Rare maps of British Isles

375 x 505 mm., with Latin text on the verso, paper crease in lower left margin, otherwise in very good condition.

85 x 120 mm., in good condition.

440 x 575 mm., on thick paper, light foxing at extremities, otherwise 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.

500 x 695 mm., two minor tears lower margin repaired, light offset of title cartouche, evenly toned, otherwise in good condition.

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.

ONE OF ONLY FOUR RECORDED EXAMPLES. 550 x 455 mm., early outline colour, repaired centrefold splits both sides, otherwise in good condition.

FOUR RECORDED EXAMPLES. 600 x 520 mm., with professional repair to splits around the centrefold, with extended margins both sides and facsimile neatline lower left, otherwise in good condition.

135 x 170 mm., a nice dark impression, in good condition.

135 x 170 mm., English text on the verso, in good condition.

THE FIRST REASONABLY ACCURATE MAP OF JERSEY. 385 x 510 mm., with recent outline and wash colour, in good condition.

350 x 525 mm., light foxing to the left side, otherwise in very good condition.

INCREDIBLY RARE. 90 x 55 mm., in excellent good condition.