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Geology Personified

W[EBBER] C. M.

Geology, Familiarly Illustrated by C. M. W.

PublicationLondon, J. B. Goodinge, 21 Aldergate Street, 1859.

DescriptionOblong octavo (130 by 150mm), continuous strip view, measuring 320 cm in length, containing 31 numbered and captioned hand-coloured lithographed scenes illustrating geology in a humorous vein, imprint label pasted to inside of back cover, original marbled covers with publisher’s label pasted on.

ReferencesAbbey, Life, 607.

£3,500

Humorous panorama illustrating geological features and stratification.

The scenes are captioned: 1. “Gneiss on Granite”.2. “Cumbriam System”.3. “Cambriam System”.4. “Flags, and Transition Conglomerate”.5. “Silurian System”.6. “Transition Period”.7. “Antient Crater showing traces of eruption”.8. “Trap”.9. “Serpentine”.10. “Old Red”.11. “Carboniferous System”.12. “Coal Beds”13 “New Red”.14. “Lias”.15. Oolite Formation”.16. “Lower Chalk”.17. “Upper Chalk”.18. “Extensive Denudation”.19. “Kentish Rag”.20. “Slips on the South Coast”.21. “Dip”.22. “Erratic Blocks with Quartz”.23. “Protrusion of Antient Deposits”.24. “Antidinal Axes”.25. “Strike, Dip, and Cleavage”.26. “Valley of Elevation”.27. “Bag-shot sand”.28. “Clear proofs of Metal”.29. “The London Basin”.30. “The Paris Basin”.31. “Fault in an Antient Bed, containing Terrestrial Mammalia”.

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Gill’s humorous map of London and its Underground Stations

GILL, Macdonald

The Wonderground Map of London Town Drawn by MacDonald Gill.

PublicationLondon, Printed & Published by The Westminster Press, 11 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W.C., 1914.

DescriptionChromolithograph plan, minor repairs to corners and old folds strengthened.

Dimensions750 by 940mm (29.5 by 37 inches).

ReferencesBurden, Elizabeth, “MacDonald Gill’s Wonderground Map of 1913 and Its Influence on Twentieth Century Mapmaking”, July 22, 2011.

£3,000

Gill’s humorous map of London and its underground stations. “During his lifetime MacDonald Gill’s acclaim rested on artistic endeavours of amazing diversity; one area of particular celebrity involved the pictorial maps he designed for both governmental and private organisations. The first of these maps was commissioned in 1913 as a poster for use in the stations of the privately held Underground Electric Railways Company. The enthusiasm of the public for this poster was such that a smaller version, titled the Wonderground Map of London Town, was published for sale the following year. On the occasion of Gill’s death in 1947 the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects referred to this Wonderground Map as “a cartographical masterpiece.” Its groundbreaking design, with emphasis on visual and verbal whimsy and bold primary colors, awakened a generation of cartographers to the imaginative possibilities of pictorial mapmaking.” (Burden) The text around the map reads:

“The Heart of Britain’s Empire Here is Spread Out for Your View. It Shows You Many Stations & Bus Routes Not a Few. You Have Not the Time to Admire it All? Why not Take a Map Home to Pin on Your Wall.”

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George Bauerkeller’s rare and strikingly modern embossed plan of London with its Index

BAUERKELLER, G[eorge]

Bauerkeller’s New Embossed Plan of London 1841

PublicationParis and London, Published by Ackerman & Co., 96 Strand, 1841.

DescriptionHand-coloured engraved embossed map, dissected and mounted on linen, inset of the Isle of Dogs, tables of the population of London and key to the maps colouring.

Dimensions1160 by 680mm. (45.75 by 26.75 inches).

Scale6 inches to 1 statute mile.

ReferencesBL Crace Port. 7.246; Howgego 377.

£7,500

This embossed plan shows each locality in a different colour and built up areas raised in white, similar to the technique of Braille. Extending from Islington in the north to Kennington in the south and from Kensington High Street in the west to the West India Docks, with an inset of Greenwich at a smaller scale. A unique style of cartography in very good condition. In an advertisement in the ‘Sporting Magazine Advertiser’ Ackermann announces its publication: ‘... The Buildings are raised, and, with the Railroads, Parks, Squares, &c. apper very prominent. The Parishes are also distinguished in delicate tints., and the entire arrangement is so remarkably conspicuous that, whether for the Visitor or the Office, its utility will be generally acknowledged” (Howgego). A table to the upper left of the plan records a population of just over 1.5 million in 1841, with 122,000 residing in the City of London. The number of houses is estimated to be above 197,000; there are over 80 squares and some 10,000 streets.

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Unrecorded fan map of London

[BENNETT, Richard]

A New & Correct Plan of London, including the New Buildings &c. to this Present Year.

Publication[London, 1760].

DescriptionEngraved map, fine original hand-colour, blank on verso, mounted as a fan on wooden sticks, loss to right part of map, and small loss to lower left.

Dimensions240 mm diameter (9.5 inches).

ReferencesNot in Howgego; not in the Schreiber Collection; c.f. BL, Maps 188.v.35 for later edition.

£2,000

A very rare fan map of London. “Few art forms combine functional, ceremonial and decorative uses as elegantly as the fan. Fewer still can match such diversity with a history stretching back 3000 years. Pictorial records show some of the earliest fans date back to around 3000 BC, and there is evidence that the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans all used fans as cooling and ceremonial devices, while Chinese literary sources associate the fan with ancient mythical and historical characters. The first folding fans were inspired by and copied from prototypes brought into Europe by merchant traders and the religious orders that had set up colonies along the coasts of China and Japan. These early fans were regarded as a status symbol. While their ‘montures’ (i.e. sticks and guards) were made from materials such as ivory, mother-of-pearl, and tortoiseshell, often carved and pierced and ornamented with silver, gold and precious stones, the leaves were painted by craftsmen who gradually amalgamated into guilds such as The Worshipful Company of Fan Makers... The eighteenth century also saw the development of the printed fan: cheaper to manufacture and therefore cheaper to purchase, fans were suddenly available to a much wider audience than had previously been the case” (The Fan Museum).

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Reading and its environs

PRIDE, Thomas

A Topographical Map of the Town of Reading & the Country, adjacent to the Extent of Ten Miles; Describing the Main and Cross Roads; also the Seats and Parks of the Nobility and Gentry; The Towns, Parishes, Hamlets, Tithings, Villages, Farms, Rivers, Brooks, Woods, Hills, Valleys, Heaths, Commons, and every remarkable Place within the Survey: Taken by Thos. Pride Land-Surveyor. To the Right Honourable William Lord Craven, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum, &c., &c. of the County of Berks, This Map is Inscribed by his Lordship’s most Obedient Servant Thomas Pride.

PublicationLondon, Published as the Act directs, by T. Pride, July, 24th, 1790.

DescriptionSecond edition. Engraved map, on four sheets joined, dissected and mounted on linen, original hand-coloured in outline, subscribers coats-of-arms to left and right margin, housed in slipcase.

Dimensions690 by 905mm (27.25 by 35.75 inches).

Scale1.5 inches to one statute mile.

ReferencesRodger 18.

£1,500

The map covers the area from Streatley and Aldermaston in the west to Bagshot and Maidenhead in the east and from Marlow and Nettlebed in the north to Sandhurst in the south. It is a well detailed large-scale survey as described in the title with two restrained cartouches for the title and dedication. The latter is to William Lord Craven, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Berkshire. An important feature of the map is the River Thames which winds its way across the top of the map from Mountford to Taplow and Monkey Island and shows the numerous towns villages adjacent to the river. These, like all settlements on the map, are laid out ichnographically and give a good indication of their relative importance. If Marlow, Henley and Reading dominate there is still much of interest in the smaller places such as Whitchurch, Pangborne, Streatley, and Goring. Surrounding the map in the side margins are 41 coats-of-arms “of such Subscribers as were received in time, are engraved in order they came to hand”, but they were not keyed to any residence on the map. The first edition of the map lacked Hands Farm, Kings Mead and the Village of Woodcott. In the second edition apart from these inclusions numerous place names and road directions were enlarged and strengthened, woodland symbols were added and some of the coats-of-arms were ammended.Thomas Pride (fl. 1758-1797) was a surveyor based in Bloomsbury in London. Rare; we are only able to trace three institutional examples: the British Library; The Royal Geographical Society; and Cambridge University Library.

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The finest large-scale map of Essex

CHAPMAN, John and ANDRE, Peter

A Map of the County of Essex From an Actual Survey made in MDCCLXXII, MDCCLXXIII and MDCCLXXIV by John Chapman and Peter Andre.

PublicationLondon, Chalk Meggy and Chalk, [1831].

DescriptionFolio (440 by 390 mm), index map, and 25 double-page engraved map sheets, all with fine original hand-colour, some minor offsetting, modern half calf over marbled paper boards.

£4,500

Chapman and André’s survey of Essex was one of the most celebrated of the nineteenth century large-scale maps with a wealth of detail matched by extraordinary accuracy, even when checked against contemporary estate maps. Minor roads were depicted on a map of the county for the first time with bridges, milestones and turnpike gates, whilst on the long coastline every creek, wharf, quay, ferry, duck decoy and cliff is shown. The countryside is extensively delineated with hills, woods, parks and heaths clearly depicted and often named. Except in the towns and villages, nearly every house and cottage is marked, whilst the principal seats and their owners, and most of the manor houses, and farm houses are named. There are complete sheets devoted to the vignette title (an Essex fulling mill with two cloth beaters and Harwich and Dovercourt churches in the background), and a list of 240 subscribers. Further sheets include a general map of the county to serve as a key map, an outline of Harwich Harbour and a plan of Colchester on a scale of 168 yards to the inch including information about the town such as fairs and market days. The twenty-one sheets covering the survey of the county, together with the rest of the atlas, are all fully coloured by a contemporary hand to make it one of the most competent and attractive of the large-scale surveys.

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GARDNER, W., YEAKELL, T., and GREAM, Thomas

A Topographical Map of the County of Sussex, Divided into Rapes, Deaneries and Hundreds, Planned from an Actual Survey..

PublicationLondon, 1795.

DescriptionEngraved map, mounted on linen, hand coloured.

Dimensions780 by 1000mm. (30.75 by 39.25 inches).

£1,500

Thomas Yeakell and William Gardner first published their map in four sheets between 1778 and 1783, on a scale of two inches to the mile. The map drew on the massive advance in surveying techniques being made at this time which would be utilised in the first Ordnance Survey maps of the early nineteenth century. It proved a landmark map of the county and of large scale mapping in this country in general. Yeakell and Gardner were originally employed by Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, on his Goodwood estate. In 1782 the Duke was appointed Master General of the Ordnance and brought Gardner with him, who became Chief Surveying Draughtsman. In 1791 Gardner produced a revised version of the map of Sussex at one inch to the mile, using data collected from the triangulated surveys of the OS, with the help of Thomas Gream, Yeakell having died in 1787. Appearing six years before the first official Ordnance Survey map, of Kent, this edition was the first ever map to be published based on their surveys. The present example is the second state, although the first was probably never offered for sale. Kingsley observes that the first state was a proof with no title, dedication or scale.

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Yeakell and Gardner’s landmark map of Sussex

The first large-scale map of Dorset

TAYLOR, Isaac

[Map of Dorset]

PublicationRoss-on-Wye, Jan. 1st, 1765.

DescriptionFolio (560 by 390mm), key map, large-scale engraved map on six sheets, key sheet in original outline colour, large-scale map in original full-wash colour, later half-calf over marbled paper boards.

£7,000

Isaac Taylor was born in Worcester in 1730 and earned an early reputation as a surveyor of both county maps and city plans. His style was easily recognisable and gave particular emphasis to the hills on his county maps; Herefordshire 1754, Hampshire 1759, Dorset 1765, Worcestershire 1772, and Gloucestershire 1777. It is surprising that Taylor, like Rocque and Jefferys, was not successful in gaining the approval of the Society of Arts who appeared to favour the amateur surveyors rather than the professional mapmakers, Nearly all the awards went to applicants who produced just one or two maps rather than men like Taylor and Jefferys who between them published fifteen fine large-scale map, accurately surveyed and well engraved and in some instances more competent than most of those that were recognised by the Society. The title and dedication cartouches on the Dorset map are combined in a large decorative title-piece taking up most of the bottom left-hand sheet. Although the map is mainly dedicated to the Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Lieutenant of Dorset, Taylor also includes the names of twenty-three local gentlemen “in Gratitude for their generous assistance in this Work”. The corner of the bottom right-hand sheet contains the “list of Characters” giving the symbols for “Parish Churches and Chapels, Old Foundations, demolished Castles and Encampments, Seats and Houses, Harm-Houses, Windmills and Water Mills, Beacons, Barrows and Tumuli, Stone Quarrys. Battles, Parks and Woods, Brooks, Rivers and Bridges, Towns and Villages, and Roads enclosed and open” The two sheets that include coastal areas refer to the stranding of many vessels and a long engraved note, just off Weymouth, refers to the “Chesil Bank, where The Stones at Portland are about the size of an Egg, opposite Fleet and Langston they are much smaller; at Beckingston they are scarcely bigger than Pease, and between Swyre and Barton-cliffe where the Bank ends it is entirely a fine clear Sand” The legend goes on to remark about composition of the soil - a firm clay - beneath the pebbles. A large part of the top three sheets is occupied by six topographical views within the county - Corfe Castle, Maiden Castle, The Amphitheatre at Dorchester, Lulworth Castle, the Observatory at Horton and Sherborne Castle. Taylor’s map was acknowledged as an outstanding piece of work at the time, and was the first map to be put forward for the prestigious Society of Arts Award, just ahead of Donn’s Devon. Despite tremendous efforts, however, to win the coveted prize it was unsuccessful, due to the slight inaccuracy of its place names, which proved unacceptable to some of the local gentry. Even so it is a paricularly rare map, with the present copy in fantastic condition with full original colour.

ProvenanceFrom the library of the renowned bibliophile Anthony Hobson (1921-2014).

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Henry Overton’s rare map of England and Wales

OVERTON, Henry

A New and Correct Map of the Roads in England and Wales Wherein are Contained all the Road Waies And the Principal Cross Roads with the Computed Distances and the Distinction of Market Post Towns &c.

PublicationLondon, Printed and Sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate, 1731.

DescriptionEngraved map, with fine original outline hand-colour, flanked by an index and 90 coats-of-arms, joined, some minor loss to old folds.

Dimensions(map) 600 by 520mm (23.5 by 20.5 inches). (map and border) 600 by 1015mm (23.5 by 40 inches).

ReferencesShirely, British Isles, Overton 8.

£4,500

Rare map of England and Wales. “The map is dated 1731 but as the engraver, Sutton Nicholls, was not active after 1713 (although he did not die until between 1721 and 1731) the map was probably - although not conclusively - engraved earlier and only reissued as a later state in 1731. Nicholls has copied, without acknowledgement, Morden and Paske’s similar map of c.1690. The main roads are shown by broad double-lines and the lesser roads by fine double lines. Mileages are marked and the principal harbours are designated by small anchors. The two cartouches are also similar to the earlier map, although on the left, the William and Mary coat of arms, now obsolete, has been replaced by a globe, and on the right by a figure of Mercury. A graticule of lines of latitude and longitude is placed along the central map, not present in the Morden-Paske original” (Shirley). Flanking the map is a table of English and Welsh towns showing their distance from London, and market days; together with 90 coats of arms of the shires and towns.

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Dighton’s caricature map of England and Wales

DIGHTON, Robert

Geography Bewitched or a droll Caricature Map of England and Wales.

PublicationLondon, Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul’s Church Yard, 4 June 1804.

DescriptionEngraved caricature map with fine original hand-colour.

Dimensions210 by 180mm. (8.25 by 7 inches).

£1,700

Robert Dighton (1752-1814) was well known as a portrait artist and is regarded as one of the most talented social caricaturists of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. As an artist, he was first offered consistent employment by the publisher Carington Bowles (fl.1752-1793). This was the heyday of the so-called ‘droll’ mezzotint and Robert’s output of designs, executed in watercolour and then engraved, was an integral part of his stock. Carington Bowles was among of the most active mapsellers of his day in London, which will explain Dighton’s caricature maps in his “Geography Bewitched” series, including Ireland, England and Wales (the present map), and Scotland. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, he would achieve notoriety when he was found to have stolen valuable prints from the British Museum, which he sold through his shop in Charing Cross. His crime was exposed when a dealer, but the name of Samuel Woodburn, having acquired a Rembrandt etching from Dighton, went to the British Museum to compare it with their copy, whereupon he found the print to be missing. Dighton later confessed that he had befriended a museum official by drawing portraits of him and his daughter during his visits and used this relationship to remove prints from the museum hidden in his portfolio.

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Needlework map of Scotland

LAURIE, Robert & WHITTLE, James

A New Map of Scotland, for Ladies Needlework.

PublicationLondon, Published by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, 1797.

DescriptionEngraved map on silk with hand sewn embroidery.

Dimensions470 by 410mm. (18.5 by 16.25 inches).

ReferencesNLS EMS.s.699; Tyner, Prof. J.A., Stitching the World: Embroidered Maps and Women’s Geographical Education, Ashgate, 2015.

£750.00

Rare silk map sampler. From the 1770s to the 1840s embroidered maps or map samplers were part of a young lady’s education in England and the United States, demonstrating both her grasp of geography and her skill at needlework. “By the end of the eighteenth century it became possible to print from an engraved copper plate onto silk, and several British map publishers, especially those which were producing other educational products such as dissected maps, began to print not only paper map patterns, but also engraved maps on silk or satin “for young ladies’ needlework”.... the Dartons, Bowles & Carver, John Spilsbury and Laurie & Whittle were the major names. All were map publishers, and they were also involved in the popularity of games and dissected maps. Laurie & Whittle, located in Fleet Street in London, produced a number of silk printed maps, and also maps for embroidery on thin paper. Two copies of their ‘A New Map of Scotland for Ladies Needle Work on paper still exist at the National Library of Scotland and the Royal Geographical Society” (Tyner). Although map samplers are not uncommon, samplers bearing a map publisher’s imprint are very rare; we have only been able to trace two institutional examples of this map: the National Library of Scotland; and the Royal Geographical Society.

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Needlework map of Europe

LAURIE, Robert & WHITTLE, James

Europe.

PublicationLondon, Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, 1797.

DescriptionEngraved map on silk with hand sewn embroidery.

Dimensions385 by 440mm. (15.25 by 17.25 inches).

ReferencesTyner, Prof. J.A., Stitching the World: Embroidered Maps and Women’s Geographical Education, Ashgate, 2015.

£500

A further example of a silk map sampler showing Europe.12

Rare game map of France

LANGLUME, J.

Jeu Royal et Géographique des Départements de la France.

PublicationParis, J. Langlume, Rue du Foin St Jacques 11, 1814.

DescriptionEngraved game map, original hand-colour in outline, with 90 squares depicting Paris, Porte St Denis, 87 departments of France, and France.

Dimensions503 by 654mm. (19.75 by 25.75 inches).

ReferencesBNF FRBNF40671373.

£1,500

Rare board game of France. The game consists of 90 squares. The first is occupied by a map of Paris, the second by the Porte St Denis, the 89 following boxes with maps of the 87 French départements, and the last square by a map of France divided into its 87 departments. The game requires two dice, and the rules are printed in the middle. The aim is to get to square 90, containing a map of France. This is complicated by squares that trap players along the way, and require fines which are arranged by a gambling system off the board. For example, the first player to reach square 19 falls ill and has to pay a fine to recover,and everyone else gets two extra turns. The first player to square 31 is held there for debt, and the first player to square 42 pays a fine for having incorrect papers. Although the game bears no date it can be dated to the first short reign of Louis XVIII, from 6th April 1814 to 20th March 1815. After the Sixth Coalition forced Napoleon Bonaparte out of power, they invited Louis, the brother of the deposed Louis XVI, to restore the Bourbon monarchy. The new regime is indicated both by the royal coat of arms above the map and also the rules of the game: whenever a player lands on a square containing a crown, they get another turn. The date is indicated through the inclusion of a map of the department of Mont Blanc (square 58), a département created in 1793 after the occupation of Savoy. The département was greatly diminished after the first Treaty of Paris in May 31, 1814, and was removed entirely in 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon, when the region was returned to the Sardinian States. Rare; we are only able to trace one institutional example in the BNF.

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De Fer’s plan of Paris

DE FER, Nicolas

Le Plan de Paris, ses Faubourgs et ses Environs.

PublicationAmsterdam, Nicolas Visscher, [c.1700].

DescriptionEngraved plan on two sheets joined.

Dimensions555 by 740mm. (21.75 by 29.25 inches).

ReferencesBoutier 164.

£1,000

Nicolas de Fer’s fine plan of early eighteenth century Paris and its environs.14

A late eighteenth century French snuff box depicting Paris and its environs

[POIRSON, Jean Baptist]

[Snuff box] Carte du Département de Paris divisé par Districts et Cantons Décréet de l’Assemblée du 15 Janvier 1790.

Publication[Paris, Le Vachez, c1792].

DescriptionPapier mache circular snuff box (85mm diameter), push-fitting cover mounted with a map of Paris, rose coloured metal bezel. (diameter) 85mm (3.25 inches).

£650

Rare eighteenth century snuff box with a plan of Paris and its environs. The map is the work of Jean Baptist Poirson (1761-1831) a French cartographer, and was published in one of his first cartographic works, ‘Atlas national des 83 departements’, published in 1792. The atlas consisted of 83 circular maps of the newly created administrative departments of the new French Republic.

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A pair of rare game maps of the world

DARTON, William Junior

Walker’s Geographical Pastime, or Tour Through the Eastern Hemisphere, or Old World. An Amusing and Instructive Game. [and] Walker’s Geographical Pastime, or Tour Through the Western Hemisphere, or New World. An Amusing and Instructive Game.

PublicationLondon, Published by W. Darton & Son, Holborn Hill, of whom may be had by the same Author various other Instructive Games, 1834.

DescriptionTwo engraved maps (each measuring 500 by 940 mm), both with fine original full-wash colour, each dissected and mounted on to a single piece of linen with the rules on each side, folding into original brown cloth slipcase, with publisher’s label.

£5,000

Two companion geographical games of the eastern and western hemispheres. The player begins his journey of the eastern hemisphere in Ireland, travelling through Europe, then on through Asia to China, the East Indies, and Australia. The player then crosses the Indian Ocean and visits the east coast of Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, and the Middle East, where the traveller visits Mecca, whose temple is said to “resemble the Royal Exchange in shape, but is nearly ten times as large”. After visiting the over sized royal exchange, the player heads for Africa, ending his travels and winning the game, in Sierra Leone. Although the last line suggests not to be over enthusiastic in celebration: “Pray bear your victory modestly and moderately for now”. The game of the western hemisphere begins in Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love. The player then travels up to the Arctic Circle, into the Atlantic Ocean to visit the Cape Verde Islands, and then back to complete a tour of Central and North America. After north America the game heads into the Pacific. The travels end with a tour of South America, the game being won by the first person to reach Buenos Aires, which is said to be “a truly delightful country”, where, “people of one hundred years old or upwards are not uncommon”. Along the way the player is told many fascinating and unusual details about the places he or she visits. By far the longest description is left for the The Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands) where “the amiable, the enterprising, the ingenious and excellent Captain Cook was murdered!” . After a brief introduction regarding the islands and its inhabitants, in which the women are described as “commonly ill-made, with coarse features, a gloomy air, and are besides rude, sluggish and awkward in their manners”, the text goes on to deal with the death of Captain Cook at great length. However, the text ends on an upbeat note: “notwithstanding the fatal affair above recorded, the natives are acknowledged to be the most mild and affectionate disposition, and in hospitality to strangers are not exceeded even by the inhabitants of the Friendly Islands”.

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Callot monumental depiction of the 1624 siege of Breda

CALLOT, Jacque

Siege de Breda.

PublicationNancy, 1628.

DescriptionLarge plan on six sheets.

Dimensions(if joned) 1300 by 1380mm (51.25 by 54.25 inches).

ReferencesBertrand, Anna, The Prints of Jacques Callot at the University of Pittsburgh - http://www.haa.pitt.edu/callot/home.htm

£3,000

Large plan on six sheets depicting the 1624 Spanish siege of Breda, during the Eighty Years War. “The Siege of Breda, probably Callot’s most ambitious military commission, is composed of six etched plates which fit together to form the image. The UAG owns only the bottom center and the bottom right portions. Ambrogio de Spinola, the Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish forces in the Netherlands, laid siege to the strategic city of Breda in August, 1624. Located in Northern Brabant, Breda, which protected the roads to Utrecht and Amsterdam, was an enclave of the United Provinces in the Spanish Netherlands. Breda surrended to Spain on June 5, 1625 and a few days later the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia, who became the regent of the Spanish Netherlands at the death of her husband in 1621, triumphantly entered the city. This siege fascinated Europe; the gazettes of the time carried weekly updates and dignitaries such as the Prince of Poland and the Duke of Bavaria visited the site.Callot received this prestigious commission from the Infanta Isabella who paid him 850 ecus. His name may have been suggested to the Infanta by his Florentine friends Giovanni de’ Medici and Giovanni Francesco Cantagallina, who, as military engineers, played an important role in the siege. At the beginning of February 1626, Callot returned to Nancy with the necessary documents to execute the commission, although it is not documented that Callot actually went to Breda. According to the commission, 200 impressions of Callot’s Siege of Breda as well as 200 separate explanatory booklets were printed by the Plantin-Moretus press in Antwerp in 1628. Because of the accompanying booklet, the print did not incorporate an explanatory legend, which did not please Callot. As a result, he commissioned the same publisher to print another edition of his Siege of Breda with the legend joined to the image in Spanish, French, Italian and Latin. The correspondence between Callot and his publisher, most of which is now in the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, indicates that the new impressions were ready around July 1628. Callot ordered 1,825 impressions of the new edition, a surprisingly high number. It is unclear what he did with these prints or how successful he was in selling them, but it underscores the interest which this event held for Callot’s contemporaries. Callot’s etching is a synoptic view of the siege, a juxtaposition of events which took place throughout its eleven-month duration. On the right side of the print, Callot shows the Infanta Isabella and her entourage moving toward the city and her triumphant entry on June 12. Each event or geographical element is carefully inscribed with a number or a letter, like the number 52 on the Infanta’s carriage, which is explained in the legend. Some major protagonists, like Spinola, the Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish forces, appear several times. He appears as a rider on the right of the Infanta’s carriage and again holding the baton of command in the right foreground. Certain elements, such as the movements of Spinola’s armies on the top portion of the print, are accurate, but the visualization of the encampments in the lower center is largely imaginary. The goal of this project was to emphasize the accomplishments of the military engineers and, in a sense, to justify the enormous human and financial resources expended on the siege. It should be noted that the King of Spain in Madrid opposed the siege but the Government of the Spanish Netherlands in Brussels saw the capture of Breda as essential to the maintenance of its political power.” (Anne Bertrand). The present example is the second state with title in banderole.

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BOTTOMLEY, A.H.

Hunting Map of the Country near Gibraltar

Publication1957.

DescriptionPrinted map on waxed cloth, with original hand colour and manuscript annotation.

Dimensions

634 by 546mm. (25 by 21.5 inches).

ReferencesCentro Geográfico del Ejército Ar.G-T.10-C.1-1048

£750.00

18 An interesting hunting map of Gibraltar. At the lower left corner information is given on the meeting places of the Calpe Hunt. The Calpe was founded in 1812, after a chaplain imported two English foxhounds, supposedly to keep down the fox population. It grew into a successful hunt, and eventually gained the patronage of both Edward VII of Britain and Alfonso XIII of Spain. The map is a wonderful depiction of the transporting of English social customs to Gibraltar. In the list of places the hunt meets, the third is ‘Rotten Row’, taking its names from the area in Hyde Park in London. This is a copy of a map of the same title printed in 1907. An example of the 1907 map is held at the Centro Geográfico del Ejército in Madrid.

The hunting ground of the Calpe

The Swiss Bear

STORCKLEIN, I.

Nova Dilionis Bernensis Tabula Geograpica Ursi effigie delineata.

PublicationBasel, c.1690.

DescriptionEngraved map.

Dimensions240 by 330mm. (9.5 by 13 inches).

£6,000

A map showing the Swiss canton of Bern in the shape of a bear couchant (lying down). It holds a sword and sceptre topped with an acorn, representing military and ecclesiastical power. The acorn is both a symbol of the risen Christ and a heraldic signifier of independence, referring to the synod held there in 1532 where Bern and several other cantons decided to embrace Protestantism, and to Switzerland’s contemporary role as a refuge for Huguenots and Waldensians fleeing persecution in France and Savoy. The bear is the emblem of Bern, and has been closely connected with the city throughout its history. The earliest known use of the bear as the city’s symbol was on a seal of 1224. Traditionally, the city itself is meant to have taken its name from the animal; stories range from the city being named for the first animal the Duke of Zahringen saw while hunting, to it being named for a local Roman deity. Bears have been kept in the city since the medieval period, when one was brought back as a trophy from the Battle of Novara. There is still a bear pit in the city centre today. The map was clearly designed as an expression of Bernese autonomy, and to reinforce Bernese self-identification with the positive attributes of their emblem. Copies are held at the Universities of Basel and Bern, and in the Zurich and Aarau Libraries.

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A striking and exceedingly scarce zoomorphic map

GUDICANUS, Augustinus

Nova Descriptio Totius Regni Polonici Nec Non Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae cum suis Palatinatibus Castellanis ac Confinis

PublicationCologne, Johann Antonius Kinckius, 1658.

Dimensions328 by 305mm. (13 by 12 inches).

£5,000

A striking and exceedingly scarce zoomorphic map, originally a folding plate bound in to Borussian author Augustinus Gudicanus’ description of Poland, ‘Polonia, sive nova regni Poloniae’, published in Cologne in 1658. Poland is drawn in the shape of a white eagle, the national symbol. A white eagle supposedly landed in a tree to show Lech, the legendary founder of the country, where he should make his capital. It became the symbol of the royal family of Poland, and still appears on the coat of arms of the country. Gudicanus’ decision to show the country as an eagle was probably influenced by contemporary events. Throughout the 1650s the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth was in a state of national collapse, known as ‘The Deluge’. The commonwealth was at war with Russia and was occupied by Swedish armies. The beleaguered king, John II Casimir, lost the support of his nobility and his people. Gudicanus’ book would have coincided with the Treaty of Hadiach, which sought to create an alliance between the commonwealth and the Ukrainian Cossacks in the south. The regions of Ukraina and Kosacki clearly fall under the wings of the eagle. The resulting kingdom would be able to repel invading forces. Although the Treaty was never full implemented, it represents an important point in Polish history. Scarce; we have only been able to locate two examples of this map (one with the book) for sale in the last ten years.

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A very scarce and unusual celestial chart

WEIGEL, Erhard

Speculum Uranio-Europaeum. Astroscopium Orbi Europeaeo Sacrum Erhardi Weigeli Mathem. Prof. P. Jena.

PublicationJohann Durrig, [1661-88].

DescriptionEngraved map with full original hand colour.

Dimensions310 by 365mm. (12.25 by 14.25 inches).

£5,000

A very scarce and unusual celestial chart by the German astronomer, Erhard Weigel (1625-99). Weigel was an expert in mathematics as well as astronomy, and was professor of Mathematics at the University of Jena from 1653 until his death, teaching, amongst others, Gottfried von Leibniz. Weigel’s celestial chart was first published in 1661,and republished in 1681 and 1688 (the latter edition presumably to celebrate his appointment as an Imperial advisor). In it, Weigel proposed an entirely new system of mapping the stars. Rather than the mixture of classical and pagan constellations already in existence, he wanted a new system based upon the heraldry of the nation states and principalities of seventeenth century Europe, as well as of its principal hierarchies and social classes. These new constellations are held in the centre of the double-headed eagle of the Holy Roman Empire. France appears as a fleur-de-lys; Spain as the Golden Fleece; and Turkey as a crescent moon. The eagle hovers about a globe of the world with a detailed map of northern Europe, from Britain to Persia, showing the extent of the Empire’s power. Weigel also produced a globe in 1699 showing his new constellations; an example is held at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.

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A journey to Egypt

POCOCKE, Richard

[Untitled map of Egypt] Prænobil. Viro D.D. JOANNI, COMITI de SANDWICH VICECOMITI de HINCHINBROOKE et BARONI MONTAGU de FANO S[anc]ti. NEOTI HANC TABULAM ÆGYPTI, Ipsius Oculis Fidelibus nuper Subjectæ, ITINERIBUS ILLUSTRATÆ; Tam ad Veteris quam Hodiernæ Chorographiæ Normam Qualicunque suâ Curâ Accomodatam D.D.D. RICHARDUS POCOCKE L.L.D. Societatis Reg: Londini Socius. Prostant LONDINI Apud Phil. Overton in vico vulgo dicto Fleet street. Published according to Act of Parliament April 1743.

PublicationLondon, Philip Overton, 1743.

DescriptionEngraved map in eight sheets, six sheets and two half-sheets uncut, good condition

Dimensions1850 by 1030mm. (72.75 by 40.5 inches).

£3,000

Important and influential eight sheet wall map of Egypt from the original observations of Richard Pococke, but also incorporating other travellers’ accounts and details from antiquity. Richard Pococke (1704-1765) was an English churchman, traveller, writer and mapmaker who spent three years travelling through the eastern Mediterranean, visiting Greece, Cyprus, the Holy Land and Egypt on his tour from 1737 to 1740. Perhaps his interest in the region was stimulated by his relatives; Thomas Milles, an uncle, was a Professor of Greek, while Edward Pococke, the English Orientalist and biblical scholar, was a distant relative. On his return he wrote a two-volume account of his experiences, ‘A Description of the East, and some other countries’ (London, 1743-1745), with the first volume devoted entirely to Egypt. In his advertisements he also referred to the map, which was finally announced in the Daily Advertiser (issue 3825) for 22nd April 1743, “... Also a Map of Egypt, and of Part of Arabia Petræa, on eight Sheets of large Paper, is this Day publish’d by the same Author. Sold by Philip Overton, at the Golden Buck, opposite St. Dunstan’s Church, Fleet-Street.” The book had a large print-run, and was advertised for many years after, generally with reference to the map of Egypt; the owners of the unsold copies advertised both in the London Evening Post (issue 4687) for 19th - 22nd November 1757, for the first time found, with a price, “Where also may be had ... 2. --- his large Map over Egypt, and the Course of the Nile, on eight Sheets. In Boards, and Colour’d, Pr. 12s.” The map inspired several derivatives, published both in England and on the Continent, and served as the best available map of Egypt (although inevitably the depiction is largely limited to the Nile valley) for the rest of the eighteenth century, superseded by the military surveys conducted during Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt.

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PLANCIUS, Petrus

Tabula Geographica, in qua Israelitarum, ab Egyto ad Kenahanaem usque protectiones omnes et stationes describuntur Auctore Pet. Planc

PublicationLeiden, Jan Paedts and Jan Bouwerts, 1609

DescriptionEngraved map with contemporary hand colour, slight split to lower centre fold.

ReferencesLaor 566.

£3,000

The first state of the map of the wanderings of the Israelites, from the second series of Petrus Plancius’ Bible maps, identifiable by the presence of the signature ‘P bast F’ in the vignette of Exodus 12. The first series, a world map and four small maps of the Middle East, appeared in 1604 published by Johannes Cloppenburg. Designed as “cartes chorographiques” to aid understanding of the Bible, they were engraved by Johannes van Deutecum and his sons Baptista and Johannes. The second series were larger, bordered with scenes from the text. The Biblical scenes in the border depict the journey of the Israelites from Egypt to the Promised Land and the life of Moses, identifiable in each scene by his horns. They begin with the birth of Moses, showing Pharoah’s daughter finding his basket caught in the rushes of the Nile (Exodus 2). The story progresses through the plagues of Egypt, parting of the Red Sea, and the reception of the Ten Commandments, with other episodes from the Jews’ progress through the desert. Their route is shown by a double line and numbered stops on the map. The square and circular diagrams at the lower right of the map show the arrangement of the 12 tribes of Israel in their camp around the tabernacle while on their journey (as outlined in Numbers 2). Petrus Plancius (1552-1662) was a Flemish cartographer and theologian, best known for his series of Bible and East India maps. He was forced to flee to Amsterdam in 1585, for fear of persecution as a Protestant minister. There he began his cartographical career, studying Portuguese charts and becoming friends with the explorer Henry Hudson. He eventually became one of the founders of the Dutch East India Company, and produced a series of maps showing routes to the Far East.

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Planciu’s depiction of the wanderings of the Israelites

Diakoff ’s pictorial wall map of China

DIAKOFF, John A.

Map of China

PublicationHarbin, The Northern Trading Company and Mr V.F. Yao-Hsuin, 1931.

DescriptionLarge lithographic pictorial wall map, some tears to folds and even browning throughout.

Dimensions1536 by 2044mm. (60.5 by 80.5 inches).

ReferencesRumsey 11337.000; Library of Congress, Map Division, G7821.A5 1931 .P7., 2016587371.

£5,000

A splendidly illustrated pictorial map of China. The map was compiled by John A. Diakoff and drawn by G. Primakoff. It covers the whole of China from Kashgar and Yarken to Korea and Japan, and from Mongolia to Nepal. Several vignettes illustrate a diversity of plants, animals, cultures, architecture, and resources. The text annotations are both in English and Chinese.John Diakoff was the Scientific Collaborator of the former Russian Orientalist’s Society, which was a Russian group based in Harbin, China.

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A nineteenth century view of New York

PARSONS, Charles [and] ATWATER, Lyman

Die Stadt New York.

PublicationNew York, Currier & Ives, [1876].

DescriptionLithograph view.

Dimensions(image) 540 by 858mm (21.25 by 33.75 inches). (sheet) 695 by 970mm (27.25 by 38.25 inches).

ReferencesReps 2721; Conningham 1107; Gale 1220.

£8,000

A fine German edition of Currier and Ives bird’s-eye view of the city of New York from the south. The developed city stretches to the horizon, with many familiar buildings easily identifiable and with Central Park clearly delineated in the far distance. Both the East River and the Hudson filled with ship traffic, including images of the steamers Massachusetts, Providence, and City of New York. Perhaps the most surprising feature is the large view of the “Great East River Suspension Bridge” (i.e. the Brooklyn Bridge), in anticipation of its completion some seven years following the publication of this view. Currier and Ives were the most famous lithographic print publishers of the nineteenth century. Among their vast body of work are a number of topographical views; these are usually restricted to the large metropolises and especially New York, which was not only their home town but also their largest market. Their strategy to attract their audience appears to have been to create very large, highly detailed views from a breathtaking bird’s-eye perspective, and to issue new editions of this view to keep up with the ever-changing skyline of the city.

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MERYON, Charles

San Francisco

Publication[Paris], A. Delatre Imp. Rue Poissoniere 149, 1855.

DescriptionEngraving

Dimensionssheet 335 by 1150 mm, image 182 by 950 mm.

£6,000

26 A view of San Francisco. The city was a point of interest in Europe after the gold rush of 1848, as people from within America and abroad rushed to California to seek their fortune. The population grew rapidly, forcing the city to expand haphazardly with narrow streets that survive to this day. The large title cartouche is supported by river gods who appear to be holding sieves, a reference to the activity making the city rich.

GUGLER LITHOGRAPHIC COMPANY

Panoramic View of Milwaukee Wis. Taken from City Hall Tower

Publication[c.1898].

DescriptionChromolithograph, sheet 370 by 1200 mm, image 340 by 1100 mm.

ReferencesLOC PGA - Gugler Lith. Co.--Panoramic view of Milwaukee, Wis. [...].

£1,500.00

27 A colourful view of Milwaukee, with the names of principal buildings underneath the image. The Gugler Lithographic Company was founded by Henry Gugler, whose career began when he was commissioned to produce a large-scale engraving of the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. He used the success of this image (it was later turned into a stamp) to start his own printing company in Milwaukee, which stayed in business under the Gugler family until 1956.

BACHMAN, J.

Panorama of New York and Vicinity

PublicationPhiladelphia, Printed by P.S. Duval, Son & Co., Published by John Weik 607 Sansom Str., 1868.

DescriptionLithograph.

DimensionsSheet 660 by 950 mm, image 630 by 915 mm.

ReferencesMet 54.90.1192; NYPL Eno 382++.

£5,000.00

28 A wonderful aerial view of New York, focusing on the island of Manhattan, and providing a glimpse of the city before the areas around the island became more densely populated. Areas of farmland are visible at the edges of the print. It also shows the importance of island’s location for traffic and trade, with the Hudson and East Rivers full of vessels. The open space of Central Park is visible at the left side.J ohn Bachmann was one of the leading producers of bird’s-eye views in the late nineteenth century, capitalising on the popularity of panoramic views as expressions of civic pride. He was a German immigrant to the United States, where he began his career by producing views of Civil War battlegrounds. The lithographer, Herman Bencke, worked in New York and often collaborated with Bachmann.

A groundbreaking geological map of Australia

EDGEWORTH DAVID, Sir T[anatt] W[illiam]

A New Geological Map of the Commonwealth of Australia (Including New Guinea), Together with a Volume of “Explanatory Notes”.

PublicationSydney, [map] Commonwealth Council of Scientific and Industrial Research; [book] Australasian Medical Publishing Company, 1931 and 1932.

DescriptionChromolithograph map in four sections, dissected and mounted on linen, [together with:] booklet 8vo (iv), 177, (1) pp., 11 tables, (of which nine are folding, one is full page and one is half page), plus ten figures, maps set into the text, original paper wrappers, ownership stamp of Lt. Colonel A. Delmé-Radcliffe D.S.O to upper cover, original green buckram slipcase, publisher’s label pasted to upper cover.

Dimensions1600 by 1975mm. (63 by 77.75 inches).

£4,200

First edition of Edgeworth David’s comprehensive geological map of Australia. The map is the final published work of Sir Edgeworth David (1858-1934), a Welsh Australian geologist and explorer. Edgeworth David was a formidable character, emigrating to Australia in 1882 after he was appointed Assistant Geological Surveyor at the New South Wales Department of Mines. After being made professor at the University of Sydney, he led an expedition which proved that coral atolls were built on a platform. By now a well respected geologist, he used his influence to raise money for Ernest Shackleton’s 1907 expedition to the South Pole. He then joined Shackleton’s team, even though he was about to turn fifty, and eventually led the successful expedition to the magnetic south pole while Shackleton’s expedition was forced to turn back from their attempt to reach the geographic pole. During the First World War, he was involved in the creation of and then commissioned into the Australian Mining Corps. David’s great work had been in his mind since he came to Australia, and there was pressing contemporary need for greater geological data on the continent after the discovery of gold in Australia in 1851. David began work in 1922 by plotting data onto a 1921 base map. He compiled the results of other geological surveys alongside his own, as well as undertaking new expeditions. Although finished by 1928 and sent to England for corrections, Davis continued to correct it until it went to print in 1930. The map and accompanying text was intended to be the first part of David’s monumental work ‘The Geology of the Commonwealth of Australia’ but unfortunately he died before he managed to complete the accompanying book. The work would eventually be published by the works co-author Professor Browne in 1950. The map features two inset maps of the Admiralty Islands and New Ireland plus another of Tasmania, there are also numerous geological cross sections to the overall edges of the maps. As well as the geological information the map also provides information railways, telegraph lines, cable routes, state boundaries, roads, tracks, lighthouses, and altitude.

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Speed’s view of the world

SPEED, John

[Set of the world and continents]

PublicationLondon, George Humble, [1631].

DescriptionEngraved maps with hand colouring.

Dimensions400 by 520mm. (15.75 by 20.5 inches).

ReferencesChubb XXV.

£30,000

A set of five maps comprising a world map and maps of the four known continents. The world map is on a double hemispheric projection in a simple strapwork border, with two smaller celestial maps between. The centre is decorated with personifications of the four elements, and the corners with astronomical information and diagrams. Four cartouches hold portraits of famous explorers, with an English bias: Sir Francis Drake, Ferdinand Magellan, Thomas Cavendish, and Olivier van Noort. Each of the continent maps is surrounded by a border containing views of the principal cities and local people in native costume. John Speed (1552-1629) was the outstanding cartographer of his age. His ‘Theatre of Great Britain’, first published in 1611 or 1612, was the first atlas of Great Britain: Speed prepared the maps himself about two years before they were published. These maps are from the ‘Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World’, produced in collaboration with Speed to accompany the ‘Theatre’ and published in a joint edition by George Humble in 1631. Many of the maps were anglicized versions of works by Dutch makers, who introduced the carte-à-figure style, with borders of figures in local costume and city views.

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