Altea Gallery Antique Maps & Charts London

Altea Gallery Antique Maps & Charts London Antique Maps of all parts of the World, Sea Charts, Atlases and Old Globes from the 15th to the 20th century.

Established in 1992, we are based in London's Mayfair. We supply Original Rare Maps and Decorative Prints. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, the International Map Collector's Society, the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Associationand the International Antiquarian Mapsellers Association

We are joint organisers of the year

ly "London Map Fair", which we host in June at the Royal Geographical Society. We are also exhibitors and active sponsors of the Miami International Map Fair, which is held every year in early February.

Singapore under Japanese occupation, ROYAL ENGINEERS OFFICE. 1945.Singapore & Johore Bahru. Fourth Edition.110 Map Produ...
24/03/2024

Singapore under Japanese occupation, ROYAL ENGINEERS OFFICE. 1945.

Singapore & Johore Bahru. Fourth Edition.
110 Map Production Company, Royal Engineers, y., June 1945. Chromolithographic map. Sheet 595 x 770mm.

A detailed British army map of Singapore on a scale of 1 inch to a mile, published during the Japanese occupation of World War II. It was prepared by the Royal Engineers with updates taken from aerial photography. The layouts of the airfields used by the Japanese, including Seletar, Tengar & Kallang, are shown. The map was published less than four months before the surrender of the local Japanese forces (12th September 1945).

For further details, check our website under ref:23956

Map of the city and university of Oxford, MOULE, Thomas. 1848.Title: City and University of Oxford.Printed: London, 1848...
24/03/2024

Map of the city and university of Oxford, MOULE, Thomas. 1848.

Title: City and University of Oxford.
Printed: London, 1848. Coloured. 205 x 265mm.

Town-plan of Oxford decorated with the coats of arms of the city and the colleges, as well as inset views of the town and the front of Christ Church. Originally engraved by John Cleghorn (1784-1873) in 1830 for Moule’s ‘English Counties Delineated’ series.
For further details, check our website alteagallery.com under ref: 23567
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Back in stock, at the special price of GBP 60 for UK delivery or GBP 75 worldwide to our instagram followers:A very well...
24/03/2024

Back in stock, at the special price of GBP 60 for UK delivery or GBP 75 worldwide to our instagram followers:
A very well written book about map collecting:

MANASEK, F.J.

Altea Gallery has become the sole distributor for the last remaining copies.
Collecting Old Maps. Revised and Expanded Edition by Marti Griggs & Curt Griggs.
Clarkdale, AZ: Old Maps Press, 2015. Hardback, cloth & illus. dustwrapper; pp. 352, illustrated throughout.

As new, still sealed.

A thorough guide to collecting antique maps, including chapters on what is available to the collector, deciphering dealers’ descriptions, assessing the quality of a map and caring for a collection.

First published in 1998, this second edition has been expanded, with many more illustrations.
For further information check our website under ref: 24238 We also have other interesting reference books on the subject of maps which can be viewed and purchased from our website or the gallery.

A plan of London early in the reign of Queen Victoria, CREIGHTON, R. 1840.A Plan of London and its Environs.London, 1840...
23/03/2024

A plan of London early in the reign of Queen Victoria, CREIGHTON, R. 1840.

A Plan of London and its Environs.
London, 1840. Coloured. 350 x 470mm.

A detailed town plan of London, engraved on steel by J. & C. Walker for Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary, published three years after Victoria became queen. The first railways into London have been built: the map marks the routes of the Greenwich, Croydon and Birmingham railways.

Check our website for further information under ref: 24093
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As we segue into the astrological sign of Aries, we have chosen the 17th century print by Johann Bayer from 1641.Zodiac ...
22/03/2024

As we segue into the astrological sign of Aries, we have chosen the 17th century print by Johann Bayer from 1641.

Zodiac sign Aries, Johann Bayer. 1641.

Title: [Aries.]
Printed in Ulm, 1641. Coloured with watercolour and gouache, stars highlighted in gold. Image size: 285 x 380mm.

An early depiction in print of the Zodiac sign Aries, engraved by Alexander Mair for Bayer’s ‘Uranometria’, a star atlas that shaped the way the heavens would be perceived for more than two centuries.
Johann Bayer (1572-1625), an Augsburg lawyer, was an amateur astronomer in the years just prior to the invention of the telescope. His most important innovation was a new system of identifying stars by Greek and Roman letters, known today as the Bayer designation. His ‘Uranometria’ (‘Measuring the Sky’), first published 1603, was the first celestial atlas to contain a chart of the stars in the Southern Hemisphere.

Check our website for further information under ref:19997

#1641 #19997

We are determined to leave the winter months behind us and look forward to the kinder, balmy days of summer. So we have ...
20/03/2024

We are determined to leave the winter months behind us and look forward to the kinder, balmy days of summer.

So we have already put this in our diary. Make sure you do too!

15th & 16th June at The Royal Geographical Society, the London Map Fair 2024. Admission is free.
Londonmapfairs.com



For more information on the stunning 1641 Hondius Double Hemisphere World Map in the image, go to our website and use stock number: 24127



#1641

18th century town plan of Peking, HARRIS, John. 1748.Plans of the Old & New City of Peking ye Metropolis of China.London...
19/03/2024

18th century town plan of Peking, HARRIS, John. 1748.

Plans of the Old & New City of Peking ye Metropolis of China.
London, 1748. Coloured. 350 x 215mm.

Plans of Old and New Peking, with an extensive key, published in John Harris’ ‘Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca, or Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels’.

For further details and images, check our website under ref: 23674
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Early 19th century satire of Napoleon Bonaparte’s ambitions for world domination.An Attempt to Swallow the World!!!Londo...
19/03/2024

Early 19th century satire of Napoleon Bonaparte’s ambitions for world domination.

An Attempt to Swallow the World!!!
London: William Holland, 1803. Etching with original hand colour. 325 x 250mm.

Napoleon Bonaparte is depicted with a grotesquely-large head, a globe stuffed into his mouth, with Switzerland and Italy about to disappear. On the other side of the world is Great Britain. Watching is John Bull, as an elderly, spectacle-wearing ‘cit’, who says ‘’I’ll tell you what, Mr Boneypartee, when you come to a little Spot I have in my eye, it will stick in your throat and choak you!’’.
A contemporary satire of Napoleon Bonaparte, published a month before his aggressive behaviour caused Britain to declare the short-lived Peace of Amiens to be over. He had annexed the Cisalpine Republic in northern Italy and sent troops into the Helvetian Republic. Although not mentioned on this satire, Napoleon was also negotiating the Louisiana Purchase (selling the French colony to the United States), knowing he could not protect it from the British in event of war.
For further details, check our website under ref: 23323

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A satirical map of Ireland, ALEPH [HARVEY, William]. 1869.Title: Ireland.Printed: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1869. 250 ...
17/03/2024

A satirical map of Ireland, ALEPH [HARVEY, William]. 1869.

Title: Ireland.
Printed: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1869. 250 x 210mm.

Anthropomorphic map of Ireland. The text below the image reads, ‘’And what shall typify the Emerald Isle? A Peasant, happy in her baby’s smile? No fortune her’s, though rich in native grace , - Herrings, potatoes, and a joyous face’’.
It was published in ‘Geographical Fun’, a charming atlas of caricature maps of European counties, drawn, according to the preface, by a fifteen-year-old girl to amuse her sick brother. The author was, however, William Harvey (1796-1873), a London doctor and journalist, best-known for his book ‘London Scenes and London People’, 1863. The maps contain many references to the political changes sweeping through continental Europe, with representations of Garibaldi and Bismarck.

For further details, check our website under ref: 23750
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A two-sheet map of Ireland, JAILLOT, Alexis-Hubert. c.1700.Title: Royaume d’Irlande divisée en ses Provinces...Printed: ...
17/03/2024

A two-sheet map of Ireland, JAILLOT, Alexis-Hubert. c.1700.

Title: Royaume d’Irlande divisée en ses Provinces...
Printed: Amsterdam, Pieter Mortier, c.1700. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 900 x 620mm.

A large and decorative map of Ireland, from Mortier’s issue of Jaillot’s ‘Atlas Nouveau’, with fine baroque title and scale cartouches and an inset showing Ireland’s position it relation to the rest of the British Isles.

It is based on Sanson’s map, which Jaillot had redrawn on a larger scale at the request of Sanson’s heirs.

For further details, check our website under ref: 8318

Lá fhéile Pádraig sona dhuitMarch 17th is St Patrick’s day, the patron saint of Ireland, so look out for some maps of th...
17/03/2024

Lá fhéile Pádraig sona dhuit
March 17th is St Patrick’s day, the patron saint of Ireland, so look out for some maps of the ‘Emerald Isle’ throughout the day.



Mid 19th century map of Ireland with decorative vignettes, John Tallis.

Title: Ireland.
Printed: London, J. & F. Tallis, c.1851. Original outline colour with faint additions. Steel engraving, printed area 345 x 245mm.

Detailed map of Ireland, drawn and engraved by John Rapkin, with five decorative vignettes including a view of St Patrick’s, Dublin.
The map was drawn and engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘The Illustrated Atlas, and Modern History of the World, Geographical Political, Commercial & Statistical’, edited by Montgomery Martin, which was one of the last decorative atlases to be published.

For further details, check our website under ref: 21568

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