Altea Gallery Limited

Shop premises: Monday-Friday 10:00-6:00; Saturday 10:00-4:00.

Original Antique Maps, Rare Maps, Old Maps, Old Charts, Antique Prints, Wall Maps, Antique Atlases, Celestial Maps & Old Globes.

Antiqua Print Gallery

Online. Please book a viewing by appointment.

Dealers in rare, authentic & original antique maps, sea charts, star charts, town & city plans, wine maps, military maps & campaign plans, old botanical, animal & bird prints, vintage art, cartoons and engraved topographical views published from the 17th-20th centuries.

Ash Rare Books

Private premises: View by appointment.

General antiquarian books, first editions, etc., and with a small selection of antiquarian London books. Also London maps and a large stock of London prints.

Bryars & Bryars

Shop premises: Monday-Saturday 11:00-6:00

Antique atlases, maps and charts of all regions, 15th to 20th centuries, including London maps and prints, especially London Underground; general rare and antiquarian books.

Daniel Crouch Rare Books

Shop premises: Monday-Friday 10:00-6:00; Saturdays - by appointment.

Specialist dealer in antique atlases, maps, plans, sea charts and voyages dating from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Also prints and globes.

Garwood & Voigt

On-line: View by appointment.

Specialities: maps, atlases, prints, travel, etc.

Grosvenor Prints

Shop premises. Monday-Friday 10:00-6:00; Saturday 11:00-4:00.

A stock of over 100,000 prints.

Henry Sotheran Ltd.

Shop premises: Monday-Friday 9:30-6:00; Saturday 10:00-4:00.

The world’s oldest antiquarian bookshop. General antiquarian books. Has a very strong architecture department that always includes some unusual London material.

Island Books

Private premises: View by appointment.

Specialises in British topography, local history and genealogy, etc., including London material.

Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers

Shop premises opposite the British Museum: Monday-Friday 11:00-5:30, but mainly catalogue booksellers and appointments are preferred.

The leading specialists in 19th century literature, Dickens and Dickensiana, but can also be relied on to have London books, particularly in the fields of social and economic history, housing conditions, the London underworld, etc., as well as London literature. Also stocks antique folding maps of London.

Jonathan Clark Fine Books

Specialises in rare and out of print books on the history and development of architecture from classical times to the present day.

Marlborough Rare Books

Office premises: Monday-Friday 9:30-5:30.

Owned and energetically run by Jonathan Gestetner, himself one of the great collectors of London books. No-one is more familiar with the material. Issues London catalogues -- mainly of rarer and earlier books, but also more modestly priced 19th century items.

Nicholas Goodyer

Private premises and on-line. Please telephone first. Monday-Friday 9:00-5:00 by chance or by appointment.

General antiquarian books, with a small and select stock of antiquarian London books. Also folding maps of London.

Peter Whetman

Private premises. Issues an annual catalogue of books on London. About 1,000 London books can be viewed by appointment, including L.T.S. publications, complete runs and single volumes of the Record, etc.

Issues an annual catalogue of books on London.

Robert Frew Ltd.

Shop premises: Monday-Friday 10:00-6:00; Saturday 11:00-5:00.

An attractive general antiquarian stock, and often has some worthwhile London books. Also sells London maps, prints, etc.

Shapero Rare Books

Shop premises: Monday-Saturday 10:00-6:00; Sunday 11:30-6:00.

A large general antiquarian bookshop that always has some worthwhile London books. Ought to be visited to see the smartest antiquarian bookshop that has appeared in London for a good many years. Also stocks maps, prints, etc.

Skoob Books

Shop premises: Monday-Saturday 10:30-8:00; Bank holidays 10:30-6:00.

Second-hand academic books and historic London A-Zs.

The Tyger Press Ltd.

Private premises: View by appointment.

General stock, including London material.

Toby English

Office premises: View by appointment.

General stock. Strong on books on the Thames, and often has more general London books. Exhibits regularly at the London fairs. Issues catalogues on architecture, etc.

Unsworth’s Antiquarian Booksellers

On-line. Antiquarian booksellers, general stock, including London material.