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British County Atlases
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58, Holborn Hill, London, 1822
EXTREMELY RARE AND DESIRABLE. Folio (460 x 310 mm.), contemporary half calf, marbled boards, gilt ruled, rebacked with gilt ruled compartments, each with central gilt floral feature, red calf gilt title label. Double page typographic title, dedication, contents, and forty-two double-page engraved maps with excellent original wash colour, Chester, Hampshire, Shropshire, and Sussex with centrefolds repaired, otherwise a good example.
Stock number: 9541
£ 8,500
W. H. Reid, Charing Cross, London, c.1820
CHARMING LITTLE ATLAS. Octavo (125 x 85 mm.), full contemporary marbled calf, ornate gilt panelled, rebacked preserving original spine, gilt ruled compartments, each with central ornate gilt feature, with marbled endpapers. With decorative pictorial engraved title page, engraved Contents, typographic title page with Index on verso, Address with Errata on the verso, two engraved divisional titles of England and Wales, pp. (4), 162, and 53 maps (1 general and 52 county maps) all in excellent early full wash colour, in good condition.
Stock number: 9540
£ 1,650
W. Lewis, No. 21 Finch Lane, Cornhill, London, [1819]
Octavo (155 x 120 mm.), contemporary half red calf, with marbled paper boards, gilt ruled, spine with gilt decoration and title. With general map of England and Wales, engraved title page, Preface dated 1819, Contents, List of Mail-Coaches etc., pp. (8), with 40 maps of the counties, North and South Wales as called for, in all 43 maps, each with a page of descriptive text, Yorkshire folding, all in full contemporary wash colour, Devon tight to left margin, otherwise a good example.
Stock number: 9539
£ 265
G. Ellis, No. 5. Smith's Square, Westminster, London, [1819]
Small folio (305 x 245 mm.), contemporary half calf, marbled paper boards, upper board with morocco gilt label priced 'L3. 3s. 0D.', spine with gilt ruled bands, worn. With engraved title, 44 maps, comprising 42 engraved maps of the English counties and maps of North and South Wales, all in early wash colour, a leaf of descriptive text accompanies each map, pp. 2, (26), (14), otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 9538
£ 595
William Darton and Joseph Harvey, London, 1804
A VERY RARE ATLAS. Octavo (215 x 145 mm.), contemporary quarter red morocco, marbled paper boards, with paper title label affixed to upper board, spine with gilt ruled compartments, light wear. With 41 (of 46) maps by Benjamin Baker, lacking Cheshire, the 4 of Yorkshire, all in early outline colour, the last map a little frayed, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 9522
£ 1,350
London, c.1795
Folio (315 x 205 mm.), recent half calf preserving original marbled paper boards, upper cover with printed paper title and contents, spine with gilt ruled bands, retaining original endpapers. With no title page as issued and 43 engraved maps of which 3 are folding general maps, light creasing to Yorkshire, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 9513
£ 1,750
Jas. Wallis, Berwick Street, Soho, London, c.1814[16]
THE RARE SECOND EDITION. Folio (325 x 230 mm.), later full cloth binding, preserving the original green calf gilt title label on the upper board. With engraved title page (tear repaired), 1 general map of England and Wales (with loss) and 42 maps of the counties, all in early wash colour, bound slightly out of alphabetical sequence as usual, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 9537
£ 395
Jas. Wallis, Berwick Street, Soho, London, c.1814[16]
THE RARE SECOND EDITION. Folio (320 x 240 mm.), contemporary half calf, marbled paper boards with original publisher's printed paper title label affixed to upper board, gilt ruled, marbled floral endpapers. With engraved title page, 1 general map of England and Wales and 42 maps of the counties, all in early wash colour, bound slightly out of alphabetical sequence as usual, those of Yorkshire slightly loose, light foxing to title and Contents, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 9536
£ 395
J Wallis Engraver, Berwick St. Soho and Sold by Davies & Eldridge Exeter, London, c.1812-[14]
Octavo (145 x 115 mm.), contemporary half red calf, paper boards, with original calf gilt title label affixed to upper board. With engraved title page, Address to the Public, 44 maps including general map of England and Wales, 40 maps of the English counties, separate maps of North and South Wales and the last a smaller map of the Isle of Wight not called for in the contents, all single page with the exception of the double page map of Yorkshire, all in early wash colour, in very good condition.
Stock number: 9530
£ 295
George Virtue, London, c.1848
Quarto, eight volumes (285 x 175 mm. each), full contemporary red cloth, ornate blind boards with central gilt feature to upper covers, ornate gilt spines with titles. With 28 county maps by Thomas Moule not called for, a large number of steel engavings and portraits of kings and queens of England, in good condition.
Stock number: 9577
£ 395
J. and C. Walker, 9, Castle Street, Holborn, London, c.1886
Folio (370 x 240 mm.), modern half red calf, preserving original red cloth boards, gilt ruled, ornate gilt title to upper board, spine with gilt ruled bands, ornate central gilt design to each compartment, gilt titles. With typographic title page, Reference to the Hunts, with 42 lithographic maps in early outline colour, first three leaves with upper margin repair, Bucks with small centrefold split repaired, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 9573
£ 595
Pigot & Co. 59, Fleet-Street, London, and Fountain-Street, Manchester, London, [1840]
Large quarto (410 x 295 mm.), fine recent burgundy half calf, marbled paper boards, blind ruled, spine with gilt title. With typographic title page, Address with Contents, double page 'Reciprocal Distance Table' with tables of routes on the recto and verso, 43 steel engraved maps in early outline colour, folding maps of England & Wales, Ireland, and Scotland all dated 1840, Yorkshire and Environs of London folding, light staining to Lincolnshire, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 9565
£ 1,150
George Virtue, 26, Ivy Lane Paternoster Row, London, 1837
Quarto, 2 volumes (275 x 210 mm. each), contemporary half calf, marbled paper boards, gilt ruled, ornate gilt ribbed spines, calf gilt title labels, marbled endpapers. With engraved frontispiece of King William IV bearing title, further engraved title page with vignette of Greenwich Hospital, typographic title page, pp. xxiv, 484; typographic title, pp. (2), 582, with 57 maps on 60 plates, comprising 2 general maps (1 folding, the other in 4 sheets), 42 maps of the English counties, 3 islands, 3 plans of London (2 folding), 7 further plans of towns and environs, 1 further engraving of the 'Principal Hills', all in EARLY WASH COLOUR, large folding London with repaired binders tear, Metropolitan Boroughs with minor tear, otherwise a good example.
Stock number: 9563
£ 1,950
Printed for C. Smith, Mapseller, No. 172 (Corner of Surrey Street) Strand, London, 1804-[08]
Folio (540 x 360 mm.), contemporary half calf, ornate gilt ruled, marbled paper boards, spine with gilt ruled raised bands, gilt calf title label, worn. With engraved title page, engraved Contents and Explanation, and 46 double page maps all in early wash colour including one general map, 40 of the counties of England (Yorkshire made up of 4 sheets) and Wales in two sheets, large Index to place names and a 2-page list of subscribers, pp. 54, in good condition.
Stock number: 9529
£ 1,750
Robert Laurie and James Whittle, No. 53, Fleet-Street, London, 1807
Oblong quarto (230 x 295 mm.), later half red calf to style, preserving original paper boards with ornate printed panels, spine with gilt ruled compartments, each with central gilt floral design, gilt title. With finely engraved frontispiece title, typographic title, Advertisement, Contents, engraved Explanation in early colour and 48 engraved maps (West Riding in 2 sheets) all in fine early outline colour with wash borders, each accompanied by a leaf of descriptive text, some surface dirt to first general map, South Wales with light paper folds, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 9526
£ 995
T. Kitchin, No. 59, Holborn Hill. & Andrew Dury, Duke's Court, St. Martins Lane, London, 1777
Quarto (270 x 220 mm.), recent half calf, marbled paper boards, blind ruled, spine with raised bands, gilt ruled compartments, gilt titles. With engraved title page, typographic contents list and 45 engraved double page maps, all in early outline colour, browning to contents list, a few minor splits in the lower centrefolds, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 9505
£ 2,950
Longman, Rees & Co. Paternoster Row, and J. & C. Walker, 3, Burleigh Street, Strand, London, 1837
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Folio (420 x 350 mm.), contemporary half calf, thick gilt ruling, ornate cloth boards, with gilt calf title label affixed to upper board, with red calf gilt title label affixed to spine. With engraved title page and 47 high quality steel engraved maps as indicated on the title, all in early outline colour, those of Wales in opposing pairs, general map with some marks upper right, otherwise in condition.
Stock number: 9559
£ 750
London, 1837
Sextodecimo (145 x 90 mm.), full contemporary green morocco, with gilt title to upper board, spine with gilt ruled compartments and titles, light wear. Frontispiece 'Table of the Price of Posting', letterpress title to 'Road-Book', 'Preface to the first edition', 'Preface to the fifth and sixth edition', engraved frontispiece title to 'New-Atlas', pp. vi, 511, (1), 4, with 55 county maps, folding general map of England and Wales in early outline and wash colour a little worn, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 9558
£ 125
George Virtue, 26, Ivy Lane Paternoster Row, London, 1839-38
Quarto (275 x 220 mm. each), two volumes, contemporary half calf, marbled paper boards, spine with ornate gilt raised bands, each compartment with ornate gilt decoration, gilt titles. With engraved frontispiece in the second state with Queen Victoria, engraved title 'Englands Topographer', typographic title page dated 1839, pp. xxvi, 484; title with vignette of Greenwich Hospital, typographic title page to second volume dated 1838, pp. (2), 582. Complete with 57 maps on 60 plates, comprising 2 general maps (1 folding, the other in 4 sheets), 42 maps of the English counties, 3 islands, 3 plans of London (2 folding, Boroughs wrinkled), 7 further plans of towns and environs, 1 further engraving of the 'Principal Hills', engraved frontispiece of Canterbury Cathedral bound with the Kent section, Monmouth lacking.
Stock number: 9544
£ 950
Richard Phillips, Bridge-Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808
Octavo (215 x 135 mm.), full tree calf, rebacked with gilt ruled embossed raised bands, gilt title to red calf label, marbled endpaper. With engraved general map of the British Isles, typographic title page, Introduction, List of the Maps with advert on the verso pp. xiv, (2), followed by the Dictionary unpaginated, B1-3X2, with 46 maps, one unnumbered double page general map, 40 maps of the English counties, 2 maps of Scotland, Wales and 2 maps comprising Ireland, Yorkshire and general maps all folding, all in early wash colour, in good condition.
Stock number: 9528
£ 195