b'135MAPS 1560JOAN BLAEU (15961673),1554 Leicestrensis Comitatus - Leicester Shire,[ROAD MAPS OF ENGLAND & WALES]. copper plate engraving, 1662,Rare cased set of G. W. Bacons Motor Maps of England[Amsterdam, Atlas Major.]& Wales; housed in a lockable dark brown leather casewith some hand colouring,with carrying handle which opens to a red velvet lined38 x 49cm; framed 51 x 60cm overall.interior holding 30 individual, linen-backed folding maps,$200300 identified by area or city with a numbered tab. Each map bears the cartographers name, G. W. Bacon & Co Ltd, 127 Strand, London. 1561$250350 JOHN SPEED (15521629),BUCKINGHAM Both Shyre and Shire town describ. 1555 circa 1676,Crempa Holsatiae opp.(idum), Ioannis Ranzoviicopper plate engraving with later hand-colouring;equitis aurati industria munitiss.(ima), with inset town plans of Buckingham and Redding hand-coloured copper engraving from Braun-Hogenberg,(which are the earliest recorded)circa 1590, 38 x 50cm; framed 58 x 70cm overall.17 x 48cm; framed 49 x 93cm overall. $200300 $100150 1556 1562WILLIAM HOLE (d.1624), A.M. MALLET (16301706),Britannia, Nouvelle Guinee et Carpentarie,copper engraving,copper plate engraving with light hand-colouring, from Description de lUnivers, Paris, circa 1683,being the title page of Camdens Britannia, image size 15.5 x 11.5mm; framed 34 x 28.5cm.[London, 1607], The map incorporates part of the coast of Queensland.27 x 16.5cm; framed 44 x 34cm overall. $150200 Neptune and Ceres flank the central roundel with a map of the British Isles (with only the eastern part of Ireland). A seated1563Britannia at the top is one of the earliest printed depictions of the British allegory. Also shown are small images of a ship,A.M. MALLET (16301706),Winchester Cathedral, Stonehenge and a Roman Bath. Continent Meridional Austral ou Antarctique,$200250copper engraving, from the German edition of Description de lUnivers,1557 [Frankfurt, 1686],JOHN SPEED (15521629), image size 15.2 x 11.5mm; framed 34 x 28.5cm.LEICESTER, both Countye and Citie described, The$100150 Honorable Famylies that have had titles of Earls thereof. With other accidents therein observed. 1564copper plate engraving with later hand-colouring; circa 1616, Robert MORDEN (d.1703),with inset town plan of Leicester, and the Battle of BosworthThe Molocca Ilands &c,depicted at lower right;Sellers details John Sudbury and George Humble, 1610copper plate engraving,at lower left; from Mordens Atlas Terestris, 1687,39 x 51cm; framed 57 x 70cm overall. minor later hand-colouring,$300500image 11 x 13cm; framed 38 x 29.5cm.Shows part of New Guinea and New Holland.1558 $100150 JOHN NORDEN & JOHN SPEED, 1565Sussex Described and divided into Rapes.,Three framed antique maps including ROBERT MOREDON, circa 1627 BUCKINGHAM SHIRE, YORKSHIRE, EAST RIDING AND copper plate engraving with later hand-colouring;A NEW AND ACCURATE SURVEY OF THE PARISHES OF with inset town plan of Chichester, ST. ANDREWS, HOLBOURN.,39 x 51cm; framed 57 x 70cm overall. the largest 51 x 37cm overall (3)$300500$120200 1559 1566 JOHN SPEED & WILLIAM WHITE, ROBERT MORDEN & SUTTON NICHOLLS,White Island, circa 1627, CAMBRIDGESHIRE,copper plate engraving with later hand-colouring; [from Camdens Britannia, 1695],published by Sudbury and Humbell, hand-coloured copper plate engraving,with inset town plans of Newport and Southhampton, with the sellers imprint of Abel Swal 39 x 51cm; framed 59 x 71cm overall. and Aunsham & John Churchill,$20030043 x 36cm; framed 59.5 x 48cm overall.$150200 '