Maps & Atlases

A natural complement to our specialist area of rare books on travel & exploration is maps and atlases, which appeal to cartographically curious collectors for a variety of reasons; for some maps are simply aesthetically appealing, for others they supply an invaluable insight into social and/or topographical history, mapping mankind’s exploration of the world and, in the case of celestial maps, beyond…

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FLAMSTEED, John.

Gemini

Hand coloured star chart heightened with gold and silver, engraved by John Mynde, from the second edition of Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis.
Framed and glazed, overall size: 67.5 by 82 cm.

£3,750
FLAMSTEED, John.

Pegasus

Hand coloured star chart heightened with gold and silver, engraved by John Mynde, from the second edition of Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis.
Framed and glazed, overall size: 67.5 by 82 cm.

£2,950
FLAMSTEED, John.

Aquarius

Hand coloured star chart heightened with gold and silver, engraved by John Mynde, from the second edition of Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis.
Framed and glazed, overall size: 67.5 by 82 cm.

£3,750
FLAMSTEED, John.

Hydra Crater Corvus Sextans Virgo

Hand coloured star chart heightened with gold and silver, engraved by John Mynde, from the second edition of Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis.
Framed and glazed, overall size: 67.5 by 119.5 by 4cm.

£3,500
FLAMSTEED, John.

Eridanus Orion Lepus

Hand coloured star chart heightened with gold and silver, engraved by John Mynde, from the second edition of Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis.
Framed and glazed, overall size: 80.3 x 68 cm.

£2,500
FLAMSTEED, John.

Taurus

Hand coloured star chart heightened with gold and silver, engraved by John Mynde, from the second edition of Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis.
Framed and glazed, overall size: 80.3 x 69 cm.

£3,750
FLAMSTEED, John.

Lyra Cygnus Lacerta Vulpec & Anser Sagitta

Hand coloured star chart heightened with gold and silver, engraved by John Mynde, from the second edition of Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis.
Framed and glazed, overall size: 80.3 x 68 cm.

£2,500
JOHNSTON, Alexander Keith.

The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography.

First edition; folio (50.7 x 34.6 cm); 48 double-page maps, hand-coloured in outline, watercourses printed in blue, advertisements tipped in at rear, slight marginal toning, light foxing to prelims and light spash-stains to four maps, otherwise good; contemporary burgundy half morocco gilt, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, spine with 6 raised bands and gilt in compartments, light rubbing to extremities, all edges gilt, teal endpapers, overall a very good example.

£750
FLAMSTEED, John.

Libra

Hand coloured star chart heightened with gold and silver, engraved by John Mynde, from the second edition of Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis.
Framed and glazed, overall size: 80.3 x 68 x 4cm.

£3,750
FLAMSTEED, John

Cancer

Hand coloured star chart heightened with gold and silver, engraved by John Mynde, from the second edition of Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis.
Framed and glazed, overall size: 80.3 x 68 cm x 4cm.

£3,750