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Autograph Note Signed J Britton, antiquary, to Mr[James] Wyld, cartographer, about the catalogue of his publications.

Author: 
John Britton, Antiquary
Publication details: 
17 Bruton Street, [London], 27 April [18]25
£56.00

One page, 12mo, grubby but text clear and complete. I enclose you a catalogue of my publications - & beg to observe that I shall be willing to make an exchange for some of your Maps & plans to the amount of [?] or [on?] the pounds.

Autograph Letter Signed, in the third person, from Lord Churchill to the cartographer William Faden

Author: 
Francis Almeric Spencer (1779-1845), 1st Baron Churchill of Whichwood [Lord Churchill] [William Faden (1750-1836), cartographer and map seller, Charing Cross, London]
Publication details: 
31 December 1826; Wychwood Forest, Witney, Oxfordshire.
£65.00
Autograph Letter Signed, in the third person, from Lord Churchill

12mo, 2 pp. Nine lines. Text clear and complete. Addressed by Churchill on reverse of the second leaf, with red wax seal, and his frank: 'Witney Dec. thirty one 1826. | Mr. Faden | Map Seller | Charing Cross | London. | [signed] Churchill'. On aged and lightly-creased paper, with a spike hole. Asking Faden to 'send him a small Case map of Gloucestershire, as soon as possible', directed to him by 'Pratt's Gloucester Coach, to be left at Witney'.

Autograph Letter Signed, in the third person, from Lord Montagu of Dilton Park, Buckinghamshire, requesting that 'Mr. Wilde' send a set of Foden's maps of Spain to Lord John Scott.

Author: 
Henry Montagu-Scott (1776-1845), 2nd Baron Montagu of Boughton, of Dilton Park, Buckinghamshire [Lord Montagu; Lord John Scott; William Faden (1750-1836), cartographer]
Publication details: 
26 March 1826. [Dilton Park, Buckinghamshire.]
£65.00
Autograph Letter Signed, in the third person, from Lord Montagu of Dilton Park

4to, 1 p. Nine lines. Text clear and complete. On aged, creased and worn paper. He asks Wilde to send, by a Leicester coach, 'the four Sheet Map of Spain published by the late Mr. Faden, fitted into a travelling Case, to Lord John Scott, Aylestone', billing Montagu 'at Dilton Park near Windsor'.

Tasmania. Crown Lands Guide, 1884. Published by the Authority of the Hon. The Minister of Lands and Works. [With cloth-backed coloured lithographic map by Leventhorpe Hall.]

Author: 
[Tasmania, Crown Lands Guide, 1884.] [Ministry of Lands and Works; Leventhorpe Hall, map-maker; R. Bennett, Lithographer, Hobart]
Publication details: 
Tasmania: William Thomas Strutt, Government Printer, Hobart. 1884.
£280.00

8vo: vii + 168 pp. Complete. A tight copy, on aged and dusty paper. In remains of brown cloth binding, with spine chipped and covers detached. With the bookplate and 21 June 1884 accession stamp of the Public Free Libraries, Manchester, to whom it was 'Pres[ented]. by Messrs. Walch Bros. & Brichall' on reverse of title. No other stamps. Binder's stamp of Charles Winstanley of Manchester. The cloth-backed fold-out coloured map is approximately 50 x 40.5 cm. Titled 'Tasmania' and 'Compiled and drawn by Leventhorpe Hall January 1884.' Printed by 'R.

Coloured map entitled 'England and Wales with the Roads, from the latest Survey's.'

Author: 
Thomas Kitchin (1718-1784), English mapmaker
Publication details: 
Engrav'd for Guthrie's new Geographical Grammar.' 'Thos. Kitchin Sculp.' [c.1770]
£56.00

Approximate dimensions 37 x 35 cm. Cloth backed and divided into twelve rectangles of 12 x 8.5 cm each, arranged in three rows of four. The folded map fits into a contemporary pouch, crudely made for the purpose from card and marbled paper, with a signed label on the front reading 'A Map of England with the Roads | C. H. Patesson <?>'. On aged paper and with the edges of the rectangles curling slightly, in worn pouch. Scale roughly forty miles to an inch and three eighths. Shows cities, boroughs, market towns, villages and roads.

Autograph Note Signed "Lapie" to "Monsieur Andre Libraire a Paris". In French.

Author: 
Pierre Lapie, sometime "Premier geographe du Roi", mapmaker.
Publication details: 
Paris, 12 December 1826.
£66.00

One page, 8vo, minor stains, good condition, text clear and complete. He explains the arrangement that was made for him to get a copy of a book ("la geographe de Mr. Mattebrun" on the account of M. Buisson). He asks for the volume to be consigned to the "porteur" with a second copy to which he has subscribed.

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