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| [ANONYMOUS]. A Map of Marco Polo’s Voyages & Travels in the 13th Century through a great Part of Asia, all Tartary, the East India Islands & Part of Africa. [London: 1744-8] [34179] 19.3 x 29.7 cm. Uncoloured. Single page map. A large decorative title cartouche to lower right corner featuring illustrations of three male figures in oriental or eastern dress. Blank on verso. Very good condition. £85
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| BERGHAUS, Hermann. Chart Of The World On Mercator’s Projection Gotha: Justus Perthes. 1873 [36148] Overall dimensions 98 x 160 cm. Full original colour in block and outline. An attractive and detailed sea chart of the world. Numerous inset maps, both of the whole world (showing different geographical features) and also of individual harbours and estuaries. A table of explanation to the centre of the lower edge. The map dissected into 40 sections and mounted on linen, it folds into original fawn cloth covered slipcase with a Stanford’s title label to upper board. Old ownership inscription of a Frank Hartfield with his address to the upper edge of label. Stanford’s advertisements to the folded end sections on the verso of the chart. Cloth slipcase somwhat unevenly faded and soiled. The map very lightly browned along the two lower horizontal folds, a few small light brown patches across the map, but generally in very good condition. £1,000 First published 1863, this the 7th Edition. The engravers’ names are given in the title cartouche as H. Eberhardt, E. Kuhn and W. Weiler. Another note in the lower right margin staing “Print by C. Hellfarth, Gotha”. The map published in Germany presumably for the British market (all text is in English). This particular example sold by the firm of Edward Stanford, notable map publishers and sellers of the period. The colouring, as well as demonstrating countries and borders, also highlights diverse features such as projected telegraph lines, shipping routes and ocean currents.
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| BERTIUS, Petrus. Descriptio Orbis Ptolomaica. / Excusum et coelatum a Judoco Hondio Amsterdami inplatea Vitulina propre Euriam. Amsterdam: Jodocus Hondius. [1618] [27191] 9.4 x 13.5 cm. Uncoloured. Miniature map of the old world on Ptolemy’s projection. French text on verso. Browning overall. Water stains to upper left margin and to lower right margin affecting image. Some soiling to margins. £150
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| BOWEN, Eman[uel]. A New & Correct Chart of all the Known World. Laid down according to Mercator’s Projection. Exhibiting all the late Discoveries & Improvements: ... [London: 1744-8] [34183] 36.3 x 45 cm. Uncoloured. Folding page sea chart of the world. The chart with four compass roses from which rhumb lines emanate across the seas. Decorative title cartouche to upper left corner. The coastline of Australia partly shown and one small section of the New Zealand coastline marked. Blank on verso. Very good condition. £500
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| BOWEN, Eman[uel]. KITCHIN, T[homas], [engr.]. A New and Accurate Map of the World ... [London 1744-8] [33341] 40.1 x 57.1 cm. Uncoloured. Folding page map of the world on an oval projection. Australia shown though the eastern coast is undeveloped, the coastline heading in a diagonal line to the north east before joining with New Guinea. The map features the course of the voyages of Magellan, Drake and Anson. Left margin restored though no part of the image affected, otherwise very good condition. £750
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| BOWEN, Emanuel. A New & Accurate Chart of the World. London: [1747] [24233] 36.1 x 44.1 cm. Uncoloured. Folding page chart of the world. Blank on verso. Very good condition. £500
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| BOWEN, T[homas]. A New and Complete Chart of the World; Displaying the Tracks of Captn. Cook and other Modern Navigators. [London: C. Cooke. c.1788-91] [27207] 33 x 46.4 cm. Full colour. Folding page map of the world. Blank on verso. Small without loss to lower edge of left fold, otherwise in very good condition. £400
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 | CASSINI, Giovanni Maria. Emisfero Terrestre Settentrionale ... / Emisfero Terrestre Meridionale ... Rome: Calcographia Camerale. 1789 [but 1792] [28873] Together two sheets. Each image c. 33 x 46 cm. Original outline colour. Pair of decorative maps of the northern and southern hemispheres. Appearing just after the discoveries Captain Cook, the Pacific Ocean is shown in great detail. The course of Cook's three voyages are delineated on both maps. Tables on either side of each hemisphere, deacorated at heads and feet. Small brown spot to centre left of border of northern hemisphere map, else in very good condition. £1,250
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| Together twelve sheets, comprising sets of papers for a terrestial and a celestial globe. Each image c. 32 x 49 cm. Original colour. Each set comprises six sheets, four sheets of gores to make up a globe and two sheets providing the papers for the polar caps and the globe furniture. The contemporary discoveries in the Pacific Ocean are shown in great detail on the terrestial globe, with the courses of Cook’s three voyages delineated. The celestial globe features a particularly decorative projection of the heavens and is attractively coloured, with the constellations shown in their classical forms. Some light soiling to the furniture papers. of the terrestial globe. Overall, attractive sets of these fine engravings. £8,500
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| DU VAL, Pierre. Expeditionis Alexandri Magni Per Europam, Asiam et Africam. Paris: Pierre Mariette. 1654 [30639] 33.7 x 51.8 cm. Original outline colour. Single page folio map showing the extents of Alexander's empire. Blank on verso. Some minor creasing at centre of lower edge. Lower margin soiled though not affecting image, otherwise in good condition. £150
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Each image c. 55 x 89 cm. Original outline colour. Together six double page maps of the world and four continents, with North and South America shown on seperate sheets. Blank on versos. Small splits without loss at lower edges of centrefolds of Europe and North America maps. Creasing at centrefold of Africa and North America maps. Minor damp stains at upper edge of Africa map and upper right corner of South America map. Minor crease at upper left corner of North America map, some light browning. Overall, a very good set. £10,000 Shirley, The Mapping of the World, 536, also cf 462. Tooley, Collectors’ Guide to Maps of the African Continent, p. 56. Tooley, The Mapping of America, 37.
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| JOHNSTON, W & A.K. Johnston’s Commercial and Library Chart of the World on Mercator’s Projection from the Latest and Best Authorities, Containing the Position of Every Place of Commercial Importance, Edinburgh and London: W & A.K. Johnston Ltd. [N.D.] [35442] Large folding chart of the world. The chart in two parts, each 94 x 148 cm (overall size 188 x 296 if joined). Each part dissected into 36 sections and mounted on linen, the exterior edges lined with black cloth. The chart folds between burgundy morocco covers, gilt lettering to upper board and gilt inner dentelles. Marbled paper to folded end sections The chart with original outline colouring. The borders of the British Possessions outlined in coral pink, the minor possessions underlined in red. Numerous steamship routes and telegraph lines marked on the map, highlighted in blue and red respectively, along with other commercial references (coaling stations, railways etc.) and maritime references. A number of inset charts to the edges, these comprise: Isthmus of Panama; the Nile Delta and Suez Canal; South Africa; Indian Empire; Central Europe; South Eastern Australia; Arctic Canada and Northern Greenland. Slight wear to morocco covers, otherwise in excellent condition. £1,000 No printed date, but probably early 20th Century. There are editions of the chart listed on Copac with attributed dates of 1887, 1902, 1922, 1927 and 1931. The chart does not show Johannesburg which grew rapidly after its establishment in 1886. One of the inset maps shows the Panama Canal, in construction from the 1880’s and opened in 1914. The chart doesn’t show the Iraqi state, created from part of the remnants of the Turkish Empire during the course of the 1920’s and eventually admitted to the League of Nations in 1932.
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| KEULEN, Johannes van. Paskaert Waer in de Graden der Breedde over Weder Zyden vande Middellyn Wassende ... Vertonende (Behalve Europaes Zuydeiyckste) een Gedeelte van de Custen van Africa en America ... Amsterdam: [Gerard van Keulen c. 1717] [32614] 51.5 x 59.6 cm. Uncoloured. Double page folio sea chart of the Atlantic with the adjacent coastlines of the Americas, Africa and Europe, orientated with north to the right edge. The chart embellished with rhumb lines and divided into four panels by meridien scales at 0º latitude and longitude (although north of the Equator the latitude scale has been moved further west in order to avoid the land masses of Africa and Europe). Upper margin shaved with slight loss to image. Paper lightly browned overall, with a few light brown stains scattered across sheet. £800
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| MALLET, Allain Manesson. Carte Generale. [Frankfurt: 1685] [32694] 14.5 x 10.4 cm. Full colour. Miniature single hemisphere map showing the continents of Europe, Africa and Asia. Small brown mark to lower margin, otherwise in good condition. £75
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| MALLET, Allain Manesson. Paralleles de Latitude. [Frankfurt: 1685] [32695] 14.2 x 10.2 cm. Full colour. Miniature map of the eastern hemisphere divided by lines of latitude. Very good condition. £75
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| MOLL, Herman. A New Map of the Whole World with the Trade winds ... London: Printed for Thomas Bowles and John Bowles.1727 [but c.1732] [26895] 19.8 x 26.2 cm. Original outline colour. Attractive single page map of the world. Generally, very good condition. £650
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| [MUNSTER, Sebastian]. Die erst General Tafel / die Beschreibung und den Circkel des gantzen Erdtrichs und Meers innhaltende. [Basle: Henricpetri. 1628] [28004] 30.8 x 36.1 cm. Uncoloured. Double page woodcut map of the “modern” world from a German text edition of Munster’s Cosmographia. Headpiece and text to verso of left page, slightly showing through to recto. Two small worm holes toward lower edge of image. Small weakening to paper at centre of lower edge. Occasional expert restoration of exterior of margins. £1,500
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| [MUNSTER, Sebastian]. Ptolemeisch General Tafel / die Halbe Rugel der Welt begreissende. [Basle: Henricpetri. 1628] [28000] 30.7 x 36 cm. Uncoloured. Double page woodcut Ptolemaic map of the ancient world from a German text edition of Munster’s Cosmographia. Map surrounded by clouds and windheads. Headpiece and text to verso of left page, slightly showing through to recto. Some soiling to margins. Minor fraying to edges of sheet, otherwise in good condition. £750
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| NOVELLI, Pietro [Drawn by] and ZULIANI, Giulian. [Engraver]. [ZATTA, Antonio]. Il Mappamondo o sia Descrizione Generale Del Globo. Venice: Antonio Zatta. 1774 [27302] 28.4 x 39.2 cm (plate mark). Original outline colour, full orginal colour to ilustrations. Ornate double hemisphere map of the world. Illustrations of four female figures to the corners of the plate denoting the continents. Illustrations of an armillary sphere and a compass between the hemispheres. Title cartouche to centre of lower edge. Blank on verso. An attractive map in excellent condition. £1,000
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| PITTERI, G [Drawn by] and ZULIANI, G [Engraver]. [ZATTA, Antonio]. Emisfero Terrestre Meridionale Tagliato Sul L'Equatore. / Emisfero Terrestre Settentrionale Tagliato Sul L'Equatore. Venice: Antonio Zatta. 1779 [27303] Together 2 sheets. Each image c. 31.5 x 41.5 cm. Original outline colour. Two maps of the the northern and southern hemispheres. The southern hemisphere map featues Australia shown in outline. Blank on versos. Both maps in very good condition. £1,000
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| PITTERI, G. [Drawn by]. [ZATTA, Antonio]. Romanum Imperium Occidentale, Et Orientale. Venice: Antonio Zatta. 1785 [27513] 30.9 x 40.5 cm. Original outline colour, with coloured title cartouche to upper edge. Double page map of the Roman Empire in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Blank on verso. Blue pencil scribbles to right edge partially removed, causing some loss to impression and to colouring. £50
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 | [PORCACCHI, Thomaso]. Discorso Intorno Alla Carta Da Navigare. [Venice: Apresso Gli Heredi Di Simon Galgnani. 1605] [27724] Sheet size 29 x 20.3 cm, map 10.4 x 14.1 cm. Uncoloured. Nautical map of the world engraved by Girolamo Porro. Map with Italian text below and on verso. Impression slightly faded. Damp stain across right edge of sheet, though not affecting image. Small light brown spot to upper edge of map. £300
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| RAPKIN, J. [TALLIS, John]. The World on Mercator’s Projection Shewing the Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. London: [c. 1856] [27711] 23 x 32.5 cm. Original outline colour. Double page steel engraved map. Decorative scrolling and title cartouche around the edges of the image. Light browning overall, else in very good condition. £250
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| RAPKIN, J. [TALLIS, John]. Eastern Hemisphere./ Western Hemisphere. London: [c. 1856] [25551] 2 sheets. Both c. 24.5 x 34 cm. Original outline colour. Attractive steel engraved maps of the hemispheres. Decorative borders of the maps profusely illustrated. Very good condition. £450
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| [RAPKIN, J. / TALLIS, John]. Islands of the Atlantic. London: [c. 1856] [30564] 34 x 24.5 cm. Original outline colour. Double page steel engraved map featuring the West African coast and the adjacent archipelagoes of the Canaries and the Cape Verde Islands. Inset maps of the Azores, Madeira and Bermuda. Accompanied by vignette scenes of Fayal, Villa Francal and Pico in the Azores, Funchal and the Church of St. Vicente in the Cape Verde Islands. Decorative scrolling and title cartouche around the edges of the image. Very good condition. £100
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| RAPKIN, J. [TALLIS, John]. Overland Route to India. London: [c. 1856] [33379] 32 x 24.5 cm. Original outline colour. Two steel engraved maps on one double page sheet. Upper map showing various rotes through Europe to the East. The lower map showing the routes coming through Turkey and the Suez Canal up to the Sub-Continent. Decorative scrolling and title cartouche around the edges of the maps. Very good condition. £125
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| RAPKIN, J. [TALLIS, John]. Western Hemisphere. London: [c. 1856] [36194] 24.5 x 33.5 cm. Original outline colour. Double page map of the Americas and Pacific Ocean. A circular projection flanked by an ornate border with 12 (8 large and 4 small) circular vignette illustrations, these depictions of a walrus, an Inuit scene, a bison, a whale and native North and South Americans. Very lightly browned along the centrefold, otherwise in very good condition. £250
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| [SPEED, John]. KEERE, Pieter van den. (engr.). The Romane Empire. [London: William Humble. 1646] [35401] 8.4 x 12.2 cm. Uncoloured. Miniature map of the Roman Empire, from North-Western Europe to the Middle East. Text on verso. Some show through text, otherwise in good condition. £50
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| ZATTA, Antonio. Il Mappamondo o sul Descrizione Generale Del Globo Ridotto in Quadro. Venice: Antonio Zatta. 1774 [27301] 29.6 x 43 cm (plate mark). Original outline colour, with decorative coloured title cartouche to lower left corner. Illustration of a compass rose to centre of lower edge. Keys to left and right edges explaining the different climate zones of the world. Blank on verso. Some extremely faint browning to lower margin, not affecting image. Overall, an attractive map in very good condition. £600
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