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93175John Sudbury & George Humble 1627. Nice later hand-colouring. An attractive and decorative map with inset views of the palaces of Richmond and Nonsuch both royal Tudor residences which were demolished by the end of the seventeenth century. Nonsuch was given by Charles II to Barbara Countess of Castlemaine who then tore it apart to pay gambling debts; Richmond was sold by Parliament after the execution of Charles I. In very good condition. Some slight on centre fold. Map a little darkened. Wooden fame has a few little nicks. Large double sided map engraved surface 20.5 x 15.5 inches. Gold tinted black hardwood Frame with glass front with a light maroon mount. Frame Size 24.5 x 22.5 inches. The maps by John Speed are "the best known and most popular of all English county maps" Tooley. John Sudbury & George Humble 1627 unknown
1632M11092London: Petrus Kaerius caelavit George Humble c.1632 . Very Good. Notes: A set of 5 miniature maps of Ireland and its counties.<br>Pieter van den Keere Latin: Petrus Kaerius 1571 – c. 1646 was a Flemish engraver publisher and globe maker who worked for the most part of his career in England and the Dutch Republic.<br><br>Miniature Speeds<br>A series of 44 plates for the British Isles from about 1599 took a long time to publish. They were based on Christopher Saxton Ortelius and Giovanni Battista Boazio respectively for England and Wales Scotland and Ireland. They appeared in 1617 in a Latin edition of the Britannia of William Camden by Willem Blaeu. Later these plates came to William Humble or George Humble according to Royal Geographical Society fellow Carl Moreland and David Bannister—map dealer—in "Antique Maps" who issued them with some modification and expansion in 1627 as a miniature version of the atlas of John Speed. Thereby van den Keere's works came by the name "Miniature Speeds".<br> Size : 85x123 mm 3.35x4.84 Inches Coloring: Original Hand Coloring Category: Maps Europe Ireland; Petrus Kaerius caelavit [George Humble] unknown
1616M8778London: John Sudbury & George Humble 1616. Good a few marginal tears restored margins reinforced with acid free tissue. . Notes: StolenBeautiful map of Cardigan Shyre in Wales drawn by John Speed and engraved by Jodocus Hondius showing its mountains major rivers forests and towns. Decorative inset shows plan of town of Cardigan. <br><br><br>John Speed 1552 –1629 was an English cartographer and historian. He is known as England's most famous Stuart period mapmaker. His maps of English counties are often found framed in homes throughout the United Kingdom.For a series of maps Speed partnered with Dutch engraver Jodocus Hondius. <br><br> Size : 383x510 mm 15.08x20.08 Inches Coloring: Original Hand Coloring Category: Maps Europe United Kingdom Wales; John Sudbury & George Humble unknown
1616M8779London: John Sudbury & George Humble 1616. Good a few marginal tears upper left corner replaced not affecting the image. Reinforced with acid free tissue paper on the back of the margins. . Notes: StolenBeautiful map of Cumberland northern England showing mountains rivers and major towns with an inset of Carlisle armorials and a vignette of a battle scene.<br><br>John Speed 1552 –1629 was an English cartographer and historian. He is known as England's most famous Stuart period mapmaker. His maps of English counties are often found framed in homes throughout the United Kingdom.For a series of maps Speed partnered with Dutch engraver Jodocus Hondius. <br><br> Size : 384x507 mm 15.12x19.96 Inches Coloring: Original Hand Coloring Category: Maps Europe United Kingdom England; John Sudbury & George Humble unknown
75869<p>London John Sudbury & George Humble nd. Large Map. Approx 20 x 16 inches engraved area. Hand coloured. Mounted. Double-sided with list of hundreds and Description of the County on reverse. Framed. In very good condition. Lovely colouring. Centre crease. Double glazed Frame. Some masking tape reinforcement to bottom of map. Glass may need to be removed for transit/posting if sent abroad.</p> London, John Sudbury & George Humble nd
164623413London: William Humble 1646. Other. In excellent condition. 386 by 513mm 15¼ by 20¼ inches. 386 by 513mm 15¼ by 20¼ inches. Copper engraving uncolored as published. William Humble unknown
192423501Reilly & Lee Chicago 1924. HARDBACK NODustJacket 1924 EARLY Edition VG/VG- NOJAckeT SOLD AS-IS Dark Olive Green & Black Decorated cloth Light SOIL Rub Wear & Tiny Chips Extremities InteRioR nice Tight Light FOXinG & Water Stain Last Page Near Hinge 208 pgs Cover spine sunned & small Tears Along Spine edge & extremities Small Round Stain Back Cover Small 8vo. This copy is solid but the extremities are worn and sunned it lacks the frontispiece plate and there is a gift inscription on the front endpaper. . OUT OF PRINT. Hard Cover. Reilly & Lee Chicago hardcover
162764225London. c.1627. John Speed 1552-1629 is arguably the most famous name in early English cartography. In 1610 he published his wonderful and historic atlas 'The Theatre of Great Britain'. In 1627 he published another edition entitled 'A Prospect of The Most Famous Parts of The World' published in London by John Sudbury and George Humble. Speed based his maps on the earlier works done by Christopher Saxton and John Norden. His maps have always been keenly sought after as include many decorative features. Examples include: compass roses cherubs coats of arms mannerist style decoration prominent town plans stylish calligraphy and well defined regional physical features. John Speed's maps proved so popular that they were issued for many years after his death. This decorative and attractive example is of the Welsh county of Caernarvonshire. Size: 420 x 525 mm. Copperplate engraving with later hand colour. Fair to good condition. Repair to lower centrefold. Margins slim and 'chipped'. unknown
16239847London George Humble 1623. Copper engraving image 38 x 50.5 cm sheet size 41.5 x 53 cm fine original hand colour blank verso. An unusual example: the map was coloured trimmed to the edge of the printed image and mounted on thick paper in the 17th century perhaps as part of a special commission from a wealthy patron. Typically surviving Speed maps have been extracted from atlases and have descriptive text on the verso. However some examples were sold as loose sheets without any text on the back sometimes the text was supplied as side panels on either side of the map and occasionally these were bound into atlases when supplies of a particular map had run out and these broadsheets were the only copies to hand. It is also possible that an entire atlas was created in this fashion. John Speed 1552-1629 is unquestionably the most significant English map-maker of the seventeenth-century. A brief note from Granger's Bibliographical History of England 1779 contains most of the information we have about Speed's life: "John Speed who was bred a Tailor was by the generosity of Sir Fulk Grevil his patron set free from a manual employment and enabled to pursue his studies to which he was strongly inclined by the bent of his genius. The fruits of them were his Theatre of Great Britain containing an entire set of maps of the counties drawn by himself his History of Great Britain richly adorned with seals coins & medals from the Cotton collection; and his Genealogies of Scripture first bound up with the Bible in 1611 which was the first edition of the present English translation. His maps were very justly esteemed & his History of Great Britain was in its kind incomparably more complete than all the histories of his predecessors put together ." The first edition of Speed's "Theatre" was published in 1612. It was the first atlas of the British Isles and the first attempt made by an Englishman to match the achievements of the great continental publishing houses - although much of the engraving of the copper plates was performed in Amsterdam by Jodocus Hondius. Speed was an antiquary and intended that his atlas should be read in conjunction with his history of Britain. He managed to include a great deal of historical detail on his 'modern' county maps and the inset town plans some surveyed by himself together comprise the first collection of town plans of the British Isles all in all making the Theatre a highly decorative as well as a useful volume. It was a great success and there were editions printed throughout the seventeenth-century. Map unknown
167633174Bassett and Chiswell 1676. This map is from John Speed's The Theater of the Empire of Great Britaine with the english text on the back. Presenting well uniform toning later hand-coloring. Border strengthened at the back with acid free tape. 545 by 435mm 21½ by 17¼ inches. Bassett and Chiswell unknown
16767838Published by Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain atlas 1676. no binding. copper engraved and hand coloured map from 'The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine' 386 x 516 mmelaborate cartouche with compass rose below inset bird's eye plan of Shrewsbury smaller inset with description of 'a great and bloody battaill was fought . Anno 1403 Battle of Shrewsbury .' with a small pictorial rendering of same; showing forests hills rivers including River Severne churches parkland; includes Part of Denbigh Shire Montgomery Shire Staffordshire etc; verso shows Hundreds in Shropshire and The Description of Shropshire Chapter XXXVII tight margins an attractive antique map suitable for mounting/framing. This is an original antique map. We do not sell reproductions or facsimiles Published by Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain atlas unknown
164623403London: William Humble 1646. Other. In excellent condition. 384 by 514mm 15 by 20¼ inches. 384 by 514mm 15 by 20¼ inches. Copper engraving uncolored as published. William Humble unknown
1610247261Sudbury & Humble 1610. Map. Engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 15 x 20".<br/> <br/> This wonderfully decorated map depicts the island of Anglesey off the northwest coast of Wales. The island is centered on the map and labeled with towns rovers as well pictorial mountains and trees. A strapwork title cartouche features the coat of arms of England flanked by a lion and a unicorn. Below two elegant ships sail the beautifully patterned ocean surrounding an elaborate and colorful compass rose. In the lower left corner of the map showing part of Wales is an ornamental scale topped with strapwork cherubs a peacock and the country's coat of arms. A similar border frames the inset of Beaumaris in the upper right of the map which shows a plan of the port city labeled according to a key including its famous castle. The map appeared in Speed's atlas "The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine." It is in good condition with but margins are cropped. Expert repair to right corners. <br> <br> John Speed 1552-1629 is widely considered to be the most famous English cartographer of the 17th century. His atlas "The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine" contained the first set of individual county maps of England and Wales as well as significant town plans that are in many cases the first visual records of their subjects. This map of Anglesey is a beautiful example of his work.<br/> <br/> Sudbury & Humble unknown
49671London: Tho. Bassett and Richard Chiswell. 1676. Original engraved map 38 x 51 cm. Uncoloured. Inset of Dubline. Good impression very light tanning to centre-fold minor crease at margin of lower right corner. London: Tho. Bassett and Richard Chiswell. [1676] unknown
164663961London. c.1646. An excellent map by John Speed of the English Islands of: Farne and Holy Island off the Northumbrian coast; and the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey. Each quatered map has a compass rose dividers and a mileage scale. Size: 430 x 550 mm. Copperplate engraving. Hand coloured. Good condition. Some minor staining to the centrefold and surrounding area. unknown
191824648Reilly and Lee Company CHICAGO 1918. HBDJ 1918. Early Edition Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: FAIR AS-IS FADED. Light sunning to extremities cloth at head and tail of spine dust soil to block edges DJ with Campfire Girls series advertisement on rear panel FOX SOIL end with camp fire girls in Old Kentucky shows some wear with chipping at head and tail of spine and cornertips 3 1/2" closed tear at hinge of front flap some dust soil and sunning 255 pgsNO ADS in Back. Small 8vo with the DJ listing 5 titles on the rear flap ends with Mary Louise Adopts a Soldier. Full bound blue Decorated cloth with navy titles on front board and spine Cvr Light Wear. Some sunning to cloth at head and tail of spine light dust soil to block edges booksellers' stickers on front and rear pastedowns. DJ Shows significant wear with Tiny & Small Chips Extremities Edges Yet Titles in Blue & Faded Orange & Illustration INTACTInner flap DJ tiny chipping along all edges 1/2" chipped from head and tail of Darkened Spine DJ affects Titles & Publ sOmewhat some sunning and dust soil. Back DJ Soil Fox & Edge Chipping Yet Titles INTACT End with Camp Fire Girls at Hurricane Island Interior tight crisp and relatively clean FOX & WEAR. B/W Frontispiece by Alice Carsey of 5 Girls with FlagLike Dresses on Carry Banner Says Liberty Girls of Dorfield on Streets . Front Inner Flap DJ Taped Detached Priceclipped Blank Endpaper Small Stickers rub wear .This book was written to show what important tasks girls can/may accomplish when spurred on by patriotism. Mary wanted to do her Bit. so she organized Liberty Girls Formed Liberty Shop which in their capable Hands became one busiest spots in Dorfield. Sent thousands of useful presents to gallant soldiers of Uncle Sam. Mary busy Stomping out German Propaganda in city. etc. Hard Cover. Reilly and Lee Company CHICAGO hardcover
1997032510Collector Grade Publications 1997. Hardcover. Fine. Fine clean hard cover first edition with near fine dust jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; Oblong Collector Grade Publications hardcover
162757319Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain published by Bassett and Chiswell. c.1627. Speed's map of Bedfordshire embelished with four strapwork cartouches surrounding the town plan of Bedford the coats of arms of the Earls and Dukes of Bedford the title commentary and the scale. First published in 1611 today the work of John Speed is regarded highly by map collectors historians and artists due to the intricate nature and artistic beauty of the maps. Copper engraving. Fine condition. Mounted size: 71.5 x 60 cm Hand coloured. Size: 50 x 38.5 cm. 19½ x 15 inches unknown
162711770London: Performed by Iohn Speede and are to be sold by George Humble in ye Popes head alley 1627. 380 by 510mm. 15 by 20 inches. Engraved map with hand colouring. A beautifully coloured map of Northamptonshire with inset maps of Northampton and Peterborough and a vignette with text of the Battle of Edgecote Moor where Richard Neville Duke of Warwick defeated Edward IV during the Wars of the Roses. John Speed 1552-1629 was the outstanding cartographer of his age. His 'Theatre of Great Britain' was the first atlas of the British Isles: Speed prepared the maps himself about two years before they were published. His maps and books dominated the seventeenth-century English market. The present map is taken from the 1627 English edition published by George Humble. Chubb XXV. Performed by Iohn Speede and are to be sold by George Humble in ye Popes head alley, unknown
192123510Reilly & Lee Chicago 1921. HARDBACK NODustJacket F-/VG NOJACKET SOLD AS-IS 1921 1st Edition Original Publishers Blue Lined Cloth lettered In Black Front & Back Nice condition with Spotting & FoXing on Spine Cover altho Title is Bright Interior Nice Tight Clean light FoX Wear 223 pgs .B/W Glossy Frontispiece of Josie & Mary Louise by Harry W. Armstrong . First Edition. Hard Cover. Reilly & Lee Chicago hardcover
1680mon0000023721London: for R. Scot T. Baffet 1680. LATER EDITION. Small 4to. 54pp.i disbound recto of title-page repaired illustrated with two engravings one of which is a title-page vignette foredge of title-page chipped not affecting image or text. The poem celebrates a brawl in the Wood Street Compter or debtors' prison. The title-page vignette a copperplate illustrates a brawl; the other plate a full-page woodcut shows a scene at the gate of the prison. The date of the first edition of this work is uncertain but circa 1628 is guessed.rnWing S4896; Lowndes 2164; Grolier Whither to Prior 771. London: for R. Scot, T. Baffet, unknown
163253668London: Printed by John Dawson for George Humble 1632. Third Edition revised and enlarged. Hardcover. Good-. Folio. 22 1042pp. 1043-1086 leaves 1087-1237 85pp. Contemporary calf backed in brown buckram manuscript lettering in white at spine. Frontispiece portrait engraving of John Speed by S. Savery mounted. Title page with publisher's device and double frame. Decorative and historiated head- and endpieces and initials. Revised enlarged and newly corrected with sundry descents of the Saxon Kings their marriages and arms. All pages framed in black with marginalia. A catalog of the religious houses colleges etc. in England Wales Scotland and Ireland. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts and genealogical tables throughout including coins coats of arms crests royal seals etc.<br /> <br /> Covers scuffed and worn at edges. Inked name on inside front cover; hinges reinforced with cream cloth tape. Frontispiece mounted and reinfored on verso at edges slightly ragged at gutter not affecting portrait or text. Few repairs with small pieces of tape in margins not affecting text. Last leaf of index reinforced with paper strip along fore-edge on front lettering slightly obscured on verso. Block lightly age-toned. Binding in overall fair interior in good engraving and woodcuts in very good condition.<br /> <br /> Third edition a variant of the 1631 edition published as a continuation of the author's Theatre of Great Britaine both works being listed in the table of contents. The foliated section ff. 1043-1086 contain A Catalogue of the Religious Houses Colleges and Hospitals Sometimes in England and Wales running title. ESTC S997. Printed by John Dawson for George Humble hardcover
1998032509Collector Grade Publications 1998. Hardcover. Fine. Fine clean hard cover first edition with fine dust jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; Oblong Collector Grade Publications hardcover
78599London Fleet Street Thomas Bassett 1676. Framed size approx 28 x 23 inches. Engraved surfaces approx 20 x 15 ins. Double-glazed in gold wood frame with ivory mount behind glass. Front and Back. In very good condition. Some darkening/tanning to paper vertical centre crease. Some slight fading to print in some areas. Lovely bright crisp colouring. Very small tear to top l/h corner. Centre fold and edges darkened on rear side. Else a beautiful clean example. Original engraved map with hand colouring. Coloured letterpiece on rear side. London, Fleet Street, Thomas Bassett, 1676 unknown
1650LL4281George Humble 1650. PAGINATION: 12 155-402 395-799 1pp. 800-828ff. 829-921 49pp. ~Original dark brown calf boards faint remains of double gilt fillets and blind roll framing boards. Rebacked in near-matching calf with raised bands and gilt numerals to spine and early brown gilt spine label laid down. Minor loss to base spine with loss of replacement bottom headband. Cracking starting to top spine over rear hinge c. 7cm but hinges still holding firm. Wear to top and bottom board edges with discreet fairly early repairs to board corners. Top edges darkened other edges speckled red. Single splash mark to fore-edges. Large folio 35.5 x 29.5cm. Replacement laid paper endpapers with cracking just starting at gutters. Two older armorial bookplates laid down to inside front board: one of Julius Bertram of Sishes End Hertfordshire either Julius Bertram 1866-1944 Liberal politician or his father of the same name and one older bookplate with minor loss with boar passant. Owner's signature of Elizabeth Pryor in old hand to replacement blank front endpage. Trimmed remains of lettering in old hand to top dedication page. Title page from the 1627 edition ESTC S124203 bound in with imprint 'Imprinted at London: Anno Cum Privilegio 1627. Are to be sold by George Humble at the Whit horse in Popes-head Alley'. However this is the 1650 third edition ESTC S121978 not the 1627 second edition. T.p. substitution is indicated by the fact that pattern of minor worm damage to t.p. does not match that to frontis and dedication page. This and the slightly smaller size of the t.p. in comparison to other sheets as well as sigs pagination 49 rather than 47 unnumbered pp. to rear and presence of the 1629 frontis. port. engraving by Samuel Savery indicate that this is the 1650 Humble edn with the 1627 t.p. bound in other possible edns do not have matching pagination or signatures. We have included a printout of the 1650 t.p. from an online edition showing near-identical t.p. engraved by the notable Dutch cartographer and engraver Jodocus Hondius after a design by Speed. Some black smut marks to pp. 860-61 and 900-01 none more than c. 8cm obscuring text slightly. Slight dampstaining to bottom outer corner final 10ff. Very minor worm damage extending from rear of vol. to p. 725 two holes to margin with one pinprick hole only affecting text. Minor worm damage extending down from single hole in top edges mildly affecting pp. from title page to p.384. At no point does this amount to more than c. 4 pin-holes slightly affecting text near top page. Illustrated throughout with in-text illustrations decorated initials headpieces and tailpieces all the work of the engraver Christopher Switzer. John Speed 1551/2-1629 historian and cartographer. Speed produced his History of Great Britain as a continuation of its companion atlas volume The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine pagination continuous from companion vol. but this vol. is complete in itself. Both were the result of 'industrious research and reading' ODNB with the encouragement and assistance of the foremost antiquarians of the time including William Camden and Sir Robert Cotton. This product of early Stuart optimism and nation-building first published in 1611 and creating 'Great Britaine' for the 'most potent monarch Iames' the first king of both Scotland and England is in this 1650 edition republished just before the end of the civil war that was to see the Stuart monarchy expelled from Britain for a decade. Handsome edn in original boards. ~Robust packaging. Overseas orders trackable on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 3rd edn. Hardback. Hardback. Good. c. 1000pp. George Humble Hardcover
