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Miniature county map of Monmouthshire
Monmouthshire.
William Lewis.

London: P. Martin, 1819. From 'Lewis's New Traveller's Guide', marking cities, market towns, seats, mail coach roads & turnpikes.
LEWI1029
£30.00

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Slovak Republic
Moravia.
Gerard Mercator

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616. Decorative map of Moravia, now part of the Slovak Republic.
MERC0031
£225.00

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Townplan of Naples
Naples. (Napoli.)
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1835. Detailed plan, with two prospects under the map.
SDUK0044
£125.00

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Caricature of Napoleon as First Consul.
The Apples and the Horse-Turds; _ or _Buonaparte, among the Golden Pippins.,
James Gillray.

London, H.G.Bohn, 1851. Having made himself First Consul of France Napoleon's imperial pretentions are being mocked. The apples are the monarchies of Europe, and he regards himslef as an apples, despite being swept from a French dungheap, with 'First Horse Turd' on his hat. First published 1800.
GILL0010
£240.00

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Satire on the Napoleonic War
Armed Heroes, or Military Appearances at St. Stephen's & at St. Cloud's on the Day of Defiance.
James Gillray.

London, H.G.Bohn, 1851. Military posturing: Henry Addington and a diminutive Napoleon facing each other defiantly across a narrow channel. First published 1803.
GILL0015
£195.00

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Satire on the Meeting of Napoleon & Charles James Fox
Introduction of Citizen Volpone & his suite, at Paris.
James Gillray.

London, H.G.Bohn, 1851. Having supported the French Revolution, the English politician Charles James Fox withdrew from Parliament when France declared war on England in 1797. After the Peace of Amiens in 1802 he went to Paris to research a history of the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688 and was invited to a levee at the Tuileries by Napoleon, a meeting satirised here. Unusually Napoleon is treated kindly: it is Fox, his wife and entourage who are being ridiculed. First published 1802.
GILL0016
£180.00

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The first appearence of the 'Little Boney' image.
German Nonchalence; _or_, the Vexation of little-Boney.
James Gillray.

London, H.G.Bohn, 1851. Gillray's first cartoon to depict Bonaparte as 'Little Boney', first published 1803. Napoleon is beside himself as the Austrian ambassador passes through Paris without bothering to present himself to court, only a few months before Napoleon made himself emperor. In reality Napoleon ordered the Count, who was en route to London, to leave Paris at short notice.
GILL0017
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Satire on the Napoleon's Coup against the Directory
Exit Libertè a la Francois _ or _ Buonaparte closing the Farce of Egalitè, at St. Cloud near Paris Nov.r 10th 1799.
James Gillray.

London, H.G.Bohn, 1851. Napoleon dissolves the Directory by force, an event known as the 'Revolution of the 18th Brumaire'. He became First Consul a month later. First published 1799.
GILL0020
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Satire on the Recommencement of War in 1803
Death of the Corsican Fox. _ Scene the last, of the Royal-Hunt.
James Gillray.

London, H.G.Bohn, 1851. George III holds Napoleon by the neck before throwing him to the hounds, named after his generals and admirals including Nelson and Cornwallis. Prime Minister William Pitt approaches on horseback. Gillray is a little premature: Napoleon wasn't removed from the world's stage until Waterloo, twelve years later. First published 1803.
GILL0032
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Satire on Republicanism
The new dynasty: - or - the little Corsican Gardiner planting a royal-pippin-tree. - 'All the talents', busy, in clearing the ground of old timber.
James Gillray.

London, H.G.Bohn, 1851. Napoleon, having pruned the monarchies of Europe, helps reformers attack the British Royal Oak. On top of the new tree is Lord Moira, who claimed to be descended from the Irish royal race of Ballynahinch. First published 1807.
GILL0036
£225.00

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Caricature of Emma Hamilton
Dido in Despair.
James Gillray.

London, H.G.Bohn, 1851. After the Battle of the Nile, Nelson recuperated at the home of Sir William Hamiton, a noted antiquary, and Emma, Lady Hamilton, at Naples. Nelson and Emma started a notorious affair, and by the time the three returned to England in November 1800, Emma was seven months pregnant with Nelson?s child. Nelson, promoted to vice-admiral, resumed duty as second-in-command of the Channel Fleet on 17 January 1801. Here Emma watches from the marital bed as Nelson sails off to take his post, leaving her wilth 'the old Antique', her husband in bed behind her. First published 1801.
GILL0011
£250.00

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Attractive map of New England
Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americæ implantata Aglorumque coloniis florentissima...
Johann Baptist Homann.

Nuremberg, c.1715. New England in bright original colour. The title cartouche depicts a European trading with the natives.
HOMA0023
£1400.00

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New Guinea
Kaart van de Papoasche Eilanden.
Isaak Tirion.

Amsterdam, c.1753. The western end of New Guinea map, with the islands of the Ceram Sea, including Misool & Boo.
TIRI0009
£225.00

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Map of New Guinea, with Cook & Dampier's voyages
Carte des Découvertes du Cap.ne Carteret dans la N.le Bretagne avec une partie du passage du Cap.ne Cook à travers les Dètroits Endeavour et de la Route et des Découvertes du Cap.ne Dampierre dans
Benard.

Paris, c.1775. The routes of British explorers around New Guinea, 1699-1770, published in a French account of Cook's Voyages.
BENA0006
£160.00

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 Map of New Hampshire & Vermont.
County & Township Map of the States of New Hampshire and Vermont.
Samuel Augustus Mitchell.

Philadelphia, c.1873.
MITC0004
£75.00

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Charts of the approaches to New York City
Porti della Nouva York e Perthamboy.
G.M. Terretti.

Livorno, 1763. Chart of the approaches to New York City, marking Sandy Hook, Newark & Manhattan. From the 'Gazzetiere Americano', published thirteen years before the Declaration of Independence.
GAZZ0002
£450.00

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View of Albany
City of Albany, in the State of New York.
G. Kane.

London: Fisher & Son, 1827.
KANE0001
£95.00

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New York with boats and costumes
La Nouvelle Yorck.
B.F Leizelt.

Augsburg: Probst? c.1760. A vüe d'optique of the Port of New York, with a short description in German and French. Of interest are the boats and costumes of the figures. Designed to be used in an optical viewer called a zograscope, the image is reversed, as is the title above the view. The naive colour is standard with this genre of print.
LEIZ0002
£325.00

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Niagara Falls
Falls of Niagara, on the River S.t Lawrence in Canada.
Anonymous.

c.1816. A view of Niagara Falls from the Canadian shore.
ANON0025
£45.00

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Miniature county map of Norfolk
Norfolk.
William Lewis.

London: P. Martin, 1819. From 'Lewis's New Traveller's Guide', marking cities, market towns, seats, mail coach roads & turnpikes.
LEWI1013
£30.00

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