Antique maps of the East of England.

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NORFOLK

ID	Cartographer	Map	Date	Size	Description     (Click image for enlarged view)	Price
53747	Jan Blaeu	Norfolk	1645	50x38	Based on John Speed's map. Original hand colour.	£450
53835	Robert Morden	Norfolk	1695	59x37	Early example. Hand coloured.	£195
52820	Richard Blome	Norfolk	1716	26x19	Engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar dated 1670. Later example with addition of roads. Old repair to split on left fold.	SOLD
54200	Owen & Bowen	Norfolk	1720	12x18	From Britannia Depicta. Early 1720 edition. Road Ipswich to Harwich on reverse - click here.	£60
54265	Thomas Kitchin	Norfolk	1748	20x15	First published in The London Magazine this, with the imprint removed was published by Alexander Hogg in his Historical Descriptions from 1786	£55
53381	Thomas Kitchin	Norfolk	1763	26x20	Published by Dodsley in England Illustrated and Kitchen's English Atlas.	£100
53184	Joseph Ellis	Norfolk	1766	26x20	From Ellis's English Atlas. Map of Northamptonshire on reverse - see Northamptonshire maps for image.	£90
53882	John Cary	Norfolk	1781	27x22	Published in Cary's English Atlas. His "quarto series". Original hand colour.	£70
54306	Benjamin Baker	Norfolk	1793	23x18	The first known works of the engraver Benjamin Baker were this series of county maps produced for  The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure published monthly from 1792. (Baker was engaged for much of his career in engraving the earliest maps for the Ordnance Survey.)	£45
53755	John Cary	Norfolk	1805	53x41	Engraved by John Cary for publication in Richard Gough's translation of William Camden's Britannia in 1789. This edition published by John Stockdale in his New British Atlas in 1805. Fine hand colour.	Sold.
53457	R Creighton	Norfolk	1831	32x24	Drawn by R. Creighton and engraved by  J & C Walker for Lewis's Topographical Dictionary. First edition published 1831.	£30
53028	Thomas Moule	Norfolk	1842	27x21	Decorative steelplate engraving in fine hand colour. Includes vignettes of Holkham Hall and Norwich Cathedral.	£95
53720	Benjamin Rees Davies	Norfolk	1867	44x31	2nd Lithographic Transfer published by Cassell. Fine hand colour.	SOLD.

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SUFFOLK

ID	Cartographer	Map	Date	Size	Description     (Click image for enlarged view)	Price
54020	John Speed	Suffolk	1614	52x39	Good early impression from the 1614 edition by John Sudbury and George Humble. Old centrefold repair slightly misaligned but otherwise a fine example.	£850
54323	John Speed	Suffolk	1676	52x39	Good example from the Basset and Chiswell edition of 1676.	£750
53193	Owen & Bowen	Suffolk	1720	12x18	From Britannia Depicta. First edition. Road map, Bury St Edmunds to Ipswich on reverse. Click here for image.	£60
53347	Thomas Kitchin	Suffolk	1748	20x15	First published 1786 this example from Alexander Hogg edition c.1748.	SOLD
54405	John Kirby	Suffolk	1764	46x32	Published in The Suffolk Traveller this small map is based on an actual survey by Kirby carried out between 1732 and 1734. His large scale map of the county surviving in just two known copies. This small folio map is in original hand colour.	£120
53956	Joseph Hodskinson	Suffolk	1787	78x59	Large single sheet map at a scale of half inch to a mile reduced from his 6 sheet 1783 map of his original survey, the most detailed and accurate survey to that time. Published by W. Faden as a loose sheet, segmented and pasted on linen. A beautiful, rare and detailed map in fine condition. Original colour.	£575
53978	John Cary	Suffolk	1805	55x40	Published by John Stockdale between 1805 and 1812 Fine hand coloured example.	£120
53467	R Creighton	Suffolk	1831	30x23	Drawn by R. Creighton and engraved by T Starling for Lewis's Topographical Dictionary. First edition published 1831.	SOLD
53018	Cole & Roper	Suffolk	1843	24x18	Dugdale edition. Hand coloured.	£45
51205	Fullarton	Suffolk	1833	25x19	Steelplate engraving in original hand colour. Includes large vignette view of Yarmouth.	£65
537011	James Pigot	Suffolk	1839	17x11	The more scarce miniature maps by Pigot published in his Pocket Topography and Gazetteer of England. With text & distance table.	£45
53584	Thomas Moule	Suffolk	1842	27x20	Decorative steelplate engraving in fine hand colour. Includes vignettes of Euston Hall and Hevingham Hall.	SOLD. Another in stock.
63600	Joshua Archer	Sufffolk	1847	23x16	Very Scarce edition of the woodblock printed map of 1833 - by lithographic transfer. Original  hand colour.	£50

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CAMBRIDGESHIRE

ID	Cartographer	Map	Date	Size	Description     (Click image for enlarged view)	Price
54254	Jan Blaeu	Cambs.	1645	54x42	One of Blaeu's most decorative county maps flanked with the arms of the University.	£700
53838	Robert Morden	Cambs.	1695	37x44	From Camden's Britannia. Good clean map.	£165
53106	Owen & Bowen	Cambs.	1720	12x19	From Britannia Depicta. An early first edition of 1720. Road Kingston to Flamborough Head verso.	£65
50125	Van der AA	Ely	1729	41x34	Town plan of Ely copied from John Speed and printed in composite with decorative engraved border with views of Wimpole Hall, Hatley St. George and Maddingley after Johannes Kip.	£200
52055	Thomas Read	Cambs.	1746	16x21	Published  by Read in The English Traveller in 1746. First state without plate number.	£50
53840	John Cary	Cambs.	1806	48x54	Fine example published edge-bound, without centrefold from Cary's finest series of county maps in original colour.	£205
53665	John Cary	Cambs.	1793	21x26	'4to. Cary' from Cary's New and correct English Atlas.  Original outline colour.	£55
51059	Cole & Roper	Cambs.	1803	18x24	Original hand colour. Includes inset plan of Newmarket racecourse.	£60
50323	Henry Cooper	Cambs.	1808	10x18	First edition published by R Phillips. Original hand colour.	£25
50555	Thomas Moule	Cambs.	1831	20x27	Pre-atlas publication in original paper covers with text description of the county. Moule's work was first issued  in parts by subscription. Surviving examples of these subscription copies are extremely rare. Uncoloured.	£150
53166	Thomas Moule	Cambridge	1842	26x21	Fine hand coloured example of Moule's highly detailed and decorative town plan embellished with the arms of the colleges. Closed tear top centre.	£125
51118	James Pigot	Cambs.	1839	23x36	Steelplate engraving in original hand colour. Includes vignette of Ely Cathedral	SOLD.
53215	'Owen & Bowen'	Arms of the Cambridge Colleges	1720	12x18	From Britannia Depicta. Arms of the colleges of the University of Cambridge. Road map Oxford to Kingsclere passing through Abingdon and Newbury on reverse.	£70
53586	Thomas Moule	Cambs.	1845	21x27	Decorative steelplate engraving in fine hand colour. Includes vignette of Wimpole Hall.	£90

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HUNTINGDONSHIRE

ID	Cartographer	Map	Date	Size	Description     (Click image for enlarged view)	Price
51614	John Speed	Hunts.	1614	51x38	Fine early impression. Hand coloured.	£650
51610	William Kip	Hunts.	1610	34x28	From the first English edition 1610. Tallow stain bottom right, otherwise good.	£180
53121	Michael Drayton	Hunts  & Beds.	1622	32x25	Engraved by William Hole for the 1622 expanded edition of Michael Drayton's Poly Olbion. Slight worming at top centrefold, sellotape stains to four corners outside plate edge and small ink stain near St Ives but still a good example of a rare map.	£300
51645	Jan Blaeu	Hunts.	1645	50x40	Fine hand coloured example. French text verso.	£500
51158	Robert Morden	Hunts.	1695	42x27	First edition of 1695. Hand coloured.	£120
50794	Badeslade & Toms	Hunts.	1742	15x15	2nd state with additional place names.	£55
52555	John Cary	Hunts.	1805	40x53	Published by John Stockdale between 1805 and 1812 Fine hand coloured example.	£70
53450	R. Creighton	Hunts.	1831	23x16	Engraved by R. Creighton for Lewis's Topographical Dictionary. First edition published 1831. Fine hand colour.	£25
50033	Henry Cooper	Hunts.	1808	11x18	First edition published by R Phillips. Original hand colour.	£20
51131	James Pigot	Hunts.	1839	23x36	First steel engraved map of the county. With vignette of Godmanchester Church. Original colour. With separate page of text description of the county.	£65

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