London from Bryars and Bryars

London: Maxwell, Love & Co, 1937. Lithographed pictorial map of central London, 27 x 35 cm, printed in colours, procession route marked in red, blank verso; folding into slightly dusty buff card covers enclosing a small United States Lines notebook, rust to staples. Published for the Coronation of King George VI, a scroll in the top right of the… Read more about this item

London, 1877. Steel engraving, approx 36 x 43 cm, original hand colour, right hand margin a little dusty, blank verso. This Kensington-Notting Hill sheet of a highly detailed 24-sheet map of London was coloured to show geological detail by James B. Jordan of the Ordnance Geological Survey; Jordan also compiled ‘Stanford’s Geological Map of London’, which was first published… Read more about this item

London, McCorquodale &: Co, Ltd, 1933. Folding map, sheet size 117.5 x 77.5 cm, drawn and engraved by John and William Emslie, dissected into 30 panels and laid on linen, a couple of short splits along folds, folding into publisher’s leather covers, rubbed and with some wear, lettered direct. Ownership isncription of Sir H Hartley, consistent with the signature… Read more about this item

Southampton, Ordnance Survey for HMSO, 1905. 3 sheets joined, total sheet size 79 x 123 cm, printed in colours, blank verso. Published in the Report of the Royal Commission on London Traffic, a detailed eight volume investigation of the nature, administration, integration and proposed development of road, tram and railway traffic in London. The map was supplied by… Read more about this item

London, Geographia Ltd, c. 1960. Pictorial map of London, sheet size 49 x 74 cm, printed in colours, folding into printed paper wrappers which carry a conventional street plan of central London on the verso; trivial wear to wraps. The pictorial map depicts various London ‘types’ in the borders, and shows the Royal Festival Hall (built for the 1951… Read more about this item

London, Geographia Ltd, 1934. Pictorial map of London, sheet size 51 x 75 cm, printed in colours, insets showing central theatres and cinemas, folding into printed paper wrappers, with the cover title ‘An ideal guide & souvenir for visitors, chief places of interest pictorially presented’. The map is generally dated 1931 in insitutional catalogues, but Geographia’s date-code for November… Read more about this item

London: Stanford’s Geographical Establishment, c. 1925. Folding map, sheet size 63.5 x 90 cm, printed in colours on thin paper, a couple of short tears, blank verso; folding into printed card covers, worn. A detailed map, undated but probably published shortly after the grouping of the ‘big four’ railway companies. Map

London, W.H. Smith &: Son, 1853. Wood engraved folding map, sheet size 39.5x 55 cm, black and white with 24 proposed lines for the 1852-52 Parliamentary session numbered and printed in red, and with explanatory text in the borders, laid on linen, minor wear at fold intersections; folding into publisher’s brown cloth covers, a little worn and faded, with… Read more about this item

London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1827. 8vo. pp. xv, [i], 687, [i]. With 56 wood-engraved illustrations (many on India paper, pasted in) engraved by George Wilmot Bonner, William Hughes and Abraham John Mason after William Harvey. Contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards, rubbed, top edge gilt; late 19th century armorial bookplate of Ernest Hamilton Sharp to front pastedown… Read more about this item

London: printed by John Smith... published by T. Hogg..., 1836. 12mo. pp. x, 99, [i], with wood-engraved frontispiece and a number of text illustrations, light spotting at intervals; publisher’s cloth, title lettered direct to upper cover, upper joint renewed, wear to corners; ownership signature of John Garlo to front pastedown. Smith wrote a number of books on London history,… Read more about this item

London: Hurst and Blackett,, 1880. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. xii, 311, 14 (adverts); viii, 347, [i]. Occasional spotting, red publisher’s cloth, a little rubbed, stain to cover of vol. 2; binder’s ticket of Leighton, Son and Hodge to lower pastedown of vol. 1. L’Estrange (1832-1915) wrote other topographical works on Greenwich and Winchester, edited the letters of Mary… Read more about this item

London: Harrison and Sons,, 1891. Royal 8vo (27.5 cm tall). pp. viii, 303, [i] + 25 b/w maps and illustrations (including frontispiece), some folding, and 2 further illustrations in the text. Green publisher’s cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt, with gilt inner dentelles; top edge gilt. The verso of the free endpaper is inscribed ‘with the author’s compliments’, and… Read more about this item

London: printed for the author, by Gilbert & Rivington; published by J.H. Jackson,, 1842. 4to. pp. xvii, [iii], 486 + additional engraved title-page, folding table and folding map engraved by John Dower after a survey by Roger Creighton; with numerous illustrations in the text (one further map, views, monuments, coats of arms etc) engraved on wood or steel; some… Read more about this item

London, Macmillan &: Co., 1889. First edition, folding lithographed map, 36 x 48.5 cm, printed in colours, dissected into 8 panels and laid on linen, tabbed for inclusion in the first volume of Booth’s ‘Labour and Life of the People in London’. Charles Booth’s ‘poverty’ maps were the most distinctive and original aspect of his socio-economic survey of the… Read more about this item

Dundee: Valentine and Sons , c. 1955. Folding map, sheet size 30.5 x 35.5 cm, printed in colours, one split closed on verso, folding into worn paper wrappers with image of the Houses of Parliament on the front cover and b/w central area Tube map on the back, based on the Harry Beck design used c. 1955-1960. The fold… Read more about this item

London, c. 1841. Copper engraved folding map of London and environs, 87 x 83 cm, engraved by Alexander Findlay, original hand colour, dissected into 24 panels and laid on linen, somewhat stained on the verso, and folding into original cloth slipcase with publisher’s printed label, somewhat worn. The map extends between Ware and Chatham, Bray and Dorking. The concentric… Read more about this item

London, 1917. 8vo auction catalogue, pp. viii, 105, disbound, with set of 4 folding plans (sheet sizes 76 x 97.5 cm; 87 x 57 cm; 87.5 x 67.5 cm; 79 x 57 cm), lithographed by Martin, Hood & Larkin, based on othe Ordnance Survey and divided into lots. The Hoxton estate passed by marriage from the Pitfield to the… Read more about this item

London, 1819. Copper engraving, 46.5 x 57.5 cm, engraved by Sidney Hall, black and white, old folds, closed tear and one or two repairs to folds, blank verso. John Rennie’s Waterloo and Southwark Bridges (opened 1817 and 1819) are both shown, as is an ‘intended north road’ across Finsbury Fields. First published in 1818, the scale, top left on… Read more about this item

London, 1842. Aquatint, 43.5 x 31 cm, later (but not recent) hand colour, blank verso; removed from an old frame with the line of the mount still visible in the margins, and some old glue residue showing through. ‘London as it is’ was printed for Boys by the pioneering lithographer Charles Hullmandel in two distinct versions: ours was originally… Read more about this item

Paris, chez Daumont rue St. Martin, c. 1775. Copper engraved vue d’optique of St Mary’s in the Strand, 25 x 42 cm, original hand colour, a couple of short creases and light marginal soiling, blank verso. Jean François Daumont (fl. 1740-1775) was a well established publisher of perspective views and other popular prints, as well as wallpaper and… Read more about this item