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LONDON -- CROSS, J. Cross's New Plan Of London . London: n.d. [but c.1864]. Large hand-coloured folding lithographic map printed by E. Weller (864 x 1248mm), to the scale of 4 inches to one mile (approx. 1:13,699), title set within top border. (Lightly browned.) Contained in the original green cloth slipcase with printed green label (rubbed and soiled). Provenace : Henry Price (ink ownership inscription to verso dated Greenwich 20 April 1877). This version of Cross's map shows Victoria Station for the first time. Howgego 317 (14). [ Sold with :] MOGG, Edward. London in Miniature with the surrounding villages. An entire new plan . London: 1808. Hand-coloured folding engraved map (540 x 965mm), to the scale of 3 13/16 inches to one mile (approx. 1:16,619), compass star to north-western edge, calligraphic title to north-eastern edge, dissected and mounted on linen. (One small hole to paper panels at creasefold, a few other paper panels slightly fraying at edges, light browning and offsetting, linen browned and soiled to verso.) Contained in the original drab paper-covered slipcase with printed orange paper label to upper cover and printed paper label to verso with explanatory remarks (heavily rubbed with one edge holed and defective). Howgego 237 (3). [ Together with :] another issue of London in Miniature (1825), Howgego 237 (15a); [ and :] -- Mogg's Forty-Five Miles around London (London, 1834); [ and :] eight other 19th-century maps of London. (12)