British Isles from Bryars and Bryars

London, John Bartholomew &: Co, c. 1913. Lithographed map, 69.5 x 94.5 cm, sheet size 74 x 98.5 cm, printed in colours, a couple of short splits and tears, trivial spotting, blank verso. Coloured to show manufacturing towns and districts, collieries to which the GCR had access, and proven and concealed coalfields, with an inset section through ‘concealed coal… Read more about this item

London, 1906. Lithographed map, 78.5 x 56 cm, printed in colours, a couple of short splits along the folds, blank verso, ink library stamps to verso. A striking example of data visualisation, our election map was published as a supplement to the 13 January 1906 issue of the Illustrated London News, in advance of a landslide Liberal victory. Within… Read more about this item

Dublin: published and sold for His Majesty’s Government by Hodges and Smith, 1831. Copper engraving, 63 x 96 cm, original hand colour, slight spotting, dissected into 16 panels and laid on linen, edged with red silk, as issued; the index map and key to the Ordnance Survey sheets covering the entire county on a scale of six inches to… Read more about this item

London, William Faden, c. 1779. Copper engraving, 59 x 60 cm, original hand colour, minor wear to old folds, blank verso; map extracted from an old frame, where it had been mounted using masking tape: marginal tape residue visible, and some toning within the former area of the mount window. Map dedicated to the right honourable James Stewart Mackenzie… Read more about this item

Dublin: published and sold for His Majesty’s Government by Hodges and Smith, 1834. Copper engraving, 63.5 x 96.5 cm, original hand colour, slight spotting, dissected into 16 panels and laid on linen, edged with red silk, as issued; the index map and key to the Ordnance Survey sheets covering the entire county on a scale of six inches to… Read more about this item

London, 1832. Engraved folding map, sheet size 67 x 54.5 cm, original hand colour, dissected into 18 panels and laid on linen, folding into brown cloth slip-case with printed paper label, minor wear. A key map at the foot is coloured to show the four historical provinces. This is a separately issued example of a map which also appeared… Read more about this item

Antwerp,, 1584. Copper engraving, 34.5 x 49.5 cm, modern hand-colour, centrefold reinforced on verso, several neat marginal restorations, Latin text on verso. The British Isles, aligned with west at the top of the map and north on the right, which makes better use of the available space on the page; it was chiefly derived from Mercator’s map of 1564.… Read more about this item

London: McCorquodale & Co, Ltd, circa 1952. Double royal pictorial map, 103 x 65 cm, printed in colours, old folds (as issued), one or two marginal nicks, blank verso. Published by British railways, London Midland Region, in association with the Welsh Tourist Board. Kerry Lee (1902-1988) was a commercial artist and poster designer between the mid 1930s and the… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton,, 1869. Chromolithograph, 24 x 20 cms, anthropomorphic map depicting Wales as “Owen Glendowr, in Bardic grandeur”, from “Geographical Fun: Being Humorous Outlines of Various Countries”, a couple of minor spots and stains, blank verso. Harvey himself gives all the credit for this series of comic maps to a “young lady ... now in her fifteenth… Read more about this item

Amsterdam,, c. 1706. Copper engraving, 16 x 21.5 cm, original hand colour, a couple of short splits to folds repaired on verso, blank verso. The cartouche is sumounted by the old Stuart coat of arms and the borders are made up of sixteen regional armorial shields, such as Wales, Lothian and London, concluding with the seven kingdoms of the… Read more about this item

Nuremberg, 1718. Copper engraving, 40 x 33 cm, engraved by Michael Kauffer after Herman Moll, original hand colour, blank verso. Ireland, published in Samuel Faber’s ‘Atlas Scolasticus’. Map

London, 1637. Copper engraving, 27.5 x 32 cm, modern hand-colour, a couple of marginal nicks and tears and one or two pinprick holes, blank verso. Map of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, the ‘heptarchy’, engraved by William Hole for the first illustrated edition of Camden's Britannia.Camden was an Elizabethan historian who wrote a county by county description of England. He… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: John Johnstone and W & AK Johnston; Glasgow, 1841. Copper enraved folding map, 103 x 65 cm, original hand colour, dissected into 36 panels and laid on linen, one or two trivial spots and stains, folding into publisher’s green cloth boards with printed paper label on the spine, blocked in gilt on the upper cover, ‘sketch of the… Read more about this item

Glasgow: Francis Orr & Sons, c. 1844. Lithographed folding map, 35.5 x 50 cm, b/w, a couple of trivial spots, laid on linen and folding into green publisher’s cloth with printed paper label, rebacked. At the foot of the map are three vignettes, including Glasgow Bridge, with the harbour in the background. Worldcat gives the lithographer as J &… Read more about this item

London, c. 1695. Copper engraving, 36 x 42 cm, modern hand-colour, slightly narrow margins, blank verso. Robert Morden's maps were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition of William Camden's Britannia, first published in 1695 and reprinted in 1722 and 1753. Camden was an Elizabethan historian who wrote a county by county description of England. An illustrated edition of his work… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, 1648. Copper engraving, 38.5 x 50 cms, original hand-colour, light spotting, Dutch text on verso, margins trimmed but still generous. Coats of arms of the historic Kingdom of Gwynedd (used by the Princes of Wales) and the four Welsh cathedral towns, suspended from ribbon by putti; dedication to the future Charles II, born in 1630 and designated Prince… Read more about this item

London, 1834. Copper engraving, 64 x 72 cm, engraved by John and Charles Walker, original hand-colour with black and white vignette of Bangor Cathedral, light offsetting, blank verso. The Greenwood brothers were land-surveyors from Yorkshire who compiled one of the last independent large-scale county atlases, in the teeth of competition from the Ordnance Survey. The maps are both decorative… Read more about this item

London,, 1722. Copper engraving, 36.5 x 43 cm, black and white, blank verso. Robert Morden's maps were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition of William Camden's Britannia, first published in 1695 and reprinted in 1722, 1753 and 1772. This version of the map, with a simplified cartouche, appeared in 1722. Camden was an Elizabethan historian who wrote a county by… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, c. 1600. Copper engraving, 8.6 x 12.3 cm, modern hand-colour, French text on verso. Engraved by Pieter van den Keere for the Caert-thresoor published by Cornelis Claesz and Barent Langenes in 1598, degress of latitude were added in the two line border and the map was reissued in early editions of Bertius’ ‘Tabularum geographicarum contractarum’ from 1600. … Read more about this item

Edinburgh, c. 1814. Copper engraving, approx 52.5 x 64.5 cms, engraved by John and George Menzies, original hand-colour, light toning, short centrefold split, blank verso. John Thomson made his fortune through his extremely successful 'New General Atlas', but in the 1820s he bankrupted himself, twice (in the process of creating his large-scale 'Atlas of Scotland') and he disappears from… Read more about this item