New Additions

An incunable map of Arabia with lapis lazuli blue

PTOLEMY, Claudius.

[Sexta Asie Tabula.]

Ulm: Lienhart Holle, 1482. Woodcut in fine original colour, printed area 285 x 565mm.

Stock ID : 23380

£150,000

One of the earliest maps to depict America

WALDSEEMULLER, Martin.

Tabula Terre Nove.

Strasbourg, Johannes Shott, 1513. Woodcut, printed area 385 x 445mm, paper watermarked with a fleur de lis, with good margins.

Stock ID : 24130

£42,500

A rare map of the Middle East, published by Lafreri

GASTALDI, Giacomo.

La Descrittione Della Prima Parte Dell' Asia Con i nomi antichi & moderni Di Jacopo Gastaldi Piemontese cosmografo... L'Anno M.D.LXI.

Rome: Antonio Lafreri, 1561. Two sheets conjoined, total 435 x 745mm, with wide margins.

Stock ID : 23975

£27,500

One of the earliest versions of Sophianos's map of Greece

BERTELLI, Ferrando

Totius Graeciae Descriptio.

Venice: Dominico Zenoi, 1564. Etching, two sheets conjoined, total 395 x 620mm.

Stock ID : 24220

£14,000

A rare Italian separate-issue map of France

FORLANI, Paolo.

Galliae exactissima Descriptio.

Venice: Bolognino Zaltieri, 1566. Two sheets conjoined, total 455 x 625mm.

Stock ID : 23885

£6,500

A 16th century comparison of biblical & modern Jerusalem

BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.

Hierosolymia, Clarissima totius Orientis civitas, Judae...

Cologne, 1572-, Latin text edition. Fine original colour. 340 x 485mm.

Stock ID : 24048

£875

Ortelius's antique map of the West Indies and Culiacán in Mexico

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Hispaniolae, Cubae, Aliarumque Insularum Circumiacentium, delineatio; Culianae, Americae Regionis Descriptio.

Antwerp: Christoph Plantin, 1579, Latin edition. Original colour. 350 x 490mm.

Stock ID : 23599

£1,250

16th century Dutch map of Bohemia

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Regni Bohemiae Descriptio.

Antwerp: Christoph Plantin, 1584, Latin edition. Coloured. 335 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 23874

£400

A 16th century Italian plan of Cambridge

VALEGIO, Francesco.

Opulentissimi regni Anglis celebris.

Venice: Donato Rascicotti, c.1598. 85 x 120mm.

Stock ID : 24132

£500

A 16th century Italian plan of Hamburg

VALEGIO, Francesco.

Hamburgum cimbrica extime germanie pars uersus septentrionem lunam.

Venice: Donato Rascicotti, c.1598. 90 x 130mm.

Stock ID : 24145

£350

A 16th century Italian plan of Hangzhou

VALEGIO, Francesco.

Quinzai Metropolis Asie Orientalis.

Venice: Donato Rascicotti, c.1598. 100 x 140mm.

Stock ID : 24153

£650

A scarce issue of John Speed's map of Devon

SPEED, John.

Devonshire with Excester Described And the Armes of such Nobles as have borne the titles of them.

London: Roger Rea and Son, 1665. Coloured. 385 x 520mm.

Stock ID : 24038

£1,100

Speed's famous map of Surrey

SPEED, John.

Surrey Described and Divided into Hundreds.

London, George Humble, 1627. Coloured. 385 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 18590

£1,250

Early issue of Jansson's map of England and Wales

JANSSON, Jan.

Anglia Regnum.

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson & Henricus Hondius, 1638, Latin text edition. Fine Original colour. 390 x 500mm.

Stock ID : 23862

£450

17th century map of the Mogol Empire in northern India

BLAEU, Johannes.

Magni Mogolis Imperium.

Amsterdam: c.1640, French text edition. Original colour. 370 x 500mm.

Stock ID : 23919

£550

'A fine ornate example of the decorative cartography of the time'

HONDIUS, Henricus.

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula. Auct Henr. Hondio.

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1641-, Latin text edition. Fine original colour. 380 x 540mm.

Stock ID : 24127

£8,000

A map of Essex published during the English Civil War

BLAEU, Johannes.

Essexia Comitatus.

Amsterdam, c.1646, Latin text edition. Fine original colour. 420 x 530mm, with wide margins.

Stock ID : 23924

£650

17th century map of Middlesex & Hertfordshire

JANSSON, Jan.

Middelsexiae cum Hertfordiae comitatu. Midlesex & Hertford Shire.

Amsterdam, 1646, Latin text edition. Original colour. 385 x 495mm.

Stock ID : 23925

£750

A Jesuit missionary's contribution to the mapping of Japan

CARDIM, Antonio Francisco.

Japponiae Nova & Accurata descriptio Per R.P. Antonium Franciscum Cardim Societatis Jesu Ad Elogia Japponica.

Rome: Typis Heredum Corbelletti, 1646. 275 x 405mm.

Stock ID : 24221

£6,000

The first map of Australia by an Englishman

DUDLEY, Robert.

Carta particolare della costa Australe scoperta dall'Olandesi. la longitud'ne comin'ca da l'Isola di Pico d'Asores. d'Asia Carta XVIII.

Florence: Stamperia di Francesco Onofri, 1646-7. 470 x 380mm.

Stock ID : 23777

£8,500

The fabulous beasts representing the four empires of 'Daniel's Dream'

LAURO, Giacomo.

Visio Danielis Prophetae in Cap VII de Romano et Alioru Imperio.

Rome, c.1650. Coloured etching. 180 x 235mm.

Stock ID : 24016

£650

The only known complete example of a 17th century prospect of Venice

DE ROSSI, Giovanni Domenico.

Vero e Nuovo Disegno della Inclita Citta de Venetia.

Rome: Giovanni Domenico de' Rossi, c.1650. Two sheets conjoined, total 275 x 675mm, with wide margins.

Stock ID : 24057

£12,500

17th century French map of Arabia

SANSON, Nicolas.

Carte des Trois Arabies. Tirée en Partie de l'Arabe de Nubie en partie de divers autres Autheurs.

Paris: Pierre Mariette, 1654. Coloured. 415 x 500mm.

Stock ID : 24087

£1,700

17th century map of the British Isles

HERMANNIDES, Rutger.

Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae nova Descriptio.

Amsterdam: Aegidius Jansonius Valckenier, c. 1661. Coloured. 215 x 265mm.

Stock ID : 23654

£250

The titlepage of the England volume of 'Le Grand Atlas'

BLAEU, Johannes.

Angleterre, qui est le XI.. Livre de L'Europe.

Amsterdam, 1663. Engraved titlepage in superb original hand colour with gold highlights, with a letterpress title laid on, as usual. 415x 245mm.

Stock ID : 24082

£300

A scarce issue of John Speed's map of Lincolnshire

SPEED, John.

The Countie and Citie of Lyncolne Described with the Armes of Them That Have Bene Earles Thereof since the Conquest.

London: Roger Rea & Son, 1665. Coloured. 385 x 505mm.

Stock ID : 24039

£850

A scarce issue of John Speed's map of Essex

SPEED, John.

Essex, devided into Hundreds, with the most antient and fayre Towne Colchester Described and other memorable Monuments observed. Anno 1662.

London: Roger Rea & Son, 1665. Coloured. 390 x 515mm.

Stock ID : 24044

£950

17th century English carte à figure map of Persia

SPEED, John.

The Kingdome of Persia with the cheef Citties and Habites described.

London: Roger Rea & Son, 1665. Coloured. 390 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 24045

£1,900

A rare map of the British Isles with a prospect of the Great Fire of 1666

HOLLAR, Wenceslaus.

A new and Exact Map of Great Brityannie Containing the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, with the Principality of Wales etc, as also An Addition of severall of y.e Cheeef Citties belonging to the sayd kingdomes.

London: John Overton, 1667. 425 x 535mm.

Stock ID : 24086

£12,000

An unrecorded carte-à-figures map of Asia

TODESCHI, Pietro.

Asia recens summa cura delineata Auctore Jud. Hondio. Pietro Todeschi Fecit 1670.

Bologna: Francesco Sabatini, 1670. 455 x 555mm.

Stock ID : 24120

£5,000

A previously unrecorded carte-à-figures map of Africa

TODESCHI, Pietro.

Africae Nova Tabula...

Bologna: Francesco Sabatini, c.1670. 455 x 560mm.

Stock ID : 24121

£5,000

An exceptional 17th century sea chart of Europe on two sheets

DE WIT, Frederick.

Totius Europae Littora Novissimè edita. Pascaert vertoonende alle de See-custen van Europa.

Amsterdam, c.1675. Fine original colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 495 x 890mm.

Stock ID : 23450

£7,500

A 17th century map of Nottinghamshire

SPEED, John.

The Countie of Nottingham described The Shire Townes Situation and the Earls There of observed.

London: Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 390 x 500mm.

Stock ID : 24035

£500

A fine 17th century map of Worcestershire

SPEED, John.

Worcestershire described...

London: Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, 1676, Coloured. 380 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 24037

£500

John Speed's map of Bedfordshire

SPEED, John.

Bedford Shire And the Situation of Bedford described with the armes of thos Honorable Familyes that have borne ye titles of Dukes and Earls thereof.

London: Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 385 x 505mm.

Stock ID : 24042

£450

A 17th century ilIllustration of a Narwhal

KIRCHER, Athanasius.

No title.

Amsterdam, 1682. Engraving, 45 x 190mm, set in letterpress, sheet: 385 x 240mm.

Stock ID : 23704

£150

Uncommon 17th century map of Ireland

FER, Nicolas de.

L'irlande suivant les derniers relations.

Paris, 1689. Coloured. 190 x 310mm.

Stock ID : 23688

£240

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New Additions

An incunable map of Arabia with lapis lazuli blue

PTOLEMY, Claudius.

[Sexta Asie Tabula.]

Ulm: Lienhart Holle, 1482. Woodcut in fine original colour, printed area 285 x 565mm.

Stock ID : 23380

£150,000

One of the earliest maps to depict America

WALDSEEMULLER, Martin.

Tabula Terre Nove.

Strasbourg, Johannes Shott, 1513. Woodcut, printed area 385 x 445mm, paper watermarked with a fleur de lis, with good margins.

Stock ID : 24130

£42,500

A rare map of the Middle East, published by Lafreri

GASTALDI, Giacomo.

La Descrittione Della Prima Parte Dell' Asia Con i nomi antichi & moderni Di Jacopo Gastaldi Piemontese cosmografo... L'Anno M.D.LXI.

Rome: Antonio Lafreri, 1561. Two sheets conjoined, total 435 x 745mm, with wide margins.

Stock ID : 23975

£27,500

One of the earliest versions of Sophianos's map of Greece

BERTELLI, Ferrando

Totius Graeciae Descriptio.

Venice: Dominico Zenoi, 1564. Etching, two sheets conjoined, total 395 x 620mm.

Stock ID : 24220

£14,000

A rare Italian separate-issue map of France

FORLANI, Paolo.

Galliae exactissima Descriptio.

Venice: Bolognino Zaltieri, 1566. Two sheets conjoined, total 455 x 625mm.

Stock ID : 23885

£6,500

A 16th century comparison of biblical & modern Jerusalem

BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.

Hierosolymia, Clarissima totius Orientis civitas, Judae...

Cologne, 1572-, Latin text edition. Fine original colour. 340 x 485mm.

Stock ID : 24048

£875

Ortelius's antique map of the West Indies and Culiacán in Mexico

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Hispaniolae, Cubae, Aliarumque Insularum Circumiacentium, delineatio; Culianae, Americae Regionis Descriptio.

Antwerp: Christoph Plantin, 1579, Latin edition. Original colour. 350 x 490mm.

Stock ID : 23599

£1,250

16th century Dutch map of Bohemia

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Regni Bohemiae Descriptio.

Antwerp: Christoph Plantin, 1584, Latin edition. Coloured. 335 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 23874

£400

A 16th century Italian plan of Cambridge

VALEGIO, Francesco.

Opulentissimi regni Anglis celebris.

Venice: Donato Rascicotti, c.1598. 85 x 120mm.

Stock ID : 24132

£500

A 16th century Italian plan of Hamburg

VALEGIO, Francesco.

Hamburgum cimbrica extime germanie pars uersus septentrionem lunam.

Venice: Donato Rascicotti, c.1598. 90 x 130mm.

Stock ID : 24145

£350

A 16th century Italian plan of Hangzhou

VALEGIO, Francesco.

Quinzai Metropolis Asie Orientalis.

Venice: Donato Rascicotti, c.1598. 100 x 140mm.

Stock ID : 24153

£650

A scarce issue of John Speed's map of Devon

SPEED, John.

Devonshire with Excester Described And the Armes of such Nobles as have borne the titles of them.

London: Roger Rea and Son, 1665. Coloured. 385 x 520mm.

Stock ID : 24038

£1,100

Speed's famous map of Surrey

SPEED, John.

Surrey Described and Divided into Hundreds.

London, George Humble, 1627. Coloured. 385 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 18590

£1,250

Early issue of Jansson's map of England and Wales

JANSSON, Jan.

Anglia Regnum.

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson & Henricus Hondius, 1638, Latin text edition. Fine Original colour. 390 x 500mm.

Stock ID : 23862

£450

17th century map of the Mogol Empire in northern India

BLAEU, Johannes.

Magni Mogolis Imperium.

Amsterdam: c.1640, French text edition. Original colour. 370 x 500mm.

Stock ID : 23919

£550

'A fine ornate example of the decorative cartography of the time'

HONDIUS, Henricus.

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula. Auct Henr. Hondio.

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1641-, Latin text edition. Fine original colour. 380 x 540mm.

Stock ID : 24127

£8,000

A map of Essex published during the English Civil War

BLAEU, Johannes.

Essexia Comitatus.

Amsterdam, c.1646, Latin text edition. Fine original colour. 420 x 530mm, with wide margins.

Stock ID : 23924

£650

17th century map of Middlesex & Hertfordshire

JANSSON, Jan.

Middelsexiae cum Hertfordiae comitatu. Midlesex & Hertford Shire.

Amsterdam, 1646, Latin text edition. Original colour. 385 x 495mm.

Stock ID : 23925

£750

A Jesuit missionary's contribution to the mapping of Japan

CARDIM, Antonio Francisco.

Japponiae Nova & Accurata descriptio Per R.P. Antonium Franciscum Cardim Societatis Jesu Ad Elogia Japponica.

Rome: Typis Heredum Corbelletti, 1646. 275 x 405mm.

Stock ID : 24221

£6,000

The first map of Australia by an Englishman

DUDLEY, Robert.

Carta particolare della costa Australe scoperta dall'Olandesi. la longitud'ne comin'ca da l'Isola di Pico d'Asores. d'Asia Carta XVIII.

Florence: Stamperia di Francesco Onofri, 1646-7. 470 x 380mm.

Stock ID : 23777

£8,500

The fabulous beasts representing the four empires of 'Daniel's Dream'

LAURO, Giacomo.

Visio Danielis Prophetae in Cap VII de Romano et Alioru Imperio.

Rome, c.1650. Coloured etching. 180 x 235mm.

Stock ID : 24016

£650

The only known complete example of a 17th century prospect of Venice

DE ROSSI, Giovanni Domenico.

Vero e Nuovo Disegno della Inclita Citta de Venetia.

Rome: Giovanni Domenico de' Rossi, c.1650. Two sheets conjoined, total 275 x 675mm, with wide margins.

Stock ID : 24057

£12,500

17th century French map of Arabia

SANSON, Nicolas.

Carte des Trois Arabies. Tirée en Partie de l'Arabe de Nubie en partie de divers autres Autheurs.

Paris: Pierre Mariette, 1654. Coloured. 415 x 500mm.

Stock ID : 24087

£1,700

17th century map of the British Isles

HERMANNIDES, Rutger.

Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae nova Descriptio.

Amsterdam: Aegidius Jansonius Valckenier, c. 1661. Coloured. 215 x 265mm.

Stock ID : 23654

£250

The titlepage of the England volume of 'Le Grand Atlas'

BLAEU, Johannes.

Angleterre, qui est le XI.. Livre de L'Europe.

Amsterdam, 1663. Engraved titlepage in superb original hand colour with gold highlights, with a letterpress title laid on, as usual. 415x 245mm.

Stock ID : 24082

£300

A scarce issue of John Speed's map of Lincolnshire

SPEED, John.

The Countie and Citie of Lyncolne Described with the Armes of Them That Have Bene Earles Thereof since the Conquest.

London: Roger Rea & Son, 1665. Coloured. 385 x 505mm.

Stock ID : 24039

£850

A scarce issue of John Speed's map of Essex

SPEED, John.

Essex, devided into Hundreds, with the most antient and fayre Towne Colchester Described and other memorable Monuments observed. Anno 1662.

London: Roger Rea & Son, 1665. Coloured. 390 x 515mm.

Stock ID : 24044

£950

17th century English carte à figure map of Persia

SPEED, John.

The Kingdome of Persia with the cheef Citties and Habites described.

London: Roger Rea & Son, 1665. Coloured. 390 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 24045

£1,900

A rare map of the British Isles with a prospect of the Great Fire of 1666

HOLLAR, Wenceslaus.

A new and Exact Map of Great Brityannie Containing the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, with the Principality of Wales etc, as also An Addition of severall of y.e Cheeef Citties belonging to the sayd kingdomes.

London: John Overton, 1667. 425 x 535mm.

Stock ID : 24086

£12,000

An unrecorded carte-à-figures map of Asia

TODESCHI, Pietro.

Asia recens summa cura delineata Auctore Jud. Hondio. Pietro Todeschi Fecit 1670.

Bologna: Francesco Sabatini, 1670. 455 x 555mm.

Stock ID : 24120

£5,000

A previously unrecorded carte-à-figures map of Africa

TODESCHI, Pietro.

Africae Nova Tabula...

Bologna: Francesco Sabatini, c.1670. 455 x 560mm.

Stock ID : 24121

£5,000

An exceptional 17th century sea chart of Europe on two sheets

DE WIT, Frederick.

Totius Europae Littora Novissimè edita. Pascaert vertoonende alle de See-custen van Europa.

Amsterdam, c.1675. Fine original colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 495 x 890mm.

Stock ID : 23450

£7,500

A 17th century map of Nottinghamshire

SPEED, John.

The Countie of Nottingham described The Shire Townes Situation and the Earls There of observed.

London: Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 390 x 500mm.

Stock ID : 24035

£500

A fine 17th century map of Worcestershire

SPEED, John.

Worcestershire described...

London: Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, 1676, Coloured. 380 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 24037

£500

John Speed's map of Bedfordshire

SPEED, John.

Bedford Shire And the Situation of Bedford described with the armes of thos Honorable Familyes that have borne ye titles of Dukes and Earls thereof.

London: Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 385 x 505mm.

Stock ID : 24042

£450

A 17th century ilIllustration of a Narwhal

KIRCHER, Athanasius.

No title.

Amsterdam, 1682. Engraving, 45 x 190mm, set in letterpress, sheet: 385 x 240mm.

Stock ID : 23704

£150

Uncommon 17th century map of Ireland

FER, Nicolas de.

L'irlande suivant les derniers relations.

Paris, 1689. Coloured. 190 x 310mm.

Stock ID : 23688

£240