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British County Atlases

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BOWEN, Thomas

Atlas Anglicanus or a Complete Sett of Maps of the Counties of South Britain

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

WALKER, John & Charles

British Atlas, Comprising separate Maps of every County in England

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

LEIGH, Samuel

Leigh's New Pocket Road-Book of England and Wales and part of Scotland

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

MOULE, Thomas

The English Counties Delineated; Or, A Topographical Description of England

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

CAPPER, Benjamin Pitts

A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom; compiled from Parliamentary, and other Authentic Documents and Authorities; containing Geographical, Topographical, & Statistical Accounts of every District, Object, and Place, in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and the various small islands dependent on the British Empire

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

DODSLEY, Robert & James

England Illustrated or a Compendium of the Natural History, Geography, Topography and Antiquities ... of England and Wales

Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-mall, London, 1763[64]

Quarto, two volumes (295 x 240 mm each.), full contemporary calf, rebacked ribbed spine, ornate gilt ruled compartments with central ornate gilt feature, gilt calf title and volume labels affixed, marbled endpapers. With typographic title page, Preface, Contents, Introduction, pp. (8), xiii, blank, 426; typographic title page, Contents, pp. (4), 490, with two general folding maps, 52 engraved county maps, all by Thomas Kitchin, 39 engraved town views and numerous other engravings set in the text, complete with blank endpapers, some offsetting from maps to text as usual, both folding maps with binders tears as usual, repaired, otherwise a good example.

Stock number: 9501

£ 1,350

BADESLADE, Thomas & TOMS, William Henry

Chorographia Britanniae. Or A Set of Maps of all the Counties in England and Wales: to which are prefix'd the following general Maps

London, 1742

Octavo (165 x 100 mm.), full contemporary mottled calf, gilt panelled boards, ribbed spine with gilt ruled compartments, and calf gilt title label. With engraved title, Dedication, 5 tables, 6 general and 40 county maps, engraved throughout, upper joint a little weak, otherwise in good condition.

Stock number: 9494

£ 950

BLOME, Richard & TAYLOR, Thomas

England Exactly Described Or a Guide to Travellers

Thomas Taylor at ye Golden Lyon in Fleetstreet, London, c.1716

FULL EARLY WASH COLOUR. Quarto (240 x 160 mm.), full early calf, ornate gilt panelled boards, rebacked spine with gilt ruled raised bands, red calf gilt title. With engraved double page title, 41 double page maps numbered to 41 (Scotland unnumbered, Cumberland and Westmoreland combined '8 & 9'). England and Scotland both first state, as called for, all in fabulous early wash colour, in good condition.

Stock number: 9491

£ 3,950

MORDEN, Robert

The New Description and State of England, Containing the Maps of the Counties of England and Wales, In Fifty Three Copper-Plates … The Second Edition

Printed for Ralph Smith, at the Bible under the Piazza of the Royal-Exchange Cornhill., London, 1704

AN UNRECORDED ISSUE. Octavo (190 x 130 mm.), full contemporary calf, gilt panelled boards, ribbed spine with ornate blind ruled and decorated compartments, calf gilt title label, gilt ruled top and bottom. With frontispiece engraved portrait of Queen Anne facing typographic title page, address to the reader, General Account, Contents and 55 copper engraved double page maps, pp. (4), i-[xx], 96, 89-96, 129-36, 113-128, 137-287 with 79-80 mis-numbered 78-79, despite the pagination the counties are in order, title page with old paper backing, some light waterstain at the top in the centre of the book, a wormtack in the last twenty leaves of text, otherwise in good condition.

Stock number: 10886

£ 2,250

BAKER, James

The Imperial Guide, with Picturesque Plans of the Great Post Roads, containing miniature likenesses, engraved from real sketches, of the Cities, Towns, Villages ... situated in and near such thoroughfares

Printed by C. Whittingham, Dean Street, Fetter Lane and Sold by H D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row, London, 1802

Octavo (215 x 125 mm.), contemporary half calf, marbled paper boards, ornate gilt panelling, spine with very ornate gilt embossed decoration and title, marbled endpapers. With typographic frontispiece, pp. iv, 66, with 18 aquatint plates of the roads and 13 further aquatints, in good condition.

Stock number: 10859

£ 850

SCHENK, Pieter & VALK, Gerard

[Tomus III. Engeland, Schottland, Irland]

Amsterdam, c.1700

MAGNIFICENT FULL EARLY WASH COLOUR. Folio (510 x 325 mm.), contemporary half calf, paper boards with armorial shaped paper pasted to upper board containing in manuscript the title above, spine with raised bands and worn. With contemporary manuscript index inside front cover and 64 maps all in early wash colour, consisting of 10 general maps, 9 Scottish counties, 4 regional Irish, 37 of the English counties and 4 Welsh, 4 maps with Japanese tissue repairs to verso, some browning of colour, otherwise in good condition.

Stock number: 10726

£ 17,500

JOHNSON, Thomas

Johnson's Atlas of England; With all the Railways Containing Forty Two Separate Maps of the Counties and Islands

Thos. Johnson, Manchester, 1847

Quarto (280 x 220 mm.), full contemporary cloth binding, ornate blind panelling, central gilt title set within gilt vignette, partially rebacked, light wear. With lithographic title page, contents leaf and 42 full early outline colour maps, interleaved, old newspaper clippings pasted on first two maps, otherwise in good condition.

Stock number: 10810

£ 850

RAMBLE, Reuben

Reuben Ramble's Travels through the Counties of England

Darton and Clark, 58 Holborn Hill, London, c.1844

Quarto (210 x 170 mm.), full contemporary red cloth, ornate blind ruling to boards, gilt embossed title to upper board, gilt title to spine. With pictorial frontispiece and title, further letterpress title, Preface and 40 early wash coloured lithographic plates, some light offsetting as usual, otherwise a good example.

Stock number: 10755

£ 1,650

TEESDALE, Henry

New British Atlas, Containing a Complete Set of County Maps

Henry Teesdale & Co. 302, Holborn, London, 1831-[32]

Large quarto (365 x 255 mm.), full contemporary diced calf, ornate blind and gilt panelled, ribbed spine with ornate gilt raised bands, gilt title and gilt edged, marbled endpapers. With double page engraved title corrected to 1831, three folding general maps backed on contemporary cloth, 2 double page maps of North & South Wales, 43 county maps, and a folding map showing parliamentary representation in England & Wales for June 1832 backed on publisher's linen, all in early wash colour, Somerset with centrefold split, otherwise a good example.

Stock number: 10753

£ 1,250

CARY, John

Cary's New and Correct English Atlas: Being A New Set of County Maps from Actual Surveys

John Cary, Engraver, Map and Print-seller, the corner of Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1787-[89]

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Quarto (320 x 250 mm.), recent half calf, cloth boards, blind ruled, spine with blind panelled compartments, red calf gilt title, later endpapers. With engraved title page, engraved dedication, Advertisement (first state), typographic Contents (first state), map of South Britain, and 43 county maps on 44 plates (West Riding being on two plates), and both North and South Wales, 47 maps in total, each accompanied by a leaf of descriptive text, all in early outline colour with main routes coloured brown with wash to wooded areas, pp. 6 'Directions for the Junctions of the Roads of England and Wales through all the Counties', pp. 4 'Market and Borough Towns in England and Wales', pp. 7 'List of the Principal Post and Sub-Post Towns in England and Wales', pp. 6 List of Subscribers (first state), margin repair to text leaf of Essex, otherwise in good condition.

Stock number: 10741

£ 850

LUFFMAN, John

A New Pocket Atlas and Geography of England and Wales, Illustrated with Fifty-five Copper plates, Shewing all the Great Post Roads ...

Lackington, Allen & Co. Temple of the Muses Finsbury Square, London, 1806

Octavo (185 x 110 mm.), contemporary half red calf, marbled paper boards, gilt ruled, with original paper title label affixed to the upper board, spine with gilt ruled compartments, paper label with manuscript title affixed, with original silk page marker. With ornate engraved title, Preface dated March 1803, half title 'England', 42 circular maps of the English counties, half title 'Wales', 12 maps of the Welsh counties, all in FULL EARLY WASH COLOUR, each with typographic text below, a double page map of England and Wales in early outline colour, Index leaf, some light show through on a few maps to the versos, otherwise in good condition.

Stock number: 10746

£ 3,950

RUSSELL, P. & PRICE, Owen

England Displayed. Being A New, Complete, and Accurate Survey and Description of the Kingdom of England, and Principality of Wales

London, 1769-70

Folio, two volumes in one (340 x 225 mm.), full contemporary sheepskin, ornate blind panelled boards, spine with raised bands, red calf gilt title labels, corners with light wear. With engraved frontispiece, typographic title page including engraved vignette, pp. viii, 392 with 26 maps; volume 2 with typographic title page, pp. 314, (4) with 27 maps, with circa 80 copper plate views throughout, Cheshire with minor margin repair, contemporary manuscript index to front free endpaper of first volume, otherwise in good condition.

Stock number: 10739

£ 1,250

HARRISON, John

Maps of the English Counties, With the Subdivisions of Hundreds, Wapontakes, Lathes, Wards, Divisions & c. To Which are Added Two Folio Pages of Letter – Press, To Face Each Map

Printed by and for John Harrison No. 115, Newgate-Street, London, 1791

FIRST EDITION. Oblong folio (410 x 530 mm.), contemporary half calf, marbled paper boards, expertly rejointed preserving the original spine, with gilt title, later endpapers but preserving original front endpapers with extensive manuscript notations about bricks. With typographic title page upper and lower edges strengthened, pp. (2), viii, with 38 side bound engraved maps, each in early outline colour, facing each other in pairs with interleaved descriptive text facing each map, stained upper right corner on first few leaves, light paper wrinkles first and last leaves, otherwise in good condition.

Stock number: 10742

£ 1,500

NIGHTINGALE, Joseph

English Topography: or, a Series of Historical and Statistical Descriptions of the Several Counties of England and Wales

Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, London, 1816

Quarto (310 x 240 mm.), contemporary half calf, marbled paper boards, raised bands with gilt titles to spine. With typographic title page, pp. 18, with 2 general maps of England and Wales and 56 further maps of the counties all in early outline colour, each interleaved with descriptive text, in good condition.

Stock number: 10749

£ 1,250

BOWEN, Emanuel & KITCHIN, Thomas

The Large English Atlas: or, a New Set of Maps

Sold by Robert Wilkinson, at No. 58, in Cornhill, Successor to Mr. John Bowles, deceased, London, c.1779

Folio (600 x 415 mm.), contemporary half calf, marbled paper boards, spine with raised bands, gilt ruled compartments and gilt burgundy calf title label, worn. With typographic title, general map of England and Wales by Kitchin, general map of Scotland, Bayly of Ireland, and 44 engraved double-page map sheets, all with early outline colour, creasing to title-page and three general maps, otherwise in good condition.

Stock number: 10738

£ 7,500

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British County Atlases