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1. A pair of rare game maps of the world
DARTON, William Junior Walker’s Geographical Pastime, or Tour Through the Eastern Hemisphere,
or Old World. An Amusing and Instructive Game. [and] Walker’s Geographical Pastime, or Tour
Through the Western Hemisphere, or New World. An Amusing and Instructive Game.
London, Published, W. Darton, 58 Holborn Hill, of whom may be had by the same Author various other
Instructive Games, 1816.
Two engraved maps, both with fine original full-wash colour, dissected and mounted on to a single piece
of linen, together with one rule book, 46, [2]p. advert, stab bound, paper wrappers, folding into original
green marbled paper slipcase, with publisher’s label, rubbed.
520 by 480mm. (20.5 by 19 inches).
Two companion geographical games of the eastern and western hemispheres.
The player begins his journey of the eastern hemisphere in Ireland, travelling through Europe, then on
through Asia to China, the East Indies, and Australia. The player then crosses the Indian Ocean and
visits the east coast of Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, and the Middle East, where the traveller visits
Mecca, whose temple is said to “resemble the Royal Exchange in shape, but is nearly ten times as large”.
After visiting the over sized royal exchange, the player heads for Africa, ending his travels and winning
the game, in Sierra Leone. Although the last line suggests not to be over enthusiastic in ones celebrations:
“Pray bear your victory modestly and moderately for now”.
The game of the western hemisphere begins in Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love. The player then
travels up to the Arctic Circle, into the Atlantic Ocean to visit the Cape Verde Islands, and then back to
complete a tour of Central and North America. After north America the game heads into the Pacific. The
travels end with a tour of South America, the game being won by the first person to reach Buenos Aires,
which is said to be “a truly delightful country”, where, “people of one hundred years old or upwards are not
uncommon”.
Along the way the player is told many fascinating and unusual details about the places he or she visits. By
far the longest description is left for the The Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands) where “the amiable,
the enterprising, the ingenious and excellent Captain Cook was murdered!” . After a brief introduction
regarding the islands and its inhabitants, in which the women are described as “commonly ill-made, with
coarse features, a gloomy air, and are besides rude, sluggish and awkward in their manners”, the text goes
on to deal with the death of Captain Cook at great length. However, the text ends on an upbeat note:
“notwithstanding the fatal affair above recorded, the natives are acknowledged to be the most mild and
affectionate disposition, and in hospitality to strangers are not exceeded even by the inhabitants of the
Friendly Islands”
£4,500.00
2. The high-water mark of the British Empire
[ANONYMOUS] The India & Colonial Exhibition. 1886. Map of the World shewing the Extent of the
British Empire in 1886. British Territories Coloured Solid Blue.
[London, 1886].
Lithograph map, printed in blue on cloth.
570 by 670mm (22.5 by 26.5 inches).
Rare map of the British Empire produced for the India and Colonial Exhibition of 1886.
The India and Colonial Exhibition was held in South Kensington in London, and was - in the words
of the then Prince of Wales “to stimulate commerce and strengthen the bonds of union now existing
in every portion of her Majesty’s Empire”. The exhibition was opened by Queen Victoria, and when
it closed had received 5.5 million visitors. As well as the various wears produced in the colonies, the
organisers reputedly had several dozen Indians imported from Agra jail, to serve as living exhibits; they
were described as artisans, although it appears that they were trained in their crafts as part of the British
Empire’s long-term project to “reform the criminal castes”.
The British Colonies are named and coloured blue. To the four corners of the map are representations of
the British Empire’s most important colonies: Canada; South Africa; India; and Australia. Below centre
sits Britannia flanked by cornucopias with the sea, the source of her strength and power in the back
ground.
The year 1886, saw somewhat of a vogue for maps of the British Empire, with not only Walter Cranes
seminal work, but also the first edition of Howard Vincent’s map.
Rare OCLC records two institutional examples: the British Library; and the National Library of
Australia.
BL Cartographic Items Maps 183.q.1.(13.)
£7,000.00
3. Rare Roger Rea edition of Speed’s Heptarchy
SPEED, John Britain As It Was Devided in the tyme of the Englishe Saxons especially during their
Heptarchy Performed by Iohn Speede.
[London], are to be sold by Roger Rea ye Elder and younger at ye Golden Crosse in Cornhill against ye Exchange,
[1665].
Double-page engraved map, fine contemporary outline hand colour, upper left and right margin skilfully
repaired.
410 by 550mm. (16.25 by 21.75 inches).
The map bears the imprint of Roger Rea the Elder and Younger. The Reas had purchased the rights to
Speed’s work from William Garrett in 1589, who had previously purchased them from the widow of
William Humble in the same year. Skelton suggests that the father and son intended a new edition of the
atlas for the Restoration of 1660. However, the atlas would appear not to have been published until 1665.
This is borne out by an advertisement in the Term Catalogue by the subsequent owners of the plates,
Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, in 1675:
“Mr John Speed’s... Geography of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland... together with his
Prospect... all in one entire Volume, hath been, for seven Years past, out of Print, the greatest part of an
Impression, then newly Printed, being destroyed by the late dreadful Fire, 1666”. This is borne out by the
rarity of the Rea edition of the atlas. There is evidence that they planned an edition of 1666, as there are
impressions of Sussex, Buckingham and Derby, with Rea’s imprint, which bear that date. Rea would later
sell the plates to Bassett and Chiswell, who would publish a new edition in 1676.
Skelton 81.
£3,800.00
4. Rare Roger Rea edition of Speed’s map of Sussex
SPEED, John Sussex Described and divided into Rapes with the situation of the Chichester the cheife
citie thereof. And the armes of such Nobles as have bene dignified with the title of Earles since the
conquest and other accidents therein observed. Described by Iohn Norden. Augmented by Iohn Speede
[London], And are to be sold by Roger Rea the Elder and younger at the Golden Crosse in Cornhill against the
Exchange, 1665.
Double-page engraved map, fine contemporary outline hand colour, upper left and right margins skilfully
repaired.
410 by 550mm. (16.25 by 21.75 inches).
£2,000.00
5. Rare Roger Rea edition of Speed’s map of Surrey
SPEED, John Surrey Described and Divided into Hundreds
[London], to be solde by Roger Rea the elder and younger at the Golden Crosse in Cornhill against the Exchange
1665.
Double-page engraved map, with fine contemporary outline hand colour, upper left and right margins
skilfully repaired, margins reinforced with japan paper.
410 by 550mm. (16.25 by 21.75 inches).
£2,000.00
6. Rare Roger Rea edition of Speed’s map of Middlesex
SPEED, John Midle-Sex described with the most famous Cities of London and Westminster. Described
by Iohn Norden. Augmeted by I. Speed
[London], Solde by Roger Rea the Elder and younger at the Golden Crosse in Cornhill against the Exchange,
1665.
Double-page engraved map, fine contemporary outline hand colour, upper left and right margins skilfully
repaired.
410 by 550mm. (16.25 by 21.75 inches).
£2,000.00
7. John Seller’s rare map of Surrey
SELLER, John Surrey Actually Survey’d and Delineated By John Seller Hydrographer to the King many
Additions by P. Lea Cum Privilegio Regis.
London, Sold by Philip Lea at ye Atlas and Hercules in Cheap Side, [c.1700].
Engraved map on two sheets joined, fine original hand-colour in outline, trimmed to neatline.
635 by 1005mm (25 by 39.5 inches).
The map was first issued by Seller in 1679. The map was to be part of Seller’s large folio county atlas of
England and Wales, entitled ‘Atlas Anglicanus’. However the project, like much of Seller’s over-ambitious
schemes, never got off the ground, with only six of the counties - Middlesex, Surrey, Hertfordshire, Kent,
Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire - being surveyed. In 1693, he was forced to sell the plates to Philip
Lea, who issued them separately and as part of the composite atlases of England and Wales. After Lea’s
death in 1700, the business was run by his widow Anne, until her death in 1730.
Scale: 3/4 inch to 1 statute mile.
BLMC Maps 3455.(9.); Skelton 115.
£1,500.00
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8. Arrowsmith large wall map of Ireland in fine original full wash
colour
ARROWSMITH, Aaron Ireland.
London, Published By A. Arrowsmith, Hydrographer to H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, No.10 Soho Square, 1811.
Additions to 1821.
Engraved map, on four sheets, dissected and mounted on linen, fine original full wash-colour, housed in
original green marbled paper slipcase, rubbed.
1426 by 1812mm. (56.25 by 71.25 inches).
Aaron Arrowsmith’s large and detailed map of Ireland.
Aaron Arrowsmith (1750-1823) was the finest cartographer of his generation. Although he received little
formal education it is believed that he was taught some mathematical instruction by William Emerson,
an author of several books on the application of mathematics to the area of cartography. Around 1770,
Arrowsmith moved to London to seek employment. It is believed that he worked for William Faden
before joining John Cary Sr. in the early 1780s. There he provided the measurements for John Cary’s early
publication detailing the roads from London to Falmouth, his first signed work. Arrowsmith set up on his
own in 1790 and over the next thirty years produced some of the most beautiful and elegant maps of the era.
Bonar Law 222 (i).
£4,000.00
9. Rare game map of Ireland
DARTON, William; WALKER, John Walker’s Tour Through Ireland a New Geographical Pastime.
London, Published by W. Darton, 58 Holborn Hill, Of Whom may be had Walker’s Instructive Geographical
Tours of England and Wales; Scotland, Europe and the World, March 9th, 1812.
Engraved game map, dissected and mounted on linen, fine original colour, rules to the game to left and
right border, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into original green cloth case with publisher’s label.
510 by 800mm (20 by 31.5 inches).
Large and instructive geographical game of Ireland.
The rules of the game are set out to the upper left, followed by a brief introduction, providing information
upon the population, town and cities, flora and forna, and geographical make up. The player begins his
journey in Dublin, the capital, and as the text to the left of the map informs us has numerous public
buildings of note including the newly built Royal Exchange, the parliament, and the customs house. Upon
his travels the player passes through Limerick, Cork, Belfast, and Londonderry; finally arriving at no. 113,
the Giants’ Causway, which “is composed of a vast number of upright columns, chiefly of five or six sides...
At lower water the causeway extends nearly six hundred feet in length, against which the waves dash with
great fury... the most striking range is called the Organs, from its resemblance to that form of instrument.”
John Walker of Cockermouth (1759-1830) a physician, geographer and engraver - began his career in
Dublin, engraving plates for Thomas Walker’s “Hiberian Magazine”. He founded a school in the city in
1784. In 1795, he travelled to London to study medicine, leaving the school in the hands of the essayist
John Foster (1770-1843). His studies would take him to Paris and Leiden where he would graduate in
1799. He was able to finance his studies by the generosity of Anne Bowman of Cockermouth, whom he
married at Glasgow 23 October 1799. Upon his travels he met and befriended radicals including Tom
Paine, and James Napper Tandy, and became involved in many radical causes. He saw service as an army
medic during the Egyptian Campaign of the Napoleonic Wars, and later became a leading exponent and
advocate of vaccination.
As well as the above he also championed youth education. To this end he published several geographical
works, including ‘Elements of Geography’, in 1788, and ‘The Universal Gazetteer’, in 1795. In 1808, he
would team up with William Darton Senior to publish, ‘Walker’s Universal Atlas for the use of schools’,
which would go through numerous editions. It was a this time that he began publishing, along with
Darton, his geographical games, the first being a tour through England and Wales, in 1809. He together
with William Darton Junior would continue to publish geographical games for the next 20 years.
£2,500.00
10. England and Wales as an old man
[SNOW. After Robert Dighton] A Caricature of England and Wales.
[London, c.1815].
Engraved caricature map mounted on card, original full wash colour.
Rare caricature map of the British Isles.
Robert Dighton was well known as a portrait artist and is regarded as one of the most talented social
caricaturists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He also achieved notoriety as a thief of valuable
prints from the British Museum which he sold on the open art market to supplement his income from
painting and etching.
£650.00
11. Comic Map of the London Stock Exchange
WHISTLER, Reginald John “Rex” The Stock Exchange London 1933. The Financial News Map of the
Stock Exchange.
London, The Financial News, November 13th, 1933.
Chromolithograph map, centrefold reinforced.
The decoration surrounding the map is replete with symbolism. To the upper right is fleet footed Mercury
bring the latest news, to the right is a goddess who is about to spill her cornucopia upon the exchange. The
title is flanked by a bull and a bear (representations of a buyer’s of seller’s market), both in full morning
dress. To either side of the key are King Midas, spilling money upon the ground, and the Goddess
Fortuna, blindfolded, wresting her right arm on the ‘rota fortunae’ (wheel of fortune), and holding a pair
of scissors.
The Stock Exchange is depicted as castle with entrances from Shorter’s Court, Capel Court, Throgmorton
Street, and Old Broad Street. Within the walls the various commodities are humorously illustrated; these
include banks, gilts, insurance, railroads, American stocks, mining, oil, shipping, and rubber.
The Financial News (1884-1945) was a daily British newspaper published in London. It was founded
in 1884 by Harry Marks, who had begun on United States newspapers, and set up to expose fraudulent
investments. Marks himself was key to the paper’s early growth, when it had a buccaneering life fighting
against corruption and competing with the Financial Times, but after Marks’ death it declined. Bought by
publishers Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1928 and run by Brendan Bracken, it eventually merged with its great
rival in 1945.
£3,000.00
12. First state of Beck’s iconic tube map
BECK, Harry Map of London’s Underground Railways. A new design for an old map. We would
welcome your comments. Please write to Publicity Manager, 55, Broadway, Westminster, S.W.1.
London, London Transport, 55, Broadway, Westminster, S.W.1, [ January, 1933].
Chromolithograph plan, title, list of places of interest and theatres to verso.
142 by 202mm. (5.5 by 8 inches).
A fine example of Beck’s iconic map of the London Underground System.
The map was designed by the 29 year-old engineer Harry Beck. Abandoning the restrictions of a
geographically correct layout, the map actually constitutes a diagram of the network, showing relationships
rather than distances to scale. By using only verticals, horizontals and diagonals, and adopting a clear
colour scheme, Beck created a design classic, both easy to use and aesthetically appealing. After the
positive public response to the limited trial run issued in 1932, the design was formally adopted in 1933,
becoming an essential part of London Transport’s campaign to project itself as a modern, rational and
efficient system. The design remains in use to this day, having become essential to the comprehensibility of
complex transport networks all over the world.
The present example is the first state of the map issued in January of 1933: the interchange stations are
marked with a diamond; the Piccadilly Line is under construction between Enfield West and Cockfosters,
due to be opened mid-summer of 1933.
£2,500.00
13. Birds-eye view of the Square Mile
WHISTLER, Reginald John “Rex” The Financial News. Being a Map for the Merchants, Bankers,
Brokers & other Ventures trading in that City.
London, The Financial News, January 22nd, 1934.
Chromolithograph map.
420 by 580mm (16.5 by 22.75 inches).
Birds-eye view of the City of London’s Square Mile.
To the upper left atop a cloud is Temple Bar flanked by the traditional guardians of the City, Gog and
Magog, together with a cameo of Dick Whittington and his cat. To the upper right are two putti, carrying
a laurel wreath and trumpet, and the coat of arms of the City; Old Father Thames reclines in the lower
left corner. All the major exchanges are marked including the Stock, Baltic, Wool, Metal, Rubber, Corn,
Coal, and Royal. Public buildings are also named including St Paul’s, the Bank of England, Smithfield,
and the Tower of London.
The Financial News (1884-1945) was a daily British newspaper published in London. It was founded
in 1884 by Harry Marks, who had begun on United States newspapers, and set up to expose fraudulent
investments. Marks himself was key to the paper’s early growth, when it had a buccaneering life fighting
against corruption and competing with the Financial Times, but after Marks’ death it declined. Bought by
publishers Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1928 and run by Brendan Bracken, it eventually merged with its great
rival in 1945.
Reginald John “Rex” Whistler (1905-1944) was a British artist, designer, and illustrator, whose career
flourished in 1930s London.
£2,500.00
14. Vrients’s map of the Low Countries
VRIENTS, Jean Baptiste Inferioris Germaniae Provinciarum Nova Descriptio.
[Antwerp, 1608].
Double-page engraved map, fine original hand-colour.
410 by 570mm (16.25 by 22.5 inches).
Fine example of Jan Baptiste Vrients map of the Low Countries and environs, which first appeared in the
1608 edition of Abraham Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world.
The map is based upon a wall map of Philip Galle, published in Antwerp in 1575, of which no known
example survives. The map is known to exist in 4 states, the first of which is known in a single copy.
States 3 and 4 were issued separately post-1612. The present example is the second state, which includes
the Vrients imprint.
The map is embellished with 17 coats of arms, elaborate cartouche and compass rose and naval scenes.
Van Der Broecke 59 state 2.
£4,000.00
15. Rare Roger Rea edition of Speed’s map of Bohemia
SPEED, John Bohemia Newly described by Iohn Speed Anno Dom: 1626.
[London], Are to be sold by Roger Rea the Elder and younger at the Golden Crosse in Cornhill against the
Exchange [1665].
repaired, top and bottom margins trimmed to neatline.
410 by 550mm (16.25 by 21.75 inches).
Skelton 81.
£1,300.00
16. Bohemia
VETTER, Christian Bohemiae Rosa.
Augsburg, 1668.
Engraved map.
395 by 280mm (15.5 by 11 inches).
A rare and beautiful map of Bohemia depicted as a stylised rose. Prague is located at the center of the rose
and Vienna, the main seat of the Hapsburg Dynasty, is shown at the root. The leaves of the rose represent
Moravia, Silesia, Meissen, Bavaria, and Austria. The top of the map bears the motto of the Holy Roman
Emperor, Leopold I, “Iustitia et Pietate” ( Justice and Piety), one of whose titles was King of Bohemia.
Drawn by Christoph Vetter and engraved by Wolfgang Kilian for Bohuslav Balbin’s work of national
history and geography “Epitome Historica Rerum Bohemicarum”. The rose was a symbol of Southern
Bohemia due to being the emblem of the two most powerful local families: namely the red rose of the
Rozmberks and the black rose of the lords of Hradec.
£2,500.00
17. Decorative plan of Rome
RAM, Johannes de Novissima et Accuratissima delineatio Romae Veretis et Novae auctore Joanne de
Ram.
[Amsterdam, Johannes de Ram, c. 1685].
Engraved map, remargined.
500 by 590mm (19.75 by 23.25 inches).
Johannes de Ram’s fine plan of Rome.
This superb bird’s eye-view of Rome is based on Giovanni Battista Falda’s influential wall map of Rome.
It provides remarkable detail, right down to the streets, churches, houses, gardens, piazzas, bridges and
gates with the Vatican appearing in the immediate foreground. The legends flanking the map contain a
key to 464 locations. The map is embellished with large figurative cartouches, the arms of Pope Innocent
XII, and several cherubs. Johannes de Ram is a little known Dutch cartographer who published from
Amsterdam in the latter part of the 17th century. His maps are characterized by bold engraving and large
allegorical cartouches.
£1,500.00
18. Fine Bird’s-Eye View of Eighteenth Century Rome
ROSSI, Matteo Gregorio de, and Livino CRUYL Pianta di Roma Come si Trova al presente colle alzate
delle fabriche piu nobili cosi antiche come moderne
Rome, Piazza Novona, 1696.
Engraved plan on two sheets joined, dedicatory arms and introduction signed by Rossi, upper right nine
inset views of churches and palaces, detailed index set along lower margin, slight loss to centre folds
skilfully repaired.
500 by 840mm (19.75 by 33 inches).
Plan of Rome on printed from two etched copperplates on two full Royal sheets joined, 497 x 837mm.
Dedication in scrolled cartouche, arms of the dedicatee, pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi della Rovere)
supported by putti, principal features shown in perspective, seventeenth-century fortifications shown, key
in cartouche along lower margin, scalebar with dividers in the hand of God. (Trimmed to plate mark,
small ink stain affecting border of key cartouche only, strengthened along one fold on verso.)
A fine, clear, and detailed plan of Rome. Livino Cruyl, born in Ghent, was an architect and engraver
active in Rome in the second half of the seventeenth century. De Rossi, a Milanese with a publishing and
printselling business in the Piazza Navona in Rome, flourished between 1640 and 1672.
Frutaz CLIV; Arrigoni and Barterelli 142; Huelsen 87; watermarks, fleur-des-lys in circle surmounted by
a crown, and an anchor in a circle surmounted by a star.
£1,600.00
19. Map detailing the Bordeaux Wine Classification of 1855
SERRES, Unal Carte Vinicole du Départment de la Gironde dressée sur la données de Mr Duffour
Dubergier Président de la Cambre du Commerce de Bordeaux par Unal Serres Dessinateur Géomètre de
la Ville de Bordeaux.
Bordeaux, P. Chaumas Libraire Proprre. Editeur Fossés du Chapeau rouge 34, 1868.
Hand-coloured lithograph map, dissected and mounted on linen, inset plans of the Médoc, the white wine
region, key to map lower right, and table of wine classifications lower left.
950 by 820mm (37.5 by 32.25 inches).
Large and detailed plan of the 1855 Bordeaux wine classification.
The Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 resulted from the 1855 Exposition Universelle de
Paris, when Emperor Napoleon III requested a classification system for France’s best Bordeaux wines
which were to be on display for visitors from around the world. Brokers from the wine industry ranked
the wines according to a château’s reputation and trading price, which at that time was directly related to
quality.
The wines were ranked in importance from first to fifth growths (crus). All of the red wines that made
it on the list came from the Médoc region except for one: Château Haut-Brion from Graves. The white
wines, then of much less importance than red wine, were limited to the sweet varieties of Sauternes and
Barsac and were ranked only from first great growth to second growth.
A note to the right of the plan reads: (trans.) “This map is a reduction of the one used at the General
Exhibition of 1855 by the Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce; it is drawn by the same surveyor”. The
surveyor in question was Unal Serres, a local cartographer, whose other known works include a plan of
Bordeaux. Serres has dedicated the map to Mr Duffour Dubergier, the head of the Bordeaux Chamber of
Commerce, who on 5th April 1855, had ordered the official classification of Bordeaux wines.
To the upper right are inset plans of the Medoc region with chateaux’s marked, and coloured by ‘crus’,
together with vignette views of Chateau Lafite, and Chateau Margaux. Below is an inset plan of the white
wine region, together with vignette view of Chateau d’Yquem. To the lower right is a key to the crus, with
the price range of each marked. To the lower left is a table of crus with their names, regions, and owners
listed.
Rare the OCLC records four institutional examples: British Library; Bibliotheque Nationale de France;
Hamburg University Library; and Chicago University Library.
Scale: (approx.) 5mm to 1km.
BL Cartographic Items Maps 5.b.10.
£5,000.00
20. Caricature map of Europe at the start of First World War
AMSCHEWITZ, John Henry European Revue. Kill That Eagle
London, Produced by “Geographia” Ltd. 55 Fleet Str., [1914].
Chromolithograph map, folding into original pink paper covers with publisher’s label, a few tears to old
folds skilfully repaired.
500 by 720mm. (19.75 by 28.25 inches).
Great Britain is personified by John Bull rolling up his sleeves and brandishing a cutlass; troops from
Canada, Australia, India and Ireland are shown to his left, with the phrase “Business as Usual” written
across England. To the continent Germany is represented as a swooping eagle, whose talon has grasped
the French Marianne’s bayonet. Austria the clown has been knocked off his ass by the German eagle, his
right hand is being stung by a Bosnian bee, and bitten by a Serbian dog, whilst the Russian Bear, aided
by some charging cossacks, grabs the clown’s right foot and a German talon. The rest of the Balkans
and Greece get ready to fight a reluctant Ottoman Empire, who is being pushed into war by an eager
Germany. Spain and Scandinavia look on, whilst Italy sings a popular song “You made me love you. I
didn’t want to do it”, in reference to her involvement in the Triple Alliance with Austria and Germany. At
the time of the map she was neutral; a year later she would side with Britain, France, and Russia against
their pre-war allies.
BLMC Maps 1078.(43.)
£2,400.00
21. Culinary Map of Italy
ZIMELLI, Umberto Italie Gastronomique. Carte des Principales Spécialités Gastronomiques des
Régions Italiennes.
[Rome, 1931].
Cromolithograph map.
660 by 480mm (26 by 19 inches).
Striking Art Deco map of the culinary delights of Itlay.
“During the two decades of Fascist rule, the exploration of gastronomy was completed by obtaining
a complete map of the regions, by sketching out a preliminary inventory of typical products, and by
promoting the awareness of local cuisines with books, advertising campaigns, shows, and festivals. The
artist Umberto Zimelli was commissioned by ENIT (the Italian National Tourist Board) to create “La
carta delle principali specialità gastronomiche delle regioni italiane” (Map of the principal culinary
specializations of the Italian regions). This was a map with which foreigners could identify the best
products available in the cheese or dessert industry, the best wines and preserved foods, and contemplate
steaming bowls of pasta placed between bottles of wine and molds of cheese.” (Capatti)
Capatti, Alberto, & Montanari, Massimo, ‘Italian Cuisine: A Cultural History’, Columbia University,
New York, 1999.
£1,500.00
22. Pakistan and Afghanistan
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius [translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, edited by GERMANUS, Nicolaus]
Nona Asie Tabula.
Ulm, Lienhart Holle, 16 July 1482.
Double-page woodcut map, fine original hand-colour.
420 by 565mm. (16.5 by 22.25 inches).
This striking map depicts Pakistan and Afghanistan as envisaged by the second century A.D, cartographer
Claudius Ptolemaeus, and is one of the earliest obtainable prints maps of the area. The four areas depicted
at the top of the map roughly conform to modern day Afghanistan. “Gedrosia” to the south western
Pakistan, with the Indus river lying upon its eastern border.
The map was published in the first atlas printed outside Italy and the first atlas illustrated with woodcut
maps.
In 1482 Lienhart Holle in Ulm published a revised edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia with the reworking
of the Ptolemaic corpus by the cartographer Nicolaus Germanus Donis. The atlas included five additional
“modern” maps: Italy, Spain, France, Scandinavia, and the Holy Land. The atlas would be the first book
printed by Lienhart Holle, however, it would appear that the venture proved ruinously expensive and his
business would go bankrupt shortly after publication. The remaining sheets, the woodblocks and the types
passed to Johann Reger in Ulm, who reissued the work in 1486.
As well as the modern maps the atlas bears some other notable first. It was the first time that maps were
signed by the artist responsible for the woodcutting; in this case Johannes of Armsheim, who signed the
world map, and incorporated a backwards N into the woodcut text on each map. It is also the first to print
the accompanying text on the verso of the map to which it refers. Another important feature of the Ulm
editions is the introduction of the publisher’s colouring upon the maps. Maps from 1482 usually have a
rich blue colour in the sea which was replaced with a soft brown colour in 1486.
Camptell, T., ‘Earliest Printed Maps’, p. 179-210; Schreiber 5032; Skelton, R.A., Bibliographical note
prefixed to the facsimile of the 1482 Ulm Ptolemy
£8,000.00
23. Southeast Asia
Undecima Asie Tabula.
420 by 565mm. (16.5 by 22.25 inches).
This striking map depicts the Southeast Asia as envisaged by the second century A.D, cartographer
Claudius Ptolemaeus, and is one of the earliest obtainable prints maps of the area. The map is labelled
“India Extra Gangem” (India Behond the Ganges). To the east of the Ganges Ptolemy marks the “Aurea
regio” the kingdom of gold. Further down we come to the “Sinus Sabaricus” which is most probably the
Gulf of Martban, whose eastern shores begin the Malay peninsular. The Malay Peninsular would then be
the small promontory marked “Curracherson”, with the “Sinus Permimulicus” the Gulf of Siam. Although
some have suggested that Curracherson is Sumatra. China is place to the east of the map “Sina Regio”,
and forms a eastern shore to a landlocked Indian Sea.
£25,000.00
24. India
Decima Asie Tabula.
420 by 565mm. (16.5 by 22.25 inches).
This striking map depicts India as envisaged by the second century A.D, cartographer Claudius
Ptolemaeus, and is one of the earliest obtainable prints maps of the area. Ptolemy’s map bears little
resemblance to the India subcontinent. Ptolemy’s miscalculation of the length of the Indian coastline,
coupled with his under estimation of the circumference of the globe, led the sub-continents distortion,
with Ptolemy attempting to cram to much information into too little a space.
£25,000.00
25. Rare Roger Rea edition of Speed’s map of Iran
SPEED, John The Kingdome of Persia with the cheef Citties and Habites described by John Speede.
Exchange, [1665].
repaired.
410 by 550mm (16.25 by 21.75 inches).
Skelton 81.
£1,800.00
26. Comic plan of Beijing
DORN, Frank A Map and History of Peiping formerly known as Peking; capital of provinces,
princedoms, and kingdoms since 1121 B.C.; in 1264 A.D. the capital of the Mongol Empire of Kublai
Khan; made the capital of the Ming Empire and built as it is today by Yung Lo in 1421; continued as the
capital of the Chinese Empire through the Ming and Ching Dynasties; and now a city which will live
long in the memory of man as one of the greatest the world has ever known. Completed on this fifth day
of February in the year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-six.
Tientsin-Peiping, The Peiyang Press, Ltd., 1936.
Chromolithograph map, a few folds reinforced, folding into tan paper covers, with 22pp. booklet,
publisher’s label to upper cover, rubbed.
870 by 750mm. (34.25 by 29.5 inches).
Decorative and detailed plan of Beijing.
The plan is packed full of wonderful illustrations, from the border that covers the city’s history from
its inception in 1100B.C., its numerous dynasties - including the ‘decadant period under the Ch’Ings’
- through to the revolution of 1911 and the movement of the capital to Nanking in 1927. Also to
the borders are illustrations of a wedding and a funeral. The plan itself not only shows all the historic
landmarks, including the Forbidden City, and the Temple and Altar of Heaven but also the racecourse,
zoo, old execution ground, and cocks fighting. The map is accompanied by a 22 page booklet which gives a
potted history of the city together with a list of points of interest that are shown on the map.
Frank Dorn (1901-1981) was an American artist, writer and military officer. His military service
took Dorn firstly to the Philippines were he produced his first pictorial map of the military Camp
Strassenbourg. While living in China and serving as a junior military attaché in the 1930s, Dorn made his
popular pictorial map of “Peiping” (now Beijing). He later served in the field as advisor to a Chinese army.
A fluent speaker of Chinese, Dorn’s most important military role was in the China-Burma-India theatre
during World War II. He retired from the U.S. military in 1953 having reached the rank of BrigadierGeneral.
£2,000.00
27. The Indies Shall Be Freed!
KEELY, Patrick Cokayne Indie Moet Vrij! [The Indies Shall Be Freed!]
London, Published by James Haworth and Brother Ltd. [c.1944].
Chromolithograph map.
730 by 500mm (28.75 by 19.75 inches).
The Dutch title to this war-time poster reads ‘Indie Moet Vrij!’ (The Indies Shall be Freed!). The poster,
published in London towards the end of the Second World War was evidently aimed at the Free Dutch
troops still station in Britain at the time, the Dutch East Indies having fallen under control of the
Japanese Imperial Army. The theatre had been somewhat by-passed by the Allied powers who had decided
not to occupy Sumatra but focus their efforts on Japan itself. In this light the post may be seen as a sop to
the Dutch who may well have felt that their colonies had been ignored by their allies.
Maps depicting Octopi have a long a distinguished history. The Octopus was most famously used by Fred
Rose, who in 1870 depicted Russia as a malignant Octopus, its malignant tentacles spreading across the
map. The device would be used by the Japanese during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, and again
by the Vichy government to caricature Winston Churchill. In the present poster Keely uses the Japanese
Imperial flag to frame the octopus’s dark and menacing head, with its lithe yellow tentacles ensnare all of
Southeast Asia.
Patrick Cockayne Keely (?-1970) was a designer of posters, press advertisements and trade matter,
producing work for London Transport, Southern Railway and the Post Office before the Second World
War. During the war, Keely produced posters for Ministry of Information targeting the Ministry of
Labour and National Service campaigns including accident prevention. His work at the time was notable
for its use of few objects or symbols together with rich colours making a bold visual message. This, allied
with his design style to deliver the message in shorthand, ensured it was comprehensible to everybody and
resulted in some of the most striking wartime posters.
£2,500.00
28. Sicily, Sardinia, Malta, Libya, and Tunisia
Secunda Africe Tabula.
420 by 565mm. (16.5 by 22.25 inches).
This striking map of North Africa, encompassing modern day Tunisia, Libya, Sicily and Sardinia, depicts
the continent as envisaged by the second century A.D, cartographer Claudius Ptolemaeus. One of the
earliest obtainable maps of the area.
The map was published in the first atlas printed outside Italy and the first atlas illustrated with woodcut
maps.
In 1482 Lienhart Holle in Ulm published a revised edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia with the reworking
of the Ptolemaic corpus by the cartographer Nicolaus Germanus Donis. The atlas included five additional
“modern” maps: Italy, Spain, France, Scandinavia, and the Holy Land. The atlas would be the first book
printed by Lienhart Holle, however, it would appear that the venture proved ruinously expensive and his
business would go bankrupt shortly after publication. The remaining sheets, the woodblocks and the types
passed to Johann Reger in Ulm, who reissued the work in 1486.
As well as the modern maps the atlas bears some other notable first. It was the first time that maps were
signed by the artist responsible for the woodcutting; in this case Johannes of Armsheim, who signed the
world map, and incorporated a backwards N into the woodcut text on each map. It is also the first to print
the accompanying text on the verso of the map to which it refers. Another important feature of the Ulm
editions is the introduction of the publisher’s colouring upon the maps. Maps from 1482 usually have a
rich blue colour in the sea which was replaced with a soft brown colour in 1486.
Camptell, T., ‘Earliest Printed Maps’, p. 179-210; Schreiber 5032; Skelton, R.A., Bibliographical note
prefixed to the facsimile of the 1482 Ulm Ptolemy
£5,000.00
29. Napoleon in Exile
READ, R. P. This Geographical Plan of The Island & Forts of Saint Helena is Dedicated by Permission
to Field Marshal His R[oya]l Highness The Duke of Kent and Strathearn By Lieut. R.P. Read.
[London, Burgis & Barefoot, October 1815].
Engraved map, fine original full wash hand-colour, dissected and mounted on linen, descriptive text to
verso, folding into original blue paper slipcase with vignette of Napoleon in exile on the verso.
457 by 592mm (18 by 23.25 inches).
Napleon’s exile upon the Island of Saint Helena created a huge surge of interest in Great Britain. In order
to satisfy the demand for information, the publisher’s Burgis and Barefoot commissioned a Lieutenant
R. Read to draw a map of the Emperor’s Island prison. Little is known of Read, however, it is most likely
that he had spent some time upon the island, and thus could pinpoint some important geographical
information. The map is based upon John Seller’s map of 1675, orientated with southeast at the top, and
is replete with information, including: towns, estates, churches, roads, coastal defences, rivers, forests,
mountains, bays, and most importantly the residence of Napleon. British naval vessels are depicted on
the sea, with areas marked for good fishing. To the lower right of the map are facsimiles of Napoleon’s
signature, when first consul and again when Emperor. On the verso of the map is a brief descriptive text of
the island giving details upon the islands geography, climate, history and military strength.
This is the second or third of four states: the residence of Napoleon has been changed from “Plantation
House” in the first state, to two new locations; first at “The Briars Mr Balcombe”; the second at “Long
Wood”; “Plantation House”, has been renamed “Plantation House. The Residence of the Governor”; the
hatchuring around the coast has been erased. The second and third states differ only in the publisher’s
imprint, however our example lacks the imprint.
£1,800.00
30. Rare Roger Rea edition of Speed’s map of Bermuda
SPEED, John A Mapp of the Sommer Ilands once called the Bermudas Lying at the mout of the bay
of Mexico in the Lattitude of 32 degr: 25 mi: Distant from England viz from London toward the west
southwest 3300 miles And from Roanoack in Virginia toward the east south east 500 miles exactlie
surveyed.
Exchange, [1665].
repaired, top margin trimmed to neatline.
410 by 550mm. (16.25 by 21.75 inches).
£3,500.00
31. Brazil
ROGGEVEEN, Arent De Zeekusten van Westindien
Amsterdam, [c.1680]
Double-page engraved chart.
430 by 535mm (17 by 21 inches).
Roggeveen’s rare large scale chart of the Amazonian delta - published in Roggeveen’s exceedingly rare sea
pilot ‘Het Brandende Veen’.
This map shows the northern end of the Amazonian delta which empties out into the Atlantic to the
lower leftmost corner, with the “Linea Aequinoetialis”, or equator, clearly delineated. The coastal outline
progresses into Brazil’s northeastern coast in the Brazilian state of Amapa, whose River Oyapock
(identified as “Rio Warypoco” in this map) marks the border between Brazil and French Guyana. Amapa
was an historical administrative division of the former Portuguese colonial empires, who warded off
English and Dutch invaders.
Roggeveen, born in Delshaven, came to Middleburg, the seat of both the Dutch East and West India
Companies, in 1658. He worked for both companies teaching the art of navigation and helped to
maintain their collections of hydrographic manuscripts and charts, including Spanish portolans of the
West Indies. In the mid-1660s, assisted by his access to these collections, Roggeveen embarked upon
compiling a series of large-scale charts of the North American coastline, West Indies, and, later, West
Africa. Many of his charts are based upon the earlier large-scale work of Hessel Gerritsz and Joan
Vingboons, both cartographers for the Dutch East and West India Companies, but Roggeveen’s work
was the first to show the whole coastline of North America and the Caribbean. He called this pilot ‘Het
Brandende Veen’ or ‘The Burning Fen’; a pun on his name, as ‘veen’ means ‘fen’, and a heap of burning fen
represents a fire on the coast to guide or warn ships.
The first edition of the atlas was published in 1675 by Pieter Goos, however, due to the death of Goos
in the same year, and that of Roggeveen four years later, a second edition would not be published until
1680, by which time the plates had been acquired by the chart dealer Jacobus Robijn. Robijn went on to
republish the second edition in 1689, with a third edition appearing in 1698.
£2,500.00
32. Columbia
ROGGEVEEN, Arent Paskaerte vande Cust van West-Indien Tusschen St Martha en Ilha Cares.
Amsterdam, [c.1680].
430 by 535mm (17 by 21 inches).
The first large-scale Dutch sea chart of the norhtern coast of Columbia - published in Roggeveen’s
exceedingly rare sea pilot ‘Het Brandende Veen’.
The chart shows the northern coast of Columbia, with Santa Marta at its leftmost side, leading westward
to Cartegena de Indias, located in the Bolivar Department. During the early part of the sixteenth century,
Cartegena was considered a viable settlement spot to the Spanish crown, who poured millions of dollars
into the construction of settlements and fortifications to protect what became a major trading port of the
area.
£3,000.00
33. Suriname
ROGGEVEEN, Arent Paskaert vande Cust van Westindien… Soronama
Amsterdam, [1698].
430 by 535mm (17 by 21 inches).
Roggeveen’s large-scale chart of the mouth of the Suriname River - published in Roggeveen’s exceedingly
rare sea pilot ‘Het Brandende Veen’.
This map shows the Suriname River where it empties out into the Atlantic Ocean. Featured is “Fort
Paramaribo”, known today as Fort Zeelandia, laying on the bank of the Suriname River in the presentday capital of Suriname, Paramaribo. Fort Paramibo was claimed and re-vamped by the French, Dutch
and the British to protect them from sea-fareing rival powers. It was also built to protect against slave
rebellions - Suriname harbored cocoa, coffee, sugar cane and cotton plantations where conditions were
notoriously bad.
£2,500.00
34. Trinidad
ROGGEVEEN, Arent Paskaerte van ‘t Eylandt Trinidad
430 by 535mm (17 by 21 inches).
The first large scale Dutch chart of Trinidad - published in Roggeveen’s exceedingly rare sea pilot ‘Het
Brandende Veen’.
£4,000.00
35. Columbia
ROGGEVEEN, Arent De Cust van Westindien… Venecuela en St Martha
430 by 535mm (17 by 21 inches).
Detailed chart of Columbia’s east coast - published in Roggeveen’s exceedingly rare sea pilot ‘Het
Brandende Veen’.
£3,000.00
36. Darien Gulf
ROGGEVEEN, Arent De Cust van Westindien… C de. Tyburon
430 by 535mm (17 by 21 inches).
First large-scale Dutch chart of the Darien gulf in on the Panamanian coast - published in Roggeveen’s
£3,000.00
37. Panama
ROGGEVEEN, Arent De Cust van Westindien … Punta St. Blaes
430 by 535mm (17 by 21 inches).
First large-scale Dutch chart of the Panama coast - published in Roggeveen’s exceedingly rare sea pilot
‘Het Brandende Veen’.
£2,500.00
38 . Panama
ROGGEVEEN, Arent De Cust van Westindien … Punta d Naes
430 by 535mm (17 by 21 inches).
First large-scale Dutch sea chart of the Panamanian Coastline, between Bahia St. Blaes and Punta de
Naes, centered on Nombre de Dios and Porta Bella - published in Roggeveen’s exceedingly rare sea pilot
£2,500.00
39. Panama
ROGGEVEEN, Arent Paskaert vande Cust van Westindien… Rio Desaguadera
430 by 535mm (17 by 21 inches).
First large-scale Dutch chart of Panama’s northern Caribbean coast - published in Roggeveen’s
£2,500.00
40. Nicaragua
ROGGEVEEN, Arent Paskaerte vande Cust van West-Indien… C. de Honduras
430 by 535mm (17 by 21 inches).
The first large-scale Dutch sea chart of Nigaragua’s Caribbean coast with Lake Nicaragua - published in
Roggeveen’s exceedingly rare sea pilot ‘Het Brandende Veen’.
£2,000.00
41. Texas
ROGGEVEEN, Arent De Cust can Westindien… C. Escondido
430 by 535mm (17 by 21 inches).
“One of the most important of Roggeveen’s charts, the first Dutch one of the region and the most detailed
cahrt of the present day Texan coastline to date” (Burden) - published in Roggeveen’s exceedingly rare sea
Burden 454 state 2.
£20,000.00
42. Florida and the Bahamas
ROGGEVEEN, Arent Pascaerte Van’t Canael de Bahama
430 by 535mm (17 by 21 inches).
The first large-scale Dutch sea chart of the Bahamas and Florida’s east coast - published in Roggeveen’s
“One of the most important of Roggeveen’s charts, and the first Dutch one of the region. Through these
waters passed the majority of Spain’s wealth from the New World. Its publication provided a hugely
increased scale on all prior documents. It depicts the east coast of Florida from st Augustine southwards,
and all of the Bahamas.” (Burden)
£20,000.00
43. Lesser Antilles
ROGGEVEEN, Arent Pascaerte vande Caribes Eylanden
430 by 535mm (17 by 21 inches).
First large-scale Dutch sea chart of the Lesser Antilles - published in Roggeveen’s exceedingly rare sea
£4,000.00
44. Haiti
ROGGEVEEN, Arent Pascaerte van de Noordcust van Spagnola…
430 by 535mm (17 by 21 inches).
The first large-scale Dutch chart of northwestern coast of Haiti, and Tortue Island - published in
Roggeveen’s exceedingly rare sea pilot ‘Het Brandende Veen’.
£2,000.00
45. Cuba and Jamaica
ROGGEVEEN, Arent Pascaerte van de Eylanden Cuba en Jamaica
430 by 535mm (17 by 21 inches).
First large-scale Dutch chart of Cuba and Jamaica - published in Roggeveen’s exceedingly rare sea pilot
£9,000.00
46. Cuba and Havana
ROGGEVEEN, Arent Paskaert vande Noord Cust van Cuba
430 by 535mm (17 by 21 inches).
First large scale Dutch chart of the north coast of Cuba and Havana - published in Roggeveen’s
£4,000.00
47. “ The first sea chart of Long Island...” (Burden)
ROGGEVEEN, Arent Pascaerte van Nieu Nederland… Hendrick Christiaens Eylandt
430 by 535mm (17 by 21 inches).
The first sea chart of Long Island - published in Roggeveen’s exceedingly rare sea pilot ‘Het Brandende
Veen’.
£30,000.00
48. Cape Cod
ROGGEVEEN, Arent Pascaert van Nieu Nederland… Cabo Cod
430 by 535mm (17 by 21 inches).
“The first and only Dutch sea chart of Cape Cod and is a legendary rarity on the open market” (Burden)
-published in Roggeveen’s exceedingly rare sea pilot ‘Het Brandende Veen’.
£30,000.00
49. REMONDINI PRESS [Set of 6 gold] [Arte Povera?]
[Bassano del Grappa, c.1700-1800].
A set of six gilt binding papers printed with flower motifs.
The set is part of a collection of over 110 unused binding papers from a single source: the Remondini
press in Bassano del Grappa, Italy.
Giovanni Antonio Remondini (1634-1711) was born in Padua. In 1657, in his early twenties, he opened a
shop the main square of Bassano de Grappa selling drapes, wool, silk and iron tools. In order to meet the
demand from local famers’ for icons to protect their homes, he soon branched-out into selling woodcuts of
saints and popular subjects. Remondini bought his wares from as far afield as Verona, Treviso and Padua,
and soon became frustrated by inconsistent supply and loss of profit. His solution to this was to start his
own printing business using an old wine press.
The brightly coloured prints, papers, games and toys suited the tastes of the common man and soon
became immensely popular. Giovanni Antonio was clever in setting up an efficient distribution network
using the peasants of the Tesino valleys and the Slovenians of the Veneto (called “Schiavoni”) as door-todoor salespeople. He organized the two ethnic groups into companies, each lead by a “capocompagnia”,
and gave them franchises for disposal of prints. Soon the Remondini name spread throughout Europe.
In 1711, Giovanni Antonio died and the business was inherited his son Joseph (1700-1769), who continued
to expand the business with the purchase of several paper mills. A factory was opened in Oliero in 1725 and,
soon after, another in Vas, near Treviso, and a third in Cogollo, Vicenza. Joseph, conscious of his place in
history, set up an archive to preserve examples of every paper and print manufactured by the company.
Joseph was also an adept politician. In 1738, he somehow obtained the exclusive and tax-free privilege for
the marketing of religious prints all over the country. In 1750 he opened a bookshop in Venice, entering
into direct competition with the most famous booksellers on earth. Remondini, however, enjoyed a vertical
monopoly with his stranglehold over the raw materials and the supply chain, and soon came to dominate
the market. Production increased to reach a global level and the old system of door-to-door sellers
morphed into an efficient network of distributors using the same ethnic division as adopted by the father:
the Tesini travelling from Germany and Scandinavia, and then west to the Americas; the Schiavoni, were
granted all points east up to the Pacific Ocean.
Napoleon’s invasion at the beginning of the nineteenth century signalled the beginning of the decline for
the Remondini presses. In 1800 there were 18 Remondini woodcut presses, 24 for printing from copper,
equipment for printing special cards and wallpapers, four paper mills and a type foundry employing over
1,000 workers. However, the Remondini family was slow to recognise a change in tastes and sluggish to
adapt to new print processes. In 1860, the company closed its doors.
The remarkable archive of some 8522 papers and prints started by brothers Joseph and Anthony, and continued
by Francis, son of Joseph, however, remains and can now be seen at the Museum of Bassano del Grappa.
Wolfe, Richard, ‘Marbled Paper: its History, Techniques, and Patterns: with Special Reference to the
Relationship of Marbling to Bookbinding in Europe and the Western World’, University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1990
Tanya Schmoller, Tanya, ‘Remondini and Rizzi: a chapter in Italian decorated paper history’, Oak Knoll
Books, 1990.
£6,000.00
50. Erra Pater Prophesy of Frost Faire 1683.
[c.1760].
Engraved view, after an engraving by James Norris
240 by 175mm. (9.5 by 7 inches).
View of a figure called Erra Pater standing in front of a view of a frost fair on the River Thames. Erra
Pater was the pseudonym of William Lilly, the alamanck maker and Astrologer.
The Thames has known to have frozen on several occasion, however the great freeze of 1683-4 was the
longest in London’s history. The diarist John Evelyn recorded that “Streetes of Boothes were set upon
the Thames... all sorts of Trades and shops furnished, & full of Commodities... Coaches plied from
Westminster to the Temple, and from several other stairs too and fro, as in the streets, sleds, sliding with
skates, bull-baiting, horse and coach races, puppet plays and interludes, cooks, tippling and other lewd
places, so that it seemed to be a bacchanalian triumph, or a carnival on water”.
Casing in on the carnival atmosphere was Croom the printer who sold souvenir cards written with the
customer’s name, the date, and the fact that the card was printed on the Thames, all for six pence. Hew
was said to be making £5 a day from his venture, which was at leaat ten times a labourer’s wage. Even
King Charles II brought one when he and his family visited.
The present print is after an engraving of the same name
Guildhall: p799178; c.f. Crace VIII.Frost Fairs.23 for the engraving by James Norris.
£850.00
51. Rare set of views of villages surrounding Georgian London
CHATELAIN, Jean Baptiste Claude [engraved by] James Roberts [Fifty Views of Villages &c. Drawn
by the Celebrated M. Chatelaine, From the most agreeable Prospects near London].
[London, Printed for Robt. Sayers, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn Fleet Street,
c.1775].
8vo, (95 by 160mm), 50 engraved views, a few views trimmed to within lower neatline, stab bound,
original blue paper wrappers, split to head of spine.
Rare set of 50 views of churches and villages surrounding London, bound in original wrappers.
The work consists of small views of churches and villages that surrounded early Georgian London; these
include, among others, Chelsea, Battersea, Highgate, Hampstead, Barnes, Kew, and St Pancras. The views
were the work of the topographical draughtsman Jean Chatelain (1710-1758), and engraved by James
Roberts (1725-1799), most probably Henry’s brother. The set was first published by Henry Roberts
in around 1750 under the titie: ‘Fifty small original, and elegant views of the most splendid churches,
villages, rural prospects. and masterly pieces of architecture, adjacent to London’.
The present example can be dated to around 1775 as eight of the views bear the imprint of Robert Sayer.
Sayer and his business partner John Bennett had acquired the plates sometime before 1775, as they appear
in their sales catalogue of that year under the title:
‘Fifty Views of Villages, &c. from the most agreeable Prospects near London, drawn by the celebrated M.
Chatelain, may be had in the following Numbers, for the Amusement of Youth in drawing after Nature.
Priced 6d. each’.
The catalogue divides the views into eight numbered sections: the first three containing views of villages
to the south and west; numbers 4 and 5 villages to the west and north; 6 and 7 north and east; and 8 the
south; with the view at the beginning of each section bearing the imprint of Robert Sayer.
Rare we are only able to trace four complete examples, which bear the Sayer imprint: The New York
Historical Society; the Folger Shakespeare Library; and the Yale Institute of British Art. The present
example, without the title page - which would appear to never have been bound in with the present set
- conforms to the example in the British Library; both the Folger, and N.Y.H.S. example bear a printed
title page; with the Yale example bearing a title in manuscript.
Collation available on request.
£5,000.00
52. Advertisement for the American Card Company ’s Union Playing Cards
American Card Company’s Union Playing Cards National Emblems the suits are Eagles, Shields, Stars
and Flags. Colonel in place of King. --- Goddess of Liberty for Queen, --- Major for Jack.
Cincinnati, J. R. Hawley, [c.1862].
Broadside printed in blue and red, some foxing and soiling, numerous mends and reinforcements to fold
separations, with some small losses along folds and at intersections affecting the image in a few places, a
few lines of manuscript in ink on verso.
485 by 310mm (19 by 12.25 inches).
Rare advertisement for the American Card Company’s Union Playing Cards.
“[The] American Card Company was operated by Benjamin W. Hitchcock, owner of a music and
publishing business at 14 Chambers St., New York. The business consisted of sheet music, books,
musical instruments, printing presses, and type. The time frame that Hitchcock printed playing cards is
questionable, but assumed to be between 1862 and 1864 based upon their boxes and dates found on tax
stamps. The ace of eagles clearly states that the American Card Company had offices at 14 Chambers St.
and 165 William St. in New York City.”
“Three versions of the Union Cards were made especially for Americans. This was conveyed through
the following message on the Union Cards box, ‘THE AMERICAN CARD CO. Confident that the
introduction of NATIONAL EMBLEMS in place of Foreign, in PLAYING CARDS, will be hailed
with delight by the American People, take pleasure in presenting the UNION PLAYING CARDS. As
the first and only Genuine American Cards ever produced, in the fullest confidence that the time is not
far distant when they will be the leading Card in American market. Explanation. The Union Cards are
calculated to play all the Games for which the old style of Playing Cards are used. The suits are EAGLES,
SHIELDS, STARS, and FLAGS, GODDESS OF LIBERTY in place of Queen, COLONEL for King,
MAJOR for Jack. In playing with these Cards, they are to be called by the names the emblems represent,
and as the Emblems are as familiar as household words, everywhere among the American people, they can
be used as readily the first occasion as Cards bearing Foreign emblems.” - (Kristin Patterson, It’s A Wrap!
U.S. Revenue Stamps Used on Playing Cards, 1862-1883, p. 21)
The text upon the advertisement reiterates much that was written upon the card case, with a somewhat
more strident tone: “The sale for them [i.e. the cards] is unprecedented in the Card Trade, and they will
soon become the LEADING CARDS in the AMERICAN MARKET... The Union Playing Cards are
the most pleasing and attractive Playing Cards ever made. They are produced in the highest style of the
art, and each pack is put up in an ELEGANT CARD CASE...”. Below the text is the address of, “J. R.
Hawley, 162 and 164 Vine Street, Cincinnati, Ohio”, the distributor of the cards in Cincinnati, with a
“Price to Trade $3.50 per. doz. or $40 per gross.”
£2,500.00
53. [Letter Opener] The Eastern Telegraph Company.
London, Waterlow & Sons Ltd., Great Winchester Street, [c.1888].
Wooden letter opener.
£100.00
54. Humorous Panorama of the beginning of the Great War
HASSAL, John Ye Berlyn Tapestrie: Wilhelm’s Invasion of Flanders: Picture by John Hassall
London Ye Studio Offices, Edmund Evans Ltd., [1915].
Chromolithograph panorama on five conjoined sheets, housed within paper covers.
135 by 4625mm. (5.25 by 182 inches).
Comic panorama of the out break of the First World War in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry, caricaturing
the German Army.
The panorama begins with the Kaiser’s preparations for war, with the production of poison gas labelled
“sauerkraut essenz”, and the tearing up of the Belgium Treaty (also known as the Treaty of London of
1839), which guaranteed the independence and neutrality of Belgium. The following sections show the
invasion of Belgium with the looting of Liege, and the German armies “special objects of attack”, which
include churches, hospitals, ambulances, old men, women and children. The German advance is finally
halted by the French and the British Bull Dog, which resulted in the digging of trenches and barbed wire.
The final frames show the sinking of the Lusitania by the a German U-boat, Zepplin attacks and the
liberal handing out of iron crosses by the Kaiser.
John Hassall (1868-1948) was an English illustrator, known for his advertisements and poster designs.
£1,200.00
55. The Monarch of the Moon
[Set of four Lunar Orbiter V Photographs of the Crater Copernicus].
[Hampton, NASA, Langley Research Centre, 1967].
Set of four silver gelatin prints.
510 by 430mm (20 by 17 inches).
Set of four images of Crater Copernicus taken by Lunar Orbiter V.
The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter missions launched by the United
States from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon’s
surface, they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit.
The spacecraft carried 70mm photographic film which was developed automatically in lunar orbit aboard
the spacecraft. The developed film was then scanned with a light beam and this modulated a signal which
was sent back to Earth. Each image was then archived on analog data tape and printed out as photographs
for use by the Lunar Orbiter analysis team.
All five missions were successful, and 99% of the Moon was mapped from photographs taken with a
resolution of 60 meters or better. The first three missions were dedicated to imaging 20 potential manned
lunar landing sites, selected based on Earth-based observations. These were flown at low inclination orbits.
The fourth and fifth missions were devoted to broader scientific objectives and were flown in high-altitude
polar orbits. Lunar Orbiter 4 photographed the entire nearside and 9% of the far side, and Lunar Orbiter
5 completed the far side coverage and acquired medium (20 meters) and high (2 meters) resolution images
of 36 pre-selected areas.
The set of four images (labelled V -150M to V - 153M) provides an overview of the interior of
Copernicus. The prominent structures near the centre of the images are the central peaks, which are
common in craters of this size. Some consideration was given to having an Apollo mission land to the
north of the central peaks with the objective of sampling one of the peaks, which may be material thrust
up from deep in the Moon’s crust.
The crater Copernicus, 93 kilometers in diameter, is one of the most prominent features on the Moon’s
nearside. It is a relatively fresh crater, believed to have formed - in the Copernican Period - less than 1
billion years ago. Its system of bright rays is quite prominent at full Moon, with he crater rays spreading
some 800 km across the surrounding lunar mare.
The crater is named after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. Like many of the craters on the Moon’s
near side, it was given its name by Giovanni Riccioli, whose 1651 nomenclature system has become
standardised. Riccioli awarded Copernicus a prominent crater despite the fact that, as an Italian Jesuit,
he conformed with church doctrine in publicly opposing Copernicus’s heliocentric system.
Riccioli justified the name by noting that he had symbolically thrown all the heliocentrist
astronomers into the Ocean of Storms. However, astronomical historian Ewan Whitaker
suspects that the prominence of Copernicus crater is a sign that Riccioli secretly supported
the heliocentric system and was ensuring that Nicolaus Copernicus would receive a worthy
legacy for future generations.
£8,000.00

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