RICHARD NICHOLSON of CHESTER
A WORLD of ANTIQUE MAPS and PRINTS
ESTABLISHED in 1961
All the Maps on this page are guaranteed to be genuine early specimens
pubished in or around the year stated
Antique Maps of Suffolk
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19th Century - Road Map
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Road map Newmarket to Wells and Chelmsford to Norwich, Charles Smith
02662 Road Map. Newmarket / Wells / Chelmsford / Norwich, Charles Smith, 1826. Price: 27.00
ROAD MAP, PLATE 118/119/120. A strip road map starting near Newmarket and continuing to Swaffham and Rainham and onto Fakenham and Wells. The second part starts at Chelmsford in Essex and then to Braintee, Long Melford, Bury St. Edmunds, Scole Inn and Norwich. 3 3/4 x 6 inches. Hand coloured. Plain on verso. In a 2 1/2 inch ivory tint sunk mount. Good clean condition.
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Fox Hunting
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Suffolk - Fox Hunting, John and Charles Walker, 1851
31062 Suffolk - Fox Hunting, John and Charles Walker, 1851. Price: 46.00
SUFFOLK. A good detailed lithograph map of the county from Hobson's Fox Hunting Atlas showing the places of the Meeting of the Hounds. 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Co. Paternoster Row, London. Original outline hand colouring. Fine condition. Straight from the atlas so has not been sold as a single map before.
Shows Suffolk, Essex and Suffolk and part of East Essex Hunts
Provenance: George Hayhurst - Royal Fusiliers and Henry H. France
TITLEPAGE AND LIST OF HUNTS
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Hobson Fox Hunting Atlas Titlepage
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Hobsons Fox Hunting Atlas List of Hunts
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Shows Market and Fair Days
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Suffolk, T.Badesladed and W. H.Toms 1742
31114 Suffolk, Thomas Badeslade and William Henry Toms, 1742. Price: 47.00
A MAP OF SUFFOLK N. EAST FROM LONDON. A delightful small engraved map of the county with scale and compass rose. To the left of the map is a panel providing information on Members of Parliament and listing the major towns with the Market and Fair Days. 5 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches. Uncoloured. Publisher’s imprint beneath dated 1742 with the names of Thomas Badeslade the surveyor and W. H. Toms the engraver. Nice good clean condition.
From: Chorographia Britanniae
Provenance: In 1925 the atlas was owned by A. P. Hamilton
Thomas Badeslade
Principally a surveyor and engineer working with his son Henry working on river improvements and fens reclamation
He started drawing maps of the Fens and waterways and was instrumental in a number of works in the first half of the 18th century. For county map collectors his one work was a series of very distinctive maps he drew for Chorographia Brittanniae engraved and published by W. H.Toms. First published in 1741 with a further edition in 1742 in which the maps show more place names. There were further edition up to 1749. The panel of information beside each map is particularly interesting listing towns in the county with their Market and Fair days.
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Chorographia Britanniae 1742
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Chorographia Britanniae 1742 Dedication
It is interesting to note that the atlas was intended for the use of his Majesty King George I for his intended tour through England and Wales. He died on June 11th, 1727. The dedication is to Frederick Prince of Wales, son of George II born February 1st, 1707 and who died on March 31st, 1751 at Kew.
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Late 19th Century
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Part of Suffolk and Essex. John Bartholomew, c.1898
31240 Part of Suffolk and Essex. John Bartholomew, c.1898. Price: 12.50
SECTION XIX. IPSWICH. A colour printed map showing parts of Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex. Scale of 4 miles to the inch. Shows the railways. 16 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. Centre fold as issued. Good clean condition.
From: The Royal Atlas
The Royal Atlas Titlepage
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19th Century - Early Hand Colouring
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Suffolk, Samuel Lewis 1845
31618 Suffolk, Samuel Lewis, 1845. Price: 26.00
SUFFOLK. A county map drawn by R. Creighton and engraved by J. & C. Walker. Reference to the Unions. Scale and compass rose. 12 x 9 inches. Original outline hand colouring. Light crease in the bottom right hand blank margin otherwise good clean condition. Straight from the atlas and not sold as a single map before now.
From: Lewis' Atlas to the Topographical Dictionaries of England and Wales
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Titlepage, Samuel Lewis 1845
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Early 19th Century with Original Hand Colouring
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Suffolk, John Cary, 1802
31720 Suffolk, John Cary, 1802. Price: 50.00
SUFFOLK A well engraved detailed map of the county with title panel and compass rose combined. Scale. Imprint of John Cary dated 1793. With original page of descriptive text. 10 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches. Original outline hand colouring. I have dated this map 1802 because the many of the other maps in the atlas were watermarked with the date of 1802. Good condition.
From: Cary's New and Correct English Atlas
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Victorian Decorative
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Suffolk, John Cary, 1802
32354 Suffolk, Thomas Moule, c.1850. Price: 27.00
SUFFOLK. A decorative Victorian map of the county including some railways. The map is set within a fine border incorporating architectural pillars and gothic arch. Embellished with views of Euston Hall and Heveningham Hall. Farm implements. Central title with coat of arms and five other coats of arms. 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. Uncoloured. Nice dark impression. Very light water stain in the top left hand corner. Small marginal tear repaired in bottom right hand corner otherwise good condition.
From: Barclay's Dictionary
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Early 18th Century
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Suffolk, John Seller, 1701
32358 Suffolk, John Seller, 1701. Price: 36.00
THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK. A small engraved map of the county embellished with a decorative title cartouche. Scale panel. 5 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches. Uncoloured. Original centre fold. Blank margin added to the left hand side of the map. Otherwise good clean condition.
From Camden's Britannia Abridg'd.
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19th Century - Early Hand Colouring
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Suffolk, JJoshua Archer c.1845
32359 Suffolk, Joshua Archer, c.1845. Price: 10.00
SUFFOLK. An engraved map of the county which includes the railways. Title, scale and list of hundreds. 9 1/4 x 7 inches. Original outline hand colouring. Original centre fold. Good condition.
From: Dugdales England and Wales Delineated
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Highly Recommended Reference Books
Excellent Book for the County Map Collector
If you can find a copy
When I started collecting and selling maps back in the 1960's there were very few reference books on antique maps. The first book I remember buying was Maps and Mapmakers by R. V. Tooley. Full of wonderful information but over the years there were periods when it was out of print. The Antique Collectors Club used to produce a large range of books on all kinds of antiques and in 1983 - BRITISH COUNTY MAPS by YASHA BERISINER was published. To the best of my knowledge there has not been another book like it published. A most useful and informative work and essential for the avid county map collector. I think there was just the one edition. If you can get hold of a copy at a reasonable price my advice would be - Buy it. There is a link below that will search Amazon for copies on sale.
A must read for the lover of Maps, Roads and History
I was 19 when I got hooked on antique maps. There are quite a few of the early cartographers who we know a bit about about and their life stories make interesting reading. There is one English mapmaker who stands out as someone rather special who appears to have had a most interesting life. He is JOHN OGILBY. Yes you know he was the first to map the roads of England and Wales and yes you might have read that he had an interest in dancing. If you want to know more about the man who created that 17th century map hanging on your wall then you must read this book published in 2016 - The Nine Lives of John Ogilby by Alan Ereira. In this book the author brings a fascinating hidden history to light, and reveals that Ogilby's celebrated Britannia is far more than a harmless road atlas: it is, rather, filled with secrets designed to serve Charles II's sinister purpose.
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The Nine Lives of John Ogilby by Alan Ereira
Excellent reference for other counties as well
First published in 1966 as one of the first such books to consider the maps of a specific county in terms of mapping history: this new 2nd edition retains the emphasis and principles of the first edition. The sections have been extended on contributing map makers from the end of the 16th Century to the mid 19th Century where decorative maps decline and are superseded by the cleaner lines of the Ordnance Survey.
The maps shown in this new edition come from a number of sources. They have been selected in order to give a story both over the span of these maps as they are drawn and also an analysis of how they reflect the history of cartography in the terms of the county of Cornwall.
The process of creating maps evolved at a stunning rate in the 280 years covered here and we have endeavoured to provide the reader with some analysis between maps as well as versions of the same map. Maps depict the lay of the land: there are instances where amendments to maps show changes in the physical geography on the ground thus fulfilling the role of the geographer and his map. This is the accurate depiction on paper of observed elements in the field. In addition to the maps of Cornwall are charts generated for navigation of the treacherous seas around the Isles of Scilly. These notorious shores have proven fatal and the need for accurate maps around the coast drove some of the earliest maps of the area.
Presented with many full colour illustrations and extensively expanded from the 1966 edition, this book will aid the budding collector, the confused auction-goer as well as console the exile and, we hope, will be of interest to anyone keen in the mapped history of Cornwall.
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I have been buying and selling antique maps since the early 1960's during which time I had a gallery in Watergate Street, Chester for 30 years. I am now able to offer through my websites a personal service to map and print collectors.