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Edinburgh, 1855. Steel engraving, 44.5 x 53 cm, original hand-colour, blank verso. A highly decorative map of the British Empire by John Bartholemew, with British possessions coloured red. Ethnographic figures engraved by Andrew Thom surround the map, representing the inhabitants of each colony or dominion, whether settlers or indigenous to the region. The tables detail the total size and population of British possessions around the world, and the date of their acquisition. It was published in Fullarton's ‘Royal Illustrated Atlas’, perhaps the last great decorative work of this type published in the British Isles; it was issued in 27 parts from 1854-62 and first published as a complete atlas in 1864. Early examples were printed from an engraved steel plate, later editions were printed lithographically. There are further subtle differences between editions. For example, our map shows ‘North Australia’, while the 1872 edition shows ‘Queensland’; Queensland was formally… Read More

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cms, recent hand-colour, light waterstaining in upper margin, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

London, 1894. Two lithographic map sheets joined, overall size 74 x 96 cm, map approx 62 x 94 cm with extensions across the neatline (Greenland, Antarctica etc), printed in colours, narrow left and right hand margins, blank verso; published in the second trade edition of Stanford’s London Atlas. Edward Stanford (senior) acquired Arrowmsith's stock in 1874. His own version of the London Atlas, first published in 1887 and dedicated to Queen Victoria in the year of her Golden Jubilee, is considered to be his last significant work before his retirement. Later editions were revised in keeping with the latest information, for example showing the rapid European colonisation of Africa after the Berlin Conference. British possessions are coloured red. Map

London, 1844. Steel engraving, 36.5 x 44 cms, engraved by John Dower, original hand colour, blank verso; published in Teesdale’s ‘New General Atlas of the World’. British possessions denoted in red; tracks the voyages of James Cook and John Gore. Map

London, Baldwin &: Cradock, 1834. Steel engraving, 40.5 x 32.5 cm, engraved by Thomas Starling, original hand colour in outline, trivial spotting, numbered in an old hand, blank verso. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was founded in 1826 with the high-minded aim of making 'useful' information available to self-taught members of the working and lower middle classes. Some of the material was decidedly abstruse, subscribers fell away and the Society was wound up in 1848; however, the series of 209 maps published over a 14 year period from 1829 onwards were highly praised for their superior quality, accuracy and aesthetic appeal and remain an outstanding achievement. Map

Augsburg, c. 1770. Copper engraving, 43.5 x 63.5 cms, original hand colour with later additions to the cartouche, left and right hand margins cut close (but still 0.5 cms remaining), blank verso. Lotter’s map, after Guillaume de l’Isle, reflects the typical extent of mid-eighteenth century European knowledge, with various incomplete and conjectural coastlines, notably the west coast of north America and the eastern coasts of New Zealand and Australia, the latter linked speculatively to New Guinea. Tracks of various major navigators are shown, including Magellan, Tasman and Dampier. Tobias Conrad Lotter inherited half of the business established by his father-in-law, Matthäus Seutter; in 1758 he established his own firm, taking his share of the copper printing plates. Map

Paris: Maison Basset, 1843. Steel engraving, 23 x 30.5 cms, a couple of trivial marginal stains, blank verso. Decorative world map with somewhat rococco border; note that Texas is marked separately (the Republic of Texas existed 1836-1846). Map

London, George Philip &: Son, Ltd, 1922. Folding map, 50 x 63.5 cm, printed in colours, laid on linen and folding into stiff card covers, which are a little rubbed and worn. Founded in 1894, on the cusp of the Anglo-German naval arms race, the Navy League was a pressure group seeking to influence politicians and popular opinion (including the nation’s youth) in the cause of maintaining a powerful navy to protect British interests overseas - through trade and empire. In the borders are flags and badges of the British Empire, and a smaller map at the foot charts its historical growth. At the bottom is a series of vessels illustrating the evolution of the British ‘navy’, stretching back into the Anglo-Saxon era (a school of thought asserted that its origins lay with the fleet ordered by King Alfred in 896). Dwarfing the other modern types is the mighty Hood, launched in 1918 and sunk by the Bismarck in 1941. Much of the sheet is devoted to tables of statistics, analysing the relative… Read More

London: George Philip & Son, Ltd, 1942. Pictorial world map on Mercator’s projection, 90 x 114 cm, printed in colours, a couple of short, closed tears, pin holes in corners, recently lined on paper and linen. First published in 1942, a second edition bears a new copyright date of 1944 in the lower margin; a third edition, revised with a new title and a polar projection of the world inscribed ‘the United Nations’ was issued in 1948. Commissioned by ‘Time and Tide’ magazine, a British literary and political review, it is among the scarcest of Gill’s pictorial maps. Although ‘Time and Tide’ attracted well known writers it never enjoyed a wide circulation, and was heavily subsidised by its founder, the former Suffragette (and Lusitania survivor) Viscountess Rhondda. The map celebrates the joint declaration released by Churchill and Roosevelt in August 1941 after the Atlantic Conference, discussions between the two leaders held on board an American warship off… Read More

London &: Edinburgh, John Bartholomew &, 1946. Folding map, 70 x 96 cm, printed in colours, laid on linen as issued, printed labels on verso: title and advertisement for the 1948 first edition of Bartholomew’s ‘Regional Atlas of the World’. The United Nations was established in October 1945, and Bullock’s map is a joyful celebration of what promised to be a more effective successor to the League of Nations. Prominence is given to wartime allies: the USA, the USSR and the Republic of China. As well as carrying the coats of arms of founder member states, the map is liberally adorned with improving classical, biblical and literary quotations, and substantial extracts from the Atlantic Charter and the United Nations Declaration. The seas are crowded with ships and aircraft, representing traders and explorers from Magellan to Amy Johnson, and other vignettes reflect the achievements of human civilisation. Bullock was a Civil Servant, but he designed decorative thematic and… Read More

[Constantinople (Istanbul), Amire Printing House, AH 1333], 1917. World map in Arabic, 29 x 29.5 cm, printed in colours, old folds, lower left hand corner unobtrusively reinstated (no loss of image), blank verso. This is the first printed edition of a world map in Arabic, which was originally drawn in the 11th century CE to illustrate Mahmud al-Kashgari’s ‘Diwan Lughat al-Turk’ (‘The Compendium of the Turkic Dialects’), one of the most important early sources for Turkish language and culture. Oriented with East at the top, in terms of scale and detail the map is focussed on the Turkic heartlands of central Asia, but the extent of the map is far greater. Kashgari includes the Franks and the Iberian peninsula, Berbers, Egyptians and Abyssinians, Hindustan and, in the far east, ‘Mashin’ (China) and ‘Japarqa’ (Japan, surrounded by a green semi-circle at the top of the map). Kashgari shows the Great Wall of China, and this is also the earliest known map to… Read More

London, c. 1851. Two steel engraved map sheets, each approx. 26 x 34 cm, original hand colour, imprint in lower margin cut close, blank verso; engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘Illustrated Atlas’, with vignettes of animals and peoples of the world engraved by John Rogers after H. Warren. The map of the Eastern Hemisphere tracks the overland route to India (subject of a separate map in the series) and on to Australia. John Tallis the younger (1817-76) is best remembered for his hugely popular "Illustrated Atlas" published serially from the mid 1840s onwards and in its complete form in 1851. He was born in Stourbridge in Worcestershire in about 1818 and it is likely that he stayed in the Midlands working as a publisher in Birmingham, until he moved to London in the early 1840s. Seemingly a victim of unscrupulous business partners, he died in penury and is buried in an unmarked grave. Map

London, 1894. Double hemisphere world map, lithograph, 49 x 61 cm, colour printed, blank verso; published in the second trade edition of Stanford’s London Atlas. Edward Stanford (senior) acquired Arrowmsith's stock in 1874. His own version of the London Atlas, first published in 1887 and dedicated to Queen Victoria in the year of her Golden Jubilee, is considered to be his last significant work before his retirement. Later editions were revised in keeping with the latest information. Map

London, c. 1851. Steel engraving, 25 x 32 cms, modern hand-colour, blank verso; engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘Illustrated Atlas’, showing tracks for all three of Cook’s voyages, and with a vignette at the foot which presumably depicts HMS Endeavour. Map

London, c. 1884. Lithographed map, printed in colours, blank verso, from ‘Letts’s Popular Atlas’. Our example is from one of the last editions of the atlas published by the original firm of stationers, map and diary makers. Charles Letts, grandson of the firm’s founder, remained in business under his own name, but in 1884 the Letts, Son & Co map plates were purchased by Edward Stanford. Map

London, 1831. Steel engraving, 36.5 x 44 cm, engraved by John Dower, original hand colour, numbered in an old hand, blank verso. Coloured by continent, with the exception of Russian America which is coloured as an extension of Asia; published in Teesdale’s ‘New General Atlas of the World’. Map

Denbigh, c. 1861. Welsh language map of the World, sheet size 24.5 x 34 cm, original hand colour, blank verso; published in the Encyk clopediae Cambrensis. Thomas Gee (1815-1898) was a Welsh Nonconformist preacher and Welsh-language publisher. The son of a printer, he honed his skills in London. The ‘Encyclopaedia Cambrensis’ or ‘Y Gwyddoniadur Cymreig’, edited by Gee’s brother in law John Parry and published in ten volumes between 1854 and 1879, was the most ambitious encyclopedia in the Welsh language. Map