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Click here to subscribeIRELAND: FRASER (James): 'Handbook for Travellers in Ireland, Descriptive of its Scenery, Towns, Seats, Antiquities, etc.', Dublin, James McGlashan, 1849: 735pp, final few leaves creased and torn, folding map of Ireland (pub. Chapman & Hall 1847) tipped-onto verso of final leaf and creased/ragged, title nicked to edges and contents browned, recent green half morocco gilt, 8vo. (1)
PATTERSON (Captain Daniel): 'Patterson's British Itinerary being a New and Accurate Delineation and Description of the Direct and Principal Crossroads of Great Britain...', London, Carington Bowles, at his map and print warehouse, 1785: with hand-coloured double-page map of England and Wales and 357 strip-maps of the road system (printed 2 to a page): 2 vols, contemporary calf gilt worn and rubbed with hinges cracked, small 8vo. (2)
ESSEX: 'Excursions in the County of Essex: comprising a brief historical and topographical delineation of every town and village...', London, printed for Longman, Hurst et al, 1818: 2 vols, folding map and plan, engraved titles and numerous engraved plates, contemporary green half morocco gilt, teg, a little rubbed but a good set. (2)
1770 edition Spectacle de la Nature or Nature Display'd Vol. IV, translated from the original French, printed for L.Davis;J. Buckland; J.Rivington; R.Baldwin;W.Strahan;W.Johnston;Hawes;Clarke and Collins, published London, containing maps, the frontispiece depicts Galileo applies the Telescope to Astronomy, calfs leather binding. Sibley Ebenezer An Universal System of Natural History including.... Volume The Second, printed for the propriertor and sold by Champante and Whitrow, rebound hardcover. This lot includes a number of 18th and 19th century books including H.Buxton Forman Keat's Poetical Works publ. 1931; Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott published by Galiganani and Co; The Old Curiosity Shop publ. Chapman and Hall; Personal History of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens publ. Chapman & Hall; Mrs Craik John Halifax Gentleman publ. Ward, Lock & Co Limited; 1782 The Political Magazine and Parliamentary, Naval, Military and Literary Journal Vol.III printed for J.Bew London; British Bible Society The Holy Bible stereotype edition publ Bensley,Cooke and Collingwood; 1873 People's Magazine; The Leisure Hour 1874 and lastly a Geographia Road Map of England & Wales.
A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION OF JEWELLERY AND TRINKETS comprising a vintage metal hare brooch with rose picture pendant drop, a mother of pearl card case, a cased silver collared small pipe, a cased Sinclair map reader, a silver bladed mother of pearl handled fruit knife, a collection of manicure implements to include two silver handled etc.
Rose, Frederick William. Serio-Comic War Map for the Year 1877. Revised Edition. Chromolithographie. 47,5 x 67 cm. Unter Passepartout. London, G W Bacon, 1877.Sehr wahrscheinlich der zweite Zustand dieser Karte, die insgesamt vier Auflagen erlebte, hier noch ohne die "Erklärungen" in deutscher Sprache in der linken Blatthälfte.Die satirische Karikaturkarte stammt von Frederick William Rose (1849-1915) und zeigt die sich entwickelnde politische und militärische Situation in Europa zur Zeit des Russisch-Türkischen Krieges im Jahr 1877. Die Karte wurde als beliebtes Propagandamittel eingesetzt, um die stark antirussische und pro-türkische außenpolitische Haltung der damaligen britischen Regierung unter ihrem konservativen Premierminister Benjamin Disraeli zu unterstützen.Russland wird in Form einer bösartig aussehenden Krake dargestellt, deren acht lange Tentakel sich nach Nord- und Osteuropa, in den Nahen Osten und nach Asien erstrecken. Der Riesenoktopus umschließt mit festem Griff die Gebiete Finnlands, Polens, Bulgariens, der Krim und Persiens und reicht sogar bis zum Heiligen Land, Armenien und Samarkand sowie zum Khanat Chiwa in Zentralasien. Im Bereich der Krim wurde der Krake eine tiefe Schnittwunde zugefügt. Dies scheint sie aber keineswegs in ihrem Zugriff zu beeinflussen.Das türkische Imperium wird in Person eines liegenden Osmanen mit Turban über den Dardanellen und dem Bosporus dargestellt, der sich mit nur einer kleinen vorgehaltenen Pistole zu verteidigen weiß und seine goldene Uhr beschützt, die ihm um die Taille hängt - die Stadt "Constantinople". Die Krake hat bereits begonnen, ihre Fangarme auszustrecken und nördliche Teile der Türkei umschlossen.Griechenland wird durch eine lästige Krabbe gezeigt, die dem Osmanen in den rechten Ellbogen kneift. Ungarn wird von seiner Schwester Österreich von einem Angriff auf Russland abgehalten. Deutschland, in Gestalt seines uniformierten Kaisers, umgibt sich mit Waffen und Geschützen, bereit für den Ernstfall. Frankreich in Gestalt von Marschall Mac-Mahon zielt mit einer gefährlichen Mitrailleuse auf seinen deutschen Nachbarn, um sich für seine Niederlage im Deutsch-Französischen Krieg von 1870/71 zu rächen. Italien ist ein junges Mädchen, das seine neu gefundene Einheit genießt und den Papst in Rom in Form eines Püppchens an der Tiara packt. Spanien wird personifiziert durch die liegende Figur von Alfonso, der sich von seinen jüngsten Anstrengungen erholt.Der König von Belgien präsentiert seine Reichtümer in Form von Schätzen und verweist damit zugleich auf seine Kolonien. Dänemark schwenkt stolz seine kleine Flagge. Die Britischen Inseln - England als kniender Gentleman mit Regenschirm, Schottland als Highlander im Schottenrock mit erhobenem Claymore und Irland als Mönch mit Kapuze und dem Gedanken an Home Rule - stehen bereit und sind entschlossen, zumindest die Türkenuhr zu retten.Die sogenannte Oktopus-Karte gehört zu einem der eindringlichsten Beispiele des faszinierenden Genres der Karikatur im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert. Russland als Krake mit ausgestreckten Fangarmen darzustellen war schon vor Rose ein bekanntes Motiv, wurde von ihm jedoch perfektioniert und in einen kartographischen Kunstgriff inszeniert. Auf der vorliegenden Karte verkörpert die russische Krake etwas Monströses, Böses und Fremdartiges, ein Wesen, das in der damaligen politisch instabilen Lage gezielt seine Tentakeln ausgestreckt und Unruhe stiftet - o tempora o mores (honi soit qui mal y pense!).Fred. W. Rose schuf die Erstausgabe dieser Karte nur zwei Monate nach Ausbruch des Russisch-Türkischen Krieges (1877-1878) und changierte auf besonders gekonnte Art und Weise mit Cartoon-Stereotypen der verschiedenen Länder. Gleichzeitig gelang es ihm, verschiedene Konflikte mit einzubeziehen und zu erzählen. Diese Erstauflage verkaufte sich so erfolgreich, dass bereits im selben Jahr eine erweiterte Ausgabe erschien. Großbritannien war zu diesem Zeitpunkt sehr an der Kartographie interessiert, auch an der Vermessung des eigenen Landes, in erster Linie, um koloniale und imperiale Interessen wirksam, auch im Ausland, zu präsentieren.Rose war zum Zeitpunkt der Veröffentlichung der Karte ein siebenundzwanzigähriger junger Mann, der im Legacy Office of the Inland Revenue angestellt war, wo er Zeit seines Lebens als Beamter arbeitete. Auch nach seinem großen Erfolg der vorliegenden Karte, die zu einer Serie von insgesamt fünf Karten gehört ("England on Guard". London, G W Bacon, 1878; "A Comic Map of the British Isles". Ebenda 1880; "Angling in Troubled Waters". Ebenda 1899; "John Bull and his Friends". Ebenda 1900), blieb Rose in seiner Funktion als Beamter tätig. "His strongly-held Conservative political views undoubtedly informed the content and message of several of his comic maps & in a manner which has never been fully recognized or appreciated" (barronmaps.com/fred-w-rose-1849-1915/, Stand am 23.2.2022). - In der rechten unteren Ecke mit größerem Feuchtigkeitsrand. Einmal vertikal, einmal horizontal gefaltet. In der horizontalen Faltspur auf der rechten Blatthälfte mit Einriss bis in die Darstellung. Etwas gebräunt und angeschmutzt, leicht fleckig.
A PAIR OF MID 19TH CENTURY FRENCH MAPS OF COAST OF AFRICAwith cartouches inscribed in French: "Reduced map of the western coasts of Africa. First Sheet containing the Coasts of Barbary from the Detroit of Gibaltrar to Cape Bojador and the Canary Islands (...)" and "Reduced map of the Southern Ocean containing All the Coasts of South America from the Equator to the 57 Degree of Latitude And the Coasts of Africa which are opposed to them to serve for the ships of the King". Dated 1853 on sheet. Framed and glazed,96cm x 67cm overall (2)
BRADLEY OMAR: (1893-1981) American General of World War II who later served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army 1948-49 and as first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 1949-53. Book signed, being a hardback edition of A Soldier's Story, First Edition published by Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1951. One of a limited edition of 750 'especially printed and bound' copies signed ('Omar N Bradley') by Bradley to the limitations page and numbered 677 in his hand. Bound in the publisher's original tan cloth with a maroon facsimile signature to the front cover and gilt and black title to the spine. Featuring map endpapers and many black-and-white illustrations throughout. Some light age wear, VG
TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA GIUSEPPE: (1896-1957) Italian Writer, the last Prince of Lampedusa. Rare signed and inscribed book by Lampedusa, being a 4to paperback edition of the book En Sicile by Gabriel Fauré, in French. Signed and inscribed in Italian by Tomasi di Lampedusa to the title page `To my very dear Guido, twenty years have passed, but always with the same affection, Giuseppe´, also dated 21st July 1951. The 200 pages edition, published by B. Arthaud in 1951, numbered 505, includes 181 gravures showing images of Sicily. s, 1917. Lampedusa dedicates the book to his close friend Guido Lajolo, with whom he served in the same regiment during World War I. The book includes a separate map of Sicily. Overall age wear with foxing stains to the covers. Some age toning to the edges of the pages. G
OUDINOT NICOLAS: (1767-1847) Marshal of France. Duc de Reggio. Unusual and very rare battle map, one page, large oblong 19 x 15 slightly thicker paper, n.p., n.d., the battle armies locations drawn being of the Battle of Austerlitz, 1805. The battle map contains multiple hand-written annotations by Marshal Oudinot, naming the Officer leading the different troops or indicating the name of the regiment or location. Most of the texts, drawings, lines and curves, are in pencil and in another hand. Oudinot annotates in dark ink at various points of the map `Cavalry of the Russian Guard´, `Murat´, `Brunn´, `infantry of the Russian guard´, `telnitz´, `menitz´, etc.. Edges slightly trimmed, with one tear, not affecting the annotations. Folded, with small overall age wear. F to G
Leonard Brewer (1875-1935)The Manchester Royal Exchange, etching, pencil signed by the artist, 36 x 29.5cm; together with two satirical prints - 'The Ray of Hope' after Woodward and 'Another Stage in the March of Intellect', lithograph by John Doyle; and a map of Oxford after Michael Burghers (re-strike) (4)
Yeld (George). Scrambles in the Eastern Graians 1878-1897, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1900, 20 monochrome illustrations plus a folding map to pp.274, front & rear gutters cracked, some light spotting & toning, front board & spine partially detached, publishers original gilt decorated blue cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed with minor tears to head & foot, 8vo, together with;Ruttledge (Hugh), Everest: The Unfinished Adventure, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937, 2 folding maps plus 63 black & white plates, some light spotting, publishers original blue cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plusSmythe (F. S.), Climbs and Ski Runs, Mountaineering and Ski-ing in the Alps, Great Britain and Corsica, 1st edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1929, numerous black & white illustrations, some minor toning, original cloth in facsimile dust jacket, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other early to mid 20th-century mountaineering reference, including South Col, One man's adventure on the Ascent of Everest 1953, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1954, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, all original cloth, many in dust jackets, overall condition is goodQty: (55)
British Isles. De Wit (Frederick), Novissima prae caeteris aliis accuratissima Regnorum Angliae Scotiae Hiberniae..., Amsterdam circa 1690, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, inset map of the Orkney, Faroes and Shetland Islands, decorative cartouche and mileage scale, slight overall toning, 590 x 490 mmQty: (1)Footnote: R.W.Shirley. Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1650 - 1750. De Wit 6. state 1.
British Isles. Desgranges (Christain name is unknown), La Carte des Royaumes, d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse et d'Irlande, dediée a sa Majesté Britannique..., Paris, 1689, separately published engraved map by Capitaine Roussel, contemporary outline colouring, inset maps of the English Channel and of the Shetland, Orkney and Faroe Islands, large uncoloured ornate cartouche and mileage scale, 455 x 570 mmQty: (1)Footnote: R.W.Shirley. Printed Maps of the British Isles 1650 - 1750, Desgranges 1. state 1. Desgranges was a little known French mapmaker and no record exists of his Christian name, nor the dates of his birth or death. This map was separately published and Shirley notes at least six different states. This example matches Shirley's description of state 1 in that it has the signature of Roussel who engraved the map but it lacks that of Dolivart. This would appear to be an unrecorded variation of state 1. The date is significant. 1689 was the year that Louis XIV declared war on England in support of the deposed Catholic King James II. The three figures on the right of the cartouche represent James, his wife Mary and their infant son. The text beneath the inset map of the Faroe, Orkney and Shetland islands lists the English possessions in the Americas, the West Indies, Africa and Asia.
British Isles. Homann (Johann Baptiste, Heirs of), Magna Britannia complectens Angliae, Scotiae et Hyberniae..., circa 1730, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, inset map of the Shetland and Orkney Islands, title repeated in English above the map, slight dust soiling, slight water staining largely confined to the margins, 500 x 575 mm, together with Rocque (John). England and Wales drawn from the most accurate surveys, Containing all the Cities, Boroughs, Market Towns and Villages..., 1794, large engraved map with contemporary outline colouring on two sheets, large uncoloured cartouche, inset map of the Scilly Isles, old folds, slight offsetting, overall size 1200 x 985 mm, with Mercator (Gerard). Marca Brandenburgensis & Pomerania [1585 or later], engraved map with contemporary hand-colouring, heightened with gilt, strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, some marginal closed tears, but not affecting the printed image, slight toning, 355 x 475 mm, Latin text on versoQty: (3)
British Isles. Magini (Giovani), Britanicae Insulae, 1595 [but 1617], uncoloured engraved map, 135 x 175 mm, Latin text on verso, together with Mercator (G. & Hondius H.), Anglia, circa 1609, hand-coloured engraved map, 140 x 185 mm, German text on verso, with Langenes (Barent & Van den Keere (Pieter), Anglia, 1598 [but 1612], uncoloured engraved map, orientated to the west, 95 x 125 mm, German text on verso, plus Magini (Giovani). Tabula Europae Prima, 1596 [but 1621], uncoloured engraved map on a trapezoidal projection, Italian text below, with a map of Spain and Portugal on the verso, map size 135 x 175 mm, and Munster (Sebastian). Anglie Triquetra Descriptio [1538], uncoloured woodblock map with Latin text surrounding the map and on the verso, map size 150 x 120 mm, with another 20 maps similar, including examples by or after Perrot, De Fer, Munster, Bowen/Meijer, Mallet, Moll, Mueller, Lewis, Sir Jonas Moore, MacKenzie and Lotter, various sizes, but small format, good conditionQty: (25)
British Isles. Mercator (Gerard & Hondius Jodocus ), Europae I. Tab, 1578 [but 1619), engraved map, hand-coloured in a 16th-century style, the map on a Ptolemaic design with Scotland on an east-west orientation, slight spotting and staining, but largely confined to the margins, 335 x 410 mm, Latin text on versoQty: (1)Footnote: R. W. Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1477 - 1650, number 364.
British Isles. Moll (Herman), A New Map of Great Britain. According to the Newest and most Exact Observations, Thomas & John Bowles and John King, [1732], engraved map on two conjoined sheets with contemporary outline colouring, inset map of Shetland and Orkney Islands, picture frame cartouche, compass rose and descriptive text, old folds, small areas of repair to the verso of the right-hand margin, 1030 x 620 mm Qty: (1)Footnote: R.W.Shirley, Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1650 - 1750, Moll 7. state 3.
British Isles. Ortelius (Abraham), Britannicarum Insularum Typus, [1595], engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, orientated to the west, large strapwork cartouche, slight worming to the central fold, slight overall toning, crudely repaired on the verso, 370 x 510 mm, Latin text on versoQty: (1)Footnote: Marcel van den Broecke. Ortelius Atlas Maps number 192. Originally published in the Parergon.
British Isles. Senex (John, Maxwell John & Price Charles), A New Map of Great Britain, corrected from the observations communicated to the Royal Society at London, 1714, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring on two conjoined sheets, inset map of the Shetland and Orkney Islands, large uncoloured cartouche, surmounted by a portrait of Queen Anne, old folds, one with long repaired closed tear, some staining, strengthening and repairs along the central fold, 940 x 645 mm, together with Jaillot (Alexis Hubert). Les Isles Britanniques qui contiennent les Royaumes d' Angleterre, Escosse et Irlande..., 1696, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring on two conjoined sheets, inset map of the Shetland Orkney and Faroe Islands, title repeated above the upper border, uncoloured decorative cartouche and mileage scale, very slight staining, 590 x 890 mm, Qty: (2)Footnote: R. W. Shirley. Printed Maps of the British Isles 1650 - 1750. Price 2. state 3 (lacking the C. Price imprint). Jaillot 1. Plate 2, state 3.
Cambridgeshire. Jansson (Jan), Comitatis Cantabrigiensis vernacule Cambridgeshire, Amsterdam circa 1650, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, decorative cartouche and mileage scale, slight adhesion scaring to the margins, slight spotting, 420 x 520 mm, Latin text on verso, together with Morden (Robert). Cambridgeshire [1695 or later], hand-coloured engraved map, 430 x 365 mmQty: (2)
Franklin Expedition. Arctic expedition. Return to an order of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 5 February 1850; 4 copies 'of any new reports or statements from the officers employed in the Artic expeditions, or from any other persons, which have been laid before the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, in respect to the resumption of the search for Sir John Franklin's expedition..., London: House of Commons, 5 March 1850, inscribed by Captain Edward Joseph Bird to Sir Joseph Sherer R.N. to upper margin of title, (vi) 157pp, 2 folding maps, 1 plate, title reinforced with later paper restoration, repaired tear to large polar map, closed marginal tear to map of Baffin Bay, some leaves reinforced to gutter, lightly spotted, occasional light marginal toning, original blue covers (rear loosely tipped-in), modern blue buckram, spine lettered in gilt, folioQty: (1)Footnote:An Arctic blue book inscribed by the Commander of the Investigator to a fellow Arctic explorer. These parliamentary accounts are considered the most important primary source material relating to the Arctic from this period.Inscribed by Captain Edward Joseph Bird to Sir Joseph Sherer. Bird commanded the Investigator in the 1848 search for the Franklin expedition alongside Captain James Clark Ross in the Enterprise. He met Sherer on Parry's 1821-23 Arctic expedition which aimed to discover the North-West Passage. Sherer served on both of Parry's expeditions aboard the Hecla and was knighted into the Guelphic Order in 1836. He later worked on seizing slave vessels, capturing the Josepha, Midas and Gallito in an 8-month window, for which he received praise from the Lords of the Admiralty.
Cambridgeshire. Willdey (George), Cambridge-Shire and the Great Level of ye Fens extending into the Adjacent Shires according to Surveys as it is now Drained at the Charges of ye Rt. Honble. W. Earl of Bedford & ye other Proprieters by Sr. Jonas Moore &c. [1720 or later], hand-coloured engraved map, inset town plans of Cambridge and Ely, 18 coats of arms, slight overall toning, one small stain affecting the image, 395 x 475 mmQty: (1)Footnote: George Willdey purchased Christopher Saxton's plates from Philip Lea and published an atlas in 1720.
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