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

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.

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 ref: 86128 £1,250

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.

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], ref: 73083

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.

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 ref: 73064 £10,000 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”.

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.

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.

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 ref: 87232 £7,500

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.

DURY, Andrew ref: 92243 £7,500 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

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.

[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.

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 ref: 86943

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.

£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 ref: 90394 £5,750 ref: 82198

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.

[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.

£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 ref: 90988 £3,750

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.

[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 ref: 91334 £950

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.

55

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 ref: 86288

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.).

£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 ref: 82225

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

£9,500

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. ref: 82656

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.)

£2,500

59 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.

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

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

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

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). ref: 86287 £4,950 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.

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.

[COURTENER, François].

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

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

61 ref: 88842 £3,750 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 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.

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.

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].

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.

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.

63

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] ref: 90581

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.

£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. ref: 67050

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.

£20,000 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.

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

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.

67 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.

[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.

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.

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. ref: 66422 £1,500 detail

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.

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”. ref: 89136

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.

£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.

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 of some rArity: Copac gives only a single location: British Library. ref: 91869

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.

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.

£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. ref: 69148

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.

£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 ref: 91431

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.

£4,750

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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 ref: 64638 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

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].

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.

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

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.

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. ref: 78387 £2,500 ref: 86593

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.

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.

£2,750

[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 ref: 81151

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).

£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. ref: 87113 £250 ref: 87152 £2,500 rEfErEnCE wOrkS, nEw

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

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).

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

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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

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

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