The world & four continents from the 'Atlas Major'

BLAEU, Johannes.

Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula; Americae nova Tabula; Asia noviter delineata; Africae nova descriptio; Europa recens descripta.

Amsterdam, 1662, Latin text edition. Original colour. Five plates, each c.410 x 540mm.

Stock ID : 20269

£35,000

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

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

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

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 16th century first issue map of Cyprus

DUCHETTI, Claudio.

Cyprus que olim (Macaria) id est Beata, Insula est in sinu Carpathij maris sita Veneri fuit sacra. Huc cerui gregatim tranant e Cilicia Ambitus eius Mill.420 a plerisq traditur. Hic etiam fit pannus ille ex caprino pilo undatim cotextus quem Vulgus Ciambellotum appellat. Claudij ducheti formis 1570.

Venice, 1570. Sheet 280 x 212mm.

Stock ID : 23447

£12,000

The first available printed map of London

BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.

Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis.

Koln: c.1579. Fine original colour. 330 x 490mm.

Stock ID : 18303

£8,500

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 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

The first European map of Singapore

DE BRY, Theodore.

Contrafactur des Scharmutz els der Hollender.

Frankfurt, 1603. 330 x 255mm.

Stock ID : 23471

£6,500

A large bird's-eye view of London from the north

BANKS, John Henry.

A Balloon View of London (as seen from Hampstead).

London: Banks & Co. & Effingham Wilson, 1851. Coloured. 635 x 1040mm.

Stock ID : 18604

£5,500

Moll's two-sheet map of the Far East

MOLL, Herman.

A Map of the East-Indies and the Adjacent Countries; with the Settlements, Factories and Territories, explaining what belongs to England, Spain, France, Holland, Denmark, Portugal, etc. with many Remarks not extant on any other Map. By H.Moll Geog. To ye Directorsof ye Hon.ble East-India Company, This Map is most Humbly Dedicated.

London, Moll & John King, c.1730. Original colour with later additions. Printed on two sheets and conjoined, total 610 x 1010mm.

Stock ID : 23435

£5,500

A prospect of the Great Fire of London, 1666

GUALDO PRIORATO, Gabriel.

Londra. Incendio Della Gran Citta di Londra Metropoli del Regno d'Inghilterra succaesso ADI 21 Settembre 1666 dal Quale in 4 Giorni FU Abbrvcciata la piv gran pares con danno inestimabile.

Italy, c.1675. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 280 x 880mm.

Stock ID : 17875

£5,000

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

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 striking map of London at the start of the 18th century

MORDEN, Robert & LEA, Philip.

This Actuall Survey of London, Westminster & Southwark Is humbly dedicated to ye L.d Mayor & Court of Aldermen.

London: Morden, Lea & Christopher Brown, 1700. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 590 x 980mm.

Stock ID : 22889

£4,250

A scarce 18th century two-sheet plan of London

FOSTER, George.

A New and exact Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster & the Borough of Southwark to this present Year Exhibiting in a neater and more distinct manner not only all the New Buildings to this Year but also a considerable Number of Streets, Lanes & Alleys, Churches, Inns of Court, Halls, Hospitals &c. more than any Map hitherto published. Whereunto are added the Rates of Hackney Coachmen and Watermen with several other useful embelishments.

London: Robert Sayer, 1778. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 565 x 1020mm.

Stock ID : 18487

£3,800

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

A rare 18th century view of Valletta

PULLICINO, Alberto.

Isola di Malta. Veduta della Città Valletta presa dal Palazzo Bichi. 6.

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

Stock ID : 23425

£3,750

The second printed map of Cyprus

BORDONE, Benedetto.

[Cipro.]

Venice: Francesco di Leno, c.1565, Coloured woodcut set in Italian text, two sheets conjoined, sheet total 295 x 355mm.

Stock ID : 23466

£3,600

A rare map of Mile End

GASCOYNE, Joel.

A Map of the Hamlet of Mile=End Old Town in the Parish of Stepney alias Stubunheath Surveyed An.º Dom. 1703. John Mumford Churchward.n. Joel Gascoyne Surveyor. John Hariis Engraver.

London, 1703. 500 x 600mm.

Stock ID : 21198

£3,500

Mid-Victorian wall map of London on a scale of 6'' to a Mile

STANFORD, Edward.

Stanford's Library Map of London and Its Suburbs.

London, Stanford, c.1861. Original colour. Four sections dissected and laid on linen with marbled paper covers with index map labels, each sheet 955 x 840mm. Total if joined c. 1990 x 1680mm.

Stock ID : 23419

£3,500

A two-sheet prospect of Chiaia with the Bay of Naples and Vesuvius

RICCIARDELLI, Gabriele.

Veduta di Chiaia Dalla parte di Levante. D.D. a S.E. M.m Hamilton. Incisa dal Quadro Originale di Gabriele Ricciardelli da Ant. Cardon.

Naples: Antoine Cardon, 1765. Two sheets conjoined, total 425 x 875mm.

Stock ID : 23421

£3,500

A two-sheet prospect of the Ponte Nuovo, Naples

RICCIARDELLI, Gabriele.

Veduta di Ponte Nuovo, D.D. a S.E. Il Sig.r Conte di Cobenzl Ministro Plenipt.rio della Maestà dell'Imperiatrice Regina nei paesi bassi &c. Incisa dal Quadro Originale di Gabriele Ricciardelli da A.C..

Naples: Antoine Cardon, 1765. Two sheets conjoined, total 425 x 890mm.

Stock ID : 23422

£3,500

A Russian propaganda poster demonising Hitler

DENISOV, Viktor Nikolaevich.

[Cyrillic title - 'Nowhere to Hide! The fanatic will get his just desserts! All living things hate him! He will receive no mercy!']

Moscow: State Publishing House, 1945. Zincograph, sheet 685 x 525mm.

Stock ID : 23437

£3,500

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 16th century map of the South Pole and the Strait of Magellan

WYTFLIET, Cornelis van.

Chica sive Patagonica et Australis Terra. 1597.

Louvain: J. Bogard, 1597. 230 x 295mm.

Stock ID : 23439

£3,000

Munster's famous woodblock illustrating sea monsters

MUNSTER, Sebastian.

Meerwunder und seltzame Thier wie die in den Mitnachtigen Landern im Meer.

Basle, Henri Petri, c.1560, German text edition. Coloured woodcut, image size 250 x 350mm.

Stock ID : 23339

£2,950

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

A local London Underground map poster for Bond Street Station

LONDON TRANSPORT.

[Bond Street Station] Map of District with œ Mile Radius of this Station.

London: Stanford's Geographical Establishment for London Passanger Transport Board, 1934. Colour-printed map. Sheet 765 x 500mm.

Stock ID : 17889

£2,800

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

An Italian Serio-Comic map of Europe during the Great War

Anonymous.

L'Europa nel 1915.

Milan: Luigi Ronchi di Candido Varoli, 1915. Chromolithograph, sheet 450 x 650mm.

Stock ID : 22636

£2,500

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 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 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 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

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 prospect of the new Waterloo Bridge designed by John Rennie

ANDERSON, William.

A View of the Waterloo Bridge, from the design of John Rennie Esq. F.R.S. and Engineer to the company.

London, 1822.. Aquatint with original colour. 435 x 815mm.

Stock ID : 18488

£2,200

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

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

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 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

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

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 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

A ''You Are Here'' poster for London Bridge Underground Station

LONDON TRANSPORT.

You are Here. [London Bridge.]

London: Waterlow & Sons, 1958. Lithograph printed in black and red. Sheet 625 x 1005mm.

Stock ID : 18473

£1,800

A ''You Are Here'' poster for Holborn Underground Station

LONDON TRANSPORT.

Holborn (Kingsway).

London: Stanfords, 1946. Lithograph printed in black, red, green & grey. Sheet 1005 x 625mm.

Stock ID : 18474

£1,800

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

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