Antique maps of South & West; covering, Berkshire, Hampshire & Isle of Wight, Channel Islands, Scilly Isles, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall.

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[BERKSHIRE] [HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT] [WILTSHIRE] [DORSET] [SOMERSET] [DEVON] [CORNWALL]

BERKSHIRE.

ID

Map

Cartographer

Date

Size

Description     (Click image for enlarged view)

Price

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.
£250.00
82465 Berkshire Jan Blaeu 1645 50x39
Fine example. 
£500.00
81765 Berkshire Robert Morden 1695 42x36
Fine example hand coloured.
£150.00
83221 Berkshire Owen & Bowen 1720 12x18
Plate 221 from Britannia Depicta. Early 1720 edition. Road Oxford to Hungerford via Abingdon  on reverse: click here.
£60.00
82327 Berkshire Badeslade & Toms 1742 15x15
Old colour. First state (without additional place names).
£65.00
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.
£60.00
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.
£65.00
80321 Berkshire Henry Cooper 1808 18x11
Full original hand colour.
SOLD.

81174

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

£60.00

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.

£90.00

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HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT

ID

Map

Cartographer

Date

Size

Description     (Click image for enlarged view)

Price

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.
£350.00
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.
£60.00
83385 Hampshire Thomas Kitchin 1764 25x19
'Duke of York' series published 1764 and 1765 only. 
£120.00
83777 Hampshire Thomas Read 1764 20x16
From Rocque's Small English Atlas.
£45.00
83127 Isle of Wight Joseph Ellis 1765 25x20
Plain back. hand coloured. Good clean example.
SOLD. Another in stock.
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.
£295.00
82051 Hampshire Cole & Roper 1801 18x24
Fine first edition in fine original colour.
£85.00
82995 Isle of Wight George Brannon 1824 28x21
A New Map of the Isle of Wight in which are distinctly shown the Chief Towns & Villages, all the principal Seats and Villas and those places in particular which are interesting to visitors on account of their scenery. Original colour.
£95.00
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.
£120.00
83136 Hampshire James Pigot 1826 22x36
1826 edition. Vignette of Winchester Cathedral. 
£50.00
81186 Hampshire Fullarton 1833 24x19
Copperplate engraving in fine hand colour. 
£60.00
83031 Hampshire Thomas Moule 1845 26x20
Decorative steelplate engraving in fine hand colour. Includes vignette of Southampton.
£95.00
82992 Hampshire & Isle of Wight James Pigot 1839 23x36
Steel engraving in original hand colour. Vignette of Winchester Cathedral.
£145.00

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WILTSHIRE

ID

Map

Cartographer

Date

Size

Description     (Click image for enlarged view)

Price

83756 Wiltshire Robert Morden 1695 41x35
Early edition, hand coloured, fine example.
£175.00
82209 Wiltshire Thomas Bowen 1767 22x32
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. 
£265.00
82249 Wiltshire George Cole  1804 18x23
Fine example. Original colour.
£65.00
82982 Wiltshire Benjamin Baker 1807 18x23
Published by Laurie & Whittle. Fine original hand colour. Uncommon.
£75.00
81151 Wiltshire James Pigot 1839 23x36
Steelplate engraving in original hand colour. Includes vignette of Salisbury Cathedral.
£65.00
81369 Wiltshire 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.
£85.00
81486 Wiltshire Creighton R 1835 18x25
Second state of the plate with polling places added. Hand coloured.
SOLD.
82217 Wiltshire Thomas Moule 1845 21x27
Decorative steelplate engraving in fine hand colour. Includes vignettes of Salisbury Cathedral and Stonehenge.
£95.00

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DORSET

ID

Map

Cartographer

Date

Size

Description     (Click image for enlarged view)

Price

80048 Dorset Jan Blaeu 1645 51x39
Fine example in fine hand colour.
SOLD.
83065 Dorset Robert Morden 1695 42x37
Good clean example. Hand coloured.
£170.00
81843 Dorset  Owen & Bowen 1720 12x18
Fine hand colour both sides. Strip map of the route from Gloucester to Worcester via Tewkesbury on reverse. 
£70.00
83064 Dorset  Badeslade & Toms 1742 14x14
Good example from the first state dated 1741 and published 1742 with only 21 place names marked.
£75.00
80532 Dorset Joseph Ellis 1766 25x20
Copperplate in fine hand colour.
£75.00
83126 Dorset Jones & Smith 1801 51x45
From the first edition of Smith's New English Atlas. Fine example in full original colour.
£175.00
83130 Dorset James Wallis 1812 8x11
Wallis's miniature series. Second state (with plate number and Wallis imprint) published 1814. Original colour.
£25.00
81124 Dorset James Pigot 1839 35x24
Steelplate engraving in original hand colour. Includes vignette of Sherbourne Church.
£65.00
81289 Dorset Thomas Moule 1845 26x20
Decorative Steelplate engraving in fine hand colour. Includes vignette of Shaftesbury.
£85.00

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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.
£315.00
83755 Somerset Robert Morden 1695 42x36
Good early impression. Hand coloured.
£185.00
81844 Somerset Owen & Bowen 1720 12x18
Fine hand colour both sides. Final part of the route from Chester to Cardiff on reverse - click here.
Sold.
82836 Somerset Thomas Kitchin 1748 25x19
Second state published by Alexander Hogg c.1786. 
£80.00
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.
£90.00
83464 Somerset R Creighton 1831 30x23
Drawn by R Creighton, engraved by J & C Walker for Lewis' Topographical Dictionary. 
£40.00
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.
£75.00
81203 Somerset Fullarton 1833 24x19
Steelplate engraving. Hand coloured. 
£70.00
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.
£45.00
82901 Environs of Bath  John Cary 1810 22x17
From Cary's New Itinerary.
£35.00

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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.
£345.00
83634 Devon Robert Morden 1695 43x36
Fine early impression from 1695 edition.
£250.00
831989 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.
£150.00
82906 Devon Badeslade & Toms 1742 15x15
Engraved by W. H. Toms, drawn by Thomas Badeslade and published in Chorographia Britanniae by Toms in 1742. 
£95.00

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) Title Cartouche.

Click for representative section.

£3,500.00

81288 Devon Thomas Moule 1845 25x19
Decorative Steelplate engraving in fine hand colour. Includes vignette of Exeter Guildhall.

£85.00

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

£120.00

82762 Devon Joshua Archer 1833 23x18
Engraved on a wood block. Published in Pinnock's Guide to Knowledge.
£20.00
83423 Devon Joshua Archer 1847 23x18
Lithographic transfer from the woodblock of 1833. Published by Thomas Johnson. Very scarce. 
£50.00

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CORNWALL

ID

Map

Cartographer

Date

Size

Description     (Click image for enlarged view)

Price

83971 Cornwall John Speed 1627 51x39
One of the most decorative and sought after county maps, with inset view of Launceston. Based on the survey by John Norden and engraved by Jodocus Hondius. Published in  Speed's  'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine'. Small margins but sufficient for framing.
SOLD.
83628 Cornwall Robert Morden 1701 21x16
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.
SOLD.
83409 Cornwall De La Rochette 1765 25x21
Published in Ellis's English Atlas by Robert Sayer and Carington Bowles 
£150.00
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
£120.00
83675 Cornwall Aristide Perrot 1824 6x11
Scarce miniature map published by Depping. 
£175.00
83631 Cornwall John Cary 1793 26x21
'Quarto' Cary. Original outline colour.
SOLD
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.
£110.00
83630 Cornwall Gray & Son 1833 24x19
Published by Fullarton. With vignette of Launceston Castle.
SOLD.
83422 Cornwall Joshua Archer 1842 23x17
Published in Dugdale's England and Wales Delineated. Original outline colour. Some staining from guard at centrefold.
£25.00
83664 Cornwall Charles Knight 1850 17x22
Uncommon. Original outline colour.
£40.00
81365 Cornwall Thomas Moule 1845 26x20
Decorative steelplate engraving in fine hand colour. Vignette of Lands End.

£95.00

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