Lincolnshire
Drawn by R.Creighton. Engraved by J.&C.Walker. from Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary 1848. 12 1/4″ x 9 1/4″. original outline hand colouring.
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A clearly engraved map of the county showing possibly the most important railway ever built – the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway – which, along with the expansion of the docks at Great Grimsby (eventually into the largest fishing port in the world), heralded the birth of the fish and chip shop.
( Lincolnshire )
Published by G. & J. Cary, 86 St.James’s Street, London. April 2nd 1832. Sheet no. 45 of Cary’s Improved Map of England and Wales with a Considerable Portion of Scotland. Linen-backed, dissected and folding. Mottled green card covers with a miniature outline map of the area and the ticket of Roake & Varty, Stationers, 31, Strand. Housed in a matching slip case. 20 1/4″ x 25 1/4″. Original hand colouring. At a scale of two statute miles to 1″.
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A detailed and superbly engraved map in fine original hand colouring. Cary’s Improved Map of England and Wales comprises 65 sheets and covers an area of approximately 236 sq. feet when laid out. N.B. A complete set, dissected and boxed, of all 65 maps, title page, index, etc. is being sourced and should be available shortly.
( Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire )
Published by G. & J. Cary, 86 St.James’s Street, London. April 2nd 1832. Sheet no. 44 of Cary’s Improved Map of England and Wales with a Considerable Portion of Scotland. Linen-backed, dissected and folding. Mottled green card covers with a miniature outline map of the area and the ticket of Roake & Varty, Stationers, 31, Strand. Housed in a matching slip case. 20 1/4″ x 25 1/4″. Original hand colouring. At a scale of two statute miles to 1″.
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A detailed and superbly engraved map in fine original hand colouring. Cary’s Improved Map of England and Wales comprises 65 sheets and covers an area of approximately 236 sq. feet when laid out. N.B. A complete set, dissected and boxed, of all 65 maps, title page, index, etc. is being sourced and should be available shortly.
A Map of Lincolnshire
by Emmanuel Bowen. published in Britannia Depicta 1720-1764. 7 1/4″ x 4 5/8″ ( to include additional decorative title ‘The Road from Nottingham to Grimsby’). verso is the road from Brecknock (Brecon) to Llanbedor ( Lampeter). Later hand colouring.
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Britannia Depicta was one of a number of reduced versions of Ogilbys monumental survey of the roads of England and Wales, first published in 1675, issued in the early eighteeth century. It was the only one however, to include county maps as well as road maps and proved extremely popular.
A Map of Ninety Miles by Seventy Five in which Chesterfield is the Centre
by John Tuke Land Surveyor. published by W.Darton and J.Harvey Gracechurch Street London Septr. 10th 1798. c. 24″ x 30″. Original wash colouring.
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At some point in the past the map has been carefully laid on card ; there is some light marginal discolouration in places and some tears to the edges.
Eboracum, Lincolnia, Derbia, Staffordia……
Anon. from Atlas Minor Geradi Mercatoris published by Jan Jansson 1628-1651. later hand colouring. 5 3/4″ x 8″.
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Engraved by Abraham Goos or Pieter van den Keere based on Hondius’s map from the Atlas Minor first issued 1607.
Lincoln
Aristide Michel Perrot. published Paris 1824 in ” L’Angleterre ou Description Historique et Topographique du Royaume-Uni de la Grande Bretagne” by George-Bernhard Depping. Copper engraving with original outline hand colouring.
Lincolnshire
Engraved by J.Roper from a drawing by G.Cole. published by Vernor , Hood & Sharpe 1807. original hand colouring. 9 1/8″ x 6 7/8″.
Lincolnshire
Engraved and published by G & J. Cary from Cary’s Traveller’s Companion 1822-28. 5 7/8″ x 3 3/4″. original hand colouring.
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A finely engraved and detailed map, first published in 1790, showing, for the benefit of the emerging travelling classes, mileages between towns and villages within the county and their distances from London, classes of road and their destinations beyond the county.
Lincolnshire
by Benjamin Pitts Capper. engraved by H.Cooper. published in A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom. printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown Paternoster Row London 1813. 7 ” x 4 “. contemporary wash hand colouring.
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A clearly engraved, attractively coloured map showing ‘every Parish and Place containing upwards of 40 Houses’, numbers of inhabitants, houses and acreages. Although this map is from the 1813 edition it retains the the imprint of R.Philips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars and the original date of publication of 1808; it is, however, a most unusual example in that, contrary to most sources, the engraver’s name has been removed.
Lincolnshire.
Drawn & Engraved by J.Archer Pentonville London. pub. Dugdale’s England and Wales Delineated. c.1850. 9″ x 7″. Steel engraving with attractive, contemporary, full wash hand colouring. A very nice example.
