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INTRODUCTION
Altea Gallery
Catalogue No1
Summer 2012
Index Page
The 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
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
Massimo De Martini

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1 BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.
The ‘earliest systematic city atlas’
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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THREE ORTELIUS ATLASES
Abraham 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.
2 ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Ortelius’s Theatrum in a fine binding
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
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The rare fourth Additamentum, with the first regular
appearances of the maps of Iceland and the Pacific
3 ORTELIUS, Abraham.
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
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Ortelius’s atlas of the Ancient World
4 ORTELIUS, Abraham.
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 VOYAGES
Theodor 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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Maps from De Bry’s American Voyages
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
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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EARLY PRINTED MAPS
9 PTOLEMY, Claudius.
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Incunable 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.
Poland & the Ukraine from a landmark edition of Ptolemy
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
Important incunable map of Arabia
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

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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
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
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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
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A medieval woodblock T-O world map
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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

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ITALIAN ENGRAVING
The 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.
Item 14
Item 15
Item 16
14 GASTALDI, Giacomo.
The ‘Upside-Down’ map of Africa
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
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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
18 DUDLEY, Robert.
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Scarce sea chart of Norway
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
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Item 18
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19 BLAEU, Willem Janszoon.
Unrecorded carte-à-figures map of the world
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
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20 CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
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A two-sheet map of North America
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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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A 17th century Italian atlas in two volumes
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
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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
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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
Item 23
Item 22
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THE DE JODE FAMILY
The 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
Item 25
Item 26
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
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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
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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
Item 27
Item 28
Item 29
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ROMEYN DE HOOGHE
Romeyn 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.
30 HOOGHE, Romeyn de.
A stunning chart of the Mediterranean Sea
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
Item 30
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31 HOOGHE, Romeyn de.
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
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South-West England South-East England
32 HOOGHE, Romeyn de.
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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
Item 30 detail

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LONDON
The 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.
The earliest available printed map of London
33 BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.
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
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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
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
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Item 35 detail

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36 HOMANN HEIRS.
A three-sheet map of Georgian London
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
An unrecorded pre-First State of Rocque’s majestic 16-sheet map of London
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
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38 HORWOOD, Richard.
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An enlarged edition of Horwood’s large-scale survey of London
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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
Early Victorian plan of London
Item 39
Panorama of pre-Fire London
Item 40
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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Prospect of the Great Fire of London, 1666
Item 41
Item 42
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41 GUALDO PRIORATO, Gabriel.
42 NICHOLLS, Sutton.
Londra. Incendio Della Gran Citta di Londra Metropoli del Regno A Prospect of Greenwich, Deptford and London Taken from
d’Inghilterra succæsso ADI 21 Settembre 1666 dal Quale in 4 Giorni Flamstead Hill In Greenwich Park.
FU Abbrvcciata la piv gran pares con danno inestimabile.
London, Henry Overton, 1723, 560 x 950mm.
Italy, c.1675. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 280 x 880mm.
£5,500
Binding folds flattened, with minor repairs.
A rare view of London taken from the unusual viewpoint of Greenwich,
£3,600
with the Royal Observatory on Flamstead Hill in the foreground and
A prospect of London during the Great Fire of 1666, as seen from Greenwich Hospital on the right, with a 42-point key below. Due to
above Southwark. The extent of the flames can be seen, with the the unusual viewpoint the perspective in the middle ground has had to
burning St. Paul’s Cathedral dominating the centre. In the foreground be compressed, thereby bringing London closer and over-emphasising
of this prospect are the Globe and Swan Theatres, and the bull-baiting the meanders of the Thames.
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
S/N: 9214
A rare prospect of London from Greenwich Park

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WALL MAPS
Antiquarian 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.
43 SCHENK, Pieter.
Rare wall map of Africa in fine original colour
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
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44 FER, Nicolas de.
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A monumental wall map of Spain early in the War of the Spanish Succession
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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

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45 MOITHEY, Maurille Antoine.
An 18th century wall map of the world
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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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
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
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CLOTH MAPS
Sometimes 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.
48 MORDEN, Robert.
A rare 17th century map of the British Isles on silk
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
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49 BODGER, John.
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A rare plan of Newmarket Racecourse, printed on silk
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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

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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
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
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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
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
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Item 54
Item 55
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
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
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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD
56 ORTELIUS, Abraham.
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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
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Here 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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Item 58
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
A decorative map of the Arctic The Antarctic; showing Tasman’s discoveries
in Tasmania and NZ
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
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NAVAL BATTLES
62 DECKER, Paul.
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The British attack on Majorca in 1706
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
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Sea 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 hardestfought
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.]
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
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 delicatelyengraved
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
Item 65
Item 67
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.
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CURIOSITY & CARICATURE MAPS
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Maps do not always have to be serious. Here is a selection of maps that have a more light-hearted view of the world.
Ptolemaic Wind Heads Fantasy map of Asia as Pegasus
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
Item 68 detail
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

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Item 71 detail
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.
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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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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 catchbag
(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

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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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GAMES
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18th century playing-card maps
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Maps 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.
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’.
75 America.
Sheet size 105 x 64mm.
£600
S/N: 12969
76 Europa.
Sheet size 105 x 64mm.
£450
S/N: 12968
77 Imperio del Giappone.
Governo Monarchico.
Sheet size 116 x 73mm.
£650
WALTER: 84.
S/N: 12958
78 Nuova Zelanda Scoperta
Da Tasman, E Riconosciuta Dal
Cap, Cook Nel 1769.
Sheet size 113 x 73mm.
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
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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
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
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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 SELECTION
Here 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.
The standard navigation guide for the West Indies in the 16th century
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
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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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A complete example of Volume I of Blaeu’s Theatrum
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The first western atlas of China, in fabulous original colour
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
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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
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A ‘Benefactor’s’ example of Blome’s “Britannia” in fine original colour
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90 BORDONE, Benedetto.
Early 16th century map of Scandinavia
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
The first printed map of Japan
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
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Ortelius’s landmark map of China
91 ORTELIUS, Abraham.
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
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
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94 BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.
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
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
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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
96 GOOS, Pieter.
Pascaerte Van Westindien De Vaste Kusten En
de Eylanden.
Amsterdam, c.1666. Original colour. 459 x 540mm.
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
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Carte-à-figures map of Germany
17th century sea-chart of the West Indies
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Speed’s classic set of the world & four continents
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
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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
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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.
English colonies in America
Carte Nouvelle de L’Amerique Angloise
Contenant La Virginie, Mary-Land, Caroline,
Pensylvania Nouvelle Jorck, N.Jarsey
N: France , et Les Terres Nouvellement
Descouerte...
Amsterdam, c.1705. Original colour.
605 x 920mm.
£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
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
North & South America
Item 104 Item 106
Item 105
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
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108 SMYTH, William Henry.
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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
19th century chart of Sicily
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
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 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
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
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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
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114 NEWTON & Son.
A handsome pair of floor-standing library globes
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 Englishstyle
hour circles between the meridians and the globes. The horizon rings are also copper-engraved and varnished.
S/N: 8521
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115 Earth Plantinum
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
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.
EARTH The World’s Largest Atlas

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