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DELISLE, Guillaume; Philippe Buache; & Jean Claude Dezauche.
Atlas geographique et universel 1789
£25,000
First edition thus and uncommon (just four listings on OCLC, three of these for the BNF, and no complete copy at auction for 30 years). Jean-Claude Dezauche was one of the...
2 volumes, folio (453 × 375 mm). Contemporary calf, rebacked, red morocco labels. Engraved allegorical title page and contents leaves to each and 151 double-page... Read more
SELLER, John.
Atlas Minimus or A Book of Geography. [c.1678]
£18,000
Second edition, second issue. An exceptional copy of this extremely uncommon, and highly appealing little volume, which, while not the first world atlas published in England, is...
Duodecimo (113 × 75 mm) Original sprinkled calf trade binding, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with floral tools, foliate edge-roll, marbled edges.... Read more
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ORTELIUS, Abraham.
[Epitome] Theatri Orbis Terrarum Enchiridion, 1585
£16,500
First Latin and first quarto edition of Epitome. The engraver Philip Galle was a close friend of both Ortelius and Christopher Plantin and co-publisher of Braun and Hogenberg's...
Quarto (202 × 145 mm). Eighteenth-century half calf sewn on four cords, handwritten paper label to spine, marbled sides. Housed in a cloth flat back solander box.... Read more
PORCACCHI, Tommaso.
L'Isole Piu Famose Del Mondo…con L'Aggiunta di Molte Isole… 1576 [colophon dated 1575]
£10,000
Second and best edition, which contains "much more" (Sabin) than the first edition of 1572, including 17 additional maps. Two of these, Jamaica and Porto Rico, are in the eight-map...
Folio ((296 × 200 mm). Eighteenth-century vellum, title inked to the spine, edges sprinkled. Engraved title, and 47 engraved maps in the text by Porro. A little... Read more
PINKERTON, John.
A Modern Atlas, from the latest and best authorities, 1815
£8,750
The Edinburgh writer John Pinkerton (1758–1826) was a contentious figure. His friendships with eminent men such as Thomas Percy, Horace Walpole, Edward Gibbon, and Sir Walter...
Atlas folio (614 × 434 mm). Contemporary half calf, rebacked and recornered to style. With 60 hand-coloured double-page maps on 61 sheets, engraved by L. Hebert.... Read more
SANSON D'ABBEVILLE, Nicolas & Guillaume.
Description de tout l'univers, en plusieurs cartes, 1700
£7,500
First edition under this title, comprising atlases of the four continents already published as individual volumes by Halma, with the addition of new maps of England, Scotland,...
Quarto (220 × 165 mm), in six parts (including Luyt's Tables Geographiques and Bion's L'Usage des Globes as supplements). Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt... Read more
SANSON, Nicolas, père & fils.
Die gantze Erd-Kugel, 1679
£7,500
First German edition of Sanson's handsome atlas portatif, translated from the French continental volumes published in 1648, 1652, 1655, and 1657. The collation resembles closely the...
4 parts bound in one, quarto (240 × 186 mm). Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine. Engraved allegorical frontispiece/title page with female figures with the... Read more
HEYLYN, Peter.
Cosmography, in Four Books, containing the Chorography and History of the Whole World: 1682
£3,500
Sixth edition, complete with the imprimatur leaf at the front. Heylyn's Cosmographie first appeared in 1652, and was sufficiently well regarded that the council of state saw fit to...
4 volumes in one, folio (360 × 235mm). Engraved title and 4 large folding maps, Imprimatur leaf repaired at inner margin with slight loss of text on 5 lines.... Read more
DESNOS, Louis Charles.
Atlas Chorographique, Historique, et Portatif des Elections du Royaume. Généralité de Paris. 1763
£3,500
First edition. Uncommon, OCLC lists just three copies which appear to be bound with an accompanying text by the abbé Regley which was clearly never present here: a further...
Small quarto (196 × 136 mm). Mottled calf trade binding, raised bands to the spine, double fillet gilt panels to the compartments enclosing gilt pomegranate... Read more
BOTERO, Giovanni.
Relationi Universali... 1640
£2,750
First published in 1592. Giovanni Botero (1533–1617) was Secretary to the Duke of Savoy when he compiled his Relationi Universali; "this political and geographical description...
Quarto (212 × 160 mm). Late eighteenth-century Italian mottled sheep, smooth spine richly gilt in compartments, tan morocco label, patterned endpapers, red edges.... Read more
HEYLYN, Peter.
Cosmography, in Four Books, containing the Chorography and History of the Whole World: 1682
£2,500
Sixth edition. Heylyn's reputation as a religious theorist and historian is somewhat controversial, being inextricably linked with opposing views of the development of the Church of...
Folio (350 × 220 mm). Engraved allegorical title page by John Fillian, described by Evelyn as a "hopeful young man", but who committed suicide having produced... Read more
KELLY, Christopher.
A new and complete system of Universal Geography; 1815–17
£1,800
First Edition. The firm of Thomas Kelly, famous for Kelly's Directory, was founded in 1799 and carried on the Paternoster Row tradition of publishing this and similar compendia of...
2 volumes, quarto (261 × 213 mm). Handsomely bound in contemporary tree calf, spines richly gilt in compartments, wide raised bands gilt on stained black grounds,... Read more
GREENWOOD, Christopher.
Map of the County of Middlesex, 1819
£1,500
First Edition, one of the earliest of the fine series of county maps by Christopher Greenwood (1786–1855), whose first publication was a survey of Yorkshire (Wakefield,...
1260 × 1305 mm, 4 sheets joined, original outline colour, dissected and mounted on linen, marbled endpapers, in original calf bookform box, spine with red morocco... Read more
BELL, James.
A System of Geography, popular and scientific, 1832
£1,250
First edition. James Bell (1770–1833) set up in business as a Glasgow cotton manufacturer but found study more congenial. This is his principal work, drawing heavily on the work...
6 volumes, octavo. Handsomely bound in contemporary diced calf, spines richly gilt in compartments, double black lettering-pieces, covers with thick-and-thin fillet... Read more
MARTINEAU, M. A.
Nouvel Atlas Illustré, Géographie Universelle. [c. 1905]
£1,200
First edition.
Folio. Original quarter red morocco over red pebble grained cloth boards, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, decorartion and titles to boards gilt,... Read more
HUGHES, William. (editor)
Philip's general atlas of the world: 1867
£975
First published 1864. Hughes (1818–1876), was "Unquestionably a pioneer of geographical education, Hughes foreshadowed rather than shared in the main developments in British...
Folio (562 × 362 mm). Publisher's black half hard-grained morocco, green cloth boards, title gilt to spine, raised bands, gilt rules, title and bihemispheric map... Read more
(BLACK, A. & C.)
Black's General Atlas of the World. 1882
£550
This title first issued in 1840. A nice late nineteenth-century atlas.
Folio (440 × 323 mm). Publisher's red half morocco on pebble-grained boards, title gilt to spine and upper board, all edge gilt. Coloured frontispiece of Flags... Read more
JOHNSTON, Alexander Keith.
Handy Atlas of Modern Geography 1879
£450
First published in this format in 1868. Alex. Keith was brother to Sir William Johnston founder of the family firm, W. & A.K. Johnston, Fellow of the RGS from 1842, self-styled...
Folio. (360 × 240 mm) Publisher's red half morocco on pebble-grained boards, title gilt to spine and upper board, all edges gilt. Double-page coloured... Read more
BRADFORD, John Service.
Atlantic Coast Pilot - Eastport to Boston. 1879
£350
A revised and corrected edition, following the first of 1871. Founded by an act of 1807 "to provide for surveying the coasts of the United States," the Office of Coast Survey is the...
Quarto (295 × 193 mm). Original half skiver on marbled boards, title gilt to the spine, marbled edges and endpapers. 24 folding harbour charts and 31 folding... Read more
(EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN)
German East Africa. Mohoro. E 6. Scale 1:300,000 [Military map including the Rufiji Delta]. 1916
£235
Extremely attractive map produced for British forces during the East African campaign. Covers from Mkulassi in the north west and Mitumbati in the south west, to Ras Kanssi...
Colour-printed folding map (opens 679 × 854 mm) backed with linen. Very good. Read more
HARRINGTON, Peter.
Travel & Exploration: 2011
£10
Peter Harrington catalogue no. 79. Peter Harrington special subject catalogues describe a range of significant books in particular subject areas. Filled with lavish full colour...
Quarto (27 × 21 cm). Gloss laminated card wrappers. 223 items offered for sale. Fully illustrated in colour. New. Read more
