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Altea GalleryCatalogue No1 • Summer 2012

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Index PageThe Civitates Orbis Terrarum 2

Three Ortelius Atlases 4

De Bry’s American Voyages 6

Early Printed Maps 9

Italian Engraving 12

The de Jode Family 18

Romeyn de Hooghe 20

London 22

Wall Maps 28

Cloth Maps 32

The Other Side of the World 37

Naval Battles 39

Curiosity & Caricature maps 41

Games 45

General Selection 48

INTRODUCTION

This year I will have been dealing in antique maps for twenty years. Having been introduced to the wonders of cartography by a friend, I have spent the past two decades improving my expertise and knowledge on the subject. It is always a thrill to find a map of particular importance or interest and I have been lucky enough to have come across several on my journey.

Up until now I have never issued a printed catalogue as my web site is easily accessible, making it convenient to immediately see what I have in stock.

However, I decided that a catalogue would be a fitting way to celebrate my twenty years in the business, and here it is. It is not a conventional catalogue, one organised geographically, but a personal selection of items I have in stock that I find exciting and that remind me why I chose to make antiquarian cartography such an important part of my life.

Hopefully my passions have successfully transferred to the printed page: if it inspires anyone to look deeper into the subject my full web catalogue can be found at www.alteagallery.com

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The ‘earliest systematic city atlas’

1 BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.

Civitates Orbis Terrarum.

Cologne: 1572-1618.

Six volumes, folio, contemporary vellum with gilt titles on spine; containing 6 engraved title-pages and 363 double-page plates of maps and views.

£150,000

A fine example of this monumental city atlas, produced as a companion to Ortelius’s ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum’ atlas, with text by Georg Braun and plates engraved by Frans Hogenberg and others. The first volume was originally published in 1572, but these are a later printing, making a uniform set with the last volume, the sixth, which first appeared in 1617. The 363 plates are an impressive record of the notable towns of the period, mostly in Europe but also some in Asia and Africa, and even two in the New World, Mexico City and Cusco. The inclusion of dress and events in the foreground add extra local detail.

KOEMAN: Vol 2, p 10: ‘the earliest systematic city atlas’; TOOLEY: ‘one of the great books of the World... a wonderful compendium of knowledge of life in Europe in the sixteenth century’.

S/N: 13029

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2 ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Theatrum Orbis Terrarum... Antwerp: Gillis van den Rade, 1575, Latin text edition. Folio, rebound in contemporary blind-stamped calf gilt; pp. (xix), 70 maps in fine colour with gold highlights.+ (92) (Synonymia & Index) + (6) (De Mona Druidum Insula...) + (2) (Privilege & Colophon).

£80,000

An early example of the world’s first regularly-produced atlas, with uniform maps and text designed to be bound, published only five years after the first edition. In that time the number of maps had increased from 53 to 70 and the text had been enlarged with the inclusion of the ‘Synonymia Locorum’ and ‘De Mona druidum Insula’ (Welshman Humphrey Llwyd’s letter to Ortelius about the druids of Anglesey).

Originally this example must have been a large-paper example, which someone put to use with extensive old ink marginalia (Italian-language geographical notes) on some maps, particularly the East Indies. When the atlas was rebound in a standard-sized binding great care was taken to preserve the writing, so the edges of some maps are folded in.

VAN DEN BROECKE: p.25, estimating 100 copies printed; KOEMAN: Ort 13.

S/N: 12866

THREE ORTELIUS ATLASESAbraham Ortelius is one of the best-known names in early map-making, and his world atlas, the ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum’, is a landmark publication, regarded as the first atlas in the modern sense of the word. The style he developed was the template for atlas production for several centuries.

Here are three atlases in different formats: a ‘Theatrum’, an ‘Additamentum’, a collection of new maps, and a ‘Parergon’, his atlas of the ancient world.

Ortelius’s Theatrum in a fine binding

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The rare fourth Additamentum, with the first regular appearances of the maps of Iceland and the Pacific


Additamentum IV Theatri Orbis Terrarum.

Antwerp: Officina Plantiana, 1590. Folio, contemporary gilt-tooled calf. Letterpress title page and 22 maps with text on reverse, without pagination, as called for.

Two old ink mss. ownership inscription on titlepage.

£32,000

A fine example of the fourth Additamentum atlas by Ortelius, containing the twenty-two maps engraved since the 1587 edition of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, arranged in alphabetical order. As the volume was meant to compliment this earlier edition, not many copies were printed: van den Broecke estimates only 100 were printed, of which he could trace 50 existing examples.

Of these new maps eight are ‘modern’ and fourteen are maps for the Parergon, Ortelius’s atlas of the ancient world. The ancient maps include the ‘Wanderings of Abraham’, surrounded by 22 roundel scenes; the world as known by the ancients; and a two-sheet map of ancient Britain with a huge vignette sea-battle. The ‘modern’ maps include two of the most popular maps by Ortelius, the superb ‘Maris Pacifici’, the first map of the Pacific Ocean, and ‘Islandia’, showing Iceland surrounded by sea-monsters.

The front board has the stamped coat-of-arms of David von Spaur, provost of Bressanone, who also added his signature to the bottom of the title page.

KOEMAN: Ort 25; VAN DEN BROECKE: p. 25.

S/N: 12947

Ortelius’s atlas of the Ancient World


Theatri Orbis Terrarum Parergon; sive sive Veteris Geographiæ Aliquot Tabulæ, Commentarijs Geographicis et Histroricis illustratæ. Editio Novissima, Tabulis aliquot acuta, et varie emendata atque innovata, Cura et Studio Balthasaris Moreti. [with] Nomenclator Ptolemaicus...

Antwerp, Officiana Plantiniana, 1624.

Two books in one. Folio, modern vellum over limp boards; engraved title, arms of Philip IV of Spain, dedication; pp. (iv) + xlix (sheets) containing 36 maps on 39 double-page sheets, 3 double-page views, 1 costume plate on two double-pages, as called; pp. 34 (Nomenclator); woodcut printer’s colophon.

£19,500

The last and largest edition of the Parergon, Ortelius’s personal project, with new maps of the Eastern and Western parts of the Ancient World, surrounded by text; and the four-sheet Peutinger Table. These were added to other maps with both classical and biblical themes, including the wanderings of Odysseus, Abraham and Paul the Apostle.

Unlike the maps in the ‘Theatrum’, Ortelius drew these himself. The first to appear were published in an Additamentum to the Theatrum in 1579, but as more were completed the Parergon became an atlas in its own right.

S/N: 13026

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DE BRY’S AMERICAN VOYAGESTheodor De Bry’s collection of Great Travels contains important first-hand accounts of attempts to settle North America, including the English colony at Roanoke and the French in Florida. Among the illustrations are John Smith’s drawings of Virginia and Jacques Le Moyne’s of Florida, the first realistic representations of the Americas available to Europeans. Here we have a volume containing approximately the first half of the Voyages, and two of the most significant maps from the series.

The Great or American Voyages

5 DE BRY, Theodore et al.

Frankfurt: 1594-1617. Parts I-VI only (of 13) in one volume. Latin text. Folio (335 x 235 mm), 17th century vellum over pasteboard, the flat spine with small panel outlined in gilt with rolls, titled in gilt within the panel.

Various neat repairs, part VI lacking 2nd section (from page 108 including 2nd frontis. and 28 plates), binding with neat repairs to spine and the board edges, endpapers replaced.

£120,000

Containing:

I. [Thomas Hariot’s Virginia.] Admiranda narratio fida tamen, de commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginiae ... Anglico scripta sermone a Thoma Hariot. Frankfurt: Johann Wechel, “1590” [ but c.1608].

II. [Jacques Le Moyne’s Florida.] Brevis narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae provi[n]cia Gallis acciderunt ... auctore Iacobo Le Moyne. Frankfurt: Johann Wechel, “1591” [but 1609].

III. [Hans Stadius’s Brazil.] Americae tertia pars memorabile[m] provinciae Brasiliae historiam contine[n]s, germanico primum sermone scriptum a Ioane Stadio. Frankfurt: apud Matthiam Beckerum, 1605.

IV. [Girolamo Benzoni’s History of the New World.] Americae pars quarta sive, insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primum Occidentali India a Christophoro Columbo anno MCCCCXCII scripta ab Hieronymo Be[n]zono. Frankfurt: Ad invistiss. Rudolphus II..., 1594.

V. [Benzoni’s History continued.] Americae pars quinta, nobilis & admiratione plena Hieronymi Be[n]zoni ... secundae sectionis Hi[stori]a[e] Hispanorum tum in Nigrittas servos suos, tum in Indos crudelitatem, Gallorumq[ue] pirataru[m] de Hispanis toties reportata spolia. Frankfurt: Theodore de Bry, “1595” [but c. 1617].

VI. [Benzoni’s History concluded.] Americae pars sexta, sive historiae ab Hieronymo Be[n]zono ... scriptae, sectio tertia. Frankfurt: Theodore de Bry, 1596. First section only (of 2).

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De Bry’s important collection of voyages of exploration to the Americas, containing several landmark maps of the continent.

Included are Hariot’s account of the English colony in Virginia (second edition, second issue, 1606), with the important map of the Roanoke colony in Virginia and plates after John White; Jacques Le Moyne’s Florida (second edition, 1609), with his map of south east North America and scenes of Florida and its inhabitants; Hans Stadius’s Brazil (second edition, first issue, 1605) with his map of Peru and Brazil; and Girolamo Benzoni’s History of the New World (first two parts second editions, 1594 & 1617, the third the first edition of 1596), with maps of the Western Hemisphere, the West Indies and New Spain, and a view of Cusco.

S/N: 12946

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Influential map of the Eastern Seaboard

6 MOYNE DE MORGUES, Jacques le.

Floridae Americae Provinciae Recens & exactissima descriptio...

Frankfurt, Theodore de Bry, 1591. 370 x 360mm.

Strenghtened with thin tissue on verso of top left corner; an excellent example with a fine impression.

£14,000

A superb map of the Eastern Seaboard from Cape Lookout to Florida, with Cuba and the Bahamas, by the official artist of the second French Huguenot expedition to their colony at Charlefort, 1564. When the Spanish destroyed the colony of ‘heretics’ Le Moyne fled into the wild, but eventually joined other Huguenot émigres in London. Working from memory (having lost most of his possessions in the swamps) he produced this map and a number of watercolours (only one now extant). In 1587 de Bry met le Moyne in London and tried to buy his papers, but as le Moyne was working for Sir Walter Raleigh he refused to sell. However le Moyne died the following year and de Bry was able to buy this map and some sketches from his widow.

Of interest is the large expanse of water at the top of the map, either representing the Great Lakes or Verrazzano’s Sea; the waterfall, believed to be based on the local Indians’ accounts of Niagara; and Port Royal named on a map for the first time.

BURDEN: 79; CUMMING: 14; GOSS: Mapping of North America 16, “one of the most attractive maps of North America”.

S/N: 11877

Maps from De Bry’s American Voyages

An early map of South America

7 DE BRY, Theodore.

Americae Pars Magis Cognita.

Frankfurt, 1592. 365 x 445mm.

Narrow margins, some restoration to printed border, backed on japanese paper.

£3,500

An important map of South America, published in the third part of De Bry’s ‘Grand Voyages’ to illustrate the voyages of Johann van Staden & Jean de Lery in the mid-16th century. The mapping of South America is based on that of Peter Martyr, 1587, and Gastaldi’s map from his edition of Ptolemy, 1561. The southern part of North America is taken from Le Moyne’s map of Florida (also published by De Bry), although Cuba differs substantially.

S/N: 12708

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9 PTOLEMY, Claudius.

Sexta Asie Tabula.

Ulm, Johan Reger, 1482-86. Woodcut, original hand colour. 300 x 565mm.

Some restoration.

£24,000

The Arabian peninsula from an early German edition of Ptolemy, within a trapezoid border with metal type for the lettering. The title is on the verso with a Latin-text description, with a coloured capital.

See TIBBETTS: 8.

S/N: 11381

EARLY PRINTED MAPSIncunable maps have always fascinated me. It is amazing that you can acquire maps printed over 500 years ago, in the age that Columbus discovered America and a century before Shakespeare wrote ‘Hamlet’. The first three maps in this section are true incunabula (i.e. printed before 1501), two have existed for at least half-a-millennium, and the last is a later printing from a woodblock cut in 1491.

8 BERLINGHIERI, Francesco de Nicola.

Tabula Octava d Europa

Florence, 1482. Two sheets joined, as usual, paper size 430 x 560mm.

Trimmed to plate top and bottom.

£6,000

Poland, Lithuania, the Ukraine, etc, from the third edition of Ptolemy’s Geography to have printed maps, the first to be printed in the vernacular and the first with ‘modern’ maps’.

Francesco Berlinghieri (1440-1501), an Italian scholar and humanist, started work on a revision of Ptolemy in 1464, updating the Ptolemiac maps, supplementing them with modern maps (France, Italy, Spain and the Holy Land) and writing a commentary in Italian verse. The maps were engraved by Niccolò Tedesco, a German printer, unusually with equidistant meridians and parallels, and rectangular borders rather than trapezoid. The completed work was published as “Septe Giornate della Geographia di Francesco Berlinghieri” (“The Seven Days of Geography”).

S/N: 11704

Poland & the Ukraine from a landmark edition of Ptolemy

Important incunable map of Arabia

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An early 16th century T-O world map

11 FORESTI, Giacomo.

[Untitled T-O world map.]

Venice: c.1503. Woodcut, 90 x 130mm, set in Italian text.

£1,600

An early diagrammatic world map from Foresti da Bergamo’s ‘Novissime Hystoriæ’, in a decorative border also containing a climate map. The depiction is ‘Tripartite’ or ‘T-O’, with the world divided into three by great waterways. Europe is separated from Africa by the Mediterranean and from Asia by the river Don; and Asia and Africa are separated by the Nile.

Foresti was a noted historian in his day: his ‘Supplementum Chronicarum’ (1491), was plagarised by Hartmann Schedel, appearing word for word in the more famous ‘Nuremberg Chronicle’ (1493).

SHIRLEY: p.xx, plate 2.

S/N: 12005

The first “modern” map of Palestine

10 PTOLEMY, Claudius.

Tabula Moderna Terre Sancte.

Ulm, Johan Reger, 1482-86. Original hand colour with blue finishing on the sea area and rivers. Woodcut, 325 x 560mm.

Very minor restoration at centrefold.

£15,000

Palestine from an early German edition of Ptolemy’s Geography, but one of five ‘modern’ maps added. Despite this it still shows the tribal divisions.

A highly collectible map, here in very fine condition and striking colouring.

See LAOR: 603

S/N: 9266

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“one of the first examples of 16th Century two-colour printing”

12 SYLVANUS, Bernard.

Duodecima et Ultima Asiae Tabula.

Venice, 1511. Woodcut on two sheets conjoined, printed surface 395 x 370mm.

Minor staining at top of centrefold.

£1,750

A rare map of the island of Tabrobana, usually associated with Sri Lanka, from Sylvanus’s edition of Ptolemy’s Geography. Having many names printed in red makes it one of the first examples of two-colour printing, achieved by printing the sheet twice. It is also what Shirley calls “an isolated example of Venetian cartographic enterprise”, forty years before Gastaldi’s version of Ptolemy. It was never reissued. While decoration is kept to a minimum the title cartouche features a pair of elephant heads. As the maps were printed on both sides of the sheet, this has half of the map of the Malay Peninsula on the reverse.

S/N: 11501

13 Anonymous.

[Untitled circular world map from a woodblock of 1491.]

Paris, Nicolas Couteau, 1543. Woodblock, two sheets joined. Circular map, diameter 300mm, letterpress in borders. A fine example.

£16,500

A scarce circular woodblock world map, first issued in the 1491 edition of ‘La Mer des Hystoires’, published in Lyon. It is orientated with east at the top of the map, with Asia filling the top half, Africa bottom right and Europe bottom left, with Jerusalem at the centre. The map shows different countries and cities as hills or islands, with the Pope shown behind the walls of the Vatican and England and Ireland on the edge just left of the centre. Other vignettes include the Devil, the Tree of the Sun and the Moon, dragons and a phoenix.

‘La Mer des Hystoires’ was a French translation of the ‘Rudimentum Novitiorum’, 1475, an encyclopaedic world history based on medieval theology, which contained the first detailed maps ever printed, pre-dating the illustrated editions of Ptolemy.

Although this map is smaller than the 1475 original a number of mistakes were corrected and the text is much clearer than in the previous editions. Campbell calls it ‘the work of a thinking individual’.

SHIRLEY: Mapping of the World, 17.

S/N: 10204

A medieval woodblock T-O world map

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The ‘Upside-Down’ map of Africa

14 GASTALDI, Giacomo.

Prima Tavola.

Venice, c.1563. Trapizoid, 275 x (at greatest) 385mm.

Two sheets joined. Fine and crisp impression.

£1,900

The famous ‘upside-down’ map of Africa, engraved with north to the bottom of the map, decorated with various sea-monsters, galleons and animals. Gastaldi produced this finely-engraved version after his original woodcut for Ramusio’s ‘Delle navigationi et viaggi’ was destroyed in a fire at the printing house in 1557. It is likely that the orientation is supposed to represent the view from Europe.

BETZ: 7; NORWICH: 6.

S/N: 12717

The ‘Upside-Down’ map of the Indian Ocean

15 GASTALDI, Giacomo.

Seconda Tavola.

Venice, Giunti, 1606. Trapizoid, 280 x (at greatest) 385mm.

Small repair bottom centrefold.

£1,600

Engraved with north to the bottom of the map, it shows Arabia (with Bahrain) on the right, India, Ceylon and the Maldives, with the edge of Sumatra top left. Published in Ramusio’s ‘Delle navigationi et viaggi’.

S/N: 8172

A “Lafreri-School” map of Iberia

16 FORLANI, Paolo.

[Untitled map of Iberia.]

Venice: Ferrando di Bertelli, c.1567. Two sheets joined, total 435 x 545mm.

Evidence of a crack in the printing plate on the lower left edge.

£9,800

An exceptional example of this rare separate-issue map of Iberia, on paper with an anchor watermark with margins of at least 4cm on all sides.

Forlani was one of the most prominent members of the ‘Lafreri-school’ group of mapmakers in Italy. Not only did he publish his own maps, his skills as engraver, particularly for lettering, made other publishers commission him to make maps for them: maps attributed to him were published by, among others, Camocio, Bertelli and Zaltieri in Venice, and Duchetti in Rome. This is one of the few to bear his name: of the 97 maps attributed to him by David Woodward, eighty are unsigned.

WOODWARD: The Maps and Prints of Paolo Forlani; MAPFORUM.COM: Issue 11, biography, & Forlani’s Works, 68.

S/N: 7437

ITALIAN ENGRAVINGThe Italians were the first to use copper engraving to print maps (the technique evolving from decorative metalwork) and were responsible for some of the most flamboyant maps. From the early Lafreri-school engravers, through Lucini and Coronelli to the later work published by Zatta and Cassini, Italy produced maps on which there was as much artistry in the style of engraving as the content.

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Scarce sea chart of Norway

18 DUDLEY, Robert.

Carta di Noruegia piu moderna.

Florence: Francesco Onofri, 1646. 495 x 375mm.

£1,250

A rare sea chart of Norway, published in Sir Robert Dudley’s monumental atlas, ‘Dell’Arcano del Mare’ (Secrets of the Sea). It was the first English sea-atlas to be printed (albeit engraved and published in Italy), breaking the Dutch monopoly of such publications. As a friend of Drake and brother-in-law of Thomas Cavendish he had enviable access to the latest information. The engraver Antonio Francesco Lucini wrote in the introduction to the second edition that he worked for 12 years on the copper plates, which weighed 5000 lbs. His clear style of engraving, with florid script, make the Dudley charts instantly recognisable.

The son of the Earl of Leicester, favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, Dudley was born in secret to avoid her jealousy. Well-educated, he joined the Elizabethan maritime adventurers and led an expedition to the Orinoco in 1594, raiding Trinidad en route. After failing to prove his legitimacy in 1605 he left England for Italy, and forfeited all property after illegally assuming the title of Earl of Warwick. He died in 1649, two years after the first edition of the ‘Arcano’.

S/N: 12043

An early engraved map of southern Africa

17 SANUTO, Livio.

Africae Tabula X.

Venice, Damiano Zenaro, 1588, 400 x 520mm

Lateral margins extended, excellent impression.

£3,250

A very finely engraved map of Southern Africa, showing the course of the Limpopo River and Great Zimbabwe, the capital of the Shona empire. Sanuto described the granite walls of the city ‘the work not of humans but the devil’, as they were better than the Portuguese fortresses on the coast.

Livio Sanuto (c.1520-1576), a Venetian cosmographer, mathematician and maker of terrestrial globes, belonged to the prestigious Lafreri school of engravers, whose output signalled the transition between the maps of Ptolemy and the maps of Mercator and Ortelius. He and his brother Giulio planned a massive and comprehensive atlas to include maps and descriptions of the whole world, which he believed would be more accurate than any previously published. Unfortunately, he died in 1576 having only completed 12 maps of Africa, which were eventually published in 1588 under the title “Geografia Di M. Livio Sanuto...”.

For his maps Sanuto relied on Gastaldi’s 1564 map and Portuguese sea charts for the mapping of the coasts and for the interior used accounts by Duarte Barbosa and João de Barros. After its publication in 1588 this work was copied by other leading map makers for nearly a century afterwards.

NORWICH: 152; see BETZ 22.

S/N: 10944

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19 BLAEU, Willem Janszoon.

Orbis Terrarum Tipus De Integro Multis In Locis Emendatus auct: G. Iansonio.

Bologna, Francesco Sabatini?, dated 1655 but c.1670, 440 x 750mm.

£50,000

A splendid and extremely rare carte-à-figures map of the World, engraved by Pietro Todeschi. The world is drawn in two hemispheres at the centre surrounded by a wealth of decorative detail. Australia is connected to New Guinea and a great Southern landmass and entitled “Terra Australis Incognita”, and a northwest passage is shown through the Straits of Anian.

This is a hitherto unrecorded pirate copy of Willem Blaeu’s map of the world, probably taken from the intermediate Italian piracy recorded by Shirley. It was probably published by Francesco Sabatini, one of the many fringe figures in Italian map-publishing in the late seventeenth century. Unfortunately characters are so shadowy that we do not have accurate dates for his life and death, and often the only clues to dating his work are the dedications on the maps. He was apparently active as a printer, publisher and possibly engraver in the 1670s, probably in Bologna. Although this World map bears a Venetian address (only partially legible) it seems plausible that this is spurious.

cf. SHIRLEY “The mapping of the World” No. 333, Plate 253 for the intermediate piracy.; Klaus Stopp, ‘Drie Karten von Francesco Sabatini’, Mappæ Antiquæ Liber Amicorum Günter Schilder, p.281-285.

S/N: 10523

Unrecorded carte-à-figures map of the world

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A two-sheet map of North America

20 CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.

America Settentrionale Colle Nuoue Scoperte fin all’Anno 1688.

Venice, 1691. Two sheets conjoined, total 605 x 880mm.

£10,000

A large and highly decorative two-sheet map of North America, with two large cartouches and many vignettes from de Bry engraved in the interior and seas. Despite showing California as an island the map contains the most current information: as map-maker to Louis XIV Coronelli had access to the most recent reports by French explorers, including Marquette (1673) and La Salle (1682). Cumming notes that ‘his delineation of the Great Lakes is the best and most accurate on a general map before the eighteenth century’.

CUMMING: Exploration of North America, p.148.

S/N: 12017

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21 DE ROSSI, Giovanni Giacomo.

Mercurio Geografico overo Guida Geografica in Tutte le Parti del Mondo conforme le Tavole Geografiche del Sanson Baudrand e Cantelli.

Rome, c.1696. Two vols, folio, contemporary vellum; Vol. I: engraved frontis. and 95 double-page maps; Vol II: engraved frontis. and 40 double-page maps. All maps numbered in old ink mss. on verso, nearly all with original outline colour. Old ink mss. index on front endpaper, marginalia on some maps and index at rear of first volume.

£30,000

A fine example of De Rossi’s atlas, which, like Coronelli’s atlas of the same period, has no standard collation. The 95 maps of the first volume are dated between 1667 and 1689 and the forty in the second between 1690 and 1696, they are mainly derived from Sanson and Cantelli da Vignola. Maps of particular interest are: the celestial hemisphere after Francesco Brunacci; Cantelli’s four-sheet wall map of the Low Countries; Ameti’s four-sheet maps of the Patrimonio di S. Pietro and Lazio, showing the environs of Rome in early Christian and contemporary eras; and Cantelli’s four-sheet map of Piemonte.

S/N: 12951

A 17th century Italian atlas in two volumes

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One of the most decorative maps of Australia

23 CASSINI, Giovanni Maria.

La Nuova Olanda e la Nuova Guinea.

Rome, 1798. Coloured, 365 x 490mm.

£2,800

A fine map of Australia and New Guinea, published in the ‘Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale’. The emphasis of the map is the charting of Captain Cook down the east coast: most of the marked features are those named by Cook and his crew between the Torres Strait and Tasmania, which is shown as part of the mainland. The title is within a decorative title cartouche with two aboriginies, one of whom strangely carries a bow.

S/N: 7541

Cook’s charting of New Zealand

22 ZATTA, Antonio.

La Nuova Zelanda trascorsa nel 1769 e 1770 dal Cook comandante dell’Endeavour vascello di S.M. Britannica.

Venice, 1794. Original outline colour. 455 x 360mm.

£1,800

This is one of the most decorative versions of Cook’s map of New Zealand, engraved by Zuliani after Pasquali. Cook’s route around the islands is marked in colour, and the title vignette shows a Maori village. This is the second state with the new engraved date of 1794, issued in Zatta’s edition of Cook’s Voyages rather than his atlas; as such it is scarcer than the original edition.

TOOLEY: Australia 1433.

S/N: 9556

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The first edition of this rare map of the Middle East

24 DE JODE, Gerard.

Secundæ Partis Asiae typus...

Antwerp, 1578, Latin text edition. 325 x 500mm.

£7,000

Egypt & the Nile, Abyssinia, Arabia (with Bahrain marked), southern Persia, and the west coast of India & Maldives. Based on Gastaldi, it was engraved c.1566-1570 by Lucas & Jan van Doeticum and published in De Jode’s ‘Speculum Orbis Terrarum’. KOEMAN: Jod 1; TIBBETTS: 38.

S/N: 11681

Portugal in fine original colour

25 DE JODE, Gerard.

Portugalliae quæ olim Lusitania Vernando Alvaro Secco Auctore Recens Descriptio.

Antwerp: Arnold Coninx for the widow and heirs of Gerard de Jode, 1593. Fine original colour. 320 x 520mm.

£2,500

Portugal, engraved by Johannes & Lucas van Doeticum for De Jode’s ‘Speculum Orbis Terrarum’, based on the map by Secco published 1561. The seas are filled with finely-engraved galleons, galleys and sea monsters, with the Spanish royal arms.

KOEMAN: Jod 2.

S/N: 12610

The Far East in fine original colour

26 DE JODE, Gerard.

Tertiae partis Asiae quæ modernis Indi orientalis dicitur acurata delineatio. Autore Iacobo Castaldo Pedmontano. Gerardus de Iode excudebat.

Antwerp, Arnold Coninx for the widow and heirs of Gerard de Jode, 1593. Fine contemporary hand colour. 325 x 495mm.

£12,000

The Far East, with India, the Malay Peninsula (with ‘Cingatola’), the Philippines & Moluccas, engraved c.1566 by Lucas & Jan van Doeticum. This example comes from the ‘Speculum Orbis Terrae’, published two years after De Jode’s death.

KOEMAN: Jod 2.

S/N: 11603

THE DE JODE FAMILYThe Speculum Orbis Terrarum atlas of Gerard De Jode was completely overshadowed by Ortelius’s Theatrum. Despite the beauty of his maps (helped by the engraving skills of the brothers Lucas & Jan van Doeticum) and the superior cartographic content, the atlas was not a commercial success. De Jode’s son Cornelis published an enlarged edition, the Speculum Orbis Terræ in 1593, with a similar lack of sales, and the atlas was never reissued. After the death of Cornelis De Jode in 1600 the printing plates were bought by Vrients, then the owner of the Ortelius plates, merely to stop them reappearing. Therefore, despite being published at the same time as the Ortelius maps, the De Jode maps are far more scarce, especially in original colour.

Item 24

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The Mediterranean islands in fine original colour

27 DE JODE, Gerard.

Sicilia Insula Maris...; Cyprus Insula Maris...; Corsica Olim Cyrnus Insula...; Candia Olim Aeria Curetis...; Maiorica et Minorica Sardoi maris Insulae; Melita Africi... Mitylene Aegei Maris Insula...

Antwerp, Arnold Coninx for the widow and heirs of Gerard de Jode,1593. Fine contemporary hand colour. 340 by 510mm.

£9,000

Six maps on one sheet: Sicily, Cyprus, Corsica and Sardinia (shown side by side), Crete, the Balearics, Malta and Mitilene.

ZACHERAKIS 3rd edition: 1761; BANK OF CYPRUS: 29.

S/N: 11602

Asia with superb original colour

28 DE JODE, Cornelis.

Asia, Partium Orbis Maxima.

Antwerp, 1593, Latin text edition. Original colour. 365 x 455mm.

Tiny pin-hole in map area.

£11,000

A fine map of Asia, with the title set in a panel with strapwork designs and two heads; the seas are decorated with galleys, ships, sea monsters and fishermen, the land with tents and men with spears and bows. The Great Wall of China is highlighted in red. It was engraved for Cornelis de Jode’s enlarged edition of his father’s atlas, the ‘Speculum Orbis Terrae’.

S/N: 11608

The British Isles in fine contemporary colour

29 DE JODE, Gerard.

Angliae Scotiae et Hibernie Nova Descriptio.

Antwerp, Arnold Coninx for the widow and heirs of Gerard de Jode,1593. Fine contemporary hand colour. 350 x 495mm.

£7,500

The British Isles, engraved 1570, but this example from the enlarged edition of the De Jode family atlas, the ‘Speculum Orbis Terrae’ published by his son Cornelis. The outline of the islands is taken from Mercator’s eight-sheet map, 1564, but the text comes from the George Lily map of 1546.

SHIRLEY: 85 & 119, second state, with “Cum privilegio” added.

S/N: 11601

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A stunning chart of the Mediterranean Sea

30 HOOGHE, Romeyn de.

Carte Nouvelle de la Mer Mediterranee ou sont Exactement Remarques Tous les Ports, Golfes, Rochers, Bancs de Sable &c.

Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1694. Original colour with additions. Three sheets conjoined, total 585 x 1390mm.

£32,500

A monumental sea chart of the Mediterranean Sea in superb colour, with 38 insets of harbours, also in full colour. Throughout the seas are numerous galleons and galleys, while allegorical figures and sea monsters adorn the insets.

Of the nine charts in the series the Mediterranean is the largest, being on three sheets rather than two, and is the the largest and most intricately decorated of the nine.

KOEMAN: M. Mor 5, and vol iv p.424.

S/N: 12094

ROMEYN DE HOOGHERomeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708) was not just an etcher of maps: he was also a successful painter of Baroque subjects, a sculptor and caricaturist. When he turned his hand to map production he produced some of the most sumptuous work of the period. His Cartes Marines a l’Usage des Armées du Roy de la Grande Bretagne, a suite of nine sea charts, are described by Koeman as ‘the most spectacular type of maritime cartography ever produced in 17th century Amsterdam... intended more as a ‘show-piece than something to be used by the pilots as sea’. It was a propaganda piece, in support of William of Orange, the Dutchman who had become king of England after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, six years before.

Item 30

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Carte Nouvelle des CostesD’Angleterre depuis la Riviere de la Tamise jusques à Portland..

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1693. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 600 x 950mm.

Repairs to edges.

£2,800

The most impressive sea-chart of south-east England showing the Thames to London, and the sea coast round to Portland with the Isle of Wight and Aldernay, an inset detail of the Strait of Dover and prospects of Portsmouth and Rochester & Chatham.

S/N: 12607


Carte Maritime de l’Angleterre depuis les Sorlingues jusques à Portland...

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1693. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 600 x 950mm.

Repairs to edges and a split in map area.

£2,800

A superb sea chart of south-west England from the Scilly Isles to Portland, with an inset detail of the Scillies and prospects of Portland, Truro and Wolf Rock (half-way between the Scilly Isles and the Lizard, and a renowned maritime hazard).

KOEMAN: vol 4. p. 423-4, M.Mor 5.

S/N: 12606

South-West England South-East England

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LONDONThe explosive growth of my adopted city fascinates me, from the walled and moated city depicted in the Braun and Hogenberg map to the Horwood plan that shows a metropolis with public parks with a larger area than the ‘Square Mile’. Below are some of the landmark maps and prospects recording this development.


Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis.

Cologne, c.1574. Original colour with additions. 330 x 490mm.

Centre fold reinforced.

£6,500

The earliest town plan of London to survive, a ‘map-view’ with the major buildings shown in profile, and no consideration for perspective. It was published in the ‘Civitates Orbis Terrarum’, the first series of printed town plans, inspired by the success of the ‘Theatrum’, the atlas compiled by Abraham Ortelius. This example is from the second state of the plate, issued two years after the first, with the spelling ‘West Muster’ and the addition of the Royal Exchange.

It is believed that the plan was engraved by Frans Hogenberg, and copied from a 15-or-20-sheet printed map, probably commissioned by the merchants of the Hanseatic League, who had significant commercial interests in England. For over two centuries they had enjoyed tax and customs concessions in the trade of wool and finished cloth, allowing them to control that trade in Colchester and other cloth-making centres. Their base in the City was the Steelyard (derived from ‘Stalhof’), named ‘Stiliyards’ by the side of the Thames on this map and described in the text panel lower right. They purchased the building in 1475; part of the deal was their obligation to maintain Bishopsgate, the gate through the city walls that led to their interests in East Anglia. The rump cities of the Hanseatic League sold the building in 1853 and it is now the site of Cannon Street Station.

The map must have been drawn fifteen years or so before publication: in the centre is the old St. Paul’s Cathedral, with the spire that was hit by lighting and destroyed in 1561 and not replaced before the Great Fire of London destroyed the building in 1666.

HOWGEGO: 2 (2).

S/N: 13028

The earliest available printed map of London

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Scarce plan of London at the Dutch Accession

35 DE RAM, Johannes.

Londini Angliæ Regni Metropolis Delineatio Accuratissima Auctore Ioanne de Ram.

Amsterdam, c.1690. 495 x 590mm.

Top and bottom margins extended, otherwise a very fine example.

£3,800

A fine Dutch plan of London, published to celebrate William III of the House of Orange-Nassau and his wife Mary becoming joint monarchs of England after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Their portraits appear lower right, within garlands decorated with oranges. Top left putti place Williams’s crown on top of the English royal arms.

Underneath the map is a detailed prospect of London, centred on Wren’s St Paul’s Cathedral. At the time of publication the building was still not complete and so the depiction here bears little resemblence to the finished building.

HOWGEGO: 40, First State. Later editions were published by de la Feuille, de Witt & van der Aa.

S/N: 11096

A rare broadsheet map of the Great Fire of London

34 DE WIT, Frederick.

Platte Grondt Der Stadt London Met De Aenwysinghe Hoe Die Afgebrandt Is.

Amsterdam, 1666, original colour, 560 x 530mm.

Laid on contemporary paper as issued.

£3,000

A broadsheet map of London in original colour, produced in the same year as the Great Fire and showing the extent of the damage caused. Extending from Bunhill to St. George’s Southwark, and from St. James’s to Redriff, with a description below of the Great Fire in Dutch and French and an inset view of London in Flames.

Broadsheets such as these would have been sold by booksellers and street-vendors as newspapers, and through them the news of the catastrophe of the Great Fire spread around Europe.

HOWGEGO: 16 State 2.

S/N: 10479

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A three-sheet map of Georgian London

36 HOMANN HEIRS.

Urbium Londini et West-Monasterii nec non Suburbii Southwark accurata Ichnographia... 1736.

Nuremberg, 1736. Original colour. Three sheets conjoined, total 520 x 1720mm.

Tear skilfully repaired.

£3,200

A long town plan of London, showing from Grosvenor Square and Buckingham House in the west to Stepney Church in the east, Clerkenwell in the north and Southwark in the south. Many of the most important buildings are shown in profile. A large title cartouche with the Royal arms of George II completes this very striking map. This map often appears just as a two-sheet map. The right sheet here, half of which is taken up with a view of St James’s Square and elevations of St Paul’s, the Royal Exchange and the Custom House, was only included in a deluxe edition.

HOWGEGO: 81.

S/N: 13019

37 ROCQUE, John.

An exact Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, with the Country near ten Miles round; Begun in 1741, and finished in 1745, and publish’d in 1746, according to Act of Parliament, By John Rocque Land-Surveyor: Engrav’d by Richard Parr, and Printed by W. Pratt.

London, John Rocque, 1746. Large folio, later half calf gilt, original marbled boards; title with engraved allegorical vignette, pp. (2) (list of subscribers and index), 16 map sheets, each c.490 by 670mm.

A few repaired tears.

£12,500

Rocque’s first plan of London, covering from Canonbury to Mile End, St. George’s Fields and Osterley, on a scale of 5½" to a statute mile (1:11,500). Joined together the map would measure c.1.9 x 2.7 metres. Although the title page of this example matches Howgego 94 (2), the map lacks a number of features listed in the first state description, most prominently the additional titles in Latin and French at the top of the map and the table showing the arrangement of map sheets on plate 1.

Superbly decorated, the map has an ornate frame-line border with a large allegorical vignette including a prospect of London and a large dedication cartouche (to Lord Burlington). The quality of the engraving is also high, and the map has hachuring to differentiate between types of agriculture, with a key on the bottom right plate.

John Rocque, a French Huguenot émigré, arrived in London in the 1730s and produced an important series of large scale plans of estates and towns before starting his ambitious project to survey the whole of London.

HOWGEGO: Printed Maps of London, 94.

S/N: 12166

An unrecorded pre-First State of Rocque’s majestic 16-sheet map of London

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An enlarged edition of Horwood’s large-scale survey of London

38 HORWOOD, Richard.

Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, with the Borough of Southwark including the adjacent Suburbs, In which every Dwelling House is described & numbered. Surveyed and first published by Richard Horwood, MDCCXCIX. Third Edition... This Edition has likewise been augmented with eight new copper plates, extending the Plan eastward to the River Lea; thereby comprehending those important objects, the London, West India and East India Docks... Fourth Edition.

London: William Faden, 1819.

Folio, later half-morocco; 40 sheets joined in pairs to make 20 double-page maps, with some original hand colour.

£15,000

An enlarged edition of Horwood’s large-scale map of London. Having ruined himself creating a map of London that Howgego describes as the ‘largest and most important London map of the eighteenth century’, Horwood died in poverty in 1803. William Faden bought the copper plates and issued a new edition in 1807, extended to cover the new Docks in east London, but also re-surveying the existing areas, updating the plates accordingly. Additions include Regent’s Park & Canal, Millbank Prison & Vauxhall Bridge, the Grand Surrey Canal, the Tower of London (which Horwood was refused permission to survey), Waterloo Bridge, Regent Street and Commercial Road.

HOWGEGO: 200 (4), and pp.21-22.

S/N: 12722

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39 CRUCHLEY, G.F.

Cruchley’s New Plan of London Improved to 1843

London, 1843. Original colour. Dissected and laid on linen as issued, total 565 x 1410mm.

£3,500

A decorative map of London, extending west to Hammersmith and Kensal Green, north to Regents Park, east to Bromley-by-Bow and the East India Docks, and south to Kensington and Chelsea. Of interest is the outline of the streets in the new development at Notting Hill.

The decorative border, which contains the title, is on strips of paper pasted over the edge of the map: thus Cruchley could market the same map in different formats.

Also of interest are the three printed labels stuck on the linen backing: two list ‘G.F. Cruchley’s Extensive Catalogue of Maps, Atlases, &c.’; and the third is an advert for ‘Cheap Maps by the Late Mr Arrowsmith, hydrographer to his late Majesty’.

HOWGEGO: 304, C state 7.

S/N: 12867

40 MERIAN, Mattheus.

London.

Frankfurt, c.1650. 220 x 690mm.

£2,600

One of the last pre-Fire prospects of London, with a 43-point key underneath. The view shows from the King’s Palace at Whitehall to the Tower of London and St Katherine’s Church in the East. London Bridge still has buildings across it, and the heads of several criminals decorate the bridge’s southern gate. The Globe (Shakespeare’s theatre) and the bull-baiting ring can be seen in Southwark.

HOWGEGO: p.7.

S/N: 8457

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Early Victorian plan of London

Panorama of pre-Fire London

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41 GUALDO PRIORATO, Gabriel.

Londra. Incendio Della Gran Citta di Londra Metropoli del Regno d’Inghilterra succæsso ADI 21 Settembre 1666 dal Quale in 4 Giorni FU Abbrvcciata la piv gran pares con danno inestimabile.

Italy, c.1675. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 280 x 880mm.

Binding folds flattened, with minor repairs.

£3,600

A prospect of London during the Great Fire of 1666, as seen from above Southwark. The extent of the flames can be seen, with the burning St. Paul’s Cathedral dominating the centre. In the foreground of this prospect are the Globe and Swan Theatres, and the bull-baiting ring. The heads of traitors adorn the gates of London Bridge.

Gabriel Gualdo Priorato, Conte del Galeazzo, was a soldier, historian, tactician, diplomatist and military draughtsman.

S/N: 12367

42 NICHOLLS, Sutton.

A Prospect of Greenwich, Deptford and London Taken from Flamstead Hill In Greenwich Park.

London, Henry Overton, 1723, 560 x 950mm.

£5,500

A rare view of London taken from the unusual viewpoint of Greenwich, with the Royal Observatory on Flamstead Hill in the foreground and Greenwich Hospital on the right, with a 42-point key below. Due to the unusual viewpoint the perspective in the middle ground has had to be compressed, thereby bringing London closer and over-emphasising the meanders of the Thames.

S/N: 9214

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Item 42

Prospect of the Great Fire of London, 1666

A rare prospect of London from Greenwich Park

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43 SCHENK, Pieter.

Nova Totius Africæ Tabula.

Amsterdam, c.1710. Original colour. Four sheets conjoined, total 830 x 945mm.

Laid on old canvas probably as issued, minor losses as usual with wall maps.

£25,000

A superb wall map of Africa, drawn up by Philip Tideman, with inset prospects of Minae, Cairo, Tangiers, Algiers and Tunis under the map. The title is on a banner held aloft by putti with garlands of fruit; a second title is surrounded by allegorical figures representing Africa, the Nile and Mercury. Hidden among them are the signatures of Philip Tideman as artist, Willem van der Gouwen as engraver and Schenk as publisher.

All wall maps of this period are scarce: the unfaded state of the fine original colour makes this example exceptional.

S/N: 9270

WALL MAPSAntiquarian maps were not just produced for atlases: cartographers recognised the potential for wall display and produced maps accordingly, printed on several sheets and joined, with the size giving more scope for elaborate borders. However, lacking the protection of an atlas’s binding, these wall maps frequently got damaged or were thrown away when they became obsolete, making surviving examples scarce.

Rare wall map of Africa in fine original colour

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44 FER, Nicolas de.

Espagne Triomphante sous le Regne de Philippe V.

Paris: De Fer, 1704. Coloured. Four sheets conjoined, total 1000 x 1280mm.

Some restoration, as usual with these separate-issue maps, backed on canvas.

£12,500

A superb wall map of Iberia, published soon after the accession of Philippe V to the throne of Spain in 1700. This gave the French reason to celebrate as Philippe was grandson of the French king Louis XIV (the ‘Sun King’), meaning a closer connection between the two thrones. In the huge ornamental border are medallion portraits of Philippe and his wife, Marie Louise of Savoy, and 81 medallion portraits going back to the Visgoth king Athaulf (410-5). Bottom left is a plan of Madrid; bottom right is a view of the Escurial Palace.

Not all of Europe was as happy as France to have Bourbon kings on the throne of both Spain and France, and soon the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14) broke out, with Charles of Austria the rival claimant. During the war Spain lost both Gibraltar and Minorca to Britain.

S/N: 12932

A monumental wall map of Spain early in the War of the Spanish Succession

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An 18th century wall map of the world

45 MOITHEY, Maurille Antoine.

Le Globe Terrestre Divisé en ses deux Hémisphéres Oriental et Occidental...

Paris: Moithey 1788. Original colour. 720 x 1020mm.

Some restoration to bottom edge with manuscript reinstatement.

£12,500

A large scale and impressive double-hemisphere world map, with a dedication cartouche in the upper cusp and allegorical figures of the four continents in the lower one. The rest of the borders are filled will astronomical diagrams. On the map the voyages of the important circumnavigators are marked, and an attempt has been made to show the discoveries of Cook’s Third Voyage to the Bering Strait, although not accurately.

S/N: 11723

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Four-sheet map of France in fine colour

47 INSELIN, Charles.

La France Dressée Suivant les Nouvelles Observations...

Paris: Bernard Jaillot, 1713. Original colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 610 x 935mm.

Repairs to original folds.

£2,000

A large and detailed map of France in fine colour, decorated with a large title cartouche, and two others around engraved text descriptions of France and its provinces.

Inselin is better known for his engraving for Nicolas de Fer’s atlases.

S/N: 11666

An Italian wall map of the United States of America

46 CASSINI, Giovanni Maria.

Gli Stati Uniti dell’America Delineati sulle ultime Osservazioni...

Rome, 1797. Outline colour. Six sheets conjoined, total size 960 x 940mm.

£6,500

Cassini’s uncommon six-sheet map of the United States from his ‘Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale’. Each sheet has a separate illustrated title cartouche, and in the bottom right corner is an inset of Newfoundland.

S/N: 7392

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48 MORDEN, Robert.

A New Mapp of England Scotland and Ireland Sold By Robert Morden at the Atlas in Cornhill and By Phillip Lea at the Atlas & Hercules in Cheapside and By John Seller at the West end of St Paul’s at ye sign of the Mapp of the World London.

London: Morden, Lea & Seller, c.1687. Engraving on silk. 515 x 585mm.

Some loss to printed area, laid on restorer’s tissue.

£2,000

A rare map printed on silk, with the imprint of Morden’s separate-issue map of the British Isles, first issued 1678 and described by Shirley as ‘both striking and important’ in its paper form. It includes updated cartography for Ireland, based on the wall map of 1674 by Morden & Greene, the roads of England and Wales from Ogilby, and several roads in Scotland. The North Sea is filled with a genealogical table, originally running from William the Conqueror to Charles II, but this example extended to James II and his daughters, later Queen Mary II and Queen Anne.

This map is from the third state and would have been printed on silk for portability. Shirley only mentions a silk example of the fourth state (published by Lea alone), but apparently did not see it.

SHIRLEY: Morden 4, state iii of iv.

S/N: 12301

CLOTH MAPSSometimes it was preferable to print maps on cloth, particularly when you wanted a map that could be easily carried. The two main disadvantages of maps printed on paper were that continually folding and unfolding them weakened them, and if they got wet great care needed to be taken when drying them. It was far better for a traveller to have a cloth map, printed either on silk, linen or cotton, which could be thrust into a pocket like a handkerchief. Examples known include travelling maps and town plans, military campaign maps, racecourses and souvenirs.

A rare 17th century map of the British Isles on silk

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49 BODGER, John.

To his Royal Highness the Price of Wales, The Noblemen & Gentlemen Members of the Jockey Club, This Print of Newmarket Heath, Is by Permission dedicated by their most obedient humble servant - John Bodger. Published as the Act directs, October 29th, 1787, & Sold by the Proprietor John Bodger, Land Surveyor, at Stilton, Huntingdonshire. - Mess.rs Boydell, No 90 Cheapside. Mr Weatherby No. 7 Oxendon Street, Haymarket, London: and at the Coffee Room Newmarket, Where may be had, Charts of Whittlesea Mere, the most Spacious Fishery in England.

Aquatint with line engraving, printed on silk, touches of hand colour. Printed area 450 x 680mm.

Some old folds, one split reinforced with archivist’s tape on verso; however it is in remarkable condition for silk of this age.

£1,800

A very unusual plan of the famous racecourse, on a scale of c.1:9,600, marking the starting and finishing points of 18 different races. The various texts give a history of the course and a calendar of events. Above the title is a vignette view of a three-horse race approaching the finish line.

Apart from being printed on silk, this map is unusual for its use of aquatint: this etching process leaves areas of tone, here used to represent the grass of the heath. All the lines, including the lettering, have been added using more traditional etching. As aquatint had only been introduced into England in the 1770s it represents quite an early use of the technique.

John Bodger was a land surveyor who dabbled in publishing sporting pictures: he and his co-publisher Weatherby published one of the most famous racing portraits, Wootton’s ‘The Father of the Turf. Tregonwell Frampton Esqre”, 1791. He is known to have published one other map, the chart of the Whittlesea Mere fishery mentioned in the publication line. The other publishers, John & Josiah Boydell, were significant London printsellers who made only a few forays into maps. In 1790 the older brother, John, became Lord Mayor of London.

Because silk reacts to sunlight the map has been framed with high-quality UV-sensitive glass.

S/N: 10326

A rare plan of Newmarket Racecourse, printed on silk

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Early 19th century handkerchief map of London

51 CRUCHLEY, G.F.

Cruchley’s New Plan of London Shewing all the New and Intended Improvements to the Present Time... A New Edition Improved to 1st Jan.y 1837.

London, 1837. Original colour. Cotton handkerchief, 525 x 605mm.

Slight spotting.

£800

Detailed map of London laid on linen, showing New London Bridge (now in Arizona) and the new railway to Greenwich. The majority of these maps were issued dissected as pocket maps. This example was printed on linen for S.W. Silver & Co., 9 & 10 Cornhill. In this format the map was less bulky and more resistant to water damage than those on paper.

HOWGEGO: 307, 9.

S/N: 12293

A scarce handkerchief map of London

50 Anonymous.

London and its Environs for 1832.

Engraving on cotton. 915 x 890mm.

Faint tape stain.

£2,800

A map of London framed by an acanthus scroll border with the Union Crest above and dragons with ‘Domine Dirige’ below, printed in black on an ivory cotton handkerchief. Thus the plan could be thrust into a pocket without fear of damage, unlike one printed on paper, which, needing the protection of covers and backing, would have been much heavier.

HOWGEGO: 328a, editions for 1831, 1832 & 1837, but no attribution.

S/N: 12249

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The Baltic Theatre of the Crimean War printed on silk

53 DOPTER.

Map of the War in the Baltic Sea.

Paris, Dopter, c.1855. Engraved map, printed on silk. 650 x 610mm.

£1,750

A rare handkerchief map of the Baltic Sea during the Crimean War, when the British and French sent their fleets to blockade St Petersburg. It is decorated with vignettes of St Petersberg, Kronstadt, naval scenes and French and British coat-of-arms.

S/N: 12272

A rare railway map on cloth

52 BRADSHAW, George?

The Railways in Great Britain also the line of Navigation from the principal Sea Ports to both home amd Foreign Stations.

Manchester? c.1850. Printed on cloth in black and red. 580 x 600mm.

Some faint toning.

£1,500

A scarce map on cloth of England, Wales and Southern Scotland with the railways overprinted in red. It shows a line to Plymouth, opened in 1848; and the line from London to Norwich is named the Eastern Counties Railway, before it became the Great Eastern Railway in 1862. The title cartouche features a train crossing a viaduct.

Bradshaw published a smaller map on paper with the same title in 1843.

S/N: 12333

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Handkerchief published to raise money for the families of Boer War Soldiers

55 DAILY MAIL PUBLISHING.

The Absent-Minded Beggar.

London, the Daily Mail Publishing Co. Ltd, c.1899. Linen handkerchief printed in blue, c. 460 x 470mm, stretched over board.

Some staining.

£500

A printed handkerchief published by the Daily Mail to rise funds for the “Soldiers’ Families Fund” after the outbreak of the Second Boer War (1899-1902), the first charitable effort for a war.

The map shows the theatre of war, around the South African Republic (the Transvaal) and the Orange Free State. The poem, “The Absent-Minded Beggar” by Rudyard Kipling, was specially commissioned for the Fund, and was given a musical score by Arthur Sullivan (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame). The two portraits are of Lord Roberts, commander of the British Troops, and Queen Victoria, the British Monarch for the first half of the war.

Despite Roberts’ portait being entwined in the title, the absent-minded beggar of Kipling’s poem is the British ‘Tommy’ (private soldier), forgetfully leaving their dependents in need while fighting for their country. The Daily Mail paid Kipling £250 for the poem, which he donated to the fund, as did Sullivan with his £100 payment. Soon afterwards Kipling was offered a knighthood, which he declined. It was not Kipling’s favourite work: in his autobiography he wrote that it “lacked poetry” and became “wedded... to a tune guaranteed to pull teeth out of barrel-organs”. This did not stop it being a huge success, giving the fund the nickname, “the Absent-Minded Beggar Relief Corps”, and helping it raise £340,000 by the time it was wound up in 1903. Not only was it published worldwide (the New York Journal paid $25 for the privilege), it was recited by actresses including Lily Langtree and Lady Maud Beerbohm Tree.

Organising the fund was a coup for the Daily Mail, which had been founded only in 1896. This campaign capitalised on the jingoistic mood of the British public and the paper’s circulation soared to over a million issues a day by 1902, the highest in the world.

The handkerchief was published by The Graphic and is probably the most famous item of British ephemera produced during the South African War.

S/N: 11516

Plan of Philadelphia printed on cotton

54 Anonymous.

Map of Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, 1877. Lithographic map on cotton, printed in two colours. 670 x 600mm.

£2,800

A town plan of Philadelphia printed as a handkerchief, published for the 1876 ‘Centennial International Exhibition’, the first World’s Fair in the U.S. Held to commemorate the centenary of signing of the Declaration of Independence, it received over 10 million visitors. Around the map are portraits of Penn, Washington, Franklin and Jefferson, and vignette views of the Main Exhibition Building, the Horticultural Building, the Art Gallery, and Agricultural Building. The border, printed in black and orange, has an oak garland and an inch measure.

S/N: 12505

Item 54

Item 55

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The first map of the Pacific


Maris Pacifici, (quod vulgo Mar del Zur) cum regionibus circumiacentibus, insulusque in eodem passim sparsis, novissima descriptio.

Antwerp, 1592. Original colour with additions. 345 x 495mm.

£7,500

The most sought-after map from Ortelius’s atlas, depicting the Pacific and most of the Americas. Engraved in 1589, it pre-dates the concept of California as an island, has a huge island of New Guinea and an unrecognisable Japan. The south Pacific is filled with a vignette of the ‘Victoria’, Magellan’s ship: his route through the Magellan Straits is shown, with Terra del Fuego depicted as part of the huge ‘Terra Australis’.

VAN DEN BROECKE: 12.

S/N: 13017

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLDHere are four maps of the world’s extremities as viewed from Europe. It amazes me how much had been discovered by explorers with such small ships, with primitive methods for storing food and water, who made these voyages not knowing where they were going. Whether they were trying to reach the Indies via the Magellan Strait, searching for the North West Passage or Terra Australis Incognita, or even fighting sea battles for supremacy in the East Indies, it is surprising any of them managed to return home to tell the tale.

Scarce first state of Jansson’s chart of the Pacific

57 JANSSON, Jan.

Mar del Zur Hispanis Mare Pacificum.

Amsterdam, c.1650. Original colour. 450 x 545mm.

Centrefold reinforced on verso.

£2,500

Half-a-century after Ortelius Jansson published his chart of the Pacific in the ‘Waterwereld’, or Volume V of the ‘Atlas Novus’, described by Koeman as the ‘first sea-atlas (in the real sense of the world) printed in the Netherlands’. With the ‘islands’ of Korea and California, a ‘Terra Incognita’ filling the North Pacific, Australia shown only by the west coast of Carpentaria, and a chain of islands stretching from Cape Horn half-way across the Pacific, this map demonstrates how little was known away from the coastlines of America and Asia.

This example is from the first state: a second state has the partial coastlines of Tasmania and New Zealand added, following the 1642 voyage of Abel Tasman.

McLAUGHLIN: 10.

S/N: 12092

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59 HONDIUS, Jodocus.

Poli Arctici, et Circumiacentium Terrarum Descriptio Novissima.

Amsterdam, c.1639, French text edition. Original colour. 435 x 500mm.

£1,500

The Northern Hemisphere, south to 50º, so including the British Isles, surrounded by four views of the whaling industry, published in the ‘Nouvel Atlas’.

The beginning of the 17th century saw increased exploration of the waters of the Arctic: firstly because of competition between the English and Dutch whalers, and secondly the desire to find both a North West Passage above America and a North East Passage over Russia, enabling the two nations to reach the East Indies without interference from the Spanish and Portuguese.

The different spheres of influence can be seen in the place names: eastern Greenland has “M.Forbishers Streate”, “Q.Elisabeths forland” and “London coast”; Spitzbergen has “S.Thomas Smyths Land”; but Labrador is marked with “Orange Bay” and various ‘hoecks’.

BURDEN: 246.

S/N: 7938

The first European map of Singapore

58 DE BRY, Theodore.

Contrafactur des Scharmutz els der Holander.

Frankfurt, 1603. 330 x 255mm.

Centerfold restored, with minor loss. A few spots, otherwise a fine example.

£2,750

A rare map of the Straits of Singapore, with exquisite calligraphy and superb detail, published in De Bry’s ‘Grand Voyages’. It shows the southern coast of Singapore, with the west coast marked ‘unknown’, suggesting that Europeans had not circumnavigated the island at this time.

The map records a naval battle between the Dutch and Portuguese, probably in 1603, with alphabet letters to code the various ships involved. A Portuguese galleon, the Santa Catherine (possibly ship D and L on the map) was captured by the Dutch and its cargo sold in Amsterdam for a princely sum of 3.5 million guilders. Depicted are the Dutch ships Zierickzee, Enkhuysen, Amsterdam and Hollandse Zaan.

Suarez, Early Mapping of Southeast Asia, Fig.100.

S/N: 7844

60 HONDIUS, Henricus.

[Untitled map of the South Pole.]

Amsterdam, Valk & Schenk c. 1700. Fine original colour. 435 x 490mm.

Some reinforcing to centerfold.

£1,750

The third state of an important map of the southern hemisphere to just north of the Tropic of Capricorn. When it was first issued in 1639 it was one of the first maps to show the discoveries of Pieter Nuyts on the southern coast of Australia, 1627. The second state merely had Jansson’s name as publisher added, and has a blank dedication cartouche removed. However it was the discoveries of Tasman in 1642 that necessitated the reworking for the third state: the title cartouche has been removed so that Tasman’s discovery of New Zealand could be added, and Tasmania appears well away from mainland Australia. Also, Cape Horn has been added to the tip of South America.In each of the four corners are vignettes of different races of the Southern Hemisphere.

This edition is the fourth state with the publishers names added to the plate.

PERRY: Plate 20; SCHILDER: Map 44, first state illus.

S/N: 7923

Item 58

A decorative map of the Arctic The Antarctic; showing Tasman’s discoveries in Tasmania and NZ

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The British attack on Majorca in 1706

62 DECKER, Paul.

La Sommissione di Maiorca Isola Balearica nel Mare Meditterano...

Augsburg, Jeremias Wolff, c.1720. Etching, 470 x 375mm.

Long tear very skillfully repaired (almost unnoticeable)

£1,200

The attack on Majorca by Admiral John Leake in September 1706, part of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), in which England gained both Gibraltar and Minorca. The central scene is surrounded by a rococo border with an inset map of the island and an Italian text description printed from a separate plate.

This plate was etched by Johann August Corvinus after a painting by Paul Decker, and was published by Wolff in “Repraesentatio belli, ob successionem in Regno Hispanico...”, a history of the War of the Spanish Succession.

S/N: 11246

NAVAL BATTLESSea battles have always been popular with artists, with ships, flags & glory, and map-makers are no exception. Here the maps are more like views, with the decoration more important than the detail.

The French siege of Genova in 1684

61 BEAULIEU, Sébastian de Pontault.

Les Attaques de la ville de Gennes, et du Fauxbourg de St Pierre d’ Arene, par l’Armée Navale du Roy, commandee par le Marquis du Quesne, le 24 May 1684.

C. Berey, Paris, c.1694, 450 x 540mm.

Extra wide margins.

£1,500

A very attractive view of the successful maritime siege of Genova by the French forces in 1684, showing a wide variety of contemporary ships engaged in combat in front of a panoramic view of Genova. Published in Beaulieu’s atlas “Les Glorieuses Conquestes de Louis le Grand”.

S/N: 10054

Rare broadsheet plan of Nelson at the Battle of Copenhagen, 1801

63 FAIRBURN, John.

Fairburn’s Plan of Park and Nelson’s Victory before Copenhagen, April 2.d 1801.

London: Fairburn, April 22nd, 1801. Broadsheet plan. Original colour. Engraving, 340 x 450mm, set in letterpress, sheet size 565 x 480mm.

A few repairs.

£2,500

A broadsheet published only twenty days after the naval battle regarded as Nelson’s hardest-fought battle. The engraving is divided between a chart of the ‘Passage of the Sound to Copenhagen & Drago’ and a view of Nelson’s attack on the Danish fleet. The text contains a key to the view, listing the ships, the despatches from Parker and Nelson (neither mentioning Nelson disobeying Parker’s order to withdraw) and a list of casualties.

S/N: 12715

Item 61

Item 62

Item 63

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64 [The Spanish Armada entering the English Channel.]

London, John Pine, 1739. Printed from three plates, outer plate 380 x 610mm.

£1,200

A pair of sea charts of the English Channel, printed in blue, within a decorative border printed from a third plate. The left plate shows the Spanish Armada of 1588 entering the Channel, blown by a delicately-engraved windhead, watched by two putti and an allegorical figure of Britannia. The right plate shows the Armada in the famous crescent formation, with the English fleet behind them, pushing them up the Channel. In the centre of the decorative border is a portrait of Elizabeth I.

S/N: 12114

65 [The Spanish Armada entering the English Channel.]

London, John Pine, 1739. Printed from two plates, outer plate 380 x 610mm.

£1,200

A depiction of the Spanish Armada of 1588 entering the English Channel, printed in blue, within a decorative border printed from a second plate, containing eight roundel portraits of the English commanders.

S/N: 12115

66 [The Spanish Armada off Dover.]

London, John Pine, 1739. Printed from two plates, outer plate 380 x 610mm.

£1,200

The Spanish Armada of 1588 anchored off Dover, with the English blocking their retreat. The view is printed in blue, within a decorative border, printed from a second plate, with eight roundel portraits of the English commanders.

S/N: 12116

67 [The English sending the fire-ships in among the Spanish Fleet.]

London, John Pine, 1739. Printed from three plates, outer plate 380 x 610mm.

£1,200

A pair of sea charts of the English Channel, printed in blue, within a decorative border drawn printed from a third plate. The left plate shows the Spanish Armada at anchor off Calais, and the eight fire-ships bearing down on them, blown by a delicately-engraved windhead. The right plate shows the Armada, having cut their anchors to escape the fire-ships, fleeing north in disarray. The decorative border has roundel portraits of Elizabeth I, Pope Sixtus V, Phillip II of Spain and Alessandro Farnese, governor of the Spanish Netherlands, and two putti weeping over the loss of life.

The story of the Spanish Armada from the House of Lords tapestries

PINE, John.

[The Spanish Armada.]

Four plates from ‘The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords’, drawn by Clement Lemprière, engraved and published by John Pine.

In 1591 ten tapestries were commissioned from the Dutch marine painter Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom by Lord Howard of Effingham to commemorate the defeat of the Armada three years earlier. Unfortunately they were all destroyed when the Houses of Parliament burnt down in 1834, leaving Pine’s book as the only record. It is lucky that Pine worried that “’Time, or Accident, or moths may deface these valuable shadows”.

MCC: 4.

Item 64

Item 66

Item 65

Item 67

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CURIOSITY & CARICATURE MAPSMaps do not always have to be serious. Here is a selection of maps that have a more light-hearted view of the world.

68 WÄLDSEEMÜLLER, Martin.

[Wind Heads.]

Strassburg, c.1522. Woodcut, printed area 315 x 270mm.

£850

A text illustration from the Fries reduction of Wäldseemüller’s edition of Ptolemy, showing an armillary surrounded by wind heads.

S/N: 11233

69 BÜNTING, Heinrich.

Asia Secunda pars Terræ in Forma Pegasir.

Hanover, 1581-, German text edition. Woodcut, printed area 300 x 370mm.

Excellent condition.

£2,500

The famous fantasy map depicting Asia as Pegasus, the winged horse of Perseus. The head is Turkey and Armenia, the wings Scythia and Tartary, forelegs Arabia, hind legs India and the Malay Peninsula.

This strange map appears in Bünting’s Itinerarium, in which the author, a theologian, rewrote the Bible as a travel book, with other fantasy maps including the World as a cloverleaf and Europe as a queen. Although the title and text under the map are in Latin, the text on verso is German.

S/N: 12709

Item 68 detail

Ptolemaic Wind Heads Fantasy map of Asia as Pegasus

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A satirical map on the Mississippi Bubble

70 Anonymous.

Afbeeldinge Van’t Zeer Vermaarde Eiland Geks-Kop.

Amsterdam, 1720, 290 x 230mm.

Trimmed close to neatline, bottom right corner repaired.

£980

A map of the island of “Geks-Kop” (fools cap) from “Het Groote Tafereel Der Dwaasheid” (The Great Mirror Of Folly). The title translates as “A representation of the very famous island of Mad-head, lying in the sea of shares, discovered by Mr. Law-rens, and inhabited by a collection of all kinds of people, to whom are given the general name shareholders”.

At the center of the image is a map of an island depicted as the head of a Fool wearing his traditional cap; the place names include Blind Fort, Bubble River, and Mad House, surrounded by the islets of Poverty, Sorrow, and Despair. Around the map are scenes including a crowd stoning the headquarters of the Compagnie and a creditor fleeing his investors in a land-yacht.

This satirical engraving of the Mississippi Bubble is one of the most famous cartographic curiosities. It represents the collapse of the French Compagnie de la Louisiane d’Occident, founded by the Scottish financier John Law in 1717, which was granted control of Louisiana. Its plans to exploit the resources of the region (the ‘Mississippi Scheme’) captured the popular imagination and people rushed to invest: share prices opened at 500 livres, but rapidly rose to 18,000 livres. At this point speculators indulged in profit-taking, causing a run on the shares. Confidence collapsed, causing a run on the company’s capital and the company went bankrupt, ruining many, not only in France, but throughout Europe.

As a consequence of this failure, confidence in many colonial schemes collapsed, forcing many companies into bankruptcy, including the English South Sea Company and a number in the Netherlands, prompting this satire.

S/N: 10616

A German ‘Utopia’

71 HOMANN, Johann Baptist.

Accurata Utopiæ Tabula. Das ist Der Neu=entdeckten Schalck=Welt, oder des so oft benannten und doch nie erkannten Schlaraffenlandes... durch Authorem Anonymum. Nuremburg, c.1720. Original colour. 500 x 580mm.

£1,200

Despite the name Utopia in the title this map relates to the German ‘Schlaraffenland’, an imaginary land of idleness and luxury, equivalent to ‘Cockaigne’. Located on the Equator, it is divided into regions, including ‘Tobacco Island’ and the ‘Great Stomach Empire’, while one of the neighbouring states is a ‘Terra Sancta’, marked ‘Incognita’.

The title cartouche depicts eating & drinking (and vomiting), smoking and card-playing.

S/N: 11222

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73 ROSE, F.W.

Angling in Troubled Waters. A Serio-Comic Map of Europe by Fred. W. Rose Author of the ‘Octopus’ Map of Europe.

London: G.W.Bacon, 1899. Coloured chromolithograph. Sheet 485 x 690mm.

This example laid on board as originally issued. Tear repaired.

£4,500

A caricature map of Europe with each country depicted as an angler having various levels of success in hooking colonies: John Bull has a huge catch-bag (Ireland), with Egypt as a crocodile on the end of his line; France is a scuffle for control of the Third Republic between the military and civilian, their rod with an empty hook, with Napoleon’s shade looking on from Corsica; Spain is watching sadly as their former catch (fish marked Cuba, Porto Rico and Phillippines) is being dragged away on the lines of an unseen U.S.A.; Belgium has the Congo; the Austro-Hungarians are mourning the assassination of Empress Elisabeth by an anarchist; Turkey has a hook in ‘the Cretan spike fish’, and a stain on his trousers is a skull marked ‘Armenia’; Greece has pricked a finger trying to catch the spike fish by hand; larger than all others is Russia, shown as Nicholas II with an olive branch in one hand and a line stretching to the Far East in the other.

This kind of ‘curiosity map’ is very much sought after by map collectors.

HILL: Cartographical Curiosities, 57; MCC 1: Geographical Oddities, no 82.

S/N: 12850

A map of the ‘Isle of Marriage’

72 LE NOBLE, Eustache.

Carta Topografica dell’Isola del Maritaggio di Monsieur Le Noble per la Prima Volta Tradotta Dal Francese in Italiano. In Cosmopoli, MDCCLXV.

Italy, 1765. 8vo, contemporary vellum; letterpress title, pp. 40, folding map, 250 x 355mm, with repaired tear.

£1,800

A treatise on the Island of Matrimony, written as a travel book, describing: how to reach the island, through the ports of ‘Love’, ‘Bad Advice’ or ‘Self-interest’; and where to live, including the provinces of ‘the Jealous’ and ‘the Cuckolds’, and the ‘Mountains of in-laws’. Once on the island it is impossible to leave, but it is possible to go to the peninsulas of ‘Widowhood’ and ‘Divorce’, the ‘Great Mausoleum’ and, for the truly masochistic, ‘Bigamy Island’. The title cartouche features a man with the ‘cuckold’s horns’.

S/N: 13030

Caricature map of Europe

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Early 19th century hand-painted tile map of Europe

74 Anonymous.

Europa.

French, early C19th. 30 hand-painted glazed tiles, each 200 x 200 x 20mm, arranged 5 by 6, making a total of 1000 x 1200mm, mounted on hardboard.

Some tiles cracked, others with surface wear.

£12,500

A very unusual set of earthenware tiles with a hand-painted and glazed map of Europe, surrounded by portraits of European rulers. These are Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar & Charlemagne; English monarchs William the Conqueror, Henry VIII & Elizabeth I; Holy Roman Emperors Otto I, Maximillian I and Charles VI; Ferdinand III of Castille; Pope Urban II; and French kings Clovis I and Louis IX. The text around the portraits is in French.

The style of the cartography mimics Gerard Mercator (1512-94) and is decorated with a compass rose, a sea monster, Neptune riding a dolphin and seven ships.

S/N: 12344

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RABATTA, Augusto & BAILOU, Jean Baptist de.

Florence: Aniello Lamberti, 1779. Original colour.

A collection of rare miniature maps engraved by Lamberti for the ‘Minchiate’, the Florentine version of the Tarot, with each card marked with an arcane symbol. The full set was published in Augusto Da Rabatta & Jean Baptiste De Baillou’s pocket atlas ‘Nuovo Atlante Generale’.

18th century playing-card maps

GAMESMaps have always been about knowledge, so it is not surprising that they were adapted for use as educational games. Because they were designed to be used surviving examples are rare, especially complete, because they were often disposed of when they were damaged or the players had no more use for them.

75 America.

Sheet size 105 x 64mm.

£600

S/N: 12969

76 Europa.


£450

S/N: 12968

77 Imperio del Giappone. Governo Monarchico.


£650

WALTER: 84.

S/N: 12958

78 Nuova Zelanda Scoperta Da Tasman, E Riconosciuta Dal Cap, Cook Nel 1769.


Wormholes in margins filled

£1,800

Published less than 10 years after Cook mapped New Zealand.

S/N: 12953

A sample of other cards, which can be found on our web site by searching for ‘Rabatta’

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An early 19th century board game of European travel

83 WALLIS, Edward.

The Panorama of Europe. A New Game.

London: J. & E. Wallis, 1815. Original colour. Dissected and laid on linen, as issued, total 470 x 630mm, with 12pp. rule book, within red marbled slip-case with publisher’s illustrated label.

Slipcase rubbed.

£2,400

The players use a ‘totum’ and ‘pyramids or travellers’ to compete: each player in turn rolls the totum and moves from Oporto to London, via Malta, Constantinople, Moscow, etc, with each city described in the rule book. It is unusual for the rule book to still accompany these board games.

S/N: 12351

Rare playing card maps of the Continents

HEGRAD, S.L.

Vienna, 1785. Original colour. 115 x 65mm.

Playing cards from Hegrad’s ‘Jeu des cartes géographiques’, with coloured squares instead of suit marks. The number under the title followed by a square is the area of the continent probably in square German miles. A lettered key gives the placenames in French underneath the map.

KING (Second Edition): p.214.

79 L’Europe.

Slight surface loss in the key.

£750

S/N: 12706

80 L’Amerique.

£750

S/N: 12703

81 L’Afrique.

£750

S/N: 12704

82 L’Asie.

£750

S/N: 12705

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A French 19th century educational geographical game

84 COCQUET.

L’Univers. Jeu Pittoresque.

Paris: Cocquet, c.1870. Illustrated cardboard box, rules on label in lid; illustrated hollow boxed board with central spinning pointer; 18 lithographed country cards; 18 bone marker pins in a box; box of red card tokens.

£3,250

A highly decorative French board game with illustrations of the 5 continents on the box lid. National costumes of 18 countries around the spinning dial. Each country card has a map of the country showing five cities and their population with armorial at the top and illustration at the bottom. For example, Great Britain shows a shipyard advertising its maritime dominance; North America has Niagara Falls; Austria has a view of Venice, which it controlled at the time.

The object of the game: each country on the board has a hole for each of the five cities on the card. The cards are assigned to the players; the pointer is spun and each time it lands on a country a hole is filled. The winner is the player who holds the completed country card.

Games such as this are rarely found complete.

S/N: 12904

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GENERAL SELECTIONHere is a selection of maps and atlases that have no grouping other than that they are the ones I first thought of when I decided to compile this catalogue, firstly atlases & books then maps.

85 MEDINA, Pedro De.

L’Arte del Navegar, in laqual si contengonolere gole, dechiarationi, secreti, & avisi alla bona navegation necessarii & tradotta de lingua Spagnola in volgar Italiano, à beneficio, & utilità de ciascadun Navigante.

Venice, Giovanni Battista Pedrezano, 1555. First edition in Italian, second issue. Large 8vo, modern vellum; pp. (xxiv)+(274), each leaf numbered in Roman numerals up to 137; title & 7 sectional titles, all with woodcut illustrations, other woodcuts throughout, including a full-page map of the North Atlantic.

Old ink mss on title and rear endpaper.

£7,500

An Italian translation of the Spaniard Pedro de Medina’s treatise on navigation, the first practical work on the subject, instructing how to ascertain location by astronomical observation, and the first reliable guide to navigating American waters.

Medina’s information was the best available at the time: not only had he travelled with Cortés to the Americas, but following his return to Spain he was employed debriefing returning expeditions. The quality of the text ensured his book remained the standard navigation guide for the Atlantic route well into the seventeenth century, running through many editions.

Among the numerous explanatory diagrams is a very important map of the North Atlantic, depicting the trade routes between Spain and her American colonies, carefully demarcating the line dividing the world between Spain and Portugal. It shows the discoveries of Hernando de Soto around the the Yucatán (although this Italian version has been ‘updated’ to make the peninsula an island), and those of Jacques Cartier around the St Lawrence river in Canada.

This second issue, the year after the first, was made up with sheets from the first issue; the only difference is the letterpress date on the title changed from ‘MDLIIII’ to ‘MDLV’.

SABIN: 47346; PALAU: 159679; BORBA DE MONAES: II, 549-50; See BURDEN No. 21 for the map.

S/N: 11049

The standard navigation guide for the West Indies in the 16th century

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A complete example of Volume I of Blaeu’s Theatrum

86 BLAEU, Johannes.

Le Theatre du Monde Ou Nouvel Atlas Contenant Les Chartes et Descriptions De tous les Païsde la terre Mis en lumiere Par Guillaume et Jean Blaeu.

Amsterdam, Johannes Blaeu, 1645, French edition.

One volume only, of two. Two parts in one; folio, original vellum gilt; with two engraved titles and 120 maps, all in original hand colour.

£38,500

A fine example of a volume from a French edition of Blaeu’s ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum’, with superb original hand colour. Among the maps are the classic maps of the World and Europe surrounded by vignettes, Iceland, Russia by Gerritz, Frankfurt, and folding maps of the Danube, Rhine and Lithuania.

KOEMAN: Bl 19B.

S/N: 12756

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87 BLAEU, Johannes.

Seste deel van de Nieuwe Atlas, oft Tooneel des Aerdrijex...

Amsterdam, 1655, Dutch edition.

First edition. Folio; full vellum gilt; pp. (iv) + 212 + (20) (Register) + xviii (Cathay) + 40 (Tartary); 2 engraved titles and 17 double-page maps, all in fine original colour. Bottom corners of titles, first map and text to page 8 repaired.

£35,000

The First Edition of Blaeu’s Atlas of China, the first Western atlas devoted to the country. Unusually for Blaeu atlases the maps have no text on verso. This example was published as the last of the six-volume atlas with the Latin title ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum’. Later the maps were incorporated into the Asia volume of the ultimate Blaeu atlas, the ‘Atlas Major’, which was the most expensive publication of the 17th century.

Blaeu used the maps of Father Martino Martini (1614-1661), a Jesuit missionary who went to China in 1643, remaining there eight years, travelling extensively and collating knowledge. He left China in 1651 to go to Rome, but, as the best available passage was with a Dutch privateer, his route included Norway, Amsterdam, Munich & Vienna. He met with scholars (finally proving that China was indeed the ‘Cathay’ of Marco Polo) and publishers, who wanted to publish his writings and his maps, which were far more detailed than anything previously available.

The Blaeu/Martini atlas was a significant breakthrough concerning China: even in the early C20th it was called ‘the most complete geographical description of China that we possess, and through which Martini has become the father of geographical learning on China.’ (Ferdinand von Richthofen, 1833-1905).

KOEMAN: Bl 52.

S/N: 12129

The first western atlas of China, in fabulous original colour

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88 BLOME, Richard.

Britannia: or, a Geographical Description of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland with the Isles and Territories thereto belonging. And for the better perfecting the said Work, there is added an Alphabetical Table of the Names, Titles, and Seats of the Nobility and Gentry that each County of England and Wales is, or lately was, enobled with. Illustrated with a Map of each County of England, besides several General ones. The like never before Published.

London: Thomas Roycroft for Richard Blome, 1673.

Original full red morocco binding, all edges gilt; title, (xii) including dedication to Charles II, preface & ‘Table of Benefactors’ + 464 + (2) (new benefactors); 23 engraved plates of benefactor’s armorials and 51 maps, all in original colour, as called for. Ink ownership inscription of Sir John Shaw (dated Ao Dom. 83) on first endpaper; bookplate of T.W. Falcon on front pastedown. One armorial excised and reinstated with mss. facsimile.

£25,000

A superb subscriber’s example of Blome’s “Britannia” atlas in fine original colour, in a special binding of red morocco. Maps include folding maps of England & Wales, North & South Wales, Scotland, Ireland and British islands, double-page maps of the English counties, and Hollar’s single-page map of London.

The ownership inscription appears to be that of Sir John Shaw, 2nd Baronet (c. 1660-1721), son of the first baronet, also John, who is number 257 in the list of ‘Benefactors’ (i.e. subscribers). At the Restoration Charles II leased the manor of Eltham, including the derelict Eltham Palace, to the family: the first Sir John built a new residence, Eltham Lodge, designed by Hugh May. At some stage the family armorial was carefully excised from one of the Benefactors plates, perhaps having taken a child’s fancy: this has been skilfully replaced with a mss copy.

Blome’s “Britannia” was originally conceived as the third volume in an “English atlas” dealing with the whole world. It was not well-received: he was accused of merely reproducing work by Camden and Speed, and the atlas was not a success. However the ‘Britannia’ is a landmark in British map publishing: Blome was the first to fund an atlas by selling subscriptions. His 1670 ‘Proposal’ set out the charges:

‘Those that will be pleased for the advancement of the said Work to subscribe and pay unto the said Richard Blome the summe of 20s. Shall have one of the said Books presented them, in which they shall have their Coat of Arms (so as allowd of by the Kings at Arms) affixed to the Mapp of the county to which they are related unto, and by them made choice of as Friends to the said Work, to remain to Future Ages: 10s. To be paid down towards the Charges thereof, and Allowance of the said Coat of Arms, and the remaining 10s. To be paid upon the delivery of one of the said Books as aforesaid. But if mentioned in more than one County, then 5s. More for every other County they are so mentioned in’.

Thus Sir John Shaw has his name in the ‘Britannia’ three times: in the Benefactor’s List, under his armorial and in the list of Nobles and Gentry of Kent.

SKELTON 90; MAPFORUM Issue 9.

S/N: 10883

A ‘Benefactor’s’ example of Blome’s “Britannia” in fine original colour

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The first printed map of Japan

Early 16th century map of Scandinavia

90 BORDONE, Benedetto.

Ciampagu; Iava Maggiore.

Venice, 1528. Woodcut with original body colour, 85 x 145mm set in text

£3,500

The earliest known printed map of Japan, issued in Bordone’s ‘Isolario’ in 1528, twenty years before the first recorded visit by a European. It is based on Marco Polo’s description in his book “Il Milione”, in turn based on accounts Polo hear at the court of the Chinese emperor. He named the island Zipangu, his approximation of the Chinese ‘Jihpenkuo’.

On the verso is a map of Java and two of its surrounding islands, well known as a result of the Portuguese spice trade. It was a ship blown off course from the Java trade route that brought the first European visitors to Japan.

The Italian text gives particulars about the supposed locations of both islands and the habits of their inhabitants.

WALTER: fig 5 and Pg. 185.

S/N: 10259

89 WÄLDSEEMÜLLER, Martin.

Tabula Moderna Norbegie Et Gottie.

Strasbourg: Johannes Schott, 1520. Woodcut, printed area 320 x 590mm.

£11,000

This scarce woodcut map of Scandinavia appeared in the supplemental section of modern maps in the “Geographiæ Opus Novissima...”, and is a copy of the Ulm map of 1482. Cities marked include “Asto” (Oslo), “Begensis” (Bergen), “Nodrosia” (Nidaros) and “Stauargerensis” (Stavanger).

This map was first printed in 1513: this example dates from 1520, with all but one of the lines of letterpress text in the borders removed.

GINSBERG: Printed Maps of Scandinavia & the Arctic, 5.

S/N: 10605

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An extremely influential map of Russia

92 GERRITSZ, Hessel.

Tabular Russiæ ex autographo, quod delineandum curavit Foedor filius Tzaris desumta...

Amsterdam, 1614. 425 x 540mm.

Narrow margins.

£7,000

Map of Russia with a townplan of Moscow, a vignette prospect of Archangel, three figures and a martial title cartouche.

Engraved in 1613, Gerritsz published this second state with the date changed to 1614; the third was issued by Willem Blaeu, with the same date but Gerritsz’s address removed, published after Gerritsz’s death in 1632.

Gerritsz (1581-1632) was an engraver, cartographer, publisher and bookseller of Amsterdam. Having finished his engraving apprenticeship to the Blaeu family he set himself up in business, although he continued to do some work for the Blaeus. The plan of Moscow top left was published by Blaeu in an enlarged form in 1662.

S/N: 11679

Ortelius’s landmark map of China


Chinae, olim Sinarum regionis, nova descriptio. auctore Ludovicio Georgio.

Antwerp, 1598, French text edition. Coloured. 370 x 470mm.

£5,000

The most decorative map of China. Oriented with north to the right, there are cartouches for the title, scale and privilege; on the map are elephants, Tartar tents and land-yachts. Japan has an extra landmass to the east, with its further reaches hidden by the scale cartouche. The Philippines appear, but with little accuracy or detail; they were not even named until the second state (c.1588).

WALTER: 11f, illus; VAN DEN BROECKE: 164.

S/N: 11643

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Cracovia Metropolis Regni Poloniae.

Cologne, 1617. Original colour with additions. Two sheets conjoined, total 365 x 1055mm.

Laid on archival paper to reinforce verdigris weaknesses.

£5,500

An early prospect of Krakow, less common than most of the other plans in the ‘Civitates Orbis Terrarum’ because it only appeared in the sixth and last volume. It shows the city from the west, with the neighbouring towns of Kazimierz & Kleparz. Their names are given on banners in the sky alongside their armorials. In the foreground is a procession transferring the Polish king from his castle in Krakow, Wawel, to his country residence at Lobzów. This would date the view to before 1596, when King Sigismund moved the capital to Warsaw, abandoning Wawel.

KOEMAN: B&H 6.

S/N: 12675

Speed’s famous map of the Saxon Heptarchy

Prospect of Krakow from the ‘Civitates Orbis Terrarum’

93 SPEED, John.

Britain As It Was Devided in the tyme of the Englishe Saxons especially during their Heptarchy.

London, John Sudbury & George Humble, 1614-16. Coloured. 385 x 505mm.

£3,000

An early example of the most decorative map of the British Isles, engraved by Jodocus Hondius for Speed’s ‘Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain’. First published in 1611, this comes from the second English edition, published 1614-16. The first part of the atlas is dated 1614 and the second-to-fourth parts 1616; it is believed that the delay was caused by the death of the original printer, William Hall, soon after the printing started.

England is shown divided into the seven Saxon kingdoms, with the kingdoms of the Scots, Picts and Welsh also marked. Flanking the map are two columns of vignettes: on the left can be seen the first king of each Saxon region; on the right the conversions of their successors to Christianity, persuaded by discussion, preaching, visions and violence. The English text on verso gives an outline of the history.

Speed’s map was so striking that it was copied by both Blaeu and Jansson for their atlases of the British Isles.

SHIRLEY: 344; SKELTON: 10.

S/N: 13027

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96 GOOS, Pieter.

Pascaerte Van Westindien De Vaste Kusten En de Eylanden.


Two short tears repaired at left and right sides.

£2,500

Decorative chart of the West Indies, with the Eastern Seaboard north to Delaware Bay. An inset shows the coastline of Cuba around Havana.

BURDEN: 389.

S/N: 11906

95 HONDIUS, Jodocus II.

Germaniae Nova et Accurate Descriptio.

Amsterdam: Frederick de Wit, c.1665. Original outline colour. 455 x 560mm.

£4,500

Rare panelled map of Germany designed and published by Jodocus Hondius Jr. in 1625, here re-issued by de Wit circa 1665.The map has decorative pictorial panels on all four sides; the upper panel with equestrian figures of the Holy Roman Emperor and the seven Electors of the Empire; the side borders have three costume figures interspersed with prospects of German cities, with a further ten prospects with accompanying armorials in the lower border, making eighteen in total.

Schilder: Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica, IV, Map 37.4, noting two institutional locations and a single private location, the Stopp Collection.

S/N: 7922

Carte-à-figures map of Germany

17th century sea-chart of the West Indies

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97 SPEED, John.

A New and Accurat Map of the World...; Europ...; America...; Asia...; Africæ...

London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. Five plates, ea. c.395 x 515mm.

£30,000

A set of landmark maps from Speed’s ‘Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World’, the first English atlas of the world. The world has decorative borders illustrated with the Elements, portraits of explorers, astronomical diagrams and celestial hemispheres in the cusps; each of the continents has costume vignettes down each side and prospects of famous cities along the top.

Complete sets of these decorative maps are becoming increasingly uncommon.

SHIRLEY: World, 317; BURDEN: North America, 217; BETZ: Africa, 62.

S/N: 9777

Speed’s classic set of the world & four continents

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98 SPEED, John.

The Kingdome of Scotland.

London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 390 x 510mm.

Split in centrefold margin repaired, edge of left margin reinforced.

£2,400

A rightly famous map of Scotland, with an inset of the Orkneys. First issued 1611-12, the plate originally had portraits of James VI of Scotland and I of England, his wife Anne and their two sons. However in 1652 the Puritan ascendancy made it politic to re-engrave the plate: away went the Royal family, to be replaced by costume vignettes of a “Scotch” (i.e. lowland) man & woman and their wilder “Highland” neighbours. The checked garments worn by the second pair are considered to be one of the earliest depictions of tartan.

S/N: 9773

99 PLOT, Robert.

To the Right Reverend Father in God by divine permission Ld Bishop Oxon The Map of Oxfordshire being his Lordship’s Diocess, newly delineated, and after a new manner, with all imaginable Reverence is humbly dedicated by R.P. L.L.D.

Oxford, 1677. Coloured. 510 x 490mm.

£2,000

A superbly decorated map of the county, surrounded by 181 armorials of colleges and noblemen, with a title cartouche featuring the escutcheon of the Bishop of Oxford, a pillar for the key, a scale with putti holding surveying instruments and a compass rose.

The map was engraved by Michael Burghers for Plot’s ‘The Natural History of Oxford-shire’, a study of Oxfordshire encompassing everything from farming techniques to geology. Plot made an extensive study of ‘formed stones’ or fossils, arguing that fossil shellfish were crystallizations of mineral salts and that large quadruped fossils were the remains of giants, except for one he believed to be an elephant. The illustration of this is considered the first depiction of a dinosaur fossil.

S/N: 9180

A classic decorative map of Scotland

Oxfordshire, surrounded by armorials

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The scarce Oxford edition in original colour

100 KEERE, Pieter van den.

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula.

Oxford: Jan Jansson à Waesberg & Sons, Moses Pitt and Stephen Swart, 1680. Original colour. 450 x 535mm.

Minor verdigris cracking reinforced on verso.

£11,000

The world in planisphere, decorated with allegorical figures of the seven known planets along the top, the seven wonders of the world underneath, the Four Elements on the left and Four Seasons on the right.

Keere, a prolific engraver of maps whose career spanned nearly half a century, engraved this copy of Blaeu’s world map in 1608. Ownership of the plate passed to Jan Jansson c.1620, then after his death onto Jan Jansson à Waesberg. He went into partnership with two English publishers, Pitt and Swart, to produce a twelve-volume ‘English Atlas’ to compete with Blaeu’s. This plate was updated for that publication, with a new dedication to the Bishop of Oxford, the re-engraving of California as an island, the insertion of the partial outline of Australia, Ezo and Spitzbergen (enough for Shirley to assign a new entry to it).

Between 1680 and 1683 four volumes of the atlas and the text for the fifth were printed in Oxford, but the mounting costs were too much. Production ceased, and for a time Pitt was locked up in the Fleet Prison for debt.

SHIRLEY: 504 (see 264 for the original issue.)

S/N: 7937

With an early view of New York

101 VISSCHER, Nicolas Jansz.

Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ Nec Non Partis Virginiæ Tabula...

Amsterdam, c.1684, coloured, 470 x 550 mm.

Very fine condition, good margins.

£6,250

State four of this scarce and important map derived from that of Jansonius. Its importance lies in the inclusion of a prospect of New Amsterdam, the second published view of the city. There is much attractive detail in this map, turkeys, beavers and bears amongst other fauna are shown, as well as a depiction of a Mohican Indian settlement.

Of interest is the fact that the second state of this map was used in one of the first boundary disputes by William Penn and Lord Baltimore of Maryland.

BURDEN: 315.

S/N: 9599

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A Jacobite map of the British Isles

102 DESGRANGES.

La Carte des Royaumes d’Angleterre d’Ecosse et d’Irlande dediée a sa Majesté Britannique Par son tres humble et tres obeissant Serviteur Desgranges Géographe du Roy 1689.

Paris: Desgranges, 1689. Sheet 440 x 555mm.

Trimmed to printed border.

£1,500

A separately issued French map of the British Isles, published in support of James II, the Catholic king of England deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Louis XIV of France had just declared war on England (The Nine Years’ War) to restore James to his throne and break the Anglo-Dutch alliance created by William of Orange’s accession to the British monarchy.

To the right of the title cartouche are portraits of James, his wife Mary of Modena and infant son James Francis Edward, later called ‘The Old Pretender’ or (by his supporters) James III. Top right is an inset map of the Faroes, Orkneys and Shetlands, with a list of British possessions abroad underneath; top right is a chart of the English Channel.

The map was engraved by Roussel and the elaborate title cartouche by Dolivart. Little is known about Desgranges: the Dictionary of Mapmaker lists his surname only, no personal dates, and, despite the appelation ‘Géographe du Roy’ on this map, only three maps (1688, 1689 & 1702).

SHIRLEY: Desgranges 1, state 1 of 6.

S/N: 12794

Saxton’s map of Cornwall as revised by Philip Lea

103 SAXTON, Christopher.

Cornwall Described by C. Saxton Corrected and many Additions as the Roads &c. by P. Lea.

London: Lea, c.1694. 380 x 490mm.

£5,000

The first map of the county of Cornwall, here printed one and a half centuries after its original publication.

Over the years a number of changes had been made to the plate: the original title was replaced by the view of Launceston in c.1665; the arms of Elizabeth I were replaced by those of Charles I then Charles II; the panel of armorials were added c.1665 by an unknown publisher; and Lea added his name and Ogilby’s roads in 1689 and changed the title for the second time in 1694.

Still this was not the end of the Saxton plates: they were issued again by George Willdey, Thomas Jefferys and Cluer Dicey into the 1770s.

Despite the number of editions any example of Saxton’s map of Cornwall is uncommon.

S/N: 11945

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104 MORTIER, Pieter.

Carte Nouvelle de L’Amerique Angloise Contenant La Virginie, Mary-Land, Caroline, Pensylvania Nouvelle Jorck, N.Jarsey N: France , et Les Terres Nouvellement Descouerte...


£2,600

A large and decorative map of North America east of the Mississippi. Untranslated English phrases, like ‘Copper Mine’ and ‘Mines of Iron’, point to the map being based on the Morden-Brown map of 1695. Cumming states that it is not usually found in Sanson/Jaillot atlases, but this example was bound in a Mortier issue of Jaillot’s ‘Atlas Nouveau’.

KOEMAN: Mor 1; CUMMING: 129.

S/N: 8703

English colonies in America

Fine panorama of Jerusalem

105 PROBST, George Balthasar.

Ierusalem, Hodierna.

Augsburg: Heirs of Jeremiah Wolff, c.1750. Two sheets conjoined, total 380 x 1110mm.

Wide margins, a very fine example.

£2,800

A prospect of early 18th century Jerusalem, with an 80-point key in German.

Views by Probst are becoming increasingly scarce.

S/N: 9358

106 DANET, Guillaume.

L’Amerique Meridionale Et Septentrionale...

Paris: L.C. Desnos, 1760. Original colour with later addition. 480 x 690mm. Centre fold restored, narrow margins as issued

£2,600

Map of the Americas decorated with a large baroque title cartouche and a decorative border containing roundel portraits and the signs of the zodiac. In the north west is the fictitious ‘Mer de l’Ouest’ with a presumed channel leading to Hudson’s Bay. Bottom right is an inset showing the supposed Russian discoveries in the North Pacific as reported by Joseph de l’Isle.

The map was only occasionally published in composite atlases and is therefore quite scarce.

S/N: 10430

North & South America

Item 104 Item 106

Item 105

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19th century chart of Sicily

108 SMYTH, William Henry.

Sicily, Schmettau’s Map Corrected to the Points and Coast Survey of Captain W. H. Smyth, R.A, Knight of S. Ferdinand & Merit.

London, Hydrographical Office of the Admiralty, c. 1824. 475 x 630mm.

Narrow bottom margin.

£800

A detailed chart of Sicily. In 1815, at the end of the Napoleonic War, Lieut. Smyth was posted to Sicily, which he used as a base to survey the coasts of Italy and Africa, with the islands in between. Thirty-two of his charts and views were published by the Admiralty, which remained the core hydrography of the central Mediterranean until the end of the century. He published his own account, “Memoir descriptive of the resources, inhabitants, and hydrography of Sicily and its islands...”, in 1824. His final naval rank was admiral.

S/N: 9181

An 18th century plan of Venice

107 UGHI, Ludovico.

Nuova Pianta dell’Inclita Citta di Venezia Regolata l’Anno 1787.

Venice, Ludovico Furlanetto, 1787. 515 x 680mm, with separately printed key pasted underneath.

Minor repairs to folds.

£2,800

A reduction of Ughi’s 8-sheet map of 1725, this version first published in 1747. This is an example of the second state, with a title and date added in the scale cartouche, and a grid engraved over the map, referred to by the extensive key printed on a separate sheet and attached under the map.

There are three more states known, the last in 1829.

MORETTI: Venetia, 188, state 2 of 5.

S/N: 11225

Superbly detailed plan of Valetta

109 SMYTH, William Henry.

Plan of the Harbours and Fortifications of Valetta In the Island of Malta...

London, Hydrographical Office of the Admiralty, 1823 [-1852] . 650 x 490mm.

Mint condition, on Whatman Turkey Mill paper watermarked 1852.

£1,100

A detailed plan of the city, with inset views of the city, the Castle of S.Angelo and the Castle and Lighthouse of S.Elmo.

S/N: 9184

Item 107

Item 108

Item 109

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Blue-back chart of the Eastern Seaboard published during the Civil War

110 HOBBS, John Stratton.

Chart of North America from Boston to the Strait of Florida and Havana. (In Four Sheets.)

London, Charles Wilson, 1863. Four sheets conjoined, backed with blue paper edged with linen, total. 900 x 2780mm.

Fine condition.

£6,500

A fine ‘blue-back’ sea chart, orientated with north to the right, showing the Eastern Seaboard from Havana in Cuba to Richmond Island in Maine, and the Gulf coast to Apalachicola. Ten insets show details of New York Harbour, Boston, Cape Charles, Harreras Shoals, Ocracoke Inlet (the entrance to Pamlico Sound), the entrance to the Delaware, Charleston Harbour. Cape Fear River, Frying Pan Shoal (off Cape Fear), the Savannah River & St John’s River (near Jacksonville, Florida. A table shows the designations of the beacons of the Florida reefs.

The chart was published in 1863, half-way through the American Civil War. Britain was officially neutral, but two Confederate warships were built by the British shipyard John Laird & Sons; and most of the ships involved in running the Federal blockade of the South were British, many specifically built for that purpose. It is likely that this exceptionally-large chart was published for merchants wishing to profit from the conflict.

S/N: 11867

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An uncommon Spanish sea chart of Gran Canaria

112 ARLETT, William.

Oceano Atlantico Septentrional. Carta de la Isla de la Gran Canaria, levantada por el teniente Arlett de la M.R. Inglesa en 1834. Corregida en 1868.

Madrid: Direccion de Hidrografia, 1868. Touches of original colour. 480 x 630mm. Blind stamp of the Direccion de Hidrografia.

£2,400

A scarce Spanish chart of Gran Canaria, one of the most detailed map of the island of the period, showing the relief of the mountains with hachuring. Lighthouses are marked in colour.

S/N: 12572

An uncommon 19th century Spanish sea chart of Tenerife

111 VIDAL, Alexander.

Oceano Atlantico Septentrional. Carta de la Isla de Tenerife en las Canarias, levantada por el Capitan A.T.E. Vidal de la M.R. Inglesa en 1838. Corregida en 1868.

Madrid: Direccion de Hidrografia, 1868. Touch of original colour. 485 x 650mm. Blind stamp of the Direccion de Hidrografia.

£2,500

A scarce chart of Tenerife, one of the largest and most detailed map of the island of the period, showing the relief of the mountains with hachuring. Lighthouses are marked in colour.

Captain Vidal, a Royal Navy hydrographer, worked his way up through the ranks to become an admiral, and married the daughter of the British consul in Maderia.

S/N: 12575

Sea chart of Singapore

113 RIUDAVETS, José Maria.

Carta Esferica del Estrecho de Singapore segun los datos mas recientes ingleses y holandeses.

Madrid: Direccion de Hidrografia, 1863. Touches of original colour. 640 x 990mm. Blind stamp of the Direccion de Hidrografia.

£3,500

A scarce Spanish chart of the environs of Singapore, in superb detail, with numerous depth soundings. The lighthouses are marked in colour.

S/N: 12455

Item 111

Item 112

Item 113

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A handsome pair of floor-standing library globes

114 NEWTON & Son.

Newton’s New & Improved Terrestrial Globe Embracing every recent Discovery. [&] Newton’s New & Improved Celestial Globe On which all the Stars, Nebulæ & Clusters contained in the extensive Catalogue of the late F.Wellaston are accurately laid down...

London, Newton & Son, 1842.

£29,000

Pair of 12” (30cm) diameter globes, each standing 90cm high, with a single pedestal stand with three legs, with four quarter circles supporting the horizon ring. Each globe has 2 sets of twelve copper-engraved half gores, coloured and varnished. The meridian rings are brass, as are the English-style hour circles between the meridians and the globes. The horizon rings are also copper-engraved and varnished.

S/N: 8521

The Altea Gallery is proud to be able to offer for sale Number 2 of 31 copies of EARTH PLATINUM: The World’s Largest Atlas

115 Earth Plantinum

Australia: Millenium House, 2012. Leather binding, 1.8 x 1.4 metres; 128 pages of maps, pictures and text. Number 2 of a limited edition of 31.

US $100,000 (Publisher’s fixed price)

A monumental publication, the largest atlas ever created, weighing in at 150 kilograms. After 25 years in development, at a cost of over US $1 million, Earth Platinum was published in January 2012 in an edition strictly limited to 31 copies, of which the example we are offering is Number Two.

Such is the scale of the mapping that towns, rivers and islands that normally would not be shown due to size restrictions are clearly visible.

Professionals from around the globe have contributed their knowledge and skills, including photographers, oceanographers, cartographers, computer programmers and a shipwreck expert who has located the exact position of wrecks worldwide.

The pictures in the atlas, including the 6 x 9ft view of Machu Pichu, were created using the Gigapan process, which compiles one image from thousands of photographs. The Shanghai skyline is made up of 12,000 individual images and so is the largest photograph in the world.

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