BOOKS 

MICHELOT, Henri.
[A Mediterranean pilot guide or portulan]
Le Portulan de la Mer Mediterranée, ou le Vray Guide des Pilots Costiers. Dans lequel on verra la veritable maniere de Naviguer le long des Côtes d'Espagne, Catalogne, Provence, Italie, les Isles d'Yvice, Mayorque, Minorque, Corse, Sicilie, & autres… Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1709. 4to, modern half calf with marbled boards, gilt morocco title label; pp. (viii) + 175, partially unopened, engraved frontispiece of a compass.
A navigational / pilots guide book to the western Mediterranean, with detailed descriptions of the important ports and harbours, with instructions on how to enter them
[Ref: 11724]  

[Bible].
[Bible with Maps]
Vetus Testamentatum Ex Versione Saptuaginta Interpretum, Secundum Exemplar Vaticanum Romæ... Franqueræ, Franciscus Halma, 1709. 4to, contemporary prize vellum gilt, front end-paper loose; frontis., engr. title; pp. [xxxviii] + 1326; 4 engr. plates. Latin prefaces and Greek text.
Totius Orbis Terrarum Tabula.... per J. Moxon. Double-page world map with California as an island. 2. Tabernaculi Cunstructio et Vasa Sacra. Double page view of the construction of the Tabernacle. 3. Tabula Geographica Terræ Sanctæ Auctore I. Bonifrero Societa Iesu. Fold-out map of the Holy Land. 4. Vera Hierosolymae Veteris Imago. Double-page plan of Ancient Jerusalem
[Ref: 8258]  

HOOGHE, Romeyn de.
[Fine antique etchings of the East and West Indies]
Les Indes Orientales et Occidentales et autres lieux: représentés en très-belles figures, qui montrent au naturel les Peuples, Moeurs, Religions, Fêtes, Sacrifices, Mosquées, Idoles, Richesses, Ceremonies, Festins, Tribunaux, Supplices et esclavages... Par le S.r Romein de Hooge. Leiden: Pieter van der Aa, 1710. Oblong folio, original full mottled calf gilt with gilt armorial on both boards, marbled endpapers with bookplate on front pastedown, silk bookmark; engraved title, 6 map & 40 etched plates by de Hooghe (numbered to 41, 3 & 4 on the only folding sheet), complete, 39 blank sheets with gilt edges. Ex-libris, blindstamp of the Wigan Free Public Library in the margin of the title and 8 plates; ink provenance annotations on premiliminary.
A travel guide to the East and West Indies in the form of 40 antique prints by Romeyn de Hooghe, a famous Dutch Old Master etcher, with keys to the illustations. Subjects include the visit of the English Ambassador Sir Thomas Roe's visit to Agra 1615-18, diamond production, plants and animals of Africa, America and Asia, tortures and punishments, shipping, ceremonies, slavery, music, religions, Brazilian sugar mills, Captain John Smith in Virginia, and Spanish tyranny in the West Indies. Antique maps contained in this work are of the world and continents (North & South America separately). The gilt arms and bookplate belong to Louis Urbain Le Fèvre de Caumartin [1653-1720], a friend of Voltaire. The book passed through the collections of the Earl of Crawford and the Buckley Library before reaching Wigan.
[Ref: 12723]  

TYLER, Lieutenant.
[A rare plan of the Battle Of Waterloo]
The Battle of Waterloo Taken on the Spot, After the Action of the 18.th June 1815, Presented, & Dedicated With Permission To H.R.H. The Duke Of York, By Lieut.t Tyler 2nd GB. London, c. 1815, copperplate engraving, original wash colour, 440 x 270mm Original buckram cover; old fold from being inserted into a small view book; narrow top margin, with a few short tears restored.
A rare and detailed broadsheet plan of the battle of Waterloo drawn by Lieutenant Tyler of the 2nd Guards Brigade, in original colour and preserved by being bound into a Belgian view-book of the battlefield, containing six engravings of pivotal locations in the battle.
[Ref: 11014]  

FREYCINET, Louis Claude Desaules de, et al.
[A French Cartographic Expedition to Australia]
Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes Exécuté par ordre de S.M. L'Empereur et Roi. Partie Historique Rédigée par M.F.Peron. Atlas par MM. Leseur et Petit. [Bound with] Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes... Atlas. Deuxième Partie. Paris: 1811-1816. Atlas volume only, small folio, original spine and boards; engraved title + (iv) (list of plates), 40 engr. plates, some colour printed; eng. title + (iii) (list of plates), 14 plates of maps (incl. 2 large folding).
The atlas volume from a combined edition of Freycinet & Peron's accounts of the French cartographic expedition to Australia 1800-1804, which was preparing the way for French colonisation. The main contributors were Freycinet (maps), Lesueur & Petit (drawings) and Péron (written account). The plates are a mixture of engraving, etching and aquatint: the colour plates are all printed in base colours to ensure the highest quality of reproduction. The two works still have their original titles and indexes: the large general map is listed in both but is omitted from the first part. There is also a plate 'XLI' in the first part not called for.
[Ref: 1796]  

  GLOBES 

CARY, John & William.
[A Pair of Terrestrial & Celestial Globes]
Cary's New Terrestrial Globe, Delineated From the best Authorities extant; Exhibiting the different Tracks of Captain Cook, and the discoveries made by him and other Circumnavigators. [AND] Cary's New Celestial Globe on which are correctly laid down upwards of 3500 stars selected from the most accurate observations and calculated for the Year 1800. London, J. & W. Cary, 1800. Two table globes, 31cm diameter, original wooden stand with horizon ring with printed zodiac and months, brass meridian, total height 45cm. A few small repairs.
A pair of highly decorative table globes. The two Cary brothers made a good team for the creation of this globe: John was a highly respected cartographer and publisher; William was a member of the Astronomical Society whose business was the making of scientific instruments, including sextants, telescopes and microscopes. SNYDER: Maps of the Heavens, p.134-5, illus; DNB: "John Cary and the firm he created dominated British map production for a generation".
[Ref: 567]  

SMITH, Charles & Son.
[Floor-Standing Terrestrial Globe]
Smith's Terrestrial Globe Containing the whole of The Latest Discoveries and Geographical Improvements, also the Tracks of the most celebrated Circumnavigators. London, Smith & Son, 63 Charing Cross, 1873.
Terrestrial globe, 18" (46cm) diameter, with brass meridian, with compass. Wooden stand, 24" (61cm) diameter, 34" (86cm) high, total height 44" (112cm). three turned legs.
[Ref: 9156]  

MANG, Adolf.
Mang's Neuer Erd-Globus... Stuttgart, c.1905, original colour, H: 520mm W: 230mm.
An attractive early 20th century globe with an engraved brass meridian and on a turned wooden base inset with a compass, made by the German firm of Mang which operated from 1849-1933.
[Ref: 10953]  

KRAUSE, Arthur.
Prof d:r Krauses Handels - och Samfardsglob. Leipzig, Paul Räth, 1920, original colour, H: 650mm; W: 350mm.
The globe has an attractive original turned wood base, Petrograd which was the official name for St Petersburg between 1914-1924, is marked.
[Ref: 10954]  

BETTS, John.
[A collapsable globe in superb condition and in full working order]
Betts's Portable Terrestrial Globe Compiled from the Latest and Best Authorities. British Empire coloured red. London, George Philip & Son Ltd, & Liverpool, Philip Son & Nephew, c.1925. Printed waxed cotton globe with umbrella-like collapsible mechanism, metal spindle and hanging ring. Globe circumpherence 1,260mm extended, 770mm long including spindle. With the
An unusual collapsible "umbrella" globe, showing the British Empire when it had a population of 450 million and covered approximately a quarter of the Earth's total land area. The globe's mechanism was invented by John Betts in 1860; this example is a later issue by G. Philip & Sons who manufactured them from Bett's death ca. 1863 to ca. 1925. We have estimated the date of this example by the description of St Petersburg as "Petrograd (Leningrad)" (renamed by the Soviets in 1924), and the separation of Transjordan from Palestine (1922) but before full independence from the British (1928). Undoubtedly the reason for the superb condition and cleanliness of this globe is the original cardboard tube.
[Ref: 11548]