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Nova Scotia

Stock No. 3220MS

A New Map of Nova Scotia and Cape Britain, with the Adjacent Parts of New England and Canada. Copper-engraved map by John Lodge for The Political Magazine, July 1785. Image 455 x 600 mm., sheet about 490 x 650 mm. Traces of horizontal and vertical folds as isued. Later hand-colouring. Good untrimmed margins.

£250.00
Plan of St. Lucia, West Indies: American Revolutionary War

Stock No. 3067MS

Copper-engraved map by Thomas Bowen for The Gentleman’s Magazine, 1779, depicting the battle between the British and French forces in December 1778. Image 186 x 251 mm., sheet 210 x 280 mm. Later hand-colouring. Vertical folds as issued.

£150.00
South America

Stock No. 3018

Copper-engraved map engraved by Thomas Jerrerys for the 7th edition of Salmon’s Geographical Grammar, 1760. Image 184 x 234 mm., sheet about 205 x 255 mm. Later hand-colouring. Vertical folds as issued.

£100.00
South America

Stock No. 3019MS

Copper engraved map for Salmon’s Geographical Grammar, 1764. Image 180 x 235 mm., sheet about 205 x 255 mm. Later hand-colouring. Vertical folds as issued, and a little vertical creasing.

£80.00
South America

Stock No. 3020MS

Copper-engraved map dated 1791 engraved by John Russell for Brookes’ Gazetteer, 1795. Image 193 x 235 mm., sheet about 210 x 255 mm. Later hand-colouring. Faint vertical folds as issued.

£65.00
South America

Stock No. 3021MS

Copper-engraved map engraved by B. Baker, Islington for Brookes’ Gazetteer, 1800. Image 196 x 240 mm., sheet about 212 x 265 mm. Later hand-colouring. Faint vertical folds as issued.

£65.00
South America

Stock No. 3161MS

Miniature copper-engraved map, 1798, engraved by William Palmer for William Faden’s Atlas Minimus Universalis. Image 120 x 104 mm., sheet 170 x 147 mm. Original hand-colouring.

William Faden (1749-1836) was an important English cartographer and map-publisher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, noted for the accuracy of his maps. He was appointed Geographer to George III in 1783.

£80.00
Spanish North America

Stock No. 3215MS

Copper-engraved map dated 1814 for the first edition of John Thomson’s New General Atlas (1814 -1818). Image 508 x 615 mm., sheet 540 x 730 mm. Original outline and wash hand-colouring. Central vertical fold as issued. Old ms. number top left corner. A clean, fine example.

John Thomson was an important Scottish cartographer, whose main productions were the New General Atlas and the Atlas of Scotland (1820 – 1832). His maps sacrificed elaborate decoration in the cause of accuracy and detail; so much so, that his expenditure on preparing the Atlas of Scotland led to his bankruptcy.

£500.00
States of America

Stock No. 3009MS

Copper-engraved map by John Russell for the 1808 edition of Guthrie’s Geography. Image 190 x 225 mm., sheet about 215 x 260 mm. Later hand-colouring. Vertical folds as issued.

£75.00
The British Governments in North America

Stock No. 3013MS

Copper-engraved map engraved by John Gibson for The Gentleman’s Magazine, October 1763. Inset map of the Bermudas. Image 200 x 235 mm., sheet about 205 x 260 mm. Later hand-colouring. Vertical folds as issued. Printed on thick paper. Top borderline just shaved. Published to illustrate the British acquisitions resulting from the Peace of Paris.

£300.00

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