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8. Tim Bryars Ltd |
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Early printed books, classical texts and translations, atlases and maps of all regions, mostly pre 1800, topographical and natural history prints.
8 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4HE
Tel: 020 7836 1901
Fax: 020 7836 1910
Email: tim@timbryars.co.uk
Website: www.timbryars.co.uk
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 11.00am-6.00pm; Sat 12.00-5.00pm
Member: ABA, IAMA |
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Tim Bryars arrived in the Court in summer 2004 and is enjoying life at street level, having spent some years admiring the tops of peoples' heads from a fourth floor office at Oxford Circus. His stock reflects an interest in sixteenth-century scholar printers such as Aldus, the Estiennes and Plantin; home-grown printers such as Baskerville and Foulis and editions of the Greek and Latin classics, both in the original languages and by English translators from Philemon Holland to Thomas Taylor. |
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| He also specialises in antique maps, from the pioneering work of Ortelius and Mercator in the sixteenth-century, via the Dutch golden age cartography of Blaeu and Janssonius through to the eighteenth-century German cartographers Homann and Seutter - by no means forgetting English map makers such as John Speed. Often very decorative, maps of this period reflect extraordinary strides in human knowledge and some equally bizarre misconceptions about the shape of the world. He also offers separately issued folding maps, topographical views and natural history prints including birds by John Gould and Buffon. He is one of the organizers of the London Map Fair, now held regularly at the Rembrandt Hotel in Knightsbridge and at Olympia in June. |
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