Search Results: Books from Bryars and Bryars

London, c. 1800. Copper engraving, 11 x 18 cms, original hand-colour, blank verso; prepared for ‘England Delineated ... for the use of young persons’ (various editions 1788-1809). Map

Genoa: Yves Gravier, 1804. Copper engraving, 14 x 20 cms, black and white as issued, blank verso. Sète in southern France. Map

Genoa: Yves Gravier, 1804. Copper engraving, 14.5 x 19.5 cms, black and white as issued, blank verso. Essaouira, then Morocco’s principal port. Map

Genoa: Yves Gravier, 1804. Copper engraving, 14 x 20 cms, black and white as issued, blank verso. Foça, Turkey; near Smyrna. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15.5 x 10 cms, recent hand-colour, light waterstaining in upper margin, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Print

Amsterdam, 1630. Copper engraving, 14 x 18.3 cms, later hand-colour, Dutch text on verso. Anjou, from the Atlas Minor. The original plates were engraved by Jodocus Hondius, but after these were sold to the London trade in the 1620s Janssonius commissioned new ones from Pieter van den Keere and Abraham Goos. Koeman attributes the relatively low number of Dutch editions to the prevalance of Latin and French among “the better circumstanced people - potential buyers of atlases”. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Me 197. Map

Paris, 1667. Copper engraving, 10.5 x 12.6 cms, original hand-colour, lightly browned, blank verso; leaf from the same work, with the arms of Ponthieu, pasted to the right hand edge. Map

London, c. 1860. Tinted lithograph, 21.5 x 31.5 cms, blank verso. Print

London, c. 1860. Tinted lithograph, 18 x 27 cms, blank verso. Print

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15.5 x 10 cms, recent hand-colour, light waterstaining in upper margin, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Print

Amsterdam, 1630. Copper engraving, 13.6 x 20.3 cms, later hand-colour, Dutch text on verso. Southern Lorraine, from the Atlas Minor. The original plates were engraved by Jodocus Hondius, but after these were sold to the London trade in the 1620s Janssonius commissioned new ones from Pieter van den Keere and Abraham Goos. Koeman attributes the relatively low number of Dutch editions to the prevalance of Latin and French among “the better circumstanced people - potential buyers of atlases”. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Me 197. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 14.5 x 10 cms, black and white, blank verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Presumably a depiction of Charles XI. Map

London, c. 1860. Tinted lithograph, 21.5 x 31.5 cms, short tear without loss extending slightly into printed area. blank verso. Print

London, c. 1822. Copper engraving, 19.5 x 24.5 cms, engraved by Sidney Hall, original outline hand-colour, blank verso; from Butler’s Atlas of Ancient Geography. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 14.5 x 10 cms, black and white, blank verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

Amsterdam, 1630. Copper engraving, 13.6 x 20.3 cms, later hand-colour, Dutch text on verso. Northern Lorraine, from the Atlas Minor. The original plates were engraved by Jodocus Hondius, but after these were sold to the London trade in the 1620s Janssonius commissioned new ones from Pieter van den Keere and Abraham Goos. Koeman attributes the relatively low number of Dutch editions to the prevalance of Latin and French among “the better circumstanced people - potential buyers of atlases”. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Me 197. Map

Amsterdam, 1630. Copper engraving, 15 x 18.3 cms, later hand-colour, Dutch text on verso. Mercator's Pays Boulonnais and Guînes from the Atlas Minor. The original plates were engraved by Jodocus Hondius, but after these were sold to the London trade in the 1620s Janssonius commissioned new ones from Pieter van den Keere and Abraham Goos. Koeman attributes the relatively low number of Dutch editions to the prevalance of Latin and French among “the better circumstanced people - potential buyers of atlases”. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Me 197. Map

London, 1849. Steel engraving, 24 x 25.5 cms, engraved by J & C Walker after Robert Creighton for Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary; original hand colour in outline, blank verso. Map

London: William Orr, 1846. Steel engraving, 20.5 x 29.5 cms, engraved by John Dower, blank verso; published in the Rev. Thomas Milner’s: ‘The gallery of nature: a pictorial and descriptive tour through creation, illustrative of the wonders of astronomy, physical geography, and geology’. A detailed map of the moon, divided into four regions, with a key identifying 377 locations. Map

London, 1811. Copper engraving, 13.5 x 10 cms, original hand-colour, from Wallis' Pocket Edition of the English Counties. James Wallis (fl. 1810-1825) was born in Southampton in 1784, the son of a bricklayer. Apprenticed to John Roper in 1799, he learned the art of engraving. In later life he is variously recorded as a commission and discount agent (imprisoned for debt in 1835), a stationer, and a dealer in beer and wine.  Map