The laying of the transatlantic cable from the Great Eastern. BACON, George Washington. The Atlantic Telegraph. London: Bacon & Co., 1865. Letterpress broadside with colour-printed wood engravings. Sheet 810 x 550mm. A rare and important broadside published during the attempt to lay a new transatlantic telegraph cable, after the first laid in 1858, lasted only a month before failing. As well as an extensive descriptive text there: maps of the positions of cables around Europe and the North Atlantic and the prosposed cables around the world; a view of S.S. Great Eastern, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's mammoth sailing steam ship, which had just been converted for cable-laying, with a cross-section; illustrations of the composition of the different cables and a Morse Telegraph instrument; and a cross-section of the Atlantic with the depths marked. This broadside was published just before the failure of the attempt: captained by Sir James Anderson, the Great Eastern had laid a thousand miles of cable when the cable snapped and the end was lost. The attempt was abandoned, but the following year the ship returned and, after 'fishing' with grappling hooks for weeks, the cable was recovered and spliced. The repaired cable reached Newfoundland in September 1866. This broadside was republished during the second attempt, with the Atlantic cross-section at the bottom reduced in size to accommodate the description of the failure of the previous year. SN: 18296
£3100

Scarce 17th Century plan of London at the Dutch Accession Londini Angliæ Regni Metropolis Delineatio Accuratissima Auctore Ioanne de Ram. Amsterdam c.1690. Coloured. 495 x 590mm. A very fine Dutch plan of London, published to celebrate William III of the House of Orange-Nassau and his wife Mary Stuart 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 resemblance to the finished building. SN: 18363
£5500

A very scarce map of England and Wales with town prospects. STENT, Peter. A New Map of the Kingdome of England and the Principality of Wales taken out of J.S. Printed and Sould by John Overton at the White Horse without Newgate. London: John Overton, c.1673. Contemporary colour. 400 x 510mm. A scarce separate-issue map of England and Wales, first issued by Stent in 1662 but this example was printed about a decade later. Stent acknowledges his source for the map as John Speed ('J.S.'), but has replaced Speed's costume panels with 29 city prospects, all English, including pre-fire London. The style of the engraved script suggests the map was etched by Wenceslas Hollar. REFS: SHIRLEY: Stent 1, state 6 of 6. SN: 18258
£3,950

LOTTER TOBIAS CONRAD Tabula geographica generalis Imperii Russici ad normam novissimarum observationum astronomicarum concinnata a Ioh. Trescotio et Jac. Schmidio. Augsburg,1784 Copperplate, original colour, mm 630x1390. Quite scarce and important large map in three sheets from the last editions of “Atlas novus” and “Grosser Atlas”. It shows the Russian Empire under Catherine the Great and is based upon a 3-sheet map of similar size, engraved in St. Petersburg by K. Frolov, E. Khudiakov, and N. Zubkov in 1776 after teh 23-sheets survey by Trescot and Schmidt. Scale cartouche is decorated with a rocky cliff and an obelisk. A vignette in the bottom right depicts mythical figures looking over a map of the Empire with a city view in background. Seutter, after having worked with Homann in Nuremberg, opened his own activity in Augsburg around 1720. His maps always have elaborate cartouches and are very decorative and printed on good paper. Lotter married Seutter's daughter in 1740 and succeeded him in 1756. Lotter run then the business using mostly Seutter's plates but adding some new ones also.
2.400,00 €

Adrichom. Title: Abrisz der Stadt Jerusalem wie sie furnemlich zur Zeit desz Herrn Christi beschaffen gewesen. Date: 1629 Size: 40x49cm. Condition: Very good. With gold highlights. A few original paper faults. A few very minor tears repaired in lower margin. Ref. Laor 937. This plan of Jerusalem is based on Adrichom, first published in 1584. The vignettes are based on Villalpando and were the first to illustrate Hebrew religious rites on a map of Jerusalem. No re-issue is known.
£3000

Rare 16th century woodblock map of the East Indies Terza Ostro Tavola. Venice, G.B.Ramusio, 1556. Trapizoid, woodcut 290 x (at greatest) 385mm. An unusual depiction of the Far East, orientated with north to the bottom of the map. Thus it shows the Ganges, Sumatra (also titled Taprobana) and the Malay Peninsula on the right; Java Major and Minor, Amboine, Timor and the Philippines in the top left quandrant; and China (with Canton marked) and Japan (here called Cympagu, after Marco Polo), bottom left. This is the very first European map drawn upside down that mentioned the word ' Filipina ' (also referred as the birth certificate of the Philippines). This map is very rare: after it appeared in the first edition of Ramusio's 'Delle navigationi et viaggi' the block was destroyed in a fire at the printing house the following year and was replaced by a copper-engraved version, also by Gastaldi. SN: 18440
£6500

Sanuto Title: Africae Tabula X Date: 1588 Size: 39x52cm. Condition: Fine. A few faint spots. The only Lafreri map of Southern Africa. The term 'Lafreri' refers to a celebrated group of Italian engravers who were active in the second half of the sixteenth century. Livio Sanuto produced 12 maps of Africa, which were to be the beginning of a world atlas. Unfortunately, he died so his output became the first Atlas of African maps. His map of Southern Africa was the most advanced of its tlme and was copied many years later by Sanson.
£4800

The first woodcut Ptolemaic map of the World published North of The Alps. PTOLEMY, Claudius. [World] Insculptum est per Iohanne Schnitzer de Artmsheim Lienhart Holle Ulm: Lienhart Holle, 1482. Original colour. Woodcut, sheet 410 x 567mm. A very important world map: it was the first Ptolemaic map published outside Italy; the first printed to be from a woodblock, the first to be signed by the engraver ('Johann, woodcutter from Armszheim'); and the first to be updated to show Scandinavia and Greenland. It is made more stiking by the ten large wind heads surrounding the map. The map was probably based on a manuscript by the cartographer Nicolaus Germanus Donis, although Scandinavia (with the first printed appearance of Greenland) comes from either Cladius Calvius (1427) or the Zamoiski codex (c.1467). Despite these changes there is no sign of any of the Portuguse discoveries in West Africa. An error in the printing means that both tropics are named Cancer, which is corrected in manuscript. Soon after publication Holle went bankrupt, probably because of the huge production costs, and Johan Reger acquired the rights to the atlas, reissuing the second and last edition of this version in 1486. SHIRLEY: 10, "the bold Germanic style and the gothic lettering have a distinctive decorative appeal".
POA

Willdey Title: A New & Correct Map of England & Wales Now Called South Britain ... containing all ye Cities & Market Towns with ye Roads & distance in reputed Miles Date: 1715 Size: 61x99cm. Condition: Very good. A few patches of professional restoration. This map was produced to exploit the burgeoning demand for information on the newly-constructed road, canal and port links between market towns and sources of raw materials at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. These maps were well used and few have survived
£4000

Henry Popple's Map of the "British Empire in America" in 4 Sheets. A Map of the British Empire In America with the French, Spanish and the Dutch Settlements adjacent thereto by Henry Popple.
]Popple, Henry; Covens, Jean & Mortier, Corneille. A Map of the British Empire In America with the French, Spanish and the Dutch Settlements adjacent thereto by Henry Popple. A) Nouvelle Carte Particulére de la Amerique ou sont exactement marquéese une Partie de la Baye d'Hudson, le Pays Kilistinons, la Source de la Grande Rivière de Mississipi, le Pays des Illinois &c.; B)Nouvelle Carte Particulére de la Amerique ou sont exactement marquées la Nouvelle Bretagne, le Canada ou Nouvelle France, la Nouvelle Ecosse, la Nouvelle Angleterre, la nouvelle York, la Pensilvanie, Mary-land, la Caroline septrionale, l'Ile de terre Neuve. le Grand Banc &c.; C)Nouvelle Carte Particulére de la Amerique ou sont exactement marquées les Provinces suivants comme la Caroline meridionale, la Floride, la Louisiane, le Mexique,le Jucatan, le Guatimala, le Darien,& une Partie de Cuba.; D)Nouvelle Carte Particulére de la Amerique ou sont exactement marquées lesIles de Bermude, la Jamaique, Saint Domingue, les Antilles, la Terre Ferme &c. Amsterdam. Covens et Mortier c1741 Copper engraved maps[ 4 sheets] from Covens & Mortier's " Nieuwe Atlas, Inhoudennde vier Gedeeltens der Waereld.. " Original full wash colour; verso blank. Covens and Mortier edition of Popple's map of the British Empire in America on 4 sheets. with titles in French above each map: A) Nouvelle Carte Particulére de la Amerique ou sont exactement marquéese une Partie de la Baye d'Hudson, le Pays Kilistinons, la Source de la Grande Rivière de Mississipi, le Pays des Illinois &c.; B)Nouvelle Carte Particulére de la Amerique ou sont exactement marquées la Nouvelle Bretagne, le Canada ou Nouvelle France, la Nouvelle Ecosse, la Nouvelle Angleterre, la nouvelle York, la Pensilvanie, Mary-land, la Caroline septrionale, l'Ile de terre Neuve. le Grand Banc &c.; C)Nouvelle Carte Particulére de la Amerique ou sont exactement marquées les Provinces suivants comme la Caroline meridionale, la Floride, la Louisiane, le Mexique,le Jucatan, le Guatimala, le Darien,& une Partie de Cuba.; D)Nouvelle Carte Particulére de la Amerique ou sont exactement marquées lesIles de Bermude, la Jamaique, Saint Domingue, les Antilles, la Terre Ferme &c. Large black & white decorative title cartouche [as issued] to lower corner of sheet C Black and white strap work cartouche [as issued] to upper corner of sheet A, containing "the Approbation of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations.." and the approbation of Edmund Halley: "I have seen the abovementioned Map, which as far as I am Judge, seems to have been laid down with great Accuracy, and to shew the Position of the different Provinces & Islands in that Part of the Globe more truly than any yet extant." Henry Popple produced this map under the auspices of the Lord Commissioners of Trade and Plantations to help settle disputes arising from the rival expansions of English, Spanish and French colonies. "France claimed not only Canada, but also territories drained by the Mississippi and its tributaries - in practical terms, an area of half a continent" (Goss The Mapping of North America p.122.) Popple's map had quasi-official status, and a copy was sent to each of the governments of each of the colonies. Popple's famous map on 20 sheets appeared in1733. Popple drew on many sources: the maps of Guillaume De L'Isle and Nicholas de Fer; John Barnwell's manuscript map of the south-eastern colonies of circa 1721 which included up-to-date information on the Indian settlements in the interior; and Cadwallader Colden's famous Map of the Country of the Five Nations. In all, it covers from the Grand Banks off Newfoundland to about ten degrees west of Lake Superior, and from the Great Lakes to the north coast of South America. On the original 20 sheet map several of the sections are illustrated with pictorial insets, including views of New York City, Niagara Falls, Mexico City, and Quebec, and inset maps of Boston, Charles-Town, Providence and Bermuda. Covens and Mortier published these as seperate map sheets, [ see item 3062]. Benjamin Franklin ordered two of the original map for the Pennsylvania Assembly on 22 May 1746, "one bound and the other in sheets." One of these was hanging in the Pennsylvania State House when the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4th, 1776. John Adams noted that Popple's map was "the largest I ever saw, and the most distinct." Copies were found in the private collections of several of the wealthier founding fathers, including George Washington. Dark impressions; bright full wash colour; printed on heavy paper; old red crayon numbers to verso. Sheet a : tight margin to right side [approx 3mm]. Light horizontal crease to upper half visible on verso only Sheet B: trimmed to plate mark on right side. Slight horizontal crease to upper half. Sheet C: tight margin to right side [approx 2-4mm]. Sheet D: tight margin to right side [approx 4-6mm]. Koeman I: C&M 8:maps 107, 108, 109, 110; 610 by 535mm (24 by 21 inches) each sheet. Total size if joined approx. 1200x1070mm ( 46x 41 inches) [Stock No. 3061]
€15000

Rare Panorama of Bombay! Carpendale, Rev. William Henry (1830-1883): ‘Panoramic View of Bombay, taken from Malabar Hill’ Lemercier, Paris, 1860. tinted lithograph. image 29 x 204 cm, joined on two sheets. The view has undergone extensive but expert restoration and is backed onto 190 gsm Heritage All Rag made basically from pure cotton rags, devised for conservation of works of art. The work is reversible as only pure starch paste was used. The print has signs of previous framing: the title has been cut out. Some stains. This very rare print of Bombay, seen from Malabar Hill, looks across Back Bay, across to Butcher’s Island and as far as the Lighthouse off the Southern tip of Malabar Hill. Below the image, various points of interest have been noted. The view is based on a painting by the Reverend W.H. Carpendale who was a volunteer for the Indian Navy where he served as a Lieutenant on the ‘Cleopatra’ before he became a clergyman of the Church of England. (see The History of the Indian Navy (1613-1863) By Charles Rathbone Low.) [ref: 3775] (Images shows the two sheets above one another)
£4,000

Forts and Islands for Henry Popple's Map of the "British Empire in America" [Les Principales Fortresses Ports &c de LAmerique Septrionale.
]Popple, Henry; Covens, Jean & Mortier, Corneille. Les Principales Fortresses Ports &c de L'Amerique Septrionale. The Harbour of Placentia; The Harbour of Anapolis Royal; Boston Harbour; New York and Perthamboy Harbours; The Town and Harbour of Charles town in South Carolina; Harbour of St. Augustin;The Harbour of Providence; The Havana; Bay of St Iagoin Cuba; A Plan of the Harbour of Port Antonio in Jamaica. Fort Royal in Martinica; The Island of Barbadoes; Antigua; Kingston Harbour Jamaica; Bermuda or Summer Islands; Curacao; Carthage on the Coast of New Spain; Harbour of Porto Bello. Amsterdam. Covens et Mortier c1741 Copper engraved map sheet with 17 (18) small plans and maps of forts, harbours and Islands for Popple'sMap of the British Empire in America from Covens & Mortier's Nieuwe Atlas, Inhoudennde vier Gedeeltens der Waereld.. Original full wash colour; verso blank. Covens and Mortier published the plans and maps which could be inserted on the Popple map as a separate map sheet . Each plan or map has its title on a banner except the island of Curacoa and the plan of Port Antonio [with inset of the fort and key] All are 150mm wide but of varying heights. St Augustine & Providence ; Havana & St Iago; Barbadoes & Antiqua in pairs. Each has a mile scale and the map of Curacoa includes a compass rose. A scarce and desirable sheet Dark impressions; bright full wash colour; printed on heavy paper;upper margin trimmed to plate mark above title; old red crayon numbers to verso. Koeman I: C&M 8:maps 111; 520 by 620mm (20½ by 24½ inches). [Stock No. 3062 ]
€2200

Star Globe. The Husun Star Globe. H.Hughes & Son Ltd, London, 1920. Boxed Star Globe: box 28 x 27 x 27 cm. Globe 28 cm dia. box: some wear and tear but all locks working and handle safely attached; globe: some wear and tear; slightly yellow; some paper abrasions; o/w exc. cond. A useful thing to have when you are ‘lost between the moon and New York City’! A brass-hinged dovetailed mahogany box containing a paper-covered star globe made by H. Hughes & son, Ltd., London, and dated 1920. The globe is mounted in the lower half of the box in a horizontal brass meridian hemisphere. Four brass quadrant rings fit over the globe. Stars are represented in black ink with symbols corresponding to one of four degrees of magnitude. There are 2 brass-lined pencil holder holes inside the box, one with the original graphite pencil, though partially broken. Extensive instructions for use are printed on a paper label mounted to the inside of the box lid, alongside a set of 4 brass position markers that can be attached to the quadrant rings. [ref: 3780]
£1,500

Henry Popple's Key Map of the "British Empire in America". Carte Particulére de Amerique Septrionale.]Popple, Henry; Covens, Jean & Mortier, Corneille. Carte Particulére de Amerique Septrionale. A Map of the British Empire In America with the French, Spanish and the Dutch Settlements adjacent thereto by Henry Popple. Amsterdam. Covens et Mortier c1741 Copper engraved map from Covens & Mortier's " Nieuwe Atlas, Inhoudennde vier Gedeeltens der Waereld.. " Original full wash colour; verso blank. Covens and Mortier edition of the key sheet to Popple's 20 sheet map with inset views of New York, Quebec, Mexico City and the Niagara Falls [black& white as issued] 18 coloured inset plans of ports and islands.[ see item 3062] Black & white title cartouche as issued. To lower right corner is the "the Approbation of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations," Popple's map had quasi-official status, and a copy was sent to each of the governments of each of the colonies and the approbation of Edmund Halley: "I have seen the abovementioned Map, which as far as I am Judge, seems to have been laid down with great Accuracy, and to shew the Position of the different Provinces & Islands in that Part of the Globe more truly than any yet extant." Popple's famous map on 20 sheets appeared 1733 Popple drew on many sources: the maps of Guillaume De L'Isle and Nicholas de Fer; John Barnwell's manuscript map of the south-eastern colonies of circa 1721 which included up-to-date information on the Indian settlements in the interior; and Cadwallader Colden's famous Map of the Country of the Five Nations. In all, it covers from the Grand Banks off Newfoundland to about ten degrees west of Lake Superior, and from the Great Lakes to the north coast of South America. Several of the sections are illustrated with pictorial insets, including views of New York City, Niagara Falls, Mexico City, and Quebec, and inset maps of Boston, Charles-Town, Providence and Bermuda. Benjamin Franklin ordered two of the original map for the Pennsylvania Assembly on 22 May 1746, "one bound and the other in sheets." One of these was hanging in the Pennsylvania State House when the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4th, 1776. John Adams noted that Popple's map was "the largest I ever saw, and the most distinct." Copies were found in the private collections of several of the wealthier founding fathers, including George Washington. Dark impression; bright full wash colour; printed on heavy paper; light soiling; old red crayon numbers to verso. Koeman I: C&M 8:106; 525 by 495mm (20¾ by 19½ inches). [Stock No. 3060]
€5000

A Pristine bar of Menier Milk Chocolate, 2018 edition, together with a Beautiful Pictorial Map of Europe and Asia published for Chocolat Menier! Jannot, J.B. aka Jan-Loup: Grand Circuit des Capitales. Agence Francaise de Propagande, Paris, 1957. colour printed map, separately published; overall 65 x 99 cm. folds as issued; exc. cond. A most stunning promotional map of Europe and Asia, published for the French chocolate company Menier, outlining a route across the two continents, starting and finishing in Paris. Below the map is a table to stick on 240 coupons which could be found in selected bars of chocolate. Once completed, one was supposed to sent off theform to Menier, resulting in most maps missing the lower part. This particular map belonged to Pierre Dubord from St. Porquier in Tarn et Garonne. Unfortunately, little Pierre wasn’t very successful as he didn’t add one single coupon. Poor Pierre! Jannot aka Jan-Loup was an artist and illustrator a French magazine from the 1950s to the early 1960s, and he also designed scarves for the fashion house Hérmes. The Menier Chocolate company was founded by Jean Antoine Brutus Menier in 1816. Though not trained as a pharmacist, he sold a variety of different powders for medicinal purposes and used chocolate as an ingredient to make the medicine more palatable. In 1836, Menier was the first company to introduce blocks of chocolate, covered in greenish-yellow wrapper which became iconic for the brand. And in 1893, the company started a poster advertising campaign, created by Firmin Bouisset, showing a little girl writing the name ‘Chocolat Menier’ on a wall with a piece of chocolate. The company is still going strong though the Menier family withdrew from management in 1959. [ref: 3761] £375 (for the bar, the map is free!)
£375

CHILE: VALPARAISO: "II Valparaiso El Almendral. Visto del Cerro dela Cueva del Chivato dos dias despues del terrible Temporal del 6 de Mayo 1854.", Tinted lithography by Lindemann and Ph. Benoit after Boehme & Co. dat. 1854, image 43,3 x 77 cm. Rare and very large view of Valparaiso in Chile two days after the town was hit by a severe storm. After a Daguerreotype; excellent condition.
€ 2.500,

Hungary: "Hungaria Seraphico-Observans, seu provinciae Fratrum Minoru regularis, et strictioris observantiae in Hungaria, et regionibus ; ei appropriatis ; sitae juxta domicilia jurisdictionis.". Copper engraved map with full original color by G. Eichler jun. after Vigilius Greiderer, published by Tob. Con. Lotter, after 1762, image 49,5 x 57,5 cm. Szantai Seutter 6b. Ritter, Die Welt aus Augsburg, p 45. Zu Greiderer siehe ADB 49, p. 532f. Rare map of the north of the Balkans with provinces and the monasteries of the Order of Friars Minor. 2nd state, first published by M. Seutter 1752 in Augsburg.
€ 1.300

Wall map of the Secret WWII postal system of the Yugoslavian Partisans in Western Slovenia, printed by an underground press hidden deep in the forest. [Western Slovenia – Map of the Partisans’ Secret WWII Postal System]. [Published by an Underground Partisan Press, Western Slovenia, circa 1943]. Mimeograph with details added in manuscript, 71.5 x 65 cm. This is the only known surviving example of an original wall map of the Yugoslavian Partisans’ secret postal system that operated in Western Slovenia during World War II. The Yugoslavian Partisans formed a complete underground military society, organized to fight the Nazi German and Italian Fascist occupation of the country. Key to their operations was their secret postal system that functioned from 1941 until the end of the war. The present map depicts Western Slovenia, a hotbed of Partisan activity, and home the most advanced of their postal networks. The map was mimeographed at an underground Partisan press, hidden deep in the Slovenian woods. The manuscript additions show all of the major postal routes and the dozens of numbered, regular postal stations. The Partisan Post was a dangerous business, operating across enemy lines, and the penalty for being caught by the other side carrying Partisan letters was often death. The present map would have been kept top secret and closely guarded, exclusively for the eyes of senior commanders. For if this map, or the information it contained, was gained by the enemy the entire postal system would suddenly collapse and hundreds of lives would be lost. The map comes as part of an archive that also includes several original secret Partisan letters that were conveyed on the portrayed postal routes.
€8.500 EUR

West-Indische Paskaert waer in de graden der breedde over weder zyden vande middelyn wassende so vergrooten dat die geproportioneert syn tegen hunne nevenstaende graden de lengde. Map Maker: Johannes Van Keulen c.1680 A Remarkable Dutch Sea Chart Used For Navigation Between Africa and America Exceptionally rare Johannes Van Keulen issue of Pieter Goos's sea chart of the Atlantic Ocean, America and Africa, first published circa 1680. This chart was created for use at sea by Dutch mariners in the employ of the West India Company, at a time when the Dutch were intensely motivated to expand their trade footprints between West Africa and the Caribbean, Central and South America. The chart was constructed as a means of giving a general overview of the route between the coasts of America and Africa, which would have been supplemented by regional charts in Van Keulen's regional charts of the coastal waters of America and Africa.
$27,500

MERIAN, M. - THEATRUM EUROPAEUM: Irenico Polemographiae Continuatio III. Das ist der historisch-fortgeführten Friedens u. Kriegsbeschreibung Vierdter oder deß Theatri Europaei Zehnder Theil vom dem 1665sten Jahr biß in Anno 1671 beschrieben von Wolffgang Geiger.... 2. Ausg., 2 Tle., Frankf., M. Merians Erben, nach 1685, gest. Titel, I, 982 SS., 13 Bll. (26 SS. - Reg.); 620 SS., 10 Bll. (20 SS. - Reg.), with 18 plates and 23 Portraits.; gr.- 4°, full vellum binding of the time Wühtrich, III, S. 137. - The complete 10th volume of the Theatrum Europaeum for the years 1666-1671 with maps and views of London after the Great Fire of London 1666. Very good condition
€ 3.000

Gill, MacDonald: The “Time and Tide” Map of the Atlantic Charter. London: George Philip & Son, Ltd, 1942 [1944] Pictorial world map on Mercator’s projection, 89 x 113.5 cms, printed in colours, a couple of short, closed tears, blank verso. First published in 1942, our example bears a new copyright date of 1944 in the lower margin; a third edition, revised with a new title and a polar projection of the world inscribed ‘the United Nations’ was issued in 1948. Commissioned by ‘Time and Tide’ magazine, a British literary and political review, it is among the scarcest of Gill’s pictorial maps. Although ‘Time and Tide’ attracted well known writers it never enjoyed a wide circulation, and was heavily subsidised by its founder, the former Suffragette (and Lusitania survivor) Viscountess Rhondda. The map celebrates the joint declaration released by Churchill and Roosevelt in August 1941 after the Atlantic Conference, discussions between the two leaders held on board an American warship off the coast of Newfoundland. Both hoped to mobilise American support for intervention in the war, and while this was not immediately forthcoming the Atlantic Charter was a gesture of solidarity at a moment when Nazi Germany had just turned against the USSR and looked all but unstoppable. In time it would form the basis for Allied war aims and the postwar foundation of the United Nations. At such a dark time, Gill’s tone is resolutely optimistic, looking ahead to a world of peace and plenty - the text of the charter itself illuminates the world with its rays. In the lower left hand corner is a modern interpretation of Isaiah’s prophecy: ‘they shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks’. A worker takes a sledgehammer to tanks and munitions in the foreground, while in the distance is an idyllic scene of ploughing and reaping. The map is adorned with quotes by Cicero, Emerson, Pope and Aristotle on the virtues of peace, and the body of the map is given over to the world’s resources, agricultural and mineral, which could once again be used for the prosperity of mankind, distributed around the world by a network of shipping lanes. The creator of the map, MacDonald Gill, brother of Eric, was a successful commercial artist in his own right, and a noted calligrapher who designed the font used on all headstones by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. His arts and crafts style 1913 map of the London ‘Wonderground’, commissioned by Frank Pick, helped to popularise a whole new genre of pictorial map making on both sides of the Atlantic. Further work for London Transport including redesigning the map of the network in the early 1920s, and other clients included the Post office and the Empire Marketing Board.
£7500

FRISIA / Netherlands: 'Frisia Antiovissima Trans Rhenvm Provincia Cvm Adiacentibvs Regionibvs A Iacobo Davant. Belga Descripta. - Romae .OO.D.LXVI. Claudij Duchetti formis Ioannes Orlandi formis romae 1602.': engraving from Claudio Duchetti after Jacob van Deventer published by Giovanni Orlandi in Rom, dat. 1566 u. 1602, 49 x 39 cm * Not by De Rijke - Frisia Dominium! (see Nr. 4, 4.1. - 4.3); vgl. Tooley, Maps in Italian Atlases of the Sixteenth Century, Nr. 218-221 (this state not called for); vgl. Meurer, The Strabo Illustratus Atlas 1545 - 1571, S. 13 (this state not called for); van der Heijden, Oude Kaarten der Nederlanden 1548-1794, Vol. I, S. 39 ff. (this state not called for).
€ 7500

Exciting map of the Americas filled with place names along the coastlines, an uncommon feature for this region in the mid-16th century Title: Brevis, Exactaq. Totius Novi Orbis, et Peruviae Regionis Descriptio, Recens Edita Map maker: Jean Bellère Place and Year: Anterp, 1567 Dimensions: 15 x 20 cm (6 x 8 in) Technique: Woodblock printing Coloring: Uncolored Condition Rating: VG
$3,600.00

Jamieson, Alexander: A Celestial Atlas comprising a systematic Display of the Heavens in a Series of Thirty Maps illustrated by Scientific Descriptions of their Contents, and accompanied by Catalogues of the Stars and Astronomical Exercises. London: G. & W.B. Whittaker, T. Cadell and N. Hailes, 1822. Oblong 4to. pp. ii, 3-64 + engraved title, dedication to George IV, 30 plates engraved by Neele and Son (Samuel John Neele and his son James), the final two plates left black and white, the rest supplied with original hand colour; original tissue guards, light offsetting from plates to text pages, errata slip at end. Publisher’s half roan over marbled boards with printed publisher’s label on the upper cover, a little rubbed and worn, rebacked. Bookbinder’s ticket of Evans, Chegwin and Hall, Liverpool. Kanas notes that the overall design of this popular work is similar to Flamsteed/Fortin, but a key inspiration was the work of Johann Bode. Jamieson “included a number of constellations developed by Bode and appearing in his ‘Uranographia’... as well as the new constellation Noctua the owl”. However, Jamieson’s atlas only included those stars which were visible to the naked eye, which made it appear less cluttered. Kanas 6.5.5.2
£3000

The "Legendary lost chart of Captain Cook" - Rare first edition Title: Chart of the N. W. Coast of America and the N. E. Coast of Asia, Explored in the Years 1778 and 1779. Prepared by Lieut’t Henry Roberts, under the immediate Inspection of Capt. Cook Map maker: Henry Roberts; William Faden Place and Year: London, July 24, 1784 Dimensions: 67 x 39 cm (26.5 x 15.5 in) Technique: Copperplate engraving Coloring: Original hand color Condition Rating: VG+
$12,000

Lee, Kerry: London Town. London: printed by Chromoworks Ltd for British Railways (Southern Region), c. 1955 Quad royal pictorial map of London, 101.5 x 126.5 cms (approx 40 x 50 ins), some light creasing, blank verso. The first version of this map was issued by the Southern Railway in 1938. A legend in the lower right hand part of this map notes that it is ‘based on a pre war issue, and as far as is practicable the more important details have been brought up to date’. For example the Royal Festival Hall, built for the 1951 Festival of Britain, has been added on the Southbank. The border has been completely reworked: Commonwealth coats of arms have been replaced by the coats of arms of each London borough. London is no longer presented as the capital of Empire, instead Lee celebrates public institutions such as the BBC and the University of London. At the foot, the State Procession at the State Opening of Parliament has been replaced by the 1953 Coronation of Elizabeth II. There are numerous changes to the tiny figures which populate the map, many of them historical figures with London associations, London ‘types’ or visitors asking directions. To take just one example, the artist painting a nude model in his Chelsea studio had a blank canvas in the 1930s, but has created a Picassoesque portrait by the 1950s. Lee’s characteristic signature still appears bottom right, showing the artist seated at his easel with his dog; it differs from the 1930s version in that he has sprouted a beard and lost a red handkerchief from his coat pocket. Chromoworks also printed Lee’s ‘London, the bastion of liberty’ and other commercially available maps for Lee’s company, Pictorial Maps Ltd.
£2500

THE FIRST RAILWAY MAP BRADSHAW, George. Map & Sections of the Railways of Great Britain. Dedicated by Permission to James Walker F.R.S. L & E President of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 14 January 1839. Manchester. 1620 x 1025 mm., early outline colour, dissected into segments and laid on linen, with marbled endpapers, light stain to left side, some off setting to cartouche. Folds into original publisher’s full maroon calf gilt ruled and ornate blind panelled boards, rebacked preserving original spine with gilt title. Bound with ‘Tables of the Gradients to Bradshaw’s Map of the Railways of Great Britain, Containing Particulars of Lengths, Levels and Gradients of all the Principal Railways in the Kingdom’, 14 January 1839, pp. 32, with several tables. The name George Bradshaw (1801-53) is synonymous with the British Railways. He was the author and publisher of the railway guides which were such an important part of Victorian travel. ‘Bradshaw, whose name was to become synonymous with railway timetables, published his first guide in 1830 with the opening of the Liverpool-Manchester Line and his first timetable in 1839, the same year as this, the first railway map’ (Wardington). Apprenticed to an engraver in Manchester, Bradshaw shadowed the industrial revolution and began by publishing maps of the Canal networks in 1829. These were on a very large scale with great detail. In the introduction to this work Bradshaw states ‘It would be superfluous to expatriate on the vast utility of a correct map of the Railways of this Kingdom. The want of such a work has been long felt and acknowledged’. The map depicts extant lines in red, those before Parliament in blue and those in yellow proposed. An inset features those in the region of London. This network is laid on the existing road network; the whole is engraved by John Dower at the scale of 10 miles to an inch. In the margins may be found thirty-three fascinating sections of the main railway lines drawn to scale displaying length and elevation. Particular detail is given to identifying the gradients of the railways which was a particular hazard to early railways. In 1830 the network of passenger railways stood at barely 100 miles, by the end of the decade when this map was published the figure stood above 2000 miles. It is not generally known which map bears the accolade of displaying the first railroad, after all the earliest were for purely mining purposes. Indeed, there are earlier maps which display passenger railways. However, Bradshaw’s map of 1839, as Shirley states, is ‘undoubtedly the first large scale map to treat railways as the primary subject in terms of content and presentation. The first state of his map is now rare, and even later editions with the overprinting of the routes of newly construed lines are relatively uncommon’. Provenance: private English collection. James (1983); Shirley (1987); Wardington sale, Sotheby’s 18 October 2005 lot 69. [9486] -
£750

Remarkable 1762 coast-to-coast map of Canada, Upper Midwest & Plains Title: A Map of Canada and the North Part of Louisiana with the Adjacent Countrys Map maker: Thomas Jefferys Place and Year: London, 1762 Dimensions: 79 x 33 cm (31 x 13 in) Technique: Copperplate engraving Coloring: Outline color Condition Rating: VG+
$ 6,500.00

IBBETSON, Capt. Levett Landon Boscawen. Notes on the Geology and Chemical Composition of the various Strata in the Isles of Wight. 1849. London. John van Voorst, Paternoster Row. Octavo (225 x 140 mm.), original brown cloth, with pasted on title label on the upper board, weakened spine with later paper cover and title. With Typographic title page, pp. 44, (2), with a coloured relief map of the Island constructed from plaster or similar material inside the front cover, complete with blank free endpapers. Some minor loss to the blue sea of the relief map, withdrawn library label from Hampshire County Library on the title, green library stamp on final leaf of Gosport Public Libraries, otherwise a good example of a very rare book. Captain L. L. Boscawen Ibbetson (1799-1869) was a noted amateur geologist, inventor and soldier. He is well known as being involved in the early development of photography. He became a member of the London Electrical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society. A keen geologist his notable find was of the fossilised remains of ‘Hybodus’ on the Isle of Wight in 1845. This was a prehistoric shark. He worked on various geological surveys for the expansion of the railway network. He corresponded with Henry Thomas De la Beche and Sir Philip Malpas de Grey Egerton. His valuable fossil collection was presented to the Museum of Practical Geology, London. There is little in the bibliographies about this work and it is extremely rare on the market. The title page refers to the ‘map in relief on the scale of three miles to one inch, coloured geologically’. This is a very unusual feature to publish in a book and adds considerably to its appeal. The collations that could be found on the book do not refer to the final two-page list of publications for the publisher John van Voorst. This example is of further interest in bearing the ownership inscription of Mrs. Buckland, Deanery, Westminster. Mary Buckland (nee Morland) was born 1797, she became a noted palaeontologist, marine biologist and scientific illustrator. Whilst travelling in Dorset she met her future husband William Buckland, later Dean of Westminster, a noted geologist in his own right. They married in 1825. William Buckland mentioned Ibbetson in an address given in 1841 published in the ‘Proceedings of of the Geologist Association’ (iii. p. 476) for his work on quickly producing perfect drawings of fossils on metal. Mary Buckland amassed a vast collection of fossils herself. Provenance: ‘Mrs. Buckland, Deanery, Westminster’ inscribed on front free endpaper. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society v.26, (1870) p. xli. [9369] - £1,250
£1,250

WORLD MAP: 'A New and Correct Map of the World Projected upon the Plane of the Horizon laid down from the Newest Discoveries and most Exact Observations By C. Price Sold by C. Willdey & T. Brandreth at the Archimedes and Globe in Ludgate Street & over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill where are made New Globes & Maps of all sizes all Sorts of Mathematical Instruments Tellescopes, Microscopes Spectacles, Reading Glasses & c with variety of other Curiosities': engraving printed from two plates from Charles Price published by George Willdey & Timothy Brandreth in London, 1711-1713, 65 x 97 cm * Tooley's Dic. of Mapm., S. 518 (Charles Price, fl. 1680-1720; publisher, surveyor and globemaker; in partnership with Willdey 1711-1713) u. S. 666 (George Willdey; publisher and bookseller with T. Brandreth at the Archimedes and Globe in Ludgate Street 1712); Tooley's Dic. of Mapm. Rev. Ed. A - D, S. 184 (Timothy Brandreth; London publisher 'over against ye Royel Exchange in Cornhill'; joint ventures with other publishers, ...). - Double-hemisphere, centered on London and its antipodes. - Issued by George Willdey and Timothy Brandreth. - Early state with empty cartouche and without the decorations around the map. - Published in London.
€ 8000

ASIA: 'Totivs Asiae Nova Et Exacta Tabvla Ex Optimis Tvm Geographorvm Tvm Aliorvm Scriptis Collecta Et Ad Hodiernam Regnorvm Principatvvm Et Partivm Distinctionem Accommodata Per Gvlielmv Blaew Amstelodami MDCLXXX - Sivendono per Gio. Giacomo Roßi in Roma all' insegna di Parigi alla Pace.': engraving printed from two plates after Wilhelm Blaeu published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi in Rom, ca. 1670, 58 x 91,5 cm * Schilder, Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica, Vol. V, S. 199 ff., Nr. 3 u. Abb. S. 200; Burden, The Mapping of North America, S. 517, Nr. 408, state 1 u. Abb. S. 518, Plate 408 - (for the America map with the date 1670); Tooley's Dic. of Mapm. Rev. Ed. Q - Z, S. 75 f. (Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi , 1627 - 1691. Printer and publisher at 'Alla Pace all' insegna di Parigi', Rome. ...). - Map in two sheets with blank cartouche in upper right. - Probably 2nd edition. - Burden reports only 1 known example of the corresponding America map. Published in Rome.
€ 12000

Map of Cyprus, Coronelli ca 1690, mistakenly the small map of Cyprus printed on the back [instead of the usual plan of Famagusta], price 3000.- euro
€3000 euros

[The Four Continents] Jean Leclerc IV after Maerten de Vos Copper engraving with hand colouring I. Le Clerq. ex. [Paris, c.1606] Images c.115 x 185 mm, Plates c.130 x 185 mm, Sheets c.185 x 260 mm A highly decorative set of the Four Continents, shown allegorically as personifications riding on chariots pulled by animals distinctive to their region, and carrying the accoutrements of their corresponding nations. Engraved by Leclerc, the engravings are essentially reversed copies of the better known sets by Julius Goltzius, Adriaen Collaert and Jan Baptiste Vrients after a series of drawings by Maerten de Vos. These examples likely derive from a very large set of engravings Leclerc published in conjunction with Thomas de Leu in 1606, featuring over 150 works of biblical, historical, allegorical, emblematic, and moralistic interest. All four matched plates in full and beautiful hand colour. Condition: Strong impressions with full margins. Binders holes to left margins of sheets. Minor marginal creasing.
£1,700

Set of 2 handcoloured plans of Moscow by Bleau, ca 1650, price 7500.- euros
€7500 euros

The legendary Blue Map of China under the Great Qing, one of the rarest, largest, and most aesthetically magnificent Chinese maps ever made. Published in 1811 (Jiaqing 16) in the Qing Dynasty, this Chinese map by Huang Qianren (???, 1694–1771) is of utmost importance and rarity. Although ostensibly a map of China, the coverage of this map in fact extends to all lands touched by the influence Qing Empire, including England, Holland, Southeast Asia, and Africa. As such it can be considered a political manifesto lionizing the unity and majesty of Qing China as well as a functional administrative document. Tianxia Quantu Map Series This series of Qing maps, generally referred to as Tianxia Quantu, dominated Chinese cartography throughout the Jiaqing Reign (1760 – 1820) and persisted well into the reign of the Daoguang Emperor (1820 – 1850). The term Tianxia Quantu refers to that portion of the title that most eloquently summarizes their underlying purpose as 'unified under heaven,' heaven being Qing China. Huang Qianren based this map upon an earlier map (????) by his grandfather, the Chinese enlightenment master Huang Zongxi (???) (1610-1695), which he updated and expanded with additional detail and coverage including Jinchuan (part of modern day Sichuan), Tibet, and Xinjiang. Unfortunately no examples of the initial issue survive. The map was reintroduced in manuscript form by Huang Zhengsun in the year 1800 to memorialize the Qianlong Emperor's life and celebrate the coming reign of the Jiaqing Emperor. The 1800 manuscript issue exists in only one example at the Beijing National Library. Afterwards, revised woodblock printings and rubbings were issued to celebrate important moments in the expansion of Qing influence. We are aware of an 1806 printed edition, for example, which we sold previously, and which is the earliest known printed version of this map. The Blue edition, as here, was published only in 1811. Other variants, also from 1811, appear in black negative, green negative, and we have heard in rumor only, red negative. 1811 Blue 'in-negative' Edition The 1811 blue edition is unique and was issued only in that year. The reasoning behind the state reissue of this map is striking blue is not clear. Falling roughly in the middle of the Jiaqing reign, 1811 was not a particularly strong year of the Qing. It was in this year that the White Lotus Rebellion destabilizing northern and eastern Sichuan was fully suppressed. Although the uprisings were defeated, they effectively undermined the myth of Manchu military invincibility, leading to further revolts in 1813. 1811 was also notable for a mass resettling of Han Chinese to the far reaches of the empire in an attempt to stabilize and integrate the huge and diverse border provinces. Both of these factors may have called for a reordering of the Qing administrative tribute system and emphasized a need to reassert and elevate Qing imperial power – thus this map. Color is significant in classical Chinese tradition and it is no mistake that his map appears as such in radiant blue. The blue color of the map, with blue-green highlighting for oceans, may have been chosen to represent the Qing. The traditional term for both colors, or a combination thereof, is ?, which is part of the character used to represent the Qing (?), as in Great Qing (??). In traditional Chinese iconography blue references immortality, underscoring the 'everlasting' of the Great Qing, as appears in the title. The fact that other color variants exist leads to many questions. Black examples, of which there are few, may have been proofs as black ink would have been a more common if inauspicious color. The green example, of which there is but one known, represents peace and prosperity. Red, if it exists at all, would represent good luck and fortune. A Tribute System Encompassing the Known World An initial examination of the easily recognizable portions of the map suggests an expansive coverage extending from Siberia to Borneo and from India to Korea. Closer examination reveals that this is in fact a map of the world, scaled not in terms of distance, but rather in terms of degree of subjugation to and importance to Qing China. The map is read, like traditional Chinese texts, from right to left, with the most densely detailed regions corresponding to the eastern shores of China. At the far west, in the distant upper left corner, European countries like Holland, Portugal (Land of the Great Western Sea), possibly Italy, Arabia (Homeland of Islam), Africa (Land of the Black Ghosts), the Mediterranean (Little Western Sea), and even the Atlantic (Great Western Sea) are identified. Surrounding the map are textual annotations describing the subject peoples of various regions. The annotations identify not only the people, but the great distances their leaders travel, the great hardships they endure, and the gratefulness with which they suffer, to pay tribute to the mighty and culturally superior Qing. Thus the map takes on meaning as a ceremonial and administrative embodiment of Qing rule and the tribute system. The Manchu Qing were a nomadic people who did not visualize themselves limited by geo-political boundaries – and aptly there are none on this map – rather, their territorial dominion extended to wherever they exerted influence, and the significance of all other lands correspondingly diminished or increased according to that influence. A noted by Richard Pegg, This 'complete' map minimizes the European notion of a map of the world, its centralized and marginalizing construct confirm the Qing / Chinese notion of the Central Kingdom (Pegg, R., Cartographic Traditions in East Asian Maps p. 19
$425,000.00

A General Map of the World, or Terraqueous Globe, with all the New Discoveries and Marginal Delineations, containing the Most Interesting Particulars in the Solar, Starry, and Mundane System Dunn, Samuel Copper engraved with hand colour By Saml. Dunn, Mathematician. London. Published by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53, Fleet Street, 12th May 1794 1040 x 1240 mm A magnificent and very large wall map of the world in two hemispheres, designed by the mathematician and geographer Samuel Dunn and printed over four sheets by Laurie & Whittle for Kitchin's General Atlas, describing the Whole Universe: being a complete collection of the most approved maps extant; corrected with the greatest care, and augmented from the last edition of D'Anville and Robert with many improvements by other eminent geographers. The map is a colossal work of cartography, further ornamented by full wash colour. At centre, the world is shown in double hemisphere, updated with particular reference to the recent explorations of Cook in the Pacific. The fledgling ‘United States’ is marked along the Eastern side of the North American continent, though the interior is labelled simply as Louisiana, and the west coast is shown in only superficial detail, though California is correctly depicted as a peninsula rather than an island. Hawaii, here spelled phonetically as ‘Owhyhee’ contains a note about the death of Cook. To the extreme left of the map, New Zealand is shown in considerable detail, as are New Caledonia and the New Hebrides islands, while the numerous small islands of the Pacific are shown to reflect the circumnavigation of Anson. In the right hand hemisphere, Greenland carries a note saying that it was ‘found again in the preceeding century,’ while Iceland appears on both hemispheres. To the south, Australia is relatively well depicted, though the Cape York peninsula is truncated, and Tasmania, inexplicably, is shown joined to the Australian mainland. The whole of the east coast is labelled as New South Wales, and described as having been discovered in 1770. Surrounding the double hemisphere are numerous cosmographic and geographic notes, surveys, scales, and diagrams, including a boxed map of the world on Mercator’s Projection, a detailed map of the Moon, a description of the changing of the seasons and the position of the sun therein, a large diagrammatic description of the Analemma and its benefits and limitations as a geographic projection, a diagram of the solar system with tables of celestial distances and sizes, two celestial hemispheres with the constellations depicted pictorially, and another analemma showing astronomical lines of longitude and latitude. All remaining space is filled with textual commentary and copious notes about the world and the science of cartography. Condition: Printed over four sheets, joined and folded as issued. Minor time toning to sheets. A few small tears, losses, and creases to the edges of the sheets, without loss to map. [43625]
£5,500

FORLANI PAOLO Il Disegno del discoperto della nova Franza... Venice,Bolognino Zaltieri,1566 North America Prezzo a Richiesta Copper engraving, mm 280x400, signed and dated Venetjis æneis formis Bolognini Zalterij Anno. MDLXVI (1566). Perfect wide margined copy with original margins A MILESTONE IN CARTOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICA. THE FIRST MAP ENTIRELY DEVOTED TO THE CONTINENT AND THE FIRST DETAILED MAP TO SHOW THE STRAIT OF ANIAN SEPARATING ASIA AND AMERICA. The map was engraved by the veronese Paolo Forlani, as recently stated by Woodward, and not by Bolognino Zaltieri as previously attributed, who published the second state (like ours) adding his name to the plate. It is the first detailed available map to depict the Strait of Anian; a few previous maps had already depicted the Strait of Anian, (whose name origins from a Marco Polo’s 1559 edition), but not with such detail, being all world maps. Forlani based his map largely on the western part of a Gastaldi world map published from 1561, even if important sources are also Cartier’s discoveries (1534-42), and some spanish explorations, like the Francisco Vasques de Coronado one (1540-42): Tooley, "Maps in Italian Atlases of the Sixteenth Century," Imago Mundi 3 (1939), 80; David Woodward, "The Forlani Map of North America," Imago Mundi 46 (1994): 29-40; Burden, The Mapping of North America, 33; Meurer (Strabo) 191; Cohen, "Mapping of the West", pages 29-30.

The Pictorial Plan of London. London in the Beginning of the 20th Century Charles Baker & Co. Lithograph printed in colour [London, Charles Baker & Co. Ltd., c. 1901] 420 x 770 mm framed A bird’s eye view of the city of London from Kensington Palace to the London docks. Lithograph with the buildings printed in brown and the river Thames printed in blue Charles Baker & Co. Stores (c. 1864-1890’s) were clothing department stores opened in London on several locations, which are included in the inscription at the bottom margin of this map. They produced this map of London and sold it at their department stores, the map was also included in the ABC Guide to London. Condition:. Horizontal and vertical pressed folds as issued. Small repair to right hand margin.
£575

LAFRERI ANTONIO Senza titolo (Planisfero cordiforme doppio) Rome,1564 about Prezzo a Richiesta Copper engraving, signed “ANT(onio) LAFRERI EXC(udit) Romae”; state II out of III being the first by Salamanca (1550 c.) and the third by Orlandi (1602). Very rare map based on Mercator’s of 1538 and Finé’s of 1531 world map. A striking copy originally trimmed on platemark with contemporary added margins as usual.