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 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

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 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 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

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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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 scarce and important 16th century map of South America

DE JODE, Cornelis.

Brasilia et Peruvia, Ad Strunuu et Magnicicu Dnm. D. Theodoricu Echter a Mespelbru, Sac. Caes. Maies.ti & Reverediss. Principi, Episc. Herbipoleli, primu a confilijs, &e.

Antwerp, 1593. 360 x 430mm.

Stock ID : 23171

£7,000

An important 16th century town plan of Constantinople

BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.

Byzantium, nunc Constantinopolis.

Cologne, 1574-, Latin text edition. Original colour. 330 x 485mm.

Stock ID : 23169

£2,900

An unusual balloon view of Brighton in the 1840s

ARNOUT, Jules.

Brighton. View taken in balloon. 1846. Brighton. Vue prise en ballon. 1846.

London: Gambart, Junin & Co, 1846. Tinted lithograph with added colour. Printed area 335 x 450mm. Artist's blind stamp lower right.

Stock ID : 23159

£650

Sea chart of Kinsale Harbour from the first English sea-atlas

COLLINS, Greenvile.

This Chart of Kingsale Harbour is Humbly Dedicated and Presented To the Right Hon.ble S.r Robert Southwell Knight, Vice Admirall of Munster and Principal Secretary of State for the Kingdom of Ireland, by Cap.t Greenvile Collins.

London: c.1693. Coloured. 460 x 580mm.

Stock ID : 23153

£450

Caricature map of Europe at the outbreak of the First World War

JOHNSON, RIDDLE & CO.

Hark! Hark! The Dogs Do Bark!. With Note By Walter Emanuel.

London: G.W. Bacon & Co., 1914. Chromolithograph. Sheet 555 x 750mm.

Stock ID : 23152

£2,600

A satirical map of the political situation of Europe in 1861

CIMA, Camilo (as Don Pacifico).

L'Europa a volo di Cicala. Strenna della Cicala Politica 1861.

Milan: 'La Cicala Politica', 1860. Chromolithograph, sheet 425 x 555mm.

Stock ID : 23151

£2,500

A rare 18th century view of Marsamxett

PULLICINO, Alberto.

Veduta del Porto di Marsamucetto e del forte Manuelle, presa dal Bastione S. Andrea. 2.

Florence: Giovanni Moro, c.1770. Etching with original hand colour, with printed title label. Sheet 460 x 750mm, watermarked 'Pescia al Masso'.

Stock ID : 23426

£3,750

French movie poster for Charlie Chaplin's 'The Great Dictator'

KOUPER, Léo.

Charles Chaplin, Le Dictateur.

Paris: 1968. Printed colour. 1545 x 1160mm.

Stock ID : 23055

£2,200

Map of Mexico, with Texas and California as part of the USA

TALLIS, John.

Mexico, California and Texas.

London, John Tallis and Co., c.1851. Original outline colour. Steel engraving, printed area 260 x 330mm.

Stock ID : 22915

£380

An 18th century map of Europe

CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham.

Carte de L'Europe Suivant les Plus Nouvelles Obervations de Messieurs de l'Academie des Sciences...

Amsterdam, 1718. Coloured. 480 x 610mm.

Stock ID : 23391

£500

An 18th century double-hemisphere world map

CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham.

Nouveau Mappemonde ou Globe Terréstre...

Amsterdam, 1718. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 475 x 675mm.

Stock ID : 23390

£1,000

An uncommon 17th century map of Asia

ALLARD, Carel.

Exactissima Asiae Delineatio, in Praecipuas Regiones, Caeterasq. Partes divisa, et denuo in lucem edita.

Amsterdam, 1690, Original colour. 505 x 595mm.

Stock ID : 23389

£1,400

Two maps of Ireland from the collection of Louis Philippe I, king of the French

BEAUFORT, Daniel Augustus.

A New Map of Ireland Civil and Ecclesiastical. Second Edition 1797. [With] Carte de l'Irlande divisée en Provences et Comtés... d'Aprés celle d'Alexandre Taylor Publiée à Londres en 1793.

Two engraved maps. London: William Faden, & Dublin: William Allen, 1792-7. Original colour. Dissected and laid on linen, as issued, 1130 x 885mm. [&] Paris: Dépôt Géneral de la Guerre en Ventose An XII (1804). 740 x 610mm. Both maps with with the Orleans family bookplate on linen, folded into a red morocco slipcase with 'Carte d'Irelande' and Louis Philippe's monogram of crown and initials in gilt.

Stock ID : 23403

£2,000

A satire of London fashion in the late 1820s

HEATH, William.

''We have the Exhibition to Examine (vide Shaks. Much ado about nothing).

London: Thomas McLean, 1829. Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 260 x 375mm.

Stock ID : 23402

£300

A caricature of Harriot Mellon, Duchess of St Albans

HEATH, William.

Run Neighbours Run. St Al---n's Is Quadrilling it.

London: Thomas McLean, 1829. Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 245 x 355mm.

Stock ID : 23401

£170

A caricature of lawyer and M.P. Henry Brougham

HEATH, William.

Parish Characters in Ten Plates by Paul Pry Esqr. _ Pl 10_. One of the Poor employed to mend the High Ways.

London: Thomas McLean, 1829. Etching with original hand colour. 360 x 250mm.

Stock ID : 23400

£200

A caricature of Lady Londonderry in the uniform of the Tenth Hussars

HEATH, William.

Hyde Park May 27 1829. Sketches at the Review. One of the Tenth - When I was an Infant gossips would say - when I grew older I'de be a soldier. &c.r.

London: Thomas McLean, 1829. Etching with original hand colour. 260 x 380mm.

Stock ID : 23399

£175

A caricature of Daniel O'Connell during the fight for Catholic Emancipation

HEATH, William.

A Sketch of the Great Agi-Tater.

London: Thomas McLean, 1829. Etching with original hand colour. 360 x 265mm, with good margins.

Stock ID : 23398

£380

A map of King's Lynn as a bombing target for the U.S. Air Force

ORDNANCE SURVEY.

Training Target No. S. 2047 / Perspective (Jan 1943) King's Lynn (England)

Ordnance Survey, 1943. Colour heliolithographic map. Sheet 790 x 800mm.

Stock ID : 23397

£1,400

A geographically-correct Quad Royal poster map of Central London's Underground

STANFORD, Edward.

UndergrounD Map of Central London.

London: Stanford, 1929. Colour lithographic map. Sheet 1015 x 1270mm.

Stock ID : 23396

£1,500

The Quad-Royal poster map with Central London's Underground

BACON, George Washington.

London Transport UndergrounD. Map of London.

London: Roadway Publications, 1930. Colour-printed map. Sheet 1010 x 1265mm.

Stock ID : 23395

£3,000

A scarce miniature plan of Famagusta

BEAUVAU, Henri de.

Famagosta.

Nancy: Jacob Garnich, 1615. 110 x 160mm, set in a French text index.

Stock ID : 23470

£950

A scarce miniature plan of Nicosia

BEAUVAU, Henri de.

Nicosie.

Nancy: Jacob Garnich, 1615. 110 x 160mm, set in a French text index.

Stock ID : 23469

£950

A scarce miniature map of Cyprus

BEAUVAU, Henri de.

Cipre.

Nancy: Jacob Garnich, 1615. 105 x 155mm, set in a French text index.

Stock ID : 23468

£1,600