Map Walker J C (7 results)

Hardcover. folding linen backedcolour map of Shropshire, 42x 34.5cm, folding to: 12x 8.5cm, in theoriginal blind stamped brown cloth gilt titles on the upper cover, wornat the edges, good to very good (gar) ~ partial image.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Engraved By J & C WALKER (illustrator). Shows all the settlements coloured in red. Shows bays, mountains, volcanoes, islands, harbours etc. The map has a central fold, with a short tear in the margin which has been neatly mended.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Engraved By J & C WALKER (illustrator). Shows the German Military Posts and Villages situated along along the roads on either side of the Buffalo River in British Kaffraria, the railways etc. 4 insets of the Cape, the District of George, the Environs of Graham Town and Cape Town. The map has a central fold, with a short tear in the margin which has been neatly mended.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Engraved By J & C WALKER (illustrator). Gives the dimensions in square miles of all the islands, dividing them up into British, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish and Danish. Shows forts, volcanoes, harbours etc. The map has a central fold, with a short tear in the margin which has been neatly mended.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. WALKER, J &C (illustrator). Published by Longman, Ree, Orme , Brown & Co, London. Neatly engraved map showing towns with distances from London, villages, hills, wapentakes (indicated by no), parliamentary representation, places of election, railways etc. Title, scale and information top left, other information bottom left, compass top right. Minimal colouring only. Very good condition. YAS433.

Engraved map, 39 x 30.5 cms; 41 x 34 cms (sheet), relief throughout shown by hachures, publisher's or binder's numeric stamp (94A), the margins a little browned and chipped with loss to the two keys at the inner edge marking Indian and Persian distances but the map in very good condition. A highly detailed example of political and military cartography from the height of the Victorian era, capturing the Central Asian frontier at the dawn of the "Great Game". The map covers the expanse of Central Asia, stretching from the deserts of modern-day Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan down through Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. It maps out the Emirate of Bukhara in the north and the Desert of Khiva. It explicitly references the "Nomadic Tribes of Turkomans" roaming the steppes. Afghanistan is centred on the map, and displays the fractured geography of the Afghan kingdom. It details the treacherous mountain passes of the Hindu Kush, alongside the major strategic cities of Kabul, Kandahar, and Herat. Beloochistan (Balochistan) & Sinde (Sindh)anchor the southern third of the sheet, it routes down toward the coastline, showing the vast desert paths, tribal domains, and the mouth of the Indus River.

J & C Walker (map) (illustrator). 1st edition. 1st ed., 8vo., pp xxviii 793, fold. map, missing f.f.e.p., remains of removed pres. plate for f.e.p.d., ink stain to side edges affecting p. 769 - r.e.p.d., some very light foxing, uncut edges, folding map [4 maps on one sheet] by J & C Walker, good tight copy, or. cl. bds., library number to lower spine, bumped split corners, edges of spine splitting o/w very good condition. Copper-plate engraved map by Walker showing four maps on one sheet, the islands in the South Pacific: Friendly Islands; Sandwich Isles; Society & Harvey Isles; Eimeo & Tahiti. The author was a British Quaker missionary who ".set sail from the Thames on 13 Nov. 1833 in the Henry Freeling, a cutter of 101 tons, purchased and provisioned by private members of the Society of Friends. The ship arrived off Hobart Town on 10 Sept. 1834, and left in December, conveying James Blackhouse and George Washington Walker to Port Jackson and Norfolk Island on her way to Tahiti. During four or five months spent in that island Wheeler held many services, sometimes on board his ship, with the queen and the chiefs, the missionaries, English residents, and the crews of vessels in the harbour. Queen Pomare remitted the Henry Freeling's port dues because Wheeler's was ?a visit of love, and not a trading voyage? She again came to his meetings on the island of Eimeo. Christmas day 1835 was spent in the Sandwich Islands, and the first Quakers' meeting held there, attended by native chiefs, governor, and the queen. At Honolulu the Henry Freeling stayed some time, also at Rarotonga, the Friendly Islands, and Tongataboo. She made the Bay of Islands about a month before Christmas 1836, and on reaching Sydney in January 1837 was sold and the ship's company discharged. The ship's course was entirely without pre-arrangement, and directed from day to day by Wheeler's spiritual intimations. In a letter to a friend he illustrates his sense of divine protection by saying that he has been ashamed even in landing in canoes through the broken surf to use a life-belt which a friend had given him on leaving." (DNB). Wheeler also published a US edition, however, withouth the map. Ferguson 3537.