Rare maps of British Isles

235 x 225 mm., woodblock engraving on a folio leaf of text, with old wash colour, with wax mark in lower margin, otherwise in good condition.

FIRST EDITION. 105 x 140 mm., in good condition.

FIRST EDITION. 410 x 530 mm., early wash colour, with Latin text on the verso, in good condition.

125 x 175 mm., with minor loss of margin edge top and bottom centrefold, otherwise in good condition.

295 x 410 mm., with worm tracks in the margins repaired, one further at centrefold repaired, otherwise in good condition.

460 x 615 mm., very minor loss to extreme upper right corner, otherwise in good condition.

325 x 360 mm., light wrinkle along centrefold, otherwise in good condition.

135 x 170 mm., printed on a leaf of text, light paper imperfection in the text below, otherwise in good condition.

380 x 510 mm., later outline and wash colour, in good condition.

255 x 170 mm., in good condition.

185 x 290 mm., in good condition.

FROM THE LIBRARY OF TUDOR QUEEN MARY, THE MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN TUDOR CARTOGRAPHY SINCE 1982. WITH FOUR CONTEMPORARY TUDOR MANUSCRIPT MAPS OF ENGLAND & WALES, IRELAND, SCOTLAND, AND FRANCE. Folio (337 x 220 mm.), richly bound for Queen Mary I of England and Ireland by the 'Medallion Binder', later calf (c. 1800) laid around the edges of the original sixteenth century ornate gilt calf panels preserving both boards. The central royal escutcheon framed by arabesque stamps and topped with Tudor crown on both panels, the arms built up from small tools showing France ancient in the first and fourth quarters and England in the second and third. With monogram "M R" flanking royal arms within a decorative central lozenge compartment. Outer ornamental gilt border frame of interlaced circles with arabesque decoration to inner and outer corners (one damaged and one missing), ribbed spine with replacement upper compartment, gilt ruled spine with fleur-de-lis to compartments.

Typographic title with printer's woodcut device in contemporary hand colour, two leaves within woodcut borders, including dedication leaf to Henry VIII, final leaf with printers device, red-ruled borders throughout, with early seventeenth century ink marginalia on pages 59 and 108, collating pp. [2], 691, [39]; a-z6, A-Z6, Aa-Pp6, all edges gilt, old ink title at head of fore-edge, "Re[g]ni Anglicarum | Polidoris", with armorial bookplate of "F[rancis] Fortescue Turvi-le" [1752-1839] bound inside the upper cover. Extra-illustrated with four illuminated manuscript double-page maps of England and Wales, Ireland, Scotland (bearing a date of 1558), and France bound before the text. All apparently executed by the same contemporary hand and only slightly smaller than the book itself.

FIRST EDITION. 230 x 155 mm. & 135 x 145 mm., in good condition.

265 x 345 mm., recent wash colour, trimmed upper left corner, otherwise in good condition.

90 x 130 mm., on a page with text, in good condition.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. 190 x 255 mm., light even toning, otherwise in good condition.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. 190 x 255 mm., light even toning, otherwise in good condition.

205 x 260 mm., light foxing in upper margin, otherwise in good condition.

345 x 500 mm., in good condition.

385 x 480 mm., with double folds as usual, small tear at double fold professionally repaired, otherwise in good condition.