

Cologne, 1598. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 455 x 785mm.

Stock ID : 23372

£1,500

A detailed 17th century map of Brittany

HONDIUS, Henricus.

Duche de Bretaigne Dessigné par le Sieur Hardy Mareschal des logis du Roy. Avec Privilege de sa Majesty.

Amsterdam: Jan Jansson, c.1650, Dutch text edition. Original colour. 380 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 23384

£500

Mercator's first issue folio map of Sicily in original colour

MERCATOR, Gerard.

Siciliae Regnum.

Amsterdam: Henricus Hondius, 1623, Latin edition. Original colour. 340 x 480mm.

Stock ID : 23392

£1,400

A rare map of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein

MEJER, Johannes.

Newe Landtcarte von den beiden Hertzogthümbern Schleswieg und Holstein zusamen. Anno 1650.

Husum: Caspar Danckwerth, 1652. Coloured. 420 x 585mm.

Stock ID : 23393

£1,000

A decorative 18th century wind rose

Anonymous.

[Untitled wind rose.]

French, c.1750. Coloured. 145 x 175mm.

Stock ID : 23410

£225

An 18th century map of India

TIRION, Isaak.

Nuova Carta dell Impero del Gran Mogol fatta in Amsterdam per Isac Tirion.

Venice: Giovanni Battista. Albrizzi, c.1734. Original colour. 285 x 365mm.

Stock ID : 23411

£300

18th century map of Indochina

TIRION, Isaak.

Nuova Carta dell'India di la del Fiume Ganges overo di Malacca Siam Cambodia Chiampa Kochinkina Laos Pegu Ava &c. fatta in Amsterdam per Isak Tirion.

Venice: Giovanni Battista. Albrizzi, c.1734. Original colour. 290 x 360mm.

Stock ID : 23412

£450

The first state of the Tirion-Albrizzi map of Japan

TIRION, Isaak.

Carta Accurata Dell' Imperio del Giappone Nuovamente tratta dalle nuove relazione datta in luce in Amsterdam per Isaak Tirion.

Venice: Giovanni Battista. Albrizzi, 1734. Original colour. 300 x 335mm.

Stock ID : 23413

£500