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THE NIGHT SKY STAR MAP

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Vintage Illustration Reprint of The Night Sky - November 1887

* Linen Backed by Hand.

* Illustrations are rolled and fitted into a sturdy postal tube.

WORLD MAP 1817

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A fine reproduction of the World on Mercator’s Projection. Revised and Improved to 1817 by John Melish. Published by John Melish & Samil.Harrison. Includes text “To find the distance of one place from another” and statistical table.

YEAR: 1817

CARTOGRAPHER: John Melish

WORLD MAP 1857

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Colton’s Illustrated & Embellished map of the World Mercator’s Projection.
Compiled from the latest & most authentic sources. Exhibiting the recent Arctic and Antarctic Discoveries & Explorations. Compiled, Drawn & Engraved by D.G.Johnson. Published by J.H.Colton & Co.

CARTOGRAPHER: D.G.JOHNSON

YEAR: 1857

WORLD MAP 1799

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A new map of the World with all the new discoveries by Capt. Cook and other navigators. Ornamented with the Solar System, the Eclipses of the Sun, Moon & Planets. By geographer T. Kitchin.

CARTOGRAPHER: Thomas Kitchin

YEAR: 1799

LAURIE & WHITTLE’S NEW MAP OF LONDON 1809

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Laurie and Whittle’s map of London and its environs stretching from Islington to Camberwell and Bow to Paddington, an area now completely engulfed by the urban sprawl. The proposed sites of Vauxhall and Waterloo bridges are denoted by dotted lines, and the area of the city is delineated with a red line. The title contained within an attractive cartouche with a beehive, man-o-war, and the Union Jack and City arms symbolising the might and riches of the centre of the then rapidly expanding British Empire.

CARTOGRAPHER: Robert Laurie & James Whittle

YEAR: 1809

BOWLE’S MAP OF LONDON 1794

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A unique map of BOWLE’S New Pocket Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster with the Borough of Southwark: comprehending their Outskirts and Extent of the Thames from Chelsea to Deptford, exhibiting also the New Buildings, Roads and other Alterations to the year 1794. Detailed plan of Eighteenth-century London. Superb detail throughout, often noting individual buildings, gardens, and estates. Table along the bottom notes principal buildings and churches. Bowles first issued this plan in 1777 and updated it regularly to the end of the 18th century.

YEAR: 1794
CARTOGRAPHER: Thomas Bowles