Recent Arrivals from Bryars and Bryars

London, Sherwood, Neely and Jones,, 1813. 4to. pp. viii, vi, 310 + 5 engraved views and 3 map, of which 2 are folding, engraved by Henry Cooper. Light spotting, author’s name inked in at the end of the preface, later 19th century tan half calf over cloth, somewhat rubbed and worn, faintly lettered at the foot of the spine… Read more about this item

London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1878. 2 lithographed maps, each 87.5 x 71 cm, printed in colours, each dissected into 28 panels and laid on linen, minor wear; published in Henry Morton Stanley’s ‘Through the Dark Content’, but here dissected at an early date to create a robust folding map. A product of Welsh-American explorer H.M. Stanley’s… Read more about this item

London, Printed by J.M. for Richard Chiswell , 1673. First edition, 8vo. pp. [xl], 352, [viii], 439, [i]. Frontispiece facing the imprimatur leaf engraved by William Sherwin. Contemporary panelled calf, minor wear, neat recent morocco lettering piece. Ownership inscriptiuon of Robert Edwards, Bala, dated 1769; 19th century book label of C.M. College Library, Bala. The Calvinistic Methodist College, latterly… Read more about this item

Cologne, c. 1596. Copper engraving, 37 x 47.5 cms, original hand colour, a couple of marginal nicks and tears, French text on verso. Lisbon on the banks of the River Tagus, at the height of its prosperity as the hub of a Portuguese empire and trade network which stretched between south America and east Asia. A legend at the… Read more about this item

London, A. Strahan and T. Cadell,, 1791. 4to, pp. xii, 364, [12] + 2 large folding maps engraved by Samuel John Neele, marginal repairs to second map, occasional light spotting, contemporary calf, worn, rebacked. William Robertson was an influential literary figure in Enlightenment Edinburgh: a Church of Scotland minister, Principal of Edinburgh University and an early exponent of global… Read more about this item

London: printed for Rodwell and Martin, W. Clarke and T. Egerton,, 1820. Second edition, 8vo. pp. [vi], 162, [ii] advertisement leaf + additional engraved partly hand-coloured portrait of the Duke of Wellington engraved by H. Robinson after Sir Thomas Lawrence bound-in at front, 6 folding hand-coloured plans engraved by Nathaniel Rogers Hewitt and Batty himself, 3 folding letterpress tables… Read more about this item

Venetiis [Venice]: Per Venturinum Rossinellum [Venturino di Rossinelli]..., 1540. Folio. ff. [vi], 296. Imprint from colophon, title in red and black with woodcut vignette set within a historiated border made up of four blocks, and with numerous woodcut head-pieces and initials in the text; some spotting and staining at intervals, mostly marginal; thin vellum over boards, heavily worn, rebacked retaining… Read more about this item

London: may be had at the Vestry of Dr Rippon's meeting house in Carter Lane, Tooley Street..., c. 1800-1810. Landscape 12mo (12 x 25 cm), pp. xx, 320 (engraved music), [ii] index, some light spotting and staining, worn half calf over marbled boards, lower headcap neatly restored. Ownership inscriptions (M. Bryan and Annie Weare) dated 1813 and 1870. A… Read more about this item

London, Geographia Ltd, 1919. Lithographed folding map, 76 x 101 cm, printed in blue and red, inset map of ‘Theatre Land’ bottom right, minor wear, blank verso; folding into blue printed paper wrappers, somewhat worn and dusty, old ownership signature. The Daily Telegraph was one of a number of newspapers to sponsor Underground maps: a series issued by the… Read more about this item

London, 1698. Copper engraving, 32 x 47.5 cm, modern hand colour, a couple of trivial spots, blank verso; published as sheet 52 in the 1698 folio edition of Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. This sheet covers the road between Bagshot in Surrey and the port of Southampton, with the two right-hand panels covering the route between Southampton and… Read more about this item

Cologne, c. 1617. Copper engraving, 31.5 x 42 cms, original hand colour, short split and light waterstain to centrefold, Latin text on verso. York, Shrewsbury, Lancaster, and Richmond Palace, on one sheet; all are derived from John Speed’s county maps. In the borders are figures representing eras in pre-Conquest Britain (a Briton, Roman, Saxon and Dane) which are again… Read more about this item

London, c. 1840. Engraved folding race game, 49.5 x 61 cm, dissected into 15 panels and laid on linen, original hand colour, slight adhesion damage affecting central panels and squares 41 and 42, folding into decorative cloth slip-case, gilt, minor wear; lacks rule-book. In the central panel Britannia contemplates the possibilities for the arts and commerce opened up by… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, 1653. Copper engraving, 38 x 49 cm, original hand colour, a couple of short closed mariginal tears, Spanish text on verso. Published in volume II of the Spanish text edition of Janssonius' Atlas Novus ('Nuevo Atlas'). Covering the Basque region on the northern coast of Spain, our map includes Santander (San Andero), Vittoria, Bilbao, Pamplona (Plazencia) and San… Read more about this item

London: for the author and sold by Edwards in Pall Mall, also by Edwards's in Halifax,, 1788. 2 parts only (of 4) in one volume, 4to. pp. iv, 27, [i], [25 leaves]; 11, [i], [25 leaves], the 50 unnumbered leaves printed on the rectos only: etched illustrations on india paper, somewhat browned, are mounted as headpieces on each leaf, with… Read more about this item

London, 1698. Copper engraving, 34.5 x 45 cm, modern hand colour, a couple of small marginal repairs, blank verso; published as sheet 45 in the 1698 folio edition of Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. This sheet covers the road between High Barnett and Oakham, the county town of Rutland. The decorative cartouche features a hunting scene. Thousands of… Read more about this item

London, George Humble, 1623. Copper engraving, image 38 x 50.5 cm, sheet size 41.5 x 53 cm, fine original hand colour, blank verso. An unusual example: the map was coloured, trimmed to the edge of the printed image and mounted on thick paper in the 17th century, perhaps as part of a special commission from a wealthy patron. Typically,… Read more about this item

London, Waterlow and Sons, Ltd, c. 1902. CLR passenger map, sheet size 14.5 x 33 cm, printed in colours, trivial spotting on verso, guide-book issue with blank verso. Leboff and Demuth (‘No Need to Ask’ p. 33) describe this as ‘a new form of map which was to be commonplace until the 1930s... a street layout printed on… Read more about this item

London, 1698. Copper engraving, 32.5 x 43 cm, modern hand colour, blank verso; published as sheet 92 in the 1698 folio edition of Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. Decorative cartouche featuring a shepherd and shepherdess and their flock. Thousands of miles of roads were surveyed for the project, smaller towns appeared in detail for the first time, and… Read more about this item

Leeds, John Waddington Ltd, c. 1942. Double sided Escape and Evasion map, 45 x 50 cm, printed in three colours on rayon (man-made fibre), old folds. For the highly classified production of EE maps, MI9 approached British games manufacturer Waddington’s through the Ministry of Supply, as the firm already had a proven track record of printing on silk. Bond… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, 1648. Copper engraving, 38.5 x 50 cm, original hand colour, Latin text on verso, generous margins. Blaeu’s county map of Norfolk. Blaeu and the rival Golden Age Dutch cartographic publishing house of Janssonius raced to bring out atlases of the British Isles in the 1630s and early 1640s, to add to their expanding world atlases. The work of… Read more about this item