Images Dated 5th November 2020

Views on the London to Birmingham Railway - Railway Bridge at Rugby 1839

A finely detailed facimile remastered in full colour from an antique original map of "Dumbartonshire" featured in A&C Black's Atlas of 1847. Each Parish is numbered using an index table, colour rendition beautifully differentiating all of the Parishes. As well as principal roads, towns, villages and hamlets, these county maps of Scotland feature key battle sites marked with two crossed swords and the date of the battle. Dumbarton comes from the Scottish Gaelic D?n Breatainn meaning "fort of the Britons". ... Dumbartonshire County Council, set up under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889, adopted the spelling "Dunbartonshire" by 1914, a fact recognised by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947

Old Map of London 1851 by John Tallis

Commemorating the Great Exhibition of Industry of All Nations 1851, this magnificent plan of London, re-created and art worked directly from the antique original, is elegantly framed by 49 individual views of London's historic buildings and monuments. The plan is incredibly detailed considering the large area it captures. Surrounded by countryside, to the north - west is Cricklewood and Hampstead, to the north east is Lowe Leyton and Leyton Stowe. To the south west is Fulham and to the south east the Isle of Dogs and Greenwich. Among the many historic buildings and monuments illustrated are the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral, Tower of London, Buckingham Palace and the grand Crystal Palace built for the great exhibition of Industry of all nations held in London

Old County Map of Gloucestershire 1836 by Thomas Moule

This is a fine decorative reproduction County Map of Gloucestershire from the First Edition series of Thomas Moule Maps, originally Published in 1836. The well-known series of County Maps which are known as Moules feature beautiful vignette views and were first published in separate sections for each county in 1830-32, they were then published in collected form in a two-volume work: The English Counties Delineated: or a Topographical Description of England: Illustrated by a Complete Series of County Maps by Thomas Moule: London: Published by George Virtue 1836

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