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Antwerp: Plantin-Moretus , 1624. Copper engraving, 35 x 49 cms, trivial adhesion damage in left hand part of the map, above a depiction of the storm which preceded Aeneas’ landing at Carthage; modern hand colour, Latin text on verso. Map of the eastern Mediterranean which depicts the wanderings of the legendary Trojan prince Aeneas after the fall of Troy, "according to the first six books of Virgil's Aeneid", the epic poem which served as Rome's foundation myth. Our example was published by Balthasar Moretus at the Plantin Press, in the final edition of the Parergon. Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is generally considered the first modern atlas of the world, originally published in 1570. Ortelius gathered and selected the best available cartographic knowledge and presented it in a single volume, duly credited and finely engraved in a consistent style, with explanatory text. The Theatrum was very decorative and hugely popular amongst the wealthy and educated, running into… Read More

Antwerp: Plantin-Moretus , 1624. Copper engraving, 34.5 x 49 cms, modern hand colour, Latin text on verso. The Black Sea and eastern Mediterranean, with insets of Thessaly, Bithynia and western Europe, illustrating the mythical voyage of Jason and the Argonauts in their quest for the Golden Fleece. The Fleece is depicted in the cartouche, flanked by the fire-breathing oxen which Jason had to yoke to the plough, and guarded by an ever watchful dragon. Ortelius’ dedicatee was the courtier and diplomat Charles of Arenburg, a knight of the order of the Golden Fleece. Our example was published by Balthasar Moretus at the Plantin Press, in the final edition of the Parergon. Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is generally considered the first modern atlas of the world, originally published in 1570. Ortelius gathered and selected the best available cartographic knowledge and presented it in a single volume, duly credited and finely engraved in a consistent style, with explanatory text. The Theatrum… Read More

Edinburgh &: London, 1861. Lithograph, 44.5 x 57.5 cms, colour-printed with additional (original) hand-colour in outline, blank verso. Map

London, 1943-45. A collection of 61 intelligence handbooks, 1943-1945, covering enemy and occupied countries and compiled by the Foreign Office and Ministry for Economic Warfare. The MoEW was formed in September 1939 and worked closely with the FO, which took over its remaining functions at the end of the war. Members of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) supplied the FO with some of the detailed historical and political background which appears in these volumes. The MoEW also had oversight of SOE. After America's entry into the war there seems to have been close co-operation with the US Board of Economic Warfare, and the Economic Warfare Department which was established by the Americans in London and based in Berkeley Square like the MoEW itself. This range of contributors informs the breadth and diversity of content, including the maps, which range from re-purposed pre-war tourist maps, British War Office GSGS maps and maps supplied by the American OSS.… Read More

London, 1894. Lithograph, 24 x 53 cms, colour printed, blank verso; prepared for the London Atlas. Map

Paris, 1719. Copper engraving, 16.5 x 22.5 cm, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. The Swedish Empire, including Finland and Swedish Livonia, published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et historique ...’. Chiquet (1673-1721) was a relatively successful Parisian engraver, print and mapseller. He published Antoine Menard’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas’ in 1711, and reprinted it with Menard’s name burnished from the plate and replaced with his own and a new date, 1719, as here. Map

Paris, 1719. Copper engraving, 17 x 22.5 cm, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. Muscovy or European Russia, published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et historique ...’. Chiquet (1673-1721) was a relatively successful Parisian engraver, print and mapseller. He published Antoine Menard’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas’ in 1711, and reprinted it with Menard’s name burnished from the plate and replaced with his own and a new date, 1719, as here. Map

Amsterdam, c. 1640. Copper engraving, 41.5 x 56 cms, original hand-colour, some oxidisation, French text on verso. Blaeu's 'carte à figure' map of Europe, with ten costume vignettes and nine city views around the edges and galleys, galleons, sea monsters, bears and lions spread around the map. Of particular interest are the placenames on Greenland relating to Frobisher's voyage of 1576, including Queen Elizabeth's Foreland. Frobisher believed he had found the Friesland of the Zeno Brothers, but Blaeu has depicted it as a separate entity. The Blaeu firm was official cartographer to the Dutch East India Company (VOC), and Blaeu globes were carried on all VOC vessels; its map-making was of the highest quality at a time when the Low Countries were at the forefront of the international market. Map

Germany?: G-2 Section, 2nd Armored , 1945. First version of a campaign map charting the wartime progress of the US 2nd Armored Division, sheet size 58.5 x 75 cm, printed in colours, blank verso. The lower panel deals with operations in North Africa and Sicily, with the unit’s insignia flanked by key placenames; the main map covers the Normandy invasion through to the Battle of the Bulge. The border of tank tracks incorporates the Allied invasion star, painted on vehicles for swift recognition, and the names of the unit’s commanding officers, including ‘blood and guts’ Patton. The map’s creator ‘M.E.B.’ remans unidentified. This version of the map is not listed on Worldcat but the revised edition is, and Worldcat suggests that the author is Mary E Gellie; she was certainly published under the initials ‘M.E.B.’, but these are mostly improving tales for younger readers written in the 1870s and 1880s. As the map was published by the G-2 or intelligence section… Read More

Dresden: Leutert & Schneidewind, 1914. Satirical map of Europe, 35 x 50 cms, printed in colours, splits to folds, laid on tissue, blank verso. An intricate anthropomorphic map (the artist also produced a zoomorphic companion piece) issued soon after the outbreak of the First World War. Italy, initially neutral, pokes a head from a giant boot, eyes swiveling in both directions while contemplating which way to jump. This is a German map, and the Central Powers are the heroes of the piece. Bees issuing from a German hive represent the scions of the nobility. Spreading out across the continent they are stinging the crazed, boss-eyed Russian bear into submission. They are accompanied by zeppelins, one of which is jabbing Britain (this time an Englishman in a pillbox hat) in the guts, while a mailed fist emerging from the North Sea delivers a further devastating blow (presumably representing the Imperial Navy’s High Seas Fleet, and possibly even referencing the early coastal bombardments of towns… Read More

Paris, 1719. Copper engraving, 22 x 16.5 cm, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. Norway was restored as a kingdom in 1661, albeit in union with Denmark. The table top left lists ancient kings of Norway, next to a vignette which probably depicts whaling. Our map was published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et historique ...’. Chiquet (1673-1721) was a relatively successful Parisian engraver, print and mapseller. He published Antoine Menard’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas’ in 1711, and reprinted it with Menard’s name burnished from the plate and replaced with his own and a new date, 1719, as here. Map

Paris, 1719. Copper engraving, 16.5 x 22.5 cm, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. Published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et historique ...’. Chiquet (1673-1721) was a relatively successful Parisian engraver, print and mapseller. He published Antoine Menard’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas’ in 1711, and reprinted it with Menard’s name burnished from the plate and replaced with his own and a new date, 1719, as here. Map

Paris, 1719. Copper engraving, 17 x 22.5 cm, original hand colour in outline, light stain bottom right, blank verso. The Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et historique ...’. Chiquet (1673-1721) was a relatively successful Parisian engraver, print and mapseller. He published Antoine Menard’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas’ in 1711, and reprinted it with Menard’s name burnished from the plate and replaced with his own and a new date, 1719, as here. Map

Paris, H. Barrè: re, c. 1912. Folding lithographed map, 105 x 88 cm, printed in colours and dissected into 20 panels and laid on linen, minor wear; folding into calf bound covers, lettered direct in gilt, sunned. Bookseller’s label of Brentano’s Paris, which catered particularly for American expatriates. There appear to be a number of editions, none of them institutionally common, mostly published in the 1920s. However, our example shows pre-First World War political boundaries, and corresponds most closely with a single example held by the BNF (slightly miscatalogued with one of the authors given as Bende rather than Beadel; OCLC 494855278) which is dated by them to 1912. The deluxe binding and the inclusion of French North Africa suggests that this example of early motoring ephemera was aimed squarely at wealthy and adventurous travellers. Map

[London?], c. 1914. Souvenir cotton tray cloth or handkerchief, 49.5 x 68.5 cm, printed in black and white with ropework border printed in red, white and blue and incorporating the flags of Britain and the Allied powers of France, Belgium and Russia at the corners, blank verso. Published ‘by permission of the Manchester Guardian’, the map was printed over a full broadsheet page of the newspaper on 7 August 1914. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cms, recent hand-colour, light waterstaining in upper margin, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

London, 1799. Copper engraving, 36 x 44 cms, original hand colour in outline, slight toning at centrefold and a couple of small spots, blank verso. From the third edition of ‘A Complete Course of Geography, by Means of Instructive Games...’ It seems that this map would have been coupled with a blank template for the student to complete by hand (McCorkle notes that this map retains the same title as the plain example). McCorkle 116, 3a Map

Paris, c. 1900. Airship race game, board 36.5 x 38.5 cm, box label 26.5 x 19 cm, both printed in colours, neither laid down on cardboard, trivial loss to bottom left hand corner of board, affecting red margin only. No rule sheet, but fairly self explanatory: the board is a simplified map of Europe with vignettes of famous landmarks such as the Brandenburg Gate. The game starts and finishes in Berlin, and hazards include foul weather and fire. Ink stamp of Parisian bookseller C.F. Labarre to verso of box label. The example in the Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée in Marseille (inventory number 1990.39.28.2) is attributed to Parisian publisher Léon Saussine. Saussine exhibited at the third Paris World’s Fair in 1878 as an educational and parlour games publisher. After his death in 1896, the company was run by his widow and then his sons. Map

London, [1855]. Engraved folding cartographic race game, 49.5 x 63 cm, dissected into 12 panels and laid on linen, original hand colour, folding into cloth covers, lettered direct. Wear to intersections of folds, ink stain to front cover. Lacks rule book. Worldcat locates three examples, but there appears to be a fourth, with rules, in the part of the Richard Ballam Collection donated to the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera at the Bodleian Library (c.f. https://www.gamesboard.org.uk/cgi-pub/gardpub.cgi?table=examples&pk=14022&command=view). Ballam attributes the game to Barfoot and gives the printer as Jarrold of Norwich; the rules describe the Crimean War as being the ‘present time’ and on the game itself the Crimean peninsula is bombarded by the Allied fleet. The three examples on Worldcat are: OCLC: 270827616 (copies in the Morgan Library New York, and Toronto Public Library); OCLC: 179140105 (Princeton, with instruction booklet; date - perhaps erroneously -… Read More