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British County Atlases
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Darton and Clark, London, 1843
Quarto (205 x 165 mm.), one part (of five) contemporary paper wrappers, with ornate printed title to upper wrapper and advert to the lower one. Repaired spine. With 8 early wash coloured lithographic plates, 2 pasted to insides of the covers.
Stock number: 1953
£ 550
Thomas Bowles, John Bowles and Robert Sayer, London, [1763]
Folio (560 x 390 mm.), modern half calf retaining contemporary marbled paper boards, ornate blind ruling, spine with gilt and blind ruled bands, red calf gilt title label affixed. With 47 engraved double-page mapsheets consisting of a general map of England and Wales by Kitchin, general map of Scotland by James Dorret dated 1761, Bayly of Ireland, and 44 county maps of England and Wales, all in early outline colour, the first map with a stain confined mostly in the margin otherwise generally in good condition.
Stock number: 10440
£ 9,750
R. H. Laurie, No. 53, Fleet Street, London, 1832
Quarto (265 x 175 mm.), full contemporary limp red morocco, with locking flap (retainer missing) and marbled endpapers. With engraved title page as above, an Advertisement, Directions and Explanation, Index, Parliamentary Representation, pp. ii, 8, (4), folding general map of England and Wales and 25 double page engraved maps all in early outline colour, complete with blank endpapers, with some light offsetting, otherwise a good example.
Stock number: 10394
£ 395
Greenwood & Co., Burleigh Street, Strand, London, 1834
A CLEAN SIDE BOUND ISSUE WITHOUT FOLDS. Oblong large folio (665 x 810 mm.), contemporary half calf, edge bound, cloth boards, gilt ruled, with central calf gilt panelled title label affixed to upper board, spine with double raised bands, gilt ruled, marbled endpapers, light wear. With engraved title-page containing an early wash coloured map of England and Wales, 46 double-page early wash coloured engraved maps by J. and J. Neale, J. and C. Walker and others, Lancashire and Lincolnshire just shaved which is often the case due to their size, Rutland with tear in the upper margin, some light offsetting, much better example than most, otherwise a good example.
Stock number: 10294
£ 3,500
Longman, Rees & Co. Paternoster Row, and J. & C. Walker, 9, Castle Street, Holborn, London, 1853
Folio (355 x 245 mm.), modern half calf, marbled paper boards, gilt ruled, gilt ruled spine with gilt title, later endpapers. With double page engraved title page, 5 double page typographic tables, some repair and reinstatement on the title page and first leaf of statistical tables and 49 steel engraved maps comprising 3 general, 42 of English counties and Wales quartered, all in fine early wash colour, some very light foxing, Kent with small lower centrefold split, Rutland with a marginal tear, otherwise in very good condition.
Stock number: 10301
£ 450
William Darton and Son, London, c.1835
VERY RARE. Folio (370 x 255 mm.), contemporary half straight grained morocco, cloth boards, blind ruled, rebacked with gilt ruled compartments gilt title, later endpapers. With typographic title, Contents (with central repair to verso) and 42 maps consisting of 40 of the counties, North and South Wales, the last two and Yorkshire folding, with a couple of splits to folds professionally repaired, with offsetting to most maps, light water discolouration to centrefold of most, light offsetting, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10264
£ 3,250
C. Smith, Mapseller extraordinary to His Majesty No. 172 Strand, London, 1822
Quarto (280 x 230 mm.), recent half calf, marbled paper boards, ornate gilt ruling, spine with two raised bands, each with gilt ruling, calf gilt title label. With engraved title page, contents leaf, 43 engraved maps including a large folding one of Yorkshire, all in fine early outline colour, a 4 page list of Principal Towns followed by 4 blank leaves for 'Remarks' the final one of which has half removed, old repair to binders tear and one small split to the folding map of Yorkshire, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10265
£ 950
C. Smith, Mapseller extraordinary to His Majesty No. 172 Strand, London, 1825
A VERY RARE EDITION. Quarto (275 x 225 mm.), contemporary half calf, marbled paper boards, rebacked with gilt ruled bands, red calf gilt title label, light wear. With engraved title page, contents leaf, 43 engraved maps including a large folding one of Yorkshire, all in fine early outline colour, a 4 page list of Principal Towns followed by 2 blank leaves for 'Remarks', small split to binders fold on the folding map of Yorkshire, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10266
£ 1,100
Thos. Johnson, Manchester, 1863
ONE OF ONLY TWO KNOWN EXAMPLES. Quarto (265 x 210 mm.), contemporary half calf, cloth boards, blind embossed title and globe on upper board, rebacked retaining original spine, blind ruled compartments and blind title, light wear. With lithographic title page and 42 full bold early wash coloured maps, interleaved, in good condition.
Stock number: 10293
£ 1,950
Edward Mogg, No. 51, Charing Cross, London, 1817
A RARE WORK. Quarto (250 x 180 mm.), volume 1 [all published], old half calf, marbled paper boards, spine with gilt ruled bands, gilt title. With engraved title page, typographic title, Dedication, Advertisement and Table of Routes, followed by 112 maps containing 223 road strips (plate 163 is not divided), all in fine early wash colour, Index to the Country Seats pp. 85, Directions to the Binder on the verso, apparently lacking the general map of England and Wales although not always present, light foxing to initial leaves of text, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10229
£ 1,750
S. A. Oddy, London, 1812[13]
FIRST EDITION. Folio (380 x 260 mm.), contemporary half calf, marbled paper boards, rebacked with gilt ruled compartments and title. 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, early manuscript Index on front free endpaper, title with upper margin tear professionally repaired, some very light offsetting, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10244
£ 500
Langley & Belch, 173, High Street, Borough, London, 1818
FIRST EDITION. Oblong quarto (225 x 375 mm.), contemporary half calf, marbled paper boards with original publisher's paper title to upper cover, ornate gilt ruled (worn), rebacked preserving original spine, with gilt ruled compartments and title, light wear. With engraved title page (ink stain) and 53 maps all in early wash colour, consisting of one general map and 52 of the English and Welsh counties, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10249
£ 3,950
London, 1782-90
ONE OF ONLY THREE KNOWN BOUND COLLECTIONS OF FIRST STATE MAPS. Oblong folio (335 x 360 mm.), full contemporary calf, with very unusual ornate early decoration affixed and now worn, later endpapers, uncut. With 40 engraved maps of the English counties, traces of old folds, with manuscript index to the front free original endpaper, some trimmed with loss of imprint, frail edges to many, ink notations to the margins of some maps, those of Dorset, Essex Hertfordshire bound upside down, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10210
£ 1,950
London, c.1795
Quarto (325 x 215 mm.), modern quarter calf by Temple Bindery, marbled paper boards, gilt ruled, spine with raised bands, gilt ruled compartments, black calf gilt title label, uncut. With original publisher's typographic 'title' and index loosely inserted, 40 engraved maps of the English counties, old liquid stain to first and final few maps lower corner, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10211
£ 1,750
Printed by C. Whittingham, Dean Street, Fetter Lane and Sold by H D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row, London, 1802
Octavo (225 x 140 mm.), old half vellum, contemporary paper boards, later endpapers, uncut. With typographic frontispiece, pp. iv, 66, with 14 aquatint plates of the roads with early wash coloured borders and 5 further aquatints, in good condition.
Stock number: 10218
£ 850
Lackington, Allen & Co. Temple of the Muses Finsbury Square, London, 1806
Octavo (185 x 115 mm.), contemporary marbled paper boards, rebacked in red morocco, gilt ruled, with original paper title label affixed to the upper board, spine with gilt ruled bands. 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, blank leaf with manuscript table, Index leaf, some light show through on a few maps to the versos, some offsetting to final map, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10221
£ 3,250
Printed for C. Smith, Mapseller, No. 172 (Corner of Surrey Street) Strand, London, 1804
Folio (545 x 365 mm.), contemporary half calf, marbled paper boards, rebacked with raised bands, ornate gilt ruled compartments each with central gilt feature, gilt date and green calf gilt title label, light wear. With engraved title page and contemporary tissue, 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, (southern half with centrefold split), large Index to place names and a 2-page list of subscribers, pp. 54, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10222
£ 2,500
London, July 1st., 1790
FIRST EDITION. Quarto (210 x 150 mm.), full contemporary tree calf, ornate blind panelled boards, rebacked spine with gilt date and red calf gilt title, marbled endpapers. With engraved title page, folding general map, map of the Turnpike Gates, both in early wash colour, Explanation and Advertisement leaf, and 80 strip road maps on 40 sheets all in early wash colour, engraved throughout, with small repair to endpaper, complete with original endpapers, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10199
£ 850
Printed for John Cary, Engraver, Map & Printseller, Strand, London, 1 Jan. 1791-[92]
Octavo (180 x 115 mm.), recent half red calf by Bayntun, red cloth boards, spine with two raised bands and gilt embossed titles, later endpapers. With engraved title page, Advertisement and Contents and 43 engraved maps printed back-to-back, all in early outline colour, that of Yorkshire folding, 6 page Index bound at the front, in good condition.
Stock number: 10202
£ 195
John Cary, Engraver, and Map-seller, Strand, London, 1806
FIRST EDITION OF THE SECOND SERIES. Octavo (165 x 105 mm.), modern half calf, marbled paper boards, blind ruled, spine with gilt ruling and red calf gilt title label, later endpapers. With engraved title page, Advertisement, Contents, general map and 40 maps of the counties, that of Yorkshire folding with binder's tear repaired, North and South Wales, in all 43 maps, all in early outline colour and bound facing each other, index of 'Market and Borough Towns' in pp. 5, 'Routes; Exhibiting the Direct Road' in pp. 11. advert of 'Works published by John Cary' in pp. 2, in good condition.
Stock number: 10204
£ 195