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Macdonald (Max) Gill (1884-1947)
Australia: Her Natural and Industrial Resources (1950)
His Majesty’s Stationary Office, SO Code NO. 70-538-5-2 Lithographic poster 51 x 76cm (20 x 30 inches) Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. Condition generally very good, a little spotting and the odd very short edge tear to margin not affecting image. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Samuel & Nathaniel Buck
Byland Abbey, Yorkshire
Engraving 37x19cm, c. 1770 "Byland Abbey is an interesting ruin about five miles from Helmsley. It was a fine specimen of ecclesiastical architecture, founded by the monks of Furness, who were driven from their establishment in Lancashire during an incursion of the Scots. When the abbey was dissolved in 1540 its revenues amounted to 238l. 9s. 4d." (Source: The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 25 June 1836.) -
James Hart
Festival of Britain
Lithographic poster map 45 x 58 cm Folding map published for London Transport and British Railways for visitors to the 1951 Festival of Britain, featuring the Abram Games logo, details of water bus services, a detailed plan of the Lambeth exhibition area by Waterloo Bridge. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
John Boydell (1719-1804)
A South Prospect of the City of Oxford
Hand-coloured engraving published 1751 in the series Four Views of Oxford 28x44.5cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. One of the most influential Georgian printsellers, Boydell was apprenticed to William Henry Toms at the age of 21, studying drawing at the St Marin's Lane Academy. From 1755 he imported foreign prints in great numbers. He became Mayor of London in 1790. -
Edward Quin (British 1794-1828)
Twenty-one maps from An Historical Atlas in a Series of Maps of the World As Known at Different Periods.
Twenty-one hand-coloured engraved maps, various sizes, presented in fine hand-finished rosewood veneer frames. Click on the image to see all twenty-one maps. 15 approx 40 x 31 cm 5 approx 62 x 31 cm Seeley and Burnside np. nd. [London c. 1830] Scroll down for further information. -
Map of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely (1622) engraved by William Hole for Drayton’s Poly Olbion
London (1622) 24 x 31 cm (9 x 12 in) If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Robert Morden (1650-1703) Nottingham Shire (or Nottinghamshire)
Engraving with recent hand colouring 34x42cm First published in 1695 for Camden's Britannica (1695-1772) and reprinted several times during the succeeding century. -
Samuel Buck (1696-1779) & Nathaniel Buck (active 1724-59) Panorama of the River Thames from Westminster Bridge to London Bridge
Published September 1749 30x404 cm Engraving Scroll down for further description. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
John Speed/Speede (1551/2-1629) The Countye of Monmouthshire
Performed by John Speede assisted by William Smyth. And are to be sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate London. Printed 1710-1743 Probably the most famous early English mapmaker, John Speed's early life is somewhat of an enigma. He is believed to have trained as a rolling-press printer, but he was at heart an historian granted a sinecure in the Customs House by Queen Elizabeth to indulge his passion, later becoming a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. His first maps were historical, of the Holy Land 'Canaan as it was Possessed both in Abraham and Israels Dayes' and of England and Ireland recording 'all their Civill Warres since the Conquest'. In 1611 he published his 'Hostory of Great Britaine' which he regarded as his magnum opus, but it was the companion atlas 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine' that - as the first printed atlas of Great Britain - sealed his reputation. William Rogers engraved the first map, 'the County Palatine of Chester' in about 1600, but following his untimely death the task of engraving was passed to Jodocus Hondius of Amsterdam. By 1612 the atlas was complete, the maps famed for their decorative elements. Many have town plans - Britain's first series of such plans - and descriptive text was printed to the reverse until the 1676 edition. Later printings (up until 1770) were issued without this text. By 1627 it has become a part of a world atlas 'Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World'. During the 17th century the plates passed through the hands of a series of publishers, the 1676 edition of Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell being regarded as its high point with the inclusion for the first time of a series of important maps. For the first half of the eighteenth century they were firmly established in the hands of the Overton family. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Small losses outside platemark just reaching platemark at top, with some toning to paper as usual. Later but well undertaken hand-colouring. Generally good condition. -
John Speed/Speede (1551/2-1629) The Countye Palatine of Chester with that most ancient citie
39x51cm Engraving Probably the most famous early English mapmaker, John Speed's early life is somewhat of an enigma. He is believed to have trained as a rolling-press printer, but he was at heart an historian granted a sinecure in the Customs House by Queen Elizabeth to indulge his passion, later becoming a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. His first maps were historical, of the Holy Land 'Canaan as it was Possessed both in Abraham and Israels Dayes' and of England and Ireland recording 'all their Civill Warres since the Conquest'. In 1611 he published his 'Hostory of Great Britaine' which he regarded as his magnum opus, but it was the companion atlas 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine' that - as the first printed atlas of Great Britain - sealed his reputation. William Rogers engraved the first map, 'the County Palatine of Chester' in about 1600, but following his untimely death the task of engraving was passed to Jodocus Hondius of Amsterdam. By 1612 the atlas was complete, the maps famed for their decorative elements. Many have town plans - Brtiain's first series of such plans - and descriptive text was printed to the reverse until the 1676 edition. Later printings (up until 1770) were issued without this text. By 1627 it has become a part of a world atlas 'Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World'. During the 17th century the plates passed through the hands of a series of publishers, the 1676 edition (as here) of Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell being regarded as its high point with the inclusion for the first time of a series of important maps. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Trimmed and other small losses outside platemark. Some toning and spotting to paper as usual. Later but well undertaken hand-colouring. Old tape mark to top outside platemark. Generally good condition. -
Johannes 'Jan' Kip (1652/3 - 1722)
The North Prospect of Gloster Cathedral (c.1716)
43 x 47 cm Copper engraving Johannes "Jan" Kip was a Dutch engraver, draughtsman and print dealer. After producing works for the court of William of Orange in Amsterdam, Kip followed William and Mary to London, settling in Farringdon and selling prints. Later, Kip collaborated with draughtsman and painter Leonard Knyff, and together they made a popular series of engraved views of English country houses. This print is from Sir Robert Atkyn's 'The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire'. In his usual manner - Kip was probably the foremost engraver of his time in England - he has placed figures before the Cathedral to give life - and scale - to the building. Condition: Generally very good with central vertical fold and adjacent parallel creases; one diagonal crease mid left to bottom centre. Will look very good when framed. -
Benjamin Cole (1697-1783)
Southwark Cathedral (c. 1753)
Engraving 24 x 33 cm Stow's Survey of London, a ward-by-ward topographical and historical tour of the City of London giving an account of buildings, social conditions and customs, was first published in 1598. This view of Southwark Cathedral, labelled here as 'the South Prospect of the Church of St Saviour in Southwark', offers a charming perspective of the building's architecture and churchyard. Condition: Generally very good; slight offsetting from facing page and old library stamp to reverse. -
Darton and Harvey (publisher)
Map of London, Southwark, and parts adjacent (1800)
Engraving 42 x 56 cm Condition: generally very good; backed to linen with some evidence of use. -
Gerardus Mercator (1512 - 1594)
Map of the North of Scotland (1683)
Engraving with later hand colouring 35 x 45 cm A fantastically characterful and detailed map engraving of the North of Scotland from 1683. The highly detailed and beautifully coloured map is inscribed to the reverse with a description of the parts of Scotland illustrated, called the ''Troisieme Table d''Escosse''. The map comes from the 1683 French edition of Gerardus Mercator''s Atlas Major, which was first published in 1585. Gerardus Mercator was the Flemish father of mapmaking. He was a skilled geographer, cosmographer and cartographer and is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing (rhumb lines) as straight lines - an innovation that is still employed in today''s nautical charts. Mercator was a highly influential pioneer in the history of cartography and is generally considered one of the founders of the Netherlandish school of cartography and geography. He is also widely considered the most notable figure of the school. In his own day, he was a notable maker of globes and scientific instruments. In addition, he had interests in theology, philosophy, history, mathematics and geomagnetism. He was also an accomplished engraver and calligrapher. Unlike other great scholars of the age, he travelled little and his knowledge of geography came from his library of over a thousand books and maps, from his visitors and from his vast correspondence (in six languages) with other scholars, statesmen, travellers, merchants and seamen. Mercator''s early maps were in large formats suitable for wall mounting but in the second half of his life, he produced over 100 new regional maps in a smaller format suitable for binding into his Atlas of 1595. This was the first appearance of the word Atlas in reference to a book of maps. However, Mercator used it as a neologism for a treatise (Cosmologia) on the creation, history and description of the universe, not simply a collection of maps. He chose the word as a commemoration of the Titan Atlas, "King of Mauretania", whom he considered to be the first great geographer. Mercator wrote on geography, philosophy, chronology and theology. All of the wall maps were engraved with copious text on the region concerned. As an example, the famous world map of 1569 is inscribed with over five thousand words in fifteen legends. Condition: a little spotting, primarily to margins. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
John Dower (1825 - 1901)
Map of Berkshire from an actual survey made in the years 1822 & 1823
Engraving 57 x 69 cm A large antique engraved map of Berkshire. Condition: good; some light staining. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
