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 [First Latin Edition of Munster's 'Cosmographia'] MUNSTER, Sebastian.
Cosmographiae universalis Lib. VI... Basle, Henri Petri, 1550, Latin text edition. Folio, full vellum, rebacked; pp. (xxii) incl. title & portrait, + 14 double-page maps + 1163. Woodcuts throughout, including 38 double-page views & plans, & 3 folding panoramas.
A substantially enlarged edition of the Cosmographia, with 125 maps, plans & views.
SHIRLEY: Maps in the Atlases in the British Library, T.Mun-1c.		 p.o.a.

 

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 [A Splendid Example of De Wit's 1680 Atlas] DE WIT, Frederick.
Atlas. Amsterdam, 1680, original colour, book measurements, 530 x 345mm Very fine example.
A superb and complete example of de Wit's 1680 edition of his "atlas" in wonderful original colour, in its original gold-tooled calf binding with marbled endpapers. This edition has the added map of Denmark.

The maps contained are as follows:
1 Nova Orbis Tabula
2) America
3) Africa
4) Asia
5) Europa
6) Hispania
7) Portugallia
8) Gallia
9) Italia, Corsica, & Sardinia
10) Germania
11) Rhenus Fluvius
12) Suecia & Norvegia
14) Polonia, & Duc. Lithuania, Volhinia, Podolia, Ukrania, Prussia, Livonia & Curlandia
15) Russia vulgo Moscovia
16) Tartaria & China
17) India Orientalis
18) Persia, Natolia, Armenia & Arabia
19) Turcicum Imperium
20) Terra Sancta
A 21) Hungaria, Transilvania, Servia, Romania, Walachia, Moldavia, Sclavonia, Croatia, Bosnia, & Dalmatia
B 21) Hungaria Regnum
22) Graecia
23) Candia Insula
24) Sicilia Insula
25) Malta & Goza Insulae
26) Anglia, Scotia, & HiberniaA Germania Inferior Koeman Wit 3		 p.o.a.

 

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 [A very fine English 19th century atlas in superb original colour] WYLD, James
An Atlas of the World Comprehending Separate maps of its various Countries, Constructed and Drawn from the latest Astronomical & Geographical Observations. London, James Wyld, Charing Cross East, 1834, original colour, book size: 340 x 260mm.
A very good copy of this important early 19th century atlas by one of the periods most noted cartographers, in its original binding with marbled endpapers.Containing 54 maps in original colour, and tables as per the table of contents at the start of the atlas. 		£1,500

 

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 [The First Mexican Atlas of Mexico] GARCIA Y CUBAS, Antonio.
Atlas geográfico, estadístico é histórico de la República Mexicana...Mexico City: printed for the Author by Jose Mariano Fernandez de Lara, 1858. Folio, rebound with original gilt-embossed morocco covers and spine laid on; title, pp. (iii), incl. list of maps, + (24) (indexes), 31 lithographed maps on thirty double-page sheets, all in fine original colour, and two plates, one coloured, as called for. Occasional age spotting, the edges of a few sheets reinforced.
A very important work, being the first atlas of Mexico to be produced in Mexico by a Mexican.. Published when Garcia y Cubas was only 26, Sabin estimates that only 300 copies were printed. There maps are one general map of Mexico with a decorative title cartouche and two composite vignette views; and another general map & 29 provinces and territories surrounded by letterpress text and tables. The two plates reproduce an Aztec text describing their settlement of the valley of Mexico City, with a commentary by Jose Fernando Ramirez of the National Museum. SABIN: 26554; PHILIPS: 2683.		 £6,000


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 [A rare and early miniature atlas by Honter] HONTER, Johannes.
Rudimentorum Cosmographicorum Honteri Coronensis Libri III. Cum Tabellis Geographicus Elegantissimus. Zurich: C.Froshauer, 1549. later binding, book size: 155 x 98mm. In a later binding .
A very early, attractive and scarce miniature atlas, notable amongst its maps is a double page cordiform world first published in 1546, which was highly influential at the time in having the most recent discoveries included in it, such as the Americas and the Spice Islands in the Far East.

The list of diagrams and maps in this volume are as follows:
1) Circuli Sphaeri Cum V. Zonis
2) Ordo Planetarum Cum Aspectibus.
3) Regiones Et Nomina Ventorum.
4) Universalis Cosmographia
5) Hispania
6) Gallia
7) Germania
8) Major/Minor Polonia
9) Dacia
10) Greece
11) Italy
12) Cyprus/Holy Land
13) Asia Minor
14) Arabia/Caspian Sea/India
15) Africa
16) Sicilia
See SHIRLEY: World 108 for the Cordiform world..		 £4,000

 

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 [A fine, early 19th century atlas of the Classical World] WILKINSON, Robert.
Atlas Classica Being A Collection Of Maps Of The Countries Mentioned by The Ancient Authors Both Sacred And Profane With Their Various Subdivisions At Different Periods. London, No 125 Fenchurch St, 1817, original colour, book size: 355 x 290mm.
A very fine copy of Wilkinson's "Atlas Classica" in good condition and with bright original colour. This atlas deals with Classical and Biblical geography with numerous geneologies and charts to elucidate subjects such as Biblical events and geneologies and the intricacies of the English epicopacy.Containing fifty-three maps and charts as recorded in the "Index Tabularum" at the start of the atlas and in its original marbled binding.		 £1,250

 

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GAULTIER, The Abbé.
A Complete Course of Geographie, by Means of Instructive Games, Invented by The Abbé Gaultier. Collated with the Author's Last Paris Edition, and Digested for Europe Conformably to the Territorial Arrangements of the Pacification of 1815, by Jehoshaphat Aspin. In Three Parts. London, John Harris & Son, 1821. Folio, half morocco,  printed title label on front board; pp.60, incl. title; engr. table & 15 double-page maps in original hand colour.
The three parts are: a game 'for teaching the names and situations of the different countries and places of the Earth';  a 'treatise on the Artificial Sphere'; and a 'geographical game, illustrative of Ancient and Modern History'.

 £650

 

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[Signa Coelestia] GHEYN, Jacob de
Arataea, sive Signa Coelestia: in quibus Astronomicae Speculationes Veterum ad Archetypa Vetustissimi Aratæorum Caesaris Germanici... Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1621, contemporary vellum,4to, without text as issued.
43 plates + general plate of the zodiac cut  and pasted on to front paper.
The first thirty-nine numbered plates each depict a fleshed-out constellation in the form laid down by Caius Julius Hyginus in the first century BC; plate 40 shows the faces of the gods representing each of the five known planets; 41 the order of the Zodiac; 42 'Lacteus', the Milky Way; and 44 the faces of the Four Seasons. All but the general chart have the monogram IDG in the bottom left corner. Pasted on the first page are  the northern and southern hemispheres with their respective constellations, an astrolabe and a windrose. The second edition of this delightful celestial atlas, which was first published 1600, influencing Bayer's 'Uranometria' three years later. De Gheyn (1565-1629), an artist and engraver, also produced a famous portrait of Tycho Brahe, but is better known for his 'Maniement d'Armes', an illustrated guide to the handling of pikes, muskets, etc. WARNER: Sky Explored, p.93, wrongly described as woodcuts.

 £4,250

 

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 [Bible] HALMA, Francois.
Vetus Testamentatum Ex Versione Saptuaginta Interpretum, Secundum Exemplar Vaticanum Romæ..... Franqueræ, Franciscus Halma, 1709. 4to, contemporary prize vellum gilt, front end-paper loose; frontis., engr. title; pp. [xxxviii] + 1326; 4 engr. plates. Latin prefaces and Greek text.

Totius Orbis Terrarum Tabula.... per J. Moxon.  Double-page world map with California as an island.
2. Tabernaculi Cunstructio et Vasa Sacra.  Double page view of the construction of the Tabernacle.
3. Tabula Geographica Terræ Sanctæ Auctore I. Bonifrero Societa Iesu.  Fold-out map of the Holy Land.
4. Vera Hierosolymae Veteris Imago.  Double-page plan of Ancient Jerusalem .

 £980

 

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[Lord Wardington's Copy of a Military Atlas] LA FEUILLE, Daniel de.
Les Tablettes Guerrières, ou Cartes choisies Pour la Commodité des Officiers et des Voyageurs, Contenant toutes les Cartes générales Du Monde, avec les particulieres des Lieux ou le Théatre de la Guerre se fait sentir en Europe. Amsterdam, Paul de la Feuille, 1709. Agenda 8vo (198 x 70mm.), contemporary calf, rebacked with gilt in compartments; title, pp. 16, 30 folding maps and plates.  A few folds with signs of wear, map of Italy added from another example.
The first edition of this military pocket atlas to be published by Paul de la Feuille after the death of his father that year. Published during the War of the Spanish Succession, rthe maps of European countries have plans of the defences down the sides. The tall pocket format means the maps are folded several times.

£3,000

 

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 [Classical Geography with an Early World  Map] MACROBIUS, Ambrosius
In Somnium Scipionis. Lyons, Sebastian Gryphius, 1542. Small 8vo, Original Vellum Binding; pp.  567 + 73 (index); several woodcut text illustrations.Light toning and occasional foxing.
Macrobius was a Roman philosopher and geographer, AD 399-423. This work is a commentary on 'The Dream of Scipio', a section of Cicero's 'Republic' that had been lost until 1821, when a palimpsest (a used sheet of parchment that had been cleaned for reuse) was discovered with the original text still legible underneath later writing. Cicero theorised that the northern lands are balanced by a southern continent (Antipodes), which are unreachable because of the lands of fire (Perusta). The theory is illustrated with a diagrammatic world map (p.154). This clashed with the teachings of the Church, who insisted that as Bible states that the whole world was re-populated by the sons of Noah there could be no unreachable Antipodes.  Macrobius's text was a standard school text throughout the Middle Ages. See SHIRLEY: World 13.		 £1,200

13 [Official Account of Anson's Voyage] (ANSON, George) Walter, Richard.
A Voyage Round the World In the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq; Now Lord Anson Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South Seas. Compiled... by Richard Walter, M.A. Chaplain of his Majesty's Ship the Centurion, in that Expedition. Illustrated with Forty-Two Copper-Plates. The Fifth Edition. London, John and Paul Knapton, 1749. Fifth 4to edition, modern half calf gilt, new endpapers; pp. (xi) + (14) + 417 + (2), folding engr. chart frontis, and 42 folding plates, as called for. Chart of Cape Horn with reinforced edges.
An account of one of the last great buccaneering voyages: an official expedition to the South Seas to harass the Spanish bases, but, more importantly, plunder their shipping. From a military viewpoint the expedition was a disaster: back-stabbing in the Admiralty meant that he was equipped with poor ships and received a regiment of Chelsea Pensioners rather than the promised Marines. One had served at the Battle of the Boyne sixty years earlier! Half had deserted before they reached the docks at Portsmouth. An atrocious voyage meant that the fleet arrived in the Pacific in very poor shape, but a stroke of luck presented them with a Spanish galleon laden with silver. On their return to London, thirty-two wagons were needed to transfer it to the Tower of London. The maps are important for their depiction of the difficulties facing mariners before John Harrisons's clocks & watches solved the problems of measuring Longitude at sea. The South America chart shows two tracks for the Centurion: one estimates their route allowing for a Western Current, the other does not. Without knowing the exact time of day the navigators had no idea which was correct. Also in the volume are a large chart of the Philippines, and views and plans of Acapulco and Manilla. 		£2,250