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Old Maps · Rare Maps · Antique Maps · Vintage Globes and Charts · Old Atlases & Geographieswhich identifies an amazing 25 different formations. To the sides of the legend are numerous fossil Ammonites. Both sheets are filled with notations and tables.The maps are from the Sketches and Notes of Professor Edward Forbes, F.R.S., President of the Royal Geological Society. Surrounded by a keyboard-style border.Minor offsetting with short centerfold separations at bottom of each sheet, just passing the neatline on Sheet No. 2. (B+)$400-500400. London, England & Dublin, Ireland ([Lot of 2] Londres [and] Dublin), Mallet, Description de l’Univers, Tome V, Paris, [1683]. 4 x 6”. (HC) A pair of beautifullyengraved copper plate maps from this important publication. The first is a bird’s-eye view of the city of London with numerous sailing ships visible in theThames River. The second is a plan of Dublin in a simple style detailing the street pattern and buildings with two sailing ships shown in the river. Both with ribbonstyle title cartouches above. French text on verso. Ref: Pastoureau, Manesson-Mallet I A, [523] & [531]. Light soiling primarily confined to the blank margins.(B+) $150-200401. Channel Islands (Anglesey [on sheet with] Wight Vectis Olim [and] Garnesay [and] Iarsay), Mercator/Hondius, Amsterdam, ca. 1640. 17 x 12.6”. (HC) Veryhandsome folio sheet with four maps depicting the English islands Jersey, Guernsey (with Castle Cornet noted), Wight and Alderney. Each map with its owndecorative title cartouche and distance scale. Latin text on verso. Minor show-through of text on verso with a few minute worm holes only visible when held tolight. Margins have been trimmed, but there is still ample room for framing. A small chip in left blank margin has been repaired with old paper. (A)$325-450402. Northern England (Northumbr. Cumberladia Dunelm. Episcop.), Mercator/Hondius, Atlas Minor, Amsterdam, [1607]. 7.5 x 5.3”. (HC) Charming and beautifullyengraved map of the region of northern England and southern Scotland. The map is filled with details and embellished with a strapwork title cartouche, a sailingship and a sea monster. This is from the first edition, with Latin text on verso. Marginal soiling and a tiny tear in right blank margin. Manuscript page numberand cardinal directions in blank margins. (A) $120-150403. Canterbury, England (Cantuarbury), Braun & Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, ca. 1588. 17 x 11”. (HC) Beautiful bird’s-eye view of Canterbury.The famous cathedral is the most prominent feature, shown enclosed within the ancient city walls. The city is fully fortified by a massive mortar wall with sevenentrances, two ducts for the river and thirty-seven towers, and further protected by a moat surrounding the southern half of the city. Locates the Castle and shows theroad to London. The map is richly adorned with the coats of arms of England, Canterbury and the Archbishop. Latin text on verso. Ref: Fussel, p. 270. Originalcolor with light toning, some faint spots, and a few damp stains with resulting tears in the blank margins that have been closed with archival tape. Thereare remnants of hinge tape of verso. (B) $900-1100404. Cambridge, England (Cambridgshire Described with the Devision of the Hundreds, the Townes Situation, with the Armes of the Colleges of that Famous Universiti),Speed, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, London, 1610. 20.5 x 14.8”. (HC) One of the most decorative maps of Cambridgeshire, Speed’s mapis flanked with University armorials with the dates of their founding. The coats of arms of Dukes and Earls form a border along the bottom. The map was drawnand updated from the surveys of Norden and Saxton and is filled with detail. Four university scholars and a bold title cartouche topped with the royal arms furtheradorn the map. The composition is completed with an inset plan of Cambridge with a key to the colleges and churches. Published by John Sudbury and GeorgeHumble in the English edition of 1616. Ref: Shirley (BL Atlases) T.SPE-1b; Goss (Art) plt. #5.48. Strong impression with a short centerfold separation at bottomthat enters 0.75” into map image that has been closed on verso with archival material. There is a small spot just above the coats of arms at bottom, faint textshow-through, and a small chip in the upper blank margin. (B+) $1700-2000405. Nonsuch Palace, England (Nonclutz in Engellandt), Meisner, Sciographia Cosmica, [1638]. 5.7 x 3.8”. (HC) A lovely view of Nonsuch Palace, a Tudor royalpalace in Surrey, England. The palace was built by Henry VIII beginning in 1538, and was one of his grandest building projects. Nonsuch Palace changed handsseveral times until it was given to Barbara, Countess of Castlemaine, who had it pulled down in 1682 to pay off gambling debts. In the foreground is a pelicanscaring numerous wild animals, with Latin and German verses below which explain that when a pelican screams she scares all the beasts away, but he who understandsher screams is not at all bothered by it.Meisner’s emblem book, containing over 800 pictorial-poetic compositions, was enormously popular throughout Europe in the 17th century. The plan views werebased on the work of De Bry, Braun & Hogenberg, Merian and others with the addition of emblematic figures or scenes in the foreground, juxtaposed with moralizingand edifying verses beneath the image and a Latin motto at top. It was originally issued with 52 plates as the Thesaurus philo-politicus in 1623-24. AfterMeisner’s death in 1625, Eberhard Kieser, with assistance from Johann L. Gottfried, completed the work and published it until 1631. The plates then appeared inthe eight parts of Sciographia Cosmica published by Paulus Furst between 1637-78. The plates for these editions were renumbered alphanumerically in the upperright corners - A-H (identifying the 8 parts) and 1-100 (plate number). They were finally issued in 1700 and 1704 in Rudolf J. Helmer’s Politica-politica. Minorsoiling. (B+) $160-200406. Cornwall, England (A New Improved Map of Cornwall from the Best Surveys …), Kitchin, London, ca. 1750. 27.3 x 20.5”. (HC) This attractive engraving showsthe county of Cornwall with political districts delineated, along with an inset of the Isles of Scilly off Land’s End. The map shows quite a bit of detail includingroads, rivers, mountains and includes numerous notes about important towns in the county. The map is adorned by a decorative title cartouche reflecting the richwildlife, agriculture and mining resources in the area. An additional cartouche dedicates the map to Richard Edgecumb, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall from 1742-58. Moderate toning, a few faint spots, and centerfold separations at top and bottom confined to the blank margins. The verso is more heavily toned, althoughthe paper is still quite supple. (B) $500-650407. London, England (Aspectus Hortoru Domini Hamillon versus pontem Tamesis prope Londinum), Anon., ca. 1760. 15.5 x 11”. (HC) This lovely view depicts abridge along the Thames River near London, with large gardens in the background. Original color with light soiling in wide, blank margins and two tiny cracksdue to the oxidation of green pigment. The paper is still supple. (A) $140-180408. London, England (London 1845 nach den Besten Materialien Entworfen), Meyer, Hand Atlas, 1845. 25.5 x 16.3”. (HC) This finely engraved and tremendouslydetailed map is from one of the most respected 19th century German atlases. The map is centered on the Thames river and displays the area from Hyde Park toGreenwich Park and is filled with detail. Twenty-two different points of interest are drawn directly below the map including St. Paul’s Cathedral, House of Parliamentand the Treasury. At top left and right are printed Hand Atlas No. 64 and 63. Faint soiling primarily confined to the blank margins, else fine. (A)$400-500409. England & Wales (Angliae Regni Florentissimi Nova Descriptio, Auctore Humfredo Lhuyd Denbygiense), Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, 1573.18.5 x 15”. (HC) Stunning map of England and Wales compiled from Mercator’s 1564 wall map of the British Isles and Lhuyd’s manuscript map of 1568. Thecountryside is fully engraved with topographical features and hundreds of towns. This map improved on Mercator’s outline of the countries particularly in Cardiganand South Wales, the Devon peninsula, and the Wash and Humber inlets. Interestingly the Caernarvon peninsula, near Lhuyd’s hometown of Denbigh, isbadly distorted and it has been suggested that this may be due to his sketching it from one of the nearby mountains. Sea monsters and five sailing ships occupy thestipple engraved oceans. A flock of sheep is shown in Ireland and there are two large, elaborate cartouches. Published in the first Dutch edition in 1573. Ref: Vanden Broecke #19.1; Shirley (BI to 1650) #101. Attractive old color with light damp stains in blank margins, barely entering map at the corners. There is a 0.75”tear in the left blank margin and some minor creasing in the blank margins. (B+) $900-1200410. England & Wales (Accuratissima Angliae Regni et Walliae Principatus Descriptio Distincte Divisa in Omnes Suas Provincias), Wit, Amsterdam, ca. 1689. 19.2x 22.7”. (HC) This is a superb, classical Dutch map of England and Wales showing immense detail of the cities and towns. Hadrian’s Wall crosses from SolwayFirth to Newcastle near the border with Scotland. The map is adorned fine title cartouche suspended within a cloud background encircled with putti and the royalcoat of arms of England. This is the fifth state, with a different title from the first four states (Anglia Regnum in Omnes Suos Ducatus, Comitatus, et ProvinciasDivisum). Ref: Shirley (BI to 1750), De Wit 5. Superb original color with minor soiling. Backed in tissue to repair a number of cracks caused by the oxidationof the green pigment. (B) $275-350