Search Results: a map of the british empire

Berlin: Schoneberg. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1930. Trade PB.

Washingtion, D.C: National Geographic, 1964. exact source unknown, a colored map, 18.5" x 24", as shown in the image. Quite lovely.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Colored Map. 18.5" x 24".

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Harvard Univ Pr, 2017. Hardcover. New. 420 pages. 9.75x6.25x1.50 inches.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Charles Taylor, c1915. Cloth. Very Good. 10.5" by 13.5". Not Stated. A smart and scarce copy of this account of the empire of King George V, with an atlas of the British possessions. Scarce work. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece, one coloured map, and over two hundred and fifty black-and-white photographs. A reference text for the British possessions and dependencies in the empire from across the world. With descriptions and images of areas of interest and sights from various countries, including: The Cobb at Lyme Regis, Fern Tree Valley under Mount Wellington, the Zuni Indians, the view of Killiney Hill from Sorrento Park, the grounds of Harvard College, and much more. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and light fraying to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the board. A small puncture wound to the front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd handling mark. Light spotting to the… Read More

map. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Roycroft, 1658. hardcover. Title page printed in red and black. xxiv, 266pp., [6]pp. index. Short 4to, bound in old mottled calf with leather spine label (hinges and joints repaired; fairly heavy foxing on the first 6 pages, otherwise leaves are uniformly toned; one hole at bottom of p. 205 with slight loss of text). London: Tho. Roycroft, 1658<br/><br/> Wing B6185.<br/><br/>

London: George Philip & Son...in association with "Time & Tide", 1947.. Original colour printed map (91 x 117 cm.), folds to fit card slipcase (22 x 15 cm) "Issued to World Book Members in April 1956." The routes of Churchill's wartime trips abroad are shown, noted the conferences he attended and Churchill's mode of transport. Colourful vignette portraits of the planes and ships Churchill used appear at the foot of the map and include HMS Duke of York, HMS Renown, HMT Queen Mary, and the airplanes "Commando" and "Berwick." Churchill's popular six-volume memoir The Second World War, originally published between 1948 and 1954, was reissued in a cheaper edition by the Reprint Society between 1950 and 1956 for its World Books book club. "Upon publication of the sixth and final volume of the Reprint Society edition in April 1956, the publisher issued World Books members a folded slipcased 'Map of the Historic Wartime Journeys undertaken by The Right Hon. Sir Winston Churchill, K.G., O.M., C.H. in… Read More

London, George Philip & Son Ltd., 1947. . Folding map, general mild toning more so to some folds, otherwise very good. Framed and glazed, overall size: 9990 x 1240 mm (123.7cm by 98.5cm by 2.5cm). The map provides a record of Winston Churchill's journeys in the Second World War and the means by which the travels were made. His journeys were to numerous political conferences from New York to Moscow, beginning with the 'Atlantic Charter' in 1941, which was the product of his meeting at sea with Roosevelt that established the general desire on both sides for a democratic, progressive post-war world. After a number of intercontinental circuits the map brings his journeys to an end at the Potsdam Conference of 1945, the historic meeting of the 'Big Three' (Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin), to negotiate the post-war treatment of Germany. In addition, the map also illustrates Churchill's 1944 tours of the beaches of Normandy and the invasion coasts of Italy and Southern France. Featured at the bottom… Read More

Amsterdam: Printed for J. Covens and C. Mortier, [c. 1740]. Hand-colored copperplate engraving, 19.875" x 18.75" plus margins. CONDITION: Very good, bit of separation at fold just slightly into image at bottom; a fine, dark impression, with pleasing outline color. This is the Dutch edition (title in French, the rest of the map in English) of the index map for Henry Popple's monumental 20-sheet map of North America, the first large scale British map of the American Colonies, and the first English map to name all thirteen. The map extends from lower Canada to northern South America, and from the eastern seaboard as far west as the Mississippi and its western tributaries. Inset views of Niagara Falls (after Father Louis Hennepin, 1698), Mexico City, Quebec (after J.B.L. Franquelin, 1688) and New York City (after William Burgis, 1720) appear in the upper left and right hand corners respectively. On the right is a series of eighteen inset maps depicting Boston, New York, Charlestown, Bermuda, St.… Read More

Americas: Amsterdam. Covens et Mortier c1741. Copper engraved map from Covens & Mortier's " Nieuwe Atlas, Inhoudennde vier Gedeeltens der Waereld.. " Original full wash colour; verso blank. Covens and Mortier edition of the key sheet to Popple's 20 sheet map with inset views of New York, Quebec, Mexico City and the Niagara Falls [black& white as issued] 18 coloured inset plans of ports and islands.[ see item 3062] Black & white title cartouche as issued. To lower right corner is the "the Approbation of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations," Popple's map had quasi-official status, and a copy was sent to each of the governments of each of the colonies and the approbation of Edmund Halley: "I have seen the abovementioned Map, which as far as I am Judge, seems to have been laid down with great Accuracy, and to shew the Position of the different Provinces & Islands in that Part of the Globe more truly than any yet extant." Popple's famous map on 20 sheets appeared… Read More

Amsterdam, c.1741. Very Good. Notes: Fine decorative map of the whole West Indies in two sheets by Mortier based on the large map of Americas by Popple: , Size : 600x533 (mm), 23.62x20.98 (Inches), Coloring: Original Hand Coloring, Category: Maps West Indies Whole; Maps Central America Countries; Maps South America Countries;

Americas: Amsterdam. Covens et Mortier c1741. Copper engraved maps[ 4 sheets] from Covens & Mortier's " Nieuwe Atlas, Inhoudennde vier Gedeeltens der Waereld.. " Original full wash colour; verso blank. Covens and Mortier edition of Popple's map of the British Empire in America on 4 sheets. with titles in French above each map: A) Nouvelle Carte Particulére de la Amerique ou sont exactement marquéese une Partie de la Baye d'Hudson, le Pays Kilistinons, la Source de la Grande Rivière de Mississipi, le Pays des Illinois &c.; B)Nouvelle Carte Particulére de la Amerique ou sont exactement marquées la Nouvelle Bretagne, le Canada ou Nouvelle France, la Nouvelle Ecosse, la Nouvelle Angleterre, la nouvelle York, la Pensilvanie, Mary-land, la Caroline septrionale, l'Ile de terre Neuve. le Grand Banc &c.; C)Nouvelle Carte Particulére de la Amerique ou sont exactement marquées les Provinces suivants comme la Caroline meridionale, la Floride, la Louisiane, le Mexique,le Jucatan, le Guatimala, le… Read More

Amsterdam: Covens & Mortier, c.1741. Very Good. Notes: Detailed wall map of the North America published by Covens & Mortier in 4 sheets based on the famous Popple's map of North America., Size : , Coloring: Original Hand Coloring, Reference: Babinski, (Popple); McCorkle 741.4, Category: Maps North America Great Lakes; Maps North America; Maps Central America; Maps Wall Maps;

London: Sold by the Proprietors S[amuel] Harding on the Pavement in St. Martins Lane, and W[illiam] H[enry] Toms, Engraver in Union Court near Hatton Garden Holborn, 1734. Folio. (21 x 15 inches). Engraved folding key map in Babinski State 4, showing the track line of Spanish Galleons. Large engraved wall map on 15 double-page and 5 full-page map sheets, numbered in plate and in contemporary ink manuscript, in Babinski State 7, with Harding and Toms's imprint on map sheet 17, on laid paper with Strasbourg Lily watermarks. Ink manuscript sheet key opposite key map, which also carries ink manuscript configuration guidance. Finely bound to style in period diced quarter calf with tips on marbled paper boards, six raised bands forming seven gilt-ruled compartments with gilt-titling in second. A bound example of the largest eighteenth-century wall map of the Thirteen Colonies, and the first to name all thirteen. Popple's was the first detailed map of British, French, and Spanish colonial possessions in… Read More

A profound statement of England's designs for dominance of the North American continent; at a time when colonial control of North America was by no means certain.
Large engraved wall map, with contemporary hand-colour in full, engraved on 20 printed mapsheets, 15 double-page maps and five single-page maps (the single-page maps comprise bird's eye views and harbour plans which appear on the right side of the map, from top to bottom, with 20 of the 22 views and plans appearing on these five sheets, the last two views appear on sheet 1, in the upper left corner of the map); plate 10 in Pritchard State 3, plate 20 in Pritchard State 4.
A magnificent example of Popple's twenty-sheet 'Map of the British Empire in America', with superb vibrant original hand-colour in full.
One of the two most important maps of North America published in the eighteenth century on a grand scale: along with John Mitchell's 'Map of the British & French Dominions in North America', Popple's map was a profound statement of… Read More