Topography and cartography books in partnership with David Ford Books. We stock an extensive range of second-hand books on most subjects. David Ford Books are listed on the ABE website at: dfordbooksuk

Below is a list of our Cartographical books and a selection of our Antiquarian Topographical.

This page last updated: 30 Dec 2003

CARTOGRAPHY

Ref.	Title	Author	Pub.	Description	Price
b1	The Illustrated Atlas of the Nineteenth Century World.	Montgomery Martin	Studio Editions 1989	Full colour facsimile of the atlas first published by John Tallis from 1851. Folio blue cloth.  Introduction by Jonathan Potter.	£30.00
b2	The Mapping of North America. A List of Printed Maps 1511-1670	Philip D Burden	Raleigh Publications 1996	The definitive list of North American maps, each map described in detail and accompanied by a photograph. 11 Colour plates and 418 black and white plates.	£120.00
b4	Some Notable Surveyors & Mapmakers	Sir Herbert George Fordham	Cambridge University Press 1929	99pages. 9 Illustrations. Scarce in good dustwrapper.	£35.00
b5	Antique Maps	Douglas Gohm	Octopus Books 1972	128 pages. Illustrated in colour throughout.	£10.00
b6	Leicestershire Maps	Basil L. Gimson & Percy Russell	Edgar Backus 1947	40 pages. 11 Plates. A description of 43 of the main maps of Leicestershire. Paper wraps.	£15.00
b7	British Maps and Mapmakers	Edward Lynham	Collins 1947	From the Britain in Pictures series. 48 pp. 22 b&w Ill. 8 Col. plates. A good introduction to Antique Maps.	£10.00
b8	William Yates's Map of Lancashire 1786	J B Harley	Lancashire Historic Society 1968	Reduced facsimile of William Yates 1" scale map of Lancashire.	£15.00
b9	How to Identify       Old Maps and Globes	Raymond Lister	G Bell & Sons 1965	256 pages. 59 b/w plates. Good section on watermarks.	£18.00
b11	Antique Maps	P J Radford	P J Radford 1965	46 pages. b/w illustrations throughout.	£10.00
b12	The Royal English Atlas	J B Harley and Donald Hodson	David & Charles 1971	Full size facsimile of Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin's county maps. No dustwrapper.	£65.00
b13	Christopher Saxton's 16th Century Maps	William Ravenhill	Chatsworth Library 1992	Coloured reproduction of Saxton's county maps from the atlas held in the Library at Chatsworth house.	£25.00
b14	The Counties of Britain A Tudor Atlas by John Speed	Nigel Nicholson and Alasdair Hawkyard	Pavilion Books 1988	Coloured reproduction of Speed's county maps taken from an atlas in contemporary colour held in the British Library,	£35.00
b15	Decorative Printed Maps	R A Skelton	Spring Books 1967	General guide with 48 plates.	£18.00
b16	Maps & Mapmakers	R V Tooley	Bonanza Books 1970	140 pages. 104 Illustrations. Good general reference work with bibliographies.	£25.00
b17	Collectors Guide to Maps of the African Continent and Southern Africa	R V Tooley	Carta Press 1969	Bibliography containing nearly 500 maps. 6 colour and 100 b/w paltes.	£38.00
b18	Christopher Greenwood County Mapmaker and his Worcestershire map of 1822	J B Harley	Worcester Historical Society	Folio. 72pp. Blue cloth no dw. Worcester map missing.	£15.00
b19	John Ogilby and the taste of his times.	Katherine S. Van Eerde.	Dawson 1976	Biography of John Ogilby. 183pp. Grey cloth no dw.	£18.00
b20	Explorers Maps	R A Skelton	Hamlyn 1970	337 pages Illustrated throughout. Tracing the discovery of the world through maps.	£20.00
b22	Antique Maps for the Collector	Richard Gohm	Macmillan 1973	160 Pages, 130 illustrations 8 in colour.	£9.00
b23	Blaeu's The Grand Atlas of the 17th Century World	Royal Geographical Society London	Studio Editions 1990	Large folio illustrated with 100 colour plates  Introduction by John Goss.	£35.00
b25	Map Cover Art	John Paddy Brown	Ordnance Survey 1990	A pictorial history of Ordnance Survey map cover illustrations. 144 pages illustrated throughout.	£15.00
b26	Bickhams' Birds Eye County Views and North American Supplement.	D. Schrire	Map Collectors Circle. 1966	No. 27 in the series.  Bickhams' Description of the North American Colonies belonging to the Crown of Great Britain is reproduced in full.	£15.00
b27	County Atlases of the British Isles Part 1	R. A. Skelton	Map Collectors Circle. 1964	No. 9 in the series. Part 1 of Skeltons' bibliography covering Saxton to Speed.	£12.00
b28	California as an Island	R. V. Tooley	Map Collectors Circle. 1964	No. 8 in the series. 100 examples of California as an island from 1625 to 1770 described.	£15.00
b29	Printed Maps of Hertfordshire Parts 1-4	Donald Hodson	Map Collectors Circle. 1969-1971	No.'s 53,59,65 & 75 in the series. The standard reference work for Hertfordshire maps.	£60.00
b30	The Map Collector Index to Issues 31-40	Tessa Campbell	Map Collector Publications	Comprehensive index to Map Collector Magazines Nos. 31-40 Separate indexes by Geographical, People and Subject.	£5.00
b31	The Map Collector Index to Issues 31-40	Mary Alice Lowenthal	Map Collector Publications	Comprehensive index to Map Collector Magazines Nos. 51-60 Separate indexes by Geographical, People and Subject.	£5.00
b32	The County Maps of Old England. Thomas Moule.	Roderick Barron	Studio Editions 1990	Full colour reproduction of Thomas Moules' county maps and town plans.	£16.00
b33	What use is a map	British library	British Library 1989	Soft covers. 40pp. B/W ill. throughout. Description of 70 special purpose maps.	£5.00
b34	The Shape of the World.	Simon Berthon Andrew Robinson	George Philip 1991	Book of the Granada TV series.	£15.00
b35	The Printed Maps of Sussex 1575-1900	David Kingsley	Sussex Record Society 1982	Carto-bibliography of the printed maps of Sussex with publication history and biographical details of mapmakers.	£25.00
b36	Town & City Maps of the British Isles 1800-1855	Ashley Baynton Williams	Studio Editions 1992	Folio. 56 Town and city plans each with full page colour illustration.	£15.00
b37	A Gloucestershire and Bristol Atlas	Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society	1961	Reduced facsimile of Isaac Taylor's large scale map of Gloucestershire   with illustrations of 15 other maps.	£25.00
b38	Ordnance Survey Illustrated Atlas of Victorian and Edwardian Britain	Ordnance Survey	Automobile Association 1991	Reproduction of quarter inch map of Britain illustrated with contemporary photographs	£15.00
b39	Maps & Prints for Pleasure and Investment	Douglas Gohm	John Gifford 1978	196 pages. 78 b/w illustrations. 24 colour plates.	£12.00
b40	County Atlases of the British Isles Published after 1703 Volume 2	Donald Hodson	Tewin Press 1989	Second volume of bibliographies of the county atlases of the British Isles covering atlases published 1743 to 1763.	£35.00
b41	The Map of England	Col. Sir Charles Close	Peter Davis 1932	History of the Ordnance Survey	£18.00
b42	A Key to Maps	Brigadier H.S.L. Winterbotham	Blackie & Son 1943	First published in 1936, this edition published in the war years.	£5.00
b43	Our Forgotten History	John Booth	Cambridge Home Books 1986	Paperback 40 pages, a brief history of early mapmakers from the Romans to Robert Morden.	£5.00
b44	A Mapmakers Dream	James Cowan	Hodder & Stoughton 1966	The meditations of Fra Mauro, cartographer to the court of Venice.	£8.00
b45	From Bedsitter to Household Name	Phyllis Pearsall	A-Z Map Company 1990	A personal story of A-Z Maps.	£13.00
b46	The Art of the Mapmaker in Essex 1566-1860	Essex County Council	Essex County Council 1947	30 b/w illustrations, 5 colour plates,	£15.00
b47	Maps Topographical and Statistical	T.W. Birch	Oxford University Press 1964	240 pages. 99 b/w illustrations in the text. 8 colour plates.	£18.00
b48	Foreign Maps	Everett C. Olson	Harper & Brothers, New York 1944	Produced during the 2nd World War in the U.S., a description and aid to understanding the different keys and symbols on foreign maps.	£15.00
b49	Collecting Antique Maps	R.V.Tooley	Stanley Gibbons Guides 1978	32 pages illustrated throughout. Paperback guide.	£3.00
b51	Antique Maps and their Cartographers	Raymond Lister	Bell & Sons 1970	128 pages. 58 b/w plates. By the author of Old Maps and Globes.	£26.00
b54	Discovering Antique Maps	Alan G. Hodgkiss	Shire Publications 1975	Small paperback. 72 pages. 16 plates and illustrations in text. Good brief introduction to antique maps. 2nd ed.	£3.00
b55	Orford Ness A selection of maps by John Norden	John Norden	Heffer & Sons 1966	John Norden's manuscript maps reproduced in coloured facsimile. 22 Plates.	£45.00
b56	Maps of Old London	Various	A & C Black 1908	Facsimile maps by Wyngaerde, Agas,  Hoefnagel, Norden, Faithorne, Ogilby & Roque. Sellotape repairs to 2 Maps.	£45.00
b59	County Maps and Histories. Berkshire	Valerie G. Scott and Eve McLaughlin	Quiller Press 1984	History of Berkshire through maps. 34 pages illustrated in colour throughout.	£9.00
b60	Maps for Books and Theses	Alan G. Hodgkiss	David & Charles 1970	On the preparation of maps for the mapmaker.	£10.00
b61	The Printed Maps of Hertfordshire 1577-1900	Donald Hodson	Dawsons 1974	The standard reference work for Hertfordshire maps. Red Cloth. (New, unused.)	£40.00
b62	County Atlases of The British Isles vol. 1 1704-1742	Donald Hodson	Tewin Press 1984	The standard cartobibliography of county atlases extending from Skelton's catalogue of atlases 1579 - 1703	£35.00
b63	County Atlases of The British Isles vol. 2 1743-1763	Donald Hodson	Tewin Press 1989	Second volume of Hodson's cartobibliography covering atlases from 1743 - 1763	£35.00
b64	Maps in Tudor England	P D A Harvey	British Library	'Superbly illustrated throughout... an instructive and accessible introduction to this revolutionary period in the history of cartography'	£15.00

ANTIQUARIAN TOPOGRAPHY

Antique maps of UK England Scotland Ireland, Wales,  Topography books in partnership with David Ford Books.  Berkshire, Hampshire & Isle of Wight, Channel Islands, Scilly Isles, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall. Antique maps of Hertfordshire, Essex, Middlesex & London. Antique map of Ireland and Scotland. Antique maps of Kent, Surrey & Sussex. Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, Rutland, Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and  Gloucestershire.  Antique maps of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire. Antique maps of Northern Counties: Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland, Westmorland, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Isle of Man.  Antique maps of Wales & Anglesey.  Antique Maps of the British Isles, Regional Maps and Road Maps,