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Paris, 1719. Copper engraving, 21.5 x 16.7 cm, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. The Low Countries, with a note on the Dutch Revolt at the foot of the map (concluding with a remark about Dutch adherence to ‘la religion prétendue réformée’ which leaves no doubt about his sympathies). Our map was published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et… Read more about this item

London, Baldwin &: Cradock, 1832. Steel engraving, approx 31.5 x 40 cm, engraved by Benjamin Rees Davies after William Barnard Clarke, original hand colour to map with black and white elevations of principal buildings beneath and a view of Antwerp above, numbered in and old hand, blank verso. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was founded in… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, c. 1730. Copper engraving, 59.5 x 51.5 cm, original hand colour, uncoloured allegorical cartouche surmounted by a Dutch lion bearing a sword and phrygian cap, one or two marginal nicks and tears, blank verso. Our map shows the original Seventeen Provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands, control of which, as the title explains, had by this time been divided… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, c. 1740. Copper engraving, 52 x 58 cm, inset map of Texel and Vlieland in upper left corner, original hand colour, one or two marginal nicks and tears, blank verso. Our example of Caspar Specht’s map has been annotated in a contemporary hand to record ‘dyk breuken’ (dyk breaches) 1740-41 and the location of ‘hulp gaaten’ (sluice gates),… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, 1630. Copper engraving, 12.3 x 17.8 cm, black and white, French text on verso. The province of Groningen in the Netherlands, set within an elaborate strapwork border, published in the ‘Atlas Minor’. A new series of maps, replacing those by Jodocus Hondius, was engraved by Abraham Goos and Pieter van den Keere for the 1628 edition. Koeman notes… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, 1616. Copper engraving, 10 x 13.5 cm, black and white, Latin text on verso. Miniature map of the Low Countries published in the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalogued under the name of its author, Bertius. The maps are generally reduced from the cartography in the folio Mercator-Hondius atlas, and… Read more about this item

London, c. 1845. Copper engraving, 80 x 56.5 cm, original hand colour, blank verso; from Wyld's New General Atlas. James Wyld senior established a highly successful firm of map publishers, which passed to his son when he died relatively young in 1836, apparently from 'overwork'. He introduced the new process of lithography to map printing, was a founder member… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, c. 1700. Copper engraving, 50.5 x 59 cm, original hand-colour, very slight paper toning, blank verso. The map extends as far south as Paris, but the focus is on the region which is now mostly incoprorated into Belgium and Luxembourg, but was then divided between France, Spain and the United Provinces. The elaborate allegorical cartouche features a Belgian… Read more about this item

London: Publish'd 7th June, 1794 by J Barber, No 9, Sweeting's-Alley, Royal-Exchange.. , 1794. Broadsheet map, sheet size 54.5 x 43 cms; map 40.5 x 27 cms, within frame 44 x 39 cms. The frame, and the symbols for towns and cities are printed from a woodblock; placenames, the title and the text in the side-panels is letterpess;… Read more about this item

Paris: Claude Gournay, 1708. Copper engraving, 40.5 x 63 cms, black and white, blank verso. Gournay also produced a plan which showed Louis XIV’s successful siege of Namur in 1692, but our map shows the 1695 siege and recapture of Namur by the Allies. The second siege was a turning point in the Nine Years’ War, the precursor to… Read more about this item

London, c. 1851. Steel engraving, 26 x 34 cms, imprint trimmed, original outline colour, blank verso; engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘Illustrated Atlas’; vignettes including Antwerp cathedral and monuments on the plains of Waterloo engraved by James Baylis Allen. Map

London, 1831. Copper engraving, 27.5 x 22 cms, original hand-colour in outline, blank verso. From ‘A Modern and Ancient General Atlas, comprehending all the Empires, Kingdoms, States in the World’. Lizars trained as a painter, but in 1812 took over the Edinburgh publishing and engraving business established by his father. The United Kingdom of the Netherlands was created at… Read more about this item

London, 1748. Copper engraving, 18.5 x 40 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso. Legend at foot names and locates the principal “publick buildings and fortifications”; prepared for the June 1748 issue of the “Gentleman’s Magazine”. Map

London: John & Paul Knapton,, 1745. Copper engraving, 39.5 x 49 cms, engraved by James Basire, modern hand colour, blank verso. Published in Nicholas Tindal's continuation of Rapin de Thoyras's "History of England"; many of the maps illustrating the work depict military actions fought by the British during the campaigns of the War of the Spanish Succession, mostly in… Read more about this item

Cologne, c. 1575. Copper engraving, 35 x 49 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso. The title refers to the capture of Brielle by the Waterguezen (Sea Beggars) on April 1st 1572, the first foothold on land for the Dutch Protestant rebels and a turning point in the Eighty Years’ War, the bitter struggle for independence from Spain. … Read more about this item

London, 1821. Copper engraving, 47 x 30 cms, original hand-colour, blank verso; prepared for Playfair’s ‘New General Atlas’. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 14.5 x 10.5 cms, recent hand-colour, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15 x 10 cms, recent hand-colour, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

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, 1804. Copper engraving, 52 x 62 cms, original hand colour, blank verso. The former Austrian Netherlands, parts of the Rhineland and southern Holland were occupied by the armies of the First French Republic in 1794 and remained part of the French Empire until 1813. Map