Atlas of the British Empire
reproduced from the original made for Her Majesty Queen Mary's Doll's House.
London,
Edward Stanford Ltd, Cartographers to the King,
[c1928].
Miniature book (43 by 34mm), title printed in red and black, contents, 12 coloured double-page maps, book plate to upper flyleaf, original red roan, lettered in gilt, edges gilt.
24530
notes:
A fine miniature atlas produced from the original made in 1922 for Queen Mary's Dolls' House.
The Dolls' House was built between 1921 and 1924 from the designs of the leading architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. The four-storey Palladian villa was constructed in 1/12 scale and it exhibited the finest British craftsmanship of the period. The Library consists of 200 books, which were commissioned to the leading names of the time.
Stanford's atlas is accurately d...
The Dolls' House was built between 1921 and 1924 from the designs of the leading architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. The four-storey Palladian villa was constructed in 1/12 scale and it exhibited the finest British craftsmanship of the period. The Library consists of 200 books, which were commissioned to the leading names of the time.
Stanford's atlas is accurately d...
bibliography:
Bondy, Miniature Books, p.153; Spielmann 13; Welsh 307.
provenance:
Speed’s map of Norfolk
Jarichs’ Solution to the Longitude Problem
A Rare Sly Moveable
The Meissen Mapseller
“a newe unexpected and neverheretofore discovered Passage” (Phillip)
A revolution in epidemiology – John Snow’s cholera map
Iran becomes acquainted with the potato
Miniature map of Japan
Views of Kyoto
Nagasaki
Nautical instrument maker’s shop sign
The first colour photograph from the Martian surface taken by Viking 1
The first state of Seller’s map of New Jersey
Hokkaido identified as an island
The Empire of Japan
Ballon d’Or
From the fourth edition of ‘Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas
Rare survey of Sandwich in Kent
“Attempt to redefine the lands north of Japan” 







