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item 13 - BLAEU, Joan. Atlas maior

1 PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius Tabula Moderna Terre Sancte. [Leonardus Holle, Ulm, 1482].

O n E O f Th E EAr Li EST “MO dE rn” MAP O f PALESTin E PrinTE d in A n ATLAS – A fin E E x AMPLE wiTh riCh

Origin AL COLOU r

The great Greek geographer, mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and poet Ptolemy compiled his Geographia, a geographical description of the known world, in about AD 150. Although none of his original maps survived with the text, printed editions with maps were published from 1477 until 1730.

In 1482, Lienhart Holle in Ulm printed a new edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia edited and revised by the cartographer ‘Donnus’ (Dominus) Nicolaus Germanus. It was the first book printed by Holle, but its true importance lies in it being the first atlas printed outside Italy, the first with woodcut maps instead of copper-engraved, and the first with a signed datable map (see below). Holle presumably over-extended himself with its production and, two years later, his type and remaining printed sheets passed to Johann Reger, who reissued the work in 1486.

The atlas included five additional “modern” maps of non-Ptolemaic design: Italy, Spain, France, Scandinavia, and the Holy Land. In its greatest departure from the Ptolemaic model, the latter map shows the land of Palestine divided among the 12 tribes of Judaea. It also

differs from Lucas Brandis’s 1475 map of the Holy Land through its use of the geographical knowledge of the time, as opposed to Brandis’s religious approach. The first edition of Ptolemy’s atlas to include maps, published in 1477, did not include maps of countries in particular, but only groupings of several countries.

This map is based on a manuscript produced around 1320 in Venice by Pietro Vesconte and inserted into the Liber secretorum fidelium crucis by Marino Sanuto. It provided the basic image of the Holy Land until the 18th century. For this first printed version, Vesconte’s map was updated by Germanus to include more cities and textual information. It is oriented to the southeast as indicated by the lines of latitude in the top margin.

The 1482 maps were cut by Johannes of Armsheim, who signed the world map, and incorporated as his sign a backwards N (И) into the woodcut text on each map – as seen here in the name of the Mediterranean sea. Another important feature of this Ulm edition is the introduction of a publisher’s colouring upon the maps: a rich blue colour in the sea that was made using lapis lazuli, as is the case here. This was replaced with a soft brown colour in 1486.

Double-page woodcut map, 33.6 x 55.2 cm, original hand colour with blue finishing on the sea area and rivers; traces of centre fold, with some abrasion, paper beginning to split at border of brown areas through ink properties. Laor: 603.

ref: 91916

£18,500

PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius and Bernardus SYLVAnUS. Decima Asiae Tabula.

[Jacobo Pentius de Leucho, Venice, 1511].

Scarce map of India. One of the earliest examples of two colour printing.

From Bernardus Sylvanus’s Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini liber Geographicae..., published in Venice in 1511. The editor - according to his apologia in the introduction - deliberately decided to edit Ptolemy’s maps to insert more modern information.. This bold step, needless to say, met with only partial success principally because Sylvanus relied on already outdated information, or felt unable to depart radically from long-standing geographical conceptions.

ref: 67499 £2,750

Woodcut printed in red and black on two leaves, leaf split and re-joined, backed with japan on verso. Dimensions (sheet): 41 x 55 cm.

PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius and Bernardus SYLVAnUS.

Quinta Asiae Tabula.

[Jacobo Pentius de Leucho, Venice, 1511].

One of the earliest examples of two colour printing: a scarce map showing the southern part of the Caspian Sea, from Assyria to Carmania and Hyrcania, now mostly provinces of Iran.

Woodcut

printed in red and black on two leaves (sheet: 41 x 55 cm). Leaf split and re-joined, backed with japan on verso, trimmed into text at right margin, several small areas of loss skilfully infilled.

ref: 67504 £1,750

BALLinO, giulio Disegni delle piu illustri citta e fortezze del mondo. Bolognino Zaltieri, Venezia, 1569.

A VErY gOOd ExAMPLE, wiTh widE MArginS, Of ThE firST EdiTiOn Of OnE Of ThE EArLiEST TOwnBOOkS, published three years before Braun & Hogenberg’s masterpiece.

A LOVELY PrOdUCTiOn Of ThE gOLdEn AgE Of VEnETiAn CArTOgrAPhY, UnCOMMOn COMPLETE, wiTh A nEw PLAn Of MExiCO CiTY

Its 52 engraved maps, plans and bird’s-eye-views include mostly Italian cities, European cities and fortresses, such as Antwerp, Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna, as well as impressive views of Constantinople, Jerusalem and Tripoli. They gather a wealth of information, especially on warfare and through dense keys; they are all but one enlightened by descriptive text.

The last plan, most unusually, shows Mexico, in a version which, for the first time, deviate from the much copied 1524 Cortes map of Tenochtitlan (Mexico city). Braun and Hogenberg as well as Porcacchi copied Ballino’s plan later, in 1572.

“Some of the items have the imprint of Domenico Zenoi and are dated between 1566 and 1568. They include topical battle and siege maps depicting recent campaigns against the Turks. The titlepage refers to ‘Part I’, but no other parts were published” (Shirley).

Zenoi also signed the opening map of Veneto and Austro-Hungary, Descritione dell’Austria, et Ongheria, Transilvania [etc.], dated 1567 and one of two mentioning his printing privilege, just recently obtained, in December 1566. Some engravings, especially the views of Venice, of

Constantinople and the 1566 representation of the Ottoman army in siege, are signed by Paolo Forlani. About two thirds of the plans were previously published in 1567 by Forlani and Zenoi in the first Italian townbook, without text on the back however, Il primo libro delle città, et fortezze principali del mondo. The other third was newly created and engraved, maybe by Zenoi, for Bellino’s publication.

Provenance: Earls, then Marquesses of Lothian, Newbattle Abbey, Scotland (important library of manuscripts and 15th to 18th-century publications, often illustrated, including a “perfect copy” of the 1462 Bible, and books of antiquities, architecture, natural history, geography and topography, as well as maps and atlases; partially sold in 1932 in New York, the remainder acquired in 1950 by the National Library of Scotland; armorial bookplate with motto: “Nemo me impune lacessit; Sero sed serio” and Library booklabel to front pastedown).

Quarto (28.2 x 24.5 cm). Engraved title, table of contents with map on verso engraved by D[o]m[eni]co Zenoi, and 50 [but 51] double pages consisting of 2 full-page (No. 46) and 49 double-page maps, mostly engraved by Zenoi, some by Forlani, most dated 1566 and 1567, all maps with printed letterpress text on the back, except No. 41, 43 and [44a] without text, and 44 only text without map, [2] pp. index at end; marginal waterstain at beginning, lighter towards pp. 15-19. 17th-c. mottled calf gilt, marbled edges; joints weak and splitting, rubbed, spine head defective, front flyleaf torn. Shirley T.BALL-1a/b; IA 112.045; Adams B 138; Apponyi 428; Zenoi’s map is Tooley, Italian Atlases, 125.

ref: 90477

£19,500

BrAUn, Georg and Frans hOgEnBErg Colonia Agrippina [Cologne, Köln]. Braun and Hogenberg, Cologne, 1572.

Published in the first volume of the Civitates orbis terrarum (Cities of the World) - the first systematic depiction of cities ever undertaken. It was primarily produced to complement Ortelius’ contemporary atlas, the Theatrum orbis terrarum (Theatre of the World). This monumental 6-volume compilation was one of the best-selling works of the late 16th-century, completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617.

This wonderful engraving of Cologne is a “birds-eye”, rendering the city in tremendous detail. Important public and religious buildings, streets, individual houses

and gardens and public spaces are all engraved with tremendous skill and precision. Cultivated fields beyond the city walls feature, together with a wealthy merchant, his wife and 2 daughters in the lower left corner. The map is further embellished with attractive and tasteful decoration, including 3 cartouches containing important historical notes, and two shields of the city of Cologne and that of the Imperial Banner.

Double-page engraved plan with contemporary full hand-colour (33.5 x 48 cm), French text to verso; light marginal repairs, central fold flattened. Framed and glazed; framed dimensions: 46 x 59cm. Koeman/Krogt, IV, 2091, State 1.

ref: 87974

£1,950

BrAUn, Georg and Frans hOgEnBErg. Moscauw [Moscow]. [Antwerp, after 1575].

A beAutiful exAmple of this striking decorAted mAp, celebrAting moscow under ivAn the terrible finely coloured with good mArgins

This beautifully coloured map is taken from the great 16th century work Civitates orbis terrarum. Based on Sigismund von Herberstein’s own 1547 map, it shows the city of Moscow from a slightly elevated viewpoint across the frozen Moskva River. The walled centre of the city is depicted with its many churches and rows of houses, and filled with people and horsedrawn sleighs, others of which are shown, along with skiers, on the river to the right. In the top left corner is the nicely adorned coat of arms of the city. In the foreground are depicted four armed Russian soldiers on horseback. The German caption above them indicates they are wearing the typical “Moscovite war armament”. These graphically reflect the growing military power of Moscow under Grand Duke Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible), who was the first to assume the title of Tsar of Russia and who established the city as the capital of the Grand Duchy of Russia in 1547, not long before this image was made.

Next to the soldiers appear two types of cattle, typical for the region. The first one is the European bison and

the right one the auroch, an extinct type of large wild cattle that inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa. As the aurochs became rarer - becoming extinct in 1627, hunting it became a privilege of the nobility. Both images together with the caption in German, telling the difference between the two species (”This is a bison, called Suber by the Poles, Bisont or Damthier by the Germans, and aurochs by the ignorant” and “This is an urus, called Tur by the Poles, Aurochs by the Germans and bison by the ignorant”), are also based upon Herberstein’s famous work on Russia from 1556.

The text on the back is in French. “Scarcer are the copies with German or French text. (...) It seems that the Civitates was mainly intended for the educated reader: there are far more editions in Latin than in German and French” (Koeman). First published in Cologne in a series of six volumes between 1572 and 1617, the Civitates attempted to present, for the first time, a systematic account of all the major settlements and cities of the then-known World. The subsequent atlas proved hugely popular with the new urban merchantile elite, who were hungry for information on the far flung cities of the world.

Double-page engraved map with fine hand-colour. Dimensions: 350 by 490mm. (13.75 by 19.25 inches).

ref: 91097

£2,750

AUrOChS in frOnT Of MOSCOw - A grEAT ‘MAP-ViEw’ Of A grEAT CiTY

SAVIGNY, Cristofle de. Tableaux accomplis de tous les arts libéraux. J. & F. de Gourmont, Paris, 1587.

rAre exAmple of sAvigny’s primer of the liberAl Arts, with its mAp of the world, based, according to Shirley, upon the world map in Belleforest’s edition of Münster’s Cosmographia, published in Paris in1575.

Savigny’s encyclopaedic work catalogues and illustrates the various disciplines comprising human knowledge. Seventeen woodcut engravings illustrate in organisational charts the various components of human knowledge, each one followed by an accompanying text. Each section (each of two leaves) is devoted to: the liberal arts generally; grammar; rhetoric; dialectic; arithmetic; geometry; optics; music; cosmography (with a very small world map); astrology; geography (with the more important world map); physics; medicine; ethics; jurisprudence; history and theology. Each section consists of a chart or schema with an elaborate woodcut border, generally with woodcuts inset within an oval frame, and a printed schema, followed by a leaf of closely printed explanatory text.

The book is dedicated to Ludovico Gonzaga, Prince of Mantua and Duke of Nevers and Rethel, and grandson of Isabella d’Este, important cultural and political figure of the Renaissance. The author visited the Duke in 1581 and quickly became a friend and a confidant.

Savigny, a prominent intellectual and statesman in sixteenth century France, is often considered the very first encyclopedist, foreshadowing in his Tableaux… the achievements of Diderot and other 18th- century French writers of the Enlightenment. His work was greatly admired by Francis Bacon, who reworked Savigny’s schemata in his 1605 On the advancement of learning. The Tableaux itself was published a second time in 1619.

Broadsheet (45 x 37.5 cm). Engraved title page with publisher’s note on verso, [2] ll., 17 broadsheet woodcut maps each followed by one explanatory page; some old ownership inscriptions to title, without the engraved dedication leaf, some leaves shorter in the lower or the fore margin, incl. title, occasional skilful repairs to lower right corners. Recent half-calf over plain boards, spine gilt in compartments; boards slightly rubbed. Dimensions of the map itself: 10 x 19.5cm. Shirley 159; Mortimer French 484; Schaer, p.183, 15.

ref: 79154 £1,950

8 ORTELIUS, Abraham. Typus Orbis Universalis. ‘Ab. Ortelius describ. cum priuilegio decennali. 1587.’ [Antwerp, 1601].

OnE Of ThE MOST iCOniC MAPS Of ThE wOrLd.

Abraham Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is regarded as the first printed modern world atlas, first published in 1570. A dedicated the scholar, Ortelius revised and updated his atlas until his death in 1598, seeking out the best maps of the regions of the world to improve the geographical coverage of the atlas. In this quest, he prepared three different world maps; this is the third, and most up-to-date, dated 1587, but first used in 1588; indeed, as the most accurate, it is the only version that Ortelius signed himself.

It is notable for the large southern continent, labelled ‘Terra Australis Nondum Cognita’ and the fabelled northwest passage below the ‘Terra Septentrionalis Incognita’, giving a good summation of contemporary geographical knowledge.

Through the great popularity and commercial success of the Theatrum, this map received wide distribution, and achieved considerable influence over subsequent publishers.

Hand-coloured copperplate engraving, 35.5 x 49 cm.

ref: 86978 £5,500

9 three maps not in the 1601 Spanish edition. Copies are known with a portrait of Le Maire, but this is not called for in the list of plates. In addition, the small map on the title-page is noteworthy for being the first cartographic depiction of California as an island.

hErrErA Y TOrdESiLLAS, Antonio de Novvus Orbis, sive descriptio Indiae Occidentalis... Metaphraste C. Barlaeo. Accesserunt & aliorum Indiae Occidentalis descriptiones, & navigationis nuperae Austrlis Jacobi le Maire historia, uti & navigationum omnium per Fretum Magellanicum succincta narratio. Colijn, Amsterdam, 1622.

ThE firST COMPLETE ACCOUnT Of ThE LE MAirE-SChOUTEn

ExPEdiTiOn ArOUnd ThE wOrLd, ThE firST TO SUCCESSfULLY rOUnd CAPE hOrn, And ThE firST EdiTiOn in LATin, ExPAnding SignifiCAnTLY ThE MAdrid EdiTiOn Of 1601.

The first two parts of the book concentrate on the New World and include fine maps of Central and South America, with those on the Pacific coast adding a great deal of new geographical knowledge. Of primary importance, however, is the second part containing the description of the great Dutch navigator Jacob Le Maire’s 1615-1617 voyage in search of Terra Australis. Le Maire’s rounding of Patagonia via Cape Horn impacted navigation in many ways, but principally by dispelling the idea of an imaginary Southland. Michel Colin issued simultaneous Latin, French and Dutch editions of this work, adding

The suite of maps form an early (fourth) atlas of the Americas, principally focused on the Spanish orbit, issued as an encouragement just as the Dutch focus on the Western Hemisphere turned to settlement.

Provenance: Henry N. Stephens (inscription on endpaper dated 21 August 1884, recording the price £1.10); A.H. Bright (armorial bookplate).

Four parts in 1 volume, folio (36 x 24 cm. approx.), [4], 44, [3], 46-81 [i.e. 82], [1],[1], 2-9, [1] 2-11 leaves, 110 leaves, without final blank, engraved additional title, 17 engraved folding maps, 5 engraved illustrations; light toning, light marginal dampstaining, letterpress title slightly soiled and with small chips to corners. Nineteenth century red roan-backed marbled paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt; extremities a bit rubbed. Alden & Landis 622/70; Borba de Moraes I, 400; Burden 195-198, 201-206; JCB (3) II, 165; Sabin 31540; Wagner Spanish Southwest 12c.

ref: 90829

£25,000

SPEED, John.

The Kingdome of China. newly augmented by I.S 1626. George Humble, London, [c.1627].

A fin E f ULL COLOU r E x AMPLE O f Th E fir ST E diTi On O f S PEE d’S MAP O f Chin A . The map includes a portion of India within the Ganges region, extending well into Central Asia. There are some interesting notes on various historical and mythical aspects of China, including a region where men are seduced by wonderful illusions and dirt is spun into cloth. The map extends from the Bay of Bengal to the Pacific Ocean including the west coast of North America, Korea is shown as an island and Japan is also curiously depicted. Twelve delightful vignettes adorn the borders, with the side borders depicting 8 figures in regional dress, the upper margin depicts the views of Macao and Quinzay, the crucifixion of the 26 Jesuit martyrs, and a most ingenious method

of Chinese land travel. Published in A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World, the first world atlas compiled by an Englishman.

John Speed (1552 – 1629) was an English cartographer and historian. The young John was fascinated by the study of maps and antiquities. As a reward for his work, Queen Elizabeth granted Speed the use of a room in the Custom House. He published the first atlas of the British Isles, the Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine in 1612, for which he is justly famous; in 1627, in the twilight of his career he issued a companion world atlas, from whence this map comes.

Hand-coloured engraved double-page copperplate map; light restoration, neatly re-margined. Dimensions: 38 x 51.5 cm.

ref: 86965 £5,000

BLAEU, William. Asia noviter delineata. [Amsterdam, mid 17th century].

A magnificent carte-a-figures, with the peoples of Asia depicted in the right and left borders, and vignettes of major cities to the upper border: Candy (Kandy), Calecuth (Calcutta), Goa, Damascus, Jerusalem, Ormus, Bantam (Banten), Aden and Macao.

First published as a loose sheet in 1617, Blaeu based it upon his magnificent wall map of 1608, which, in turn, drew on Hondius’ folio map of 1606. It was subsequently incorporated into Blaeu’s atlas from 1630 onwards.

Hand-coloured double-page engraved map. Dimensions: 45.5 by 59 cm. Framed and glazed Koeman: 8000:2.

ref: 86928 £4,000

JANSSONIUS, Johannes and Georgius HORNIUS (Georg Horn). Wall Map of The Tribes of Israel (Hornius Map of the Holy Land).

[c.1652-84]

An uncommon wAll-mAp, covering the lAnd of modern dAy isrAel And beyond - from the southern tip of the Dead Sea and Edom region to the Golan Heights and modern day Lebanon.

The map was included in the sixth volume of Janssonius’ Novus Atlas, the Accuratissimia Orbis Antiqui Delineatio, an atlas of historical geography, first published in 1652; the following year, an introduction by Georgius Hornius was inserted, and the atlas (and this map) is sometimes known by his name. Hornius (a.k.a. Georg Horn or Horne) was a German historian, geographer, theologian and professor of History and Geography at Harderwijk and later in Leiden. The publisher, Johannes Janssonius was a famous successful Dutch cartographer and publisher. He owned several bookshops in Germany, Sweden and Switzerland. In 1630s he formed a partnership with his brother-in-law Henricus Hondius, also from a booksellers family, and together they published atlases as Mercator/Hondius/Janssonius.

Janssonius’ depiction is based on an earlier map by Christian Kruik van Adrichem, published in 1590.

A small in-set map at the upper-left corner depicts Abraham’s and the Israelites journey through the desert. The main map is divided to ‘Nahalot’ (plural of ’Nahala’ - meaning inheritance or property in Hebrew - the name of a piece of land that was given to each Israeli tribe). Each Nahala is marked with the name of its tribe. Also many famous biblical scenes can be found on the map, at the presumed place of occurrence: the smoking ruins of Sodom and Gomorra soaking in the Dead Sea; Moses looking across the Jordan River near the entry point of the Hebrews to the land of Milk and Honey (two rays of light coming out of his head); the prophet Elijah departs in his chariot of fire; Joseph’s tomb near Beit-El; Samson’s fight with the Lion; Samson releasing the three hundred foxes onto the Philistine’s land; future King David hiding from King Saul in a cave near Ein Gedi and so on.

Copper engraving, 85 x 179 cm. the complete map comprising 6 parts on 8 conjoined sheets, an excellent example. Koeman 8150:D/1-6.

ref: 90663

£3,750

item 13 - BLAEU, Joan. Atlas maior

A BEAUTifUL ExAMPLE wiTh An iMPOrTAnT PrOVEnAnCE

And ViBrAnT hAnd-COLOUring, AS wELL AS widE MArginS in A COnTEMPOrArY Binding

With 594 hand-coloured engraved maps in 11 volumes covering the entire known world, the Atlas Maior was also the largest and most expensive book published in the seventeenth century. With its high typographic standard, lavish presentation in vivid colours, and often luxurious bindings, Blaeu’s Atlas remained the standard world atlas and premier product of the Dutch publishing industry, the most prestigious in the world, for over a hundred years and frequently served as the official gift of the Dutch Republic.

The atlas is justly famed for its ‘carte-aux-figures’ maps of the continents, the 58 maps devoted to England and Wales, the first printed atlas of Scotland, the suite of 25 maps of America, including important early maps of Virginia, New England and Brazil, and Martini’s Atlas of China, the first European atlas of this country.

The scale and success of Blaeu’s atlas is due in no small part to the impetus provided by the fierce competition between the Blaeu and Janssonius publishing houses. Until the late 1620s, the European market for world atlases was dominated by the Mercator maps published by Jodocus Hondius II and, later, by Johannes Janssonius. However, following Hondius’ death in 1629, and the growing competition in publishing sea charts and pilot books, the Blaeu business seized its opportunity to publish a grand world atlas: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum or Atlas novus.

The project did not get off to a swift start and, at the time of the death of Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638), only two volumes had been published. However, his eldest son, Dr Joan Blaeu had joined the business in the 1630s and continued the task, publishing a volume for Italy in 1640, one for England in 1645, and another for Scotland in 1654. In doing so

“Joan Blaeu eclipsed his chief rival, Johannes Janssonius, who, from this time, never matched the quantity of volumes and maps in Blaeu’s magnificent atlas” (Fleet).

In 1662 Joan Blaeu published this famous Atlas in Latin - the version offered here. This was followed by editions in French (12 vols.), Dutch (9 vols.), Spanish (10 vols.) and German (10 vols.). The detailed collation is available on request.

wiTh A finE PrOVEnAnCE, rEMAining ALMOST 300 YEArS in ThE SAME STATELY hOME: the large armorial bookplate with twenty-four quarterings was engraved for John Cecil (1648-1700), fifth Earl of Exeter and sixth Baron Burghley. One of the first to popularize the ‘Grand Tour’ of Europe, he became known as the “Travelling Earl”. He was a great art connoisseur and during his four trips he collected most of the paintings which are still in place at Burghley, the largest and grandest Elizabethan house in England. He had married Anne Cavendish the only daughter of the 3rd Earl of Devonshire and widow of Lord Charles Rich. As daughter of one of the richest men in England and widow of another, she brought further wealth into the Cecil family, which included a large collection of jewellery, furniture, plate and porcelain. The fifth Earl was the later of two notable Cecil book collectors. The father of the first Earl, the Elizabethan statesman William Cecil, first Baron Burghley (1521-98), gathered an extensive library with some important manuscripts. The fifth Earl acquired important books published in the 15th to

BLAEU, Joan. Atlas maior, sive Cosmographia Blaviana, qua solum, salum, coelum, accuratissime describuntur. Blaeu, Amsterdam, 1662-65.

firST LATin EdiTiOn Of “ThE grEATEST And finEST ATLAS EVEr PUBLiShEd” (koemAn).

ThE TrAVELLing EArL’S SUPErB COPY, frOM BUrghLEY hOUSE

17th century, which were kept in Burghley House until the mid-20th century, explaining the fine state of conservation of this copy of Blaeu’s Atlas.

Provenance: ‘The Right Honourable John Earle of Exeter Baron Cecil of Burghley’ (armorial bookplate on title versos, with motto ‘Cor unum, via una’; Highly Important Printed Books and Manuscripts from […] the Marquess of Exeter, Burghley House, Christie, Manson & Woods sale, 15 July 1959, lot 127, sold £1,050 to Hammond (most probably Frank Hammond, bookdealer), described

as “finely coloured by a contemporary hand, some heightened with gold […] a fine copy”).

Eleven volumes folio (57 x 37.5 cm). With 10 title-pages and allegorical titles illuminated in gold and colours, 594 double page maps and plans, as well as many engravings in the text, all in superb contemporary gouache colour; only very few leaves slightly browned. Contemporary mottled calf gilt, red morocco gilt title-pieces, probably bound for the Earl of Exeter; spines rebacked and restored, keeping the lettering pieces.

Koeman I. BL 56

ref: 91948

£500,000

LONGHI, Gioseffo. Gran Cairo. Longhi, Bologna, 1670.

Under Ottoman rule since 1517, Cairo expanded south and west from its nucleus around the Citadel. It became the second-largest city in the empire, behind only Constantinople.

We could not trace it in the usual bibliographies and couldn’t find any other copy in Western libraries.

The map reflects this economic and cultural effervescence. On the river Nile, which separates both sides of the city, are depicted numerous trade boats and sailors. The Ottoman influence can be

seen in people’s clothing in the foreground as well as in the city’s architecture. On the left are soldiers battling as part of a tournament and on the right, the famous pyramids of Giza: Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure, as well as smaller pyramids. The centre of the city contains numerous mosques and gardens. The letterpress text pasted under the engraving gives mostly historical and geographical information on the city, in Italian and Latin.

Longhi’s panorama seems to draw various aspects from previous works to create its own original representation of the Egyptian city. Indeed it bears some resemblance with, for example, Braun and Hogenberg’s 1572 Cairos, quae olim Babylon; Aegypti maxima urbs, published in the famous Civitates Orbis Terraru. It shows also some similarities with La Gran Citta Del Cairo published in 1575 by the Venetian Donato Bertelli; as well as with the French soldier and traveller Henry de Beauvau’s Le Grand Caire map, which appears in his 1615 Relation iournaliere du voyage du Levant published in Nancy by Iacob Garnich.

These plans probably all derive from the woodcut panorama credited to Matteo Pagano, 1549 (or based on a Venetian engraving derived from it), this parentage clear in that the maps all depict the city from the same viewpoint and on a similar scale. Longhi’s map even takes up some of the ornaments of the Civitates map, such as the two people riding a horse and a donkey in the foreground.

According to scholars, Gioseffo or Giuseppe Longhi (1620-91) issued a series of views of Italian and foreign cities between 1654 and 1674. A publisher, bookseller and archepiscopal printer, he was active in Bologna from 1650 up to his death. Not only did he publish maps, but he was also a prolific literary editor. He notably published all of Italian playwright Giacinto Cicognini’s works for theatre.

Engraved view 2 sheets joined, letterpress text pasted below, overall dimensions 62 x 94.5cm, text in 4 columns in Italian and 4 cols. in Latin detailing the “Descrittione del gran Cairo... Cairi quae olim Babylon” with the publisher’s imprints, watermark Panzano; some small marginal tears repaired, light marginal fraying to upper left. Tooley, Mapmakers III, 150 (Giuseppe. L.) and Schulz, Venice 70 (cf Arrigoni/Bertarelli)

ref: 90479 £7,500

15 HAGEN, Christiaan, van der. Composite Atlas of Leiden. [Amsterdam, Leiden, 1670-1724].

A finE COMPOSiTE ATLAS Of MAPS And ViEwS Of ThE CiTY Of LEidEn, wiTh hAgEn’S fAMOUS wALL-MAPS, BOTh LArgE And SMALL And BOTh COMPLETE. iT inCOrPOrATES LEidEn’S AdMiniSTrATiVE STrUCTUrE in BEAUTifUL, STrOng COnTEMPOrArY hAnd-COLOUr

The large wall-map, issued in 1670, is engraved on 10 double-page and 4 full-page mapsheets, while the small wall-map, issued five years later, is printed on 3 double-page mapsheets. Both maps include lovely engraved views of the city, especially the 9 larger views of the 1670 map.

Very interestingly, the atlas, compiled in the early 18th century, includes five separate versions of the small map: one complete with the title and the views, and four focusing only on the plan of the city, all four coloured by hand to make visible various aspects of the city. With some paper slips and other letterpress titles pasted on the engraved sheets, these four versions show: the extensions of the town, the Fire Brigade quarters, the division of the town in the

eight companies of the citizen’s militia and the town quarters. The atlas gives therefore a unique insight in the organisation of the city at the turn of the century.

The volume also includes Reeds’ 1717 mapping of the siege of Leyden in 1573-74, as well as van der Aa’s issue of a map of part of Holland originally due to Visscher. The detailed content of the atlas is available on request.

Born in Bremen c. 1635, Christiaan van der Hagen worked as an engraver in Amsterdam from c.1660 until his death in 1688. He is mostly remembered for these impressive wall-maps.

Large Folio. (55 x 33 cm). Composite atlas comprising 23 engraved mapsheets incorporating two large multi-sheet wall-maps and 6 double-page maps (4 with fine original hand-colour with a separate letterpress title and key pasted to bottom), title leaves of the large map somewhat browned, upper joint weak, blind tooled vellum with rules and ornamental centre piece with arabesques, gilt, small split at headband, spine in 10 compartments with raised bands, gilt; spine splitting. Map 1: Overvoorde, Cat. van de prentverzameling Leiden (1906), nr. 81; map 2: Overvoorde, nr. 86; maps 3a-d: Overvoorde, nrs. 87, 88, 91 and 92; map 4: Overvoorde, nr. 3934; map 5: cf. Koeman III, p. 162, (45).

ref: 71676

£27,500

VERBIEST, Ferdinand.

Typus eclipsis lunae, Anno Christi 1671, Imperatoris Cam Hy decimo, die XVto Lunae iiae, id est, die XXVto Martij, ad Meridianum Pekinensem (…) = Kangxi shinian eryue shiwu ri dingyou ye wang yueshi tu (…). [Beijing, 1671].

A grEAT rAriTY wOrk BY ThE JESUiT MiSSiOnArY VErBiEST dEALing wiTh LUnAr ECLiPSES.

This work by Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-1688), the famous Flemish-born Jesuit missionary, mathematician, and astronomer, is an illustrated prognostication of a lunar eclipse of March 25, 1671. Verbiest, being responsible for the calendar, needed to compute the lunar eclipses for the next year for each of the seventeen Chinese provinces. The emperor wanted to have this data six months in advance, so all regions of the empire could be notified in time. This scroll shows the phases of the lunar eclipse of March 25, 1671, in seventeen drawings, one for each province. The legend is in Chinese and Manchu.

Sometime after 1684 a small number of copies were brought back for distribution in Europe by another Jesuit missionary, Philippe Couplet. However, only one copy of this scarce item appears in auction records: the Sir Thomas Phillipps-Philip Robinson copy which made £13,750 (then $26,265) in 1988 at Sotheby’s.

Golvers records 17 copies: 15 in institutional libraries (4 in Belgium), and 2 copies in private hands to which we can add the present copy. As with the copy held in Münich, the present work has the title in Chinese on a separate strip of paper and tipped on in the Chinese manner (Golvers TE 1671.11).

Octavo (24 x 28.3 cm). Woodcut, printed in three colours on two sheets of mulberry paper, folded into 18 sections as a leporello. Latin title, Chinese-Manchou incipit and explicit, and 18 folds for the eclipse map (complete). The diagrams are in black with the visible sections of the moon coloured in yellow, with violet for the arches of the intersection between earth and moon.

Golvers “Verbiest and the Chinese heaven” (2003) pp. 446-456 nr. TE 1671 (ext. descr.). Dudink “Chinese books” (KBR 2006) pp. 96-97. De Backer/Sommervogel VIII c. 577-578 nr. 15. Cordier “Sinica” II 1451-1452.

ref: 84702

£75,000

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SPEED, John. Map of Russia. Sold by Thomas Basset in Fleetstreet, and Richard Chiswell in St. Paul’s Churchyard, London, [1676].

A highly decor Ative m A p of r ussi A from J ohn s peed ’ s ProsPect of the Most fa Mous Parts of the World, the first world Atl A s published by A n englishm A n , A dded for the first time to a posthumous edition issued by Basset and Chiswell. The map was apparently drawn by Fyodor II Borisovich Godunov of Russia (15891605), son and successor of Czar Boris Godunov, who was murdered shortly after succeeding his father. A copy of the map came into the hands of Hessel Gerritsz, a leading Dutch cartographer, who issued a printed version in Amsterdam in 1613, with the plate passing to Willem Blaeu and remaining in use into the 1660s, when it came to the attention of these London publishers.

Basset and Chiswell were leading London booksellers, specialising in law and theological books; somehow they acquired the original plates for Speed’s atlases and set about printing new editions. To bring the world atlas up to date, they inserted maps of New England, Virginia, the Carolinas, Barbados and Jamaica, the East Indies and this map of Russia, signed by the engraver Francis Lamb.

As an antiquarian, Speed (1552 - 1629) liked to populate his maps with additional material. This map contains a number of decorative insets and vignettes. At top left is an inset map of Moscow titled The famous and imperiall City of Moscow, and to the right are vignette views of Narva, Archangel, the Emperors court, a Hott House (steam bath house) and a Mill House. Above the title cartouche is “The Habit of Russians” showing three figures in native costume, one of whom is holding the Imperial Russian coat of arms with emblazoned double-headed eagle.

The English text on verso (page number 54) provides a fascinating 17th Century description of Russia.

With the pictorial content, coupled with their age and historical importance, and the descriptive English text on the verso, Speed’s maps are among the most popular series by any English mapmaker.

Hand-coloured copper-plate engraving on paper, figural cartouche, with an inset bird’s-eye view of Moscow in the top left corner, five other inset views; trimmed closed to platemark, light browning in the centre, light trace of fold, minor occasional repairs.

18 SPEED, John. The Kingdome of Scotland. Roger Rea, London, [1665].

A beAutiful And outstAnding mAp of scotlAnd, first produced by the famous English cartographer, John Speed (1542-1629) in 1610-11, in his atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain

This later state is flanked by delightful portraits of common folk inserted at the time of the Commonwealth. There is an inset map of the Islands of Orkney in the upper right corner. The map has many decorative features; a pair of royal coats of arms, a Scottish mileage scale, galleons, sea monsters, an ornate compass rose and a scrolled title. The fascinating, historic map provides a wealth of detail, and is of tremendous general interest.

This is a rare example, as most examples of the Rea edition printed in 1665 were destroyed in the Great Fire of London.

Hand-coloured double-page copperplate engraved map. English text on verso. Dimensions: 38 × 51 cm; Framed dimensions: 47 x 59cm Chubb xxiv; Skelton 11.

[MORDEN, Robert]. Suffolk [Playing Card].

[London, Morden, 1676].

A lovely example of this scarce map, taken from Morden’s 52 Counties of England and Wales, Geographically Described in a Pack of Cards.

This is the sought after first edition, in its second state, with the names of the neighbouring counties added (absent from the first state, published at the same date).

Engraved playing card (six of hearts); a bit soiled.

ref: 91212

£500

[BELGIUM] - DU VIVIER. Carte des campements de Gemblours [sic] de Longchamp de Hemptines, d’Acoche et des ennemis le 25 May le 3 le 6 et le 8e Iuin 1692. Late 17th-early 18th century.

A detAiled mAnuscript mAp of the 1692 siege of Namur showing the camps north of the fortified city, from Gembloux to the forest of Marche les Dames.

The Siege of Namur was one of the great battles of the Nine Years War between King Louis XIV of France and a European-wide coalition, the Grand Alliance. The city of Namur, now located in Belgium, was a highly strategic asset because of its impressive fortress as well as its position on the confluence of the Meuse and the Sambre. The French forces led by Vauban, the renowned military engineer, launched their siege on 25 May. Louis XIV came in person to oversee the siege and support his troops. However the citadel managed to hold for 36 days, thanks to the skill of the commander of Menno von Coehoorn. Three years later, Namur was retaken from the French by the allied forces of the Grand Alliance.

The present map is a precious testimony to this historic battle. It depicts military positions around Namur in great detail, notably the troops of “the Prince of Orange”, that is, King William III of England. Also mentioned are all the woods, castles, towns and points of interest in the area. In addition to this geographical precision, the map is very nicely coloured as the woods appear in green, the military camps in red and turquoise, the rivers in light grey and the important information in brown and black ink.

Relying on the ink inscription below the cartouche, this map can be attributed to Du Vivier or a close follower. Du Vivier was the cartographer and engineer of the Duke of Maine, one of Louis XIV’s illegitimate children. Duval’s widow published in the late 17th century a map made by Du Vivier of Namur and environs.

Manuscript map in black ink with details in brown ink, forests and military positions in colour, signed in the lower right corner “par du Vivier”, 33,7 x 48,4 cm, mounted on canvas (little wholes in canvas, small dampstains), folds, small handwritten inscription at the back dated 1794.

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[IRELAND] - ROMER, Wolfgang William. Carte van Corc met een nuw retranchement gefortificeert ende gerepareert op ordre van sijn excellentie de heer baron van Ginkel, lieutenant general van sijne maiest. Armee in Irland. 1690.

Romer was a Dutch military engineer in service of William of Orange (William III of England). He took part in the campaigns of 1690 and 1691 Williamite War in Ireland and was employed on the fortifications of Cork, Longford and Turles. In September 1690 Cork was besieged by William of Orange’s army, commanded by the Duke of Marlborough, and captured after a short siege, when the heavy shelling opened a breach in the city walls.

Rare, hand-coloured fortification map drawn by Wolfgang William Romer (1640-1713), a large groundplan of Cork depicting fortifications constructed by King William, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and the Baron de Ginckel. The plan is surrounded by the legend, the title, with coat-of-arms and seven nicely executed and detailed perspective drawings of some fortifications with artillery, labelled “Perspectifs profiel van koning Williams fort”.

Manuscript map 52.5 x 73.8 cm; trace of central fold, small tears, one a bit crudely repaired at verso.

ref: 85231

£6,750

iMPOrTAnT MAnUSCriPT PLAn BY An EYE-wiTnESS

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[LONDONDERRY]

pAir of mAps relAting to londonderry, including A fine mAnuscript mAp.

The first is a town plan of Londonderry prepared for the “Theatrum Europaeum”, published by the German Matthaus Merian, his sons, and their heirs, between 1633-1738. Londonderry was the first “planned” city in Ireland, begun in 1613, with the walls completed in 1619. The plan depicts the siege of the city, with Williamite forces - supporters of William of Orange, the Protestant claimant to the throne - besieged by Jacobite forces - those loyal to the Catholic King James II, begun in April 1689. The siege lasted for one hundred days, ending when the city was relieved by the Royal Navy. This plan shows events of the siege, fighting, troop movements along the River Foyle and so on, with warships depicted in the river.

The second is a beautiful, and finely executed, watercolour, centred on Londonderry and surrounds. The map contains a considerable amount of detail for the towns and villages along Lough Foyle, local roads, hills, mountains and woodland are all highlighted. Soundings are given both for the River Foyle and Port Sully. The draughtsmanship, and style, certainly suggests a French military engineer at work.

1. Copper engraved plan with compass rose; light spotting. Dimensions: 35.3 x 26.5 cm. 2. Watercolour plan with figurative cartouche and compass rose; small marginal tears without affecting the image, slight tear to lower central fold. Watermark: D&C Blauw [Dirk et Cornélius Blauw; a common and long-lived French watermark] Dimensions: 53 x 69 cm.

- Belagerung Londonderry. [With :] Plan de la Baye Foyle et du Port Sully. [c. 1690-1730].

ref: 86515 £2,500

HOGEBOOM, A[ndries]. [Bird’s-eye view of Ambon and the hinterland with Fort Victoria in the foreground]. 1693.

The Dutch United East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC) was the first multinational corporation in the world and the first company to issue stock. The island of Amboina (Ambon) in the Moluccas, or Spice Islands, was captured by the VOC from the Portuguese in 1605 and, in 1623, the Dutch ensured their monopoly with the destruction of an English settlement in the ‘Ambon Massacre’.

To implement its commercial monopoly, the VOC established company factories for the collection of produce, pressured individual rulers to do business solely with the company, controlled the sources of supply of particular products (clove production, for example, was limited to Ambon, nutmeg and mace to the Banda Islands) and, in the eighteenth century, pushed through a system of so-called forced deliveries and contingencies.

The map shows the town of Ambon or Amboina, which at the time was the principal Dutch settlement in the Spice Islands, and the VOC’s regional administrative headquarters and factory in Fort Victoria. The plan includes the rampart around the residential area completed in 1683, and the outermost ramparts of the castle, with an indication of the premises destroyed by the great fire of 1687. Francois Valentyn, the Dutch historian and author of ‘Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien’ (Dordrecht, 1724-26) was Calvinist minister on the Spice Island of Amboina from 1686 to 1694 and again from 1707 to 1712.

The view bears a striking resemblence to a smaller unsigned bird’s-eye view in the Bodel Nijenhuis Collection at the Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden (COLLBN 002-09-010) which, in turn, is apparently modelled on a c.1655 chart by Johannes Nessel, held in the National Archives (cf. VEL 1327).

Andries Hogeboom (fl.1680-1690) was a little-known Amsterdam engraver, unknown to Wurzbach and Thieme-Becker. He is credited by Tooley for Nicolaas Visscher’s Exactissima Helvetiae, RhaetiaeValesiae..., which was subsequently used in the Janssonius townbooks in 1682 and, later, by A. Braakman in the Atlas Minor in 1706, as well as two other maps by Visscher: S. Imperium Romano-Germanicum oder Teutschland and Groningae Et Omlandiae, c.1684.

The present example has been described and illustrated in Dr. A.G. de Roever et al., Volume III ‘Malay Archipelago and Oceania’ of the Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch United East India Company (Asia Maior/Atlas Maior Publishers in collaboration with the Netherlands National Archives, the Royal Dutch Geographical Society, and URU-Explokart/Utrecht University, to be published October 2008). item 281.

Manuscript wall map executed in pen and ink and watercolour, oriented with southeast at the top, a detailed alpha-numeric key at upper left indicates buildings of importance and significant geographical features, scale bar (approximately 7 inches to 9 Rijnlandse roeden - c.1:2,000) in cartouche at lower right, substantial area of loss at upper left and in several sections towards centrefold infilled with old repairs, signed and dated ‘As. Hogeboom’, ‘1693’. Dimensions: 1050 × 1420mm (41.25 × 56 inches).

ref: 75700

£12,500

JACOBUS [Admiraal]. Veelderhanden Schepen... 1702.

VErY UnUSUAL dUTCh ALLEgOriCAL MAnUSCriPT drAwing

wiTh A hEAVY nAVAL ThEME. The main image is set around a solid plinth, which contains a small, sketchy map of the English Channel, with part of the South Coast with the Isle of Wight, part of the northern French coastline and the Channel Islands. The map is overlaid with lettering in Dutch, a date and probable name of the artist and his naval rank.

The plinth is flanked by a boy blowing hard on a conch shell. On his right is the figure of Poseidon, trident in his left hand, looking at a Dutch merchant and maiden, who are in conversation with each other.

On the plinth itself are two maidens and a wealthy nobleman, gazing intently upon a beautiful celestial globe of the heavens. One maiden, adorned with the symbol of the sun and the moon, is holding a pair of dividers, measuring a distance on the globe.

In the foreground are a set-square and compass, a sextant and anchor, with an assortment of nautical instruments. In the background, a fine pair of Dutch merchant ships are featured, with their sails full, and their pennants and flags flying proudly in the wind.

A beAutiful And most uncommon item, perhaps planned to be a frontispiece.

Ink, pencil and sepia wash colour drawing on paper. Framed and glazed; frame dimensions: 43 x 51cm.

ref: 84508

£4,950

item 25 - SELLER, J[ohn]. The Coasting Pilot...

A PrEViOUSLY UnrECOrdEd COASTing PiLOT

25 SELLER, J[OHN]. The Coasting Pilot Describing the Sea Coasts, Chanells, Soundings, Sands, Shoals, Rocks and Dangers, The Bayes, Roads, Harbors, Rivers & Ports with the Buoyes, Beacons, and Sea markes, upon ye Coasts of England, Holland, Flanders & France.

Printed for Jer: Seller & Cha: Price, Hydrographers at ye Hermitage Stairs in Wapping, London, [c.1703].

An APPArEnTLY UnrECOrdEd COASTing PiLOT, published by Jeremiah Seller and Charles Price.

Jeremiah Seller (c.1675 - c.1720), son of the cartographer John Seller, was a mapmaker, instrumentmaker, publisher and Hydrographer to the Queen. In 1698 he joined his mother, Elizabeth Seller, in carrying on the business of his father and, one year later, they joined into partnership with Charles Price. In c.1705, complaints over the quality of their instruments caused Seller and Price to lose their contract with the Admiralty and, as a consequence, the firm was forced into bankruptcy.

As the National Maritime Museum Catalogue makes clear, Seller’s publications were extended and updated as they appeared. This example comprises 13 doublepage charts, mostly published previously by Seller in various works, but also including Moxon’s 1657 Plat of the Channel, as well as A Draught of the Narrow’s Describeing the New-Channel between the Spell and Last, the origin of which we couldn’t trace. A detailed list of the 13 maps is available on request.

Folio (47 x 31 cm). Engraved title, 13 double-page engraved charts, one chart and numerous coastal profiles within text, owner inscription ‘John White, Capt.’ to flyleaf; slight waterstaining to upper and lower margins of title page. Contemporary full calf, panelled boards; header of spine detached.

ref: 81350 £35,000

[CHÂTELAIN, Henri Abraham]. Atlas Historique, ou Nouvelle Introduction à l’Histoire, à la Chronologie à l’Geographie Ancienne & Moderne; Représentée dans de Nouvelles Cartes, ou l’on remarque l’Etablissement des Etats & Empires du Monde, leur Durée, leur Chute, & leurs differents Gouvernements... Freres Chatelain, Amsterdam, 1705-21.

Although the main focus of the text was geography, the work also included a wealth of historical, political, and genealogical information. Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684-1743), his father Zacharie Chatelain (d.1723) and Zacharie Junior (1690-1754), worked as a partnership publishing the ‘Atlas Historique’ under several different Chatelain imprints, depending on the Chatelain family partnerships at the time of publication, as it was reissued by the two surviving brothers in 1732-39.

The sixth volume relates mostly to the Americas and contains the ‘Carte très curieuse de la Mer du Sud’, depicting the history of discovery in the western hemisphere from the time of Columbus to the French explorations in North America up to the late seventeenth century.

In addition to the maps, many of which are based on such as those of Dapper, Chardin, le Bruyn, Le Hay and others, covering China, Japan, Persia, Egypt, Russia as well as the Americas there are early images of native peoples, such as “Esquimaux”, “Hurons”, “Iroquois”, “Cannibales”, “Hottentots”, “Namaquas” etc.

Provenance: Count de Renesse, Antwerp (bookplate to upper pastedowns, blue stamp to titles).

Seven volumes folio. Engraved allegorical titles to vols I, II and IV, 280 engraved plates including maps, genealogical tables, many plates with inset vignettes of arms and portraits, some double page or folding; prelims with some foxing and toning. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, each compartment comprising a sphere and decorative scrolled foliage, or with decorative foliage only, raised bands in gilt; some wear to the joints and boards, corners slightly bumped.

Koemann II, cha 1-7; Tooley 80; Wagner 511; McLaughlin 190; Goss, North America 52

A pAir of lArge mAnuscript mAps of two spAnish fortific Ations, in An uncommon, much stylized design

The first is an idealized low level bird’s-eye view of the harbour fortifications of Alicante, on the Costa Blanca. During the War of the Spanish Succession, Alicante was besieged by the Chevalier d’Asfeldt on 30th November 1708, and the town itself taken in December that year, although the castle held out until 19th April 1709, when the British defenders were evacuated by sea. During the siege, the French exploded a huge mine under the walls of the town, which killed the British commander, General John Richards, and caused extensive damage. Perhaps this visualization was created as a suggested reconstruction of the defences at about this time.

The second is a stylized plan, by the same hand, of the Castello Montgri, the fortress of Torroella de Montgri, in north-eastern Spain on the Costa Brava. The fortress was built between 1294 and 1302 on the orders of King Jaime II of Aragon as a defence against Mediterranean pirates who used the facing Illes Medes as a base for raiding the coast. It was designed on a square plan, with towers on each corner, on a vantage point giving it an excellent view of the coast and Illes Medes.

The mapmaker seems confused; while the castello is on the mainland, the implication of the plan is that it was on Meda Gran, one of the larger islets; however the fortress on the island was destroyed when the cliff underneath gave way and collapsed into the sea, before the map was drawn. The fortress was rebuilt later in the eighteenth century, but then intended as a military prison.

Two manuscript maps, with ink and watercolour, on sheets of 62.5 x 86.7 cm each; light trace of fold in centre, Montgri map with small areas restored, small closed tears and backed with Japanese paper.

ref: 65654 £5,000

[SPAIN] - Desegno del Porto de Alicante in Hispania [With:] Desegno del Isola et Forteza di Mon=gri les Medes, in Hispan. [c.1708].

HUSSON, Pierre (publisher). Variae Tabulae Geographicae in quibus loca in orbe bello flagranta... [Title in French and Dutch]. Diverses cartes de geographie, ou l’on peut voir le theatre de la guerre dans tout le monde. Comme dans les pais de Flandres, de Brabant, de Liege... de Pologne, de Moscovie, en Amerique, &c.... Geographise Land-Kaarten.... Husson, La Haye, [c.1708].

An inTErESTing COMPOSiTE ATLAS wiTh rArE MAPS And PLAnS, clearly assembled to order for a British client, dating from the latter part of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-13). From 1709 the full-scale war had petered out as Britain, who underpinned the Grand Alliance, lost the political will to wage further war.

The atlas begins with the Blaeu/Valk world map on a polar projection and Visscher’s set of maps of the continents; thereafter the maps relate to the theatres of the war.

The atlas is significant for containing an important sequence of maps and plans by the Dutch publisher Anna Beek, including the Battle of Wynendale, with letterpress text dated 1708, and plans of Barcelona, Ulm, Dendermonde, Ghent and Douai. As these were originally sold separately, they are now rare and much sought-after.

Other notable inclusions are van der Plaat’s rare plan of Turin and Carel Allard’s map of southern Portugal, with a second sheet of accompanying insets designed to be pasted outside the lower border. The general map of the Mediterranean is formed of the two southern sheets of a wall-map of Europe also by Allard, with a paste-over title to convert it to the new purpose.

The English owner inserted Edward Castle and David Mortier’s small plan of Gibraltar (1705). Castle was essentially a bookseller with premises near the Palace of Whitehall, who dabbled in map-publishing,

specialising in news-sheet maps depicting important current events, including the Battle of Blenheim (1704) and two plans of the capture of Gibraltar in 1705. Mortier, brother of the great Amsterdam publisher Pieter Mortier, was an important mapseller, particularly of imported maps, but also published maps, topographical prints and such-like from his shop on the Strand, a shopping street near the Law Courts. As suggested, the partners produced two plans of the siege; the first as an expensive production, advertised as “A new most exact and Accurate Plan of the Town, Castle, Moles and Bay of Gibraltar, which shews all the Fortifications on the Land-side, and the Enemies Approaches, done by Order of His Highness George, Landgrave of Hesse Darmstadt; together with a Relation of the Siege of that place, in 3 Sheets of Royal Paper, 3 foot and a half long, and 3 foot deep. Sold for 2s. ...”.

When their rival, John Senex, brought out a smaller (cheaper) plan, Castle and Mortier moved quickly to protect their market, advertising “Whereas there is publish’d a small Plan of Gibraltar, by J. Senex in Cornhill, which being imperfectly Copied from a large Plan sent over by the Prince of Hesse d’Armstad, one half of the Enemy’s Approaches being left out. This is to give Notice, that next Week will be Publish’d by the Proprietors of the said large Plan, an Epitome or Copy of the same in Little; which will be sold for 3d. ...” (‘Daily Courant’, 21st April 1705).

Both versions of the Castle and Mortier plans are rare, the British Library’s example only recently acquired and uncatalogued.

Folio (52 x 32 cm). Letterpress title in red and black, 50 engraved maps, 49 double-page including one folding and one single-page, later 18th-century index in an English hand on front free endpaper (no.30 severely cropped, no.39 lightly cropped, blank fore-corner of no.25 repaired, few small neat repairs, numbered in pencil throughout), ink inscription; bound in later attractive vellum.

ref: 83788

£15,000

MORTIER, Pieter. Amsterdam, [Pieter Mortier, c.1710].

A selection of wonderful c ArtogrAphic plAying c Ards in fine originAl colour

By the early 18th century the cartographic range of playing cards was almost completely dominated by one important family of map makers, the Amsterdam map publishing group founded in 1685 by Pieter Mortier (1661-1711). After his death, as his son was underage, the business was continued by his widow Amelia and brother David; his son Cornelis took over control of the business in 1721, and continued it in partnership with Johannes Covens, as Covens & Mortier, on into the 1780s under later members of the families.

Extant sets of the cards can be found with a rulebook, bearing the imprint of Covens and Mortier, but it is likely that the cards were first published by Pieter Mortier towards the end of his life.

All playing cards are rare: designed for play and being of small format, they were extremely vulnerable to damage from handling, and easy to loose, making the pack incomplete and therefore a candidate for being thrown away, so even individual playing cards of this age are difficult to find on the market and particularly desirable for the collector.

Playing card,s fine original outline hand-colour. Dimensions: 8.3 × 5.3 cm. Mann Collection, 1125; Mann, Sylvia & Kingsley, David, ‘Map Collectors’ Circle No. 87: Playing Cards Depicting maps of the British Isles, and of English and Welsh Counties’, p. 23, No.11; King, Geoffrey, ‘Miniature Antique Maps’, p.160.

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[Playing Cards of Africa].

A great series, including all parts of Africa. The cards are: Biledulgerid, Madagascar, Monomotapa, R[oyaume]. De Nubie, Zanguebar, Cafferie (including South Africa), R[oyaume]. de Congo, Guinee, Pays de Negres, Le Saara ou le Desert, Barbarie, l’Egypte, and the continent itself, L’Afrique.

ref: 80355 £3,000

Turquie en Asie.

Including Turkey, Cyprus and the Levant countries.

ref: 80352 £1,250

Isle de Borneo.

ref: 80343 £950

N.B.: Other countries may be available; please feel free to inquire.

STALPAERT, Daniel. Platte-Grondt van de Oude en Nieuwe Royinge der Stat Amsterdam. Johannes Covens & Cornelis Mortier, Amsterdam, 1662 [but c.1730].

Rare wall map of Amsterdam by the States’ architect Daniel Stalpaert (1615-76), flanked by the arms of the city and the principal families, commissioned by the city, under the guidance of a committee that included Johannes Blaeu, with a list of dedicatees, the city councillors, along the lower border.

The mid-seventeenth century was a golden age for Amsterdam, a time of great wealth and growth, but it became clear that the existing urban area was too small; in the late 1650s Staelpaert was tasked with preparing a blueprint for the expansion of the city, on a network of new canals. His new streetplan was approved in 1658 and his plan published in 1662. The building work began in 1663; many of the new properties were built by the wealthy, hence their relative grandeur. Among the many new streets constructed was Herengracht.

This plan shows Amsterdam at the height of her powers; but, even as this development celebrated Amsterdam’s success, the city was brought low by an outbreak of bubonic plague, which lasted from 1663 to 1666, brought to Amsterdam on the same ships that generated her wealth, and which killed 10% of the population.

Large engraved wall-map on 6 sheets joined, mounted on linen, edged in blue silk (123 x 161.5 cm); light wear to old folds.

ref: 86787 £20,000

SEUTTER, Mattheus. Representation Symbolique et ingenieuse projettée en Siege et en Bombardement, comme il faut empecher prudemment les attaques de L’Amour. Augsburg, [c.1730].

rAre And Amusing Allegoric Al mAp of love, that recasts the female pursuit of the male as a siege, depicting in familiar eighteenth-century battle plan conventions, with large decorative title cartouche upper right, showing the heart as a fortress, upper centre, surrounded by The Frozen Sea without Passion

(Mer Glacee Sans Passion), the territory to the left staging the Attaque d’ L’Amour, orchestrated from the Camp de L’Amour, lower left, which houses the Tentes de General Cupido, with Le Palais de l’Amour surrounded by La Mer d’Inquietude, which is bordered by the Jardin de Plaisir, lower centre.

Engraved map with original hand-colouring; repairs verso at head and foot of central vertical fold and to lower right corner, short split in upper margin. Dimensions: 50 x 58 cm. Framed and glazed: overall dimensions 62 x 70 cm.

ref: 86401 £2,950

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[ITALY] - Plan des Attaques du Chateau du Milan, Faites le 17 Xbre par l’Armée de France et de Sardeine commandée par le Duc de Savoye et M.Le Mach. de Vilard. 1733.

Beautifully drawn plan of the Milan fortress during the War of Polish Succession, showing the besieging army’s trenches and batteries, as well as Milan’s defenses.

Starting in October 1733, a combined FrancoSardinian army, numbering over 40,000 and led by Charles Emmanuel, rapidly took control of Milanese territory without significant opposition from the roughly 12,000 Austrian troops defending the duchy.

The army was joined in November 1733 by the 81-year-old French Marshal de Villars, who disagreed on strategy with Charles Emmanuel. After the conquest of Tortona in February 1734, the fighting season slowed and the army camped for the winter. Villars asked to be recalled in May 1734 but died en route to France.

Provenance: From the Library of the Dukes of Luynes.

Manuscript hand-coloured plan, cut in two sections and laid on contemporary colour linen. Size : 20.4 cm x 31.8 cm.

ref: 90045 £1,450

STRAHLENBERG, Philipp Johann von. An Historico-Geographical description of the north and eastern parts of Europe and Asia; but more particularly of Russia, Siberia, and Great Tartary. Brotherton, London, 1738.

The author, the Swedish officer Philipp Johann Tabert (1676–1747), ennobled Strahlenberg, spent 10 years in Siberian captivity between 1711-1722 after the defeat of Charles XII. During his stay in Russia he collected information and material on the languages and people of Uralic and Altaic stock, which became the basis for the present work.

The text is of great importance, offering much first hand information - geographical, historical, and ethnographic - about Siberia and Great Tartary. The work also includes early descriptions of the linguistics of the region, with a Kalmyk vocabulary including the translations of Mongolian words. The most important aspect of the present work, however, is Strahlenberg’s rare and significant map representing the Russian realm and Great Tartary, containing extensive information regarding Siberia. Preparing the map, Strahlenberg used his own latitude calculations, as well as expedition accounts written by others.

This copy is of the second English edition (after the first edition in German in 1730 and the first English of 1736), with the map specially re-engraved by Richard William Seale. It comes from the library of the Bickford family, who resided in the historic country house Dunsland in the parish of Bradford near Holsworthy in Devon, England. The manor was home to four generations of the Bickford family from c. 1830. The house was sold in 1947 and subsequently destroyed by fire twenty years later.

Provenance: Bickford Dunsland (inscription to title).

Quarto (22.7 x 17.5 cm). xii, 463pp., with large folding map by R.W. Seale, folding woodcut map, folding table, 10 engraved plates (3 folding including 1 map), woodcut tables and illustrations in text (some full-page); inscription in ink to title, repaired small marginal tear to pp. 311-312. Contemporary calf, gilt ruled covers, spine with raised bands, gilt lettering to second compartment, gilt decorative ornaments to the others; neatly rebacked to style. Cox I, 194; Crowther 2034.

ref: 91008 £8,750

An ExCELLEnT COPY Of ThiS CELEBrATEd STUdY Of rUSSiA And MOngOLiA, COMPLETE wiTh ThE LArgE MAP; wiTh finE EngLiSh PrOVEnAnCE.

36 DU HALDE, [Jean-Baptiste]. [Large Scale Map of Tibet and environs on nine sheets. London, T. Gardner for E. Cave, 1738-41].

Du Halde’s remarkable large scale map of Tibet published in E. Cave’s English edition of the important Description of the Empire of China and ChineseTartary, together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet.

The maps are:

1. The first Sheet included in ye Map of Tibet, containing ye West end of ye Great Sandy Desart & ye Country about Ha’mi [or Khamul, in little Bûkharia.]

2. The Second Sheet of Tibet, containing the Country [of Little Bûkharia] to ye West of Tursan.

3. The Third Sheet included in the map of Tibet, containing the parts [of Little Bûkharia] about Kathghar.

4. The fourth Sheet comprized in the Map of Tibet containing in particular the country of the Tartars of Koko Nor.

5. The fifth Sheet, which is properly the first, of Tibet, as bounded by China & including the country of the Si-san.

6. The Sixth sheet, which is properly the Second of Tibet, containing the Country to the East of Lasa.

7. The Seventh sheet, which is properly the third sheet of Tibet, including the Country in the Neighbourhood of the Tsanpû to the west of Lasa.

8. The Eighth sheet, which is properly the fourth of Tibet, exhibiting the Origin of the Tsanpu and Ganga or Ganges.

9. The Ninth Sheet of Tibet, containing amoung others, ye Country of Latak [or Ladak].

Engraved map on nine sheets, a few sheets with loss to upper margin. Dimensions: (sheet) (1) 37.5 x 51cm; (2) 41 x 35cm; (3) 41 x 34cm; (4) 38 x 53cm; (5) 55 x 40cm; (6) 52 x 43cm; (7) 53 x 42cm; (8) 44 x 36cm; (9) 44 x 36cm.

ref: 78969

£3,600

[BELGRADE]- Environs de Belgrade. 1717 [but c.1740].

fine detAiled mAnuscript plAn of the siege of belgrAde of 1717, during the Austro-Venetian-Ottoman War of 1714-18. It shows the fortifications of Belgrade, the lines of investment of the Austrian army, and the Austrian camp.

At the head of a 100,000-men army and the Danube flotilla Prince Eugene besieged the fortified city, defended by 30,000 men. However he soon found himself caught between two fires, with an Ottoman army sent to relieve Belgrade and arriving behind

the Austrians. The issue of the siege was becoming critical for the Austrians, when they were suddenly helped by a powerful explosion: a mortar shell struck the powder magazine inside the fortress and 3,000 defenders were killed. Prince Eugene then successfully attacked the Ottoman army, and the garrison of Belgrade surrendered in exchange for safe passage from the city. The twin successes are one of the high points of Eugene’s glittering military career.

Provenance: From the Library of the Dukes of Luynes.

Manuscript hand-coloured plan, cut in four sections and laid on contemporary colour linen. Size : 66.8 cm x 49.7 cm.

ref: 90041 £3,500

DURELL, Philip. A Plan of Cumberland Harbour on ye So. Side of Cuba formerly call’d Walltenam Bay most humbly Dedicated to his Royal Highness William Augustus Duke of Cumberland &c. &c. &c. Paul Fourdrinier Sr. Separate publication, London, 6th November 1741.

think. It is better known today as Guantanamo Bay, the site of the American base on Cuba.

Philip Durell was an important surveyor in the British Royal Navy, a Lieutenant at the time of the War of Jenkins’ Ear, but finishing his career as an admiral. Durell served aboard Sir Edward Vernon’s fleet during that admiral’s campaign against the Spanish in the West Indies and littoral of Spanish South and Central America.

As a talented surveyor, and eye-witness to the main battles and sieges of the campaign, Durell’s many charts and plans are an important record of these events, and were eagerly published by the leading London cartographic publishing-houses to entertain and inform the domestic market anxious for news of the campaign.

This fine plan is of Cumberland Bay on the south coast of Cuba, named in honour of the dedicatee, with regard to what the Spanish possessors might

After his failure to capture Cartagena, Vernon landed at ‘Cumberland Bay’ with the intention of attacking Santiago de Cuba and subduing the whole island. However, it soon became apparent that the plan was doomed to failure, and the British sailed away. Evidently, while based there, Durell carried out the survey, and assigned English names to the landmarks - notably ‘Durell’s Cove’, a particular foible of his - but these names lasted only as long as the British took to sail over the horizon.

Of grEAT rAriTY, presumably because the expedition it depicts was a failure. The British Library has an original manuscript version of this map, as well as this printed version, but they are the only British institutional examples listed on COPAC, with no example in the National Maritime Museum or Library of Congress, for example.

The imprint notes that the map could be purchased for 1s. black and white or 2s. coloured.

Engraved map, once preserved by being folded to pocket format. Dimensions: widest: 471 by 574mm.

ref: 81863 £4,000

A finE ExAMPLE Of ThiS VErY rArE MAP

39 [PRAGUE] - A Collection of Manuscript Plans and Maps. 1742.

SUPErB grOUP Of MAnUSCriPT PLAnS Of PrAgUE, MOST UnUSUAL, in ExCELLEnT COndiTiOn And wiTh finE AriSTOCrATiC PrOVEnAnCE. SOME Of rEMArkABLE SizE.

Kept in the Luynes family since their creation, these maps and plans illustrate the siege of Prague by the Austrians in 1742, and the consequent retreat of the French troops from that city to Egra/Cherb.

The French had taken and occupied Prague as part of the Bavarian and Bohemian campaign of the War of Austrian Succession. The 1742 siege of Prague was an extended blockade of the city after French forces captured it in November 1741. French forces first under the command of de Broglie were surrounded by a large Austrian army in June 1742. A French relief column forced the Austrians to partially lift the siege in September, at which time de Broglie escaped from the besieged city, leaving it under the command of Belle-Isle. When the Austrians renewed the siege after halting the advance of the French relief, conditions in the city became quite difficult, but the Austrians failed to maintain a tight cordon around the city.

On 16 December, Belle-Isle led 14,000 troops out of the city on a ten-day march to the French-held city of

Egra (also called Cheb). In wintry conditions, Belle-Isle succeeded in fending off Austrian scouting parties until the army reached the Bohemian Forest four days later. The Austrian command did not learn of the French departure until 18 December, but believed they had successfully cut off all the routes of escape when Belle-Isle boldly led his army off the road and into the mountains. After a difficult crossing in which weather and disease took a marked toll on the French army, they reached Cheb on 9th March.

Not only military and technical, the plans are also much decorative. They mostly show Prague itself, with the surrounding fortifications and army positions. Various colours are used to show trenches, redoubts, batteries and army compositions. Their size varies, from a tiny 19 by 17 cm to a large 81 by 102 cm; especially noteworthy is the impressive 2.3 meter-long map of the Route taken by Belle-Isle from Prague to Egra.

A list of the maps is available upon request.

Provenance: From the Library of the Dukes of Luynes.

Thirteen manuscript hand-coloured plans with watercolour, all dissected in sections and laid on contemporary coloured linen, various sizes.

£12,000

BOWLES, John.

A New and Correct Map of the World Laid down agreable to late Observations and Discoveries Shewing the Principal Divions of the Earth & Waters […] &c. &c.

Printed For John Bowles At The Black Horse In Cornhill, London,

1744.

A finE SUMMArY Of EngLiSh CArTOgrAPhiC knOwLEdgE AT ThE EdgE Of ThE Mid-18Th CEnTUrY: OnE Of ThE LArgEST And MOST iMPOrTAnT MAPS ThAT BOwLES PrOdUCEd, And AMOng ThE rArEST The only other example located is in the British Library.

John Bowles, member of the leading family of printsellers, is best known as a publisher of prints and, with his brother, Thomas (II) as an acquirer and re-user of old printing plates, but he also had a relatively small output of “new” maps which are among the most interesting and important productions of the period; most of these were sold separately, which accounts for their rarity today.

In the eighteenth century, British map publishers developed an important sequence of two-sheet double hemisphere world maps for sale to their customers, marketed as containing the latest scientific data, notably by inserting detailed panels of texts or technical insets, appealing to the cultural and social pretensions of the buyers who would display these maps in their houses or offices and bask in the reflected credit of having the most up-to-date maps in their possession.

One of the finest, and among the rarest, maps in this sequence was published by John Bowles in 1744. The borders around the map are literally crammed with insets and lengthy explanatory texts, which combine to make the map a pictorial and textual encyclopaedia of contemporary geographical knowledge and among the most striking map images of the day.

He advertised it as ‘A New map of the World, laid down agreeable to late observations and discoveries, shewing the principal divisions of the earth and waters, also describing the monsoon or tradewinds, and the variation of the loadstone. To render this map more useful and entertaining, it contains a geographical description of the terrestrial globe, explaining the lines and circles which geographers drawn thereon, and the terms used in geography. Also the three systems of the World, and several tables shewing the motions, magnitudes, and distances, &c. of the planets; the proportions of the several parts of the earth, and schemes to explain the increase and decrease of day and night, the changes of the seasons, &c. &c.’ As such, this large map depicts the world as known on the eve of the Seven Years’ War, which established Britain as the pre-eminent colonial power, and on the eve of the great period of British marine exploration in the last decades of the eighteenth century, which transformed European knowledge of the wider world.

Typical of the family is the way Bowles’ imprint also serves as a brief catalogue of related items from stock.

Large engraved map on two sheets joined, original hand-colour in outline, advertisements, diagrams and explanations to borders. Dimensions: 61 x 97 cm (24 by 38.25 inches).

BLMC Maps Maps * 920.(366.); Armitage & Baynton-Williams: World at their Fingertips, 18.1 (this example illustrated); Worms & BayntonWilliams: British Map Engravers: Bowles, John.

ref: 82626

£14,000

GAYET. Plan des Attaques de la Ville de Bruxelles ou la Tranchée sud ouverte la nuit du 7. au 8. Février et qui s’est rendue le 19. Du meme mois de l’Anneé 1746. 1746.

LArgE PLAn Of ThE SiEgE Of BrUSSELS in 1746, BEAUTifULLY drAwn in BrighT wATErCOLOUr

41 The governor of the Austrian Netherlands, Count Kaunitz, was forced to withdraw his administration north to Antwerp. The siege severely damaged his view of Austria’s allies, principally Britain and the Dutch Republic, who he considered had done virtually nothing to protect Brussels from the French. A decade later Kaunitz would be one of the architects of the Franco-Austrian Alliance in which Austria abandoned its former alliance with Britain and joined with its traditional enemy France.

The plan renders the city and the surrounding area in great detail, depicting rivers, canals, fortifications, field boundaries, street, gardens, and principal buildings. A key plan lists 113 buildings, gateways, and defensive points. To the left of the plan the French trenches are highlighted in yellow, with the range and direction of the artillery in red.

The Siege of Brussels took place between January and February 1746 during the War of the Austrian Succession. A French army under the overall command of Maurice de Saxe, in a bold and innovative winter campaign besieged and captured the city of Brussels, which was then the capital of the Austrian Netherlands, from its Austrian garrison.

The French were boosted by the fact that a large part of the Allied army was forced to return to Britain where a Jacobite Rising of 1745 had broken out and Bonnie Prince Charlie had won a stunning victory at the Battle of Prestonpans. This left very few troops to actively oppose the French forces. After the French made two breaches in the walls of Brussels, the Austrian defenders were compelled to surrender on 22 February in a siege that lasted just three weeks.

The French followed up the capture of Brussels by taking other key cities and fortresses in the Austrian Netherlands including Mons and Namur. Brussels remained under French occupation until it was returned to Austria by the 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle along with the rest of the Austrian Netherlands, although it was January 1749 before the French finally evacuated the city.

Provenance: From the Library of the Dukes of Luynes, Chateau de Dampierre, France.

Manuscript plan with fine original hand-colour, dissected and mounted on linen, key below title and plan. 83 by 50 cm. Scale: (approx.) 15cm to 1km.

ref: 90114 £10,000

42 OETTINGER, Johann Friedrich. Theatrum Belli Serenissimæ Domus Austriacæ, contra Gallos,... seu Tabula Geographica Cursus Rheni... cum Regionibus cis Rhenanis,... Neuester Schauplaz des Krieges an dem Ober Rhein und in denen Niederlanden. Oder Lauff des Rheins...

Matthaeus Seutter, Augsburg, [c.1746].

A LArgE wALL MAP Of ThE ThEATrE Of wAr in ThE rhinE VALLEY, riChLY dECOrATEd, CriSPLY PrinTEd On SiLk And BEAUTifULLY COLOUrEd BY A COnTEMPOrArY hAnd

It was produced during the War of the Spanish Succession (1740-48). The title notes the war in the Low Countries, so the map was most likely produced in the period 1745 to 1747, when the war expanded into that region (the Latin title notes that Seutter was geographer to the late Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, who died in 1740). At a scale of about 1:405,000, the map covers the Rhine River from the SwissGerman border about 50 km. west of its source at Lake Constance (the Bodensee) to its mouths at the North Sea in South Holland, and includes northwest Switzerland, midwest and southwest Germany, northeast France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the southern part of Netherlands, stopping just south of Amsterdam. The map shows political boundaries, the fortifications of the cities, topographic features, woods, and sand banks.

Johann Friedrich Oettinger (active 1737-65), military engineer to King Christian VI and/or King Frederick V of Denmark and Norway, published several military

maps. The present example was published by Seutter (1678-1756) and engraved by his son-in-law Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717-77). Matthaeus Seutter came from an Augsburg family of goldsmiths and gold workers, including his father and grandfather of the same name. It is tempting to think the map might have been coloured by Bartholomaeus Seutter (16781754), an Augsburg faience painter, silk dyer, engraver, and also, supposedly, a goldsmith, who worked out of his own house and may have been Matthaeus’s cousin. In the 1730s and 1740s Bartholomaeus worked on plates for J.H. Weinmann’s botanical works, published in Regensburg and Amsterdam, the latter famously printed in colour.

A flap of silk has been left on the reverse and given a manuscript title in a contemporary hand (probably to identify the map when folded): ‘C. a. q. Theatrum belli domus Austriacæ contra Gallos seu Cursus Rheni.’

Provenance: The Royal House of Wittelsbach.

Engraved wall map with fine contemporary hand-colour, printed on silk from six large copper plates (each plate measuring about 57 by 29cm.), Latin title in a large decorative cartouche above left (with two figures representing river gods) and the German title in another below left, both with baroque decorations, flags and military attributes, a further cartouche bears a large decorated compass rose above right (the map is oriented with north to the right), two scales below the German title cartouche and scales of latitude and longitude in the border. Dimensions: 114 x 165cm. Seifert, ‘Die Karte als Kunstwerk’; Tooley, p. 471; IKAR (three copies, all apparently on paper).

ref: 79135 £15,000

43 [ITALY-SOUTH OF FRANCE] - Plan des Retranchements des Ennemis sur la Royale le 28 octobre 1747 [Together with:] Plan de la Premiere et de la Seconde Enceinte de la Ville de Genes. [1746] - 1747.

Two detailed, rather large manuscript plans during the War of Austrian Succession: one of the siege of Ventimiglia, on October 28th, 1747, the other of Genoa’s fortifications during the siege of 1746. They are both remarkable for their degree of precision and the information brought by the keys. The first shows a general map of the area, with the relief in great details, the armies clearly marked and three British warships anchored off the coast. The second plan, due to Gayet, exposes Genoa’s fortifications with much explanation. They resisted to an Allied siege led by Austrians, Sardinian soldiers and British sailors.

Provenance: From the Library of the Dukes of Luynes.

Manuscript

Sizes: 55.6 x 76.6 cm and 58 x 48.9 cm.

ref: 90044,90060 £4,000

hand-coloured plans cut in sections and laid on colour linen.

[BREDA] - Plan de Breda. [c. 1750].

A rAre And lArge mAnuscript plAn of bredA, a fortified city of strategic military and political significance but mostly mapped in the 17th century. Between 1746 and 1748 a series of negotiations between representatives of Great Britain and France, known as The Congress of Breda, took place in that town. They were aimed at bringing an end to the War of the Austrian Succession, and created foundations for the peace settlement at the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.

Broadsheet, manuscript hand-coloured map; edges strengthened, slight discolouration. Dimensions of the sheet: 63.7 x 80.5 cm, of the image: 57.3 x 74.5cm. Framed and glazed.

ref: 84705 £6,000

45 NAISH, WILLIAM. The City of Salisbury w[it]h the Adjacent Close Church and River Accurately Surveyed. Printed and Sold by Banj[ami]n Collins Printer, on the New Canal, Sarum, 1751.

rAre broAdsheet plAn of sAlisbury, the eArliest importAnt printed plAn of the town

The plan is generally described as being published first in 1716, with Collins’ printing of 1751 described as the third state. However, the British Library’s example of the 1751 printing is the only version listed on COPAC.

It seems that the map was published first by, or in conjunction with, John Senex, as the map appears in his catalogue of circa 1718 thus: ‘A Plan of the City of

Salisbury, with a View of the Cathedral, and a Survey of the River Avon, from Salisbury to the Sea. Price 2s. 6d.’, and is also offered in later catalogues published by his widow, Mary.

The inset map of the River Avon was apparently drawn in 1675, surveyed by Thomas Naish and James Mooring. There is also an attractive inset prospect of the City, with key, a view of the cathedral and a list of cathedral preachers in the lower left corner.

Engraved broadsheet map, fine original hand-colour, traces of folding in four, short closed marginal tears, one into the plate, all mended, two small areas of abrasion in the plate. Dimensions: 64 x 53cm.

ref: 86128 £1,250

46 BROWNE, Patrick. A New Map of Jamaica, In which the Several Towns, Forts, and Settlements are accurately laid down... the Greatest part drawn or corrected from actual surveys made by Mr. Sheffield and others, from the year 1730 to the year 1749.

Printed for & sold by John Bowles in Cornhil and Carrington Bowles in St. Pauls Churchyard, London],

Published according to Act of Parliament 1755.

ThE firST STATE Of ‘ThE firST LArgE-SCALE MAP Of JAMAiCA’ (Kapp.) A second state, with the imprint of Carington Bowles and Robert Wilkinson was published in 1790. Locates ‘Gentleman’s Seats, sugar works, churches, taverns, ‘crawls’, ‘inger, coffee, and indigo settlements’, barracks, etc. The large inset shows both the portion of Port Royal destroyed in the earthquake of 1692, and that part which was still standing. Twenty-four sites in the town are identified by key.

Engraved map on three sheets, joined, inset map: ‘A General Plan of Port Royal’, with fine original outline hand-colour. Dimensions: 73.5 x 138cm. (29 by 54.25 inches).

Sellers & Van Ee, 1916; Kapp, ‘The Printed Maps of Jamaica up to 1825,’ (MCS 42), 71, plate 25. Not in National Maritime Museum Catalogue.

ref: 73083

BAKER, Samuel. A new and exact map of the Island of St. Christopher in America, according to an actual and accurate survey made in the year 1753. Describing the Several Parishes with their respective limits, Contents, & Churches, also the high ways, the situation of every Gentleman’s Plantation [&c.]...

Printed for T. Bowles in St.Pauls Church Yard & John Bowles & Son in Cornhil, London, [1753]. Th

47 The list of subscribers, which contains about 225 names, is in effect a census of the major planters on the island. In addition, many high government officials and agencies bought copies - ample testimony to the excellence and importance of the map - for example, the Lords Commissioners of the Navy; the Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations; the Commissioners for Victualling His Majesty’s Navy; Hon. George Thomas, Commander in Chief over the British West Indies; the Hon. Ralph Payne, Lt. Gov. of St. Christopher’s; and the Principal Officers of His Majesty’s Ordinance.

Sellers and Van Ee judged it ‘a detailed and carefully executed map’, that includes a vast amount of information, including sugar mills, churches, houses, the names of landowners, forts, depth soundings, shoals, anchorages, and topographical detail. The whole is beautifully ornamented in a lavish baroque style. A second state was published in 1780, and a third in 1800.

Map engraved by James Mynde, printed on four sheets, joined, dedication in the upper left corner: ‘To the Right Honble. Lord’s Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain... Saml. Baker’, inset map: ‘The Leeward Caribbee Islands’, the map is flanked by ‘An Alphabetical List of the Subscriber’s Names’, contemporary outline hand-colour. Dimensions: 925 by 1150mm (36.5 by 43.5 inches).

Tooley, ‘Printed Maps of St. Kitts, St. Lucia & St. Vincent’, (MCS 81), 28; Sellers & Van Ee, 1985. Not in National Maritime Museum catalogue.

ref: 73064 £10,000

MÜLLER, Gerhard Friedrich.

Nouvelle carte des découvertes faites par des vaisseaux russes aux côtes inconnues de l’Amérique Septentrionale avec les pais adiacents... Academie Imperiale des Sciences, St. Petersbourg, 1754.

years. It also showed the Kurile Islands correctly and suggested an outline of Alaska and the Aleutian chain. Though the Russian discoveries had been shown on the Delisle map [...] published in 1752 [...] this is the first map to give an approximate picture of what is now the Alaskan peninsula”.

The Great Northern Expedition was an ambitious project involving many scientists and ships, under the general commandment of Vitus Bering, who died during the voyage in 1741. The brainchild of Peter the Great, it was actually organised under the Tsarinas Anna and Elisabeth, under the auspices of the newly created Imperial Academy of Sciences, of which Müller (1705-83) was a co-founder. The aim of the expedition, also called the Second Kamchatka Expedition, was to survey in details the northern and eastern coasts of Siberia, including outlying land areas. Its results “were highly significant” (Bagrow) as it completely remapped most of the Arctic coast of Siberia and some parts of the northwest coast of America, filling in vast amounts of previously unknown coastal details.

This map is the best summary of the expedition, of which Müller was a member. As Streeter notes, “this extremely rare map confirmed the existence of a body of water between Asia and America, the subject much dispute during the previous two hundred

Also a member of the expedition at the beginning, Delisle had indeed published in Paris his own, secret material, with “an erroneous description of the progress of Bering’s expedition” (Bagrow). This prompted the Academy to organise the publication of Müller’s map, which is more accurate and detailed.

Wagner underlines that “the map seems to be the earliest to show the discoveries of Bering and Chirikof, with the tracks of the vessels in the north Pacific”. It maps also Bering’s first passage through the strait in 1728, as well as the track of Semen Dezhnev’s 1648 voyage, whose record had been rediscovered in a Siberian archive soon after Bering’s second passage. Mikhail Gvodsev’s discovery is here dated 1730.

This 1754 first edition is rare, and the basis for many similar maps in the second half of the 18th century. Wagner does not list it, but only the 1758 reissue and subsequent copies; like some other bibliographers, he considered the 1758 version as the “original”.

Copper-engraved map with good, wide margins, with a central fold, marginal tears and slight creasing, otherwise in very good condition.

Dimensions: 46 x 63.5 cm.

Bagrow 163; Streeter 3456 (illustrated); Wagner 591.

ref: 87232 £7,500

rArE firST EdiTiOn Of ThiS SEMinAL MAP, SEPArATELY PUBLiShEd And MUCh COPiEd in ThE 18Th CEnTUrY. A finE ExAMPLE wiTh fULL MArginS.

DURY, Andrew

A Chorographical Map of the King of Sardinia’s Dominions... [bound with] A Chorographical Map of the Territories of the Republic of Genoa.

Printed for and sold by A. Dury, [London], 1765.

A finE ExAMPLE, wiTh AriSTOCrATiC PrOVEnAnCE, Of dUrY’S LOndOn EdiTiOn Of TwO wALL-MAPS Of nOrThwESTErn iTALY Borgonio’s Carta corografica degli Stati di S.M. il Re di Sardegna and Chaffrion’s Carta dela rivera de Genoa.

Giovanni Tomasso Borgonio (1620-83) was a Piedmontese military engineer active in the Kingdom of Savoy in the late 1770s and early 1680s, who made a series of important surveys of towns of the region, many published in Blaeu’s Town Books of Italy (the Savoy (Sabaudia) volumes, Amsterdam 1682). He is however best known for his remarkable survey of the Kingdom of Sardinia, published as Carta generale de’ Stati di S.A.R. in 1680.

José Chaffrion (1653-98), a Spanish military engineer, was active in Piedmont in the 1680s, producing a fine map of Liguria in 1685. Both are outstanding examples of the surveyors’ art, both are very rare in the original printing and both had a huge (and long-term) influence on the cartography of the two regions, neither map really superceded for over a century.

When Andrew Dury (d. 1777), a London publisher of French Huguenot extraction, decided to issue maps of these two regions, these were still the best maps available to him - and this London edition catches in full the quality and detail of the originals.

The Borgonio map was dedicated to John, Earl of Bute, some-time favourite of and Prime Minister to King George III; however, he enjoyed a spectacular fall from grace when he lost the ear of the king, and the absence, in this copy, of the sheet bearing the dedication to him (which has no map content) may reflect the politics of the day, as there is no evidence of its later removal.

Provenance: Hugh Lupus, 1st Duke of Westminster (1825-1899; bookplate, gilt crest at base of spine).

Folio (54.9 x 37.5cm). General title-page in English and French and printed in red and black, 2-page index, 2-page explanations, 11 (of 12) douple-page map-sheets incl. index map, double-page index map and 8 map-sheets, all maps hand-coloured in outline, 2 leaves of text and 2 index leaves in French, printed on rectos only; without the doublepage engraved dedication, title a bit browned and spotted, first map of the republic of Genoa lightly stained, a few maps very lightly browned. Contemporary half russia; extremities lightly rubbed, corners bumped. Cox II, p.406; Shirley BL T.DURY-3a.

ref: 92243 £7,500

[DUNKIRK] - Plans of Dunkirk in the year 1646 ti[ll] the 31 December 1768.

[3rd quarter of 18th c.].

50 had demolished in 1713. The town then famously became a base for commerce raiders, privateers and pirates, such as Jean Bart, the Man in the Iron Mask (arrested there) and Lars Gathenhielm. The last map shows the town at the end of 1768, five years after France agreed with Great Britain to limit fortifications, so that it doesn’t threaten the British Isles.

lovely english mAnuscript AtlAs of 14 beAutifully drAwn And well executed mAps of dunkirk in AttrActive, soft wAtercolour eAch mAp is AccompAnied with extensive neAt c Aptions in english

The name of Dunkirk (Dunkerque in French) derives from West Flemish “dun(e)” (dune) and “kerke” (church). Each plan depicts the gradual evolution and expansion of the town through centuries - from the earliest settlement in 646 under Roman occupation, to the building of the first walls in 960, through the extensive fortifications undertaken by the Spaniards in 1640, to the attack of the town by Henri de la Tour d’Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne (Marshall of France) in 1658, to the principal works constructed by the English, under King Charles II in 1662. That year Charles II sold the town to France for £320,000. French developed its fortifications, which the Treaty of Utrecht

Provenance: W (?). Higgins, Aug. 1838 (inscription to upper fly leaf); Royal United Service Institution (presented by W. F. (?) Higgins Esq., bookplate to upper pastedown and blind stamps to maps).

Landscape 4to (23.7 x 268 cm). Fourteen numbered manuscript and watercolour maps on [11] paper ll., all captioned with comments, in English; one map with marginal closed tear. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, gilt rules and corner fleurons to covers, all edges gilt; rebacked and repaired at extremities.

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£3,950

МАХАЕВ, Михаил [Mikhail МAKHAEВ].

Генеральная карта Российской империи и карты губерний. [General Map of the Russian Empire and Maps of Provinces].

Skt. Peterburg, 1773.

ThE EnTirE rUSSiAn EMPirE in SOME Of iTS rArEST EArLY MAPS: A COMPLETE SET, dUE TO rUSSiA’S MOST fAMOUS EngrAVEr Of ThE 18Th CEnTUrY – UnCUT in PriSTinE COndiTiOn.

The set comprises a general map of the Empire and a map of each of the 13 provinces, adorned with their arms. They were specifically published as “pocket atlas” for the 1773 edition of Ludwig Backmeister’s

“Краткая Российской империи география” [A Brief Geography of the Russian Empire]. Its text appeared originally published in the 1768 geographical almanac (mesiatslov), however the maps were only provided for the second, 1773 edition which was also amended and corrected.

Of grEAT rAriTY: we are not aware of any set of the maps on individual sheets as such. We could locate only two copies of Backmeister’s Brief Geography in WorldCat: one in Harvard, the other in the Ohio State University; Svodnyy Katalog mentions four copies of it in Russian libraries.

The title page of the Brief Geography states that “some of the maps of this publication are not new but originally belonged to a small atlas that was issued together with a pocket almanach about ten years ago”. Our research led to one of the celebrated great rarities of Russian bibliophily, the 1761 “Карманной

календарь его Императорскаго Высочества

Государя Великаго Князя Павла Петровича на

1761” [Pocket almanach for His Imperial Majesty […] Pavel Petrovich for 1761]. This very rare publication contains a first version of only 12 maps of these 14, drawn and engraved by Makhaev. The book was compiled by Iakov Shtelin (1709-85) specially for the five year old son of Catherine the Great. There is no consensus regarding the number of copies produced. The bibliographer and book collector Guberti (181896), who owned a copy of the calendar, suggests that his example was unique, as the calendar was printed exclusively for the future tsar. Alekseeva, however, note that the edition was printed in more than 500 copies. The likelihood of the production of multiple copies is also confirmed by Shtelin’s letter addressed to Kirill Razumovskiy, the president of the Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences: “The Academy will obtain some profit from this. It [the Calendar] costs us 10 kopeyki and we will sell it for 25 kopeyki” (Lomonosov, M.V. Complete works, 1957, vol X. p.861).

In 1766 the general map underwent some corrections, for example the name “Камчатское море [Sea of Kamchatka]” was substituted with “Охотское море [Sea of Okhotsk]”, as shown in our example.

Fourteen engraved maps on separate sheets (sheets size: 14 x 20.5, plate size of general map 10 x 16 cm, plate sizes of maps of provinces 9 x 11 cm), maps of provinces numbered 1 - 13, uncut.

Алексеева М. А. “Михайло Махаев - мастер видового рисунка XVIII века”, Санкт-Петербург, 2003, pp. 36-38 (illustrated). Краткая российской империи география: Битовт 335; Геннади 41; Оболянинов 1350; Сводный каталог 374; Смирдин 11119. Карманный атлас: Д.А.Малявина «Отечественные карманные календари”, Московский журнал, № 2, 2000; Сводный каталог IV436; Бурцев 674; Губерти 103.

ref: 90394 £5,750

“An AChiEVEMEnT Of rUSSiAn CArTOgrAPhY” (ALEkSEEVA)

[HEGRAD, S.L.]. [The Low Countries] Pais Bas Catholiq [with] Le pais Bas Unis. [Vienna, 1785].

From a pack entitled ‘Jeu des Cartes Geographiques’, these two cards features a miniature map of the southern and northern Low Countries, with a key in French below with references to counties and towns. Unusually, the suitmarks have been replaced by hand coloured squares.

Each card bears a number followed by a small square after the title. According to Mann and Kingsley this number appears to be a measurement of the area of the region depicted, “possibly in German miles”.

Two engraved playing cards, with original hand-colour, with engraved place names in French in the lower part of the card. Dimensions: 11.5 x 6.5cm. Mann Collection, 1125; Mann, Sylvia & Kingsley, David, ‘Map Collectors’ Circle No. 87: Playing Cards Depicting maps of the British Isles, and of English and Welsh Counties’, p. 23, No.10; King, Geoffrey, ‘Miniature Antique Maps’, p.162.

ref: 82198

£750

WEISS, Johann Heinrich. Atlas Suisse. J.R. Meyer, Aarau, 1786 - 1802.

53 Provenance: Bibliothèque d’Hauteville (label and bookplate; manuscript numbering)

one of the eArliest AtlAses of switzerlAnd, And the first printed mAp of the country bAsed on A scientific survey

In 1786, the industrialist Johann Rudolf Meyer commissioned Johann Heinrich Weiss, of Strasbourg, a cartographer and mathematician, to produce a new map of Switzerland; the map was constructed using a triangulated base constructed by the scientist Johann Georg Tralles while Joachim Eugen Müller assisted in the depiction of the relief. The glacial terrain of Switzerland is highlighted by the printed blue colouring seen on most sheets.

This fine example includes the additional map of the cantons of Berne and Valais, oriented with south-east at the top; copies with this map are extremely rare, as the atlas was originally issued with sixteen map-sheets.

Folio (sheet size 57 x 77 cm). 17 double-page engraved maps by J. Scheurmann, C. Guerin and M.G. Eichler mounted on guards, all but the last numbered in the plate, the ‘assemblage’ and supplement to maps 8 and 12 combined on sheet 1, some maps printed in black and blue to show glaciated areas, also with boundaries in colour outline, map no. 13 hand-coloured in blue; some slight marginal waterstaining, light occasional browning, a closed marginal tear well restored. Contemporary half calf with red morocco label on upper cover; overall a very attactive copy.

Shirley BL Maps T.WEIS-1a.

ref: 90988 £3,750

[BELGIUM] - Manuscript Map of the Austrian and Belgian Military Camps South of Namur during the Brabant Revolution, 1790. Late 18th century.

A lovely And figurAtive mAnuscript mAp for A most decisive event of europeAn history, the brAb Ant revolution In 1789, inspired by the coeval French Revolution, an armed insurrection took place in the Austrian Low Countries (modern-day Belgium) against Emperor Joseph II and the Holy Roman Empire. This upheaval, however, stood in contrast with the French one as Belgians were fighting for a return to a more conservative society, as they strongly disagreed with Joseph II’s liberal reforms.

The Revolution led to the creation, in January 1790, of the United Belgian States. Yet it took the Habsburgs less than a year to put an end to this short-lived confederation of the Southern Low Countires, as the Austrian armies quickly defeated the revolt by regaining the rebel territories one by one.

The city of Namur and the battles that took place in the region in autumn 1790 are crucial in the Austrian reconquest. The present map depicts the military camps south of Namur, down to Dinant and Charlemont. The Belgian “patriots” on the one side, and the Austrian positions on the other side are shown with great precision. In the former camp we can see the “Camp of the Lorangois” [sic], of the “patriots in

Bouvinne”, of the “Petit Givet” which are all positioned on the Western side of the Meuse, as opposed to the imperial troops located on the Eastern riverside and divided into the camps of Dinant, Harbichaux, Falmagne, Mainil St Blaise and Malaise.

The opposition took a dramatic turn in favour of the imperial armies on 22 September 1790 at the battle of Falmagne, just north of Charlemont, a town whose strategic position clearly appears on the map. A month after this victory, the Austrian troops took the city of Namur, forcing the province of Namur to recognize the authority of the emperor. Two days later, the province of West Flanders followed suit, and by December the entire territory was in imperial hands again.

Manuscript map (55 x 42.3 cm) in black and brown ink with colour for rivers, roads, tents, castles, trees, weapons and cities, handwritten caption in French the lower right corner reading “Nota: The red tents indicate the places where the Austrians are stationed. The blue ones show the camps of the Belgiums [sic] troops. B. is for battery. In Mounia and in Bouvinne there is a 36-pound cannon”, Honig watermark with large coat of arms; occasional spotting, traces of folds, small hole in the middle, remnants of mounting paper at the back, back a bit soiled.

ref: 91334 £950

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HORWOOD, R[ichard]. Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster the Borough of Southwark, and parts adjoining shewing every house. London, 1792-1799.

Initially conceived for the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company, Horwood’s project became ‘ThE LArgEST And MOST iMPOrTAnT LOndOn MAP Of ThE EighTEEnTh CEnTUrY […]. On a scale of about 25 inches to a mile, it covers an area extending north to Islington, east to Limehouse, south to Kennington and west to Brompton. Its intention was to show every house with its number and the boundaries of the various local divisions; but it proved impossible, even in the later editions, to make the numbering complete [...] every house was shown, nevertheless, with courts, alleys and vacant spaces away from the street frontage’ (Howgego). Interestingly, the Tower of London is left blank. London Bridge and Westminster Bridge were the only Thames crossings.

Very little is known about Horwood (1758-1803). Most likely he was working for the Phoenix Assurance Company on surveying jobs when he began the

enormous task of surveying the whole of the built-up area of London. This gave him nine years’ severe labour and he himself “took every angle, measured almost every line, and after that plotted and compared the whole work”. He first thought of delivering a “compleat” copy by “the year 1792”. His estimate proved to be over-optimistic and only one sheet - B2 (Grosvenor Square-Piccadilly) - was published by 1792 (Howgego, p. 22). In January 1798 he wrote to the Insurance Company offering to dedicate his map to the company if the directors would make him a loan of £500 to enable him to finish the work. His request was granted but this, in addition to an award from the Society of Arts, were too little and too late and, in 1803, Richard Horwood died in Liverpool (which he mapped similarly) in poverty and obscurity.

First edition. Folio (56 x 34 cm). Letterpress list of subscribers, street index sheet, 32 engraved mapsheets, title in an oval cartouche with compass star above, a few sheets slightly foxed, half calf over marbled paper boards, spine in compartments, gilt. Scale: 25 inches to one stat. mile. BLMC maps shelfmark 148.e.7. Howgego 200(1).

ARROWSMITH, Aaron. Map of America. London, 24 Rathbone Place, 4th September, 1804.

A rAre And AttrActive wAll mAp of Americ A in fullwAsh colour, published At An importAnt time in Americ An history.

Geographically, the map is an important summation of the state of geographical knowledge of the Americas in late 1803; Arrowsmith drew from several sources whilst composing the map, most notably from Mackenzie’s 1789 exploration of the Rocky Mountains and the Canadian Northwest, published in 1798.

What is yet to appear on this map is the Louisiana Purchase, the transfer of the lands of French Louisiana to the United States, ratified by the U.S. Senate on 20th October 1803, with the official transfer of New Orleans taking place on 20th December.

While the Purchase greatly expanded the land area of the United States, the region was little know so, to remedy this, President Jefferson organized three exploratory expeditions: the Lewis and Clark expedition up the Missouri River and on to the Pacific coast, the Red River Expedition led by Thomas Freeman to explore that river, and Zebulon

Pike’s expedition to the south-west. With Alexander von Humboldt’s expedition, the information gained from these adventures completely transformed the mapping of the central United States. Indeed, in later editions of his maps, Arrowsmith incorporates many of these discoveries, ever anxious to improve and update his maps, but this map reflects the United States on the eve of its transformation.

Aaron Arrowsmith (1750-1823) was the finest cartographer of his generation. Although he received little formal education it is believed that he was taught some mathematical instruction by William Emerson, an author of several books on the application of mathematics to the area of cartography. Around 1770 Arrowsmith moved to London to seek employment. It is believed that he worked for William Faden and then joined John Cary Sr. in the early 1780s. There he provided the measurements for John Cary’s early publication detailing the roads from London to Falmouth; his first signed work.

Engraved wall map, fine original full wash colour, dissected and mounted on linen, edged in blue silk. Dimensions: 121.2 × 146.7cm (47.75 × 57.75 inches).

Map Forum, Issue 5, p.20-24. Stevens 1(c); Goss 70; BLMC Maps 69810.(15.).

ref: 86288

£3,000

ARROWSMITH, Aaron.

A Map of the United States of North America drawn from a number of critical researches. As the Act directs by A. Arrowsmith, No.10 Soho Square, London, Jan. 1st, 1796 [but circa 1808].

Aaron Arrowsmith (1750-1823) was the greatest cartographer of his day; a remarkable talent, it seems he was largely self-taught as a surveyor, before learning the publishing trade with the London maker, mapseller and publisher Andrew Dury. After working as surveyor for John Cary, he left to establish his only publishing business.

His particular specialism was wall-maps, of any and all parts of the world. He prided himself on the meticulous approach he took in preparing the maps, bringing together different sources, merging them when they overlapped, correcting them when they conflicted and rejecting details that were unreliable or unproven.

Among the many important maps that he published were two world maps, one on Mercator’s Projection and one on a double-hemisphere projection, and some maps of the Americas, including this one.

Arrowsmith regularly updated this map as new information became available, incorporating the latest town names, geographical discoveries, newlyestablished regions, and so on, as they were made available to him. In 1808, he altered his street address to 10 Soho Square, where he moved in that year. This state, the eighth recorded state, is the first to name both Michigan and Ohio.

A sc Arce printing of this influentiAl And importAnt mAp.

Engraved

Dimensions: 128 × 148 cm (50.5 × 58.25 inches).

ref: 82225

£9,500

map on four sheets, joined in two sections as a single map, fine original hand-colour; some slight offsetting, small repairs to margins, laid on linen.

An English creamware commemorative jug. Circa 1806.

Commemorative jug issued to celebrate the great naval victory won by Admiral Lord Nelson over the allied French and Spanish fleets at the Battle of Trafalgar, on 21st October 1805.

Lord Nelson is regarded as Britain’s greatest naval hero; renowned as a charismatic leader and a master tactician in battle, he led the British fleet to a famous victory over the Franco-Spanish fleet, despite being heavily out-numbered; his reputation was cemented by his dramatic death towards the end of the day, as the battle was won.

The jug bears a portrait of Nelson, with his famous general order sent at the commencement of the

battle placed above, with a plan of the battle site, with the two fleets coming together, the British arranged in two columns approaching the French fleet at rightangles - crossing the ‘T’ as the manoeuvre is known - which allowed the British to divide the enemy into three groups, and destroy each in detail.

The victory ended the threat of French invasion, and with that Napoleon’s attention turned eastwards; the battle also led on to the British command of the sea for more than a century.

With loop handle, printed in black with a half-length portrait of Nelson, titled above, England Expects every Man to do his Duty and ADMIRAL LORD NELSON/Born Sept 29th. 1758 - Died Oct 21st 1805./Aged 47, below, the reverse with a map and text documenting the Battle of Trafalgar. 5¾ in. high(14.6 cm.)

ref: 82656

£2,500

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САВИНКОВ, Александр Дмитриевич [Aleksandr Dmitrievich SAVINKOV (engraver)].

План столичного города Санкт Петербурга. Plan de la ville capitale Saint-Petersbourg.

[Depo kart?], Skt. Petersburg, 1810.

lArge, finely hAnd-coloured plAn of the imperiAl city At the dAwn of pushkin’s golden Age; here in its originAl stAte on A single sheet. Other copies which we could trace, including Gubar’s copy, are folding, having been cut into sheets and laid onto linen.

Skillfully engraved, it boasts a wealth of details and is surrounded by an index of buildings and streets in Russian and French.

Born in 1769, Savinkov belongs to the post-Makhaev generation of Russian map engravers and publishers

which flourished after Paul I’s reforms of the cartographic industry in Russia. Shortly after ascending the throne, Paul I, concerned with the poor quality of maps and atlases produced within the Russian Empire, issued a decree on 13 November 1796 aimed at centralising the cartographic production. This lead to the creation of His Majesty’s “Maps Depot”, with a special engraving section formed in 1798 and a Geographical Department in 1800. Savinkov entered the Depot in 1799 and there created one of the earliest postal maps of the Empire (in 1808).

Large engraved plan (64 x 95 cm), with contemporary hand-colour, printed on coloured paper; ink spot on the upper margin without affecting the image, very small marginal tears.

Gubar 2388; not in Rovinskiy, Slovar graverov, 857.

ref: 86287 £4,950

[COURTENER, François].

План столичнаго города Москвы. Plan de Moscou. [Frères Courtener, Moscou, 1811].

fine exAmple of this squAre-metre plAn of moscow, the other “capital city” of the Russian empire, as its title states. Modelled after Marchenkov’s plan of 1796, it shows Moscow as Napoleon found it two years later, just before destroying it by fire.

The title is included in a scroll held by a crowned double-headed eagle bearing Moscow’s arms, and the 20 administrative divisions of the city are listed in Russian and French in the right-hand corner.

Originally from Strasbourg, Courtener developed a successful librairie in Moscow at the turn of the century, soon continued by his son and son-in-law.

It was located, when this plan was published, on Bolshaya Lubyanka, one of the main streets. Soon afterwards Courtener organised one of the first large reading and lending libraries in the city. However he saw his adoptive city burnt down, and died soon afterwards in 1814.

The absence of an imprint is a feature of the third state of this plan, which was first published in 1805.

Four-sheet engraved map, dissected and laid on linen, folding into a contemporary marbled-paper wrapper and case. 1070 x 990 mm assembled; scattered minor soiling. Scale: 125 sazhen (ie. c. 266m) for an inch, equivalent to 1:10500. Schmidt, The Architecture and Planning of Classical Moscow, p. 55; РГБ, Москва на старых картах-Каталог

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JAMIESON, Alexander. A Celestial Atlas. comprising a systematic display of the Heavens in a Series of Thirty Maps illustrated by Scientific Description of their Contents and accompanied by Catalogues of the Stars and Astronomical Excercises.

J. McGowan for G. & W.B. Whittaker, T. Cadell & N. Hailes, London, 1822.

Fine example of this popular English celestial atlas, with lovely plates of constellations and extensive historical and scientific comments about them. Uncommon complete as such and in this attractive original condition.

Provenance: WSF (?, unidentified monogram stamped to upper pastedown).

Oblong 4to. Engraved title, engr. dedication, ii pp. preface, unnumbered zodiacs plate, pp. 3-64 with XXX engraved charts by Neele after Jamieson, partial contemporary hand-colour, protected with tissue guards; very light occasional spotting, mostly marginal and at beginning and end.

Contemporary (publisher’s?) black half sheep over pink boards, publisher’s printed label to upper cover, gilt rules to covers, flat spine gilt in compartments; a bit rubbed and soiled, rebacked retaining spine.

ref: 88842 £3,750

HORSBURGH, James. [Untitled Chart of the South Atlantic]. ‘To The Honble. The Court of Directors of the United East India Company This Chart Intended as an Accompaniment to the Book of Directions To Navigators to, from. and in the East is Inscribed by Their Faithful and obliged Servant James Horsburgh.’ Bateman for Horsburgh, London, 1st Jany. 1814 [but 1815].

importAnt chArt of the south AtlAntic, prepAred for the eAst indiA compAny for use by their ships mAking the pAssAge to And from indiA And the fAr eAst, sepArAtely published

The chart depicts the coast of South America from ‘R. Paranyba’ in the north south to ‘I. Grande’, just west of ‘RIO JANEIRO’, and the facing coast of Africa from ‘R. Nazareth’ and ‘C. Lopez’ in ‘LOANGO’ to ‘St. John’s R.’ and ‘P[oin]t of Natal’, thus including the southern tip of South Africa.

this chArts is An unrecorded second stAte: the original imprint has been erased, and the new imprint, referring to Horsburgh’s status as ‘Hydrographer to the East India Company’ engraved centrally outside the lower border, retaining the original date, ‘... 1st. Jany. 1814...’, is unchanged.

However, a number of ship’s tracks to St. Helena are inserted: ‘Track of the Ship Arniston by the Western Route towards St. Helena’, dated ‘4th May 1795’ to ‘8th June 1795’, the ‘Herefordshire from England to St. Helena 1815’ (‘7th May 1815’ to 8th June 1815), ‘Ceres from England to St. Helena 9th Voyage 1815’ (‘7th May 1815’ to [28th May 1815].

St Helena was an important staging post in the return voyage from the East, where ships could re-provision and form a convoy under Royal Navy protection past Spanish and French waters.

In 1815, the British Government determined to exile Napoleon to St. Helena, and it was there that he lived out his days.

It is entirely possible that this chart was updated once that decision had been made, and that examples were given to the officers of the ship that bore him there, and to the Royal Naval squadron posted to patrol the waters around the island.

Copper-engraved map, 62.5 x 93.6cm.

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KRUSENSTERN,Adam Johann von [KRUZENSHTERN].

Atlas de L’Océan Pacifique [Hemisphere Austral]. Par ordre de Sa Majeste, St. Petersbourg, 1824.

“OnE Of ThE MOST iMPOrTAnT PACifiC ATLASES” (forbes): ThE firST EdiTiOn in frEnCh Of ThiS dETAiLEd SUrVEY Of ThE SOUThErn PACifiC, in iTS firST iSSUE dATEd 1824, BEfOrE SUBSEqUEnT UPdATES And wiTh dEdiCATiOn TO ALExAndEr i.

wiTh A r A r E Pr ESE nTATi On in SCri PTi On frOM

k rUzE n S hTE rn TO Th E V iCTOr O f Th E BATTLE O f

nAVA rin O A nd f UTU r E M i LiTA rY gOVE rn Or O f

k rOn STA dT A nd r EVEL-TALLinn The Dutch Admiral Count Login Hayden (Lodewijk Sigismund Vincent Gustaaf van Heiden, 1772–1850) offered his services to Russia in the last year of Catherine the Great’s reign, 1795. He was appointed Captain-Lieutenant at sea at only twenty-two, and successfully rose through the ranks. In 1826, Hayden was given command of the Russian fleet in the Mediterranean and a year later he was appointed commander of the Russian squadron in the Battle of Navarino against the Turks during the Greek War of Independence, which ended with the defeat of the Turko-Egyptian fleet and the destruction of the feared artillery at the fortress of Navarino. At the height of his career, much respected and decorated, he became Admiral in 1833 and was chosen by the Tsar to become military governor of Kronstadt and Reval.

Like its Russian version published the same year, the first edition in French of this work is very rare. LadaMocarski, Ferguson and Phillips refer only to the later edition of 1827-35 (with dedication to the new Tsar, Nicholas I, and with 34 maps, including the Northern hemisphere, first published in Russian only in 1826 and in French in 1827).

The first map is a general map of the Southern Pacific, showing discovery dates and including, in this particular copy, some supplementary contemporary handwritten information dated up to 1825. It covers the ocean from Borneo to Cape Horn, showing especially the whole of Australia, the Solomon islands, Polynesia and New Zealand, as well as the West coast of South America and the Galapagos islands. It is dedicated to Captain Horsburgh, “Hydrographe de la Compagnie Britannique des Indes”. Interestingly, the other maps are not dedicated, except the map of the Coral sea, dedicated to Captain Flinders (postmortem?), and the map of the Solomon islands, to the French Rear Admiral de Rossel.

The charts are drawn on a large, detailed scale, and represent the first systematic attempt to chart the islands of the Pacific - including a map of the whole New Zealand and most of the Eastern coast of Australia, with a detailed plan of Sydney’s harbour. They are based on Kruzenshtern’s own observations during the first Russian circumnavigation and incorporate findings of subsequent voyages to the Pacific.

The atlas “may be taken as an example of the extraordinary labour and perseverance of the author, as well as his superior talents as a navigator and astronomer. None of his statements have ever been called into question; while the discoveries and nautical corrections are universally acknowledged to have been of infinite service to navigation” (Dawson, Memoirs of Hydrography, Eastbourne, 1885).

The maps are:

1. Carte Générale de l’océan Pacifique Hemisphere Austral. 1824. [Double-page]

2. Carte de la Nouvelle Guinée et du détroit de Torrès. - Plan du port Dory. 1824. [Double-page]

3. Carte de la mer du Corail. 1824. [Double-page; with an important part of the North Eastern coast of Australia]

4. Carte de la côte sud est de la Nouvelle-Galles méridionale. - Plan du port Jackson. 1824. [From Wide Bay to Jervis Bay, including Sydney and nowadays Brisbane (”Glass houses”)]

5. Carte de la Terre Van Diemen et du détroit de Bass. - Plan du port Philip. 1824.

6. Carte des iles de l’Amirauté. - Carte de la Nouvelle Irlande. - Plan du port Gower. 1824.

7. Carte des isles de la Nouvelle Bretagne. - Cart de l’archipel de Santa Cruz. - Plan de l’Anse Byron. 1824.

8. Carte de l’archipel de la Louisiade. - Carte de l’archipel de Mendana. - Plan du port Chichagoff. 1824

9. Carte systematique de l’archipel des isles de Salomon. - Plan de la baie Choiseul. - Plan du port Praslin. 1824. [Double-page]

10. Carte de l’archipel des Nouvles. Hebrides. - Plan du port de la Resolution. 1824.

11. Carte de la nouvelle Caledonie. - Plan du port St. Vincent. 1824.

12. Carte de la Nle. Zélande, et du détroit de Cook. - Carte du détroit de Cook. - Plan de la baie Dusky. 1824. [Double-page with a folding addition]

13. Carte de l’archipel des isles des Amis. - Carte de l’archipel des isles de la Societé. - Plan de la baie Matavai. 1824.

14. Carte de l’archipel des isles Fidji. - Esquisse de Sandal wood bay. - Carte de la isles des Navigateurs. Plan de l’Anse du massacre. 1824.

15. Carte de l’archipel des isles Basses. 1824. [Double-page]

The atlas, including also the Northern hemisphere, was accompanied by two volumes of text: Recueil de mémoires hydrographique pour servir d’analyse et d’explication á l’atlas de l’océan pacifique, par le commodore de Krusenstern (St. Petersburg, 1824-27), augmented with a Supplement in 1835. The whole was first published in Russian (1824-26).

Forbes records a few copies, including probably an imperial example of the Russian edition in the Mitchell Library - but none with Kruzenshtern’s handwritten dedication.

Provenance: Admiral Count de Hayden (presentation inscription from the author to upper fly leaf).

Large folio (65.7 x 52 cm). Title, dedication to Alexander I, 15 maps including 6 double-page, and some containing smaller insets for a total of 36 charts, engraved by S. Froloff, all dated 1824 in cartouche, printed on thick paper, on guards; outer margin skilfully restored throughout, without affecting print, possibly without half-title and engraved list of plates, although these seem to be present only in copies gathering both parts (see Forbes) - these two leaves may well not have been included in copies published before 1827 and including only the present, first part. Recent maroon morocco over red cloth boards, spine in compartments, gilt lettering to second compartment, boards gilt ruled. Brunet III, 700; Cordier Japonica 459 (1827 edition); Ferguson 1130a (1830s edition); Forbes 581; Howes K-270; Lada-Mocarski 91 (1827 edition); Phillips Atlases 3242 (with 1835-38 maps); Sabin 38329; Wickersham 6241 (1827 edition); not in Hill.

ref: 90581

£37,500

GREENWOOD, Christopher and John. Map of London from the Actual Survey made in the Years 1824, 1825, and 1826.

Greenwood, Pringle & Co., London, 1827.

A LOVELY, frESh ExAMPLE Of ThiS MAgnifiCEnT MAP, whiCh wAS ThE firST TO BE PUBLiShEd On SUCh A LArgE SCALE; its remarkable accuracy is comparable to modern large scale maps. This map was adapted from parts of the earlier Ordnance Survey maps but contained more features. Interesting details include the marked yellow roads in the parks which denote the King’s private property and reserved for ticket holders generously permitted entry by the monarch. London is still shown as “clinging to the Thames” its lifeline, no part of the built-up area was further than a mile or two from the river. Over the next sixty years the scene was to change dramatically.

This is the second issue of the first edition, corrected by the authors, and an evidence of the diligence they brought to their surveys: “Westbourne Street is now named. The proposed Collier Docks on the Isle of Dogs are indicated by pecked lines; and a road on the Isle of Dogs from a point near Ferry House to Blackwall is also shown by pecked lines. This would become Manchester Road” (Hyde). The map also shows the Regent’s Park Zoo (1826), St Katherine’s Dock (1828), and the new General Post Office in St Martin le Grand (1829). The Canal in St James’s Park has been replaced by a lake (1827), and buildings are being removed for the building of Trafalgar Square. Both New and Old London Bridges are shown.

Provenance: Reginald Hedley, Edgbaston (paper labels to case and map).

Engraved folding map, hand coloured in outline, dissected and mounted on linen, extending from Kentish Town in the North, to Battersea in the South, from Kensington in the West to the River Lea in the East, engraved views of St Paul’s and Westminster Abbey at lower corners, engraved dedication to King George the Fourth with Royal Arms, decorative borders edged in green silk, original green moiré silk pull-off box. Dimensions: 128 x 188 cm (50.5 by 74.5 inches).

BLMC shelf Maps 15.b.17; Glanville p.166; Howgego 309 (1); Hyde State 2

ref: 90181

£12,500

CARY, John. [and] SMITH, [William]. [New English Atlas. John

Cary, London, 1828].

rArE. APPArEnTLY ThE MOST COMPLETE ExTAnT ExAMPLE, wiTh finE OriginAL fULL wASh COLOUr, of this later edition of Smith’s English Atlas with index and list of subscribers.

Previously, it had been assumed that later editions of Smith’s geological maps were issued only as Cary’s English Atlas, however, the title to the index in the present example suggests that the original intention was to publish the work under Smith’s name. This copy is also of considerable importance in the bibliographic history of Smith’s work as it includes, in addition to 23 of Smith’s maps, three further maps with geological data by Smith.

Davis states that ‘Copies of Cary’s... Atlases in any edition are as rare as Smith’s’ and, of the 1828 edition, ‘[t]wo copies are known, one at the British Museum, and the other in the Cambridge University Library’. However, correspondence with Cambridge University Library (CUL) confirms that they do not have an example of the 1828 edition; as Davis did not give a shelfmark for the CUL copy (although he does for the BL copy) it is plausible that he had not seen it, while later cartobibliographies mention only the BL copy (Carroll Printed maps of Lincolnshire 1576-1900, p. 156, and Burden, Printed maps of Berkshire 1574-1900, entry 59, p. 84). The BL copy lacks the Wiltshire map and, according to Davis, ‘contains 18 of the plates used by Smith’.

The present example contains some 23 of the plates used by Smith, in addition to the unfinished geological map of Somersetshire and, of further interest, plates of Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire with legends and geological particulars engraved, according to Davis, ‘in the true Smithian style’. It can, therefore, be said to be the most ‘complete’ version of Smith’s county atlas extant, in that it contains all bar one of the engraved county maps he revised; however, the map of Durham is present in the earlier Cary version, prior to the addition of the geological information.

William Smith (1769-1839) is known as the Father of English Geology, and is credited with creating the first geological map of the whole of England and Wales. This endeavour was to take 15 years and much financial

heartache. It was not until 1812 that he got the break he needed when John Cary, a map publisher, together with some 400 subscribers, agreed to underwrite the cost of production, and in 1815 a geological map entitled ‘A delineation of the Strata of England and Wales with part of Scotland’ on the scale of 1 inch to 5 miles was produced. John Phillips called it ‘Perhaps the most varied and beautiful sheets that have ever appeared in geological colours’. Some 400 were produced and only 100 are known to be extant today.

Although his map was well received, Smith had little profit from it. This lack of financial success eventually brought him to debtor’s prison. He was released through the generosity of his friends, and in 1817 he began work on individual geological maps of the English counties, inserting his findings on Cary’s maps prepared for ‘Cary’s New English Atlas’. Twenty-three of these county maps (out of a projected 60) were completed before the venture petered out in 1824. As part of the additions, Smith inserted coloured tablets with identifying names of the strata in the blank space surrounding the county boundary.

The recognition of his ground-breaking work came late in life, and it was not until 1831 that the Geological Society of London conferred on Smith, then 62, the first Wollaston medal, its highest honour. In 1835 he received an honorary Doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin, and 1838 (a year before his death) he was appointed as one of the commissioners to select building material for the new Palace of Westminster.

Folio. 46 double-page engraved maps (Yorkshire on 4 sheets, Wales on 2), with original full wash colour depicting parliamentary boundaries, manuscript pagination to verso of each map, 54pp. index and list of subscribers’ names, lacking one leaf, tears to bottom of centrefold of a few maps, rebound to style in half brown calf, gilt. BLMC Maps 24.e.34.; Davis, A.G., ‘William Smith’s Geological Atlas and the Later History of the Plates’, in ‘The Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History’, vol. 2, part 9, 1952, pp.388-395.

ref: 67050

£20,000

HEUSCH, [?Louis Ernest Amand Marie Baron de]. Feldzug von 1813. 1831.

fine And unusuAl mAnuscript plAns showing all 29 of the battles waged by Napoleon during 1813, most notably Kalzbach, Klum, Dresden, Wartenburg, Dennewitz, Liebtwolkwitz, which is recognised as the greatest cavalry battle in history, and Leipzig. The Battle of Leipzig, also called ‘The Battle of Nations’, was the largest battle of the Napoleonic War and the largest battle in Europe until The Great War, in which an estimated half a million men fought over three days. The battle ended with Napoleon’s decisive defeat and eventual retreat to France.

The mapmaker is most probably Louis Ernest Amand Marie Baron de Heusch (1789 - 1851). Born in Gembloux, Belgium, Heusch who first distinguished himself as a cadet in the Austrian Chevaux-légers Regiment No.5 ‘Klenau’ in 1806, where he won the Croix du Canon, before joining the 2de Regiment Carabiniers Dutch cavalry in 1811, rising to cavalrycaptain on 22nd July 1822. He was given an honourable discharge and retirement on half pay in 1830.

29 manuscript plans, within decorative wash border on a single mapsheet. Tear to lower margin. Dimensions: 54.5 × 68.5 cm.

ref: 57731 £2,000

67

[KNIPE, James A.].

A Geological Map of England, Wales and Part of Scotland Showing also the Inland Navigation by means of Rivers and Canals with their elevation in feet above the sea together with the Rail Roads and Principal Roads. J. & C. Walker, 3 Burleigh Street Strand, March, 31st, 1837.

importAnt And much reprinted geologic Al wAll-mAp of englAnd And wAles, repaired by James Knipe, and published by him in conjunction with John Walker jr. and Charles Walker, leading London engravers and publishers. However, in this later printing Knipe’s name has been removed from the title, leaving the credit only to the Walkers.

In this printing, the plate was heavily re-engraved, with the original title re-engraved, and an additional section added, extending the map northwards to Forfar.

Along the lower border is a geological section from ‘Lands End to the German Sea’ (North Sea) and St. George’s Channel to the German Sea, with an extensive colour key, ‘Explanation of the Colouring’, ‘Explanation of the Signs’ and, acknowledging the times the map was engraved in, a key to ‘Railways Completed or in Progress’ and ‘Projected Railways.’

This was the earliest of Knipe’s geological maps; he also produced fine geological maps of Great Britain and Scotland, as well as a second geological map of England and Wales.

Hand-coloured engraved map, dissected and mounted on linen, some discolouration, green cloth pull-off slip-case, red label pasted to spine, lettered in gilt. Dimensions: 144 x 100cm (56.5 x 39.25 in.). Not traced in BLMC but c.f. BLMC Maps 218.c.4. for the 1835 edition.

ref: 86073 £1,500

План столичнаго города Санкт-Петербурга. Plan de la ville capitale de Saint-Petersbourg. Исправленный в 1835 году [updated in 1835].

ThE rUSSiAn CAPiTAL AS PUShkin knEw iT: A LArgE And rArE PLAn PUBLiShEd TwO YEArS BEfOrE ThE POET’S dEATh, in A LOVELY, frESh ExAMPLE wiTh OriginAL hAnd-COLOUr Still made using engraving (when lithography was thriving in St. Petersburg), the plan is printed on thick paper and kept in its publisher’s printed slipcase, stating a 10-rub. price.

Focusing on the city itself, the plan is surrounded with an important list of the streets and landmarks. It also includes, in the lower margin, the fire signals used on top of specific towers spread in the city: each district had a signal attributed and all towers would, day or night, show the same signal to indicate the district where a fire broke out. This system was developed at the beginning of the 19th century, and partially lasted as late as the 1920s, after the Revolution.

This plan is uncommon. It is not signed, but its structure is close to Savinkov’s earlier plan, which was reworked the same year, in 1835, and updated again in 1838. It shows the recently built market and “Shchukin dvor”, both absent from Savinkov’s 1810 version. We can also see the ongoing canalisation of the Chernaya river (finished in the 1840s) as well as the “coal factory” in the southeast outskirt, which was soon to disappear.

Engraved map with contemporary hand-colour, 64 x 91 cm unfolded, dissected in 18 segments, mounted on cloth, folding in publisher’s marbled paper slipcase with printed label on side; a bit rubbed. Not in Gubar.

BARNICOAT, J[ohn].W[allace]. [Three manuscript geological maps, comprising 1)] Plan of the Tin Bounds in the Parish of St. Agnes. No. 1[; 2)] Plan of Tin Bounds in the Parish of St. Agnes. No. 3 [; 3)] Plan of Tin Bounds in the Parish of Perban-Zabulot. No. 4. Falmouth, 1838.

A fine set of three mAnuscript surveys on A uniform sc Ale showing the holdings of A mining investor, ‘Mr Walton’ in the St. Agnes Mining District around the small town of St. Agnes, and Perranzabuloe in Cornwall. The ore of the St. Agnes Mining District has been formed at the junction of the granite underlying St. Agnes Beacon and the complex metamorphosed country rock which surrounds it, and has an extremely rich mining history due to the high quality tin found in the area.To the west are ancient tin mines which run from Wheal Luna overlooking Trevaunance Cove through Seal Hole and Polberro towards St. Agnes Head. To the south-west lies Wheal Coates, and the copper mines of Wheal Charlotte and the Porthtowan mines of Tywarnhayle/United Hills and the Towan group. The mine itself at Wheal Coates goes all the way down to the sea.Wheal Kitty and Penhalls stand on the west of Trevaunance Cove, and Blue Hills is round the corner in Trevellas Coombe - the last remaining tin production centre in the UK. The cliffs west of St Agnes were worked by small mines such as Wheal Ocean

and Wheal Prudence towards Cligga Head. Copper mines proliferated on the tops of the cliffs eastwards to Perran St. George and Droskyn Points.

Most of the mining activity was along the coast. To the south of St. Agnes around Goonbell and Mount Hawke, both originally miners’ settlements, the small fields surrounding them show that many were miners’ smallholdings. Perranzabuloe and the North Coast Mines were starting to move away from the copper and tin lodes, and produced more Silver, Lead, Wolfram, and Zinc. A number of mines including Wheal Leisure worked the area round Perranporth.

John Barnicoat is not listed in ‘Tooley’s Dictionary of Mapmakers’, but he is listed as a participant (with John James Gummoe and Ricard Caveth) in a 1839-1840 survey of tithes in Falmouth in the Dictionary of Land Surveyors and Local Mapmakers.

Three manuscript maps (numbered, 1, 3 and 4) executed in pen and ink on paper with some outline wash colour. Each map with a key to the mines indicating ‘Mr Walton’s Share’. The first mounted on linen and edged in green silk, somewhat creased, the second with several areas of staining and an area of loss at right edge skilfully reinstated in facsimile, the third with some waterstains to the margins.

Dimensions: 1) 76 × 131 cm.; 2) 74 × 54 cm.; 3) 53.5 × 74 cm.

Scale: All 5 inches to 20 chains.

ref: 66422 £1,500 detail

WALLIS, Edward.

Wallis’s new game of wanderers in the wilderness. Edward Wallis, London, [circa 1845].

This scarce and beautiful instructional game was to be played as a variant on the Game of Goose, each player moving around the finely detailed map which is crowded with vignettes of South American life and wildlife. The game aims to teach an English audience about Latin America.

The Wallis family, the father John sr. (c. 1745-1818), John jr. (c. 1779-1830) and younger son Edward (c. 1787-1868), were one of the leading firms of makers, publishers and retailers of children’s games, with a strong interest in cartographic games and puzzles. In the 1840s Edward, and his rival William Spooner, began to set their games against a more pictorial

background, as here, which allowed the young user (the games were heavily marketed as learning through play) to get a better sense of the region being “explored”.

A geographical race game over the continent of South America, with 84 playing spaces laid out in a circular direction, the map featuring wild animals, mountains, figures and ships off the coast, a title vignette lower right, etching with extensive hand-colouring, 68 x 50.5 cm, dissected and linen backed, folding into original green cloth covered boards of octavo format, owner’s inscription dated ‘1846’ on front pastedown, gilt; surface dirt, browning, some handling creases, cloth slightly worn.

Cf. Megan A. Norcia, ‘”X” Marks the spot: Victorian Women Writers Map the Empire’, University of Florida, 2004, pp. 85-87.

ref: 89136

£2,950

COTTAM, George Frederick. Logbooks. 1850-1856.

A n interesting person A l log , well illustr Ated with dr Awings A nd ch A rts , of life in the victori A n royA l nAvy At the time of the crime A n wA r , with much inform Ation on b urm A A nd the e A st i ndies

The narrative commences with Cottam as Naval Cadet, serving on board HMS Victory at Portsmouth, until he is placed on board HMS Fox a 42-gun Frigate which undertakes a 3 1/2 year cruise to the Indian Ocean via the Cape, visiting ports in Sri Lanka, India, Borneo and Malaysia, before returning to the UK. Anchored in the Downs, he is transferred in May 1854 to HMS Penelope, a16 gun Paddle frigate, as supernumerary en route to the Baltic, where they join the British Baltic Squadron and Cottam is finally shipped on board HMS Prince Regent engaged in the Allied Baltic blockade of the Crimean Campaign.

Returning to the UK, he ships as Midshipman aboard HMS Royal Albert 120 guns, which makes its way via Gibraltar to the Black Sea and Sebastopol as part of the Allied fleet besieging the Crimea. He continues on board HMS Agamemnon 91 guns, engaged in blockade and bombardment, until hostilities cease and the fleet returns to England, paying off in July 1856.

The log are well illustrated with views, charts, coastal profiles, and ships, including much in and around Rangoon.

Two volumes, folio (33 x 23 cm) midshipman’s personal logbooks compiled by George Frederick Cottam RN, covering his career from Naval Cadet on HMS Victory in 1850 to service as Midshipman on various vessels in the Crimean War, terminating on July 12th 1856. 22 full-page or folding pen-and-ink sketches, contemprary reversed calf, red morocco labels, worn.

ref: 90347 £5,500

JOSEPH, Charles. Map of the Grand Trunk Road from the Karamnassa to the Sutledge […]. Office of the Superintendent of the Grand Trunk Road, Allahabad, 1851.

This rare map covers the area between Agra and Benares along the Grand Trunk Road, one of Asia’s oldest and longest major routes. The road was initially built by the ruler Sher Shah in the 1500s to connect his capital Agra with Sasaram in NW India and later extended by the Mughals to Kabul in Afghanistan. In the 1700s the British extended it to Peshawar and it became one of the most important trading routes in India.

This would appear to be the first part, as described in the title. The second part was issued two years later, in 1853, and continues the road, extending from

Agra and Ferozepoor. Both maps are complete in themselves. Due to the size of the maps, and the delay in publishing the second part, it is no surprise that the two parts (if ever together) have been separated. Little is known about Charles Joseph but he appears to be listed as a surveyor in the Surveyor General’s office and this map according to the text is compiled from several district maps stored in this office. It is a remarkably detailed survey, at the scale of four miles to an inch.

of some rArity: Copac gives only a single location: British Library.

Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, dissected in 20 sections, mounted on linen; (size: 240 x 64 cm), folding into contemporary blue paper wrappers, ink signature on one wrapper.

ref: 91869

£3,750

IMRAY, James and Son. Chart of the West, South, and East Coasts of Australia extending from the Houtman Abbolhos Rocks to Moreton Bay and including the Island of Tasmania, Drawn Principally from the Surveys made by order of the British Government. Imray, London, 1853.

James Imray (1803-70) worked originally in the stationery and account book publishing business. In 1836 Imray joined with Michael Blachford, a small sea chart publisher based in London. The partnership flourished and soon began to compete with the larger firm of Norie and Wilson. In 1846 Imray bought out Blachford, and the company survived, led by descendents, into the twentieth century, when it merged with Norie and Wilson. Rivalry between the hydrographic charts of James Imray, Norie and the British Admiralty throughout the nineteenth century

ensured independent works of the highest quality demonstrated by the present charts.

With 14 charming and detailed insets of Port Stephens; Port Dalrymple (Tasmania); Botany Bay; Sketch of Port Fairy; Cockburn Sound; King George Sound; Storm Bay; the Approaches to Port Adelaide; Jervis Bay; Portland Bay; Port Phillip; Port Jackson; Moreton Bay; and Newcastle Harbour along top border and lower left corner. With coastal elevations, latitude and longitude scales, compass roses, soundings, navigational notes, and lines in pencil showing plotted courses.

An engraved ‘blue-back’ chart, printed in three sheets, conjoined; brown stain to left part. Dimensions: 99 x 130 cm.

ref: 69148

£2,500

JERVIS, Thomas Best. Военная топографическая

карта полуострова Крыма [...] Military Topographical Map of the Krima Peninsula [...].

[Williams & Norgate and Petheram (?)], London, 1854.

impressive wAll-mAp of crimeA: A presentAtion copy of the first edition of this detAiled document of militAry topogrAphic Al intelligence produced At the outbreAk of the wAr in the region

Based upon an earlier survey by Major General Semyon Mukhin, it was published with significant amendments and updates by Thomas Best Jervis (1796-1857), a major of the Corps of Engineers and member of the Geological and Geographical Societies, who presented this copy to Her Majesty’s 30th Regiment. A contemporary manuscript note, next to one of the presentation inscriptions, gives the publisher as being Williams & Norgate and Petheram (which could be confirmed by a Williams & Norgate label which we found on another example). The map was subsequently re-issued in various formats, with editions published in Turin, Paris and Brussels.

Making maps was Jervis’s passion and from 1846 he began to pitch his proposals for military cartography to Lord Aberdeen, insisting that the War Office needed someone to improve the geographical information available to expeditionary forces. The start of the Crimean war and lack of information about the territory that the British forces were to encroach proved Jervis’s point. Thus, with the permission from the War Office Jervis went to work with alacrity and created a map of the Crimea. Subsequently, on 2 February 1855, Lord Panmure finally made the foundation of an intelligence department official, which was to be called the Topographical and Statistical Department and of which Jervis was to take command.

This example of Jervis’s map later belonged to Major Gerald Wilson Reside (1906-99), whose name and address appears on the accompanying letter. The addresser, Pauline from 24 Sussex Street in London SW1V, writes that she “tried several publishing houses on the subject of your [Major Reside’s] maps [...]. The last one I spoke to has suggested [...] that you write to the director of the Maps Dept, The National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, London SW3 to see if they are interested in your maps”.

Gerald Reside served with the Royal Artillery in France and Belgium during the Second World War, achieving the rank of Major. He settled in the Newry area in the last years of the 19th century and dedicated his life to collecting rare and important documents on local history. His collection of 10,000 documents is now kept at the Newry & Mourne Museum.

Provenance: T.B. Jervis and Her Majesty’s 30th Regiment, contemporary presentation inscription “Presented to Her Majesty’s 30th Regiment by T.B. Jervis” (presentation inscription in two places); Major Gerald Wilson Reside, N. Ireland (addressee of the accompanying letter).

Large engraved wall-map (c. 135 × 220 cm) dissected into panels and mounted on three sheets of linen, with hand-coloured inset ‘Geological map of the Krima or Crimea Originally drawn up by Mr. Hout for the Russian Govt.’, five sheets of letter-press laid on outer panels providing geographical and military information on the Russian Empire: “A General Account of the Extent of the Russian Empire …”; “Organization of the Military and Naval Forces of Russia …”; “Miscellaneous useful Information connected with present Seat of War, and the Powers and States engaged therein”; and “Remarks on the proper Pronunciation of Foreign, and Asiatic Words in particular”; as well as “Index to the Map of the Krima Peninsula” cut in two parts, pulltabs, the map folding into contemporary morocco slipcase, gilt lettered “Crimea by Major Jervis” on upper cover; some soiling and dampstaining, slipcase rubbed. Accompanied by a letter addressed to Major Gerald Reside dated 31/08/[19]90.

Wade, Spies in the Empire: Victorian Military Intelligence, p.25.

ref: 91431

£4,750

75

JERVIS, Lieut[enant]-Colonel Thomas Best [after] Franz von WEISS. A Topographical Map of Greece, Turkey in Europe, The Achipelago, And Part Of Asia Minor, Including the classical as well as modern names, and the sites of ancient ruined cities: Together with a general map of Asia Minor, Syria, Caucasia, and the Black Sea.

John Petheram, London,

1855.

impressive hAnd-coloured mAp depicting south eAst europe - rAre: one of only 200 copies produced during the crimeAn wAr

This map is a re-edit of Franz von Weiss’ map Carte der Europaeischen Turkey nebst einem Theile von Kleinasien (1829), printed in Vienna in twenty one map-sheets. Thomas Best Jervis, a major of the Corps of Engineers and prominent member of the Geological and Geographical Societies, published it in 200 copies in order to be used by the British army in the Crimean War.

The map depicts all of southeastern Europe, from Moldova to Crete and from the northern Dalmatian coast to Istanbul and western Anatolia. The New Greek state established by the London Conference in 1830 is represented in four map-sheets, whilst the territories of Modern Greece are represented in eleven. The maps include nine additional insets of city-plans and sites of strategic interest - Belgrade, Butrint, Preveza, Rio-Antirio, Isthmus of Corinth, Navarino, Rhodes and Izmir, as well as the Black Sear and its environs.

Lithograph map (43 x 24.5 cm folded) with contemporary hand-colour, dissected and mounted on linen in six sections, text to body of map in German, with eight maps and a key sheet inset. Each section folding into blue marbled endpapers, two of which are pasted with notices on ‘proper Pronunciation of Foreign, and Asiatic Words in particular’ and statistics concerning the Turkish Empire.

‘Franz von Weiss’ maps of SE Europe (1821, 1829) issued in two crucial dates associated with the establishment of the modern Greek State in early 19th-century’, e-Perimetron Vol. 6, No. 1, 2011 [29-38].

ref: 64638

76 two key strong-points in the defences of Sebastopol, by French troops, including the Legion, prompted the Russian evacuation and surrender of the city in August 1855, after an eleven month siege; this was the final episode in the Crimean War, which ended officially in February 1856. Despite being heavily involved in the fighting, more legionnaires succumbed to the deprivations of camp life (notably the bitter cold and fever) than died in battle.

[CRIMEAN WAR] - Carte de la Crimée. Positions occupées par les armées alliées devant Sebastopol le 1er Juin 1855, en le jour de la victoire remportée sur les bords de la Tchernaia le 16 Aout de la même année. August, 1855.

the siege of seb Astopol entirely mAnuscript And drAwn on c AnvAs: A lovely And unusuAl mAp drawn by Sergent Neubourg, according to the instructions of Captain Koch of the French Foreign Legion’s First Foreign Infantry Regiment. It shows the location of the allied troops on the banks of the Chernaya River near the city of Sebastopol, which was besieged by the allies from September 1854 until the end of August 1855. The capture of the Malakoff Redoubt, one of

Coloured manuscript map on canvas (app. 41 x 54 cm), framed; some spotting.

ref: 87596 £1,450

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GUERRY, André-Michel. Statistique morale de l’Angleterre comparée avec la statistique morale de la France. Baillière, Paris, 1864.

UnCOMMOn firST EdiTiOn Of ThiS innOVATiVE wOrk, OnE Of ThE firST On CriMinOLOgiCAL STATiSTiCS

André-Michel Guerry (1802–66) was a French lawyer and amateur statistician. Together with Adolphe Quetelet he may be regarded as the founder of moral statistics, which led to the development of criminology, sociology and, ultimately, modern social science. He was awarded, for his groundbreaking work on moral statistics, the Prix Montyon in statistics on two occasions (and with a gap of almost 30 years: in 1833 and 1861).

Statistique morale de l’Angleterre begins with an extensive “introduction” that thoroughly describes the work’s subject matter, the method used for data collecting and calculations, and provides a general history of state-wide statistics.

The seventeen maps which follow offer a fascinating comparison between France and England’s criminal tendencies - in the wide meaning of the term, whether it be suicide, murder, theft or rape. All the data are ranked according to both countries’ regions. Not only is it interesting to compare two regions or two countries between them, but one can also easily juxtapose the different plates relative to a single country to try and establish parallels between a specific crime and various factors such as age or literacy rate.

Guerry was born in Tours in 1802. About 1824-1825 he moved to Paris and was admitted to the bar as a royal advocate. Shortly after, he was employed by the Ministry of Justice. Guerry worked with the data on crime statistics in France and was so fascinated with them, and the possibility to discover empirical regularities and laws that might govern them, that he gave up the active practice of law to devote the rest of his life to study crime and its relation to other moral variables. He had written, before this comparative atlas, an Essai sur la statistique morale de la France, presented to the French Academy of Sciences on July 2, 1832 and published in 1833 after it was awarded the Prix Montyon in statistics.

rAre on the mArket: we could not trace any copy selling at auction, including France, in the last three decades.

Folio (57.5 x 41 cm). Half-title, title, [6], LX, [4] pp., half-title for the atlas, 17 plates, index [2] pp. Original cloth-backed publisher’s printed boards; a bit worn.

HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE. China Sea Northern Portion Compiled from the latest surveys 1867. London, Published in the Admiralty, under the superintendence of Captain G.H. Richards, R.N. F.R.S. Hydrographer, Sold by J.D. Potter Agent for the Admiralty Charts, 31 Poultry & 11 King Street, Tower Hill, Aug. 30th, 1867. Corrections to June 1868, October 1868. Sept. 70.

A finely engr Aved A nd detA iled se A ch A rt of the northern portion of the chin A s e A , including the coast of Vietnam, the island of Hainan and the inset plans of the British possession of Hong Kong and the Portuguese port of Macao. The chart was published

to coincide with the publication of The China Sea Directory (1867); together these two publications formed an invaluable, and indispensible navigation aid for mariners making the difficult passage through the China Sea.

The two insets give detailed depictions of Hong Kong and Macao, both relatively early maps of these places.

Steel engraved sea chart. Dimensions: 101x 68 cm.

ref: 78387 £2,500

МЕЛЛЕР, ВАЛЕРЬЯН [VALERIAN MIOLLER].

Геологическая карта западного отклона хребта Урала [Geological map of the Western Slope of the Ural Ridge].

1869.

This beautiful and large colour map shows the complex geology of the rich Western Ural ridge, including the towns of Ufa and Perm and their surroundings.

Now home to two of the biggest oil refineries in Russia and crossed by the Trans-Siberian Railway, Ufa and its region lie at the heart of one of Russia’s main oil producing regions, the Volga-Ural Petroleum and Gas Province. So centered is the Russian oil trade in this region, that the mountain range’s name has been given to the reference oil brand used as a basis for pricing for the Russian export oil mixture (Urals oil). The Ishimbay and Krasnokamsk areas, also mapped, are rich in natural gas.

Perm is also important and famous: indeed the president of the Royal Geographic Society and coauthor of the major Geology of Russia in Europe and the Ural Mountains, Sir Roderick Murchison, alongside the French paleontologist Edouard de Verneuil, undertook a scientific exploration in the area in the first half of the 19th century. Especially thanks to the local salt mines, Murchison identified typical strata in the area which lead to the introduction of the geological term ‘Permian’.

The mining engineer Mioller (1840-1910) conducted extensive research in the area between 1860 and 1867. As a result, the map highlights the main deposits of coal, iron and copper, as well as local factories and mines. Mioller centered the map on the town of Kungur, inbetween Perm and Ufa: its creation in 1648 marked the beginning of discoveries of many valuable minerals. Their systematic extraction under Peter the Great led to the region becoming the largest mineral base in Russia.

ref: 86593

£2,750

Chromolithograph wall map (122 x 60.3 cm). Dissected into 12 sections and mounted on linen, two hanging rings at the back, folding into a contemporary violet cloth slipcase with gilt-lettering to spine; slipcase rubbed.

[HAMPSTEAD HEATH].

Ordnance Survey map of Hampstead Heath. 1871.

VErY rArE LArgE SCALE SUrVEY Of hAMPSTEAd hEATh, fULLY hAnd-COLOUrEd. Most surveys of this size would have been bought by council offices and similar institutions so very few were produced and rarely come to market.

Publication coincided with the Hampstead Heath Act of 1871, when the Metropolitan Board of Works acquired the remaining 220 acres of heathland, for the public use as a protected open space, from Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson, who was threatening the fabric of the area.

Scale: 5 feet to one mile. Surveyed by Captain Peter Trench in 1866. 4 map sheets each sheet 26.75 x 39.25 inches, each sheet in 21 sections linen-backed as issued. Framed and glazed, overall dimensions: 106 x 74cm. each.

ref: 87527 £4,250

81 THE EASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY LIMITED. Letter Openers.

London, 50 & 11, Old Broad Street, various dates.

Collection of 1880s letter openers in fine condition, all but one showing a world map on both sides. It beautifully and succinctly illustrates the numerous telegraph lines of the largest cable operating company in the world, and their evolution from 1887 to 1893.

Before further development in the following years, the 1887 opener shows the lines map on one side only, which results in a curious skewed projection in which the northern tip of Australia is shown parallel to Provence! The other side of the opener displays the calendar of the year; it was moved to the handle in subsequent years. Some unusual lines can be seen too, such as New York to Pernambaco (1891).

The Eastern Telegraph Company (ETC), founded in 1872 by John Pender, was born out of the merger of four telegraph companies. At its peak it operated 160,000 nautical miles of cables. Pender became Chairman of the company on its formation and held the position until his death in 1896. The company would eventually become Cable and Wireless.

Letter openers for the years 1887, 88, 89, 91, 92 and 93, with printed world map on one or both sides, calendar printed on handle (or on one side in 1887). Dimensions: 35 by 340mm (1.25 by 13.25 inches).

ref: 81151

£125 each

82

[NICARAGUA] - Canal de Nicaragua: a Letter Opener for the Exposition Universelle in Paris. 1889.

Produced by the Nicaraguan republic, on a “échantillon de bois” (wood sample). The recto with a printed map showing a proposed route for an Inter-Oceanic Nicaragua Canal. The proposed waterway would connect the Caribbean Sea, and therefore the Atlantic Ocean, with the Pacific Ocean through Nicaragua. Such a canal would follow rivers up to Lake Nicaragua and then cut across the isthmus of Rivas to reach the Pacific.

Construction of a canal along the route using the San Juan River was proposed in the early colonial era, and Louis Napoleon wrote an article about its

feasibility in the early nineteenth century. Plans by the United States to build such a canal were abandoned in the early twentieth century, after the purchase of the French interests in the Panama Canal at a reasonable cost. The canal idea was discussed seriously by businessmen and governments throughout the nineteenth century.

The verso of the opener shows a pasted vignette with the Pavillon du Nicaragua at the Exposition, as well a stamp of the Republica.

ref: 87113 £250

Letter opener with lithograph map on recto, 1889 calendar printed on handle; map edges chipped.. Dimensions: 35 by 340mm (1.25 by 13.25 inches).

PERMAN, E.G. All the sights of London by Underground. Vincent, Brooks, Day & Sons, London, 1928.

A fine example of this striking poster, Perman’s only known poster for the Underground.

Coloured lithograph, linen backed (100 x 64 cm).

ref: 87152 £2,500

rEfErEnCE wOrkS, nEw

BARBER, Peter.

London. A History in Maps. The London Topographical Society, London, 2012. £25

BETZ, Richard L. The Mapping of Africa; A Cartobibliography of Printed Maps of the African Continent to 1700.

‘t Goy-Houten, Hes & De Graaf, 2007. £75

BOYLE, Lucinda (compiler) and Ralph HYDE. London: A Cartographic History. 1746-1950. 200 Years of Folding Maps. London, Countrywide Editions, 2002. £50

BROECKE, Marcel P.R., van den. Ortelius Atlas Maps. ‘t Goy-Houten, Hes & De Graaf, 1996. £35

EGMOND, Dr. Marco van. Covens & Mortier: A Map Publishing House in Amsterdam 1685 - 1866.

‘t Goy-Houten, Hes & De Graaf, 2009. £125

GESTEL- van het SCHIP, Paula van, and others. Maps in books on Russia and Poland Published in the Netherlands to 1800.

‘t Goy-Houten, Hes & De Graaf, 2011. £125

WORMS, Laurence & Ashley BAYNTON-WILLIAMS. British Map Engravers; A Dictionary of Engravers, Lithographers and their Principal Employers to 1850. Rare Book Society, London, 2011. £125

item 56 - ARROWSMITH, Aaron. Map of America. (detail)

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Front cover image: item 13 - BLAEU, Joan. Atlas maior

Inside front cover: item 64 - GREENWOOD, Christopher and John. Map of London

Back cover: item 83 - PERMAN, E.G. All the sights of London by Underground.

Inside back cover: item 15 - HAGEN, Christiaan, van der. Composite Atlas of Leiden.

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