Ferrando BERTELLI - Venetia - Venice 1568.
The archetype of many sisxteenth century bird's-eye views of Venice was the epochmaking wall map by Jacopo de Barbari published in 1500. The present version from Bertelli's "Civitatum aliquot insignorum et locorum magis monitorum exacta delineation cum additione aliquot Insularum principalium. Disegni di alcune più illustri città et fortezze del mondo con aggionta di alcune Isole principali", published in Venice 1568. The map is mainly based on the woodcut by Sebastian Muenster (Basel 1550) while the details like the entries and names of some smaller islands in the lagoon are drawn after the 1556 engraving by Paolo Forlani. Like the larger maps of The IATO these smaller ones were first issued for a loose sheet circulation, and then assembled in booklet form for interested customer. Only one state is known. A very rare map of Venice.
Literature: Moretto, Venetia Le Immagini della Repubblica, p.60, 22; Meurer, The Strabo Illustratus Atlas, p. 172, 157: Borroni, Raccolte Firenze, 201. Size 307x195.
5000 euros

VETTER, Christoph. Bohemiæ Rosa Omnibus saculis cruenta...
Augsburg, 1677, 390 x 270mm. Binding folds flattened.
A very rare and beautiful map of Bohemia depicted as a stylised rose. Prague is located at the center of the rose and Vienna, the main seat of the Hapsburg Dynasty,is shown at the root. The leaves of the rose represent Moravia, Silesia, Meissen, Bavaria, and Austria. The top of the map bears the motto of the Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold I, "Iustitia et Pietate" (Justice and Piety), one of whose titles was King of Bohemia. Drawn by Christoph Vetter and engraved by Wolfgang Kilian for Bohuslav Balbin's work of national history and geography "Epitome Historica Rerum Bohemicarum". The rose was a symbol of Southern Bohemia due to being the emblem of the two most powerful local families: namely the red rose of the Rozmberks and the black rose of the lords of Hradec.
£2,000

WALDSEEMULLER, Martin. Tabula Nova Hibernie Anglie et Scotie. 1513. Strassburg. 360 x 510 mm., with some slight restoration to the centrefold as usual, some splits repaired and two small wormholes repaired, one in the image, one in the upper margin, otherwise a good example on sound paper.
The FIRST TRULY MODERN MAP OF THE BRITISH ISLES. This is only the sixth printed map of the British Isles according to Shirley's study. However it is pre-dated only by the Ptolemaic maps of Bologna 1477, Rome 1478, Florence 1482, Ulm 1482 and Venice 1511. Although published in an edition of Ptolemy's "Geographia" this is in fact the first modern map of the British Isles, i.e not depending on ancient Ptolemaic geography. The map by Bernadus Sylvanus published in the Venice edition of 1511 did introduce more modern cartography but incorporated it into Ptolomaic geography. Martin Waldseemuller was the first to break entirely with the older work and construct a map of the British Isles from entirely contemporary sources. An interesting comparison is made between the two versions in the same atlas, the Ptolomaic one extends from 52 to 63 degrees north whereas the modern map more accurately records 47 to 59 degrees. Waldseemuller was the geographer behind one of the early schools to study cartography, that at St. Die outside Strassburg. He was the author of the wall map of 1507 which named America for the first time. In that same year it is believed he completed the maps for an edition of Ptolemy's 'Geography'. It was not until 1513 though that it was published. Printed from a wood block by Joannes Schott it includes in the borders graduations of latitude and for the first time a scale of miles (Italian) lower right. Waldseemuller had no printed sources to draw upon so relied on contemporary manuscript portolans which were hard to obtain. With our easier access to surviving portolans we can see similar cartography was being used in the early fifteenth century. Waldseemuller has corrected the slanting Scotland and Cornwall, and has added many new towns, most notably along the southern and eastern coasts of England and Ireland - areas well known to European sailors and merchants. Shirley deciphers many of the place names along the south coast such as Dobla (Dover), Portamua (Portsmouth), Antona (Southampton), Artamua (Dartmouth) and Premua (Plymouth). London is clearly recognisable and Eristo (Bristol). The coastlines of southern England and Wales can be understood but further north becomes harder to decipher. A curious mountain range appears to divide England from Scotland with an indication of their fortification. Extensive names occur on the east and southern coasts of Ireland indicating extensive links with that island too. A noteworthy feature is the fictitious island of Brazil off of the west coast of Ireland.
Karrow, R.W. (16 c.) 80/34; Moreland & Bannister p. 193; Nordenskiold 205; Pastoureau Ptolemee A no. 31; Shirley BL T.Ptol-6a; Shirley BI no. 11 pl. 8. [5086]
£7,500

Giacomo GASTALDI - Disegno della Sogdiana Battriana, Hircania, Parthia, et Media, Secondo la Geografia di Strabone, nel libro Undecimo. Tavola - Venice 1560 ca.
This unnumbered map of the Strabo series, showing Turkmenistan, Iran and the Caspian Sea, combines the modern image after the Prima parte of Gastaldi's map of Asia and the nomenclature after Strabo. Unrecorded until discovered by Peter Meurer in an unique sixteenth century composite atlas from the house of Bertelli in Venice; 15 unknown maps by the same hand are present. According with Meurer they are the "absolute scientific highlight of the atlas". The maps was created to illustrate an Italian edition of the books of the Geography by the Greek Strabo. Anyway an illustrated edition of Strabo's Geography was never published in Italy in the sixteenth century. There was, however, a contemporary edition printed in Venice and Ferrara in 1562 and 1565. A vague theory may here construct plans and intentions of an illustration with maps by Gastaldi, which have failed for unknown reasons. All maps are designed on the basis of contemporary models, while the entries and names of towns regions etc. follow the text by Strabo. None of the present maps are signed, but there exists a sole example of a second state of the general map of Italy in which the authorship is also attribuited to Giacomo Gastaldi. Engraving with fine original colouring, printed on a single sheet, plate size 385x245. One of the two only copies known
References: P. Meurer, Strabo Illustratus Atlas, p. 42, 28.
8,500 euros

Uncommon broadsheet plan of the Battle of Trafalgar
DODD, Robert. Plan of the Attack by Lord Nelson, on the Combined Fleet, October 21st 1805.
London: Robert Dodd, 1805. Coloured aquatint, 265 x 365mm, with letterpress text underneath, sheet size 660 x 440mm. Paper watermarked "E & P 1801". Small area of loss in unprinted area lower right edge. A few small tears repaired, small holes in folds. A broadsheet plan of the first moments of the Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805), showing the British fleet, under Admiral Lord Nelson, splitting into two columns to break the crescent formation of the Franco-Spanish fleet. Robert Dodd (1748-1815), one of the leading marine painters of the day, published this broadsheet less than a month after the battle. Althought the British fleet is shown will full rigging, the ships of the Combined Fleet are almost diagrammatic: immediately under the plate is a note from the artist explaing that for claity's sake "the artist has judged it best (to avoid confusion that the smallness of scale would occasion), to dispense with exhibiting their Sails and Rigging, which if introduced, would in this View, have prevented their different Flags from being seen". The rest of the sheet is given over to letters written by Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, Nelson's second-in-command, to the Admiralty describing the battle and the loss of Nelson, and tables listing the ships of each fleet. National Maritime Museum: PAF4741.
£2,500

Doppelmayer, J. G. / Homann, J. B. ‘BASIS GEOGRAPHIAE RECENTIORIS ASTRONOMICA.....’.
Double hemisphere world map, showing the continents mostly in outline, but giving the exact locations of various places according to the latest astronomical observations by longitude and latitude in tables above and below the map. California is shown as an island, Australia connected to New Guinea. Allegorical scenes in corners and spandrels. Designed by the astronomer Johann Gabriel Doppelmayer and published by Johann Baptist Homann ca. 1720 [21946]
48 x 57 cm. Full recent colour. Excellent condition.
£1,150

Greece - "Golfo della Prevesa". Venice, Si vende a S. Giuliaen al Nome di Dio, 2nd. hal of the 16. century. Zacharakis, 3.ed. No. 3503 / 2712 : He mentions this map without picture and further description under the "Tavole moderne di Geografia".
€ 2900.00

Shury, J. ‘PLAN OF LONDON FROM ACTUAL SURVEY 1833’. Large plan of London with 33 vignettes of remarkable public buildings on three sides. Extent: Islington, Limehouse, Kennington, Hyde Park. Title with ornamental design of Royal arms and arms of the Cities of London and Westminster at the top. Engraved by John Shury 1833 [24676] 53 x 79 cm. Full superb recent hand colour. Excellent condition. Second edition of this decorative large plan of London. Not folding, linen backed or dissected as often found. Howgego 343(2).
£ 1,750

PACKE, Christopher A New Philosphico Chorographical Chart of East-Kent Invented and delineated by Christopher Packe M.D. [with] Ancographia sive Convallium description 1743 Canterbury In four sheets each 600 x 660 mm., the whole 1200 x 1300 mm. With signs of old folds, with minor loss of surface at double fold. Upper right sheet repaired at left hand edge with minor loss of engraved surface reinstated in manuscript in very high quality. Top left sheet bears 80 mm. tear professionally repaired. Lower left sheet with split upper centrefold repaired, and small tear. Lower right sheet repaired at upper centre fold with minor foxing. All restoration carried out to a very high standard. With book, quarto (255 x 200 mm.), full contemporary calf, gilt ruled, ribbed spine with gilt title, author and date in the compartments. Slight joint wear lower front cover, marbled endpapers. pp. (2), 110, (2), 3 blank endpapers. Typographic title page, complete with Errata bearing the advert for the map on the verso. In 1815 William Smith published ‘A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales’ which earned him the title of the father of geological mapping. The idea though was born as early as the late seventeenth century. The natural historian Martin Lister, an active member of the Royal Society, is best known for his studies of present and fossil shells although he famously refused to believe that the latter were once living. In 1684 he wrote in the ‘Philosophical Transactions’ of the Royal Society of the need for an examination of the earth stating “for this purpose it were advisable that a Soil or Mineral Map … the Soil might either be coloured by variety of Lines, or Etchings … and the limits of each Soil appearing on the Map, something more might be comprehended from the whole … which would make such a labour well worth the pains”. It was some time however before anyone accepted the task. What is often described as the first geological map (by geologists) was made by Christopher Packe (1686-1749). He was born 6 March 1686 in St, Alban’s, Hertfordshire, and at nine years old attended Merchant Taylors’ School, London. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1717 and after first returning to St. Alban’s became a practising physician in Canterbury from 1726 to his death in 1749. Many of his letters to his patron Sir Hans Sloane survive today in the British Museum. His ‘Philosphico-chorographical chart of East-Kent’ was published in 1743. It portrayed an area with a radius of 16 miles from Canterbury at a very large scale of about one and a half inches to the mile. His first draft was ready in 1737 but unhappy with errors he erected a scaffold on the top of the tower of Canterbury Cathedral from which he used an azimuth compass and theodolite to complete the work. The completed chart measured 1175 x 1300 mm., and was eventually issued in four sheets. It was accompanied by a book of explanation entitled ‘Ancographia sive Convallium descriptio: in which are ... expounded the origine, course, and insertion, extent, elevation and congruity of all the valleys and hills, brooks and rivers (as an explanation of a new philosophico-chorographical chart) of East-Kent, etc’. The book explains what the reader should do to find the bearing of any place from true north, the map being orientated to magnetic north. The declination at the time was 14.5 degrees W. He originally intended using a smaller scale but because “the more room I gave it, the more distinct, beautiful and useful it would be”, he enlarged it. Packe’s main purpose was to illustrate the draining of water from the land as he put it to “exhibit the system of all the valleys, to show their number connection, extent and descent into their several collections; to set forth how the waters are generated, and how for them the several rills, brooks, branches and channels of the rivers, particularly of the Stour and its Nailbours are formed in their distinct lobes, districts and regions; up from their very springs down to their inlet into the sea”. Subtle hachuring helps to represent the valley slopes and figures indicate the altitudes. The latter were attained by the relatively new science of using barometric pressure. It was Evangelista Torricelli who in 1643 noted the principals of the barometer and Packe used it to note its rise and fall on the tower of Canterbury Cathedral. Extrapolating these figures to the region he mapped produced remarkably accurate figures. The legend describes ‘deep green’ meadows, ‘light green’ downs and ‘brown’ arable land however the map was issued uncoloured. The key states that ‘the lines of light between two setts of Vallies show the Ridge of the Hills that separates them’. Although much of the map details surface physical features there are geological aspects. Different symbols depict chalk and gravel pits and stone and deep clay is identified. The fine engraving was the work of James Mynde (fl.1720-60). It is an extremely rare map, a search of United Kingdom institutions revealed examples at the British Library and the National Library of Scotland only. Only two auction records for the map could be found in the last 40 years, the last appearance being at Sotheby’s London 25 June 1987 as lot 236 where it fetched £2,750. Both examples lacked the accompanying book entitled ‘Ancographia’ published just prior to the map. Provenance: The book: Grenville Library ‘duplicate’ with gilt bookplate pasted inside front cover; sold at Sotheby’s London 6 March 1984 lot 441; bookplate of James Hobbs inside front cover. The map: Christies, London 1982. Boud, R. C., ‘The Early Development of British Geological Maps’, in Imago Mundi no. 27 pp. 73-96; Campbell, Eila M. T., ‘An English Philosophico-Chorographical Chart’, in Imago Mundi no. 6 pp. 79-84; Robinson, Arthur H. (1982) ‘Early Thematic Mapping in the History of Cartography’ pp. 51-2 & 86; Sotheby’s London 25 June 1987 lot 236. [5629]
£ 27,500

SPEED, John. America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde - both people and manner of buildings Discribed and inlarged by I.S. 1626.
London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 400 x 520mm.
The most famous English map of the Americas (although Speed still had to turn to a Dutch engraver, Abraham Goos, to produce it). Appearing in Speed's 'Prospect of the... World', it is the first map from an atlas to show California as an island, an error that was perpetuated for over a century. Down the sides are costume vignettes, five on the left natives of North America, on the right five from South America. Along the top are eight city prospects, including Mexico, Cusco, Havana and Rio de Janeiro. An inset map shows Greenland, Iceland and 'Friesland', a mythical island. On verso is an English text, 'The Description of America'. BURDEN: 217, this state illus.
£5,000

CARY, John. Cary's Pocket Globe; agreeable to the latest Discoveries. 1791. London.
Pocket globe 80 mm. in diameter, with original metal pivot at both poles for laying in the case. The sphere is made of twelve globe gores laid on a papier maché sphere. In early wash colour with publishers varnish as issued. Complete with the two original concave hemispheres made of wood and covered in black sharkskin, joined with a brass hinge. With two brass hook and eye fastenings for closure.
John Cary (1755-1835) was the founder of one of the most successful map and globe publishers of the time. He started producing globes in 1791 and this example is one of those earliest productions. Cary is known for working on his own in the map and atlas world but for globes he worked in partnership with his brother William (c.1759-1825) who was an instrument maker of note. The most up-to-date information contained is that of Mackenzie's travels in Canada in 1789. The sight of Cook's death in 1779 in Hawaii is cited and the southern coast of Australia still records a peninsular Tasmania. The tracks of Cook's three voyages are depicted as is that of Phipps in 1773.
Pasted inside the case are twelve half gores depicting 'The World as Known in Caesar's Time agreeable to D'Anville'. The other hemisphere contains 'A Table of Latitudes & Longitudes of Places not given on this Globe'.
Dahl & Gavin (2000) pp. 96-7; Dekker (1999) GLB0001 pp. 293-5; Krogt (1993) Car 1. [5622]
£6,000

DE RAM, Johannes. Londini Angliæ Regni Metropolis Delineatio Accuratissima Auctore Ioanne de Ram.
Amsterdam c.1690. 495 x 590mm.
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.
£3,800

M. Moleiro is the most prestigious publishing house in the world specialised in the identical reproduction of atlases, maps and illuminated manuscripts made between the 8th and 16th centuries. Our editions are unique and unrepeatable and limited to 987 copies individually numbered and accompanied by a notary’s statement confirming their exclusive nature. The Vallard Atlas is a magnificent portolan atlas, one of the bibliographic treasures of sixteenth century Europe. One of its most noteworthy characteristics is the miniatures depicting countless illustrations of the daily life of the native population in every territory. The Vallard Atlas, whilst ascribed to the Dieppe cartography school, has a clearly Portuguese flavour due to either its anonymous creator or the model that inspired it.
P.O.A.

Aanmregister van de respective Regeeringen der steeden [...]. Amsterdam, Bernardus Mourik, 1780. 2nd state with the address of B. Mourik. Map original old colouring, restored tear into the plate and undated. Original parchment binding. Very rare only one other known in The Hague KB. Tooley 47, Van der Heijden 26.2, Dirk & Joana Blonk-van der Wijst 92.2.
€ 4500

Urania's Mirror Or A View Of The Heavens By S.Leigh / S.Hall Published in London, c.1825 Each 13.5 x 19 cm Steel plate engravings with original colour. A wonderful set of 32 hand-coloured cards depicting the celestial constellations in pictorial form with pin-prick holes locating the exact position of the stars and their relative brightness by means of different-sized holes. Each of the cards is wonderfully engraved and delicately coloured - a real masterpiece. Urania herself, the muse of astrology, appears on the box lid. (34956).
£ 2800

The French Invasion; Or John Bull, Bombarding The Bum-Boats By J.Gillray / H.Humphrey / J.Schobert / H.G.Bohn Published in London, 1793-1851 24 x 34 cm A copperplate engraving with later hand colour. This cartographical curiosity shows England and Wales in the form of George III (with Durham forming his face) whose effluent, labelled the "British Declaration", bombards the French coast. The image was originally etched by James Gillray and published by Hannah Humphrey (Gillray's cohabiting female publisher) in 1793. The map is a good example of cartography used for political and satirical reasons and, in its first edition, was one of the earliest maps in the genre. The map is not for the easily offended - George III's contempt at the threat of French invasion is clear! (35752).
£ 850

ANONYMOUS (Terrestrial Globe) c.1900 (Unknown) c.105 mm., in diameter. A scrimshawed Ostrich egg with a turned wooden stand. In good condition. This fine CARTOGRAPHICAL CURIOSITY is a scrimshawed globe made from the two rounded ends of an Ostrich egg. The eggs are notoriously hard which enable finer detail than some surfaces allow. The representation of the globe is curious and cannot be traced to any one particular map. It post dates the rounding of the Cape of Good Hope in 1497 but only shows South America, not North America. A curious land mass appears in the southern Indian Ocean. The language used appears to be Spanish and Latin in origin. A fine curiosity. [5623]
£975

Oronce Fine: ‘Nova , Et Integra Universi Orbis Descriptio’; 1st state 1531; published in S.Grynaeus’ Novus Orbis Regnum, Paris, 1532.; wood cut; image size 29 x 42 cm; centrefold re-inforced; 1 very small repaired tear; some extremely faint stains; small margins but only slightly cropped top left hand corner; o/w excellent cond. - This beautifully wood cut engraved map in double-cordiform is adorned with floral surrounds, mermaids, cherubs and the French Royal coat-of-arms. In the right hand cordum, the ‘recently discovered but not yet explored’ Terra Australis is shown, and, for the first time, Magellan’s name appears in Mare Magellanicum at the tip of South America. R.Shirley, ‘The Mapping of the World’, London,1983,p73,#66
£ 37,500-