Antique Map of Western Africa with Vignettes of Cape Coast Castle etc, ca.1851

Antique map Africa titled 'Isles du Cap Verd Coste et Pays des Negres'. Antique map of the coast of Africa and the Cape Verde islands. Artis...

Antique map titled ‘England and Wales’. Includes decorative vignettes titled The grand stand on the race ground Doncaster, London, Oxford, Entrance to Portsmouth Harbour, Sunderland ...

Antique map titled 'Russia in Europe'. Map of European Russia. Showing vignettes of the Neoskoi Prospect, St. Petersburg, Polish Captives on their way to Siberia, a Russian Bear...

Antique map titled Hungary. Includes decorative vignettes titled Hungarian Peasants, Pesth and the Fortress of Buda, on the Danube and Hungarian Nobles. Originates from 'The Illustrated Atlas, And Modern History Of The World Geographical, Political, Commercial & Statistical, Edited By R. Montgomery Martin'. Published; John Tallis London, New York, Edinburgh & Dublin. 1851. Drawn and Engraved by J. Rapkin. Artists and Engravers: John Tallis (1817-1876) was a British map publisher. Born in the Midlands, Tallis came to London in the 1840s. Tallis began his London career with a series of remarkable London street views. He began a partnership with a Frederick Tallis, possibly his brother, but their collaboration ended in 1849. For the Great Exhibition of 1851, Tallis published the Illustrated World Atlas, one of the last series of decorative world maps ever produced. The maps were engraved by John Rapkin, a skilled artisan. The maps were later reissued by the London Printing & Publishing Company, who left the Tallis imprint intact, thus ensuring his enduring fame. In 1858, he began publication of the popular Illustrated News of the World...

Great map of Herefordshire Original colour By J & C Walker Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Co. 1851 Unframed.

Great map of Rutland Original colour By J & C Walker Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Co. 1851 Unframed.

Great map of Durham Original colour By J & C Walker Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Co. 1851 Unframed.

Great map of Buckinghamshire Original colour By J & C Walker Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Co. 1851 Unframed.