1923 Geographica Pocket Map of London, England

Click here if you do not see an image above.

Click here to check the availability of this rare map in our retail gallery. Add to Your Site: Permalink (click to copy): Embed Flash Image Embed Static Image

Title:    The Pictorial Plan of London.

Description:    This is a wonderful map of pocket map of London and published in 1923 by Geographia Ltd. Cover downtown London from the Hammersmith Bridge and Wormwood scrubs eastward past Hyde Park and Buckingham Place to Whitechapel Road and the London Docks. Features many of the buildings of London drawn in three dimensions. Insets in the lower right and lower left depict Theater land and Clubland, respectively. Both insets detail individual establishments as they existed at the time including the Ladies Automobile Club, the Athenaeum, the Palace Theater, the Hippodrome Theater and the Coliseum Theater, among many others. Notes stations on the London Underground.

Date:    1923 (dated)

Source:    Independent Issue.

References:    Johns Hopkins University Library, G5754.L7A5 s22.

Cartographer:    Geographia, Ltd. was a London based cartographic publishing firm active from about 1910 until about 1985. The company was founded by Alexander Gross (1879-1958), a Hungarian immigrant to the United Kingdom. Geographia is best known for its folding pocket maps and globes. In the later part of the 1980s the firm was bought out by Harper Collins and continues to produces maps under the Collins Bartholomew imprint. Click here for a list of rare maps from Geographia.

Size:   Printed area measures 29 x 19 inches (73.66 x 48.26 centimeters)

Condition:    Very good condition. Folds into original paper booklet. Original folds. Blank on verso.

Code:   London-geographica-1923 (Necessary for phone inquiries: 646-320-8650)