Antique Maps of Nottinghamshire
Richard Nicholson of Chester
All the Maps on this page are guaranteed to be genuine early specimens
pubished in or around the year stated
A World of Antique Maps and Prints
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Late 19th Century
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Nottinghamshire, Francis Sydney Weller, c.1898
27324 Nottinghamshire, Francis Sydney Weller, c.1898. Price: 8.50
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
A colour print lithograph county map. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Good condition.
From: The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England Wales
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18th Century Road Map
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Grantham to Doncaster, Carington Bowles, 1785
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Road Map Grantham to Doncaster, Carington Bowles, 1785
28162 Grantham to Doncaster, Carington Bowles, 1785. Price: 20.00
Plate 7 / 8 / 9 / 10
An engraved double sided strip road map. On one side is the road from Grantham to Tuxford passing through Newark. The road then continued on the reverse side to Retford, Bawtry, Doncaster and continues northwards to East Hardwick. 3 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. Hand coloured. Good condition.
From: Paterson’s British Itinerary
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Victorian and Decorative
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Nottinghamshire, Thomas Moule, c.1850
29692 Nottinghamshire, Thomas Moule, c.1850. Price: 30.00
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
A most decorative Victorian map of the county with an elaborate border of acanthus leaves, flowers, female figure with dog, mermaid, six coats of arms and inset views of Worksop Manor, Nottingham Castle and Newstead Abbey. 7 1/8 x 9 inches, 185 x 245 mm. Uncoloured. Top right and bottom left hand corners of blank margins missing. Some nicks in the top margin. But with a mount dropped round the map it would look good.
From: Barclay's Dictionary
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19th Century
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Nottinghamshire, G. Cole and J. Roper, c.1845
29774 Nottinghamshire, G. Cole and J. Roper, c.1845. Price: 18.00
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
A detailed map of the county engraved by J. Roper from a drawing by G. Cole. This is a later edition which does not show these names. Explanation and list of hundreds. Compass rose. 6 3/4 x 9 inches, 170 x 230 mm. Uncoloured. Good condition. Imprint beneath the map Drawn & Engraved for Dugdales England and Wales.
From: Dugdale's England & Wales
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England's Most Famous Mapmaker
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Nottinghamshire, John Speed 1646
29862 Nottinghamshire, John Speed 1646. Price: 550.00
THE COUNTIE OF NOTTINGHAM DESCRIBED THE SHIRE TOWNES SITUATION AND THE EARLS THERE OF OBSERVED
A fine decorative map of the county embellished with a town plan of Nottingham set within an ornate cartouche. Decorative title cartouche. Panel of six coats of arms. Compass rose and scale with a pair of dividers. English text on verso with a list of towns and villages. 20 x 15 inches. Uncoloured. Some light water staining in the two bottom corners otherwise this is a nice specimen of the map. The map has just been taken from the atlas and is therefore in nice crisp unhandled condition.
From: The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine
19th Century - Original Hand Colouring
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Nottinghamshire, John and Charles Walker, 1851
30235 Nottinghamshire, John and Charles Walker, 1851. Price: 38.00
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
A good detailed engraved map of the county including the railways. Title panel with the names of J. & C. Walker beneath. Scale and explanation. List of hundreds. Original outline and wash hand colouring. Imprint of Longman, Rees, Orme, Browne & Co. Paternoster Row beneath. 12 1/2 x 15 1/4 inches. Good condition. This map has been taken from the atlas and not been offered before as a single map.
From: The British Atlas
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Early 19th Century - Original Hand Colouring
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Nottinghamshire, George Cole and John Roper, 1810
30527 Nottinghamshire, George Cole and John Roper, 1810. Price: 37.00
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
A good detailed engraved map of the county divided into hundreds. Bears the publishers imprint dated of 1808. Explanation. 7 x 9 1/4 inches. Original wash and outline hand colouring. Good condition. Straight from the atlas and not sold as a single map before. With original page of descriptive text.
From: The British Atlas
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Late 19th Century
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Map of Nottinghamshire by George Washington Bacon c.1905
30661 Nottinghamshire, George Washington Bacon, c.1905. Price: 19.00
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE REDUCED FROM THE LATEST ORDNANCE SURVEY. DIVIDED INTO 5 MILE SQUARES
A good detailed late Edwardian colour printed map of county. Shows the railways. 18 x 12 1/4 inches. Good condition.
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18th Century - Good Provenance
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Nottinghamshire, John Cary 1793
30878 Nottinghamshire, John Cary 1793. Price: 46.00
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
A detailed and well engraved map of the county. Title panel and compass rose combined. Imprint of John Cary beneath dated 1793. 8 1/4 x 101/4 inches. Original outline hand colouring. The town of Worksop underlined in red. With original page of descriptive text. Good condition.
From: Cary's New and Correct English Atlas
Provenance: John Hobson Matthews
The places underlined in red ink are those in which a Catholic mission has been established between the era of the Reformation and the year 1840
John Hobson Matthews (1858 - 1914) Born in Croydon in 1858. Educated at schools at Blackheath and Cambridge. Worked for a shipping firm in Malta. A good linguist he was a Roman Catholic historian, archivist and solicitor. You will find more details about him here in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography.
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18th Century - Original Hand Colouring
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Nottinghamshire, John Cary 1793
30999 Nottinghamshire, John Cary 1793. Price: 42.00
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
A detailed and well engraved map of the county. Title panel and compass rose combined. Imprint of John Cary beneath dated 1793. 8 1/4 x 101/4 inches. Centre fold. Old manuscript numbering in blank margin 120 and 121. Original outline hand colouring. Good condition.
From: Cary’s New and Correct English Atlas
Subcribers to the First Edition
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New and Correct English Atlas Subscribers
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New and Correct English Atlas Subscribers
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New and Correct English Atlas Subscribers
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New and Correct English Atlas Subscribers
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New and Correct English Atlas Subscribers
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New and Correct English Atlas Subscribers
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19th Century - Fox Hunting
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Nottinghamshire - Fox Hunting, John and Charles Walker, 1851
31056 Nottinghamshire - Fox Hunting, John and Charles Walker, 1851. Price: 47.00
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
A good detailed lithograph map of the county from Hobson's Fox Hunting Atlas showing the places of the Meeting of the Hounds. 12 1/2 x 15 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 Mr. Lumley, Bufford and parts of the Burton, Belvoir and Quorn Hunts
Provenance: George Hayhurst - Royal Fusiliers and Henry H. France
TITLE PAGE 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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19th Century - Railways
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Nottinghamshire, Joshua Archer, c.1840
31212 Nottinghamshire, Joshua Archer, c.1840. Price: 18.00
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
A detailed engraved map of the county divided into hundreds and showing the railways. 7 1/8 x 9 1/8 inches. Uncoloured. Very lightly toned. Good condition.
From: Dugdales England and Wales Delineated
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Late 19th Century
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Nottinghamshire, George Washington Bacon, c.1905
31258 Nottinghamshire, George Washington Bacon, c.1905. Price: 19.00
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE REDUCED FROM THE LATEST ORDNANCE SURVEY. DIVIDED INTO 5 MILE SQUARES
A good detailed late Edwardian colour printed map of county. Shows the railways. 18 x 12 1/4 inches. Few small nicks on edge of blank margins otherwise good condition.
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18th Century - First Edition
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Nottinghamshire John Cary 1787
31297 Nottinghamshire, John Cary 1787. Price: 50.00
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
The FIRST EDITION of this detailed and well engraved map of the county. Title panel and compass rose combined. Imprint of John Cary beneath dated 1787. 8 1/4 x 101/4 inches. Original outline hand colouring. Good condition. With this map is the original page of descriptive text.
From: Cary’s New and Correct English Atlas
Subcribers to the First Edition
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New and Correct English Atlas Subscribers
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New and Correct English Atlas Subscribers
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New and Correct English Atlas Subscribers
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New and Correct English Atlas Subscribers
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New and Correct English Atlas Subscribers
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New and Correct English Atlas Subscribers
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For the Collector
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Nottinghamshire Carington Bowles, 1785
31440 Nottinghamshire, Carington Bowles, 1785. Price: 95.00
BOWLES’S NEW MEDIUM MAP OF NOTTINGHAM SHIRE DIVIDED INTO ITS WAPONTAKES..
A good detailed late 18th century map of the county. The title appears within a circular panel bearing the imprint of Carington Bowles No. 69 in St. Paul’s Church Yard. Beneath the map is a further imprint Published as the Act directs, 3 Jan. 1785. Around the map are interesting engraved notes pertaining to the county. 8 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches. Explanation and scale. Original outline hand colouring. Superb clean condition having been taken straight from the atlas and not sold previously as a single map.
From: Bowles’s New Medium English Atlas. The maps in this atlas are based on the maps by Emanuel and Thomas Bowen in their Atlas Anglicanus. The title cartouche has been changed as well as the addition of the distance in miles from London shown by some town names
Provenance: This map comes from an atlas which was once in the library of the renowned carto-bibliographer Sir Herbert George Fordham (1854 - 1929). He was the first to attempt the systematic cataloguing of the maps of an English county. Born on 9th May 1854 at Odsey, a manor on the borders of Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire sold to the Fordham family in 1793 by the 5th Duke of Devonshire. The flyleaf of the atlas was signed H.George Fordham, Odsey, 1925. Further reading: Map Collectors' Circle No. 51: Sir H.George Fordham Carto-bibliographer by J. M. Henshall.
The atlas was later in the library of Professor Eva Germaine Remington Taylor (1879 - 1966) Distinguished geographer. Presented after her death to Birbeck College, University of London. Sold by their order at Sotheby's, London and purchased by Richard Nicholson
PROVENANCE
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Titlepage
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Signature
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Sir H. George Fordham
This map comes from an atlas which was once in the library of the renowned carto-bibliographer Sir Herbert George Fordham (1854 - 1929). He was the first to attempt the systematic cataloguing of the maps of an English county. Born on 9th May 1854 at Odsey, a manor on the borders of Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire sold to the Fordham family in 1793 by the 5th Duke of Devonshire. The flyleaf of the atlas was signed H.George Fordham, Odsey, 1925. Further reading: Map Collectors' Circle No. 51: Sir H.George Fordham Carto-bibliographer by J. M. Henshall.
The atlas was later in the library of Professor Eva Germaine Remington Taylor (1879 - 1966) Distinguished geographer. Presented after her death to Birbeck College, University of London. Sold by their order at Sotheby's, London and purchased by Richard Nicholson
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Early 19th Century - Original Hand Colouring
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Nottingahamshire, John Cary, 1802
31715 Nottinghamshire, John Cary, 1802. Price: 48.00
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
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. 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches. Original outline hand colouring. Good condition. I have dated this map 1802 because the paper is watermarked 1802. The title page of the atlas is dated 1793.
From: Cary's New and Correct English Atlas
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18th Century - County and Road Map
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Nottingahamshire, John Owen and Emanuel Bowen
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Nottingahamshire, John Owen and Emanuel Bowen
32372 Nottinghamshire, John Owen and Emanuel Bowen, 1753. Price: 35.00
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
An engraved county map with title panel, description and list of wapontakes. The map is surmounted by a baroque cartouche titled The Road from London to Barwick. Road on verso from London to beyond Ware in Hertfordshire embellished with engraved notes and coat of arms. 4 x 7 inches. Good condition.
From: Britannia Depicta
PROVENANCE
At some time part of the Townsend Family library
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Late 18th Century - Early Hand Colouring
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Map of Nottinghamshire, John Cary, 1792
32554 Nottinghamshire, John Cary, 1792. Price: 18.00
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE A small engraved map of the county. Tile panel surmounted by half compass rose. Panel at bottom with list of distances from London. Publisher’s imprint beneath dated 1792. 3 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches. Thin paper. Original outline hand colouring. Good condition.
From: Cary’s Traveller’s Companion
Title page dated 1791, maps dated 1792. The atlas was formerly in the Mumbee family library - title page stamped V. Munbee
Provenance
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Cary Titlepage and Munbee Bookplate
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Early 17th Century
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Nottinghamshire by Pieter van den Keere, c.1627
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Pieter van den Keere Atlas Titlepage, c.1627
32646 Nottinghamshire, Pieter van den Keere, c.1627. Price: 68.00
NOTTINGHA SHIRE A early engraved miniature map of Nottinghamshire. Embellished with title and scale cartouches. Numbered 32. 4 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches. A clean undamaged uncoloured specimen. On verso is the start of a description of Lincolnshire in English. With this map is the following original double sided page of text that concludes the description of the county. Straight from the atlas and not previously sold as a single map. The title page of the atlas is dated 1627
From: England Wales Scotland and Ireland Described
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17th Century Text
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Nottingahmshire text by William Camden 1637
32821 Nottinghamshire, William Camden, 1637. Price: 9.00
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Pages 547 - 551 inclusive describing Nottinghamshire in English. About 13 x 8 inches. Good condition.
From: Camden’s Britannia
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19th Century - Original Hand Colouring
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Map of Nottinghamshire, James Pigot c.1830
32849 Nottinghamshire, James Pigot, c.1830. Price: 54.00
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
An engraved map of the county with title, scale, explanation and list of hundreds. Embellished with an uncoloured view of St. Mary’s Church, Nottingham. Imprint of the publishers Pigot & Co. 24 Basing Lane & 18 Fountains St. Manchester beneath. 8 3/4 x 14 inches. Original outline hand colouring. A few very small foxing spots in the blank margins. Some browning on verso from hand colouring. Otherwise good condition.
From: British Atlas
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19th Century - Early Hand Colouring
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Map of Nottinghamshire, Samuel Lewis 1848
32938 Nottinghamshire, Samuel Lewis, 1848. Price: 21.00
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
A county map drawn by R. Creighton and engraved by J. & C. Walker. Reference to the Unions. Scale and compass rose. 6 3/4 x 9 inches. Original outline hand colouring. 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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19th Century
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Map of Nottinghamshire by Thomas Letts
32981 Nottinghamshire, Thomas Letts, 1884. Price: 24.00
NOTTINGHAM
A detailed chromolithograph map of the county. Explanation plus statistics concerning Population, Area, Inhabited Houses, Poor Rate and Paupers. 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. Original centre fold. Imprint of Letts & Son beneath. Fine clean condition. Straight from the atlas so never previously been sold as a single map.
From: Lett’s Popular County Atlas
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18th Century
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Map of Nottinghamshire by Thomas Letts
33059 Nottinghamshire, E. Sudlow/John Harrison, 1815. Price: 9.00
A New Accurate Map of Nottinghamshire: Engraved from an actual Survey with other Improvements by E. Sudlow No 191 Strand
A clearly engraved map of the county with title panel. Uncoloured. Original centre fold. 14 x 17 inches. Uncoloured. Bottom of the printed margin trimmed. Small single tear in blank margin. Some creasing.
From: The English Counties by John Harrison published by John Harrison, 115 Newgate Street
Special Price owing to condition
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19th Century - Railways
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Nottinghamshire, Joshua Archer, c.1840
33139 Nottinghamshire, Joshua Archer, c.1840. Price: 18.00
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
A detailed engraved map of the county divided into hundreds and showing the railways. 7 1/8 x 9 1/8 inches. Uncoloured. Original centre fold. Very slight creasing in the top right hand margin corner otherwise good condition.
From: Dugdales England and Wales Delineated
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RICHARD NICHOLSON
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