FFESTINIOG Railway
Uncommon Local Railway item. Draft(?) MS manuscript long section of a proposed (narrow gauge?) railway from Llanrwst to the Blaenau Festiniog Quarries nearly 14 miles long. Not titled or dated, but probably early 1860s. Size 60" x 17", ink on…
An Atlas to Guthrie's Geographical Grammar.
[GUTHRIE William 1708-1770. FLINT W.]
VG, 1807, complete 28 double page folding maps, hand coloured in outline. Includes British colonies in N. America & 2 maps of America. In modern half calf over contemporary marbled boards, some blind tooling. Spine, gilt tooling & titles.…
Kuwait-Iraq Boundary Dispute in British Archives
Al-A'DAMI WMS. Hamdi Dr.
First edition, two volumes in red cloth, gilt printed titles to green cloth on spines. In fine printed dust wrappers. Internally, Vol 1, [2], 7-550 pp. Vol 2, [4], 7-21, [1], 551-1050pp. (295*208 mm). In November 1994, Iraq formally accepted…
Bacon's New Survey Map of North Wales
BACON
Coloured map, mounted on linen, 18 panels, 1170*900 mm, folded into a red cloth, gilt printed case, 315*199 mm, with the Alphabetical Index Gazetteer, Table of Distrances, Geological References, Explanation, & a Glossary ofWelsh Names within, not…
Bacon's Excelsior Map of Wales and Monmouthshire. With Railways, Roads, and Distances.
BACON G.W. [George Washington] 1830-1921
Not dated, but c1908, rebound into purple cloth boards, original cloth with gilt titles tipped om, spine with gilt titles. Internally 20 coloured panes dissected & mounted on cloth, 99*124 cm, when unfolded. Inset material includes: Geological map…
Chorographia Britanniæ. or, A new set of maps of all the counties in England and Wales: to which are prefix'd the following general maps,
BADESLADE Thomas
Complete with all forty six double page maps. First edition, 1742, in contemporary speckled boards, edges repaired. An old re-back, to style, raised bands, gilt titles & tooling. Internally, double page engraved title and dedication pages, and…
The Imperial Guide, with Picturesque Plans of the Great Post Roads.....
BAKER J [James]
London to Holyhead ONLY In modern quarter blue buckram oe marbled boards, gilt title on black calf to spine (Picturesque Plans), Internally, vignette half title, [1], 2-10 pp, only, 12 plates (includes 5 strip maps, coloured, 5 views,…
The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Coast Scenery of Great Britain.
BEATTIE William 1793-1875
Superbly bound, with 1 engraved portrait, 2 eng. title pages with vignettes, and 123 engraved plates. 2 Volumes in near fine condition, full dark purple morocco, c1920, gilt edge and decorative tooling, edges brushed. Spines, decorative gilt…
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. sive Atlas Novus. Pars Quarta [England & Wales]
BLAEU Johannes & Guillaume 1596-1673 & 1571-1638
In contemporary Dutch full boxed vellum, retaining evidence of green linen ties, yapp edges, a few minor scuffs & marks, near contemporary faint manuscript title to spine. Internally, title leaf, [8], 460, [1], ie: engraved allegorical title &…
Cary's New and Correct English Atlas: Being a New Set of County Maps from Actual Surveys. Exhibiting all the direct & principal cross roads, cities, towns, and most considerable villages, parts, rivers, navigable canals &c.
CARY John 1754-1835
A Wonderful Atlas of English Counties. Second edition, quarto, [2] blank, [190], 17, [3] blank, including forty seven full page maps, all outlined in colour, each map with tissue guard. Modern full light brown buckram, spine stamped in black and…
Cary's New Itinerary: or, an accurate delineation of the Great Roads
CARY John 1754-1835. HASKER Thomas
In attractive, modern, to style, quarter brown calf over blue cloth, some gilt tooling. Spine, gilt tooling, raised bands, titles in gilt. Internally, [4], a-g4, 1-913 pp, [1] advert, 1 large folding map, linen backed, in pocket at rear, new…
Great Britain's Coasting Pilot (Welsh Coast only - 8 sheets)
COLLINS Captain Greenvile [died 1694]
WELSH Coast only. The First edition of the maps was in 1693, the first Sea Atlas produced by an Englishman and was reissued numerous times over the next hundred years. The maps in this offer make up 8 loose center fold charts of the Welsh Coast,…
Coast of Wales: Cardigan Bay: Milford Haven-Holyhead
COLLINS Captain Greenvile [died 1694]
Single sheet showing Welsh Coast line from Pembroke up to Penmaen Mawr & Anglesey, shows rhumb lines, coastal soundings, compass rose, dedication to Sr. Clodisley Shouell and Rear Admiral of the Blew in a coloured horizontal oval cartouche, tree to…
Great Britain's coasting pilot. In two parts. Being a new and exact survey of the sea-coast of England and Scotland from the river of Thames to the westward and northward with the islands of Scilly and from thence to Carlyle. Likewise the islands of Orkney and Shetland
COLLINS Greenvile Captain [or Greenville] 1643-1694
A Landmark in the Charting of Great Britain. Folio, 18th century mottled half calf over blue-green marbled paper boards, decorative gilt spine, red morocco lettering piece, pp. [iv] 26. Fine allegorical copperplate title (incorporating a small map…
Sailing Directions from Point Lynas to Liverpool with Charts, Coast-views, River-Sections... for navigating the Dee and Mersey WITH Remarks... The Sea-Reach of Wyre up to Port Fleetwood
DENHAM H.M. [Henry Mangles] Commander R.N. 1800-1887
Uncommon, 24 plates (of 25), 1840. In contemporary green cloth, gilt title to upper board. Re-spined, old laid down, gilt titles. Internally, engraved title page with vignette, [2], [1], (ii-xx), [2], [1], 2-169 pp, [1]. With Remarks and…