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RECENT ACQUISITIONS Department of Printed Books Acquisitions 1968-1978, Map Library By Sarah Tyackc and Helen Wallis Between 1968 and 1978 the Map Library has acquired a number of important and unusual atlases, maps, and globes dating; from c. 1500 to 1850. Although all acquisitions are entered in the published Map Catalogue and in its subsequent accessions parts, this article provides fuller descriptions of some of the more interesting items acquired which, it is hoped, will reach a wider audience. A second article will complete the listing of notable acquisitions for the period 1968-78. ATLASES BEVIS, John. [Tbirty-four proof states of star charts prepared for the Uranograpbia Britan- nica by Jobn Bevis, c. 1750.] pi. 34; 36 x 31 cm. John Bevis (1693-1711), F.R.S., undertook the compilation of bis star atla.s in 1745 after seven years of astronomical observations made at bis observatory at Stoke Newington. He bad the plates finished and ready for the press when. plates before tbe lettering engraver bad started work. On only one has the dedication been filled in. Comparison of the proots with the tinisbed maps also shows that many significant additions were made tor the final publication, botb of extra outlines to constellations and of extra stars. Although heavily indebted to tbe work of Jobann Bayer, tbe atlas of 1786 con- tains about tive times as many stars as Bayer's atlas, Vranometria, and Bevis introduced Gotbic lettering to indicate tbese additions. in 1750, the publisher, Jobn Neale, became A copy of tbe Atlas Celeste (17H6), itself a very bankrupt. Bevis was tbus deprived of the opportunity to publish the work in bis lifetime, although in 1750 he was honoured by tbe Berlin Academy of Sciences for his 'inimitable atlas', shortly expected to appear. When in 1786 the publisbers offered for sale sets of the sheets remaining from the original impression as an atlas of 51 maps witb tbe title Atlas Celeste, tbe work was publisbed witbout men- tion of Bevis's name. rare work comprising fitty-t)ne star charts and an engraved trontispiece, is already in tbe Map Library collection. Maps C,2i.e.S. Bo WEN, Emanuel, and KITCHEN, Thomas. Tbe Royal Englisb Atlas: Being a New and Accurate Set of Maps of all the counties in England and Wales... London: printedfor and sold by Cartngton Bowles, 1177S.] pi. 44; 47 cm. Tbe set of thirty-four proof sbeets which Tbe Royal Englisb Atlas was tirst published have now eome to light show the state of the about 1763 and is known in six editions, whicb 181

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RECENT ACQUISITIONS

Department of Printed Books

Acquisitions 1968-1978, Map Library

By Sarah Tyackc and Helen Wallis

Between 1968 and 1978 the Map Library has acquired a number of important andunusual atlases, maps, and globes dating; from c. 1500 to 1850. Although all acquisitionsare entered in the published Map Catalogue and in its subsequent accessions parts, thisarticle provides fuller descriptions of some of the more interesting items acquired which,it is hoped, will reach a wider audience. A second article will complete the listing ofnotable acquisitions for the period 1968-78.

ATLASES

BEVIS, John. [Tbirty-four proof states of starcharts prepared for the Uranograpbia Britan-nica by Jobn Bevis, c. 1750.] pi. 34; 36 x31 cm.

John Bevis (1693-1711), F.R.S., undertook thecompilation of bis star atla.s in 1745 after sevenyears of astronomical observations made at bisobservatory at Stoke Newington. He bad theplates finished and ready for the press when.

plates before tbe lettering engraver bad startedwork. On only one has the dedication beenfilled in. Comparison of the proots with thetinisbed maps also shows that many significantadditions were made tor the final publication,botb of extra outlines to constellations and ofextra stars. Although heavily indebted to tbework of Jobann Bayer, tbe atlas of 1786 con-tains about tive times as many stars as Bayer'satlas, Vranometria, and Bevis introducedGotbic lettering to indicate tbese additions.

in 1750, the publisher, Jobn Neale, became A copy of tbe Atlas Celeste (17H6), itself a verybankrupt. Bevis was tbus deprived of theopportunity to publish the work in bis lifetime,although in 1750 he was honoured by tbeBerlin Academy of Sciences for his 'inimitableatlas', shortly expected to appear. When in1786 the publisbers offered for sale sets of thesheets remaining from the original impressionas an atlas of 51 maps witb tbe title AtlasCeleste, tbe work was publisbed witbout men-tion of Bevis's name.

rare work comprising fitty-t)ne star charts andan engraved trontispiece, is already in tbe MapLibrary collection.

Maps C,2i.e.S.

Bo WEN, Emanuel, and K I T C H E N , Thomas.Tbe Royal Englisb Atlas: Being a New andAccurate Set of Maps of all the counties inEngland and Wales... London: printed for andsold by Cartngton Bowles, 1177S.] pi. 44; 47 cm.

Tbe set of thirty-four proof sbeets which Tbe Royal Englisb Atlas was tirst publishedhave now eome to light show the state of the about 1763 and is known in six editions, whicb

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T H E

ROYAL ENGLISH ATLAS:. B E I N G A

NEW AND ACCURATE SET OF MAPSO F A L L T H E

COUNTIES IN ENGLAND AND WALES,

D R A W N F R O M T H E

Several SURVEYS which have been hitherto Publiflicd,

With a general Map of E N G L A N D , AND W A L E S .

From the laieft and bcft Authoriea.

I Englnnda Bedfordrhirc

34 Buckingham Hiir5 Combridgcjliircb aicfliire7 Cornwall

CCumbcriancI

L Wtftmor I andg Dcrbylliirc

10 Devonlliirc11 Dorfctftiirct i Durham•13 Ll&x(4 Glouccftcrihiic

J 5 Hampfhirc16 HcnlorJlhireI 7 Hcn:iordlhire18 HuntingdoDiliire19 Kcn[10 Lancalhirc

• Leiceftcriliirc{Leice:

Rutla id/hifc37 LincolnDiire3 j Middlcfcx24 Monmouciiniucas Norfolka 6 Northampton (hire27 Notfinghamlltirelit Northumberland

39 OKfordfliirc30 Shropfhirc31 Somcrfetfliirc32 Staflordlhirc33 SufFoik.34 Surrcj'35 Sulitrvj6 Warwickihirc37 Wiltrtiirc3fl Worccftcrlhire39 Yorkiliire+0 Eaft Riding o( York41 North Ridmg of ditto4a Weft Riding of ditto43 Nonh Walci44 South Wain.

Containing all the C i T i i i , T o w N i , V I L L A O R I , and Cii URCIIEI , whether R E C T O I I E I ,ViCAiLAOBi, or CHAriLi , many NoiLBUEh* and G E N T L I M E N ' I SHAT!1, V(. Sfc.

EACH MAP IS ILLUSTRATED

Wiili » Genen! Dclcripiion ofihcCouwTf, i t iCiTrei, BORODOH and MARKET TOWN 1, th«Number ofM i M X x rclumcd 10 P A « L 1 AM E HT, rAXiiiil l , HOUSLI, AcftEt of LAND, dc.

And Hlftorical Ennfti rciitin to the TRADT, M A I T F A C T O S F I . uidCoTiitKMFHr ofthe C I T I E I , uidPrincipal T o w m , »i«l ihc prdinl Slate of their Inhibitant), (i(.

By E M A N U E L B O W E N , Gioc«ArHi« to llii MAJIITV, T H O M A S K I T C H E N , and Qiben.

L O N D O N :

Frinlcit for ind Sold hj CA«IIIOTOJI BowtH, ai hii M»p and Print Warchoufe, at N" 69, in St. P»ul'i Church Yiri,

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are distinguishable by their imprints. Themaps were reduced and modified versions ofthose engraved for The Large English Athis(1749-60) and included additional views anddescriptive legends. This example of the atlasis the second edition and, from the evidence ofthe map imprints, was published c. 1778. Oneother example of this edition is recorded byThomas Chubb in The Printed Maps in theAtlases of Great Britain and Ireland {1927),n. CCXIX. The edition is further identifiablehy the presence of the name of CaringtonBowles in the imprint. By 1778 the originalconsortium of seven publishers, which did notinclude Carington Bowles, had been reduced tothree, namely John Bowles, Robert Sayer, andJohn Bennett; Carington Bowles had beenadded.

Maps C.29.C.2.

LEA, Philip. All the Shires of England andWales Described by Christopher SaxtonBeing the Best and Original Mapps withmany Additions and Corrections by PhilipLea. [London:] Sold by Phillip Lea, [c. 1690.]39 unnumbered maps; 44 cm. foi.

The first printed atlas of the counties ofEngland and Wales, prepared by the surveyorChristopher Saxton (_/?. 1573-96) and pub-lished in 1579, was re-issued in many formsuntil about 1770. At some point before 1689the globe maker and map-seller Philip Lea(d. 1700) came into possession of the Saxtonplates and, having reworked them extensively,began to issue them both as separate maps andbound in atlas form.

On 12 February 1693/4 Lea first advertisedin the London Gazette the sale of The CountyMaps of England and Wales, in large sheets:described by Christopher Saxton, being theOriginals, with a great many Additions andCorrections, as the Roads, Hundreds, Towns.. . ' Before this date, however, he seems to haveissued a number of the Saxton maps bound as

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an atlas but lacking the completed revision.snoted in his advertisement of 1694,

This example of the 'pre-1694' atlas is theearliest issue so far identified. The engravedtitle-panel does not yet include in the 'Table ofthe Shires' the subheadings 'Wales' and an'Explanation of the Symbols'. In this respectthe atlas is apparently unique. Although thisparticular copy (formerly in the Gardner Col-lection) is described by R. A. Skelton in CountyAtlases of the British Isles i^yg-iyo,^ {1970),pp. 171-5, its contents do not match the list ofmaps given there.

The atlas includes three non-county maps,namely: 'A New Mapp of England Scotlandand Ireland. Sold by Robert Morden . . . PhillipLea. . .John Seller'[f. 1689.1;'An Epitome ofS"" William Petty's large survey of Ireland . . .By Phillip Lea' [c. 1690.]; and This New andAccurate Mapp of France . . . By Philip Lea'[c. 1690].

It lacks three maps called for on the title-page: 'A Map of the Isle of Wight PortseaHalinge . . . made & sold by Philip Lea' —thismap IS listed as 'Islands' on the title-page;[York-Shire Described by Ch. Saxton. Manyadditions and Corrections as ye Roads, Wapen-takes &c. by P. Lea.]; and 'Cambridge-Shireand The Great Levell of ye Fenns . . . by SrJonas Moore'.

The atlas was probably bound after 1689 butbefore 1694 when Lea's corrections and platesubstitutions were completed. It was formerUin the possession of Dr. Eric Gardner whoacquired the atlas from the noted writer oncartography. Sir Herbert George Fordham(1854-1920).

Maps C.2i.e.io.

LEA, Philip. [All] The Shires of England andWales Described by Christopher SaxtonBeing the Best and Original Mapps with manyadditions and corrections by Philip Lea.[London:] Sold hy Phillip Lea, [c. 1694 orlater]. 51 unnumbered maps; 53 cm. foi. (the

C H R I STOVHF.R ^AXTO^^ Mai>p

f!<litK>iis,W(/C "vw^ nil!II' I. J \

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word 'Air has been erased from the title afterprinting).

A later issue of Philip Lea's collection of thecounty maps by Christopher Saxton. This issue(at the time in the possession of A. D. Baxter)is described by R. A. Skelton in County Atlasesof the British Isles 1579-1703 (London, t97o),p. 176 and Appendix A, p. 217. The printedtitle of this particular copy, however, does not,as indicated in Skelton's work, omit the firstword 'All'; this has merely been scratched outafter printing. The title-panel, although notin its final torm, now includes in the 'Tables ofthe Shires', the subheadings 'Wales' and an'Explanation of the Symbols'. It still does notinclude 'Also the new Surveis of Ogilby, Seller&c.' and 'Viz \* Hunde, Roads &;c\ and so thetitle-page was presumably printed before 1694when Lea advertised the finally revised mapsfor sale.

In addition to the reworked Saxton platesand Lea's substituted county maps the atlasincludes the following maps: 'A New Map,shewing the Naturall face of England . . . Soldby Arthur Tooker'. 'A Travelling Map of Eng-land . . . Sold by Arthur Tooker' [c. 1680].'Scotia Regnum cum insulis adjacentibusRobertus Gordonius a Straloch descripsit'.This is a close copy of the map published byBlaeuin 1654 and was advertised as being in theSaxton atlas in The Term Catalogues for June1699. 'A New Map of Ireland . . . Dedicated by. . .P . Lea and H. Moll'[c. 1692], 2 sheets. 'TheEnglish Channel and ye Adjacent Countries.Sold by Philip Lea\

Maps C.2i.e.ii.

LEA, Philip. [The Shires of England and Wales. . . Sold by Thomas Jefferys Geographer to hisRoyal Highness the Prince of Wales, in RedLyon Street near St. John's Gate, c. 1749.]39 unnumbered plates; 47 cm. foi. (lackingthe title-page).

lisher Thomas Jefferys {fl. 17.̂ 2 71) about1749. The only recorded example of this editionof the atlas that was complete with Jetterys'stitle-page as given above, was described byHarold Whitaker in Imago Mundi {1939)1 P- '̂̂ •The atlas he described was subsequentlybroken although the title-page survives in theWhitaker Collection at the Brotherton Library,Leeds. The plates had been previously ownedby George Willdey who issued them in atlasform about 1730. They presumably passed toGeorge Willdey's brother Thomas who died in1748. Jefferys then acquired them, as is evidentfrom the atlas's imprint noted by Whitakerabove: until 1750 when he moved to number 5Charing Cross, Thomas Jefferys publishedfrom 'Red Lyon Street near St. John's Gate'and so the atlas may be assumed to have beenissued before then.

Maps C.2re.r2.

L E CLERC, Jean. Theatre Geographique duRoyaume de France. Contenant les cartes &descriptions particulieres des provincesd'icL'Iuy. Oeuvre nouvellemcnt mis enlumiere: avec une table, ou sont les noms detoutes les cartes de chacune desdites pro-vinces. .\ Puns, chcz lean Ic CIcrc, 1620.40 unnumbered maps on 39 plates; 41 cm.

In 1594 Maurice Bouguereau published thefirst national atlas of France entitled theTheatre francoys. Afrer his death the Parisianpublisher Jean le Clcrc acquired the fourteenplates of the atlas and they were issued, withever-increasing numbers of additional maps,in seven editions from 1619 to 1632. The solesurviving example of the first edition of 1619 isalready held in the British Library (MapsC.7.d.io). The 1619 edition contains a datedtitle-page of 1619 and thirty-seven plates aslisted in the table of contents. It also includesSIX maps more than listed in the contents; these

This example of Philip Lea's Saxton atlas was are dated 1620-1. The atlas, as bound wasprobably issued by the map maker and pub- therefore presumably issued in 1621 or later

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This example of the second edition of 1620also includes three maps not listed in the tableof contents of thirty-seven plates, all dated1620. These are the "Description du Pais deNormandie', 'Carte du Pais de Loudunois',and the 'Carte du Pais de Retelois'. Fran(;ois deDainville in his article 'L'Evolution de I'atlasde France sous Louis XIH\ Actes du Quatre-Vmgt-Septihne Congres national des societessavtirjtes. Poitiers, ig62 (Paris, 1963), p. 13,records the maps' first appearance in the r62iedition ot" the atlas, but the evidence of thisexample indicates that the engraving of themaps was completed in time for the secondedition of 1620.

Maps C.7.C.26.

L E CLERC, Jean. Theatre Geographique duRoyaume de France. Contenant les cartes &descriptions particulieres des provincesd'iceluy. Oeuvre nouvellement mis enlumiere: avec une table ou sont les noms detoutes les cartes de chascune desdites pro-vinces. A Paris, chez la veiifue [sic] Jean leClerc, i63t. ^2 unnumbered maps on 50plates; 41 cm.

In 1631 Jc.in Ic Clerc the younger finished theTheatre Geographiijue w hich included filty-twomaps—three more than the edition of 1626;these were maps of the river Garonne and ofnorth and south Languedoc. A newly engravedtitle-page by Leonard Gautier was also addedto the atlas in 1631 but only one example of theedition with this title-page is at presentrecorded; this is in the Bibliotheque Nationale.This present example of the 1631 edition wasformerly in the collection of John Evelyn(1620-1706).

Maps C.'j.c.i'].

MoRiLNDLS, Joannes f7 Montecalerio. Choro-graphica Descriptio Provinciarum, et conven-tuum FF. Min. S. Francisci Capucinorum . . .Impressa iussa A. R. P. Ioannis a Monte-calerio: nunc vero F. lo: Baptistae a Cassinis

. . . iterata delineatione . . . de A. R. P. Augus-tini a Tisana . . . Mediolani, 1712. Mediolani,Ex typographia losephi Pandulphi Malatestae,1721. pp. 10, pi. 63; 28 X40 cm. obi. foi. (Theengraved title-page bears the date 1712.)

A later edition of the atlas first published in1712, based on the 'Chorographia Descriptio'of Joannes Moriundus a Montecalerio of 1643.A rare Italian atlas showing the establishmentsof the Capuchin order in Europe and parts ofAsia and Africa, and recorded in the Capuchinbibliography by Dionysius of Genoa publishedin Venice, 1747. Based on the work of thePiedmontese Friar Joannes Moriundus aMontecalerio (d. 1654), this edition of the atlashas been revised by Friar Joannes Baptista aCassini, an accomplished geographical author,and three of the maps are signed by him. Theengraver's name appearing on four of the mapsis that of Brother Michael Angelus of Dinantand the title-page together with the map ofFranconia are by Durello (perhaps SimoneDurelli, an engraver at Milan).

The atlas was formerly in the possession ofthe Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dubhn.

Maps C.3.b.6.

NOR IE, John William. The Complete Mediter-ranean Pilot, being a set of new and accuratecharts comprehending the whole navigationfrom London to any part of the coasts ofSpain, Portugal, the Mediterranean & BlackSeas . . . A new edition, corrected to thepresent year. By J. W. Norie, Hydrographer.London: J. W. Norie & Co., i824[-3o].pi. 20; 66 cm. (A manuscript note after theimprint reads: 'Additions to 1829 & 30'.)

The maps are variously dated between 1812and 1830, and the earlier ones carry theimprint of William Heather, whom J. W. Noriesucceeded in 1812. The volume also containsAdmiralty charts of Valletta, Malta, by Cap-tain W. H. Smyth, 1823, and the Bay of Naples,by G. A. Rizzi Zannoni, republished byW. Faden, 1803.

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The charts were intended to be accompaniedhy New Piloting Direetionsfor the MediterraneanSea by J. W. Norie (London, 1831). (B.L.795.e.35). Earlier editions of the atlas publishedby Heather in 1802 and 1810 are held at Maps27.a.3i. and Maps 47.a.9. respectively.

Maps 6.e.25.

PETTY, William. An Abstract of the Geo-metrical Surveyes. Made by Dr. WilliamPetty. Presented to S*" Allen Brodrick Kf &Baronet, his Majesties Surveyor-Generall [forthe Use of his Office, c. 1667]. 35 unnumberedplates; 42 cm. foi. (with a manuscript title-page and index).

Between 1655 and 1660 William Petty, thenattached to the headquarters ot the Common-wealth army in Dublin, surveyed the Irishbaronies and tbrfeited estates to facilitate theirdivision amongst the army and other 'adven-turers tor lands'. The resulting maps were thebasis for the series of county maps which hefinally published in 1685 as an atlas entitledHibermae Delineatio.

This collection of proof impressions of themaps probably dates from the period i6(>o 7.The maps lack engraved titles, which have beensupplied in manuscript. One of only two suchproof collections known; this atlas includes aspecially designed manuscript title-page andwas presented to Sir Alan Brodrick, Surveyor-General of Ireland, during his term of office.

Maps C.2i.f2.

SELLER, John. Atlas Coelestis, containing thesystems and theoryes of the planets, theconstellations of the Starrs, and other pheno-mina's [stc] of the Heavens. London: Sold hyIer: Seller ^ Cha: Price at ye Hermitage <SPhil: Lea at ye Atlas (5 Hercules in Cheapside,[c. 1700.] pp. 72, illus.; 16 cm. 8 \

sized celestial atlas to be printed in England.Designed to give a popular and instructivehistory of the various celestial systems, and toprovide an easy reference to the stars tor theamateur astronomer, the atlas enjoyed a longlite. This edition, dated about 1700 from theevidence ot the imprint, was published bySeller's younger son Jeremiah and is hithertounrecorded. It includes substantial additionswhich take account ot the work of post-Copernican astronomers, notably Tycho Braheand Rene Descartes.

Maps C.2i.a.5.

SPEED, John. England, Wales And Ireland:Their severall Counties. Abridged from A farrlarger vollume: By John Speed. And are to beesold hy George Humble in pops head alley.,[c. 1620]. pi. 57. 8".

This is the earliest surviving edition of a minia-The Atlas Cielestis was first published in 1680 ture atlas ofGreat Britain and Ireland, designedhy the enterprising chart- and map-seller, John as a companion to John Speed's Theatre of theSeller(_//. 1658-98), and was the earliest pocket- Empire ofGreat Brituine (1611). Forty of the

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maps arc revised states of the plates, witbEnglish titles, of those published in W. J.Hlaeu's Epitome of William Camden'sBritannia (1617). They were first engraved andpublished by Pieter van den Keere about 1605.At some point after 1618 and probably betore1623 the London publisher of Speed's Theatre,George Humble, acquired the plates and pre-pared them lor publication as a 'pocket edition'of the Theatre. They were then issued in 1627with the addition of twenty-three new mapsunder the title England Wales Scotland andIreland Descrihed and Abridged with ye HistorieRelation oJ things worthy memory from a JarrLarger Voulume Done hy John Speed. Thispresent edition with seventeen new maps repre-sents an intermediate stage in the developmentof the miniature atlas of the British Isles and isthe first edition of the atlas as published byGeorge Humble.

Maps C.2i.a.4.

MAPS AND C H A R T S

Bow LES, Thomas, and BOWLES, John. TheEnglish Gentleman's Guide: Or, A New andCompleat Book of Maps of all England andWales, shewing its antient and present govern-ment . . . With many additions and correctionsnot extant in any maps . . . London: Printedand sold hy Thomas Bowles... and John Bowles,1738. 12 map plates joined into 4 foldingsheets and bound into a leather travelling-case; 24 cm.

In 1700 Christopher Browne, the London mappublisher, issued a large wall map ot Englandand Wales entitled 'Nova Totius AngliaeTabula' which he dedicated to the then heirto the throne William, Duke of Gloucester.Atter Browne's retirement trom business about1712, the map plates evidently passed into thehands of Philip Overton and Thomas BowlesII, who advertised it in The Monthly Cataloguefor February 1717 with the title The EnglishGentleman's Guide. No example of the 1717edition is known but in 1738 Thomas Bowles

II, now in partnership with his younger brotherJohn, issued this edition of The English Gentle-man's Guide. A later edition of 1745, describedas the 'second edition', is already in the BritishLibrary at Maps 162.r.i.

Maps C.22.b.5.

CovKNS, Jean, and MORTIER, Cornelis.Novissima nee non Pertectissima RegnorumAnglicae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae Tabula . . .Amstelodami, Apud I. Covens et C. Mortier,[c. 1745'']. 1:633,600; ioi X 123 cm. [Inset:Scotia Septentrional. A second title reads:'Theatre de la Guerre en Angleterre Escosseet Irlande . . .')

The date of this somewhat irregularly com-posed wall map is conjectural. The second title,'Theatre de la Guerre en Angleterre Escosseet Irlande . . .', suggests that the map may havebeen published to coincide with an attemptedinvasion of England. If so, the conflict inquestion may well have been the Jacobiterebellion in Ireland after 1689. Clearly the mapwas first engraved before 1711, as this laterstate bears the imprint of Pierre Mortier, whodied in that year. Covens and Mortier, his.successors, founded their publishing firm in1721, and this map, with the royal arms pre-sumably altered to the Hanoverian form, wasre-issued at some point atter 1721, possibly atthe time of the 1745 rebellion.

Maps *i 125(74).

DANCKERTS, Justus. India quae Orientalisdicitur et Insulae adiacentes. Gedrucktt\4msterdam, hij Justus Danckerts, voor aen inde Calverstraet hiJ den Dam^ inde Danckers,[c. 1660].

This map, hitherto unrecorded, demonstratesthe extent of Dutch sea-power in the EastIndies in the mid-seventeenth century and alsoshows the results of the two Australian expedi-tions of Abel Tasman in 1642-3 and 1644. Thepublisher of this wall map was Justus Danckertsthe elder (1635-1701) who, with his three sons.

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Gedruckt t'AmJterdam.voor aen inde CalvcrJt

worked at their shop in the 'Calverstraet bij denDam, inde Danckers' until 1669. After thatdate the family business moved, so presumablythis map was published before 1669. Tbe familywere famous for their production of finelydecorative atlases and ornamental wall maps;apart from this map of the East Indies, JustusDanckerts held in stock a complete set of wallmaps of the world and four continents.

The content of the map seems to be basedon Joan Blaeu's 'Archipelagus Orientalis sive

Asiaticus' published in 1659 and on his 'AsiaeDescriptio Novissima' published in the sameyear. The decorative embellishments are verysimilar indeed to those found on Hugo Allard'smap of the same name—'India qua Orientalisdicitur. Et Insulae Adiacentes', which wasdedicated to the burghers of Amsterdam about1652 and included in the specially preparedatlas presented to Charles 11 at the Restorationin 1660. The atlas is preserved in the BritishLibrary at K.A.R. Maps* 58415(8).

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G()i:T/, Conrad. Angliae et Hyberniae Com-pend: Descriplio. Jodocus Hondius figuravit.C.onradus Gol/ius tc. Pet'' Ouerradt exc.[Cologne, c. 1600]. 22'• t6 cm. (Copied fromthe map by Hondius published in 1590, withthe decorative teatures reversed.)

This map of the British Isles was engravedc. 1600 in Cologne by Conrad Goltz, who isrecorded as working for Bussemacher in 1597.It is a copy of an earlier map by the Dutch-man Jodocus Hondius, 1590, with the decora-tive tc'atures reversed. The only other knownexample of this version is bound into a copy otthe miniature English county atlas by Hon-dius's brother-in-law Pieter van den Keere[c. 1605I, at present in private ownership. Anemigre living in London from 1584 to 1593,Hondius made several small circular and ovalmaps at this early stage of his career as anengraver and map maker. The map ot t59O isnoteworthy as his earliest map of the BritishIsles. The decorative borders display a portraitof Queen Elizabeth accompanied by adulatoryverses, and the figures of an English noblemanand citizen of London with their respectivewives. Maps 177.d.1(10).

Hoon, Thomas. |A chart of the north-eastAtlantic Ocean showing the coasts of West-ern Europe and north-west Africa fromthe British Isles to the Cape Verde islands.]T. Hood descripsit. A. Ryther sculpsit 1592.39x53 cm.

The chart was engraved to accompany ThomasHood's The Mariners Guide which was includedin Hood's revision of W'illiam Bourne's A Regi-ment for the Sea in 1596. The title-page to theRegiment states that with the Mariners Guide is'adioyned . . . a perfect sea carde by tbe saidThomas Hood', and the text makes it clear thatthe chart was devised to illustrate the art ofMaying off' a course with a ruler and a pair ofcompasses. As such this is the earliest Englishchart to be printed for the instruction of sailorsin navigation.

The chart maker Thomas Hood (fl. 1577-1604) was one of the leading mathematiciansof his day and, in 1588, was appointed mathe-matical lecturer to the City of London. Hedrew a number of charts and maps includingtwo celestial planispheres which were alsoengraved by Augustine Ryther (//. 1576-95).These were published to accompany Hood'stract on The Use of the Celestial Glohe in piano(1590), Few examples of the Atlantic chart areknown; other copies are to be found in the NewYork Public Library, Peterborough CathedralLibrary, and the Pepys Library, MagdaleneCollege, Cambridge. Maps C.20.b.2(2).

PRICE, Charles. A New and Correct Map ofGreat Britain and Ireland. By Charles Price.[London:] Printed for Iohn Bowles at theBlack Horse in Cornhill, [c. 1740]. 2 sh.118x49 cm.

The map bears separate titles for each sheet,'North Part ofGreat Britain' and 'South PartofGreat Brittain. By Charles Price'. Separatelyengraved borders comprising views of theBritish Isles, a dedication to George II, andparts of Ireland and of northern France havebeen pasted to the map as side panels.

Advertised in John Bowles's catalogue of1753, this map was described as one of a seriesof wall maps 'ready fitted up on cloth, withrollers and ledges. Price 75. 6̂ /. . . .' Thisexample is unmounted and was originallyengraved by Charles Price about 1705 as twoseparate maps, which were later joined to-gether to form a wall map of Great Britain.The engraving of the side panels to torm aborder of views, and the publication of theenlarged map, must be dated after 1727, whenGeorge II acceded to the throne, and before1753, when John Bowles's catalogue recordedthe map. Charles Price died in 1733, and pre-sumably the plates of this map were thenacquired by John Bowles, who issued it underhis own imprint. The map is otherwiseunrecorded. Maps 177.d. 1(21).

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Zttdii. Nanscn hushu Bankoku

Shoka n<i / i t . | ( )u t l inc map ol all ihc countries

in jatiibu-dvipa.) Kyoto, published hy IHiaBundaiken in the yth year of Hoei, I.1710J.Woodcut; 152^ 12(1 cm.

Dnnvn by the scholar priest Zuda Rokashi{1654-1728), this map shows the shield-shapedcontinent of Jambu-dvipa or the hitbitubleworld according to Buddhist tradition. In thecentre ot the map can be seen the sacred lakeol Anavatapta from which flow four riversrepresenting the Ganges., Oxus., Indus, andTarim. The map served as a prototype for laterBuddhist world maps well into the nineteenthcentury. Maps C.2i.bb.8.

S.WTON, Christopher. The Traveller's Guidebeing the best Mapp of the Kingdom ofEngland and Principality of Wales. Whereinare Delineated 3000 Towns &: Villages morethen in any Mapp yet Extent, besides yeNotations of Bridges & Rivers &:c. To whichis added ye Direct and cross Roads accordingto Mr. Ogilby's late Survey. Described byC. Saxton. And now carefully corrected withnew Additions. By Philip Lea. S.N. sculpsit.PrintedJor T. Bowles m St. Pauls Churchyard(5 John Bowles £5' Son, at the Black Horsein CornhiU, [c. 1760]. pi. XX; 32x47 cm.(Engraved by Sutton Nichols.)

This is the final surviving state of Saxton's mapof F.ngland of 1583. It was printed from theplates of the last edition by Philip Lea asissued, after his death in 1700, by his widowAnne Lea and his son-in-law Richard Glynnefrom their shop 'At the Atlas and Hercules inFleet Street'. An example of this 'Lea' state isheld at Maps K. Top. V.46; it was issued before1720, by which time the plates had passed toThomas Bowles IL At some point betweenr7S3 and 1763 Thomas Bowles II and hisbrother John with his son Carington issued thispresent state of the map with only an alterationto the imprint. This particular copy of the map

was formerly in the possession of Sir GeorgeFordham and is apparently unique. Althoughthe map was later advertised by CaringtonBowles and then by the firm of Bowles andCarver in 1795 no example of these subsequenteditions has yet eome to light.

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SPEED, John. [The Kingdoms of England,Scotland and Ireland, showing all the battlesfought since the time of the Norman Con-quest.] Performed by John Speed. Grauen byRenold Elstrak [c. 1603-4J. 3 sh. 53 X40 em.(wanting the north-east sheet, whieh evi-dently carried the title).

The borders are decorated with royal, noble,and episcopal arms which date the engraving ofthe map at 1603-4. ^ family tree of the kingsand queens of England from the time ofWilliam the Conqueror is displayed in a panelon the right-hand side of this map, and wascontinued onto the sheet now missing. Thekey to battles is also lacking. The map wasengraved from a large manuscript map madewith the approval of Queen Elizabeth I c. 1600,and described by Speed in his Broadside,A Description of the Ciuill Warres of England(1600). A reduced version of the manuscriptmap was published with the Broadside, c. 1601.The original map may be conjectured to havebeen the work of John Norden, whose manu-script map of battles in sixteen sheets wasrecorded in 1708 to have hung in former yearsin the Bodleian Library Picture gallery atOxford. The present map is apparently unique.

Maps i88.t.i(i).

TAVERNIER, Melchior. Le plan de la ville,cite, universite, fauxbourgs de Paris avee ladescription de son antiquite. A PariSy ChezMelchio[r Tavernier., c. 1630]. 74x48 cm.

With marginal text (damaged), and sur-mounted by eight vignettes depicting the kingand queen and their subjects arranged in orderof rank.

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The plan of Paris published in 1615 by theGerman topographical engraver and publisherMatthias Merian proved so successful thatMelchior Tavernier, printer to the Frenchking, used il as a basis for this map publishedin about i()30. It was revised to show the newbuildings and the districts (quartiers) whichhad been built round the outskirts of Parisduring the previous fifteen years. This seemsto be the first edition of the plan, hitherto onlyknown in its later stare, of 1635. MelchiorTavetnier (1544-1641) was of Flemish origin,and founded a distinguished French family ofcartographers and map publishers. This veryrare example of Tavernier's work was preservedin the Evelyn Estates at Wotton, Surrey.

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W R I G H T , Thomas. The Passage of the Annu-lar Penumbra over Scotland &c. In the CentralEclipse ofthe Sun on the iSth day of February1736/7 in the Afternoon. Humbly Inscribed tothe President, Council and Fellows of theRoyal Society. By Thomas Wright of theCity of Durham . . . \London:] Sold by JohnSenex at the Globe over iigainsi Si. DunstansChurch in Flcctstrcet, 1737. 50 x 39 cm.

Thomas Wright of Durham (1711-H6), onwhose calculations this map was based, was tobecome a distinguished astronomer who pub-lished, amongst other works. An OriginalTheory . . . ofthe Universe (1750). This map ofthe solar eclipse of i March 1737 indicates theform ia which the eclipse would be seen infifty-four selected places in the British Isles.The central part of the eclipse passed overEdinburgh, and the deeply shaded band revealsthe extent of the full annular effect (i.e. thephenomenon when the moon, in passing infront of the sun, only partially eclipses it,leaving an outer ring of light). Earlier maps ofthis kind had been published to show the pathof solar eclipses over the British Isles, notablyEdmund Halley's of 1715 and William

Whiston's of 1724. The map is dedicated tothe President and Fellows ofthe Royal Society,to which John Senex, a leading cartographer,engraver, and bookseller of London, had beenelected in 1728.

Maps 177.d.1(19).

-. [Pocket terrestrial globe.GLOBESBURBIDGE, -[London, c. 1835.] 8 cm. in diameter. In anouter case, bearing on its inner faces, a repre-sentation ofthe celestial planispheres.

A later revised state of the pocket globe pub-lished by Minshull about 1830. The globeshows 'Enderby's Land 1833'. The engraver'sname J . Mynde Sc/ is erased and the calotteshowing the Arctic regions has been re-engraved.

Maps C.4.a.4(6).

CASSINI , Giovanni Maria. Globo terrestre.Delineato sulle ultimo osservazioni con iviaggi e nuove scoperte de Cap. Cook Inglese. . . Gio M^ Cassini C.R.S. inc. In Roma,Presso la Calcograf. Cam''\ 1790. 5 sh.49 • }2 cm.

A set of twelve terrestrial globe goreS'engravedfor a globe 35 cm. in diameter.

— Globo celeste. Calcolato per il corrente annosulle osservazioni de'Sigg. Flamsteed, et de laCaille . . . Inciso dal P. Gio. M? CassiniC.R.S. Roma, Presso la Calc''. Cam", 1792.5 sh. 49x32 cm.

A set of twelve celestial globe gores engravedfor a globe 35 cm. in diameter.

Giovanni Maria Cassini (//. 1780-1810),the last important Italian globe maker of theeighteenth century, engraved and publishedbetween the years 1790 and 1792 a terrestrialand celestial globe 35 em. in diameter. Thegores of both globes were drawn according tothe precise calculations set down in the intro-duction to Cassini's Nuove Atlante Geografico

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ale . . . (1792). The lerrestrial displaythe track and discoveries of Captain Cook'sthree voyages of 1768-80, and the celestialdepict the heavens according to the observa-tions of the astronomers and mathematiciansJohn Flamsteed and De la Caille.

Maps C.6.cl.4( 0(2).

MlNSHti.i., ——. IPockct terrestrial globe.]J. Mynde Sc. [London, c. 1830.] 8 cm. indiameter. In an outer case, bearing on itsinner taces, a representation of the celestialhemispheres.

The globe shows the track of Anson's voyage of1740-4, of the Endeavour on Cook's firstcircumnavigation in 1768 71, of Cook's out-ward voyage in 1776-9, and of Captain King'sreturn in 17S0. It is a later revised state oftheglobe published by N. Lane in 1818 which isalready in the Map Library at Maps C.4.a.2(4).

Maps C.4.a.4(10).

MoxoN, Joseph. IA pocket globe.] LondiniSumptihits J. .Wnxiin, \c. 1679]. 7 cm. in dia-

meter. 'Fhe terrestrial globe is placed in a

shagreen covered case. On the inside of thecase are pasted paper gores showing thecelestial hemispheres. The terrestrial globelacks four gores.

The globe was advertised by Joseph Moxon(1627-91) in his Mechanick Dyalling of 1679as the 'Concave Hemispheres of the StarryOrb., which serves for a case to a Terrestrialglobe of 3 Inches Diameter made portable forthe pocket.' Moxon is well known as a printerand as the author of Mechamck Exercises on theWhole Art of Printing (1684) but about 1653 healso turned to globe and chart making. In 1670he was appointed Hydrographer to Charles II.This pocket globe is the earliest example of itskind and Moxon is generally thought to havebeen the inventor of such globes. The globeswere characterized by their size, usually about3 inches in diameter, and by their cases whichshowed the celestial hemispheres. Only twoother examples of Moxon's pocket globe arerecorded: one is in the Huntington Library,California, the other was listed by Einar Brattin En Kriinika om Svenska Globes (1968) asbeing owned by J.-G. Sack of Stockholm.

Maps C.4.a.4(7).

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