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Imprint: Nuremberg, c. 1720
Copper engraving, 49.5 x 58 cms, original hand-colour, decorative black and white cartouche (tritons fishing), inset continuing the coastline north, crease to left of centrefold, blank verso.
Stock number:4391.
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Imprint: Nuremberg, c. 1730
Copper engraving, 49 x 58.5 cms, original hand-colour, blank verso.
Stock number:6260.
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Imprint: Nuremberg, c. 1730
Copper engraving, 50 x 59 cms, original hand-colour, minor toning at centrefold, blank verso.
Stock number:5284.
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Imprint: Nuremburg, c. 1730
Copper engraving, 50.5 x 59 cms, original hand-colour with modern additions, some underlining in ink, blank verso.
Stock number:6280.
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Imprint: Nuremburg, c. 1720
49.5 x 58.5 cms. Illustrating Terrestial and Celestial Globes and an Armillary Sphere. Original colour. Blank verso.
Stock number:4400.
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Imprint: Nuremberg, 1745
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated Copper engraving, 49.5 x 58.5 cms. Original hand-colour, blank verso. A detailed regional map showing the area after the Peace of Belgrade signed in 1739 between the Holy Roman Emperor and the Turks. Details of fortifications, important houses etc. with key, and elaborate black and white cartouche showing regional costume.
Stock number:5034.
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Imprint: Nuremberg, 1732
49.5 x 57 cms, original colour to both town plan and prospect, blank verso.
Oran, in modern Algeria, belonged to the Spanish for the greater part of its history between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, and as the title of our map explains it was re-captured by the Spanish after a brief interlude in the year of publication, 1732. It was lost again at the end of the eighteenth-century and became French in 1831.
Stock number:3547.
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Imprint: Nuremberg, c. 1730
Copper engraving, 49.5 x 58.5 cms, original hand-colour.
Stock number:4735.
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Imprint: Nuremberg, c. 1740
Copper engraving, 49 x 57.5 cms, original hand-colour, blank verso. Originally issued c. 1710, ours is a later state, re-engraved to correctly show California as a peninsular. The “unknown northern coast” has been sketched in to the north west and identified with the conjectural Terra van Eso.
Stock number:5924.
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Imprint: Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], apud Samuel. et Joann. Luchtmans,, 1782
Binding: Hardback 8vo. pp. xvi, 84 (but 98), 303, [iii]. Greek text. Trivial spotting, generally a clean example. Contemporary calf, attractively rebacked, corners renewed.
Glasgow, Edinburgh and Durham hold examples with a 1781 imprint, but the misnumeration specified in the Edinburgh and Durham copies is the same as ours, and it is clearly just a variant title. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, composed in approximately the seventh century BC, served as the canonical hymn at the heart of the Eleusian Mysteries, the most revered ritual celebrations of ancient Greece held annually in hour of Demeter and Persephone.
Stock number:5296.
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Imprint: London, printed for J. Whiston, Baker and Leigh, W. Strahan, T. Payne, J. and F. Rivington [and othe, 1771
Binding: Hardback 5 vols. 12mo. pp. cxii, 200; [ii], 300; [ii], 340; [ii] 335, [i]; [ii], 234, [lxx] + portrait frontispieces of Homer and Pope, 2 single-page engraved plates and folding bird’s eye view of the plains of Troy in the first volume; engraved folding map of Homeric Greece and Phrygia in the second and engraved folding plate of Achilles’ shield in the fourth. Contemporary sprinkled calf, slight wear to joints and headcaps. Twentieth-century bookplate.
Stock number:6304.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1636
Copper engraving, 47 x 38.5 cms, from the scarce English language edition, with distinctive original English hand-colour, closed centrefold split, English text on verso.
Stock number:5312.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1636
Copper engraving, 36.5 x 50.5 cms, from the scarce English language edition, with distinctive original English hand-colour, centrefold split restored, English text on verso.
Stock number:5275.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1636
Copper engraving, 38.5 x 49.5 cms, from the scarce English language edition, with distinctive original English hand-colour, English text on verso.
Stock number:5272.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1642
Copper engraving, 39.5 x 49 cms, original hand-colour, vertical crease to right of centrefold, French text to verso.
Stock number:3420.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1636
Copper engraving, 44.5 x 56.5 cms, from the scarce English language edition, with distinctive original English hand-colour, trimmed bottom left and margin extended, English text on verso.
Stock number:5310.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1636
38.5 x 50 cms, original colour, English text on verso.
Stock number:3340.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1636
Copper engraving, 48.5 x 38.5 cms, from the scarce English language edition, with distinctive original English hand-colour, closed centrefold split, English text on verso.
Stock number:5311.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1636
Copper engraving, 36.5 x 49.5 cms, distinctive original English colour and English text on verso: ‘The description of Arragon’; margins renewed and neatlines made good top-right and bottom-left (some of the new maps Hondius created for his edition of the atlas were prepared on larger copper-plates, as is the case here, than many of the earlier Mercator examples, and were sometimes slightly trimmed when orignally bound). Closed centrefold split with old repair on the verso.
Hondius’s only English edition of his atlas is particularly scarce, published at about the time that his son-in-law Janssonius was taking over the business. The translation, according to the title-page, was by, Henry Hexham, Quartermaister to the Regiment of Colonell Goring
Stock number:6450.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1636
Copper engraving, 35.5 x 40.5 cms, from the scarce English language edition, with distinctive original English hand-colour, closed centrefold split, English text on verso.
Stock number:5336.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1636
Copper engraving, 38 x 48.5 cms, from the scarce English language edition, with distinctive original English hand-colour, closed split at the foot of the centrefold, English text on verso.
Stock number:5308.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1636
Copper engraving, 38.5 x 50 cms, from the scarce English language edition, with distinctive original English hand-colour, closed split at the foot of the centrefold, English text on verso.
Stock number:5309.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1642
Copper engraving, 39.5 x 49 cms, original hand-colour, French text to verso.
Stock number:3421.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1636
Copper engraving, 36 x 48.5 cms, from the scarce English language edition, with distinctive original English hand-colour, centrefold split restored, English text on verso.
Stock number:5334.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1636
Copper engraving, 39 x 50.5 cms, from the scarce English language edition, with distinctive original English hand-colour, closed centrefold split, English text on verso.
Stock number:5335.
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Imprint: London: Printed by Thomas Newcomb for Andrew Crook [...], 1666
Binding: Hardback Folio. pp. [xviii], 579, [i] + engraved portrait frontispiece by William Faithorne, and engraved title with an architectural border, both with old marginal repairs. Early bookseller’s code beneath imprint. Contemporary blind-ruled calf, serviceably rebacked. Ex libris Repton School, with ink stamp on both titles. Late nineteenth-century ownership inscriptions on fly leaf.
Stock number:5371.
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Imprint: Birminghamiae [Birmingham]; typis S[arah]. Baskerville, 1772
Binding: Hardback 12mo. pp. [ii], 300. Crimson straight-grained morocco of ca. 1800, gilt-ruled, a.e.g. Some wear, particularly to upper joint and board-edge. Old owenership inscriptions to fly-leaf.
Stock number:4507.
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Imprint: Londini [London] Aeneis Tabulis Incidit Iohannes Pine, 1733-7
Binding: Hardback 2 vols 8vo. pp. [xxxii], 264, [ii]; [xxiv], 191, [xii] + 5 unumbered leaves in the main body of the text (as usual). First issue (post est not corrected to potest, vol. II, p. 108) engraved throughout, lists of subscribers to each volume, numerous decorative head and tail pieces, vignettes and larger illustrations embellishing the text, generous margins, occasional staining including ink stains to fore-edge and some pencilled annotation. Eighteenth century mottled calf, handsomely rebacked, corners renewed. Later eighteenth-century bookplate of Henry Gale, engraved by William Darling (fl. 1769-99).
One of the most elegant eighteenth-century books, a high point of English engraving., Dibdin II, 108; Brunet III, 320; PMM 103.
Stock number:5946.
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Imprint: London, George Philip & Son Ltd,, 1865
Binding: Hardback Folio, (56.5 x 38 cms), pp. [iv], 39 double-page lithographed, colour-printed map sheets, pp. 78 (index). Slight spotting at intervals. Modern red half morocco, from the celebrated Wardington library of important atlases and geographies, with the Wardington bookplate on the lower pastedown.
Stock number:5519.
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Imprint: Paris: Huquier fils, c. 1780
Copper engraving, 26.5 x 41 cms, original hand-colour, slight soiling, blank verso. Late eighteenth-century vue d’optique of Covent Garden.
Stock number:6232.
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Imprint: London, 1862
Wood engraving, 33.5 x 50 cms, modern hand-colour, English text on verso.
Stock number:6333.
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Imprint: London, 1876
Wood engraving, 34.5 x 49.5 cms, after Henry Wallis, modern hand-colour, English text on verso.
Stock number:6361.
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Imprint: London, 1872
Wood engraving, 31 x 49 cms, modern hand-colour, English text on verso.
Stock number:6335.
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Imprint: London, 1883
Folding lithographed map, 24.5 x 77 cms, colour printed, blank verso. From the Supplement to the Illustrated London News, February 3rd 1883.
Stock number:4450.
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Imprint: London, 1869
Wood engraving, 34 x 51 cms, modern hand-colour, English text on verso.
Stock number:6334.
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Imprint: London, 1890
Wood engraving, 31.5 x 23 cms, modern hand-colour, English text on verso.
Stock number:6330.
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Imprint: London, 1890
Wood engraving, 32 x 47 cms, modern hand-colour, English text on verso.
Stock number:6331.
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Imprint: [Geneva:] Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1593
Binding: Hardback Folio. pp. [xxviii], 427, [i], 131, [i], XXXIV, [ii] blank, [viii], 31, [i], [xviii]. parallel Greek and Latin text, woodcut initials and headpieces. A very good, clean example in early eighteenth-century mottled calf, gilt-ruled with fully gilt spine and contrasting olive and red labels including armorial badge (a swan emerging from a coronet); skillfully rebacked, with orginal spine laid down. Ecclesiastical bookplate.
Henri Estienne’s last major work, the only text issued from his press in that year. The Latin translation is Wolf’s, revised by Estienne, who also contributed the seven Diatribae, or Dissertations, on the great Athenian orator., Schreiber 224; Renouard 155, 1.
Stock number:4531.
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Imprint: Paris, c. 1820
Copper engraving, 66 x 99 cms, engraved by Vicq and Dandeleux after Jacotin et al., trivial restoration to centrefold, blank verso. From the second edition of the Description de l’Egypte, correctly blind-stamped top right, published by Panckoucke 1820-29.
Surveyed 1798-1801 by Jacotin (1765-1827) and other savants attached to Napoleon’s Commission des sciences et arts d'Egypte during the French occupation, this is the first truly accurate printed plan of the city (earlier maps such as the Braun & Hogenberg are far more schematic). Jacotin was appointed head of engineers and geographers during the Egyptian campaign, but Napoleon forbade the publication of any surveys of the country and his maps were only printed after the Restoration of Louis XVIII.
Stock number:6557.
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Imprint: Paris, c. 1690
Copper engraving, 51.5 x 61 cms, original hand-colour, lower margin renewed, blank verso.
Stock number:5919.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1645
Copper engraving, 50 x 38.5 cms, early hand-colour, Dutch text on verso.
Koeman Me 78
Stock number:5905.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1649
Copper engraving, 39 x 49.5 cms, recent hand-colour, light spotting, French text on verso.
Koeman Me 161
Stock number:6409.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, c. 1650
41.5 x 52 cms.Original colour. Slight offsetting, and a couple of small marginal wormholes. French text to verso.
Stock number:2847.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, c. 1650
Copper engraving, 41.5 x 50.5 cms, original colour, German text to verso. A good example.
Stock number:3214.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1649
Copper engraving, 38.5 x 49.5 cms, recent hand-colour, French text on verso.
Koeman Me 161
Stock number:6252.
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Imprint: 1649
Copper engraving, 50 x 39 cms, recent hand-colour, French text on verso.
Koeman Me 161
Stock number:6240.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1649
Copper engraving, 39.5 x 51 cms, recent hand-colour, slight toning, French text on verso. Derived from Ortelius’ Parergon map of Roman Britain, this is the second state of Janssonius’ map with rhumb lines and compass roses, issued from 1646 onwards.
Koeman Me 161; Shirley: Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, 522.
Stock number:6265.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1666
39 x 50.5 cms. Original colour. Spanish text to verso - from one of the Spanish text editions of 1653, 1656 or 1666. A couple of minor spots and a split at the foot of the centrefold affecting 3 cms of the printed area.
Stock number:2750.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1633
Copper engraving, recent hand-colour, French text on verso.
Koeman Me 36A
Stock number:5841.
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Imprint: 1649
Copper engraving, 38.5 x 50 cms, recent hand-colour, French text on verso.
Koeman Me 161
Stock number:6241.
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