Prints, Maps and Posters

Willem Blaeu - 'Navarra Regnum': map of Navarre, engraving with hand-colouring, 42cm x 50.5cm, within a Hogarth style frame.

Robert Morden - Map of Suffolk, engraving with hand-colouring, 36cm x 42cm, together with a facsimile print after Capt. Greenville Collins - 'Fowey & Mounts Bay', sea chart with inset map of Mount's Bay and title cartouche, 45cm x 56cm, both within walnut veneered frames (2).

A group of folding maps, comprising ‘Neueste Post und Reise-Karte von Deutschland’ by Freidrich Campe, 1836, engraved map, linen-backed and sectionalized into 21, 57cm x 71.5cm; ‘Carte Genérale des Routes de France... Chez Andriveau-Goujon', engraved map, linen-backed and sectionalized into 18, 60cm x 74cm; 'Land Utilisation Map of England & Wales', Sheet 56, Boston; and 'Best Roads to Best Traders, Winchester and Andover District' (4).

Abraham Ortelius - 'Africae Tabula Nova': detailed map of Africa based upon Gastaldi's 8-sheet wall map and Mercator's world map of 1569, decorated with a strapwork title cartouche, a sea battle in the lower right corner and sea monsters, engraving with hand-colouring, text verso, 38cm x 50.5cm, within a gilt frame.

Cowton & Colegate (publishers) - 'A Map of the County of Kent', engraving with hand-colouring, linen-backed and sectionalized into 16, original card case for the folding map attached to reverse, 50cm x 70cm, within a Hogarth style frame.

Johannes Janssonius - 'Guinea', engraved map with hand-colouring, 39cm x 53.5cm, within a Hogarth style frame.

Jodocus Hondius - ‘Fessae et Marocchi Regna’: map of Fez and Marrakesh, Morocco, engraving with hand-colouring, 36cm x 48.5cm, within a Hogarth style frame.

Christopher Saxton & William Hole - 'Buckingh? Comitatus, in quo olim insederunt Cattieuchlani': map of Buckinghamshire, engraving with hand-colouring from Camden’s 'Britannia', p.28cm x 29.5cm, within a Hogarth style frame.

Joan Blaeu - ‘Svecia Regnum’: map of Sweden, engraving, c.1650, with later hand-colouring, text verso, 44cm x 50.5cm, within a gilt frame.

John Speed - 'Midle-Sex described with the most Famous Cities of London and Westminster': Map of Middlesex, described by John Norden, sold by Thomas Bassett, engraving with later hand-colouring, 39cm x 515cm, within a gilt frame.

Guillaume Sanson - 'Le Royaume d`Angleterre, divisé dans les sept Royaumes ou Heptarchies des Saxons; et la Princip[ali]té de Galles': map of England and Wales, engraving with hand-colouring, c.1690, 41cm x 52cm, within a Hogarth style frame.

John Norden & William Kip - 'Cantium quod nunc Kent': map of the county, engraving with hand-colouring, 28.5cm x 38.5cm, together with a later reproduction of Christopher Saxton & William Hole - 'Buckingh? Comitatus, in quo olim insederunt Cattieuchlani', 28cm x 30cm; Robert Morden - 'Darbyshire', engraving with hand-colouring, 36cm x 41cm, Henry Teesdale (publisher) - Map of Derbyshire, engraving with hand-colouring, 42.5cm x 35cm; and 'A New Most Accurate & Complete Map of all the Direct and the Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales', engraving, 35.5cm x 35cm, all within gilt frames (5).

John Speed - 'A New and Accurat Map of the World', engraving with hand-colouring, originally published 1651, 40cm x 52.5cm, within a black frame.

Abraham Ortelius - 'Hiberniae Britannicae Insulae Nova Descriptio. Irlandt': Map of Ireland, engraving with hand-colouring, text verso, 37cm x 49cm, within a walnut veneered frame.

Georg Braun & Franz Hogenburg - 'Cantebrigia': map of Cambridge, engraving, p.33cm x 44cm, unframed.

After Wenceslas Hollar - 'Westmonast: ecclesiae conv: facies aquitonalis': the north prospect of Westminster Abbey, engraving, 20cm x 32cm, within a stained wood frame.

After Nathaniel Hone - Portrait of Sir George Nares, mezzotint by W. Dickenson, c.1780, 48cm x 37cm, within a Hogarth style frame.

After C.B. Cipriani - Bearded philosopher with attendant sibyls; Group of youths in classical costume, a pair, sanguine stipple engravings by Francesco Bartolozzi, published 1786, each 22cm x 32cm, within gilt frames (2).