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Imprint: Rome, c. 1689
Copper engraving, 42.5 x 57 cms, engraved after Cantelli da Vignola, blank verso. Trimmed. From Mercurio geografico, an unusual and finely engraved work.
Stock number:4881.
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Imprint: Rome, c. 1690
Copper engraving, 42.5 x 58.5 cms, engraved after Cantelli da Vignola by A.Barbey, blank verso. Right hand margin trimmed to neatline. From Mercurio geografico, an unusual and finely engraved work.
Stock number:4882.
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Imprint: Rome, c. 1693
Copper engraving, 40.5 x 54.5 cms, engraved after Cantelli da Vignola, black and white, blank verso. From Mercurio geografico, an unusual and finely engraved work.
Stock number:4879.
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Imprint: Rome, c. 1690
Copper engraving, two sheets which can be joined, 43 x 57 cms and 43 x 59 cms, engraved after Cantelli da Vignola by A.Barbey, black and white as issued, slightly trimmed, blank verso. From Mercurio geografico, an unusual and finely engraved work.
Stock number:4887.
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Imprint: Rome, c. 1692
Two copper engraved map-sheets, platemarks each approx. 42 x 57 cms, engraved by Antonius Barbey, black and white as issued, trimmed to neatline, blank verso. From Mercurio geografico, an unusual and finely engraved work. With date of revision, 1692, in the cartouche.
Stock number:4700.
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Imprint: Rome, c. 1693
Copper engraving, 42.5 x 57.5 cms, engraved after Cantelli da Vignola, blank verso. A little old colour, trimmed. From Mercurio geografico, an unusual and finely engraved work.
Stock number:4880.
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Imprint: Rome, c. 1691
Copper engraving, two sheets which can be joined, each 43 x 57.5 cms, engraved after Cantelli da Vignola, a couple of small wormholes in the upper corner of the lower sheet, blank verso. From Mercurio geografico, an unusual and finely engraved work.
Stock number:4855.
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Imprint: Rome, c. 1695
Copper engraving, two sheets which can be joined, each 43 x 53.5 cms, engraved by A.Barbey after Cantelli da Vignola, slightly trimmed, black and white as issued, blank verso. From Mercurio geografico, an unusual and finely engraved work.
Stock number:4876.
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Imprint: Rome, c. 1693
Copper engraving, two sheets which can be joined, 43.5 x 57 and 43.5 x 56.5 cms, engraved after Cantelli da Vignola, slightly trimmed, black and white, blank verso. From Mercurio geografico, an unusual and finely engraved work.
Stock number:4877.
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Imprint: Rome, c. 1692
Copper engraving, two sheets which can be joined, each 43 x 57.5 cms, engraved after Cantelli da Vignola by A.Barbey, black and white, blank verso. Trimmed to neatline. From Mercurio geografico, an unusual and finely engraved work.
Stock number:4886.
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Imprint: Rome, c. 1690
Copper engraving, 34 x 55 cms, black and white as issued, blank verso. From Mercurio geografico, an unusual and finely engraved work.
Stock number:4703.
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Imprint: Rome, c. 1690
Copper engraving, 39.5 x 52.5 cms, engraved by Giorgio Widman, black and white as issued, blank verso. From Mercurio geografico, an unusual and finely engraved work.
Stock number:4702.
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Imprint: Rome, c. 1743
Copper engraving, 43 x 56.5 cms, engraved by Petroschi after Cigni, black and white as issued, blank verso. From Mercurio geografico, an unusual and finely engraved work.
Stock number:4704.
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Imprint: Paris, c. 1764
Copper engraving, black and white as issued, blank verso.
Stock number:6043.
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Imprint: Venice, 1561
Copper engraving, 19 x 26.5 cms, black and white as issued, one or two wormholes, blank verso.
Ruscelli’s ‘modern’ map of the British Isles, derived from George Lily’s map of 1546, was first issued in his edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia printed by Valgrisi in 1561., Shirley: Early Printed Maps of the British Isles #68
Stock number:6509.
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Imprint: Venice, c. 1598
Copper engraving, 18.8 x 26 cms, black and white as issued, Italian text on verso.
Stock number:5489.
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Imprint: Venice, 1561
Copper engraving, 19.5 x 26.5 cms, black and white as issued, one or two wormholes, blank verso.
Ruscelli’s Ptolemaic map of the British Isles was first issued in his edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia printed by Valgrisi in 1561., Shirley: Early Printed Maps of the British Isles #67
Stock number:6510.
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Imprint: London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1855
Binding: Hardback 8vo. pp. xvi, [iv], 205, [i] + 14 plates. Minor spotting to plates. Full brown morocco by Ramage. Armorial bookplate, Frederick W. Fison.
Stock number:4803.
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Imprint: London:, 1769
Copper engraving, recent hand-colour, blank verso. Engraved for “England Displayed”.
Buckingham House, built 1702-05 for the first Duke of Buckingham and Normanby and purchased by George III in 1762. George IV transformed it into a palace., Adams 218/4
Stock number:6028.
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Imprint: Londini [London]: impensis F.C. et J. Rivington [&c. &c.], 1820
Binding: Hardback Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated 8vo. pp. [xviii], 234, [lxxxvi]. Contemporary diced calf, rebacked, some wear; E.Bagot lettered direct on upper cover, signature excised from fly-leaf.
Stock number:4498.
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Imprint: Londini [London]: Ex officina Jacobi Tonson, & Johannis Watts., 1725
Binding: Hardback 12mo. pp. [xiv], 179, [ix] + engraved frontispiece. Latin text, title printed in red and black. Contemporary calf, label renewed.
Stock number:6324.
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Imprint: Cantabrigiae [Cambridge], Typis Academicis, apud Cornelium Crownfield [...], 1710
Binding: Hardback Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated 4to. pp. [viii], xxiv, 532, [ii], 304, [clxviii] index, 283-318 addenda. Misnumeration of the final section, but the signatures are consistent. Spotting and browning at intervals throughout. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt, rebacked retaining original spine except for upper compartment which has been renewed; corners also renewed. Pencilled signature “H.D. Lyon”. although one would be somewhat mystified if this were anything other than a reading copy for the great dealer and conoisseur, who was notoriously a stickler for condition and more often associated with Shakespeare first folios than with variorum editions of the classics.
“An excellent edition; the merits of which have been long acknowledged by the literary world”., Dibdin II, 385.
Stock number:6171.
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Imprint: Paris, 1652
Copper engraving, 38.5 x 53.5 cms, original hand-colour in outline, blank verso. Highly detailed but clearly and elegantly engraved.
Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667), founder of the Sanson dynasty of map-makers, is considered by many to be the father of the French school of cartography. He was a prolific and original map-maker, admired for the clarity and scientific accuracy of his maps.
Stock number:6451.
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Imprint: Paris, 1641
Copper engraving, 41 x 53.5 cms, original hand-colour in outline, blank verso. Highly detailed but clearly and elegantly engraved.
Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667), founder of the Sanson dynasty of map-makers, is considered by many to be the father of the French school of cartography. He was a prolific and original map-maker, admired for the clarity and scientific accuracy of his maps.
Stock number:6452.
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Imprint: Paris, c. 1660
Copper engraving, 42.5 x 50.8 cms, original hand-colour in outline, blank verso.
Stock number:5033.
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Imprint: Paris,, 1648
Copper engraving, 38 x 58.5 cms, original hand-colour in outline, trivial marginal spotting, right and left-hand margins cut close, blank verso.
Stock number:4160.
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Imprint: Paris, 1656
38.5 x 54.5 cms. Original outline colour.
Stock number:2921.
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Imprint: Paris, c. 1683
Copper engraving, 20 x 26 cms, original hand-colour in outline, closed wormholes to left border/image, blank verso.
Stock number:6485.
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Imprint: Paris, 1665
Copper engraving, 42.5 x 51 cms, original hand-colour in outline, blank verso. One of the historical maps engraved by Nicholas Sanson’s son Guillaume for later editions of the “Cartes Generales de Toutes les Parties du Monde”.
Stock number:5551.
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Imprint: London, c. 1753
Copper engraving, approx 16 x 27.5 cms, engraved by J. Maurer, black and white as issued, inlaid, blank verso. Date 1752 amended to 1753 in manuscript (as called for by Adams).
Adams 217
Stock number:4423.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, c. 1720
Copper engraving 51.7 x 42 cms, original hand-colour, one trival spot but generally a very clean example. Blank verso.
Stock number:1236.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, c. 1720
Copper engraving 52 x 42 cms, original hand colour. One or two trivial spots, but a clean example. Blank verso.
Stock number:1232.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, c. 1710
Copper engraving, 38.5 x 48.5 cms, original hand-colour.
The legendary empire of Prester John, a Christian priest-king descended from one of the three Magi who supposedly ruled a vast territory bounded by heathens, had been associated with East Africa in the western consciousness since the fourteenth century at least, although the myth is much older. Our map contains cartographic information which is partly Ptolemaic - the source of the Nile is found in the twin lakes of Zaire and Zaflan - and partly has its origins in more recent exploration, specifically a group of Portugese envoys who reached Ethiopia in the 1520s. One of them, Alvares, wrote a detailed account of his travels which provided a useful source for Ortelius, who published his map of the region in 1573. Our map of the Empire of Prester John was first published in this form by Janssonius in the 1630s, derived from his father-in-law Hondius’ map of 1606 which in turn was heavily influenced by Ortelius’ map. Schenk & Valk purchased the copper-plates of a number of Golden Age Dutch map-makers, including Janssonius, and published them under their own imprint early in the eighteenth century.
Stock number:5735.
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Imprint: Amsterdam,, c. 1710
Copper engraving, 38.5 x 50 cms. Original hand-colour. Generous margins with a couple of clean tears not affecting the printed area, repaired on verso.
This plate was originally engraved by Hondius in the seventeenth-century and shows the heart of the Ottoman Empire when it was at its height. Constantinople is at the upper left, and the map extends from the Aegean (including part of Crete) in the West to the River Euphrates in the East, and includes Cyprus. This is one of the most decorative maps of Anatolia. The title is on a banner supported by two winged and turbaned busts. The seas contain monsters and in the Eastern Mediterranean two Ottoman galleys have engaged a foreign vessel, perhaps intended as a representation of the wars between the Ottoman world and Christendom .
Stock number:2059.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, c. 1700
43.5 x 58 cms. Fine original colour. A couple of small tears on the centrefold repaired on verso. With dedication, bottom left, to Otto L.B. a Schwerin by the Heredes Joannis Janssonii.
See Koeman Me 90B
Stock number:2793.
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Imprint: Munich, c. 1710
Copper engraving 23 x 35 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso.
Scherer was professor of mathematics at Munich and a devout Jesuit. This map is the general map from his Atlas Marianus with Mary herself at the top of the map and devotional figures representing the four continents at the corners. The Americas are shown on the right of the map, and in keeping with common geographical thinking of the day California is shown as an island., Shirley 630
Stock number:5855.
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Imprint: Munich, c. 1710
Copper engraving, 24 x 35.5 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso.
Scherer was professor of mathematics at Munich and a devout Jesuit. This map is the general map from his Atlas Marianus with Mary herself at the top of the map and devotional figures representing the four continents at the corners. The Americas are shown on the right of the map, and in keeping with common geographical thinking of the day California is shown as an island., Shirley 630
Stock number:5856.
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Imprint: Vienna, 1787
Copper engraving, 66 x 58 cms, faint original hand-colour in outline, blank verso.
Stock number:6367.
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Imprint: Vienna, 1789
Copper engraving, 41.5 x 61 cms, some original outline colour, light marginal waterstaining, blank verso. Covers Yemen and the Red Sea, chiefly following the detailed surveys of Danish traveller Carsten Niebuhr.
Stock number:6458.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1662
Copper engraving, 41.5 x 53 cms, with original hand-colour, minor spotting, Spanish text to verso. From “the rarest edition of Blaeu’s Large Atlases”: only ten of the proposed eleven volumes were completed and issued in a limited quantity between 1658 and the the 1672 fire, which brought work on the final volume to a halt.
Koeman BL 60 A
Stock number:5415.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1654
Copper engraving, 42.5 x 50.5 cms, with original hand-colour, Dutch text to verso.
Stock number:4755.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1654
Copper engraving, 42 x 52 cms, with original hand-colour, Dutch text to verso.
Stock number:4757.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1654
Copper engraving, 39 x 52.5 cms, with original hand-colour, German text to verso (browned).
Koeman Bl 51
Stock number:6099.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1654
Copper engraving, 38.5 x 52.5 cms, with original hand-colour, Dutch text to verso.John o’ Groats, the northern tip of mainland Britain, including the Island of Stroma and the towns of Thurso and Wick.
Stock number:4761.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1654
Copper engraving, 42 x 53.5 cms, with original hand-colour, Dutch text to verso. Includes Dunformline and Kirkaldy on the north shore of the Firth of Forth.
Stock number:4759.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1662
Copper engraving, 42 x 52.5 cms, with original hand-colour, minor spotting, Spanish text to verso. From “the rarest edition of Blaeu’s Large Atlases”: only ten of the proposed eleven volumes were completed and issued in a limited quantity between 1658 and the the 1672 fire, which brought work on the final volume to a halt.
Koeman BL 60 A
Stock number:5413.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1662
Copper engraving, 42.5 x 53.5 cms, with original hand-colour, Spanish text to verso. From “the rarest edition of Blaeu’s Large Atlases”: only ten of the proposed eleven volumes were completed and issued in a limited quantity between 1658 and the the 1672 fire, which brought work on the final volume to a halt.
Koeman BL 60 A
Stock number:5416.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1662
Copper engraving, 40.5 x 52.5 cms, with original hand-colour, minor spotting, Spanish text to verso. From “the rarest edition of Blaeu’s Large Atlases”: only ten of the proposed eleven volumes were completed and issued in a limited quantity between 1658 and the the 1672 fire, which brought work on the final volume to a halt.
Koeman BL 60 A
Stock number:5414.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1654
Copper engraving, 42 x 53.5 cms, with original hand-colour, Dutch text to verso. A rural district of Argll and Bute in the Highlands.
Stock number:4760.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1654
Copper engraving, 39.5 x 50 cms, with original hand-colour, Dutch text to verso. Includes Melrose and Kelso on the Tweed, in the Scottish Borders.
Stock number:4758.
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