Maps of the British Isles

Basle, c.1580. Woodcut, printed area 80 x 135mm, set in text. A slight damp stain in margin.
An early map of the United Kingdom & Ireland, with Scotland depicted as an island. Few are named: in England London, Oxford and Dover; Edinburgh in Scotland; and Waterford in Ireland. SHIRLEY: 51.
MUNS0027

£125

[Miniature Map of the British Isles] Petrus Bertius.

Magna Britannia.

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616, First edition. 100 x 135mm. Coloured. A couple of tiny wormholes in the margin.
Hondius engraved new plates for his edition of the Bertius atlas 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum', which he sold alongside the Mercator 'Atlas Minor'. KOEMAN: Lan 11a, 'With the new plates, the work was certainly improved'.
BERT0068

£195

[British Isles] Sebastian Munster

Engellande/ mit dem anstossten Reich Schottlandt...

Basle, 1628. Woodcut, printed area 320 x 360mm. Coloured. Paper lightly toned.
Munster used the Ortelius map of England as a basis. However as a woodcut far fewer names could be inserted SHIRLEY: 407 (148 for the full description)
MUNS0005

£450

[Map of the British Isles after Blaeu] Matthaus Merian.

Magnæ Britanniæ et Hiberniæ Tabulæ.

Frankfurt, c.1640. 275 x 340mm. Coloured.
Decorative map of the British Isles, after Blaeu. SHIRLEY: 489.
MERI0001

£395

[Ths famous "Saxon Heptarchy" map] Johannes Jansson.

Britannia prout divisa suit temporibus Anglo-Saxonum præsertim durante illorum Heptarchia.

Amsterdam, c.1652. 425 x 530mm. Coloured. Split in lower centrefold margin repaired, otherwise a very good example.
The British Isles as divided into the seven Saxon kingdoms, between the withdrawal of the Romans and the Norman conquest. On each side of the map are seven vignette scenes: on the left are portraits of the first seven kings; and on the right are their successors' conversion to Christianity. A classic decorative map, with fine hand colour.
JANS0084

£3,200

[Large and decorative map of the British Isles.] Frederick de Wit.

Novissima præ cæteris aliis accuratissima Regnorum Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ...

Amsterdam, c.1690. 590 x 500mm. Coloured.
A large and decorative map of the British Isles Shirley: De Wit 6.
DEWI0005

£650

[British Isles of Magini] Giovanni Antonio Magini.

Britanicæ Insulæ.

Padua, Lasor à Varea, 1713. 135 x 180mm.
Magini's 'modern' map of the British Isles, engraved by Girolamo Porro, first published over a century earlier! See SHIRLEY: 192.
MAGI0007

£98

[British Isles] Tomaso Porcacchi.

Inghilterra.

Padua, Lasor à Varea, 1713. 110 x 150mm, set in a page of text. Small fox mark on Scotland.
Map of the British Isles, orientated with north to the right, engraved by Girolamo Porro for Porcacchi's 'Isole del Mondo', 1572.
PORC0001

£98

[Roman Britain] Robert Morden.

Britannia Romana.

London, 1747? 390 x 285mm. Coloured.
Roman Britain map, from a late issue of Morden's map(?).
MORD0023

£98

[Map of British Isles with title cartouche] Homann Heirs.

Regnorum Magnae Britanniæ et Hiberniæ Mappa Geographica...

Nuremberg, 1749. 500 x 550mm. Original body colour with later additions to the title cartouche.
The British Isles, with a decorative title cartouche and inset of the Shetlands. An English title is engraved outside the printed border at top. Two different plates were used for the same map.
HOMA1003

£395

[Map of the British Isles] Rigobert Bonne.

Carte des Isles Britanniques, contenant les Royaumes d'Angleterre, D'Ecosse et d'Irelande.

Paris, c.1783. 355 x 250mm. Coloured.
Engraved by André.
BONN0031

£68

[Map of English Channel] Hendrik Doncker.

De Zee-Custen van Vrancryck tusschen Swartenes en C.de la Hague, Alse mede de Custen en Poortlandt.

Amsterdam, c.1664. 440 x 525mm. Original colour.
Decorative sea chart of the eastern half of the English Channel, orientated with north at the bottom of the page, published in the 'Zeespiegel'. The extents are the Strait of Dover to Cherbourg, Alderney and Portland. With cartouches in full colour for the title and scales. KOEMAN: Don 33.
DONC0001

£450

[English Channel] John Thomson.

The British Channel.

Edinburgh, 1814. 625 x 650mm. Original colour.
Detailed map of the English Channel.
THOM0009

£98

[Miniature map Holy Island, Farne, Guernsey, Jersey] Pieter van den Keere.

Holy Island; Farne; Garnsey; Iarsey.

London, Roger Rea, 1666. 90 x 125mm.
The so-called 'miniature Speed' map of Holy Island, Farne, Guernsey, Jersey. Originally issued in 1599 with a Latin title, the plate was re-engraved c.1620. Printed the year of the Great Fire of London, with an English text on verso.
KEER0020

£75

[Map of Jersey, Guernsey, Farne & Holy Island] Johannes Jansson.

Holy Iland; Garnsey; Jarsey; Farne.

Amsterdam, Schenk & Valk, c.1700. 410 x 510mm. Original body colour.
Four maps on one sheet, showing Jersey, Guernsey, Farne & Holy Island.
JANS0007

£425

[Map of Normandy and the Channel Islands] Nicolas De Fer

Gouvernement General de Normandie...

Paris, c.1705. 230 x 335mm. Original colour.
Normandy and the Channel Islands, with a decorative title cartouche. With a sheet of engraved text.
DEFE0010

£250

[View of Jersey] P. Brookes.

A View of the Gersay near Iside part. Vue de Port et Rade de Gersay.

London, P.Brooks & R.Sayer, c.1770. 250 x 420mm. Original colour.
A 'vüe d'optique', probably of St Helier in Jersey, designed to be viewed through an optical viewer called a 'zograscope'. Originally engraved in Paris the plate had been bought by London publishers and re-issued, accounting for the appalling English title.
VUED0001

£225

[Isle of Man by John Speed] John Speed.

The Isle of Man exactly described...

London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. 385 x 515mm. Coloured.
The Isle of Man map, after Thomas Durham, 1595, with an English text description on verso. A fine, decorative map of the island.
SPEE0007

£890

[Miniature Map of the Isle of Man and Anglesey.] Alain Manesson Mallet.

I.s de Man et d'Anglesey.

Paris, 1683. 160 x 105mm. Coloured.
The Isle of Man and Anglesey.
MALL0029