Sales catalogue: Bowes & Bowes

Date:
1930s
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/3/20
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Bowes & Bowes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 BOWES & BOWES, 1, Trinity STREET, CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND. COLOURED MAPS OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND from Blaeu’s Atlases of 1654 and 1662, size (engraved surface) 194 by 154 inches except where otherwise mentioned, in contemporary colouring, and emblazoned with Coats-of-Arms, and decorated with Ships and large Car- touches; together with a few later Maps by Blome, Morden, etc, 1 England and Wales, with sailing ships and two cartouches. 1654 21/- | 2 England and Wales. The Coats-of-Arms of the prey. are marked | on the Map, and in the side-columns are historical scenes: 26/- 3 British Isles, An early Map in the original haheeuie ine 133 x 194 ins. Ortelius, c. 1570 } tea Slight tear in margin mended. 4 British Isles. A coloured Map by Peter Schenk, with a ‘ange plain car- | touche. 22x19ins. c. 1720 _ 10/6 5 Great Britain and Ireland, with sailing ships and cartouches. 21/- — 6 Great Britain according to Ptolemy. A curious map, showing Scotland — East instead of North. “21 te 7 Bedford, with two cartouches and five coats-of-arms. 16x9ins. —-25/- 8 Berkshire, with two cartouches and the Royal arms. £2/2/- 9 Buckinghamshire, with six coats-of-arms and a cartouche. 16x9 ea: | 2 10 Cambridgeshire, with twenty-six coats-of-arms, including ics of ee | Colleges. £3/10/- tt Channel Isles, with two very decorative cartouches and a number of sailing ships. : iQ dO 12 Cheshire, with two cartouches and twelve coats-of-arms. SS £2/2/- 13 Cornwall, with eleven coats-of-arms ‘and a cartouche. £2 /2- { 14 Cumberland, with four coats-of-arms and two cartouches. £2/2/- a 15 Derbyshire, with a large cartouche and four coats-of-arms, a £2/2/- 16 Devonshire, with nine coats-of-arms and two cartouches. 7, £2/5/- = 17 Dorsetshire, with four coats-of-arms and a cartouche, with ships. £2/2/- ; 18 Durham (County of), with three coats-of-arms and a cartouche. £2/2/- K 19 Essex, with two cartouches and nine coats-of-arms. A fleet of ships is : seen approaching the Thames estuary. -£2/10/- F 20 Fen Country of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cathbridgectae Huntingdon- a shire, Northamptonshire, and Lincolnshire, with a cartouche. 25/- 7 21 Gloucestershire, with a cartouche and twelve coats-of-arms, —«-_- £2/2/- 22 Hampshire, with eight coats-of-arms and a cartouche. £2/2/- a 23 Herefordshire, with two cartouches and six coats-of-arms. ——-£2/2/- : 24 Hertfordshire, with two coats-of-arms and two cartouches. == £2/2/- 4 25 Holy and Farne Islands, with a wide stretch of the coast of Northumber- q land. ae 4 26 Huntingdonshire, with twelve coats-of-arms and an interesting cartouche © £2/2/- f 27 Isle of Man, with a cartouche and ten coats-of-arms. 15 x 1051 ins. (21/- i