The Bookshop
Welcome to our online antiquarian bookshop where you can begin your rare book search. Here you will find antiquarian books, rare books, works on paper, and first edition books for sale, all selected by our book specialists who have over 200 years of experience between them.
You can buy rare books, many of them signed, on a variety of subjects, including Travel & Voyages, Literature, Rare Children’s books, Natural History, Illustrated books, Hebraica & Judaica, books of Russian interest and Guidebooks. We have books from a variety of famous authors available at our rare bookstore.
If you're in possession of a rare book to sell, please contact us for more information.
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Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, partly folded. An excellent example. Dimensions: 65by 81 cm. Scale: 65 miles to the inch.
£1,450 -
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Heliozincograph map, printed in colours, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into original cloth covers.
£350 -
Copper engraving, 85 x 179 cm. The complete map comprising 6 parts on 8 conjoined sheets, an excellent example. Framed and glazed, overall size: 96cm by 190.5cm.
£3,750 -
Lithographic transfer, widest: 643 x 982 mm. Original wash colour, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into the original boards, with printed title label, two catalogue leaves pasted as end-papers.
£850 -
Large engraved plan, dissected and mounted on linen, extending east to west from Salford to Beswick and north to south from Cheetham to Hulme, edged with green silk, folding into grey marbled endpapers. Dimensions: 1260 by 1900mm (49.5 by 74.75 inches). Scale: 1 inch to every 90 yards.
£3,750 -
Large folding map in full original wash colour, dissected and mounted on linen as issued. Dimensions: 1100 × 790 mm (43 × 30.5 inches). Framed and glazed, overall dimensions: 85.5cm by 118.5cm by 4.87cm.
£3,750 -
Hand coloured linen-backed map folding into dark blue slip case. Dimensions: 49 x 40.25 inches, scale one inch to 1 mile. Publisher's label on cover. Slip case worn along edges, but overall in very good condition.
£1,250 -
Map dimensions 670 × 475 mm (26.5 × 18.5 inches), copperplate folding map on linen in 16 squares, in soft original wash colour. Good condition.
£700 -
Large engraved plan on two sheets joined, original hand-colour in outline. Dimensions: 640 by 990mm (25.25 by 39 inches).
£4,000 -
Engraved colour panorama, mounted on linen, extending north to south from Cologne to Mainz, folding into brown paper covers, edges rubbed, slight discolouration to panorama but in good condition overall.
£800
