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![De l`Isle (Guillaume) [Atlas] 20 fine engraved double-page maps hand-coloured in ouline including a world map Europe `Moscovi](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1574/2795102/31-2010526151934_468x382.jpg)
Lot 31
De l`Isle (Guillaume) [Atlas] 20 fine engraved double-page maps hand-coloured in ouline including a world map Europe `Moscovie` Spain America Italy Greece and Asia a few small holes or short tears (most repaired) some staining Poland with later ink writing within image Spain with marginal ink notes chez Dezauche c.1772-1788 bound with 6 other double-page maps of ancient kingdoms etc. most the Holy Land by Robert after Rollin Mouillart-Sanson Delamarche &c. c.1716-1740 contemporary half calf repaired with loss to spine recornered folio
Lot 35
Koehler Descriptio Orbis antiqui engraved pictorial title index f. and 44 hand-coloured maps and plans including a world map and bird`s-eye plans of Athens Rome and Jerusalem many with decorative cartouches and illustrations of coins light water-stain to plan of Rome but generally in crisp and clean condition modern half calf spine gilt folio Nuremberg Christopher Weigel [c.1760].
Lot 40
Ptolomaeus Orbis antiqui Tabulae1730 half-title engraved additional pictorial title printed title in red and black with engraved vignette 28 engraved double-page maps map 4 (Mesopotamia. Syria. Arabia...) with central creases map 11 (Asiæ) with repaired tear at head (c.6.5cm in length) otherwise most maps crisp and clean contemporary half calf spine faded and slightly worn at ends folio Amsterdam R. & J. Wetstenios & Guil. Smith 1730.
Lot 41
Ptolomaeus (Claudius) Geografia 1621 2 parts in 1 woodcut printer`s device to titles 63 half-page engraved maps by Girolamo Porro woodcut illustrations initials and head- and tail-pieces lacking full-page map a few marginal repairs occasionally just affecting text loss of a few letters a few small stains washed modern vellum stained [Phillips Atlases 436; Shirley 193-196] folio Padua Paolo & Francesco Galignani 1621-1620. ***Second edition of Leonardo Cernoti`s translation of Magini`s edition of Ptolemy..
Lot 60
[Rottiers Description Monumens de Rhodes Atlas vol. only first edition lithographed title map and 75 plates after P.J. Witdoeck 8 hand-coloured occasional spotting front free endpaper creased contemporary dark brown half morocco spine repaired with loss of 1 compartment at head rubbed [Atabey 1056; Blackmer 1450; Weber I 163] oblong folio Brussels 1828. ***Rottiers was requested by the King of the Netherlands to undertake an archaeological mission to Greece. His original intention was to excavate at Delos and Milos but the laws of the new Greek government prevented this. Instead he looked to the islands under Turkish rule and fixed upon Rhodes..
Lot 64
Fitzclarence Route across India 1st first edition half-title 13 plates (mostly aquatint 9 hand-coloured) 4 engraved battle-plans with partial hand-colouring (each with key f.) and 2 maps (1 large folding with route hand-coloured) errata leaf short tear to map just within image offsetting modern half dark blue crushed morocco spine faded [Abbey Travel 519] 4to 1819.
Lot 65
Heber Upper Provinces of India 1828 2 vol. first edition engraved frontispieces folding map (hand-coloured in outline) and 8 plates ex- North Devon Athenæum Library copy stamp to titles and versos of plates labels to pastedowns some foxing to plates new endpapers and pastedowns contemporary half calf rebacked in later brown morocco gilt shelf numbers to lower spines rubbed and scuffed 4to 1828.
Lot 75
Smyth Sicily and its Islands 1sts first edition engraved folding frontispiece map 13 (of 14) plain aquatint plates map foxed and offsetting onto title plates offsetting some spotting or foxing contemporary half calf short split to head of lower joint spine ends and corners worn rubbed [Moncada 2068; Pine-Coffin 821-3] 4to 1824.
Lot 96
Mawe Travels in the Interior of Brazil 1st first edition engraved frontispiece map and 7 plates 1 hand-coloured repaired worming to frontispiece (affecting part of image) and inner margins of all to B4 (including title) small wormhole or trace to remaining ff. occasionally affecting a few letters of text or very small part of plate modern half calf spine gilt spine slightly faded [Sabin 46991] 4to 1812.
Lot 102
Planta Helvetic Confederacy 2 vol. first edition engraved titles and folding map head of title of vol.1 trimmed partially removing ink inscription but still with good margins occasional spotting contemporary half calf sympathetically rebacked in diced calf spines gilt corners worn very good copies 4to 1800.
Lot 165
Edwards (George) d`Oiseaux Peu Communs 2 parts only (of 4) in 1 fine hand-coloured engraved frontispiece 105 plates and a map engraved portrait all numbered in contemporary ink in upper margin a few titled occasional marginal spotting or a few stains some offsetting modern half calf over old marbled boards fragments of original backstrip laid down on spine covers rubbed a rare edition folio à Londres for the author 1751.
Lot 1167
A quantity of Photographs of 43rd Wessex Regiment `C` squadron to (Reconnaissance) 1942 to include Cecil Hughes killed in Action 30th April, 1945 plus a booklet - We were There! - The Story of a Journey; and The Daily Telegraph `War Map of Europe`; and two Album of family photographs and cuttings, some relating to the 43rd squadron plus `Life of Christ` with details of births relating to Davies & Morris family
Lot 2
JOHN SPEED (1542-1629) `Herefordshire Described` engraved map. coloured, with some discolouration creasing and rubbing at plate edges Pl. 15 x 20in (38.2 x 50.8cm) ; an engraving of Ludlow Castle after W. Gwynn, published 1807) ; two coloured lithographs by L. Haghe depicting` Hereford from Broomy Hill`,and View from Putson (both published by W.H.Vale,Hereford, 1825) and a coloured lithograph by Newman & Co. London (4)
Lot 3
FRANCIS LAMB, Engraver ( fl. c. 1670-1700) A Map of Russia, with inset plan of The Famous and Imperial City of Moscow, `sold by Thos-Bassett in Fleet Street, and Rich. Chiswell in St. Paul`s Churchyard`, copper plate engraving, later coloured, with some spotting and surface discolouration Pl 15 x 20in (38.2 x 50.8cm); and a coloured print depicting `A Wharf by the Merchants Market, St. Petersburg` (2) Lamb`s Map of Russia was incorporated into the last edition of John Speed`s `Prospect of the most famous Arts of the World ` published by Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, long after the original artist`s death
Lot 4
JOHN SPEED (1552-1629) `Cardigan Shyre Described woth the due form of the shire-town as it was surveyed by J.S. Anno 1610`, London, John Sudbury and George Humble, with an inset cartouche incorporating the Royal Arms and the Arms of Wales, engraved Map, coloured , with some discolouration and staining, Pl 15 x 20in ; two engraved Maps, coloured, depicting Herefordshire ; and Worcestershire by Robert Morden ; and a Strip Map (plate 2) from the series `The Continuation of ye Road from London to Aberistwyth `(4)
Lot 767
J R Robinson, Paternoster Row, publ March 1st 1799- "The World"; hand-coloured engraved map, 28.5x44.2cm: together with nine other maps from the same or similar suite to include: The West Indies, Poland, Scotland, China, Ireland, South America, Asia, Turkey in Europe and Hungary, and Germany, (10) (mounted) (unframed)
![MERCATOR, Gerard (1512-1594) -- HONDIUS, Jodocus (1563-1612). Americae Descrip. [?Amsterdam: J. Hondius, 1607 or later]. Hand](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2795088/d5326933e_468x382.jpg)
Lot 286
MERCATOR, Gerard (1512-1594) -- HONDIUS, Jodocus (1563-1612). Americae Descrip. [?Amsterdam: J. Hondius, 1607 or later]. Hand-coloured engraved map, Latin text on verso, 162 x 207mm. From the Atlas Minor Geardi Mercatoris but copied cartographically from Hondius's 1606 folio map of America. The engraver's initial 'S' appears lower right. Burden 153. View on Christie's.com
![MÜNSTER, Sebastian. Altera generalis tab. secundum Ptol. [2 terreni orbis generalis et Ptolemaica descriptio] [Basle: Henric](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2795088/d5326936e_468x382.jpg)
Lot 458
A quantity of silver Romance of Steam ingots issued by the Birmingham Mint, the thirty ingots totalling approximately 960g (30.9 oz) gross, with two framed limited edition engraved plates commemorating the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester railway and a Railway History Map of Britain
Lot 11
KOLBEN, Peter. The Present State of the Cape of Good-Hope. London: W. Innys, 1731. 2 vols., 8° (196 x 120mm). 2 engraved frontispieces, folding engraved map and 28 plates, 2 folding. (Occasional light browning.) Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Henry, Duke of Kent (bookplate dated 1733) -- Thomas Philip, Earl de Grey (bookplate). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Mendelssohn I, 844-845: 'it contains the earliest list of South African animals ... a full account of the government of the country, with detailed descriptions of the various settlements, and a mass of information respecting ... the native races'. (2) View on Christie's.com
Lot 51
Vollständiges Diarium von ... Begebenheiten Die sich vor, in und nach der... Wahl und Crönungn des Fürsten Carls des VII ... zugetragen [and:] Crönung, der... Fürstin... Maria Amalia. Frankfurt: Johann David Jung, 1742-1743. 3 parts in one vol., 2° (354 x 218mm). Engraved frontispiece, 18 folding plates, 19 portraits and 2 woodcut folding seating plans. Contemporary calf, gilt coat-of-arms (rebacked). Provenance: The Society of Writers to the Signet (arms on binding). Detailed description of the election and coronation of Karl Albrecht von Bayern, as Holy Roman Emperor, and Maria Amalia, Imperial Princess in Frankfurt in 1742. The plates include illustrations of the procession, the festivities on the town square, nightly illuminations, 19 portraits and the banquet. Collation of plates vary slightly. Berlin Katalog 2904; Lipperheide Sba 28; Vinet 690; Watanabe 119-121; bound with a second work. [With:] DEYERLSPERG, Georg Jacob von. Erb-Huldigung, Welche Dem Römischen Kayser, Carolo Dem Sechsten ... abgelegt. Graz: heirs of Widmanstadt, 1740. 2° (463 x 330mm). Engraved frontispiece and 12 (of 13?) plates (4 folding and 8 double-page). (Lacks map of Styria, some tears and repairs to plates.) Contemporary sheep (rebacked, old spine laid down); cloth folding case. Provenance: owner's name erased from title page (small hole to blank margin of title). Commemorating the celebration of the oath of allegiance to Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, as Count of Styria on 6 July 1728. The engraved plates are by Johann Heinrich Störcklin after Joseph Ignatius Fluerer and depict processions, the banquet and two different large bird's-eye views of Graz. Drugulin 4072; Lipperheide Sc 15; Vinet 680; and 4 other vols. (6) View on Christie's.com
Lot 60
BIBLE, in German, Luther's version. Biblia. Lüneburg: Cornelius Johann Stern, 1711. 3 parts in 1 vol., 2° (425 x 155mm). Engraved additional title, part titles, map of the Holy Land, folding plan of Jerusalem, map of the Mediterranean, and 259 engraved plates after Luyken, Meloni, and others, with bi-lingual Latin and German captions. (Without blank b8, a very few leaves creased, occasional light spotting and occasional light browning.) Contemporary morocco gilt, brass centrepieces of Moses holding the tablets on the upper board and Jesus holding the orb on the lower board, brass corner-pieces modelled with the evangelists, brass catches and clasps and leather and brass straps model with various figures including cherubs, gauffred gilt edges, bundpapier front endpapers (light wear, one strap perhaps repaired at an early date.) Provenance: 'B.C.' (and the date 1725 stamped in gilt on the upper board) -- a European Royal collection. An excellent example in contemporary binding of Stern's folio Luther bible reproducing Luyken's excellent engravings. View on Christie's.com
Lot 82
GALLUCCI, Giovanni Paolo -- REISCH, Gregorius (d.1525). Margarita Filosofica. Venice: Barezzo Barezzi, 1599. 8° (216 x 160mm). With blanks, folding table and woodcut volvelle map, illustrations. (Occasional light soiling, one gathering browned, faint marginal dampstain in some gatherings.) 17th-century limp vellum (spine cracked, hinges split, lacking ties). Provenance: Dr. Andrea Raineri (inscription in an early hand) -- an early 20th-century collection (press label on the front cover). FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN OF THIS CELEBRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA, translated by Gallucci. The Addenda comprises some of the additions of the 1512 Strasbourg edition, including Martin Waldseemüller's treatises on architecture and perspective, and Masha'allah's composition of the astrolabe. Some of the new additional treatises in this Italian edition are on arithmetic, geography and grammar. 2 issues are known, with apparently no priority: one with Barezzi's imprint, and another with Somascho's imprint which is more common institutionally. Not in Adams; Cicognara 3321; Sabin 69132 (Somascho imprint). View on Christie's.com
Lot 100
MAITLAND, William (?1693-1757). The History and Survey of London from its Foundation to the Present Time. London: T. Osborne and J. Shipton, 1756. 2 vols., 2° (420 x 250mm). 120 (of ?121) engraved plates, maps and plans, 12 folding, 2 engravings and 99 woodcuts in the text, most coats-of-arms coloured in a contemporary hand. (Variable light spotting and browning, Ggg in vol. I and 12I in vol. II affected more heavily, marginal tears to 3 leaves in vol. II, old repairs to last 2 leaves in vol. II at gutter, large folding plate of Westminster Bridge with a few small tears and minor loss, biro lines to folding map at start of vol. II.) Contemporary calf gilt (rebacked and recornered in late 19th-century morocco, rubbed and scuffed, short splits to joints). Provenance: Sir Joseph ?Arnidale (inscription dated 1838 cut from original endpapers and pasted onto front pastedowns). Second edition. (2) View on Christie's.com
Lot 103
MAP -- SPEED, John (1552-1629). Europ and the chiefe cities contained therin described: with the habits of most Kingdoms now in use. [London]: G. Humble, 1626. Hand-coloured engraved map, borders with figures in national costume and city views, 392 x 510mm. (Old paper repairs on verso to head and tail of vertical crease.) Framed and glazed. View on Christie's.com
Lot 109
MILITARIA -- MILLINGTON-DRAKE, Eugene (ed.). The Drama of the Graf Spee and the Battle of the Plate. London: Peter Davies, 1964. 8° (248 x 186mm). Folding map, plates and illustrations. Original red leather by the St. Giles Bindery, upper side blocked in gold, spine lettered in gold. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 55 DELUXE COPIES, SIGNED BY OVER 40 CREW MEMBERS of 'Ajax', 'Achilles', and 'Exeter' including Captains Charles Woodhouse, Edward Parry, and Frederick Bell, and the author and contributors, including Mountbatten of Burma and Philip Vian. HOZIER, H.M. (ed.). The Franco-Prussian War. London: William Mackenzie, [c. 1872]. 2 vols, 4° (260 x 204mm). Frontispieces, additional engraved titles and 46 plates and maps. (Occasional marginal spotting.) Contemporary green calf gilt, gilt edges (extremities rubbed). Provenance: ?James Maxton (pencilled inscription on p.1). FIRST EDITION. NEWBOLT, Henry. The Book of the Thin Red Line. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1915. 8° (186 x 130mm). Coloured plates, illustrations. Contemporary blue half morocco by Best & Co., top edge gilt (spine evenly faded). INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'The cast of all earth's noble hearts is the right soldier's faith. Henry Newbolt'. (4) View on Christie's.com
Lot 131
QUIRINI, Angelo Maria (1680-1755), Bishop of Brescia. Primordia Corcyrae. Brescia: Giovanni-Maria Rizzardi, 1738. 2 parts (of 3) in one volume, 4° (280 x 204mm). Half-title, title printed in red and black with small engraved map of Corfu, divisional title to appendix (part II) with small engraved plan of Corfu town, two engraved plates, three engraved initials, one engraved tailpiece. (Divisional title lightly soiled and cleanly torn with old paper repair to verso, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary vellum, light blue edges (light worming to paste downs). Provenance: Angelo Maria Quirini (author's ink presentation inscription on front pastedown to:) -- Maria Mazzuchelli -- 20th-century stamp to title. AUTHOR'S OWN COPY OF HIS SECOND EXPANDED EDITION CONTAINING THE RARE Appendix sacrae quaedam Corcyrae primordia which comprises correspondence between Quirini and Pope Benedict XIII concerning the customs of Corfu. The author was Latin Archbishop of Corfu between 1723 and 1727. The third part merely assembles comments on Corfu by other authors that appear in the main text. Blackmer 1373. View on Christie's.com
Lot 134
SLAVERY -- An Abstract of the Evidence delivered before ... the House of Commons in the Years 1790 and 1791; on the part of the Petitioners for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade. Edinburgh: Glasgow and Edinburgh Societies Instituted for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1791. 8° (178 x 97mm), folding engraved plate and map. (Occasional light spotting and browning, repaired marginal tear to plate.) Contemporary half calf, rebacked (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: John Anderson, University of Glasgow (1726-1796, bookplate). ASSOCIATION COPY belonging to a member of the Scottish enlightenment. This is one of two Edinburgh issues, complete with the initial advertisement leaf, map of West Africa, and plate showing the inhumane arrangements for the trans-Atlantic shipping of slaves. John Anderson became Professor of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow University in 1757, and was also active in the Glasgow Literary Society. In his will he left instructions that his estate was to be used to found a new university in Glasgow. While this never came about, his executors managed to establish Anderson's Institution, which survives to this day in transmuted form as Strathclyde University. View on Christie's.com
Lot 136
SEELEY, John. Stowe. A Description of the House and Gardens. London: J. Edwards, 1797. 4° (245 x 185mm). Engraved title, 25 engraved plates, 6 engraved plans, one folding, double-page map. (Variable light spotting.) Contemporary red morocco by Christian Kalthoeber (with his orange label), covers with double gilt fillets and inner dotted roll bordering a repeated foliate scroll, star burst devices at corners, fan-shaped inner corner-pieces built up of various tools, gilt spine with double bands outlined with thick and thin gilt fillets, lettered in one panel, the others elaborately tooled, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilded, silk marker (extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance: William Beckford (neat ms. note to verso of front endpaper, and printed catalogue entry on pastedown from the Hamilton Palace sale part III, Sotheby's 11 July 1883, lot 1876) -- Archibald Rosebery (book label; sold at Sotheby's 28 October 1975, lot 374). LARGE-PAPER COPY, WITH AN EXCEPTIONAL PROVENANCE, FINELY BOUND BY KALTHOEBER. The Hamilton Palace catalogue describes it as having 'proof plates'. The views in this edition by John Seeley were entirely new. Lowndes IV 2527, stating that 150 copies were published with proof plates; RIBA 2953. View on Christie's.com
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