Europe from Bryars and Bryars

London, [1855]. Engraved folding cartographic race game, 49.5 x 63 cm, dissected into 12 panels and laid on linen, original hand colour, folding into cloth covers, lettered direct. Wear to intersections of folds, ink stain to front cover. Lacks rule book. Worldcat locates three examples, but there appears to be a fourth, with rules, in the part of the Richard… Read more about this item

Paris, H. Barrè: re, c. 1912. Folding lithographed map, 105 x 88 cm, printed in colours and dissected into 20 panels and laid on linen, minor wear; folding into calf bound covers, lettered direct in gilt, sunned. Bookseller’s label of Brentano’s Paris, which catered particularly for American expatriates. There appear to be a number of editions, none of them… Read more about this item

Antwerp: Plantin-Moretus , 1624. Copper engraving, 34.5 x 49 cms, modern hand colour, Latin text on verso. The Black Sea and eastern Mediterranean, with insets of Thessaly, Bithynia and western Europe, illustrating the mythical voyage of Jason and the Argonauts in their quest for the Golden Fleece. The Fleece is depicted in the cartouche, flanked by the fire-breathing oxen… Read more about this item

[London?], c. 1914. Souvenir cotton tray cloth or handkerchief, 49.5 x 68.5 cm, printed in black and white with ropework border printed in red, white and blue and incorporating the flags of Britain and the Allied powers of France, Belgium and Russia at the corners, blank verso. Published ‘by permission of the Manchester Guardian’, the map was printed… Read more about this item

London, 1943-45. A collection of 61 intelligence handbooks, 1943-1945, covering enemy and occupied countries and compiled by the Foreign Office and Ministry for Economic Warfare. The MoEW was formed in September 1939 and worked closely with the FO, which took over its remaining functions at the end of the war. Members of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham… Read more about this item

Paris, 1719. Copper engraving, 17 x 22.5 cm, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. Muscovy or European Russia, published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et historique ...’. Chiquet (1673-1721) was a relatively successful Parisian engraver, print and mapseller. He published Antoine Menard’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas’ in 1711, and reprinted it with Menard’s… Read more about this item

Paris, 1719. Copper engraving, 16.5 x 22.5 cm, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. Published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et historique ...’. Chiquet (1673-1721) was a relatively successful Parisian engraver, print and mapseller. He published Antoine Menard’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas’ in 1711, and reprinted it with Menard’s name burnished from the… Read more about this item

Paris, 1719. Copper engraving, 16.5 x 22.5 cm, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. The Swedish Empire, including Finland and Swedish Livonia, published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et historique ...’. Chiquet (1673-1721) was a relatively successful Parisian engraver, print and mapseller. He published Antoine Menard’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas’ in 1711, and… Read more about this item

Paris, 1719. Copper engraving, 17 x 22.5 cm, original hand colour in outline, light stain bottom right, blank verso. The Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et historique ...’. Chiquet (1673-1721) was a relatively successful Parisian engraver, print and mapseller. He published Antoine Menard’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas’… Read more about this item

Paris, 1719. Copper engraving, 22 x 16.5 cm, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. Norway was restored as a kingdom in 1661, albeit in union with Denmark. The table top left lists ancient kings of Norway, next to a vignette which probably depicts whaling. Our map was published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et historique… Read more about this item

Paris, c. 1900. Airship race game, board 36.5 x 38.5 cm, box label 26.5 x 19 cm, both printed in colours, neither laid down on cardboard, trivial loss to bottom left hand corner of board, affecting red margin only. No rule sheet, but fairly self explanatory: the board is a simplified map of Europe with vignettes of famous landmarks… Read more about this item

Germany?: G-2 Section, 2nd Armored , 1945. First version of a campaign map charting the wartime progress of the US 2nd Armored Division, sheet size 58.5 x 75 cm, printed in colours, blank verso. The lower panel deals with operations in North Africa and Sicily, with the unit’s insignia flanked by key placenames; the main map covers the Normandy… Read more about this item

Dresden: Leutert & Schneidewind, 1914. Satirical map of Europe, 35 x 50 cms, printed in colours, splits to folds, laid on tissue, blank verso. An intricate anthropomorphic map (the artist also produced a zoomorphic companion piece) issued soon after the outbreak of the First World War. Italy, initially neutral, pokes a head from a giant boot, eyes swiveling in… Read more about this item

Antwerp: Plantin-Moretus , 1624. Copper engraving, 35 x 49 cms, trivial adhesion damage in left hand part of the map, above a depiction of the storm which preceded Aeneas’ landing at Carthage; modern hand colour, Latin text on verso. Map of the eastern Mediterranean which depicts the wanderings of the legendary Trojan prince Aeneas after the fall of Troy,… Read more about this item

London, 1799. Copper engraving, 36 x 44 cms, original hand colour in outline, slight toning at centrefold and a couple of small spots, blank verso. From the third edition of ‘A Complete Course of Geography, by Means of Instructive Games...’ It seems that this map would have been coupled with a blank template for the student to complete by… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, c. 1640. Copper engraving, 41.5 x 56 cms, original hand-colour, some oxidisation, French text on verso. Blaeu's 'carte à figure' map of Europe, with ten costume vignettes and nine city views around the edges and galleys, galleons, sea monsters, bears and lions spread around the map. Of particular interest are the placenames on Greenland relating to Frobisher's voyage… Read more about this item

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cms, recent hand-colour, light waterstaining in upper margin, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

London, 1894. Lithograph, 24 x 53 cms, colour printed, blank verso; prepared for the London Atlas. Map

Edinburgh &: London, 1861. Lithograph, 44.5 x 57.5 cms, colour-printed with additional (original) hand-colour in outline, blank verso. Map