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Imprint: London: Michael Sparke, 1637
Copper engraving, 13.4 x 18.6 cms, black and white, English text to verso. From the second edition of the ‘Historia Mundi or Mercator’s Atlas’, a version of Mercator’s Atlas Minor with some new maps and an English text printed in London.
Stock number:5071.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, c. 1630
Copper engraving, 14.5 x 20.2 cms, recent hand colour, Dutch text on verso.
Stock number:5768.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1632
Copper engraving, 19 x 25.5 cms, black & white, marginal waterstaining, Latin text on verso.
In the 1630s Jan Cloppenburgh published a series of editions of Mercator’s Atlas Minor which have become scarce. The maps were engraved by Pieter van den Keere and are distinctively larger than the preceeding examples.
Stock number:6180.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1632
19 x 26 cms, old outline hand-colour, numbered in an old hand in upper margin, two small wormholes in the right-hand margin, Latin text on verso.
In the 1630s Jan Cloppenburgh published a series of editions of Mercator’s Atlas Minor which have become scarce. The maps were engraved by Pieter van den Keere and are distinctively larger than the preceeding examples.
Stock number:3724.
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Imprint: 1606
Edition: First Edition Copper engraving, 34.5 x 49 cms, recent hand-colour, tiny hole (1 mm dia.) at centrefold, Latin text on verso, from the first edition of the atlas published by Hondius.
Koeman Me 15
Stock number:6239.
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Imprint: London: Michael Sparke, 1637
Copper engraving, 13.5 x 20.2 cms, recent-hand-colour, English text on verso. From the second edition of the ‘Historia Mundi or Mercator’s Atlas’, a scarce version of Mercator’s Atlas Minor with some new/variant maps and an English text printed in London.
Stock number:6163.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, c. 1630
Copper engraving, 15 x 17.2 cms, recent hand colour, crease bottom left, French text on verso.
Stock number:5767.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1632
Copper engraving, 19 x 25.5 cms, recent hand-colour, pinprick wormhole in neatline, Latin text on verso.
In the 1630s Jan Cloppenburgh published a series of editions of Mercator’s Atlas Minor which have become scarce. The maps were engraved by Pieter van den Keere and are distinctively larger than the preceeding examples.
Stock number:6161.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, c. 1620
Copper engraving, 14.6 x 18.3 cms, later hand-colour, light waterstain, Dutch text on verso, map printed upside down (so headline is at the foot of the map, inverted).
Stock number:5086.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, c. 1620
Copper engraving, 13.6 x 20.3 cms, later hand-colour, Dutch text on verso.
Stock number:5088.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, c. 1620
Copper engraving, 13.6 x 20.3 cms, later hand-colour, Dutch text on verso.
Stock number:5089.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1636
Copper engraving, 36 x 47.5 cms, from the scarce English language edition, with distinctive original English hand-colour, vertical crease to right of centrefold, closed centrefold split, English text on verso.
Stock number:5328.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1632
Copper engraving, 19 x 25.5 cms, black & white, Latin text on verso.
In the 1630s Jan Cloppenburgh published a series of editions of Mercator’s Atlas Minor which have become scarce. The maps were engraved by Pieter van den Keere and are distinctively larger than the preceeding examples.
Stock number:6162.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1632
Copper engraving, 19 x 25.5 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso.
In the 1630s Jan Cloppenburgh published a series of editions of Mercator’s Atlas Minor which have become scarce. The maps were engraved by Pieter van den Keere and are distinctively larger than the preceeding examples.
Stock number:6262.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1632
Copper engraving, 19 x 26 cms, recent hand-colour, numbered in an old hand in upper margin, two small wormholes in the right-hand margin, Latin text on verso.
In the 1630s Jan Cloppenburgh published a series of editions of Mercator’s Atlas Minor which have become scarce. The maps were engraved by Pieter van den Keere and are distinctively larger than the preceeding examples.
Stock number:5851.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, c. 1620
Copper engraving, 14.6 x 19.1 cms, later hand-colour, Dutch text on verso.
Stock number:5093.
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Imprint: London: Michael Sparke, 1637
Copper engraving, 13.5 x 20.2 cms, recent-hand-colour. A decorative smaller map of Portugal, note the boy riding a dolphin in the sea. English text on verso. From the second edition of the ‘Historia Mundi or Mercator’s Atlas’, a scarce version of Mercator’s Atlas Minor with some new/variant maps and an English text printed in London.
Stock number:5765.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1609
Copper engraving, 34 x 47.5 cms, fine original hand-colour, French text on verso. Carinthia and Salzburg in southern Austria; from an early Hondius edition of Mercator’s Atlas.
Stock number:6462.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1632
Copper engraving, 19 x 25.5 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso.
In the 1630s Jan Cloppenburgh published a series of editions of Mercator’s Atlas Minor which have become scarce. The maps were engraved by Pieter van den Keere and are distinctively larger than the preceeding examples.
Stock number:6254.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1609
Copper engraving, 31 x 42 cms, fine original hand-colour, French text on verso. Styria is home to Graz, Austria’s second city.
Stock number:6461.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, Janssonius, 1628
Copper engraved title page from Mercator’s Atlas Minor, black and white as issued, laid down, very slight adhesion damage affecting imprint.
Stock number:5075.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1632
Copper engraving, 19 x 25.5 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso.
In the 1630s Jan Cloppenburgh published a series of editions of Mercator’s Atlas Minor which have become scarce. The maps were engraved by Pieter van den Keere and are distinctively larger than the preceeding examples.
Stock number:6255.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1632
Copper engraving, 18.5 x 25.5 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso.
In the 1630s Jan Cloppenburgh published a series of editions of Mercator’s Atlas Minor which have become scarce. The maps were engraved by Pieter van den Keere and are distinctively larger than the preceeding examples.
Stock number:6159.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, c. 1620
Copper engraving, 13.6 x 17.6 cms, some old hand-colour, light waterstain, French text on verso.
Stock number:5083.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1636
Copper engraving, 36 x 47.5 cms, from the scarce English language edition, with distinctive original English hand-colour, English text on verso.
Stock number:5329.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1636
Copper engraving, 36.5 x 42 cms, from the scarce English language edition, with distinctive original English hand-colour, English text on verso.
Stock number:5340.
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Imprint: Frankfurt, c. 1670
Copper engraving, two sheets joined creating engraved area of 31.2 x 59.3 cms, black and white as issued, blank verso.
Stock number:5032.
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Imprint: Frankfurt, c. 1660
Copper engraving, 28 x 36.5 cms, recent hand colour, restoration to centrefold, blank verso.
Stock number:6158.
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Imprint: Argentorati [Strasbourg] ex aedibus Wendelini Rehelii [...], 1538
Binding: Hardback 8vo. ff. [vii], cccxliv. Lacks preliminary leaf *8; woodcut printer’s device to final page; ownership inscription excised from the title, which has subsequently been laid down, and old marginal repair in the margin of leaf *2; there are a couple of old ink library stamps (marked ‘duplicate’, one on the pastedown and one on the verso of the title) and a marginal wormhole in the last few leaves of text. Later quarter calf, c. 1800, over green boards; fully gilt spine, slightly rubbed but sound.
An early edition of Mirandula’s popular anthology of extracts from Latin poets, which range from Virgil to Boethius., Adams M-1473.
Stock number:6476.
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Imprint: London, 1827
Copper engraving, 77 x 63.5 cms, dissected into 24 sheets and laid down on linen as issued, original hand-colour, marbled slipcase, worn, publisher’s paper label. Owenership signatures of Thomas Darby.
Stock number:6176.
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Imprint: London, 1701
Copper engraving, 18.5 x 19.3 cms, recent hand-colour, a couple of contemporary annotations, trimmed close to neatline, blank verso. Originally engraved for Moll’s ‘Complete System of Geography’.
Herman Moll (c. 1654-1732) was both map engraver and publisher, one of the most prolific and significant map-makers working in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth-centuries. He is now known to have been of German (rather than Dutch) origin, and he came to London at some point in the 1670s, initially working with established figures such as Moses Pitt.
Stock number:6545.
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Imprint: London, 1709
Copper engraving, 17.5 x 19 cms, recent hand-colour, set in descriptive English text (sheet size 31 x 20 cms); maps of Egypt and Abyssinia on verso. From “The Compleat Geographer”.
Stock number:5639.
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Imprint: London, c. 1730
Copper engraving, 21 x 20 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso.
Herman Moll (c. 1654-1732) was both map engraver and publisher, one of the most prolific and significant map-makers working in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth-centuries. He is now known to have been of German (rather than Dutch) origin, and he came to London at some point in the 1670s, initially working with established figures such as Moses Pitt.
Stock number:6517.
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Imprint: London, c. 1730
Copper engraving, 18.5 x 30 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso.
Herman Moll (c. 1654-1732) was both map engraver and publisher, one of the most prolific and significant map-makers working in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth-centuries. He is now known to have been of German (rather than Dutch) origin, and he came to London at some point in the 1670s, initially working with established figures such as Moses Pitt.
Stock number:6519.
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Imprint: London, 1709
Copper engraving, 15 x 19 cms, recent hand-colour, set in descriptive English text (sheet size 31 x 20 cms); maps of Egypt and Abyssinia on verso. From “The Compleat Geographer”.
Stock number:5654.
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Imprint: London, 1701
Copper engraving, 18.5 x 19.3 cms, recent hand-colour, a couple of contemporary annotations, trimmed close to neatline, blank verso. Originally engraved for Moll’s ‘Complete System of Geography’.
Herman Moll (c. 1654-1732) was both map engraver and publisher, one of the most prolific and significant map-makers working in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth-centuries. He is now known to have been of German (rather than Dutch) origin, and he came to London at some point in the 1670s, initially working with established figures such as Moses Pitt.
Stock number:6544.
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Imprint: London, c. 1740
Copper engraving, 20.5 x 27 cms, recent hand-colour, marginal waterstaining, lower margin trimmed close to neatline, blank verso.
Stock number:5750.
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Imprint: London, 1693
Copper engraving,13 x 11 cms (sheet size 15 x 19.5 cms), black and white as issued, English text, from Geography Rectified.
Stock number:5925.
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Imprint: London, c. 1695
Copper engraving, 38.5 x 31 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso. Morden’s map of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy engraved for the Gibson edition of Camden’s Britannia.
Stock number:6002.
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Imprint: London, c. 1695
Copper engraving, 36.5 x 44 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso. Morden’s map of Roman Britain engraved for the Gibson edition of Camden’s Britannia.
Stock number:6003.
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Imprint: London, 1693
Copper engraving,11.5 x 13 cms (sheet size 19 x 15 cms), black and white as issued, English text, from Geography Rectified.
Stock number:6425.
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Imprint: London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson, 1836
Binding: Hardback 6 vols. (of 7?) Small 8vo. (16.5 x 10.5 cms) Each volume with additional engraved titles dated 1833-34, and with frontisipieces in vols. I & II. Generally clean. The works include: stories for persons in the middle ranks; tales for the common people; strictures on the modern system of female education; hints towards forming the character of a young princess; tragedies & poems etc. Contemporary green half calf over comb-marbled boards, slightly rubbed, blind-stamp of J. Galt & Co, booksellers, Manchester, to the free end-paper.
One of the original ‘bluestockings’, More was part of the circle of Johnson, Garrick and Reynolds. She was a prolific author and didactic tracts such as “The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain” (vol. I), encouraging the the poor to live wholesome and god-fearing lives, were extraordinarily popular. She was also an active social reformer. Most instititional copies appear to have six volumes as here (eg. Edinburgh, Newcastle) however, Liverpool University has a seven volume set, with “Coelebs in Search of a Wife” added in 1837.
Stock number:6436.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, c.1710
57.5 x 43.5 cms. Full original wash colour.
Stock number:1697.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, c. 1700
Copper engraving, original hand-colour, waterstain at centrefold, lower margin renewed, blank verso.
Stock number:6166.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, c. 1700
Two copper engraved sheets joined, 60.5 x 89 cms, original hand-colour, blank verso. Some oxidisation of the green pigments, strengthened on the verso with archival tissue. A magnificent two-sheet chart of western Asia, extending from the Arabian peninsular to Thailand, which appeared in both the “Atlas Nouveau” and the “Suite du Neptune François”.
Koeman Mor 1 & M. Mor 7
Stock number:6526.
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Imprint: London, c. 1845
Steel engraving, 19 x 26.5 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso.
Moule was a bookseller, writer on heraldry and publisher who commissioned what is generally considered to be the last really decorative series of English county maps. They were first issued in monthly parts with a simple single-colour wash between 1830-37, but were issued black and white thereafter, mostly being used to illustrate editions of ‘English Counties Delineated’ and ‘Barclay's Dictionary’.
Stock number:6503.
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Imprint: Ulm, 1692
Platemark 6.5 x 7.8 cms, sheet size 16.5 x 9.5 cms, black and white as issued.
Stock number:2962.
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Imprint: Basel, c. 1580
20 x 38 cms (engraved area), woodcut birds’ eye view of Constantinople/Istanbul, recent hand-colour, light browing, German text to verso. From one of the later editions of Munster’s Cosmographia.
Stock number:6278.
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Imprint: Basle, 1540
Woodcut, 26 x 34 cms, black and white as issued, Latin text within a woodcut frame on verso. Ptolemaic map of the British Isles created by Munster to illustrate his edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia, contained within a trapezoidal frame and incorporating two panels which list the ancient tribes of Ireland and Britain.
Shirley: Early Printed Maps of the British Isles #27
Stock number:6508.
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Imprint: Basel, c. 1580
Woodcut, 24.5 x 38.5 cms, bird’s eye view of Venice, recent hand-colour, light spotting, German text on verso; from the ‘Cosmographia’.
Stock number:5213.
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