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EUROPE 86 Rare Map of the Caspian And Aral Seas VATATZES, Basileios [Batatazi]. '[Greek:] Khárta, di es tois filomathési parékhetai eidein méros ti tes Asías... Nin proton tipois ekdotheisa par' ema, Basileía Batátzi ... Charta, in quâ eruditis spectanda exhibetur pars Asiæ quam obvaria viarum pericula et immensos itineris labores, nemimi peregrinatorum hucusque contigit oculi videre, ut ex testimonio oculorum quodam modo explicare, nunc primùm typorum ope publici juris facta a me basilio batatzi, magni quondam Sanctæ in Christo magnæ ecclesiæ Constantinopolitanæ Oeconomi filo. Siquidem volubilis humanarum rerum cursus, tum mea propria condition simper alias ex alijs permutations passa, in causâ fuere ut non mod multas antea et gentes et terras viderim, sed et jam præditem partem, Asiæ ab Anno 1727, usque ad 1730 lustraverim, nunc verò celeberratissimæ magnæ Britanniæ spectator sim.' 'Ioannes Senex Londini sculpsit. Qui Globos Cartasque ex accuratissimis novissimisque observationibus delineatas fecit et vendit.' '[text signed:] ... Londini Anno 1732 in mense Octobri.' London: [John Senex], 1732; copperplate engraving, Map border: 335 x 392 outer border: 553 x 608 widest: 557 x 608mm, in black and white. Trimmed to the outer border at the sides, with additional margins added, for inclusion in a composite atlas. Basileios Vatatzes (or Batatazi) was a Greek traveller, merchant and adventurer variously described as from Therapeia or Constantinople. He spent some time in Persia at the court of Nadir Shah, and seems to have travelled widely in the region of the Caspian Sea, and to the east, around the Aral Sea and modern Afghanistan. From his travels, he compiled a map, the first modern survey of the region although it designates a large part of the area as desert, and contains little information about the settlements. It seems that he commissioned John Senex in London to engrave and publish the map, perhaps because of Senex's connection with the Royal Society in London. £3,000 66
AFRICA 87 Finely Executed Manuscript Plan HAMILTON, F[rederic]. W[illiam ??]. 'PLAN of the Action of the 11.th of March Fought near ALEXANDRIA by the French under G:l MENOU and the ENGLISH under SIR RALPH ABERCROMBIE.' 'F.W. Hamilton July 1.st 1834.' Manuscript, pen and ink with watercolour, on paper, inner border: 340 x 249 border: 346 x 25mm. The paper is watermarked 'J. WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1832'. Split along an old horizontal fold, other short tears into the image, one through the author's signature; the two bottom corners lost and a small section of the right hand border. The plan is orientated with North in the bottom right hand corner, drawn at a scale of three-quarters of an inch to one mile. This is a detailed, and seemingly accurate plan of the Battle of Alexandria in 1801, drawn by one F.W. Hamilton in 1834. It seems possible that he is to be identified with Frederick William Hamilton, appointed Ensign and Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards in 1831, promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel by the time of the Crimean War and, in 1874, author of a history of the regiment. A collection of military maps, previously in the Royal United Services Institution and now in the British Library contains several maps drawn by Hamilton from the Crimean War era, but also one of the battle of Rolica from the Peninsular War drawn by Hamilton in 1838. £500 67
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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
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Page 53 and 54: IRELAND 61 A Lovely Example Of This
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Page 95 and 96: WEST INDIES 127 Rare Two-Sheet Map
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