Maps

A modern map of Shropshire Drawn from the latest surveys corrected and improved by the best authorities. Artist Joseph Ellis sculptor. Joseph Ellis was an engraver and publisher from Clerkenwell in London and was apprenticed to Richard William Seale in 1749. He is best know to county map collectors for The New English Atlas published in 1765 which was later reissued as Ellis's English Atlas in 1766, 1768 1777, 1786, 1790 and 1796. Maker carington bowles 1724 - 1793. Carington Bowles worked in London as a publisher in partnership with his father John Bowles from about 1752 until 1763. Carington Bowles worked as a publisher in partnership with his father John Bowles from about 1752 until 1763 before taking over his uncle's business. His address was 69 St. Pauls Church Yard, London. He worked with a number of well known cartographers of the day including Emanuel Bowen, Thomas Kitchin, Robert Sayer...

A general map of Bedfordshire with its hundreds. Measure: 37cm 14 1/2" high A scale of 5 miles. in the original green mount and traditional black and gold frame. charming map with...

Thomas Kitchen (1718 - 1784) : Map of Turkey in Europe & Hungary 1783 Visible sheet within the cream mount 25.5cm., 10" height 20cm., 8" In an ebonised frame length 33cm. 13", height 28cm., 11" Kitchin, Thomas (1718 - 1784) Thomas Kitchin (August 4, 1718 – June 23, 1784) was a London based engraver, cartographer, and publisher. He was born in London to a hat-dyer of the same name. At 14, Kitchin apprenticed under Emanuel Bowen, under whom he mastered the art of engraving. He married Bowen daughter, Sarah Bowen, and later inherited much of his preceptor's prosperous business. Their son, Thomas Bowen Kitchin, also an engraver joined the family business, which thereafter published in Thomas Kitchin and Son. From 1858 or so Kitchin was the engraver to the Duke of York, and from about 1773 acquired the title, 'Royal Hydrographer to King George III.' He is responsible for numerous maps published in the The Star, Gentleman's Magazine, and London Magazine, as well as partnering with, at various times, with Thomas Jefferys, Emmanuel Bowen, Thomas Hinton, Issac Tayor, Andrew Dury, John Rocque, Louis de la Rochette, and Alexander Hogg, among others. Kitchin passed his business on to his son, Thomas Bowen Kitchin, who continued to republish many of his maps well after his death. Kitchin's apprentices included George Rollos...

ST/426 - Antique French Map of the estuary of the Thames, map dated 1769 - "Mape of the entrance of the Thames. Designed by filing of Navy cards fo...

Antique 18th century British rare and original Emanuel Bowen (1694-1767) map of the County of York divided into its Ridings and subdivided into wapontakes, mounted in solid wood fram...

Rare map of The Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, including Alderney & the Scilly Islands just purchased more information to follow In the original cream mount and gilded frame.

A Map of Kyle & Carrick Aireshire Thomas Kitchen 1749 In original black and gold frame Just purchased more information to follow MAKER Thomas Kitchin (1718-1784) English engrave...