RICHARD NICHOLSON of CHESTER
A World of Antique Maps and Prints
Established in 1961
ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS AND ATLASES FOR SALE
Other than maps and prints there are times
when I am able to offer some antiquarian atlases and books
Atlases
Travel and Topography
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Cover of The Canary Islands
28504 The Canary Islands, Ella and Florence du Cane, 1911. Price: 25.00
THE CANARY ISLANDS Painted by Ella du Cane Described by Florence du Cane. Published by A. & C. Black 1911. First edition. 8vo. 172 pp. Folding map and 19 of 20 colour plates. Plate 4 The Peak, from Villa Oratava missing. Cream boards with gilt lettering lightly soiled. No jacket.
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List of plates
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Plate 8 Puerto Orotava
91069 VIEWS IN NORTH WALES. Price: 80.00
VIEWS IN NORTH WALES. Published by T. Catherall Chester & Bangor. An interesting illustrated antiquarian book. Oblong 8vo. Blue gilt titled cloth. Pictorial titlepage and 29 steel engraved vignette views each guarded. Each plate has the title and publishers details beneath. Includes Caernarvon, Conway, Llandudno and Rhyl. Not dated, circa 1845.
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Decorative binding
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North Wales Frontispiece
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Conway Castle
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Llandudvo
23822 Harewood’s Illustrations of Derbyshire, c.1850. Price: 98.00
A bound collection of 30 steel engraved views of Derbyshire. Some plates dated. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt cartouche displaying the title. Oblong 8vo, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches. The plates are lightly toned but are in good condition. The subjects include
- Buxton
- Bakewell (2)
- Haddon Hall
- Chatsworth
- Matlock
- Dove Dale
- Ilam Hall
- Peveril Castle
- Hardwick Hall
- Bolsover Castle
- Alton Towers
- Ilam Church
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Harwoods Illustrations of Derbyshire
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Alton Towers Staffordshire
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Matlock, Derbyshire
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Chatsworth
91083 GREECE, PICTORIAL, DESCRIPTIVE & HISTORICAL BY CHRISTOPHER WADSWORTH, D.D. Price: 160.00
First edition, 1839. 8vo. 2 maps and 24 steel engraved plates. Large number of woodcut illustrations in text. Half green morocco and marbled boards. Slight scuffing to binding but generally a nice copy.
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Greece by Christopher Wadsworth
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Greece
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Temple of Theseus at Athens
26527 English Landscape, Birket Foster, 1863. Price: 55.00
BIRKET FOSTER’S PICTURES OF ENGLISH LANDSCAPE (Engraved by the brothers Dalziel). With pictures in words by Tom Taylor. Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1863. Large 8vo. Half red calf and morocco boards, worn. All edges gilt. 30 full-page woodcut plates with accompanying text. Thick paper. Scattered foxing throughout. Titles include
- Donkeys on the Heath
- The Gleaners at the Stile
- Building the Hay-Rick
- The Smithy
- The Ferry-Boat
- The Cottage on the Beach
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English Landscape Birket Foster
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Meeting
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The old farm
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Watering the horses
Sporting
91077 FORE'S SPORTING NOTES & SKETCHES. Price: 25.00
A Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of British, Indian, Colonial and Foreign Sport. Volume XXII, 1905. 4to. Original decorative red cloth. 32 plates of Fox hunting and other sports. 304 pp. Good condition.
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Horse racing
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Coach and horses
26507 Three Hunting Songs, R. E. E. Warburton [Egerton-Rowland], 1855. Price: 55.00
THREE HUNTINGS SONGS BY REE WARBURTON ESQ. With Illustrations by H. K. Browne. [Hablot Knight] Published by Chapman and Hall, 183 Piccadilly and Pritchard, Roberts & Co. Chester. 1855. 16 printed pages, title page and three full page engravings to illustrate the songs
- We are all of us tailors in turn
- A word ere we start
- Hard-Riding Dick
All pages and prints are loose within the original green cloth titled covered boards (some staining). Label of the bookbinder J. Rowbotham, Oxford Street. Some light foxings to the three prints. Oblong 8vo
Rowland Eyles Egerton Warburton 91804-1891) was a poet, born in Moston near Chester. In 1831 he married Mary, the eldest daughter of Sir Richard Brooke, bart., of Norton Priory, Cheshire.
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Three Hunting Songs by R. E. E. Warburton
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Fox Hunting
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Taking the water jump
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RICHARD NICHOLSON of CHESTER
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I have been buying and selling antique maps since the early 1960's during which time I opened a gallery in Watergate Street, Chester which was there 30 years, closing in 1998. I am now able to offer through my websites a personal service to map and print collectors.
