ORTELIUS, Abraham. [An Association Copy of Ortelius' Theatrum]
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Antwerp: Gillis van den Rade, 1575. Folio, contemporary full calf gilt rebacked, bookplate on front pastedown; engraved titlepage in original colour with gold highlights including a mss presentation inscription from Anthony Bacon; pp. (xix), 70 maps, as called for, in original hand colour, five maps with minor repairs to either centrefold or margin.
A fine example of the first regularly produced atlas, as well as an important association copy, with a gilt mss presentation inscription from Anthony Bacon to "B. Turræo Italo DDD". Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), foster-brother of Francis Bacon and nephew of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, worked as a spy for both Burghley and Walsingham (Elizabeth I's spy-master), gathering intelligence in France and Geneva 1579-1581, before being sent by Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, to undertake 'certain business for the queen' in Bordeaux. The ODNB describes Bacon's talents as being 'fully recognised by those players engaged in the complex negotiations of English and European politics during the last two decades of the sixteenth century'. 'Turræo' (Turraeus or della Torre?) cannot be identified with any certainty, but he must have been an extremely important contact to be presented with such an extremely expensive gift. The bookplate is that of Bob Luza (1893-1980), an Amsterdam doctor and holocaust survivor, whose collection was auctioned in Amsterdam in 1981. This was the only atlas in his collection. Koeman: Ort 13.
[Ref: 11185]   P.O.A.

SCHENK, Pieter. [A Schenk Atlas In Fine Original Colour.]
Atlas Contractus Sive Mapparum Geographicarum Sansoniarum Auctarum Et Correctarum Nova Congeries. Amsterdam, c.1700, original colour, atlas size: 540 x 350mm
An attractive folio atlas consisting of fifty-one maps in fine original colour. An extra map seems to have been added (Catalonia), probably at the behest of the original purchaser of the atlas, which would explain the discrepancy in the index. Including a map of 'Schlaraffenland', an imaginary land of idleness and luxury, equivalent to 'Cockaigne'. Located on the Equator, it is divided into regions, including 'Tobacco Island' and the 'Great Stomach Empire', while one of the neighbouring states is 'Terra Sancta', marked 'Incognita'. The maps contained in this volume are as follows: 1) Orbis Terrarum 2) Polus Australis & Meridionalis 3) America 4) Africa 5) Asia 6) Europa 7) Suecia, Scandinavia, Dania & Norwegia 8) Dania 9) Anglia, Scotia & Hibernia 10) Polonia, Lithuania, Podolia, Ukraina, Prussia, Livonia & Churlandia 11) Moscovia Sive Russia 12) Bohemia 13) Hungaria 14) Hungaria, Grecia, Morea & Archipelagus 15) Germania 16) Rhenus Superior 17) Rhenus Inferior 18) Belgium Sive XVII Provinciæ 19) Belgium Foederatum 20) Belgium Hispanicum 21) Brabantiæ Ducatus 22) Flandria Comitatus 23) Alsatia 24) Saxonia Superior 25) Saxonia Inferior 26) Franconicus Circulus 27) Bavaricus Circulus 28) Silesia 29) Palatinus Rheni 30) Westphalicus Circulus 31) Suevicus Circulus 32) Brandenburgicus Circulus 33) Austriacus Circulus 34) Burgundicus Circulus 35) Lotharingia 36) Helvetia 37) Livonia 38) Italia, Cum Viis Angariis 39) Italia 40) Mediolanensis Status 41) Veneta Respublica 42) Mare Mediterraneum, 2 Fol. 43) Sabaudia Ducatus, & Piedmont 44) Gallia 45) Hispania 46) Portugalliæ & Algarbiæ 47) Catalonia 48) Turcicum Imperium 49) Terra Sancta 50) Urbium Index 51) Schlaraffen Land. KOEMAN Pg. 115.
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CHIQUET, Jacques. [An early C18th atlas]
Le nouveau et curieux Atlas Geographique et historique, ou Le Divertissement des Empereurs, Roys, et Princes. Tant dans la Guerre que dans la Paix. Paris: Chiquet, 1719. Oblonq 4to, modern half calf gilt with original marbled boards. Engr. title, 3 plates & celestial map, all uncoloured, and 23 maps in outline colour, with 31 text pages.
One of only two works published by the French cartographer Jacques Chiquet (1673-1721), both published in 1719. As he died only two years later his works are very uncommon. The maps are the world & continents (North & South America), Turkish Empire and the European countries.
[Ref: 10584]    £3,500.00 ($5,390 • €4,235 rates)

CELLARIUS, Christophorus. Notitia Orbis Antiqui, sive Geographia Plenior... Leipzig, Johann Frideric Gleditsch, 1731. Quarto, contemporary full calf, gilt-tooled spine with maroon and green title labels, hinges cracked, bottom of spine badly chipped, boards chipped and scuffed; marbled endpapers, old ink mss. notes on preliminary sheets; engraved frontis. portrait of Cellarius, title, pp. (xii) + 1088 + (lxx) (Index Geographicus); 21 folding engraved plates; some spotting throughout.

[Ref: 7737]    £750.00 ($1,155 • €908 rates)

DOPPELMAYR, Johann Gabriel. [A fine 18th century celestial atlas]
Atlas novus coelestis in quo mundus spectabilis et in eodem... Nuremberg, Homann's Heirs, 1742-48. Folio, original marbled boards, rebacked with calf gilt; frontis., engr. title, index, 30 numbered plates plus 4 extra plates, all in original colour with additions.
A very decorative atlas, collecting together the celestial maps that Doppelmayr had prepared for Johann Baptiste Homann, some of which had appeared in Homann's general atlases from 1716. Three of the extra plates relate to the Solar eclipse of 1748; the last, oddly for a celestial atlas, is an instructional plate about seige warfare.
[Ref: 11193]    £22,000.00 ($33,880 • €26,620 rates)

ROUX, Joseph. [An uncommon atlas of sea charts of the Mediterranean]
Carte de la mer Mediterranée en douze feuilles, dédiée à M.gr le Duc de Choiseul Colonel General des Suisses et Grisons. Ministre de la Guerre et de la Marine. Marseilles, 1764. Folio, contemporary full blind-stamped calf, rebacked twelve folding charts of the Mediterranean on thick paper.
An important atlas of sea charts of the Mediterranean Sea, showing the entire coast line, with harbours and coastal towns, depths and anchorages. Although it had been published nearly forty years earlier, Admiral Nelson used one on his flagship, HMS Victory, when he was commander-in-chief of the British Navy's Mediterrean fleet, until his death at Trafalgar in 1805. Premiere Feuille. From Cadiz & the Straits of Gibraltar to Oran & Cartagene. 560 x 800mm. IIe Feuille. The Balearics & Algiers. 800 x 550mm. IIIe Feuille. From Languedoc to Corsica & Elba. 560 x 820mm. IVe Feuille. The Tyrrhenian Sea. 555 x 810mm. Ve Feuille. Minorca, Sardinia & Tunisia. 560 x 820mm. VIe Feuille. Sicily, Malta & Libya. 785 x 560mm. VIIe Feuille. The Adriatic Sea. 555 x 795mm. VIIIe Feuille. Morea & Libya. 810 x 550mm. Zacharakis: 1962. IXe Feuille. Crete, Libya & Egypt. 555 x 810mm. Zacharakis: 1963. Xe Feuille. Southern Turkey, Cyprus, Palestine & Egypt. 805 x 555mm. Zacharakis: 1964. XIe Feuille. The southern Aegean & Crete. 560 x 810mm. Zacharakis: 1965, illus. XIIe Feuille. The northern Aegean & the Dardanelles. 560 x 830mm. Zacharakis: 1966, illus.
[Ref: 11186]    £12,500.00 ($19,250 • €15,125 rates)

WILKINSON, Robert. [Early 19th century atlas of the Classical World]
Atlas Classica Being A Collection Of Maps Of The Countries Mentioned by The Ancient Authors Both Sacred And Profane With Their Various Subdivisions At Different Periods. London, No 125 Fenchurch St, 1817, original colour, book size: 355 x 290mm
A very fine copy of Wilkinson's "Atlas Classica" in good condition and with bright original colour. This atlas deals with Classical and Biblical geography with numerous geneologies and charts to elucidate subjects such as Biblical events and geneologies and the intricacies of the English epicopacy. Containing fifty-three maps and charts as recorded in the "Index Tabularum" at the start of the atlas and in its original marbled binding.
[Ref: 9746]    £1,250.00 ($1,925 • €1,513 rates)

GAULTIER, The Abbé. A Complete Course of Geographie, by Means of Instructive Games, Invented by The Abbé Gaultier. Collated with the Author's Last Paris Edition, and Digested for Europe Conformably to the Territorial Arrangements of the Pacification of 1815, by Jehoshaphat Aspin. In Three Parts. London, John Harris & Son, 1821. Folio, half morocco, printed title label on front board; pp.60, incl. title; engr. table & 15 double-page maps in original hand colour.
The three parts are: a game 'for teaching the names and situations of the different countries and places of the Earth'; a 'treatise on the Artificial Sphere'; and a 'geographical game, illustrative of Ancient and Modern History'.
[Ref: 8167]    £650.00 ($1,001 • €787 rates)

MARMOCCHI, F.C. Il Globo: Atlante di Carte Geographiche... [with] Dizionario di Geographia Universale... Genova: Paolo Rivara, 1858. [and] Torino: Societa Editrice Italiana, 1854, & Torino: Sebastiano Franco e Figli e Comp, 1858 & 1862. Folio, contemporary half morocco with marbled boards; lithographed frontis. and 49 engraved maps, as called for, original colour, eleven trimmed to printed borders and laid on contemporary paper, some spotting throughout. [and] Two vols bound as four, contemporary half calf with marbled boards. Some spotting throughout.

[Ref: 8865]    £1,850.00 ($2,849 • €2,239 rates)

MARMOCCHI, F.C. Grande Atlante di Geografia Universale Statistico e Pittoresco... Milano, Gius. Civelli, 1871. Folio, original half morocco with gilt morocco title label on front board; title, pp. (142), text wood engravings throughout many in original hand colour, 46 steel-engraved maps in original colour.

[Ref: 8867]    £2,200.00 ($3,388 • €2,662 rates)