Maps & Atlases

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First edition</a> of this iconic account of Virginia, the Roanoke colony, and its environs, including the landmark map of Virginia and engravings of Native American life in the 1580s.<ul><li>Thomas Hariot (English).</li><li>Illustrated by John White.</li><li>Engravings by Theodor De Bry.</li><li>Admiranda Narratio Fida Tamen, De Commodis Et Incolarum Ritibus Virginiæ.</li><li>Francoforti [Frankfurt]: Theodori De Bry [Theodor De Bry], 1590.</li><li>34, [64], [22] pages, most printed one side only.</li><li>Illustrated with engraved title page and 25 (of 28) engraved plates (two folding), and double-page map.</li><li>Mixed first and second issue.</li><li>Text in Latin.</li><li>Modern polished brown goat boards tooled in blind and gilt, light brown goatskin spine label, red-stained edges, endpapers renewed.</li></ul> "[O]ne of the most significant cartographical milestones in colonial North American history" (Philip D. Burden) The first of De Bry's series of great and small voyages, this book is particularly important for its content on the lives of the Native American populations of Virginia and North Carolina in the late 16th century as recorded by a key member of an early expedition. Thomas Hariot, an English polymath fluent in Carolina Algonquin, penned the text on a voyage to Roanoke Island in 1585-6, including direct observations of the Indigenous populations' living arrangements, farming, fishing, and traditional practices. The text is accompanied by illustrations originally made by John White, a member of the same expedition and later famous for his discovery that the colony of Roanoke had vanished — the very colony described in detail here by Hariot. Copies of De Bry's voyages are known for causing "the greatest confusion of bibliographers" and "the despair of collectors" (Church, vol 1, 317) owing to their typically mixed and/or incomplete states. The first and second issues of part one of the voyages were issued in the same year and are largely uniform with only minor differences in the position of the text. As with the vast majority of known copies, the present copy contains plates from both issues, with six plates from the first issue and six from the second (where there are issue points to distinguish them; the remaining 19 plates are identical between issues), as well as a mix of the first two text issues and the map in its second state (as usual) as identified by Burden. Though lacking some leaves, this copy retains its complete set of the Native American plates, arguably the most important and informative part of the entire De Bry series, and the stellar map of Virginia. A foundational book for collectors of Americana.

Virginia / Admiranda Narratio Fida Tamen, De Commodis Et Incolarum Ritibus Virginiæ

An English <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Maps%2520and%2520Atlases" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of Africa by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=George%20Philip&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">George Philip</a>.<ul><li>George Philip (English).</li><li>Philips’ New Map of Africa.</li><li>London and Liverpool: George Philip &amp; Son [1899].</li><li>Folding colored engraved map within an engraved decorative border, dissected and laid on linen as published.</li><li>Framed and glazed.</li></ul>&nbsp;A large map of Africa by the firm founded by the Scottish cartographer George Philip (1800-188), colored to show the ‘Possessions &amp; Protectorates of European Powers.’

English Map Of Africa

A Belgian <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Maps%2520and%2520Atlases&amp;Book%20Subject=Maps" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of Cyprus.<ul><li>Abraham Ortelius (Belgian).</li><li>Cypri Insvlae Nova De Script 1573 from Theatre De L’univers.</li><li>Antwerp: Christopher Plantin for the author, 1598.</li><li>Double-page copper engraved map, with later hand-coloring.</li><li>Enriched with decorative cartouches, marine monsters, and ships.</li><li>French text on verso.</li><li>This work is presented mounted and unframed.</li></ul>&nbsp;Well-preserved example of Ortelius’ map of Cyprus, taken from the fifth, final, and most complete French edition of Theatre de l’Univers.

Belgian Map Of Cyprus

A Belgian <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Maps%2520and%2520Atlases" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of the Pacific.<ul><li>Abraham Oretlius (Belgian)</li><li>Maris Pacifici, from Theatre de l’Univers.</li><li>Antwerp: Christopher Plantin for the author, 1598.</li><li>Double-page copper engraved map, with later hand-coloring.</li><li>Enriched with decorative cartouches and ships.</li><li>French text to verso.</li><li>This work is presented mounted and unframed.</li></ul>&nbsp;Well-preserved example of Ortelius’ map of the Pacific, taken from the fifth, final, and most complete French edition of Theatre de l’Univers.

Belgian Map Of The Pacific

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Ortelius&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ortelius</a>' <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/maps-&amp;-botanicals" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of China, taken from the fifth, final, and most complete French edition of Theatre de l'Univers.<ul><li>Abraham Ortelius (Belgian).</li><li>Theatre de l'Univers - China.</li><li>Antwerp: Christopher Plantin for the author, 1598.</li><li>Double-page copper engraved map, with later hand-coloring.</li><li>Enriched with decorative cartouches, birds, animals, and ships.</li><li>French text on verso.</li><li>This work is presented matted and unframed.</li></ul>

Belgian Map Of China

A British railway <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/maps-&amp;-botanicals" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of India by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Colonel%20Henry%20Ravenshaw%20Thuillier&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Colonel Henry Ravenshaw Thuillier</a>.<ul><li>Colonel Henry Ravenshaw Thuillier (English).</li><li>Railway Map of India. Railways Brought up to October 1895. </li><li>Scale: 1 Inch = 48 miles or 1:3,041,280.</li><li>Calcutta: Published under the direction of Colonel H. Thuillier, R.E., Surveyor General of India,&nbsp;October 1890.</li><li>Photozincograph map.</li><li>Partly printed in color, with additional hand-coloring.</li><li>Dissected into 50 sheets and mounted on linen as issued.</li><li>This work is presented framed.</li></ul>&nbsp;A comprehensive railway map of British India, including the subcontinent and Burma, also displaying the main road networks, navigable canals, steamship routes, and telegraph connections across the peninsular. This publication by the Survey of India Office includes a useful ‘References’ key giving information on the differing gauges in use across the region, and a color code highlighting the lands under direct British administration in pink, ‘Tributary States’ in yellow and ‘Independent and Foreign Possessions’ in Green. A notice records the price for color as ‘Five Rupees’, as against ‘Four Rupees’ without. Prepared under the direction of Colonel Henry Ravenshaw Thuillier, who as his father before him, served as Surveyor General of India from 1887 to 1895. Here Baluchistan is shown as an enclave of the British Raj. This strategically important territory lies in modern-day Pakistan, and is situated around the natural fort town of Quetta located high in the Chiltan mountains. It came under direct British rule in 1876, securing the vital Bolan Pass though which British troops under the command of General Michael Biddulph passed during the Second Anglo-Afghan War of 1878 to 1880. The railway connecting the remote province to the Raj proper was built through the pass in 1887. The map also contains an early route highlighted in crayon showing a journey by sea to Bombay, and thence via Daman to the Indian Princely State of Baroda. Other towns underlined in crayon include Kurrachee, Lingsugur, Raichur, and Hyderabad.

Railway Map of India

Detailed <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Maps%2520and%2520Atlases" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of Oman, with Muscat marked, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Philippe%20Vandermaelen&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Philippe Vandermaelen</a>.<ul><li>Philippe Vandermaelen (Belgian).</li><li>Partie de L'Arabie. Asie No 92.</li><li>Brussels: 1827.</li><li>Original color.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Showing part of the Arabian peninsula, including Oman, with Muscat and the island of Marirah also marked. Published in the Atlas Universel de Geographie, the first atlas to have every map on the same scale, 1:1,641,836. Because of this standardization it was the first time that some areas of the world were shown with any detail. However, the interior of the peninsula is mostly blank and some of the coastal features are incorrect.

Belgian Map Of Oman

17th century <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/maps-&amp;-botanicals?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of the Dutch Spice Islands.<ul><li>Jodocus Hondius II (Dutch).</li><li>Willem Janszoon Blaeu (Dutch).</li><li>Moluccae Insulae Celeberimae.</li><li>Amsterdam: 1640.</li><li>Fine original color.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Early map of the islands of Ternate, Timor, Tidore and Makian, off the coast of Halmahera, orientated with north to the right with an insert map of the Dutch East India Company's trading post on Bachian Island. This chain was a focal point of the VOC's lucrative spice trade. Despite Blaeu's name on the plate, this map was engraved by Jodocus Hondius II (son of the engraver of Speed's county atlas). When Jodocus died in 1629 many of his plates were sold to Willem Blaeu, who added his name to the plates and used them to publish his first atlas in 1630. Angered by the sale, Hondius's brother-in-law Jansson had these plates slavishly copied for the family atlas.

Dutch Map Of Moluccas

An early 19th century description of Constantinople, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Johann%20Adam%20Bergk&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Johann Adam Bergk</a>.<ul><li>Johann Adam Bergk (German).</li><li>Beschreibung von Constantinopel... Nebst einem Plane und einem Prospekte dieser Stadt, so wie einer Charte von den Dardanellen.</li><li>Leipzig: Industrie-Comptoir, circa 1807. </li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Three folding engraved plates.</li><li>Wrappers, front printed with title.</li></ul> A German-text description of Constantinople, illustrated with a map and prospect of the city, and a map of the Dardanelles.

German Map Of Constantinople

A mid-19th century town plan of New York City by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=John%20M.%20Atwood&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John M. Atwood</a>.<ul><li>John M. Atwood (American).</li><li>Map of the City of New York with the Adjacent Cities of Brooklyn &amp; Jersey City, &amp; The Village of Williamsburg.</li><li>New York: Ensign &amp; Thayer, 1849. </li><li>Original color.</li><li>Folded into cloth gilt covers, with booklet, with titlepage.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A folding plan of New York City with insets of Jersey City and Upper Manhattan. Of interest is the list of 'strokes of bell', for fire alarms of each district. The text is an extensive gazetteer.

Map Of New York City

An early English chart of the east coast of Newfoundland on two sheets, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Henry%20Southwood&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Henry Southwood</a>.<ul><li>Henry Southwood (English).</li><li>The Coast of New Found Land From Cape-Raze to Cape St-Francis. The Coast of New Found Land From Salmon Cove to Cape Bonavista.</li><li>London: W. &amp; J. Mount and T. Page, 1748. </li><li>Two sheets conjoined.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> The east coast of Newfoundland from Bonavista south to Trepassy, orientated with north to the right. Insets show St John's Harbor and Trinity Harbor. The chart was engraved by James Clark and first published in John Thornton's Atlas Maritimus in 1676. This example was published in an edition of Mount &amp; Page's The English Pilot. The Fourth Book Describing The West India Navigation... Also, a New Description of Newfoundland, New-England, New-York, East and West New Jersey, Dellevar-Bay, Virginia, Maryland, and Carolina. This was the first sea atlas of America containing charts only from English sources.

English Map Of Newfoundland

An 18th century <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/maps-&amp;-botanicals" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of Liguria with a prospect of Genoa by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Johann%20Baptist%20Homann&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Johann Baptist Homann</a>.<ul><li>Johann Baptist Homann (German).</li><li>Status Reipublicae Genuensis nec non Prospectuum Celeberrimae eiusdem Urbis et Portus Geographica simul et Topographica Descriptio.</li><li>Nuremberg: circa 1730.</li><li>Original color with additions to the prospect.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A fine map of the Republic of Genoa. Beneath the map is an elaborate allegorical title cartouche depicting the achievements of the Republic. Below that is a prospect of the city with a key to important places.

German Map Of Genoa

The world as known to the Ancients, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Giovanni%20Maria%20Cassini&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Giovanni Maria Cassini</a>.<ul><li>Giovanni Maria Cassini&nbsp;(Italian).</li><li>Mappa Mondo Antico Diviso Nell'Uno e nell'Altro Continente secondo la mente di Guglielmo Sanson.</li><li>Rome: 1801.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A double-hemisphere map showing the contemporary outline of the world but with references from ancient history and myth. Neither Australia nor New New Zealand are named, Sri Lanka is marked Taprobana and America 'Atlante' or Atlantis. Published in the rare Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale, it is decorated with allegorical figures of the four continents in the corners.

Italian Map Of The Ancient World

First <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">plate</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate&amp;query=Ortelius&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ortelius</a>' map of the Holy Land.<ul><li>Abraham Ortelius (Belgian).</li><li>Palestinae sive Totius Terrae Promissionis Nova Descriptio Auctore Tilemanno Stella Sigenens.</li><li>Antwerp: 1574.</li><li>Latin text edition.</li><li>Colored.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> The Holy Land after Stella, showing the route of the Exodus, printed from the first of three very similar plates. All three have the same two large strapwork cartouches; however this plate has five ships and three sea-monsters, while the second has only one monster, and the third only three ships and no monsters.

Belgian Map Of Palestine

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Maps%2520and%2520Atlases" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of the Prussian and Russian occupation of the Duchy of Warsaw by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Johann%20Ernst%20Knittel&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Johann Ernst Knittel</a>.<ul><li>Johann Ernst Knittel (German).</li><li>Neue militairische Situations=und Post=Carte von Polen und Preussen von I.E. Kinittel. Nouvelle Carte militaire et routiere de la Pologne et de la Prusse par I.E. Knittel.</li><li>Nuremberg: Friedrich Campe, 1812. </li><li>Original color. </li><li>Dissected and laid on linen as issued.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A separate-issue map of the Duchy of Warsaw as the Prussians and Russians occupied the country after Napoleon's disastrous retreat from Moscow. It places emphasis on the post roads, which would have been the main lines of communication for the occupying army. At the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars the Polish people saw Bonaparte as the best chance for them to regain their country after the three Partitions inflicted on them by Austria, Russia and Prussia. Polish Legions fought with the French in Europe, Egypt and the West Indies, and were rewarded with the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807. However, as Napoleon's army fled from Moscow, the Russians followed, overrunning the Duchy and occupying it until the Congress of Vienna (1815) divided it between Russia and Prussia.

German Map Of Poland

17th century <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Maps%2520and%2520Atlases" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of Sumatra marking Singapore, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Jan%20Jansson&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jan Jansson</a>.<ul><li>Jan Jansson (Dutch).</li><li>Sumatrae et Insularum Locorumque nonnullorum Circumiacentium Tabula Nova.</li><li>Amsterdam: circa 1657.</li><li>Original color.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A chart of Sumatra and the tip of the Malay Peninsula, orientated with north to the left. Published in Jansson's sea-atlas, it was first issued 1657, a decade after the Dutch seized Malacca from the Portuguese. The map also marks the Aceh sultanate on the northern tip of Sumatra: during the 1650s the Dutch encouraged revolts against Aceh rule in order to gain control of tin deposits in the area.

Dutch Map Of Sumatra

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/maps-&amp;-botanicals" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of Classical Turkey and Cyprus by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Nicolas%20Sanson&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nicolas Sanson</a>.<ul><li>Nicolas Sanson (French).</li><li>Asia Minor in Epitomen Contracta, Magnas Regiones, seu Provincias Representans, in quibus Populi, Primariae Urbes, Locaque Praecipua Notantur.</li><li>Paris: Gilles Robert de Vaugondy, circa 1731. </li><li>Original outline color.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A map of Asia Minor, first published by Pierre Moullard Sanson in 1697, but this example published by Gilles Robert du Vaugondy, who took over his business in 1731.

French Map Of Ancient Turkey

A detailed 18th century <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Maps%2520and%2520Atlases" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of the Mediterranean Sea, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Louis%20Andr%C3%A9%20Dupuis&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Louis André Dupuis</a>.<ul><li>Louis André Dupuis (French).</li><li>Carte de la Mer Méditerranée. 1785.</li><li>Paris: 1785.</li><li>Two sheets conjoined, dissected and laid on linen as issued.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A large and detailed sea-chart of the Mediterranean. The same year Dupuis published similar charts of the Baltic, Black Sea and the Danube.

French Map Of The Mediterranean

A 17th century <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Maps%2520and%2520Atlases" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of the British Isles on two sheets.<ul><li>Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (French).</li><li>Les Isles Britanniques; qui Contiennent les Royaumes d'Angleterre, Escosse, et Irlande.</li><li>Paris: 1692. </li><li>Original color. </li><li>Two sheets conjoined.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Early edition of Sanson's map of the British Isles, redrawn on a larger scale by Jaillot at the request of Sanson's heirs, first published in the Atlas Nouveau from 1674. During the course of this map's life Jaillot had three pairs of plates engraved, with only minor changes. This is the second state of the second pair, with the lines of longitude and latitude that were added in the first year of issue. The third state has the date 1696. A very decorative map, with fine baroque title and scale cartouches and an inset of the Orkneys and Shetland Isles.

French Map Of The British Isles

A folding chart of the environs of Constantinople.<ul><li>Louis André Dupuis (French).</li><li>Carte de la Ville de Constantinople et du Bosphore de Thrace 1785. Carte Réduite des Côtes de la Grece et de L'Archipel. Carte de la Mer Marmora. Plan du Serrail.</li><li>Paris: 1785.</li><li>Dissected and laid on linen as issued.</li></ul> Three charts and a small town plan on one sheet. The largest is a chart of the Bosphorus including a plan of Constantinople with a 55-point key. The other two charts are of Greece and the Aegean, showing the approaches to Constantinople from the west, and the Sea of Mamora, the eastern appraoches. The plan is of the Topkapi Palace, again with a large key. The same year, Dupuis published similar charts of the Mediterranean, Baltic, Black Sea and the Danube.

French Map Of Constantinople

An 18th century double-hemisphere world map.<ul><li>Peter Conrad Monath (German).</li><li>Typus Orbis Terrarum.</li><li>Nuremberg: 1758.</li><li>Original color.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> An uncommon and decorative world map, with female allegorical figures of the four continents - America and Europe at the top, and Asia and Africa at the bottom. California is shown as an island and there is a suggested North West Passage. New Zealand is connected to the huge Terra Antarctica.

German Map Of The World

An 18th century map of Venice with a prospect of the city.<ul><li>Homann Heirs (German).</li><li>Iconografica Rappresentatione della inclita Citta di Venezia..</li><li>Nuremberg: 1762.</li><li>Original color with additions.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A very detailed town plan of Venice derived form the larger plan by Ughi with an extensive key, and a prospect of the city underneath the map.

German Map Of Venice

A two-sheet map of Ireland.<ul><li>Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (French).</li><li>Royaume d'Irlande divisée en ses Provinces...</li><li>Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, circa 1700.</li><li>Two sheets conjoined.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A large and decorative map of Ireland, from Mortier's issue of Jaillot's Atlas Nouveau, with fine baroque title and scale cartouches and an inset showing Ireland's position it relation to the rest of the British Isles. It is based on Sanson's map, which Jaillot had redrawn on a larger scale at the request of Sanson's heirs.

Dutch Map Of Ireland

A post-war pictorial wall map of London.<ul><li>Kerry Lee (English).</li><li>London: The Bastion of Liberty.</li><li>London: Pictorial Maps Ltd., circa 1955.</li><li>Color lithographic map.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A quad royal poster map of central London, presented as a bird's-eye view. It covers from Kensington Church Street in the west, clockwise to Notting Hill, Regents Park, Islington, Aldgate, The Tower of London and Tower Bridge, Elephant &amp; Castle, Lambeth and Chelsea Football Ground. Landmark buildings are shown in profile, with others shown in the 27 vignette scenes in the borders, although some illustrate tourist attractions outside the map, including Windsor Castle, Hampton Court and Epsom Races. The map was first published in 1946 as a tourism advertising map, marketed overseas, especially in the Americas. Nods to London's recent tribulations are the quote from Winston Churchill in 1940 ("We would rather see London in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved") and the vignette commemorating the role of Civil Defence workers during the Blitz. The artist, Kerry Lee (1902-1988), drew two maps of London. The first, ''London Town'', took inspiration from Gill's 'Wonderground' map of London of 1914, with jokey figures walking the streets, with strangers trying to elicit directions from unfriendly locals. Here the figures are more historical, with Chaucer's Pilgrims, national heroes and even duelists in Hyde Park.

Map Of London

A wall map of Europe according to the Congress of Vienna.<ul><li>Maximilian De Traux (Austrian).</li><li>Carte Générale et Itinéraire de L'Europe Divisée en Tous les États d'après le Congrèss sw Vienne &amp; autres traités postérieurs.</li><li>Vienna: Artaria &amp; Comp., 1818.</li><li>Original color.</li><li>Dissected and laid on linen in nine sections as issued.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A large and detailed wall map, depicting the boundaries of Europe as settled by the Congress of Vienna (1814-5), settling the changes caused by the Napoleonic War. Besides these borders this map is interesting for its depiction of the coach roads and use of hachuring to display relief. Maximilian de Traux (c.1765-c1830) was a colonel of the Austrian military engineers. From 1803 he was active in Dalmatia, improving the defenses of Zadar, but also surveying Dalmatia (with a map published 1810) and its cities.

Austrian Map Of Europe

An 18th century chart of the Persian Gulf.<ul><li>Jean Baptiste D'Après De Mannevillette (French).</li><li>Engraved by Guillaume Dela Haye.</li><li>Carte du Golfe Persique, depuis Bassora jusqua'au Cap Rasalgate.</li><li>Paris: circa 1775.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> The Persian Gulf, engraved by Guillaume Dela Haye, naming Bahrain but with no sign of the Qatar Peninsula. The inset shows Kharg Island, the site of a Dutch trading port from 1753-1766, off Bandar Rig in Persia. Après de Mannevillette (1707-1780), made a voyage to China in 1728, using new instruments to correct the latitudes of places en route. He then compiled a new sea atlas, Le Neptune Oriental, with much-corrected charts. However the Persian Gulf was not a welcoming place for European ships: the Arabian coast is marked 'peu connu' (little known).

French Map Of The Persian Gulf

An 18th century Italian map of the Philippines and Indonesia.<ul><li>Giovanni Maria Cassini (Italian).</li><li>Le Isole della Sonda, Molucche, E Philippine.</li><li>Rome: 1797.</li><li>Original color.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A map of Indonesia and the Philippines, from the Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale. This atlas was a commercial failure, so few were printed.

Italian Map Of The Philippines And Indonesia

A dramatic 18th century map of China.<ul><li>Matthaus Seutter (German).</li><li>Opulentissimum Sinarum Imperium juxta Recentissimam Delineationem in suas Provincias Distermunatum.</li><li>Augsburg: T.C.Lotter, circa 1760. </li><li>Original color. </li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A finely-engraved map of China divided into provinces, with an allegorical title cartouche representing European trade with China. Originally published circa 1730, this example was published by Seutter's son-in-law and successor, Tobias Conrad Lotter.

German Map Of China

An early example of this classic 17th century map of China.<ul><li>Jan Jansson (Dutch).</li><li>China Veteribus Sinarum regio nunc Incolis Tame dicta.</li><li>Amsterdam: circa 1636.</li><li>Original color.</li><li>German text edition.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> The map shows not only China but also the whole of Japan, the 'island' of Korea and Luzon in the Philippines. A large title cartouche with exotic Chinese figures in full color fills the gap top right, where the enigma of 'Ezo' was to confuse Europeans until the late 18th century. This example has the pagination erased and 'GG' written in ink: 'ff' was the pagination of the first issue of the map, in a German edition of 1636.

Dutch Map Of China

A map of the Far East, with an elaborate title cartouche.<ul><li>Matthaus Seutter (German).</li><li>India Orientalis cum Adjacentibus Insulis Nova Delineatione ob oculos posita.</li><li>Augsburg: circa 1730.</li><li>Original color.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Decorative map of south-east Asia from India to the southern coastline of Japan. To the south is the northern coasline of Australia, still connected to New Guinea by Carpentaria, with over thirty named features. The elaborate title cartouche has two themes: on the left is a missionary converting the natives; on the right are more native peoples offering exotic gifts such as ivory and coral as tribute to a personification of Europe, whilst Neptune gestures to the sea signifying European domination of it.

German Map Of South East Asia

An early Georgian map of the environs of London.<ul><li>Henry Overton (English).</li><li>A New &amp; Correct Map of Thirty Miles Round London Shewing all the Towns, Villages Roads &amp;c with the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry and whatever else is remarkable. Done from the best Surveys Together with an Alphabetical Table for ye ready finding of all.</li><li>London: circa 1720. </li><li>Original color. </li><li>Two sheets conjoined.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A scarce circular map of the environs of London, reaching to Great Marlow in the West, clockwise to Baldock, 'Chlemsford', Canvey Island, Maidstone, Horsham and Godalming. The corners contain tables of distances and the charges for use of bridges and locks on the Thames. Down the sides are extensive keys of place names.

An uncommon two-sheet map of the Turkish Empire.<ul><li>Giovanni Maria Cassini (Italian).</li><li>Gli Imperi Antichi Parte Occidentale; Gli Imperi Antichi Parte Orientale.</li><li>Rome: 1800. </li><li>Colored. </li><li>Two sheets conjoined.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A rare map of the Turkish Empire centered on Arabia , from the Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale, with a decorative title cartouche on each sheet.

Italian Map Of The Turkish Empire

An important 16th century plan of Moscow.<ul><li>Frans Hogenberg (Belgian).</li><li>Georg Braun (German).</li><li>Moscauw.</li><li>Cologne: circa 1575.</li><li>Latin text edition. </li><li>Colored.</li><li>This map is presented unframed.</li></ul> A fine example of this 'map-view' of Moscow, published in the second volume of the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', the first systematic atlas of town plans. The major buildings are shown in profile, with no consideration for perspective. On the frozen river Mosca are skaters and horse-drawn sledges and in the foreground are soldiers on horseback.&nbsp; This is the first of the two plans of Moscow issued by Braun and Hogenberg. A second appeared in the last volume, published in 1618, necessitated by Ladislas of Poland, who rampaged through the city in 1611.

German Map Of Moscow

A 17th century map of Sicily.<ul><li>Frederick De Wit (Dutch).</li><li>Insula sive Regnum Siciliae Urbibus praecipuis exornatum.</li><li>Amsterdam: circa 1680.</li><li>Original color.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> One of the most decorative maps of Sicily, with inset plans of Messina, Milazzo, Palermo, Catania and Trapezo. Vignette sea-battles and the detail of the fortifications of the cities give evidence to the continuing conflict between the Europeans and the Turks.

Dutch Map Of Sicily

An antique decorative map of France.<ul><li>Charles Inselin (French).</li><li>La France Dressée Suivant les Nouvelles Observations...</li><li>Paris: Bernard Jaillot, 1713. </li><li>Original color. </li><li>Two sheets conjoined.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A large and detailed map of France in fine color, decorated with a large title cartouche, and two others around engraved text descriptions of France and its provinces. Inselin is better known for his engraving for Nicolas de Fer's atlases.

Map Of France

A 17th century prospect of Lisbon.<ul><li>Gerard Jollain (French).</li><li>Lisbone.</li><li>Paris: circa 1650. </li><li>Colored.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A French prospect of Lisbon from the Tagus, with the landmarks named in the plate and the foreground filled with the merchant ships that gave the city its wealth. Underneath is a short description in Latin and French.

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