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British County Atlases
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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'slinen, all in early wash colour, Somerset with centrefold split, otherwise a good example.
Stock number: 10753
£ 1,250
London, c.1843
Quarto (280 x 220 mm.), early half calf, marbled paper boards, ornate endpapers. With 50 plates comprising, Principal Hills, Australia, and 48 maps of the British Isles, some light foxing and minor waterstain, but good margins throughout.
Stock number: 10756
£ 595
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
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
Printed by and for John Harrison No. 115, Newgate-Street, London, 1791
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
J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard, London, 1800
Octavo (185 x 120 mm.), recent quarter calf, marbled paper boards, spine with gilt ruled compartments, each with ornate central gilt feature, gilt title. With typographic title page and 43 copper plate maps consisting of England (folding, repaired and inserted), North Wales, South Wales and 40 county maps, pp. 396 numbered to 'x' in roman, (4), otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10744
£ 175
Printed for John Cary, Engraver, and Map-seller, Strand, London, 1817
Octavo (165 x 110 mm.), contemporary half calf, marbled paper boards, rebacked with gilt ruled compartments and title, marbled endpapers. With engraved title, advertisement and contents, general map and 42 county maps, that of Yorkshire folding with one fold reinforced, all in early outline colour, placed in pairs facing each other, pp. 16 of tables, and 4 of publishers adverts, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10747
£ 195
Sold by Robert Wilkinson, at No. 58, in Cornhill, Successor to Mr. John Bowles, deceased, London, [1767]
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
Thomas Kitchin and J. Gapper, London, 1769
Quarto (235 x 290 mm.), early twentieth century half cloth, marbled paper boards, with red calf gilt title label affixed. With engraved title page and 57 maps on 48 leaves, 11 of which are folding, all in approximate alphabetical order, with some offsetting as usual, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10736
£ 4,250
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,
Stock number: 10749
£ 1,250
Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-mall, London, 1763[64]
Quarto, two volumes (285 x 225 mm. each), full contemporary calf, ribbed spines gilt ruled compartments with decorative gilt central floral features, gilt calf title labels. 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 second folding map wrinkled, otherwise a good example.
Stock number: 10733
£ 1,500
Printed and sold by Thomas Bowles, fourth edition, London, 1753
Octavo (195 x 140 mm.), full calf, spine with blind ruled bands. With engraved title page, eight typographic preliminary pages and 273 engraved plates of road strips, county maps and descriptive text, pp. (2), 5, (3), 273, (1), good margins throughout, with light toning as is often the case, final original blank endpaper week at the edges, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10732
£ 1,100
Printed for T. Osborne. J. Robinson. D. Browne. W. Johnston. J. Hodges. P. Davey & A. Millar. B. Law, London, 1748-[c.56]
Octavo (170 x 110 mm.), full contemporary sheepskin, worn, rebacked with raised bands, cloth label affixed. With engraved title page, pp. (2), 39, (27), with 61 double page maps numbered to 60, the folding general map at the beginning being unnumbered, two maps numbered 19 and two 56 (none numbered 22 or 50), some offsetting throughout, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10731
£ 850
John Cary, Engraver, Map and Print-seller, the corner of Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1787-[89]
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
Printed for Alex. Hogg, at the King's-Arms, No. 16, Paternoster-Row, London, 1784
Folio (395 x 245 mm.), full contemporary tree calf, spine with very ornate gilt decoration, red calf gilt title label, joints weak. With engraved frontispiece, typographic title page, pp. vi, 520, (4), with 85 engraved plates comprising 144 views and 3 portraits and 23 engraved plates displaying 48 maps in total, with the 4 page list of subscribers often, but not always found, light paper crease to first two leaves, final leaf with tear repaired, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10743
£ 450
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
J Wallis Engraver, Berwick St. Soho and Sold by Davies & Eldridge Exeter, London, c.1812-[14]
Octavo (145 x 105 mm.), contemporary half black morocco, paper boards, with original publisher's black morocco gilt title label affixed to upper board, spine with gilt decorated raised bands, upper endpaper with later repair. With ornate engraved title page, Address to the Public and 44 maps comprising a general map of England and Wales, 40 maps of the English counties (Yorkshire double-page), 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 in early wash colour, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10748
£ 275
Amsterdam, 1654
Folio (565 x 360 mm.), full contemporary vellum, ornate gilt panelled boards, rebacked in sheepskin with gilded raised bands, each compartment with ornate central gilt feature, gilt calf title labels affixed, later endpapers. With ornate heavily gilded engraved title page, pp. (8), 189, (1), 70, (2), with 54 double page maps and 1 single page, all in excellent early outline and wash colour,
Stock number: 10719
£ 7,500
Amsterdam, 1645
Folio (500 x 340 mm.), full contemporary Dutch yap vellum with ornate gilt panelled decoration, manuscript title to spine, gilt edged, with ornate blind edging near spine, vellum replacement to lower corner portion of rear board. With magnificent engraved architectural title page in early wash colour HEIGHTENED IN GOLD, title printed on an overslip and pasted down, pp. (8), 460 (paginated), (2), with 58 copperplate engraved maps (57 double-page), 3 half-page illustrations, all in early outline and wash colour. The maps comprise 4 general and 54 county and island maps of England and Wales, with Latin text, mounted on guards throughout, light spotting throughout, some leaves with even toning as usual, some light marginal water staining to first few leaves, otherwise a good example.
Stock number: 10718
£ 11,500
Printed by M. S. for Tho. Jenner, at the South-entrance of the Royall Exchange, London, 1668
Quarto (185 x 140 mm.), quarter cloth, paper boards, spine with red calf gilt title label affixed, later endpapers. With typographic title page, the verso of the following leaf 'The Use of all the insueing Tables' from type, 37 engraved cartographical county mileage tables with 'thumbnail' maps set within text, complete with all four folding plates, pp. 197 paginated 6-197 with errors in pagination of 90 for 89, 104 is omitted so that from 105 onwards even numbers appear on the recto as in the prior edition, in addition 156 printed as 256, title with some restoration, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10717
£ 1,250