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County map of Cambridgeshire
James Wallis.

London, S.A. Oddy, 1812. Detailed county map of Cambridgeshire marking the roads, with fine, bright colour.
WALL0017
£49.00

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Miniature county map of Cambridgeshire
William Lewis.

London: P. Martin, 1819. From 'Lewis's New Traveller's Guide', marking cities, market towns, seats, mail coach roads & turnpikes.
LEWI1030
£30.00

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Cambridge according to the Reform Act.
R.K. Dawson.

London, 1832. A ward map of Cambridge according to the Reform Act of 1832.
DAWS0001
£68.00

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Miniature double-hemisphere celestial chart.
Petrus Bertius.

Amsterdam, c.1602, Latin text edition. Untitled miniature celestial chart within an ornate strapwork cartouche, engraved by Pieter van den Keere. This is the earliest of two plates used to illustrated the Bertius atlas, without longitude and latitude scales. It was replaced by a new plate by Jodocus Hondius in 1616.
BERT0101
£295.00

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Set of Six Celestial Maps.
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1830. A detailed set of celestial charts on the Gnomic Projection, projected on the map in perspective. Thus the sheets form a rough cube. Each star is marked with its apparent magnitude and is shown within its classical constellation. The text contains an extensive quote from Flamsteed discussing his research on the originators of these constellations.
SDUK0062
£250.00

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Map of the Sri Lankan island Manaar
Philip Baldeaus.

London: A. & J. Churchill, c.1750. The island of Mannar, off the north-west of Sri Lanka, with its Dutch fortress. The fort was built by the Portuguese in 1650, taken over first by the Dutch in 1650 and then by the British in 1795. Baldeaus, a Dutch missionary in the Malabar and Coromandel Districts, wrote about the Dutch settlements in Southern India.
BALD0001
£250.00

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Maps of Jersey & Guernsey
John Tallis.

London: London Printing and Publishing Company, c.1860. Decorative maps of Jersey & Guernsey, with vignettes including views of St Peter Port and Mont Orguil Castle,
TALL0064
£98.00

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View of Jersey
P. Brookes.

London, P.Brooks & R.Sayer, c.1770. 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
£225.00

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An early 18th century distance table of Cheshire's towns
Thomas Cox.

London: Elizabeth Butt et al, 1720. A triangular distance table, with the arms of the City of Chester and some statistics about the county.
COXA0003
£80.00

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Miniature map of Cheshire
Thomas Kitchin or Thomas Jeffreys

London, 1749+. A miniature map of Cheshire, engraved by either Thomas Kitchin or Thomas Jeffreys for the 'Small English Atlas', with three columns of engraved text detailing the major towns.
KITC1028
£140.00

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Map of Cheshire
James Wallis.

London, S.A. Oddy, 1812. Detailed county map marking the roads, with fine, bright colour.
WALL0008
£98.00

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Miniature county map of Cheshire
William Lewis.

London: P. Martin, 1819. From 'Lewis's New Traveller's Guide', marking cities, market towns, seats, mail coach roads & turnpikes.
LEWI1018
£35.00

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Chilean native costume
Alain Manesson Mallet.

Paris, c.1683. A Chilean couple with their villiage in the background, published in Mallet's 'Description de l'Univers'.
MALL0119
£75.00

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Map of Santiago de Chile
Jacques Nicolas Bellin.

Paris, c.1756. Plan of Santiago, capital of Chile, before the construction of the Calicanto Bridge began in 1767.
BELL0189
£125.00

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Large, detailed map of Chile
John Pinkerton.

London, Cadell & Davies, 1809. Large and detailed map of Chile, with an inset of Juan Fernandes Island.
PINK0008
£140.00

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Early map of China
Johannes Jansson.

Amsterdam, 1647. China, Japan and the northern Philippines, with Korea shown as an island.
JANS0012
£1500.00

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Chart of the environs of Xiamen, China
G. Child.

London: Thomas Salmon, 1747. A map of the environs of Xiamen & Zhangzhou, published in the 'Universal Traveller'. Nieuhof describes the place: 'The place is small, but well-built, has a wealthy suburb, and drives a great trade. The revenue arising from the custom paid by vessels is very considerable'.
CHIL0001
£150.00

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View of the Imperial Observatory at Peking.
Jacques Nicolas Bellin.

Paris, c.1750. Showing globes, astrolabes and armillary spheres. The Peking Observatory was equipped by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish Jesuit missionary in Peking in the late 1660s. Rather than building the latest models he worked from Tycho Brahe's 'Mechanica', published eighty years before.
BELL0113
£150.00

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Chart of the environs of Xiamen, China
Jacques Nicolas Bellin.

Paris, c.1750. A map of the environs of Xiamen & Zhangzhou.
BELL0185
£150.00

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Map of Chinese Tartary, with the Silk Road, Great Wall of China & Tibet.
Jacques Nicolas Bellin.

The Hague, c.1760. Engraved by Schley for a Dutch edition of Prevost, illustrating the story of Gengis Khan.
BELL0135
£125.00

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