Caermarthenshire, an original antique map by G. Cole / J. Roper, published in London, c. 1804 -1810. A copperplate engraving, original colour. Map size 23 x 17.5 cm with a mount size of 41 x 33 cm.A detailed nineteenth-century map of Carmarthen that was published in the atlas, The British Atlas; Comprising A Complete Set Of County Maps, Of England & Wales; & Plans Of Cities & Principal Towns in 1810. The map was drawn by G. Cole & engraved by John Roper for publication in The Beauties Of England & Wales, that was published in parts, from c.1804. Such was the success of the publication that the maps were re-used in other publications, as here. The maps show accurate geographical detail, including the turnpike, mail coach & principal roads, sites of Roman & other historical remains, as well as the seats of the nobility & the gentry, & market towns with their distances from London. The maps also show the division of the counties into hundreds or wapontakes. They are representative of the functional nineteenth-century approach to cartography, yet are not unattractive. Antique maps from various original publishers are presented on the Stanford ...

Caernarfon in 1913 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map gives very good coverage of the town of Caernarfon, extending from Warfield Road southward to Is-Helen, the Gasworks & South Road, & eastward to St Peblig's church. Features include town centre with individual buildings neatly shown, the Castle, railway with station & southern approaches, Slate Quay, New Basin, wharves, Twt Hill, Castle Square, town walls, Territorial Headquarters, Segontium, chapels, schools, Royal Hotel, Turf Square, Afon Seiont, Open Air Swimming Baths, St Peblig's church, Borough Hospital for infectious diseases, schools etc. On the reverse is a 1910 trade directory of the town. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Caernarfon in 1913 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map gives very good coverage of the town of Caernarfon, extending from Warfield Road southward to Is-Helen, the Gasworks & South Road, & eastward to St Peblig`s church. Features the Castle, railway with station & southern approaches, Slate Quay, New Basin, wharves, Twt Hill, Castle Square, town walls, Territorial Headquarters, Segontium, chapels, schools, Royal Hotel, Turf Square, Afon Seiont, Open Air Swimming Baths, St Peblig`s church, Borough Hospital for infectious diseases, schools etc. On the reverse is a 1910 trade directory of the town. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Caernarvonshire 1610 Replica Map by the Old Map Company is a reproduction of the map created for the famous atlas of the period by the master map maker John Speede Esq. The Old Map Company has recreated the antique maps of British counties, European cities & World countries originally crafted by master map maker John Speede Esq. whose work had accuracy & quality not surpassed for centuries. Each map is treated & presented on specially crafted paper then h&-treated giving it texture & an aged appearance before being beautifully engraved & detailed. ...

Caerphilly Centre & North in 1915 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map covers the centre of Caerphilly & the area north & east, including Caerphilly Castle. The railway station is at the foot of the map, split by the sheetlines. Coverage extends eastward to Gwern-y-domen & northward along Pontygwindy Road. Features include town centre, with Market Place, Castle Street, picture theatre, Van Road, Bartlett Street, castle, Austin Foundry, Van, Castell y Van remains, Coed y Mardy, disused Rhos-Llantwit colliery, stretch of Caerphilly Branch railway heading north-east from town. On the reverse is a directory of Caerphilly in 1906. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Caerphilly West in 1937 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the western fringe of Caerphilly, stretching from Nantgarw Road & Caenant Road westward. Features include stretches of the GWR railway, including Aber Junction, Aber Junction Halt, Penyrheol Halt, Beddau Sidings, part of the Senghenydd Branch, etc. The former Barry Railway route is shown being dismantled. Other features include Old Furnace, Pen-yr-Heol, cemetery, Pandy, Omnibus Depot, Trecenydd area, etc. On the reverse is the 1929 Cardiff-Caerphilly-Rhymney timetable. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Ludwig Unter's life held such promise. His parents were artists &, from an early age, his own musical genius had marked him out for a stellar career in the world's concert halls. In his mother's imagination, Ludwig is already on the way to surpassing her most ambitious dreams for him. But in reality, & for now, he's playing in local cocktail bars & the two of them are living alone in a storm-lashed clifftop cottage in East Anglia. As the forceful winter seas bash away at the coastline, & Ludwig plunks away at the piano, he begins to tell a woman his story: a story of beauty & decay, of a child's faith & parental betrayal, & of the importance, in the end, of self-sacrifice. ...

In the 50s BC, Julius Caesar conducted a brutal war against the tribes of ancient Gaul. On the pretext of curbing an imminent barbarian threat to the Roman Republic, he first defeated & decimated the Helvetii tribe, before subjugating the other Celtic peoples who occupied the territory of what is now France. Caesar laid Gallic civilization to waste, but the cultural revolution the Romans brought in their wake transformed the Celtic culture of that country, as the Gauls exchanged their tribal quarrels for togas & acquired the paraphernalia of civilized urban life. The Romans also left behind a legacy of language, literature, law, government, religion, architecture & industry. From Marseille to Mulhouse, & from Orleans to Autun, Bijan Omrani journeys across Gaul in the footsteps of its Roman conquerors. He tells the story of Caesar`s Gallic Wars & traces the indelible imprint on modern Europe of the Gallo-Roman civilization that emerged in their wake. ...

** GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 **` Popular science at its best` Mail on Sunday` Eminently accessible & enjoyable` Observer With every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds in the Roman Senate, but the story of his last breath is still unfolding. In fact, you`re probably inhaling some of it now. Of the sextillions of molecules entering or leaving your lungs at this moment, some might also bear traces of Cleopatra`s perfumes, German mustard gas, particles exhaled by dinosaurs or emitted by atomic bombs, even remnants of stardust from the universe`s creation. In Caesar`s Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe & across time to tell the epic story of the air we breathe. ...

Europe is still a divided continent. In the place of a fallen Berlin wall, there is a chasm between the East & the West. Are these differences a communist legacy, or do they run even deeper? What divides us today? To say simply that it is the understanding of the past, or a different concept of time, is not enough. But a visitor to this part of the world will soon discover that we, the Eastern Europeans, live in another time zone. We live in the twentieth century, but at the same time we inhabit a past full of myths & fairy tales, of blood & national belonging, & the fact that most people are lying & cheating or that they have the habit of blaming others for every failure...` An intimate tour of life on the streets of Budapest, Tirana, Warsaw & Zagreb, as those cities continue to acclimatise to the post-Communist thaw, Cafe Europa does not provide easy solutions or furnish political pallatives. Rather as a Croatian with a viewpoint of ever-widening relevance, the value of Slavenka Drakulic`s wry & humane observations lie in the emotional force of their honesty & the clarity of their insight... ...