France from Bryars and Bryars

Paris, Chez [Pierre] Jean, 1827. Copper engraving, 58.5 x 83 cm, original hand colour delineating the 12 original arrondissements, street index in the borders, a couple of ink spots but generally clean, folding into contemporary publisher’s paper boards with printed paper label, somewhat rubbed and worn. Hérisson died in 1816, but in this form this plan of Paris appears… Read more about this item

Paris, Imprimé: par Sé, 1817. Circular folding map of the environs of Paris, 79 x 79 cm, engraved by Barrière (Pére) after Bariolle, black and white, dissected into 24 sheets and laid on linen, folding into original green paper-covered slipcase, some wear to case. OCLC: 459459650 Map

London, , [1841]. Lithograph, 84 x 64 cm, original hand colour heightening troop dispositions, roads etc, slight spotting, one or two short, closed tears, blank verso. Lithographed by Day & Haghe, our map was published by Wyld in ‘Maps & plans showing the principal movements, battles and sieges in which the British Army was engaged during the war from… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, 1632. Copper engraving, 18.5 x 25 cm, engraved by Pieter van den Keere, modern hand colour, light stain in upper margin, Latin text on verso. The historic Île-de-France region, north of Paris (the modern province has Paris at its centre). The 'Atlas Minor', was a pocket atlas derived from Mercator's cartography, published from 1607 onward by Jodocus… Read more about this item

Paris, c. 1770. Copper engraving, 50 x 63 cm, original hand colour in outline, a couple of horizonatl creases in right hand part of the map, blank verso. A later state of Robert de Vaugondy’s road map of Italy, showing the Venetian Republic, Papal States, Kingdom of Naples etc. The original date (1753) and privilege have been burnished from… Read more about this item

Rouen, E. Renault, c. 1900. Souvenir handkerchief printed on fine linen, 67.5 x 73 cm, engraved by A. Buquet, printed in black and red, some spotting, blank verso; a military service number has been embroidered in red on the verso. It is in the same format as the series of thirteen 'mouchoirs militaire d'instructions' patented by the commandant of the… Read more about this item

Paris, Charles Franç: ois Delamarche, 1773. Copper engraving, 51 x 69.5 cm, engraved by J. Arrivet, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. Coloured by departments, with a table listing different forms of political and ecclesiastical organisational structures from antiquity to the present, and with an inset of Corsica bottom right. This is one of the scarcer maps produced… Read more about this item

Paris, , c. 1950. Pictorial wine map, 68 x 84.5 cm, printed in colours, blank verso. Government and national wine trade bodies sponsored Louis Larmat’s regional wine atlases in the 1940s and continued to promote French wines through cartography in the 1950s. The Comité National de Propagande en Faveur du Vin sponsored a delightful series of 11 pictorial maps… Read more about this item

Paris, Jean Lattré: ,, 1785. Folding map, 68 x 102.5 cm, original hand colour in outline, dissected into 28 panels and laid on linen, folding into vellum slipcase, lacking its base. Decorative cartouche to the lower right, with festoons of flowers and fruits and surrounded by an anchor, barrels and a basket of dead waterfowl, with a ship… Read more about this item

Augsburg, Tobias Conrad Lotter, c. 1760. Copper engraving, 49.5 x 57.5 cm, original hand colour, slight marginal staining to margins, cancelled Soviet library stamp on verso, otherwise blank. Roman Gaul, with Lotter’s imprint. In 1756 Lotter succeeded his father-in-law, Georg Matthaus Seutter; he inherited half the firm’s printing plates in 1758, whereupon he established an independent publishing house.… Read more about this item

Paris, 1866. Steel engraving, engraved area 29 x 43 cm, original hand-colour, elaborate border showing regional costume, produce and local historical figures - dominated here by Napoleon; trivial marginal spotting, blank verso. From an edition of Levasseur’s ‘Atlas National Illustré’. Map

Paris, 1676. Magnificent copper-engraved battle plan, in two sheets which can be joined (each comprising two sheets which have already been joined), platemarks 58 x 89 and 60 x 88.5 cm, black and white as issued, blank verso. The upper sheet is engraved by N. Cochin (two brothers, Nicolas and Noel, engraved pieces for this work) and the lower… Read more about this item

Antwerp: Patria N.V.; the Hague, 1939-40. Map of the Franco-German frontier, sheet size 73 x 55 cm, printed in colours, illustrated with photographs showing the formidable obstacles faced by either side, Dutch text, blank verso. Published during the Phoney War, when Belgium and the Netherlands had both proclaimed their neutrality and most observers anticipated a drawn out conflict on… Read more about this item

Paris, 1813. Large engraved map of Europe and the First French Empire in 6 sheets, each approx 66.5 x 94 cm (199.5 x 188 cm in total) each dissected into 21 panels and laid on linen, black and white, engraved by E. Collin; each sheet carries pasted labels of Charles Picquet, Paris, with a miniature index map, coloured to… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, c. 1700. Copper engraving, 38 x 51 cms, original hand-colour, blank verso. Part of the Pays Boulonnais in northern France. Petrus Schenk and Gerard Valk often worked in partnership, towards the end of the Dutch Golden Age, when the United Provinces still led Europe in the field map-making. Together they purchased the copper printing plates of the famous… Read more about this item

Antwerp: Plantin-Moretus , 1624. Copper engraving, 39.5 x 49.5 cms, modern hand colour, Latin text on verso. Van den Broecke stresses the sigificance of this map of Gaul: “in contrast to plate Ort 194 [Gallia vetus, based on Caesar’s commentaries], this map is based on ancient geographical rather than on ancient military sources, and is much more detailed. It… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, 1630. Copper engraving, 13.5 x 19 cm, modern hand-colour, Dutch text on verso. The Paris region north of the Seine, from the Atlas Minor. The orighfinal plates were engraved by Jodocus Hondius, but after these were sold to the London trade in the 1620s Janssonius commissioned new ones from Pieter van den Keere and Abraham Goos. Koeman attributes… Read more about this item

London, 1799. Copper engraving, approx 38 x 42 cms, original hand colour, slight offsetting, blank verso; engraved by Samuel John Neele for the atlas volume to ‘Cruttwell’s Gazeteer’, published by G. and J.J. Robinson. Map

Paris, 1667. Copper engraving, 10.5 x 12.6 cms, original hand-colour, lightly browned, blank verso; leaf from the same work, with the arms of Ponthieu, pasted to the right hand edge. Map

London: Charles Knight, c. 1840. Steel engraving, 33 x 40 cms, engraved by B.R. Davies after W.B. Clarke, original hand colour, blank verso. Map