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PRUSSIA, 1851

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Map of Prussia.

A detailed Victorian map within an ornate printed border, decorated with five vignettes including a portrait of Frederick the Great, a prospect and three views of Berlin. The map was drawn and engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘The Illustrated Atlas, and Modern History of the World, Geographical Political, Commercial & Statistical’, edited by Montgomery Martin, which was one of the last decorative atlases to be published.

CARTOGRAPHER: JOHN TALLIS

YEAR: 1851

WESTERN AFRICA, 1851

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Map of Western Africa, This map was drawn & engraved by John Rapkin for The Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World published by John Tallis. A beautiful and highly decorative map showing views of Sierre Leone, Bakel, Christians Borg, Cape Coast Castle.

CARTOGRAPHER: JOHN TALLIS

YEAR: 1851

WEST INDIES 1869

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West Indies. Bermuda & Havana. Caribbean Antiless,1869.
Originally published at “Colton’s General Atlas”, published by G.W. & C.B. Colton.

CARTOGRAPHER: C.B. Colton

YEAR: 1869

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

ASIA 1851

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A decorative and finely executed mid-19th-century map of ASIA, drawn and engraved by John Rapkin (vignettes by J. Marchant and J. B. Allen) and published in John Tallis & co.’s The Illustrated Atlas (London & New York, c.1851). The Asia map was typical of the many fine ones which appeared in this work, with its ornamental border and attractive vignettes. Illustrated are views of the architectural city of Petra, Tartars on horseback, Russian peasants, walruses, and various ‘sun-birds of India and the Phillippine Isles’.

CARTOGRAPHER: JOHN TALLIS

YEAR: 1851

BRITISH EMPIRE 1872

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Antique map of the British Empire throughout the World. Engraved by J. Bartholomew, Edin.

CARTOGRAPHER: A.Fullarton & Co.

YEAR: 1872

EUROPE 1840

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Map of Europe with parts of Asia & Africa, published by John Disturnell. This map with colour borders also shows ten different illustrations of the major cities.

CARTOGRAPHER: John Disturnell

YEAR: 1840

MIDDLE EAST 1866

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Map of Johnson’s Turkey in Asia, Persia, Arabia & c. by Johnson and Ward. A great example of A. J. Johnson’s 1866 map of Arabia, Persia, and Turkey in Asia. Covers from the Mediterranean and Egypt eastwards as far as the Mouths of the Indus River, as well as southward. As far as the Horn of Africa and northwards to the Black Sea. Depicts most of the politically volatile modern-day Middle East, including the nations of Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel, Syria, Lebanon, and Turkey. Offers colour coding according to country and region, as well as notations regarding desert caravan routes, oases, roadways, river systems, forts and monasteries, and some topographical features.

CARTOGRAPHER: A.J. Johnson

YEAR: 1866

NORTH AMERICA 1719

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Map of North America. According to the newest and most exact observations, by Herman Moll Geographer. One of Herman Moll’s most famous maps, often referred to as The Codfish Map. As an enhancement to his “Map of North America,” Moll engraved orthographic or plan views of ten bays in North America and the Caribbean in the lower left-hand corner of the map. Each bay was the location of a major port city and harbour. Five of the port cities were British (St. John’s, Boston, New York, Charleston, and Port Royal) and five were Spanish (Havana, Portobello, Vera Cruz, Cartagena, and Acapulco). The inset views on the North American map did not show structures, harbour scenes or ships. Moll engraved the insets in the style of navigational charts, complete with numbers on some of the charts, representing depth soundings in fathoms.

YEAR: circa 1719
CARTOGRAPHER: Herman Moll