Americas: Central, South from Bryars and Bryars

[Rio de Janeiro?],, c. 1893. Broadsheet publication, 31 x 46 cm, three maps on one sheet, printed in colours, old folds, one or two light spots and stains and some wear to folds, blank verso. The map may have been printed as a supplement for a local newspaper, but appears to have been sold separately (a price is printed,… Read more about this item

New York, 1855. Steel engraving, 32 x 40 cm, original hand colour, light uniform browning, blank verso. One of the most detailed, mid-19th Century American atlas maps of Cuba and the region, set within Colton’s distinctive style of border, by one of the most active American map and atlas publishers of the period. From 1833 Colton established a successful… Read more about this item

London, c. 1851. Steel engraving, 26.5 x 33 cm, original outline colour, blank verso; engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘Illustrated Atlas’; black and white vignettes of Belise and Antigua Guatemala engraved by George Richard Manwaring after Henry Winkles. Map

London, Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty, , 1914. Engraved British chart, sheet size 66.5 x 102.5 cm, black and white, engraved by John and Charles Walker, centrefold, blank verso with old ink stamp; shows soundings etc, with interior detail of relief, roads and settlements, and inset of Morant Cays. First published in 1880, our example was revised in January… Read more about this item

Paris, 1873. French naval chart, sheet 3256, sheet size 72.5 x 105 cm, engraved by Delamare, black and white, with coastal profiles in the lower part of the chart, centrefold, one or two marginal nicks and tears, blank verso. This detailed chart of Isla Culebra (now an island-municipality of Puerto Rico) was derived from British Admiralty surveys. With no… Read more about this item

London, Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty, , 1929. Engraved British chart, sheet size 56 x 76 cm, black and white with pink wash added by hand, centrefold, blank verso; shows soundings etc, with interior detail of relief, roads and settlements, and inset coastal profiles. First published in 1867, our example has revisions and corrections to March 1929. … Read more about this item

Paris, 1873. French naval chart, sheet 3273, sheet size 105.5 x 72 cm, engraved by Nyon, black and white, centrefold, one or two marginal nicks and tears, blank verso. This detailed chart of Grenada was derived from British Admiralty surveys. Map

Amsterdam, 1758. Copper engraving, 20.5 x 30 cm, original hand-colour, blank verso. The Caribbean island of St Lucia published in the Dutch edition of Prévost. Jacques Nicolas Bellin the elder (1703-1772) was first chief hydrographic engineer of the "Dépôt des cartes, plans et journaux du Ministère de la Marine," charged early in the reign of Louis XV with mapping… Read more about this item

[Panama?] Headquarters 6th US Air Force, c. 1944. Pictorial map, sheet size 31.5 41.5 cm, printed in colours, a couple of short splits to folds, text on verso. A US military mailer, designed to be folded and posted home. The verso has a detailed map of the canal zone, with statistical information and a brief history which concludes with… Read more about this item

Paris, 1719. Copper engraving, 17 x 22 cm, original hand colour in outline, slight spotting to right of cartouche, blank verso. Published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et historique ...’. Map of South America featuring figures in indigenous costume and a vignette of a sea battle between a European galleon and local craft. Text at the… Read more about this item

London,, 1928. Engraved British chart, sheet size 70 x 103 cm, black and white, lights coloured, a couple of creases, some restoration to lower margin affecting imprint, faint ink stamp (instruction, ‘increase 50%’) to title, blank verso; shows soundings etc, with interior detail of relief and settlements. Georgetown remains the capital of independent Guyana. Map

Amsterdam, Joannes &: Cornelis Blaeu, 1640. Copper engaving, 38 x 49 cm, original hand colour, trivial spotting, French text on verso. Regional map covering Colombia and neighbouring parts of present day Panama, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Venezuala, formerly under Spanish rule as the province of Tierra Firme - Spain’s mainland possessions in northwestern South America. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Bl… Read more about this item

Berlin, Dietrich Reimer, 1912. Imperial German Naval Office chart, sheet size 74 x 108 cm, engraved by F. Müllhaupt, black and white, centrefold, date-stamped 22 October 1912, blank verso; lights etc highlighted in colour; shows sands, soundings and with interior detail of relief. Map

Washington,, 1924. US naval chart, sheet 1058, sheet size 47 x 38.5 cm, a couple of light vertical creases, black and white, ink stamp confirming corrections to September 1924, blank verso. Detail includes soundings, anchorages, relief and the principal roads, public buildings etc. A chart of the largest town on St Croix in the United States Virgin Islands, formerly… Read more about this item

Paris, 1872. French naval chart, sheet 3068, sheet size 36 x 53 cm, engraved by Régnier, black and white, blank verso. The anchorage at San Juan Bautista, located on Cumberland Bay, Robinson Crusoe Island; the main settlement in the Juan Fernández Islands off the coast of Chile. Map

Paris, 1873. French naval chart, sheet 3119, 50 x33 cm, black and white, blank verso. Chart of the island of Montserrat in the British West Indies, featuring coastal profiles dominated by the Soufrière Hills volcano, and an inset of Plymouth, the former capital of the island which was destroyed in the volcanic eruptions of the mid 1990s. Map

London, 1778. Copper engraving, 24.5 x 20 cm, modern hand colour, lower margin trimmed affecting neatline, blank verso. Published in 'The Gentleman's Magazine' after the French recaptured the island during the Anglo-French War of 1778-83, which the French entered as allies of the United States. Map

London,, 1873. Engraved chart, 102 x 68.5 cms, engraved by Davies and Company after H. Sharbau, black and white, centrefold, margins a little dusty and with a couple of creases at corners, blank verso; lighthouses/beacons highlighted in colour, shows sands and soundings etc, with interior detail of relief, roads and settlements. Surveyed by Staff Commander J Parsons in 1869,… Read more about this item

Paris, 1748. Copper engraving, 21.5 x 28.5 cms, original hand-colour in outline, blank verso. Map

Paris, 1780. Copper engraving, 46 x 35 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso; probably from Jean Françoise de la Harpe's ‘Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages’, an abridged octavo edition of Prevost. Map