741. Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

Van Diemen’s Land or Tasmania with beautiful Vignettes and illustrations of Hobart Town, Residence of the Company’s Agent, Circular Head / Thylacinus Cynocephalus. The map shows the old districts of Tasmania: Dorset, Cornwall, Glamorgan, Pembroke, Cumberland, Buckingham, Kent, Devon, Westmorland etc.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Beautifully Framed. Size of frame with map: 39.5 cm x 46.5 cm. Size of the actual map: 27 cm x 37 cm. Very good condition.

742. Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

Victoria or Port Phillip with Vignettes and illustrations of Aborigines fighting, Kangaroo, a beautiful engraving of Port Phillip and its harbour. The map shows in beautiful, hand-coloured borders the old division of Victoria into Howe, Combermere, Bruce, Haddington, Douro, Mornington, Frant, Bourke, Dalhousie, Rodney, Murray, Anglesey, Polworth, Grenville, Ripon, Hampden, Heytesbury, Villier, Dundas, NormanbyFollet, Wimmera, Western Port.

Original steel engraving / Vintage australian map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Beautifully Framed. Size of frame with map: 40.5 cm x 50.5 cm. Size of the actual map: 27 cm x 37 cm. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear to the frame only.

743. Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

Western Africa – with Senegambia, Guinea (Ashantee / Dahomey, Benin) / Liberia etc. – with Vignettes and illustrations of Sierra Leone and Bakel, a Cape Coast Castle, Christiansborg (Danish Gold Coast / Osu Castle).

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Beautifully Framed. Size of the Frame with map: 50 cm x 41 cm. Size of the actual map: 27 cm x 37 cm. Very good condition.

744. Turkey and Balkans – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876).

Turkey and Europe – With inset of Island of Cadia and Vignettes of Ali Pasha, Greek Caloyer and the Bosphorus and Constantinople.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Illustrations by H. Warren and engraved by J. Rogers. London and New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 32.5 cm x 26 cm. Sheet Size : 37.4 cm x 27.3 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

745. United States – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876).

Boston – With Beautiful Vignettes of Boston, the State House and Bunker Hill’s Monument.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Illustrated and Engraved by J. Watkins London & New York, John Tallis & Company, 1851. Plate Size: 32.5 cm x 26 cm. Sheet Size: 37.2 cm x 27.2 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

746. Wales – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876).

England and Wales – With Vignettes of The Grand Stand on the Race Ground, Doncaster, London, Entrance to Portsmouth Harbour, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Sunderland Bridge and Oxford.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Illustrations by N. Whitlock and Engraved by J. Rogers. London, Edinburgh & Dublin, J.& F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 25 cm x 35 cm. Sheet Size: 27.2 cm x 37.3 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

747. Western Hemisphere – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876).

Western Hemisphere – With Stunning Vignettes of Indigenous Peoples, Native Animals.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Illustrations by H. Warren and Enrgaved by J. Rogers. London, Edinburgh & Dublin, J.& F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 34 cm x 25.5 cm. Sheet Size: 37.4 cm x 27 cm. In very good condition with only faintest traces of browning to outer margins. Very slight paper imperfections along edge. Minor tear near upper left corner. Very minor tear to map above the Arctic Circle.

748. World – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876).

The World on Mercator’s Projection – With Vignettes of London, Gibraltar, Constantinople, The Pyramids of Ghizeh, Niagara, Pont Neuf Paris and Vesuvius.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Illustrations by H. Warren and Engraved by J.B. Allen. London & New York, John Tallis & Company, 1851. Plate Size: 34.7 cm x 26.5 cm. Sheet Size: 37.3 cm x 27.2 cm. In fair condition with tears evident. Slight browning and paper imperfections to outer margins.

749. [Connemara] Anonymus [Bowden-Smith, Richard].

Fly Fishing in Salt & Fresh Water. With Six Plates, representing artificial Flies, etc. [Handcoloured]. [With a special chapter on Flyfishing in Connemara – Fly-Fishing Lough Ina, near Clifden, in Bertraghboy Bay, at the Skyard Rocks, at Deer Island and off the Isle of Mweenish and the Isle of Arran].

First and only edition. London, John van Voorst, 1851. Octavo. VIII, 74, (1) pages plus VI plates (including the frontispiece) of which V plates are beautifully handcoloured. Hardcover / Original publisher’s blindstamped cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. With some fraying to two pages. Unbelievably rare edition with the excellent handcoloured plates in fresh colours and overall excellent condition.

750. [Freke, Henry (Evolution / Evolutionist)] / [Freke Family Provenance] / Castle Freke / Castlefreke / “Algy” Freke [Algernon (Algy) William George Evans-Freke, 9th Lord Carbery and his wife Mary Carbery] / Jacobo Freke [″Jacob”] / [Henry Longfield Conner, Manch] Poitevin, M.P.

Dictionnaire de la Langue Française – Glossaire Raisonné de la langue écrite et parlée [Personal copy of evolutionist Henry Freke, with his signature to the titlepage, dated 1851 in Paris, possibly obtained during his studies at Trinity College Dublin, between getting his M.B. in 1845 and his M.D. in 1855].

Paris, Librairie de F. Chamerot, 1851. Quarto (18 cm x 25,5 cm). XVI, 1040 pages. Hardcover / Original Half-leather with marbled-paper-covered-boards. Excellent, firm condition with some minor signs of wear only. Special edition: Signed by the editor M.P.Poitevin and publisher F.Chamerot. Provenance: Originally owned by early evolutionist Henry Freke [H.Freke], Paris, 1851 and passed on to extended family. From the library of Daniel Conner and Henry Longfield Conner (Connerville / Manch House who owned several Volumes of the Freke Family – Library, many with Armorial Bindings from Trinity College Dublin). With an important, further historical gift-inscription: “A.G.Freke, Kingstown, Nov. 1903 – given to me by aunt Mary [Carbery].” [this is Mary Carbery and Algernon (Algy) William George Evans-Freke, 9th Baron Carbery from the family of Castle Freke, West Cork].