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London : Orr & Smith, [1836]. An attractive town plan of early Victorian Birmingham on a scale of some three-and-a-half inches to the mile. The coverage extends northwards to the top of New John Street, eastwards to include the Birmingham Vauxhall Gardens at Duddeston, south to Wellington Road, and west to Chad Road. The proposed line of the as yet unfinished London & Birmingham Railway is shown to the east, although not exactly along the final route adopted. Forty-two named buildings are identified in a keyed reference table and a vignette view of the Town Hall decorates the bottom left-hand corner. Originally drawn and engraved by Dower for Charles Partington’s “The British Cyclopaedia of Literature, History, Geography, Law, and Politics” (1836).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 211 x 260mm (approx. 8-1/4” x 10-1/4”). Old vertical fold; short split at foot; a few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

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[London : for J. Tonson & J. Watts, 1718]. A delightfully engraved scroll-style road map from the scarce early road-book “A Pocket Guide to the English Traveller”. The road from Towcester to Lichfield, via Daventry, Dunchurch, Coventry, Meriden, Coleshill, etc. The map is dedicated to Andrew Archer.
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 164 x 266mm (approx. 6-1/2” x 10-1/2”). Slight nick to top edge; a few spots and specks, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£50

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[London : for J. Tonson & J. Watts, 1718]. A delightfully engraved scroll-style road map from the scarce early road-book “A Pocket Guide to the English Traveller”. The road from Gloucester to Coventry via Cheltenham, Winchcombe, Chipping Campden, Stratford on Avon and Warwick. The map is dedicated to Joseph Addison.
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 169 x 270mm (approx. 6-7/8” x 10-5/8”). A couple of tiny nicks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£50

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[London : George Virtue, 1831]. A fine antique map of the county, decorated with coats of arms, an ornate gothic border, inset views of the castles of Warwick and Kenilworth, a portrait of Shakespeare, etc. Originally engraved in 1831 by William Schmollinger (1811?-1869) for Thomas Moule’s part-work series “The English Counties Delineated” (1830-1837) – and here in very early state, before the addition of railways, etc.
Steel line engraving on paper. Original hand colour. Engraved surface 260 x 207mm (approx. 10-1/4” x 8-1/8”). Cropped tight to right-hand margin; a few tiny marks and faint specks, but overall in very good and clean state. Rare in this early state and with original colour. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£100

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