Antique maps of the South West.

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BERKSHIRE.

ID

Map

Cartographer

Date

 Size

Description     (Click image for enlarged view)

Price
84125 Berkshire William Hole 1610 33x24
Fine example from the first English edition published in 1610 (without plate number).
£300
83604 Berkshire Van Langeren / Simmons 1636 10x10
Distance tables with thumbnail map after Bowes. This rare early state was amended by Jenner with larger maps after Speed. Second state with distances from London. V.Rare.
£250
82465 Berkshire Jan Blaeu 1645 50x39
Fine example. 
£500
84252 Berkshire Robert Morden 1695 42x36
Fine example from the 1695 edition. Hand coloured.
£180
83221 Berkshire Owen & Bowen 1720 12x18
Plate 221 from Britannia Depicta. Early 1720 edition. Road Oxford to Hungerford via Abingdon  on reverse: click here.
£60
82327 Berkshire Badeslade & Toms 1742 15x15
Old colour. First state (without additional place names).
£65
81764 Berkshire John Seller 1787 15x12
Originally published in 1694 in Sellers' Anglia Contracta, this edition was published with text below and on the reverse in Francis Grose's Antiquities. Dated watermark of 1809.
£60
82587 Berkshire John Seller 1787 15x12
Originally published in 1694 in Sellers' Anglia Contracta, this edition was published with text below and on the reverse in Francis Grose's Antiquities. Original hand colour.
£65
83473 Berkshire R Creighton 1831 23x18
Engraved by R. Creighton for Lewis's Topographical Dictionary. First edition published 1831. Fine hand colour.
SOLD

81174

 Berkshire Gray & Son 1833 25x19
Copperplate engraving in fine hand colour. Includes vignette of Windsor Castle.

£60

81282

Berkshire

Thomas Moule

 1845 26x20
Decorative steelplate engraving in fine hand colour. Includes vignettes of Virginia Water, Windsor castle, Widsor and Abingdon town Hall.

£90

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HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT

ID

Map

Cartographer

Date

 Size

Description     (Click image for enlarged view)

Price
84241 Hampshire John Speed 1611 52x39
First edition Published by John Sudbury and George Humble in 1611 (actually 1612). Fine, dark impression. Small margins, just outside of plate mark left and right, skilfully re-margined in matching paper. Repair to bottom centrefold. Fine example.
£1,150
82572 Hampshire William Hole 1610 32x30
Fine hand coloured example from the second 1610 or 1637 edition. One of the most detailed maps from the series.
£350
83752 Hampshire Robert Morden 1695 42x36
Repair to small wormholes at bottom centrefold but remains a fine impression from an early first edition.
SOLD. 
83262 Hampshire Owen & Bowen 1720 12x18
Plate 262 from Britannia Depicta. Early 1720 edition. Road Cockermouth to Carlisle on reverse: click here.
£60
83385 Hampshire Thomas Kitchin 1764 25x19
'Duke of York' series published 1764 and 1765 only. 
SOLD.
83777 Hampshire Thomas Read 1764 20x16
From Rocque's Small English Atlas.
Sold.
82051 Hampshire Cole & Roper 1801 18x24
Fine first edition in fine original colour.
£85
83690 Hampshire & Isle of Wight Emanuel Bowen 1767 35x20
Based on the 'Large English' and 'Royal' series of 1743 & 1763 These maps were not popular having to compete with the more modern Ellis's English Atlas and are uncommon. Fine example.
SOLD.
83465 Hampshire & Isle of Wight R Creighton 1831 24x29
Engraved by R. Creighton for Lewis's Topographical Dictionary. First edition published 1831. Titled Southampton, one of the larger maps in the series. Fine hand colour.
£35
81186 Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fullarton 1833 24x19
Copperplate engraving in fine hand colour. 
SOLD
83031 Hampshire & Isle of Wight Thomas Moule 1845 26x20
Decorative steelplate engraving in fine hand colour. Includes vignette of Southampton.
£95
84099 South Hampshire & Isle of Wight Benjamin Rees Davies 1867 43x29
Fourth lithographic transfer published by Cassell with statistical notes added. Fine hand coloured example.
SOLD.
84231 Isle of Wight R. H. Laurie 1824 25x30
Published in Laurie's Traveller's Companion. Original colour.
£25
84271 Isle of Wight John Rocque 1764 21x16
Firts published by Thomas Read in 1746 this comes from the later publication by John Rocque, unchanged apart from the plate number. Fine, clean example.
£45
82811 Isle of Wight Joseph Ellis 1765 25x20
Good clean example. Hertfordshire on reverse - click here for image.
£130
84104 Isle of Wight Thomas Moule 1842 26x20
Decorative steelplate engraving in fine hand colour. Includes vignette of Carisbrooke Castle.
£95
83881 Isle of Wight George Brannon 1847 31x27
A New and Correct Map of the Isle of Wight Designed in a Manner Peculiarly Calculated to Assist Pleasure Vistors in their Escursions thro' the Island. With Outline of the Southern Coast below.
£120

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WILTSHIRE

ID

Cartographer

Date

 Size (CM)

Description     (Click image for enlarged view)

Price
84255 Jan Blaeu 1647 50x41
Fine example in superb hand colour. Dutch text verso.
£450
83635 William Kip 1607 36x28
Fine example from the first edition of 1607 with Latin text verso.
£290
83636 Robert Morden 1695 41x35
1695 edition, fine hand coloured example.
£190
82678 Thomas Kitchin 1763 19x25
Known as the Duke of York series due to Kitchin's title on each map as Geographer Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of York. Outline colour.
£80
82209 Thomas Bowen 1767 22x35
From Atlas Anglicanus The final atlas on which Emanuel Bowen was involved. Finely engraved plates reduced from The Large English and The Royal atlases. This plate engraved by his son Thomas. Fine example. Uncommon. 
£265
84209 Joseph Johnson 1790 11x16
Published in England Delineated; or a geographical description of every county in England and Wales. (By John Aikin). Simple outline map intended to make my young countrymen better acquainted than they are usually found to be with their native land.
£15
82209 George Cole 1804 18x23
Fine example. Original colour.
£65
82982 Benjamin Baker 1807 18x23
Published by Laurie & Whittle. Fine original hand colour. Uncommon.
£75
81369 Henry Teesdale 1830 35x42
First edition, intaglio printed from the copperplate in original hand colour. Subsequent editions were printed by lithographic transfer from the plate.
£85
83477 R Creighton 1831 17x26
Engraved by R. Creighton for Lewis's Topographical Dictionary. First edition published 1831. Fine hand colour.
£30
82217 Thomas Moule 1845 21x27
Decorative steelplate engraving in fine hand colour. Includes vignettes of Salisbury Cathedral and Stonehenge.
£95

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DORSET

ID

Map

Cartographer

Date

 Size

Description     (Click image for enlarged view)

Price
84201 Dorset William Kip 1610 39x28
Fine example from the second 1610 or 1637 edition. 
£300
83883 Dorset Peter van den Keere 1627 13x9
"Miniature Speed" edition published by George Humble from 1627. Fine example in full hand colour.
SOLD.
83897 Dorset John Speed 1676 20x15
Good clean example with the imprint of Bassett & Chiswell Printed without text on the reverse.
£720
83065 Dorset Robert Morden 1695 42x37
Good clean example. Hand coloured.
£170
81843 Dorset  Owen & Bowen 1720 12x18
Fine hand colour both sides. Strip map of the route from Gloucester to Worcester via Tewkesbury on reverse. 
£70
83064 Dorset  Badeslade & Toms 1742 14x14
Good example from the first state dated 1741 and published 1742 with only 21 place names marked.
£75
80532 Dorset Joseph Ellis 1766 25x20
Copperplate in fine hand colour.
£75
83126 Dorset Jones & Smith 1801 51x45
From the first edition of Smith's New English Atlas. Fine example in full original colour.
£175
83130 Dorset James Wallis 1812 8x11
Wallis's miniature series. Second state (with plate number and Wallis imprint) published 1814. Original colour.
£25
83445 Dorset R Creighton 1831 31x18
Engraved by R. Creighton for Lewis's Topographical Dictionary. First edition published 1831. Fine hand colour.
£32
81124 Dorset James Pigot 1839 35x24
Steelplate engraving in original hand colour. Includes vignette of Sherbourne Church.
SOLD.
81289 Dorset Thomas Moule 1845 26x20
Decorative Steelplate engraving in fine hand colour. Includes vignette of Shaftesbury.
£85
84100 Dorset Benjamin Rees Davies 1867 44x31
2nd Lithographic Transfer published by Cassell. Fine hand colour.
£65

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SOMERSET

ID

Map

Cartographer

Date

 Size

Description     (Click image for enlarged view)

Price
82910 Somerset Peter van den Keere 1627 12x9
'Miniature Speed' edition. 
SOLD
82914 Somerset Richard Blome 1673 34x25
Fine hand coloured example from his Britannia.
£315
83755 Somerset Robert Morden 1695 42x36
Good early impression. Hand coloured.
£185
81844 Somerset Owen & Bowen 1720 12x18
Fine hand colour both sides. Final part of the route from Chester to Cardiff on reverse - click here.
£60
82836 Somerset Thomas Kitchin 1748 25x19
Second state published by Alexander Hogg c.1786. 
£80
82675 Somerset Thomas Kitchin 1763 26x20
Known as the Duke of York series due to Kitchin's title on each map as Geographer Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of York. Outline colour.
£90
84139 Somerset Charles Smith 1828 24x21
Engraved by Pickett for Smiths New English Atlas. Uncommon.
£95
83464 Somerset R Creighton 1831 30x23
Drawn by R Creighton, engraved by J & C Walker for Lewis' Topographical Dictionary. 
£40
81144 Somerset James Pigot 1833 35x23
Steelplate engraving in original hand colour. Vignette of Wells Cathedral. Includes page of text description of the county and distance tables.
SOLD.
81203 Somerset Fullarton 1833 24x19
Steelplate engraving. Hand coloured. 
£70
84038 Somerset Thomas Moule 1836 28x22
From the first edition with Dower imprint and dated 1836 in centre wreath. Hard to find with good margins as this example.
£95
83710 Somerset James Pigot 1839 17x11
The more scarce miniature maps by Pigot published in his Pocket Topography and Gazetteer of England. With text & distance table.
£45
84138 Somerset James Duncan 1840 44x36
Fine hand coloured example of the large detailed map published in A Complete County Atlas of England and Wales...effected by the Reform Bill.
£85
82901 Environs of Bath  John Cary 1810 22x17
From Cary's New Itinerary.
£35

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DEVON

ID

Map

Cartographer

Date

 Size

Description     (Click image for enlarged view)

Price
83633 Devon William Kip 1610 34x30
Some printers creases but remains a fine example of this early decorative map.
SOLD.
83634 Devon Robert Morden 1695 43x36
Fine early impression from 1695 edition.
£250
83189 Devon Robert Morden 1701 21x17
Robert Morden's smaller series originally engraved for publication in Camden's Britannia but rejected by Gibson and first published by Morden and others in 1701, two years before Morden's death.
£150
82906 Devon Badeslade & Toms 1742 15x15
Engraved by W. H. Toms, drawn by Thomas Badeslade and published in Chorographia Britanniae by Toms in 1742. 
£95

80626

Devon

Benjamin Donn

1765

 185x178 
Folding map on four sheets. First large scale map of the county.  Fine contemporary wash colour. Book plate of Francis Drake (a descendant of the famous explorer) Very fine copy. Title Cartouche.

Click for representative section.

£3,500
84423 Exeter Cole & Roper 1805 18x23
Town plan engraved by Roper from a drawing by Hayman. Vignette of Exeter Cathedral. Fine hand colour.
£100
84148 Devon J & C Walker 1831 24x20
Uncommon. Published by Fisher, Son & Co. in Fisher's County Atlas of England and Wales c.1845.
£60
83448 Devon R. Creighton 1831 29x24
Engraved by R. Creighton for Lewis's Topographical Dictionary. First edition published 1831. Fine hand colour.
SOLD.
81288 Devon Thomas Moule 1845 25x19
Decorative Steelplate engraving in fine hand colour. Includes vignette of Exeter Guildhall.

£85
82969 Devon James Pigot 1839 35x23
Steelplate engraving in original hand colour. Includes vignette of Exeter cathedral.

£120
82762 Devon Joshua Archer 1833 23x18
Engraved on a wood block. Published in Pinnock's Guide to Knowledge.
£20
83423 Devon Joshua Archer 1847 23x18
Lithographic transfer from the woodblock of 1833. Published by Thomas Johnson. Very scarce. 
£50

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CORNWALL

ID

Map

Cartographer

Date

Size

Description     (Click image for enlarged view)

Price
83895 Cornwall William Kip 1607 43x30
First edition of 1607 without compass rose and with Latin text verso. Burn to top corners up to plate edge right side and to engraved line left side, repaired with matching paper. Remains a fine early example. 
£530
83877 Cornwall Peter van den Keere 1627 12x9
Published as the "Miniature Speed" series  by George Humble. Fine example.
£150
83984 Cornwall Herman Moll 1724 31x19
Good example from the second state with plate number.
£180
84193 Cornwall Thomas Kitchin 1748 23x20
First published in The London Magazine, this, with the imprint removed was published in Alexander Hogg's Histprical descriptions from 1786.
£90
83409 Cornwall De La Rochette / Ellis 1765 25x21
Published in Ellis's English Atlas by Robert Sayer and Carington Bowles 
£150
83832 Cornwall John Cary 1806 50X55
From Cary's New English Atlas. Cary's large series - his finest county maps. Full original colour and no centrefold.
£230
83662 Cornwall Robert Rowe 1816 43x36
First published by Robert Rowe in his English Atlas. This, the second lithographic transfer with foliate decoration added, was published by H G Collins in The British Gazetteer c.1852
SOLD.
83675 Cornwall Aristide Perrot 1824 6x11
Scarce miniature map published by Depping. 
£175
83629 Cornwall John Seller 1787 15x11
John Seller's map first published in 1694 republished in Francis Grose's Antiquities with typeset text description of the county below. Fine example in original colour.
£110
83441 Cornwall Samuel Lewis 1831 23x18
Engraved by R. Creighton for Lewis's Topographical Dictionary. First edition published 1831. Fine hand colour.
£35
83630 Cornwall Gray & Son 1833 24x19
Published by Fullarton. With vignette of Launceston Castle.
SOLD. Another in stock.
83422 Cornwall Joshua Archer 1842 23x17
Published in Dugdale's England and Wales Delineated. Original outline colour. Some staining from guard at centrefold.
£25
83664 Cornwall Charles Knight 1850 17x22
Uncommon. Original outline colour.
£40
84444 Cornwall Thomas Moule 1845 26x20
Decorative steelplate engraving in fine hand colour. Vignette of Lands End. 

£95

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