Brief details are shown below (Birmingham, Edinburgh, Gloucester, London and Reading). Please contact me for further information

1. Birmingham
Illustrated London News, c1858, 51x34, good condition (small tears from clips along centrefold)
(Dramatic view of the city to commemorate a visit by Queen Victoria. The foreground is a large cemetery with the Athenaeum behind. £95

2. Edinburgh

Matthew Merian, c1650, 35x20, very good condition (Merian's dramatic view of the town with Firth of Forth in background with ships. Title and shield. Two horsemen in foreground. From his Theatrum Europaeanum). £200

3. Gloucester (x2)
John Kip, c1712, 42x34, very good condition £275 each.

(A handsome view of the city with the Severn in the foreground. Full colour. The cathedral dominates the skyline of the city. Numerous ships are in the river or berthed at the port. Two men are shown fishing and there are travellers, horsemen, pack horses and a stage coach on the causeway approaching the city. From volume 2 of the Nouveau Theatre de la Grande Bretagne).

4. London
Illustrated London News c1860, c 1metre wide, excellent condition for an inherently fragile item (ragged edges to top and bottom and one tear in the plate surface). £950

(Huge panorama of the city, viewed from south of the river and stretching from Vauxhall Bridge to Blackheath in the east. Full colour. The Thames is thronged with activity; moving downstream, ferries, barges, paddle steamers, and ships. Accurate portrayals of buildings such as Buckingham and Lambeth palaces, Southwark and St Paul's cathedrals. Fastened to rollers and rolled into leather-backed cover. The photo shows a small detail of this extraordinary print)

5. London
Illustrated London News c1859, 55x34, good condition (creased centrefold with tears where the page was stapled) £110

(Dramatic view of the Chelsea and Vauxhall districts. The Vauxhall, Chelsea and Battersea bridges are shown. The width of the Thames is greatly exaggerated and the river is filled with paddle steamers, sailing boats and other vessels. Construction of the railway bridge to an as-yet unbuilt Victoria is underway. Chelsea Hospital lies in the centre and the Serpentine and Hyde Park are shown in the distance)

6. Reading

Buck, Samuel and Nathan, c1734, 79x30, fair condition, water stains, laid on card, £220

(Perspective view of the town with figures in the foreground. Key to 16 individual buildings. Historical account below.)