Antique Maps of Worcestershire

A MAP OF WORCESTERSHIRE

A small engraved map of the county with scale and compass pointer. Beneath the map is a description and list of towns with their market and fair days. 5.25 x 5.25 inches, 133 x 131 mm. Original outline hand colouring. Good condition.

From: The Small English Atlas

WORCESTERSHIRE

A small engraved county map. Decorative title cartouche. 5 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches. Hand coloured. Good condition.

From: Camden’s Britannia Abridged

WORCESTERSHIRE

A simple map of the county showing the Polling Places. About 11 x 11 1/2 inches. Early outline hand colouring. Good clean condition.

From: Plans of the Cities and Boroughs of England and Wales

A MAP OF WORCESTERSHIRE

An engraved county map with description, surmounted by a decorative cartouche titled The Road from Bristol to Worcester. Strip road map on verso from Bristol towards Gloucester embellished with coat of arms and notes. 4 1/2 x 7 1/4inches. Uncoloured. Small nick out of the top left hand corner of the blank margin, otherwise good condition.

From: Britannia Depicta

DUDLEY. FROM THE ORDNANACE SURVEY

A lithograph map of Dudley and environs on a scale of 2 inches to the mile. Compass pointer and explanation. About 10 x 11 inches. Original outline hand colouring. Good condition.

From: Plans of the Cities and Boroughs of England and Wales

WORCESTERSHIRE

A detailed engraved county map embellished with a vignette view of the river and Worcester Cathedral. 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. Hand coloured. Good clean condition.

From: The Parliamentary Gazetteer

WORCESTERSHIRE

A detailed engraved county map embellished with a vignette view of the river and Worcester Cathedral. 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. Uncoloured. Very lightly toned.

From: The Parliamentary Gazetteer

WORCESTERSHIRE

A detailed engraved map with explanation and list of divisions. 9 x 7 inches. Uncoloured. Good condition.

From: Dugdale’s England and Wales Delineated

WORCESTERSHIRE

A good detailed engraved map of the county divided into hundreds. Bears the publishers imprint dated of 1807. Explanation. 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 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

A MAP OF WORCESTERSHIRE

An engraved county map with description, surmounted by a decorative cartouche titled The Road from Bristol to Worcester. Strip road map on verso from Bristol towards Gloucester embellished with coat of arms and notes. 4 1/2 x 7 1/4inches. Uncoloured. Bottom blank margin narrows down to the bottom right hand corner otherwise good condition.

From Britannia Depicta

WORCESTERSHIRE

A well engraved detailed map of the county. Imprint of John Cary and dated 1793. 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches, 210 x 260 mm. Original outline hand colouring. Some of the town names are underlined in red. Good condition. With original page of descriptive text.

From: Cary's New and Correct English Atlas

Provenance: John Hobson Matthews

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.

LANGLEY’S NEW MAP OF WORCESTERSHIRE

An engraved map of the county. In the bottom right hand corner is a vignette view of Worcester Bridge and Cathedral. The title appears above the map. Beneath the map is the publishers imprint Printed and Published by Langley & Belch, No. 173 High Street, Borough, London, April 1st, 1817. 10 x 6 3/4 inches. Manuscript number 39 in the top right hand corner. Original outline and wash hand colouring. A little light toning and some speckled foxing in the blank margins. No tears or repairs.

From: Langley’s New County Atlas of England and Wales

WORCESTERSHIRE

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 Albrighton, Ludlow, Worcestershire, Ledbuty, Mr.Giles and Earl Fitzharding Hunts

Provenance: George Hayhurst - Royal Fusiliers and Henry H. France

WORCESTERSHIRE

An uncommon lithograph miniature map of the county surrounded by a wide border of vignette views of local scenes including Malvern, Worcester Cathedral, Battle of Evesham and Carpets. The maps first appeared in Miller’s New Miniature Atlas published in 1810. The decorative views were added and the maps republished by Darton & Clark in “Reuben Ramble’s Travels Through the Counties of England” in 1844. 5 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches. This is the size of overall area and not the contained map. Original hand colouring. With this map is the original double sided page of text describing the county.

WORCESTERSHIRE

A county map drawn by R. Creighton and engraved by T. Starling. Reference to the Unions. Scale and compass rose. 6 3/4 x 8 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

WORCESTERSHIRE

The first edition of this well engraved detailed map of the county with title panel and compass rose combined. Scale. Imprint of John Cary dated 1787. With original page of descriptive text. 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches. Original outline hand colouring. Good condition.

From: Cary's New and Correct English Atlas

WORCESTERSHIR

A early engraved miniature map of the Worcestershire. Embellished with title cartouche and scale panel. Numbered 25. 4 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches. A clean undamaged uncoloured specimen. Good blank margins. On verso is the last part of the description of Herefordshire in English. With this map is the original whole of the description of Worcestershire on two double sided pages. 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

DUDEY - KIDDERMINSTER - EVESHAM - BEWDLEY

An interesting sheet showing four engraved plans and surrounding area of four Worcestercester towns. Original pink and green outline colouring which is explained in the key below as the boundarys of the Old Borough and New Borough. Scale. Patterned border. 7 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches. Good condition.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis

WORCESTERSHIRE

An good engraved map of the county with title, scale, explanation and list of hundreds. Embellished with an uncoloured view of Worcester Cathedral. Imprint of the publishers Pigot & Co. 24 Basing Lane & 18 Fountains St. Manchester beneath. 8 3/4 x 14 inches. Original outline hand colouring. On stout paper. Some light soiling on verso but otherwise good undamaged condition.

From: British Atlas

WORCESTERSHIRE

A county map drawn by R. Creighton and engraved by T. Starling. Reference to the Unions. Scale and compass rose. 6 3/4 x 8 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

WARWICKSHIRE

An untitled map of the county. 6 x 8 inches, Uncoloured. No left hand blank margin.

WORCESTERSHIRE

An untitled map of the county. 5 X 5 1/2 inches. Uncoloured. Small right hand blank margin. Some light dust soiling in the blank margins.

These two maps come from Kitchin’s Pocket Atlas of the Counties of South Britain or England and Wales published by J. Capper. The maps were engraved by Thomas Kitchin. Rare.

I think this may be the first time I have been able to offer these two county map on one sheet as they are so often split up into two maps.

This map was sold by me in my Chester shop in 1986 and now on offer again. I have marked it as a collector’s map as it rarely comes into stock. I see that I have not had another specimen of this map since I sold this specimen 31 years ago. At the time it had come from a complete copy of Kitchin’s Pocket Atlas that I was splitting

A MAP OF WORCESTERSHIRE FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES

A good detailed map of the county with publisher’s imprint dated 1805. 16 x 19 1/2 inches. Originally bound on edge so there is no centre fold but there is a light fold crease up the centre of the map. Later outline hand colouring to the map. Light vertical crease on the left hand side of the map otherwise good clean condition with wide blank margins.

From: New British Atlas published by John Stockdale, Piccadilly.

WORCESTERSHIRE

A decorative Victorian county map embellished with three views showing Great Malvern, Worcester and Croom Court. Gothic architecture and floral border and four coats of arms. 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches. Hand coloured. Very light crease across the top right hand corner passing through the top of the spire and swirl. Small repair to the top of the bottom right hand blank margin corner. Otherwise good condition. Hand coloured.

From: Barclay’s Dictionary