Carto-bibliography on atlas maps by Ortelius

VAN DEN BROECKE, Marcel.

Ortelius Atlas Maps. An illustrated Guide. Second revised edition.

Houten: HES & De Graaf Publishers, 2011. New. 8vo, illus. boards; pp. 708, illustrated throughout.

Stock ID : 18385

£70

A two-sheet map of India

FADEN, William.

A Map of the Peninsula of India from The 19th Degree North Latitude to Cape Comorin.

London: James Wyld, 1824. Original body colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 1010 x 825mm.

Stock ID : 23848

£620

An early 18th century celestial chart in fine original colouring

SCHENK, Pieter.

Planisphaerium Coeleste.

Amsterdam, c.1705. Original colour, with gum arabic highlights. 490 x 560mm.

Stock ID : 23855

£1,800

The Genealogies of the Palaiologan Emperors and Ottoman Sultans

ROGG, Gottfried.

Neu Inventiert. Genealogischer Stamm=Baum der Griechisch Kaÿser welche theils zu Constantinopel theils zu Trapezunt Residiret. Desglichen ein Stamm Baum. der Türckischen Kaÿser bis auf den heüt tag regierhenden Sultan.

Augsburg: Matthias Seutter, c.1755. Original colour with additions. 590 x 500mm.

Stock ID : 23856

£950

A decorative 18th century map of Greece

SEUTTER, Matthäus.

Graecia Nova et Mare Aegeum S. Archipelagus..

Augsburg: Tobias Conrad Lotter, c.1750. Original body colour with additions to the cartouche. 495 x 580mm.

Stock ID : 22308

£500

England divided into the Saxon Heptarchy

SEUTTER, Matthäus.

Britanniae sive Angliae Regnum, tam secundum prisca Anglo-Saxonum Imperia...

Augsburg, c.1740. Original body colour. 575 x 490mm.

Stock ID : 22311

£380

Rare map of the interests of the V.O.C. in the East Indies

RENNEVILLE, René Auguste Constantin.

[Untitled map of the East Indies.]

Paris, c.1725. Coloured. 315 x 435mm.

Stock ID : 22933

£1,650

A highly-detailed prospect of Manhattan

SULMAN, Thomas.

New York from Bergen Hill: Hoboken.

London, 1876. Wood-engraving with hand colour, printed area 490 x 1150mm.

Stock ID : 23720

£3,500

A bird's-eye view of Louis XIV's court at Versailles

SEUTTER, Matthäus.

Versailles Chateau de plaissance le plus delicieux et le plus magnifique dans l'Ile de France, bati par ordre de Louis XIV, Roj to France, et nomé à cause de la sa beauté la huitieme merveille, du monde...

Augsburg, c.1735. Original; colour. 500 x 580mm.

Stock ID : 23735

£700

18th century vue d'optique of the Cape of Good Hope

RIEDEL, Gottlieb Friedrich.

Prospect des Vorgeburges der guten Hoffnung... Vue du premontoir de Bonne Esperance

Augsburg: Négoce Commune de l'Académie Imperiale d'Empire des Arts libereaux, c.1780. Original colour. 300 x 415mm.

Stock ID : 23736

£600

A 17th century map of France with rare gazzetteer side-panels

VISSCHER, Nicolas.

Galliae seu Francia Tabula, qua omnes Provinciae, Viae augiariae et aliae res notatu dignae distrincté et accuraté ostenduntur,

Amsterdam, c.1690. Fine original colour. Three sheets conjoined, total 530 x 1150mm.

Stock ID : 23744

£750

The Peregrinations of Saint Paul in superb original colour

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Peregrinationis Divi Pauli Typus Corographicus...

Antwerp, 1603, Latin edition. Fine original colour. 360 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 23745

£1,400

Speed's map of Scotland with 'commoner' portraits

SPEED, John.

The Kingdome of Scotland.

London, Roger Rea, 1665. Coloured. 390 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 23787

£2,300

The first British atlas map of Wales

SPEED, John.

Wales.

London: Roger Rea, 1665. Coloured. 385 x 515mm.

Stock ID : 23789

£1,700

Speed's map of the wars of England

SPEED, John.

The Invasions of England & Ireland with al their Civill Wars Since the Conquest.

London: Roger Rea, 1665. Coloured. 385 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 23790

£1,800

A famous 16th century woodblock map of North Africa

WALDSEEMULLER, Martin.

Tabula nova partis Africae.

Vienne: Gaspar Trechsel, 1541. Coloured woodcut, printed area 305 x 410mm, with wide margins.

Stock ID : 23837

£850

A 19th century French memento mori

TURGIS, Louis jnr.

Le temps passe, l'Eternité approche ! et nous n'y pesnons pas! Souviens-toi, ô homme, que tu n'es que poussière et que tu retourneras en poussière. Acuerdate hombre, que eres de polvo y que volveras á polvo.

Paris: Louis Turgis, Jnr, 1851. Tinted lithograph finished with hand colour and gum arabic shine. Printed area 330 x 220mm.

Stock ID : 23887

£330

Facsimile of Ogilby's 'Britannia' road atlas

OGILBY, John.

Britannia Vol 1. or an Illustration of ye Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales By a Geographical or Historica Description of the Principal Roads.

London: Alexander Duckham, 1939. Oblong 4to, original cloth gilt; descriptive label on front pastedown; pp. (7)+101 facsimile road maps.

Stock ID : 23868

£60

The Strait of Malacca & Singapore

AA, Pieter van der.

Le Detroit de Malacca, Dressee sur les memoires des plus savans Voyageurs modernes...

Leiden, c.1714. Uncoloured. 265 x 160mm.

Stock ID : 23646

£475

Cook's maps of Botany Bay and the Endeavour River

COOK, James.

Entrée de la Rivière Endeavour dans la Nle. Galles Méridle. Baye de Botanique dans la Nle. Galles Méridionale...

Paris: Saillant et Nyon & Panckouke, 1774. 150 x 350mm.

Stock ID : 23585

£180

Decorative 17th century old map of Denmark

JAILLOT, Alexis-Hubert.

Le Royaume de Danemark, Divisé en ses Provinces.

Paris, 1695. Original colour. 520 x 610mm.

Stock ID : 23626

£650

An uncommon map of Arabia & the Arabian Gulf

MARMOCCHI, Francesco C.

L'Arabia, il Golfo Persico ed il Mar Rosso.

Genova: Paolo Rivara, c.1858. Original colour. 300 x 365mm, publisher's blind stamp in lower margin.

Stock ID : 23628

£250

Map of Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula

AA, Pieter van der.

L'Ile de Sumatra, suivant les plus nouvelles observations des meilleurs geographes..

Leiden, c.1714. Uncoloured. 265 x 160mm

Stock ID : 23647

£425

An early 19th century circular map of the environs of Cambridge

RICHARDSON, J.

A New and Accurate Map of the Country for Twenty-five Miles around the University of Cambridge, Exhibiting all the direct and cross Roads, the Hills, Vales, Woods, Rivers, Canals, Towns, Villages, Hamlets, Parks, and Seats of the Nobility and Gentry. From the latest Surveys and Observations.

Cambridge: A. Watford, 1828. Fine original colour. Dissected and laid on linen as issued, total 475 x 480mm, folded into its original marbled slipcase, with publisher's title label.

Stock ID : 23649

£400

A 17th century map of Sri Lanka

HONDIUS, Jodocus.

Ins. Ceilan quae incolis Tenarisin dicatur.

Amsterdam: Henricus Hondius, 1628, French text edition. Coloured. 345 x 500mm.

Stock ID : 23655

£600

Rare town-plan of Corfu under siege by the Ottomans

WIERING, Thomas von.

Neuer und accurater riss der vestung Corfu von einem Venet: Ingenieur gezeichnet. Ao: 1716.

Hamburg, c.1716. Coloured. 195 x 195cm.

Stock ID : 23665

£340

A mid-18th century map of Taiwan

BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas.

L'Isle Formose et Partie des Costes de la Chine.

Paris, 1748. 240 x 290mm.

Stock ID : 23668

£360

The first published charts of Botany Bay and the Endeavour River

COOK, James.

Entrance of Endeavour River in New South Wales...; Botany Bay in New South Wales...

London, 1773. Coloured. 150 x 350mm.

Stock ID : 23669

£400

An 18th century map of the West Indies

JEFFERYS, Thomas.

The West Indies Exhibiting the English French Spanish Dutch & Danish Settlements with the adjacent Parts of North & South America from the best Authorities 1768.

London, c.1768. 195 x 295mm.

Stock ID : 23673

£290

18th century town plan of Peking

HARRIS, John.

Plans of the Old & New City of Peking ye Metropolis of China.

London, 1748. Coloured. 350 x 215mm.

Stock ID : 23674

£450

An 18th century town plan of Canton in China

HARRIS, John.

A Plan of the City of Canton on the River Ta Ho.

London, 1746. Coloured. 310 x 210mm.

Stock ID : 23675

£350

A scarce German edition of Pocock's map of Cyprus

POCOCKE, Richard.

Cypern.

German, c.1745. Coloured. 300 x 220mm.

Stock ID : 23804

£650

Detailed plan of New York City

MITCHELL, Samuel Augustus.

Plan of New York &c.

Philadelphia, 1860. Coloured wood engraving. 370 x 305mm.

Stock ID : 23834

£350

A detailed map of Oman

NIEBUHR, Carsten.

Terrae Oman delineatio.

Amsterdam: S.J. Baalde, & Utrecht: J. van Schoonhoven & Co., 1774. Coloured. 215 x 205mm.

Stock ID : 23775

£900

A detailed Victorian map of Burma

ARROWSMITH, John.

Map of Burmah, and Adjacent countries, compiled from various M.S. and other documents, by John Arrowsmith. 1858 with additions to September 1875.

London: Edward Stanford, 1875. Steel-engraved map, dissected and laid on linen, as issued, total 840 x 555mm, folded into original cloth covers.

Stock ID : 23852

£425

An early Victorian plan of London

CROSS, Joseph.

Cross's London Guide.

London, c.1840. Original colour. Dissected and laid on linen, as issued, total 440 x 745mm.

Stock ID : 23854

£800

17th century bird's-eye view of Rome

TEMPESTA, Antonio.

Roma.

Frankfurt: Matthias Merian, c.1650. Two sheets conjoined, total 310 x 715mm.

Stock ID : 23888

£1,800

18th century map of Northern India and Pakistan

BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas.

Carte de L'Indoustan Suivant les Cartes les plus récentes... 1752.

Amsterdam, 1773. Original colour. 240 x 345mm.

Stock ID : 23914

£160

The Bertius map of Japan

HONDIUS, Jodocus II.

Japan.

Amsterdam: Jodocus Hondius, 1616. Coloured. 100 x 135mm.

Stock ID : 23918

£300

A 17th century illustration of an armillary sphere

MALLET, Alain Manesson.

Zodiaque.

Paris, 1683. Coloured. 150 x 110mm, set in letterpress.

Stock ID : 23928

£180

17th century miniature map of Mexico

MALLET, Alain Manesson.

Mexique ou Nouvelle Espagne.

Paris, 1683. Coloured. 160 x 110mm, set in letterpress.

Stock ID : 23929

£230

A miniature illustration of the Ptolemaic Solar System

MALLET, Alain Manesson.

Systeme de L'Univers.

Paris, 1683. Coloured. 150 x 110mm, set in letterpress.

Stock ID : 23930

£240

A miniature illustration of the Solar System according to Descartes

MALLET, Alain Manesson.

Systeme de Descartes.

Paris, 1683. Coloured. 150 x 110mm, set in letterpress.

Stock ID : 23931

£240

A miniature illustration of the Solar System

MALLET, Alain Manesson.

[Untitled plate of the orbits of the planets around the Sun]

Paris, 1683. Coloured. 150 x 110mm, set in letterpress.

Stock ID : 23932

£240

A 17th century plate illustrating the Moon phases

MALLET, Alain Manesson.

[Untitled plate of the phases of the Moon.]

Paris, 1683. Coloured. 150 x 110mm, set in letterpress.

Stock ID : 23933

£180

A superb 16th century map of Denmark

JORDAN, Mark.

Danorum Marca, vel Cimbricum, aut Daniae Regnum...

Cologne, c.1588, Latin text edition. Original colour. 390 x 470mm.

Stock ID : 23838

£2,000

A sought after map of the Republic of Texas

RADEFELD, Carl Christian Franz.

Texas Nach den besten Quellen entw. u. gez. vom Haupt. Radefeld.

Bibliographischen Insituts zu Hildburghausen, 1846. Original outline colour. 295 x 355mm.

Stock ID : 23839

£1,200

A Dutch map of Scotland in fine original colour

JANSSON, Jan.

Scotia Regnum.

Amsterdam: Henricus Hondius & Jan Jansson, 1638, Latin text edition. Outstanding original colour. 390 x 505mm.

Stock ID : 23840

£725

The scarce second state of the Lhuyd-Hondius map of Wales

LHUYD, Humfrey.

Cambriae Typus Auctore Humfredo Lhuydo Denbigiense Cambrobritanno.

Amsterdam: Henricus Hondius & Jan Jansson, 1638, Latin text edition. Fine original colour. 370 x 490mm.

Stock ID : 23841

£550

A Georgian 'make your own landscape' pastime

CLARK, John Heaviside.

[Myriorama: A Collection of Many Thousand Landscapes, Designed by Mr Clark.]

London: Samuel Leigh, 1824. 16 numbered aquatints on card, with original hand colour, as called for, each 200 x 70mm, total if joined 200 x 1120mm.

Stock ID : 23843

£950