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BLAEU, Jan (1596-1673)

Hertforida Comitatus, vernacule Hertfordshire

[Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1662]. Copper-engraved map, with full original colour and gilt embellishments, mild discolouration at center fold, overall very good condition. Sheet size: 20 1/4 x 26 inches.

A handsome example of Blaeu's English county map with exceptional original colour and highlights in gold

This beautifully presented county map of Hertfordshire from Johan Blaeu's Atlas Mayor, sino Cosmographia Blavania...is from the only Spanish edition of this great work.

The map itself is based on John Speed's map, published in 1612, though without the town plans. Blaeu's map includes the coats of arms of two prominent families. The title cartouche illustrates Hertfordshire's relationship to London in that the county supplied corn and hay to the pleading Londoners pictured on the right hand side of the title. Because of its proximity to London, Hertfordshire had many country houses, reflected in some of the placenames on the map: Waterford Hall, Aldbery Hall, Shingle Hall, and, of course, Waymer Castle.

Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Bl 60A, #199

#13463$2,750.00
 
 
HOMANN HEIRS

Regionis, quae est circa Londinum, specialis repræsentatio geographica, ex autographo majori Londinensi desumta

Nuremburg: Homann heirs, 1741. Copper-engraved map, with full original colour. Sheet size: 21 x 24 inches.

A very fine map of Greater London, by one of the period's leading cartographers

An attractive map of London and the adjacent counties: Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Surrey, Kent and Essex, beneath which is a bird's-eye view of the city from the south.

The Homann heirs were the inheritors of J. B. Homann's publishing firm, one of the leading cartographical houses in Germany during the 18th century.

#12401$1,500.00
 
 
HOMANN HEIRS

Urbium Londini et West Monsterii nec non Suburbii Southwark

Nuremberg: 1736. Engraved map on three sheets joined, period hand-colouring. Inset views of St. Paul's Cathedral, St. James Square, Custom House and the Royal Exchange. Sheet size: 21 x 66 1/4 inches.

A striking and large format plan of Georgian London, here with beautiful period hand colouring.

This fine plan extends from Grosvenor Square and Buckingham Palace in the west to Mile End and Stepney Church in the east. The fine cartouche is decorated with the arms of George II. Not issued with all copies is the third sheet present here which includes the fine inset views. A great deal of traffic is depicted on the Thames, emphasizing the importance of the river to London.

#26023$4,000.00
 
 
JAILLOT, Alexis Hubert (1632-1712) after Nicolas SANSON (1600-1667)

[English Channel] Carte de la Manche

Paris: Depot de la Marine, circa 1720. Copper-engraved map, later published by the Depot de la Marine. Printed on laid paper. In excellent condition, apart from a vertical and a horizontal crease where the chart was folded. Image size: 23 ¼ x 31 7/8 inches. Sheet size: 26 ¾ x 39 ¼ inches.

A stunning sea chart of the English Channel from one of the most celebrated French atlases "Le Neptune Francois"

With the establishment of the Paris Observatory in 1667, a series of surveys by triangulation were conducted of the coasts of France. The findings were organized into elaborate sea charts and included in one of the greatest atlases of the age, Le Neptune Francois. Le Neptune Francois was first published in 1693 by Nicolas Sanson and Alex Hubert Jaillot in cooperation with J. D. Cassini. This lavish collection of sea charts was one of the most important contributions to the history of European mapmaking and helped establish France as a leader in cartographic study. Following the foundation of the National Hydrographic Service in 1720, also known as the Depot de la Marine, the French continued to dominate this field until well into the eighteenth century.

The atlas was initially published in Paris but was quickly re-engraved and republished by Pierre Mortier in Amsterdam with accompanying French, Dutch, and English texts. Le Neptune Francois appeared in numerous editions before it was revised and republished by J. N. Bellin in 1753. This stunning chart is a wonderful example from this important atlas. Almost identical to Sanson and Jaillot's original map, this chart is a later publication issued by the Depot de la Marine. The map depicts the English Channel including the coast of Brittany from Brest to Dunquerque, and the coast of England from Brede Bay to Colchester.

Morland & Banister, Antique Maps.

#16270$1,200.00
 
 
JEFFERYS, Thomas (d. 1771)

A New Plan of the City and Liberty of Westminster [... of the City of London and Borough of Southwark] Exhibiting all the new streets & roads, with the residences of the principal nobility, public offices, &c. Not extant in any other plan

London : printed for Robert Sayer & Thomas Jefferys, 1766 . Copper-engraved map, on two joined sheets, some period hand-colouring (as called for). In good condition with some expert repairs into the image area, particularly at old folds. Overall size of joined sheets: 19 1/8 x 39 inches.

A fascinating large scale map recording an important time of expansion for London, just before the explosion of the 19th century.

This map is arguably two maps joined not just two sheets joined, as each sheet has its own title. The two sheets were also issued as two separate maps but the old join together with the clearly continuous contemporary colouring all suggest that this map is as it left the publisher's premises. The British library copy of the "Westminster" sheet is an earlier issue dated "March 15 1765" and with Bird Street and Little Duke Street (both to the west of Portman Square) not included.

The joined map extends from Hyde Park and the Edgeware Road to the west, through the West End and the City to Wapping and slightly beyond in the East. In the North is Islington; Lambeth Palace to the South. The hand-coloured sections are explained by engraved keys ojn each map: new roads are coloured light brown and "intended Streets or New Buildings not finished" are yellow. New roads (in light brown) include what are now Euston Road, Marylebone Road and City Road to the North and in the south Kennington Road and Borough Road.

Howgego 122, state 2

#16446$2,500.00
 
 
MOLL, Herman (fl. 1678-1732)

A New Map of Great Britain

London: Thomas Bowles, J. Bowles &John King, [1710, this issue c. 1740]. Engraved with full, period colouring, two sheets joined, both sheets with creases center folds, Several long, not obtrusive creases toward bottom of map. . Image size (including text): 40 x 24 1/4 inches. Sheet size: 41 3/8 x 25.

Full contemporary colour example of Moll's fine map of the recently conjoined states of England, Scotland and Wales: Great Britain

This great map of the recently united Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland) of 1707, exemplifies Moll's particular virtues as a mapmaker. It is drawn on a large scale and includes major roads with mileage between points. Never word shy, Moll includes a general outline of the method and mechanics of representation of the new Union, and in a separate place, a brief account of his reasons for making the map and of its unique features. There is an inset map of the Shetland Islands.


The present map was part of Herman Moll's magnificent folio work, a New and Compleat Atlas. Moll was the most important cartographer working in London during his era, a career that spanned over fifty years. His origins have been a source of great scholarly debate; however, the prevailing opinion suggests that he hailed from the Hanseatic port city of Bremen, Germany. Joining a number of his countrymen, he fled the turmoil of the Scanian Wars for London, and in 1678 is first recorded as working there as an engraver for Moses Pitt on the production of the English Atlas. It was not long before Moll found himself as a charter member of London's most interesting social circle, which congregated at Jonathan's Coffee House at Number 20 Exchange Alley, Cornhill. It was at this establishment that speculators met to trade equities (most notoriously South Sea Company shares). Moll's coffeehouse circle included the scientist Robert Hooke, the archaeologist William Stuckley, the authors Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe, and the intellectually-gifted pirates William Dampier, Woodes Rogers and William Hacke. From these friends, Moll gained a great deal of privileged information that was later conveyed in his cartographic works, some appearing in the works of these same figures. Moll was highly astute, both politically and commercially, and he was consistently able to craft maps and atlases that appealed to the particular fancy of wealthy individual patrons, as well as the popular trends of the day. In many cases, his works are amongst the very finest maps of their subjects ever created with toponymy in the English language. Furthermore, Moll is one of the few mapmakers who merits the term "Innovative". English mapmakers prior to Moll tried to imitate Dutch maps as nearly as possible, whereas Moll seems to have largely disregarded Dutch precedents. Removing all the Baroque stylistic elements, Moll replaced decoration with things that interested him about the places depicted, either pictorially or verbally. And he was right to do so. His notes and illustrations are more interesting than the putti and mythical gods of the late Dutch maps.

Dictionary of National Biography

#10465$4,500.00
 
 
MOLL, Herman (1654-1732)

A New Map of Ireland

London: H. Moll, T. & J. Bowles, P. Overton & J. King, [dated 1714, but circa 1730]. Copper-engraved map, with original outline colour, in excellent condition, original folds expertly restored, mild soiling, right edge uneven. Sheet size: 41 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches.

A beautiful copy of Moll's elegant and highly detailed map of Ireland

The present map is one of the finest maps of Ireland produced during the eighteenth-century. It depicts the island in great detail, featuring the four provinces; Leinster, Munster, Connaught and Ulster, which are further divided into thirty-two ancient counties. Virtually every single village and all major roads are labelled, as are the numerous mountains, streams and moors. Cartographic insets in the lower part of the map depict plans or views of the most important towns and sites, including; Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford, the harbour of Kinsale, the Giant's Causeway and "St. Patrick's Purgatory," the isle in County Donegal where the father of Christianity in Ireland underwent a period of sacred contemplation.

The present map was part of Herman Moll's magnificent folio work, a New and Compleat Atlas. Moll was the most important cartographer working in London during his era, a career that spanned over fifty years. His origins have been a source of great scholarly debate; however, the prevailing opinion suggests that he hailed from the Hanseatic port city of Bremen, Germany. Joining a number of his countrymen, he fled the turmoil of the Scanian Wars for London, and in 1678 is first recorded as working there as an engraver for Moses Pitt on the production of the English Atlas. It was not long before Moll found himself as a charter member of London's most interesting social circle, which congregated at Jonathan's Coffee House at Number 20 Exchange Alley, Cornhill. It was at this establishment that speculators met to trade equities (most notoriously South Sea Company shares). Moll's coffeehouse circle included the scientist Robert Hooke, the archaeologist William Stuckley, the authors Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe, and the intellectually-gifted pirates William Dampier, Woodes Rogers and William Hacke. From these friends, Moll gained a great deal of privileged information that was later conveyed in his cartographic works, some appearing in the works of these same figures. Moll was highly astute, both politically and commercially, and he was consistently able to craft maps and atlases that appealed to the particular fancy of wealthy individual patrons, as well as the popular trends of the day. In many cases, his works are amongst the very finest maps of their subjects ever created with toponymy in the English language.

Shirley, Maps in the Atlases of the British Library I, T.Moll-4b, 18; Cf. Reinhartz, The Cartographer and the Literati: Herman Moll and his Intellectual Circle

#17927$1,750.00
 
 
MOLL, Herman (1654 - 1732)

The South Part of Great Britain called England and Wales, Containing all the cities, Market Towns, Boroughs, And whatever Places have ye Elections of Members of Parliament, with ye Names of ye Rivers, Seaports, Sands, Hills, Moors, Forests &c. All ye Great or Post Roads, and principal Cross-Roads &c. With ye Computed Miles from Town to Town, and all ye Post Towns as they are presently regulated by the Postmasters Gen'l. of the General Post House.

London: J. Bowles, T. Bowles, Philip Overton & John King, 1710 [but issued circa 1740]. Copper-engraved map, with full original colour, in excellent condition. Sheet size: 25 x 39 1/2 inches.

A beautiful, large scale map of England and Wales by one of England's most intriguing cartographers

Herman Moll came to London around 1678 from either Holland or Germany. He found work as a cartographical engraver, working for Moses Pitt, among others. By 1688 he had his own shop. Moll had a gift for making interesting friends and these included Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift (he provided maps for Robinson Crusoe and for Gulliver's Travels), William Dampier and Woodes Rogers, explorer/buccaneers and Robert Hooke, the scientist.

"The South Part of Great Britain" refers to the constitutional union of England and Scotland that occurred in 1707, which joined the north and south as it were. The map is full of interesting details including roads and distances between towns, which was a relatively new innovation in maps.

Cf. Reinhartz, The Cartographer and the Literati-Herman Moll and His Intellectual Circle , pp.18-36

#15509$2,750.00
 
 
MORTIER, Pierre (1661-1711)

Carte de l'Entrèe de la Tamise Avec les Bancs, Passes, Isles et Costes comprises entre Sandwich et Clay. Levée et Gravée par ordre du Roy. A PARIS 1693. [with] Carte de la Tamise depuis L'Isle Greane jusques à Londres.

Paris [but Amsterdam: Mortier], 1693. Copper-engraved sea chart, with full original colour, printer's thumbprint lower left corner, overall in very good condition. Sheet size: 24 1/2 x 37 1/2 inches.

A beautiful coastal chart of the mouth of the Thames River and Suffolk, England, with inset map of the Thames to London.

This large scale, beautifully coloured coastal chart of the mouth of the Thames River and adjacent coasts comes from Le Neptune François, a lavish collection of charts produced collaboratively by Hubert Jaillot and Pierre Mortier. As Koeman discovered in his research on this work (see P. Mortier, Atlantes Neerlandici, Maritime Atlases, p. 423-4), Mortier re-engraved the plates after the original French prototype Neptune François by Charles Pène and others in a richly coloured edition and added to the titles the words "Levée et Gravée par ordre du Roy à Paris 1693" though they were in fact engraved, coloured and published in Amsterdam by Mortier.

Pierre Mortier's grandparents were French émigrés, who left France in about 1625 to live in Leiden. His parents settled in Amsterdam in 1661 or 1662. Pierre Mortier grew up in Amsterdam but lived in Paris from 1681 to about 1685 where he must have gotten into the book trade. Once he was in Amsterdam again he specialized in French books and maintained his relationships with Parisian publishers. Amsterdam was at this time the international marketplace for books, especially books forbidden by repressive governments.

He established himself in the field of cartographical publishing by offering editions of French maps, primarily Sanson's and Jaillot's to a public tired of the superb but dated Dutch offerings. Working on a scale larger than the typical Dutch folio map and providing the new insights of French geography, he was immensely successful. The charts in his version of Le Neptune François are outstanding examples of cartographical art. They are among the most beautiful printed sea charts ever made.

This chart gives the soundings, sandbars and shorelines for the entrance to the Thames River and adjacent coasts mostly to the north, in or including Suffolk and Norfolk. "Tamise" accords with the pronunciation and ancient form of "Thames", which was "Tamesis."

Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Mor 1, 8.

#10483$2,000.00
 
 
MORTIER, Pierre (1661-1711)

Carte de la Mer D'Ecosse Contendant les Isles et Costes Septentrionales et Occidentales D'Ecosse et les Costes Septentrionales D'Irlande

[Amsterdam: Mortier, 1693]. Copper-engraved map, with full original colour and gold embellishments, two inch repaired tear right margin, well away from image, small loss top margin, overall good condition. Sheet size: 24 1/2 x 37 1/4 inches.

Large, handsome coastal chart of northwestern Scotland, the Hebrides and northern Ireland

This large scale, beautifully coloured coastal chart of Scotland, Ireland and the Hebrides comes from Le Neptune François, a lavish collection of charts produced collaboratively by Hubert Jaillot and Pierre Mortier. As Koeman discovered in his research on this work (see P. Mortier, Atlantes Neerlandici, Maritime Atlases, p. 423-4), Mortier re-engraved the plates after the original French prototype Neptune François by Charles Pène and others in a richly coloured edition and added to the titles the words "Levée et Gravée par Ordre du Roy à Paris 1693" though they were in fact engraved, coloured and published in Amsterdam by Mortier. They were sold in France, we can assume, under the auspices of Hubert Jaillot, who had been appointed the first "Geographe du Roi" in 1678.

Pierre Mortier's grandparents were French refugees, who left France in about 1625 to live in Leiden. His parents settled in Amsterdam in 1661 or 1662. Pierre Mortier grew up in Amsterdam but lived in Paris from 1681 to about 1685 where he must have gotten into the book trade. Once he was in Amsterdam again he specialized in French books and maintained his relationships with Parisian publishers. Amsterdam was at this time the international marketplace for books, especially books forbidden by repressive governments.

He established himself in the field of cartographical publishing by offering editions of French maps, primarily Sanson's and Jaillot's to a public tired of the great but dated Dutch offerings. Working on a scale larger than the typical Dutch folio map and providing the new insights of French geography, he was immensely successful. The charts in his version of Le Neptune François are outstanding examples of cartographical art. They are among the most beautiful printed sea charts ever made.

This chart, which is oriented so that east is at the top of the page, encompasses the western coast of Scotland, the islands to the west and northwest of Scotland, the coast of Northern Ireland and the Faeroe Islands. The western half of the Shetland Islands is also depicted.

Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, M. Mor 1, #9.

#10290$1,750.00
 
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