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BRITISH BROADSHEET MAPS AND BATTLE PLANS As with my first catalogue, this second catalogue is largely devoted to British broadsheet maps, or separately-published maps, with a strong selection of battle plans. In the interval since the last catalogue I have acquired a sequence of battle plans, notably of sea-battles. While I generally avoid dealing in maps extracted from books or atlases, I have included in this catalogue a small number of contemporary battle plans from books, items only occasionally found loose. These are unusual enough to justify a place in this catalogue on their own merit, and they form a natural complement to the broadsheet material. The first section of this catalogue is devoted to the Royal Navy - the “Wooden Walls of England” - and principally her most famous son, Horatio Nelson, with plans of each of his three most famous victories - the Battle of Copenhagen, the Battle of the Nile (perhaps the greatest) and the Battle of Trafalgar, his most famous. Among these is a manuscript plan of the battle of the Nile. Other depictions included in this catalogue are described as plans when they are little more than birds-eye views, not a subject that I would normally deal in. To reflect the publishers’ original stated intentions, I have given some leeway to what I have included as ‘plans’, though they all have a minimum cartographic requirement for inclusion, perhaps some sense of scale, orientation and key. The second section contains two non-geographic military plans, both separatelypublished, while maps of land campaigns, and battles, are organised under their geographic region. The rest of the catalogue takes a more formal geographical sequence, starting with the World, then the British Isles, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas, and finally a celestial chart. For the first catalogue, and for this catalogue also, I would like to apologise for the frequent use of ‘rare’, and ‘very scarce’, but if it is map that I’ve never seen before and can trace in fewer than ten examples, I believe it can justly be described as rare or very scarce, or some other designation, as opposed to maps, or states of maps, that can be routinely found in the trade. If it gets repetitive, well that is the nature of the items on offer. Ashley Baynton-Williams
THE WOODEN WALLS 1 Britain At Bay LUFFMAN, John. 'A Complete Representation of the COAST OF ENGLAND, ALSO, FRANCE and HOLLAND, From the Texel to Brest, With the Bearings from LONDON, and the Distance, in Miles, from Port to Port: To which is annexed EIGHTEEN PLANS of the PORTS of THE ENEMY, The PRINCIPAL DEPÔTS of the FLOTILLA intended for the INVASION OF ENGLAND. [rule] By John Luffman, Geog.r' 'A MAP intended to illustrate the threatened INVASION of ENGLAND by BONAPARTE.' 'Engrav'd and Publish'd Nov.r 17. 1803, by John Luffman, N.o 28, Little Bell Alley, Coleman Street, London. Price 1.s 6.d Plain 2.s 6.d Coloured. Of whom may be had all the principal Sea Ports of Holland, France, Spain, & Italy. The Population of England Scotland & Wales &c.' London: John Luffman, Nov.r 17 1803; copperplate engraving, inner border: 300 x 336 border: 398 x 336 widest: 411 x 352 platemark: 417 x 361mm, with original outline colour. The watermark in the paper is dated 1801. Overall good condition; one tear into the map area restored, the paper lightly discoloured and a little creased from having previously been laid down. Very scarce broadsheet map of England and Wales, published at the height of British fear of an invasion by Napoleon. In the upper and lower margins are insets of eighteen continental ports from which such an invasion would be launched. Within the map, straight lines give the distances from these ports to potential landing sites on the southern and eastern coasts of England and southern Ireland. Part of the purpose of the map, as expounded in the text 'To my Countrymen', was to show the way the ports of northern France and the Low Countries were linked by canals in the interior, which would allow Napoleon to assemble an invasion force beyond the reach of the British fleet. To counter this threat, Luffman advocated the seizure of strategic islands along the coast of the Low Countries, to deny Napoleon access to the Channel, and threaten movement of men and materiel along the canals. Just such a plan was later implemented by the British, the Walcheren Expedition, with disastrous consequences. This map was sold originally for 1s. 6d. black and white, or 2s. 6d. coloured, as this example. £1,000 3
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Page 11 and 12: 9 THE WOODEN WALLS 3 Very Scarce Ch
Page 13 and 14: 11 THE WOODEN WALLS 6 Rare Broadshe
Page 15 and 16: 13 THE WOODEN WALLS 8 "I have a rig
Page 17 and 18: 15 THE WOODEN WALLS 10 Rare Plan Of
Page 19 and 20: 17 THE WOODEN WALLS 12 LAURIE & WHI
Page 21 and 22: 19 THE WOODEN WALLS 15 What Nelson
Page 23 and 24: 21 THE WOODEN WALLS 17 Anonymous. '
Page 25 and 26: 23 THE WOODEN WALLS 22 Very Scarce
Page 27 and 28: 25 THE WOODEN WALLS 24 MAIN, James.
Page 29 and 30: 25 Anonymous. 1. [Untitled Plan Of
Page 31 and 32: THIN RED LINE 27 Rare Broadsheet Pl
Page 33 and 34: ENGLAND 30 Very Scarce Game Map Of
Page 35 and 36: 32 Very Scarce Road Map Of England
Page 37 and 38: 37 Very Scarce Map Of The Environs
Page 39 and 40: 39 Late Printing Of This Two-Sheet
Page 41 and 42: 42 Rare Plan Of The Chelsea Botanic
Page 43 and 44: 46 Rare Town Plan In Fine Colour NA
Page 45 and 46: 49 ROCQUE, John. 'An Exact PLAN OF
Page 47 and 48: SCOTLAND 52 Very Rare Map Of Scotla
Page 49 and 50: 54 Very Scarce Map Of Scotland Wide
Page 51 and 52: 57 Unusual Letterpress Plan Of The
Page 53 and 54: IRELAND 61 A Lovely Example Of This
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EUROPE 63 Rare Eclipse Map Of Europ
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65 Rare Plan Of Gibraltar In a Late
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69 Scarce Military Plan Of Calais O
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71 Apparently Unrecorded Second Sta
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77 Rare Map Of Germany And Eastern
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80 Rare Map Of Mount Etna For The G
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83 Detailed Plan Of The Battle BOTE
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AFRICA 87 Finely Executed Manuscrip
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91 Scarce Map Of Sierra Leone WYLD,
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ASIA & PACIFIC 96 Earliest Printed
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97 Apparently The Earliest Survivin
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AMERICAS 101 Very Scarce Map Of The
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104 Uncommon Plan Of Quebec Depicti
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109 Unrecorded State, In Sheet Form
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113 Rare Broadsheet Plan Of The Fir
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115 Detailed Broadsheet Of The Batt
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117 Rare Map Of The American Blocka
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119 Rare Plan Of Philadelphia FADEN
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121 The First Printed Map Of South
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124 The First Printed Insurance Pla
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WEST INDIES 127 Rare Two-Sheet Map
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95 WEST INDIES 130 Very Scarce Plan
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CELESTIAL 134 Very Scarce Large For
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ELPHINSTONE, John: Scarce Map of Sc
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