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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. The London Topographical Society, Publication No 142 (1990). 1st printing (1990). Fold-out map in pictorial card covers. VG+ copy. Cecil Brown (illustrator).

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 32" x 50" monochrome reproduction of Cecil Brown's 1945 drawing of bombed London, folding into paper covers, notes by Ralph Hyde who was Print and Map Curator at the Guildhall Library, a fine copy. Cecil Brown (illustrator).

Quarto, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, London coat of arms to title page, viii + 140pp, illus/maps, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl foxing & soiling to page edges, sl foxing to eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, sm adhesive label to rear).

Original Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Red boards have very slight edge wear. The pages are clean and unmarked. Jacket has some small patches of surface damage near the bottom of the rear panel where a label has been removed, a tiny nick to the top edge of the rear panel, two small dents to the front panel and light creasing to the edges. First printing. Rocque, John (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. vi, 152 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 31 cm. At first sight, it seems scarcely possible that London & .c Actually Survey'd, and A large and Accurate Map of the City of London that preceded it by six yeas having been completed in December 1676, could have been the work of the same team of people. The map of the City seems the very model of merchant sobriety and scientific clarity, combining understated elegance with an almost total lack of decoration. London & .c Actually Survey'd dazzles with its flamboyant use of text as well as image which in places threaten to overwhelm the map. The difference between the two maps can only fully be understood in the context of the very different political situations prevailing at the times of their publications--Peter Barker.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. xii, 93 pages : maps ; 31 cm. The atlas section consists of the 20 map sheets from John Ogilby and Williams Morgan s large-scale survey of the 1676 City of London, published 10 years after the Great Fire and shows the City as newly rebuilt. The index section includes almost 2000 items and is based on Ogilby and Morgan s Explanation of 1677 but it has been considerably improved.…

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy small folio viii + 140pp., maps, index, Consists of 59 map sheets from Bacon's New Large-Scale Ordnance Atlas of London & Suburbs which appeared in 1888. The index allows users to find any street, road, lane, wharf, square or public building.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New small folio 93pp., b/w pls., maps, "The atlas section of this volume consists of the 20 map sheets from John Ogilby and William Morgan's large-scale survey of the City of London. It was first published in 1676, ten years after the Great Fire, and shows the City as newly rebuilt. The index section in the present volume, which includes almost 2000 items, is based on Ogilby and Morgan's Explanation (1677), but it has been considerably improved. It will enable users to find any street of the time, and the majority of lanes, courts, alleys, yards, passages, and quays, as well as many important public buildings.".…

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New small folio viii + 88pp., maps, index, In 1738 John Rocque, an obscure French surveyor was selected to undertake a fresh survey of the British metropolis & was completed nine years later. 24 map sheets are reproduced, supplemented by a re-arranged index.