1594-97 KENDAL (Abraham) Maps-see post 1646 DUDLEY. 28194 1598 PTOLEMY. (La Geografia di C. Tolomeo, tradotto da G. Ruscelli, nuovamente amplificata da G. Rosaccio), sm. 4to. wants title, 42 maps, vellum, gilt edges, 328 Venetia, gli heredi di Melchior Sessa, 1598 Contains: Espositioni has Title and 26 11.; Tavola, 6 11.; Text, 144 ll. 28195 EMERIC MOLLINEUX, Map of the World on the new plane projection, 25 inches in breadth by 17 in height, printed by the Autotype Company upon yellow-faced paper, £3. 10s (1598-1874) Of the twenty-five copies printed, only one remains for sale. Of the original Map I can only trace the existence of four copies, one of which is to be seen in the Grenville copy of Hakluyt, 3 vols. It is by far the finest Chartographical labour which appeared from the epoch of the discovery of America down to the time of D'Anville-that is for more than two hundred years. Hakluyt intended to insert this map (which must have been already undertaken by Mollineux) in the work published in 1589, but it was not of course ready, and some copies were sent out with a substituted engraving, which is called in the preface one of the best generall mappes of the world." The latter map was simply a re-engraving from the latest mappemonde of Ortelius (1588), and identical with the one which was regularly published in the English edition of Linschoten's Travels; having therefore no original value or interest. 66 The engraver of the great Map, or-as Hakluyt calls it-Terrestrial Globe, was "Mr. Emmeric Mollineux of Lambeth, a rare gentleman in his profession, being therein for divers years greatly supported by the purse and liberality of the worshipful merchant, Mr. William Sanderson." Every geographical discovery down to the year 1598 appears recorded in his map, which, after ten years' labour, was perhaps not quite ready even for insertion in most of the copies of the 1598 edition. 28196 1603 [JOHNSON (Robert)] Historicall Description of the most famous kingdomes and Commonweales in the Worlde, translated into English, with an Addition of the Relation of Saxony, Geneua, Hungary and Spaine, small 4to. title mended, brown morocco extra, £2. 2s; or, fine copy in old hf. russia, £3. 3s John Jaggard, 1603 28197 1605 PTOLEMEI Geographiæ Libri VIII Græco-Latini, Latine primum recogniti et emendati, cum tabulis geographicis ad mentem auctoris restitutis per Gerardum Mercatorem: jam vero ad Græca et Latina exemplaria a Petro Montano recogniti, folio, 28 maps, coloured, small hole in title, fine clean copy, calf Amsterodami, J. Hondius, 1605 The maps relate to the old World only. neat, £4. 28198 1608 QUADI Fasciculus Geographicus complectens præcipuarum totius Orbis Regionum tabulas circiter centum, una cum earundem Enarrationibus, sm. folio, 86 maps, with portraits in the margins, including one of Queen Elizabeth on that of Scotland, fine copy in brown morocco extra, gilt edges, RARE, £3. 10s Cöln, 1608 The map of the world contains only an inferior representation of the New World, but the special maps at the end, of North and South America, Mexico, etc. are very well drawn. The English discoveries in Virginia are already laid down in detail. 28199 1612 MOSEMANI (H. F.) Newe Summarische Welt Historia, unnd Beschreibung aller Keyserthumb, Königreiche, Fürstenthumb, unnd Völcker heutiges Tages auff Erden, 2 parts in 1, sm. 4to. 15s : slightly wormed, numerous woodcuts of costume, hf. red morocco, Schmalkalden, W. Ketzeln, 1612 Contains Title; 13 prel. 11. including a spherical map of the World, on two leaves; 406 pp.; new Title, "Das Ander Theil" (VON DER NEWEN WELT); 78 pp., including title. 28200 1616 JOHNSON (Robert) Relations of the most famous Kingdoms and Commonweales thorough the worlde, enlarged according to moderne Observation, sm. 4to. limp vellum, with the autograph of Tho. Carleton (about 1640) who has written MS. notes on many of the margins, £3. 10s John Jaggard, 1616 There are very considerable alterations and additions in the 1616 edition; including an article of 14 pp. on America, which is not in the edition of 1603. 28201 1618 BERTII (P.) Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum libri septem, oblong 8vo. containing over 200 fine engraved maps in the text, black morocco, gilt edges, with bookplate of Th. Beckwith, artist, £2. 168 Amsterodami, Jud. Hondius, 1618 28202 WEST-unnd OST INDISCHER LUSTGART: Erzehlung wann und von wenn die Newe Welterfunden worden, neben Beschreibung aller deren Landschafften, Inseln, Völcker, Thieren, etc. sm. 4to. vellum, rare, 18s Cöllen, 1618 28203 PTOLEMÆI THEATRUM GEOGRAPHIE VETERIS: I, Geographia, Græce et Latine, ad codices Palatinos, opera BERTII; II, Itineraria Antonini, Provinciæ Romanæ, Civitates Gallica, Itinerarium a Burdigala ad Hierosolymam; TABULA PEUTINGERIANA, cum notis Velseri; Ortelii Tabulæ aliquot-in 1 vol. large folio, original issue, engraved title, and 50 carefully engraved maps, calf, £4. 4s Amst. Elzevir, 1618-19 28204 WEST INDISCHE SPIEGHEL, waer inne men sien kan alle de Eylanden, Provintien, Lantschappen, Mexico, en Peru, 'tsampt de coursen, havenen, klippen, etc., als mede hoe die van de Spanien eerst geinvadeert syn, door Athanasium Inga, Peruaen, sm. 4to. engraved and printed titles, other engravings in the text, vellum, 20s Amst. J. en J. Pietersz Wachter, 1624 A curious book composed under a pseudonym, and apparently very little known. The engravings are in the De Bry style, and very pretty. 28205 1630 LAET (Joannes de) Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien, tweede Druck, verbetert, vermeerdert, met eenige nieuwe Caerten verciert, small folio, BEST AND FIRST COMPLETE EDITION, fine frontispiece and 14 large and beautifully engraved Maps of America, also some woodcuts of American Natural History, fine copy in old calf gilt, £5. Leyden, Elzeviers, 1630 Novus Orbis seu Descriptionis India Occidentalis libri XVIII, small folio, 14 maps and woodcuts, as in the preceding edition, old calf gilt, £3. Ludg. Bat., apud Elzevirios, 1633 28207 STAFFORDE (Rob.) Geographicall and Anthologicall Description of all the Empires and Kingdomes, both of Continent and Ilands in this terrestriall Globe, sm. 4to. 20s Nich. Okes, 1634 28206 Chapter 9 is de America, sive India Occidentali ;" chap. 10 "de America Insulis." 28208 1635 CARPENTER (Nathanael) Geographie delineated forth in two bookes, containing the spherical and topicall parts thereof, second edition corrected, 2 vols. in 1, small 4to. diagrams, hf. calf, 20s Oxford, 1635 A very learned work, although fanciful and singular in some respects. The author was a Devonshire man, and towards the end of the volume introduces with enlogy the names of several West of England worthies, amongst whom William Browne of the Pastoralls receives especial praise. Carpenter does not spare his own rhyming throughout the book. He notices, on p. 276 of Vol. II., the variation brought about by climate in both animal and vegetable growth, instancing the experience of "our Virginian colony." 28209 MERCATOR'S Minor Atlas. Historia Mundi or Mercator's Atlas, containing his Cosmographicall Description of the Fabricke and Figure of the World, lately rectified by the studious industry of Judocus Hondy, Englished by W. S. [Wye Saltonstall], stout sm. folio, 181 maps beautifully engraved, including those which relate to America and the West Indies M. Sparke and S. Cartwright, 1635 28210 the same, Second Issue, sm. folio, with the ADDITIONAL MAP OF NEW ENGLAND, of which very few copies exist, old calf, 1637 £6. 10s This has the rare map of Virginia and New England, engraved by Ralph Hall in 1636, which is very seldom seen in the book. If the engraving could have been done in time, the sheet would have taken its place with the rest, impressed opposite the text to Virginia, and a rarity would have been lost to the American collector. However, the publishers filled up the blank with a duplicate of the New Spain Map, this being mentioned in the Errata with a statement that a correct map of New England was then being prepared in America, which would be published on its arrival in England. A change of owners took place two years afterwards, and the frontispiece was re-engraved, having Sparke's name alone, with Second Edytion' added, and the date changed. In some of these copies the new Map was inserted. The stock thus treated was however very small, as the existence of this valuable piece of Map-making is not mentioned in any of the books of reference where one might expect to find it. 28211 1638 ROBERTS (L.) Merchants Mappe of Commerce, wherein the Universal Manner of Trade is handled, the Standerd Coines observed, the real and imaginary Coines of Accounts and Exchanges expressed, the Commodities of all Countries declared, the Weights and Measures reduced to the Meridian of Commerce of London, sm. folio, portrait by Glover, frontispiece, and finely engraved Map of the World, with maps of AMERICA, Europe, Asia, etc. on the text, good copy in the original calf, 36s 1638 28212 1639 DUDLEY (SIR ROBERT, DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND AND EARL OF WARWICK) ARCANO DEL MARE di Don Roberto Dudleo Duca di Nortumbria e Conte di Warvich, impressione SECONDA CORRETTA & ACCRESCIUTA secondo l'originale del medesimo Duca, che si conserva nella libreria del Convento di Firenze della Pace, 2 vols. atlas folio, 291 maps, charts, volvelles, designs for ships and nautical instruments, etc. very fine copy in old russia extra, £25. Fiorenza, 1661 The Arcano comprises Portolani and Charts by English and other pilots, which were never published elsewhere; and to American collectors it should prove of the highest interest. The maps which depict Virginia, New Netherlands, and New England, are amongst the most important of these : they are fuller and upon a larger scale than, while at the same time they are totally distinct from, those of Laet, Jansson, Mercator, Visscher, the Beschry ving of 1651, Van Loon, and Donckers. It is very strange, upon this account, that the Arcano is omitted by Asher in his Bibliographical Essay, and that the attention of so painstaking a student should not have been drawn to Dudley's work. The above second edition was prepared from the author's corrected copy of the first (1646); and as he died in 1639, his maps of those parts of America must be considered to take precedence of all those mentioned by Asher, except the 1630 edition of Laet. In fact, it is uncertain whether they might not claim priority even over Laet; for the engraver Lucini mentions that he himself had been kept secluded in an obscure village of Tuscany for twelve years, working incessantly at the plates. Asher's Essay, so elaborate in its description of the various early maps and charts, their variations and their mutual dependence or independence, becomes very defective through its omission of the Arcano. Again the large scale of the maps of California and New Albion, and the number of names which crowd the coast-line below and above Cape Mendocino, with the marginal observations upon the errors of latitude made by previous writers, show conclusively the scientific character and importance of Dudley's work. A similar remark will apply to the delineations of the newly-discovered lands of Australia, and the northern coasts of New Holland (which he mistakenly calls New Guinea, while leaving to that island its other name Papua). etc. One of the Portolans is by Abraham Kendal, the master of Dudley's flag-ship, when the latter (just before Raleigh made his similar attempt) fitted out an expedition in 1594-95 to explore the land of Eldorado; during which he visited Trinidad and some other islands, Guyana, the issues of the Orinoco, He took some useful notes, made lists of native words, thrashed some Spanish ships, and escaped some great dangers in this expedition, a daring one for a young man of 21-but returned without booty. The numerous Vocabularies of savage languages which the Arcano contains are of considerable interest. Abraham Kendal, whose name is unknown to the book-makers, died at Portobello, in Central America, in 1597, in Drake's service, leaving behind him the plans and papers of which Dudley made good use. 28213 1642 MARIS CARNEIRO (ANTONIO DE) REGIMENTO DE PILOTOS e Roteiro das Navegacoens da INDIA ORIENTAL agora novamente emendado y acresentado co o roteiro da costa de Sofala ate Mobaça & com os Portos, & Barras do Cabo de Finisterra ate o estreito de Gibaltar (sic) com suas derrotas, sondas, & demonstraçoens, sm. 4to. fourth edition, 11 folding charts, a few leaves cropped, vellum, VERY RARE, from the Sunderland library, £5. Lisboa, Lorenço de Anvers, 1642 Collation title, dedication, etc. 4 leaves, Arte de Navegar, 36 leaves (no regularity in pagination or signatures); Partindo de Lisboa, etc. (Roteiro da India), A-N in fours, and O two leaves, followed by eleven folding woodcut charts, and an accompanying folding leaf of text; Roteiro de Portugal pera o Brasil, etc. A-O in eights, with an extra leaf for the last sheet. Salvà, who never saw the above edition, says of the fifth, "libro mui raro, sobre todo con los once mapas, qui faltan a los pocos ejemplares conocidos." The present copy has these eleven charts. 28214 1643 MORISOTI (Cl. Barth.) Orbis Maritimi, sive rerum in mari et littoribus gestarum generalis Historia, folio, vellum, £2. 28215 Divione, P. Palliot, 1643 Engr. title; printed do.; 11 prel. 11.; text pp. 725; index 9 11. Maps and plates in the text. Pp. 578-612 are occupied with a description of America. Epistolarum Centuria Prima (et Secunda), 2 parts in 1 vol. sm. 4to. calf, 10s Divione, P. Chavance, 1656 Epistle 64 of the second hundred is addressed to Joannes de Laet, and contains a long notice of Grotius' treatise "de Origine Gentium Americanarum ;" and there are also references to America in Epistles 65, 72, 78, and $1 of the second series. 28216 1659 BLAEU. Atlas Major, sive Cosmographia Blaviana, qua Solum, Salum, Coelum, accuratissime describuntur, 11 vols. impl. folio, full of COLOURED maps and views, in the original vellum gilt, gilt edges, £8. 10s Amst. 1662 28217 Atlas Mayor, o Geographia Blaviana, 10 vols. impl. folio, text in Spanish, coloured maps and views, bds. £10. Amst. 1672 This work contains the earliest extensive map of Scotland published. The maps of England are particularly interesting, being surrounded by the arms of the chief county families, properly blazoned. Copies of the Spanish edition are very rare, as the greater part of it was destroyed by fire in 1672. 28218 1660 PORTULANUS. Maritime Charts of the East Indies from the Cape of Good Hope to Japan, with plans and views of the chief islands, 8vo. containing 49 folded maps and views, painted on vellum, and illuminated with gold, bound in parchment, from Dr. Burnell's library, £16. About 1660 An extremely valuable collection of Charts by a Dutch Hydrographer or Seaman, which must be important even at the present time. It comprises 4 maps of islands, 2 of Cape of Good Hope, view of Table Bay, 11 maps of Arabia, Persian Gulf, etc., 8 of Siam, Tonkin, China, etc., 25 of Malacca and the islands of the Indian Ocean, with Formosa and Japan. 28219 1661 VAN LOON. Klaer lichtende Noort Ster, ofte ZEEATLAS, waer inne vertoont werde de Gelegentheyht van alle de Zee-kusten des Aerdgebodens, royal folio, elegant coloured frontispiece and 45 double maps, all carefully COLOURED, etc. vellum, calf back, £7. Amst. 1661 A very valuable work, unmentioned by Asher in his excellent Bibliography of the Atlases and Maps relating to the New Netherlands, although its North American charts are different from the Atlases and Charts examined by him. It is unquestionably the best Atlas representing the coasts of the now United States, published up to that time, and proves that the Brothers Van Loon were accurate and painstaking geographers. Some of the maps are of course reproductions from the great Atlases of Blaeu, Laet, and Jansson, and the name of the latter appears occasionally, but the differences which make the book important are to be found in the delineations of regions which were daily becoming better known, such as the European colonies in North America. This Atlas seems to be the original, or earliest existing form of a series of Dutch maps mentioned by Asher, to which belongs even the Chartbook of Pieter Goos. His statement that Goos's maps were different from and superior to all anterior works of the kind, suffices to fix the value of the Atlas of Van Loon. 28220 1663 LINSCHOOTEN (Jan Huygen van) Beschryvinge van verscheyde Landen, gelegen onder Africa en America Brasilien, Nova Francia, FLORIDA, Cuba, PERU, etc. sm. 4to. map and woodcuts, sd. 10s : Amsterdam, G. J. Saeghman, n. d. (1663) 28221 1665-80 THEATRUM præcipuarum totius Europe Urbium, large folio, fine frontispiece and 133 views and plans of European Cities, with Goa and Batavia, giving their coats of arms, brilliant impressions before the numbers, fine copy in vellum, £6. 6s Amst. F. de Wit, s. a. (circ. 1660-1681) 28222 ASIE ET AFRIQUE. A collection of over 200 VALUABLE OLD MAPS, most of them engraved from various rare works, with a number of original Roteiro Maps painted on Vellum by Portuguese Pilots (Joao Teixeira Albernas and Manoel Alvez |