Antique County Maps: East Anglia
Cambs, Hunts, Norfolk, Suffolk

A Map of Cambridge Shire.

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BOWEN, Emanuel.

Origin: London, c.1720.

A miniature map of the county of Cambridgeshire, from the 'Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improved' by John Owen and Emanuel Bowen. The verso has the road from Hull, through Beverley, Killham and on to Flanborough Head in the county of Yorkshire.

Condition: Uncoloured; light age-toning and minor nicks to margins, otherwise good condition.

Size: 187 x 117mm (7¼ x 4½ inches).

Reference: 15732

Price: £30

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A Map of Essex...

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BICKHAM, George.

Origin: London, George Bickham jnr, 1749-54.

A finely-engraved bird's eye view across the county, from the First Edition of Bickham's 'The British Monarchy'. An interesting note in the text from the book states: 'The air in the Hundreds, towards the Thames, is so bad, that a Person born elsewhere can seldom live in it. Hence many Farmers drive a kind of Traffic in Wives, which they inveigle from the Uplands; and some have bury'd one in a year to the number of ten or twelve'.

Condition: Coloured; signs of age-toning from and old framing and mounting, tape staing along the top edge of margin, otherwise a good example.

Size: 255 x 150mm (10 x 6 inches).

Reference: 15770

Price: £250

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A Mapp of Cambridgeshire with the Ile of Ely.

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BLOME, Richard.

Origin: London, 1673.

From the First Edition of the "Britannia", Blome's larger series of county maps, decorated with cartouches around the title and dedication, based on Speed's map. Blome, renowned as a plagarist, said "I do not own myself the Author, but the Undertaker of this work".

Condition: Uncoloured; dark impression, minor spotting and waterstaining to right hand margin, just effecting the printed line border, otherwise a good example.

Size: 300 x 265mm (11¾ x 10½ inches).

Reference: 5138

Price: £110

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A Mapp of Huntingdon Shire with its Hundreds.

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BLOME, Richard.

Origin: London, 1673.

From the First Edition of the "Britannia", Blome's larger series of county maps, decorated with cartouches around the title and dedication, based on Speed's map. Blome, renowned as a plagiarist, said "I do not own myself the Author, but the Undertaker of this work".

Condition: Uncoloured; fine dark impression.

Size: 320 x 260mm (12½ x 10¼ inches).

Reference: 4914

Price: £80

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A New Map of Cambridgeshire from the best Authorities.

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LODGE, John.

Origin: London, 1790-95.

A rare map of the county originally published in the 'Political Magazine' from 1782-90. Engraved by John Lodge, this atlas edition of 1795 has the name erased. Ink manuscript details about the county on the verso.

Condition: Uncoloured; short tear (repaired) to right margin, just into plate mark, light soiling and minor spotting, otherwise a good example.

Size: 325 x 265mm (12¾ x 10½ inches).

Reference: 12830

Price: £65

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A New Map of Huntingdonshire from the latest Authorities.

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LODGE, John.

Origin: London, 1790-95.

A rare map of the county originally published in the 'Political Magazine' from 1782-90. Engraved by John Lodge, this atlas edition of 1795 has the name erased. Ink manuscript details about the county on the verso.

Condition: Uncoloured; light soiling and minor spotting, otherwise a good example.

Size: 325 x 265mm (12¾ x 10½ inches).

Reference: 12825

Price: £48

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A New Map of Norfolk, from the best Authorities.

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LODGE, John.

Origin: London, 1790-95.

A rare map of the county originally published in the 'Political Magazine' from 1782-90. Engraved by John Lodge, this atlas edition of 1795 has the name erased. Ink manuscript details about the county on the verso.

Condition: Uncoloured; light soiling and minor spotting, otherwise a good example.

Size: 265 x 325mm (10½ x 12¾ inches).

Reference: 12842

Price: £98

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A New Map of Suffolk, from the latest Authorities.

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LODGE, John.

Origin: London, 1790-95.

A rare map of the county originally published in the 'Political Magazine' from 1782-90. Engraved by John Lodge, this atlas edition of 1795 has the name erased. Ink manuscript details about the county on the verso.

Condition: Uncoloured; brown spot in upper margin, light soiling and minor spotting, otherwise a good example.

Size: 260 x 325mm (10¼ x 12¾ inches).

Reference: 12844

Price: £98

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Cambridge Shire.

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KEERE, Pieter van der.

Origin: London, George Humble, 1646.

A map of the county, from the so-called "Miniature Speed".

Condition: Uncoloured; slight waterstaining, otherwise good.

Size: 85 x 120mm (3¼ x 4¾ inches).

Reference: 5668

Price: £48

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Cambridge Shire.

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GIBSON, John.

Origin: London, Thomas Carnan, 1780.

A miniature map of the county from John Gibson's 'New and accurate maps of the counties of England and Wales'.

Condition: Uncoloured; light soiling and age-toning to margins, otherwise very good.

Size: 115 x 65mm (4½ x 2½ inches).

Reference: 9571

Price: £52

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Cambridge comitatus quem olim iceni insederunt.

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SAXTON, Christopher - KIP, William.

Origin: London, 1607-37.

An early map of Cambridgeshire, attributed to Christopher Saxton and engraved by William Kip. From the third edition of Camden's Britannia to contain maps.

Condition: Uncoloured; dark impression, light age-toning, bottom right corner reinstated with old paper, probably done in the atlas, short tear repaired, otherwise good condition.

Size: 290 x 325mm (11½ x 12¾ inches).

Reference: 10075

Price: £160

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Cambridgeshire.

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WALKER, J & C.

Origin: London, J & C Walker, 1835-.

A detailed map of the county. Shows the places of the meeting of foxhounds and the areas marked. From Hobson's Fox Hunting Atlas.

Condition: Original outline colour; minor marginal discolouration and light age-toning, otherwise a fine example.

Size: 390 x 325mm (15¼ x 12¾ inches).

Reference: 12127

Price: £38

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Cambridgeshire.

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WALKER, J & C.

Origin: London, J & C Walker, 1835-.

A detailed map of the county. Shows the places of the meeting of foxhounds and the areas marked. From Hobson's Fox Hunting Atlas.

Condition: Original outline colour; with some recent embellishment to the title cartouche, minor marginal age-toning, short repaired split to centrefold in left margin, otherwise a fine example.

Size: 390 x 325mm (15¼ x 12¾ inches).

Reference: 12179

Price: £32

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Cambridgshire described with the devision of the hundreds, the townes situation, with the Armes of the Colleges of that famous Universiti.

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SPEED, John.

Origin: London, John Sudbury & George Humble. 1610-11. First Edition.

A highly decorative map of the County, with 25 university armourials, four scholars, the Royal Crest and a plan of Cambridge.

Condition: Finely coloured; dark impression, left margin has been trimmed close by the binder when the map was in the atlas, but with enough paper to facilitate framing, right margin has been professionally extended using old paper, with no loss to printed surface, short tear near the lower part of centrefold, expertly repaired, overall a very good example.

Size: 385 x 525mm (15¼ x 20¾ inches).

Reference: 15763

Price: £1950

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Cantabrigiensis Comitatus. Cambridge Shire.

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BLAEU, Johannes.

Origin: Amsterdam, 1645, French text edition.

Highly decorative map of the county, with 17 college armorials, 7 noble and two royal crests, all in full original colour. From volume IV of Blaeu's Theatrum.

Condition: Fine original colour, light age-toning to the edges of the margins, minor marginal soiling and one or two small nicks to the edges, otherwise a fine example.

Size: 420 x 520mm (16½ x 20½ inches).

Reference: 15703

Price: £560

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Godmanchester.

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DAWSON, Robert Kearsley.

Origin: London, 1832.

A plan of Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire, from a composite volume of the 'Plans of the Cities and Boroughs of England and Wales'. Robert Kearsley Dawson (1798 -1861) the son of surveyor Robert Dawson, was born in Dover, he went on to study at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. In 1818 he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers, and between 1819 and 1829 took part in the triangulation and mapping of Ireland and Scotland under Thomas Colby. In 1831 he was to survey the boundaries of the proposed Parliamentary Boroughs for the Great Reform Act.

Condition: Original coloured lithograph; light age-toning to the edges of the paper, minor spotting, otherwise a good example.

Size: 310 x 190mm (12¼ x 7½ inches).

Reference: 12339

Price: £21

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Great Yarmouth.

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DAWSON, Robert Kearsley.

Origin: London, 1832.

A plan of Great Yarmouth, from a composite volume of the 'Plans of the Cities and Boroughs of England and Wales'. Robert Kearsley Dawson (1798 -1861) the son of surveyor Robert Dawson, was born in Dover, he went on to study at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. In 1818 he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers, and between 1819 and 1829 took part in the triangulation and mapping of Ireland and Scotland under Thomas Colby. In 1831 he was to survey the boundaries of the proposed Parliamentary Boroughs for the Great Reform Act.

Condition: Original coloured lithograph; light age-toning to the edges of the paper, minor spotting, short tear to lower edge, just into printed surface and repaired, otherwise a very good example.

Size: 325 x 170mm (12¾ x 6¾ inches).

Reference: 11752

Price: £28

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Huntingdo-nensis Comitatus, Huntington Shire.

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BLAEU, Joan.

Origin: Amsterdam, 1654.

A highly decorative map of the county of Huntingdonshire. Figured title cartouche bottom right and armorials on the left.

Condition: Fine original colour; light marginal soiling, otherwise a fine example.

Size: 390 x 500mm (15¼ x 19¾ inches).

Reference: 9026

Price: £210

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Huntingdon comitatus.

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SAXTON, Christopher - KIP, William.

Origin: London, Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, 1607-10.

A map of the county from the first English edition of the 'Britannia', translated by Philémon Holland. Engraved by William Kip, from the Christopher Saxton survey of 1576. The Saxton map is of Northants/Beds/Cambs/Hunts and Rutland, therefore this example is one of the earliest separate printed maps of the county.

Condition: Uncoloured; light toning in the margins, otherwise a very good example.

Size: 275 x 340mm (10¾ x 13½ inches).

Reference: 9717

Price: £120

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Huntingdonshire.

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PIGOT & Co.

Origin: London & Manchester, 1828.

From the first steel-engraved county atlas, "Pigot & Co's British Atlas of the Counties of England". With a fine vignette of Godmanchester Church and a sheet of accompanying text.

Condition: Fine original colour; minor age-toning to margins, otherwise fine condition.

Size: 370 x 230mm (14½ x 9 inches).

Reference: 4920

Price: £28

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Huntingdonshire.

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WALKER, J & C.

Origin: London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Co., 1835-.

A detailed map of the county. Shows the places of the meeting of foxhounds and the areas marked. From Hobson's Fox Hunting Atlas.

Condition: Original colour lithograph; light toning at centrefold, otherwise a fine example.

Size: 390 x 320mm (15¼ x 12½ inches).

Reference: 11663

Price: £23

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Huntingdonshire.

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BOWEN, Emanuel.

Origin: London, c.1720.

A miniature map of the county from the 'Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improved' by John Owen and Emanuel Bowen. The verso has the road from Huntingdon (town plan), through Erith, Ely and on to Soham.

Condition: Uncoloured; very light age-toning to the edges, otherwise a fine example.

Size: 185 x 115mm (7¼ x 4½ inches).

Reference: 12181

Price: £18

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Huntington Shire.

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MORDEN, Robert.

Origin: London, 1695.

Published in Camden's Britannia.

Condition: Uncoloured; small side margins, but with enough blank paper to facilitate framing, otherwise a fine example.

Size: 365 x 420mm (14¼ x 16½ inches).

Reference: 9537

Price: £54

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Map of the County of Huntingdon, from an Actual Survey.

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GREENWOOD, C. & J.

Origin: London, Greenwood & Co., 1834.

One of the last large series of county maps, produced in competition with the Ordnance Survey, and consequently very detailed. Fine inset view of Kimbolton Castle, The Seat of His Grace the Duke of Manchester.

Condition: Fine original colour; very light print offset, minor age-toning and soiling to the edges of the paper, otherwise a fine example without centrefold.

Size: 570 x 675mm (22½ x 26½ inches).

Reference: 11630

Price: £68

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Norfolciæ descriptio. Petrus Kærius Cælavit.

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JANSSON, Johannes.

Origin: Amsterdam, 1651, German text edition.

An uncommon map of Norfolk.

Condition: Uncoloured; slight overall age-toning .

Size: 160 x 205mm (6¼ x 8 inches).

Reference: 6687

Price: £85

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Norfolk, A Countie Florishing & Populous Described and Devided...…

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SPEED, John.

Origin: London, John Sudbury & George Humble, 1610-11, FIRST EDITION.

From Speed's atlas 'The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine'. Unlike the later editions the first edition does not have the engraved sea area. With inset plan of Norwich.

Condition: Uncoloured; two very small holes in the margins at centrefold (possibly a guide to the binder for folding), light toning to margins from a previous framing, otherwise a fine dark impression.

Size: 380 x 510mm (15 x 20 inches).

Reference: 8000

Price: £890

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Norfolk, A Countie Florishing & Populous Described and Devided...…

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SPEED, John.

Origin: London, Sudbury & Humble, 1616, Latin text edition.

From Speed's atlas 'The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine', the Latin edition is arguably the rarest of all editions, being produced for the overseas market. Thomas Chubb states in his book, "The Latin edition of Speed's atlas of great Britain and Ireland is extremely rare, it was not until 1918 that the British Museum obtained a copy.

Condition: Uncoloured; dark impression, small nick at lower centrefold, light age-toning to margins, otherwise a fine example.

Size: 385 x 515mm (15¼ x 20¼ inches).

Reference: 12919

Price: £950

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Norfolk.

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WALKER, John & Charles.

Origin: London, Longman & Co., 1835-.

A detailed map of the county. Shows the places of the meeting of foxhounds and the areas marked. From Hobson's Fox Hunting Atlas.

Condition: Original colour lithograph; light age-toning to the edges of the paper, short repaired split to centrefold at lower margin, otherwise a fine example.

Size: 330 x 385mm (13 x 15¼ inches).

Reference: 12204

Price: £42

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Nortfolcia; Norfolke.

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BLAEU, Joan.

Origin: Amsterdam, 1654.

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Condition: Fine original colour; light marginal soiling, slightly darker brown stain in upper margin, very light printers crease to lower centrefold, small stain under the armorials on the title cartouche, otherwise a fine example.

Size: 380 x 500mm (15 x 19¾ inches).

Reference: 9025

Price: £390

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Nortfolcia; Norfolke.

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BLAEU, Joan.

Origin: Amsterdam, 1658, Dutch text edition.

A decorative map of the county of Norfolk from volume IV of Blaeu's 'Atlas Major'.

Condition: Fine original colour; very light marginal soiling, otherwise a superb example.

Size: 380 x 500mm (15 x 19¾ inches).

Reference: 10200

Price: £420

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Regiones Inundatae.

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BLAEU, Johannes.

Origin: Amsterdam, 1658, Dutch text edition.

A facsinating map of the Fenland area.

Condition: Fine original colour; very light marginal soiling, two very small worm holes in the lower margin, otherwise a superb example.

Size: 435 x 545mm (17¼ x 21½ inches).

Reference: 10199

Price: £340

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Suffolcia vernacule Suffolke.

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BLAEU, Johannes.

Origin: Amsterdam, 1658, Dutch text edition.

A very decorative map of the county of Suffolk from volume IV of Bleau's 'Atlas Major'.

Condition: Fine original colour; very light marginal soiling, two small worm holes in lower margin, otherwise a superb example.

Size: 380 x 500mm (15 x 19¾ inches).

Reference: 10108

Price: £420

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Suffolk drawn from late surveys.

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BOWEN, Emanuel.

Origin: London, Universal Magazine, 1753.

Printed for John Hinton.

Condition: Uncoloured; signs of old vertical folds, otherwise a good example.

Size: 175 x 200mm (7 x 7¾ inches).

Reference: 9687

Price: £65

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Suffolk, described and divided into Hundreds, the situation of the fayre towne Ipswich shewed…

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SPEED, John.

Origin: London, John Sudbury & George Humble, 1610-16, Latin text edition.

From Speed's atlas 'The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine', the Latin edition is arguably the rarest of all editions, being produced for the overseas market. Thomas Chubb states in his book, "The Latin edition of Speed's atlas of great Britain and Ireland is extremely rare, it was not until 1918 that the British Museum obtained a copy".

Condition: Uncoloured; very light age-toning, otherwise a fine example.

Size: 385 x 515mm (15¼ x 20¼ inches).

Reference: 12922

Price: £850

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Suffolk.

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MORDEN, Robert.

Origin: London, 1695-.

Published in Camden's Britannia.

Condition: Uncoloured; very light age-toning to the edges of margins, otherwise a fine example.

Size: 360 x 420mm (14¼ x 16½ inches).

Reference: 9448

Price: £120

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Suffolk.

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WALKER, John & Charles.

Origin: London, 1835-.

A detailed map of the county. Shows the places of the meeting of foxhounds and the areas are marked. From Hobson's Fox Hunting Atlas.

Condition: Original colour lithograph; very light centrefold discolouration, otherwise fine condition.

Size: 325 x 390mm (12¾ x 15¼ inches).

Reference: 10579

Price: £38

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