RECENT ACQUISITIONS: Department of Printed Books

RECENT ACQUISITIONS

Department of Printed Books

Selected acquisitions, mainly from the period 1979-1985 Map Library

By Tony Campbell

A PREVIOUS article (British Library Journal, v (1979), pp. 181-97) provided partial coverage for the period 1968-78, with the promise of a further instalment to include those items which were unavoidably omitted. This article completes the listing for the earlier period, but can give only a partial account of acquisitions over the past six years. These will be brought up to date in a later issue. The items selected are of particular bibhographieal interest or rarity.

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BLAEU, Joan. Nuevo Atlas de Ios Reynos de By Rob^ K. Dawson, Candidate for the Corps Escocia e Yrlanda. Amstelaedami: Apud of R! Engineers. Lichfield, 1815-16. MS., Ioannem Blaeu, 1654. Fifty-five maps, 55 cm. 21 ff., 28 cm. In 1654 Blaeu added a fifth volume, covering Prepared by R. K. Dawson under the direction Scodand and Ireland, to his steadily expanding of his father Robert Dawson, instructor in atlas. Versions were previously known with surveying and drawing for the Royal Military Latin, Dutch, French, or German text but no Engineers, these comprise twenty pages of Spanish edition had been traced with a date sketches together with a plan and geometrical earlier than 1659. The preliminaries to this view of Snowdon. The work was carried out in hitherto unrecorded edition are dated 11 August connection with the Ordnance Survey's earliest and 16 June 1654. This first use in any part of I-inch map of the area and is noteworthy for its Blaeu's world atlas of the language of Holland's treatment of relief. former Hapsburg overlord helps to explain Maps C.2i.e.7. why, four years later, he started publication of his Atlas Mayor in Spanish rather than Latin. JANSSONIUS, Joannes. Theatrum universae Maps C.5.d.4. Galliae, continens exactissimam ducatuum, comitatuum, principatuum, & provinciarum descriptionem geographicam. Amstelodami: D A w S o N, Robert Kearsley. Essays towards the Sumptibus £5' typis aeneis loannis Ianssonii, expression of ground in topographical plans. 1633. Fifty maps, 50 cm. In the 1630s the publishers of the Mercator- state of England and Wales; illustrated by a Hondius Atlas, Joannes Janssonius and new map of London, and a series of forty Henricus Hondius, decided to expand the county maps. London: G. Virtue . . . Simpkin work by issuing a succession of supplementary and Marshall. . .Jennings and Chaplin . . . and volumes, covering France (1631), Germany may be had of all booksellers, 1830-5. Atlas in (1632), and Italy (1636). This is the second fifty-six parts, each with a map; 29 cm. edition of the atlas of France, hitherto known in Moule's two-volume historical gazetteer of only one copy. 1837 contains the last series of decorative Maps i87.g.i. English county maps. The acquisition of the first fifty-six monthly numbers (out of an KEULEN, Johannes van, the Elder. [Maritime estimated total of sixty-seven) throws new light atlas for navigating from the Cape of Good on its history. The wrappers to each number Hope to the Far East.] Amsterdam: loannes combine comments on the actual and antici- van Keulen, 1722. Forty-six maps, 65 cm. pated progress of the work with advertisements A composite maritime atlas of manuscript and for other part-works of the period. printed charts, compiled in 1722 or later, Each number contains a map. The decision probably by Gerard van Keulen (fl. 1704-26), of the original subscriber, the 5th Viscount Hydrographer to the Dutch East India Com- Galway, to record the month of receipt has pany, for use on the Company's ships navigat- enabled many of these to be precisely dated for ing between southern Africa and Japan. Detailed the first time. Only a few single examples of the charts of this region were kept in manuscript monthly numbers have been traced elsewhere. form, as in this atlas, until publication in 1753 The work has been analysed in detail in T. of volume six of Johannes van Keulen the Campbell, 'The Original Monthly Numbers of younger's De Nieume Groote Lichtende Zee- Moule's ''English Counties'", The Map Col- FakkeL lector, 1,1 (1985), pp. 26-39. The frontispiece, with the 1722 imprint of Maps C.27.C.5. Johannes van Keulen, is followed by twelve manuscript charts drawn over an engraved rhumb line base and thirty-four engraved ORDNANCE SURVEY. [Geological maps of charts. The hand-drawn charts cover Table, Devon, Cornwall, and West Somerset, sur- False, and Algoa bays (South Africa); Anjouan, veyed in 1832-9 for Henry de la Beche. Reunion, and Perim islands; Nias Island London: Ordnance Survey, for the Geological (Sumatra); Prinsen Island, Schildpadden, and Survey, 1837-9.] Thirteen sheets, each Maurits bays (Java); Saparua (Moluccas); and 61 X90 cm. Pescadores Islands (Formosa Strait). The engraved charts bear the imprints of Johannes van An early state of the first edition i-inch Geo- Keulen the Elder (two charts), Gerard van logical Survey of Devon and Cornwall (based Keulen (eight), Valk and Schenk (thirteen); van on sheets 20-7 and 29-33 of the i-inch topo- der Aa, P. Mortier, J. Ottens, N. Visscher's graphical survey). Work was started by the widow (one each). Ordnance Survey in 1832 and continued by the Geological Survey at its inception in 1835. Maps C.i2.f.3. Watermark evidence and the state of the copper- plates suggests a pre-1840 printing. No com- MouLE, Thomas. The English counties de- parable set can be traced in the British Isles. lineated; or descriptive view of the present

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Maps C.27.C.5. PRICE, Charles. [A set of English charts of the the third volume, designed for Asian waters. coasts of the British Isles and Europe, together This is the sixth recorded example of the trun- with Hispaniola, engraved by Charles Price.] cated form in which the work was issued, com- London: Charles Price, [t^.1730]. Twenty-one prising a 1675 title-page, twenty-four text charts, 50 cm. pages, and between seven and thirteen charts. The earliest identified gathering is BL Maps An unrecorded collection without title-page, C.8.b.io. This version, with the added imprints with a note on one chart announcing the of the partners Seller co-opted in 1677, Colston, author's intention of publishing 'a Compleat Fisher, Atkinson, and Thornton, is different Sea Atlas', to remedy 'the Great want of a good from all the others. sett of Sea Charts now extant in Great Britain Maps C.25.d.i9. (excepting for our own Coasts)'. The project proceeded no further. By 1731 Price had to sell off his charts cheaply, and he ended the year in SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. A Series of Maps, modern & the Fleet Prison. Many of the charts are based ancient, under the superintendence of the on those of Greenville Collins and most are Society for the Diffusion of Useful Know- dated 1729 or 1730. The named collaborators ledge. London: Baldwin (^ Cradock, Chapman were teachers of mathematics, or, like Price, £5' Hall, [1829-42]. Atlas in ninety-six parts, mathematical instrument makers. containing in all ig6 maps, 44 cm. Maps C.8.b.i6. No set with more than fifty-four parts was previously known. This set lacks part eighty-two SELLER, John. The English Pilot, The Third and a hypothetical group of eight which prob- Book. Describing the Sea-Coasts ... in the ably completed the work by December 1843— Oriental Navigation. Collected by ... John the latest date found on any map. The original Seller. London: Printed by John Darby, for the wrappers are rich in bibliographical informa- Author, 1675 [i.e. 1677 or later]. 24 pp., 13 tion and show how an atlas conceived in twenty- charts., 46 cm. five bi-monthly parts expanded to four times Seller planned publication of his The English that size. Pilot in four books but ran into difficulties with Maps 177.J.1.

Maps and Charts [FoRDE, Richard]. A new map of the Island of the Quaker surveyor Richard Forde of all Barbadoes wherein every parish, plantation, mention of churches or coastal fortifications. watermill, windmill & cattlemill, is described This reissue can be dated by reference to an with the name of the present possessor, and all advertisement in the Term Catalogues for things els remarkable according to a late exact February 1685. survey thereof London: By Phillip Lea at ye Maps 185.m.I.(17.) Atlas (^ Hercules in ye Poultry over against ye ouldjury, [1685]. 45 x 40 cm. GASTALDI, Giacomo di. Cosmographia uni- The only identified example of the first versalis et exactissima iuxta postremam neo- systematic map of Barbados in its second state. tericorum traditio[n]em. A Iacobo Castaldio Completed in 1675 and published the following nonnuUisque aliis huius disciplinae peri- year, the map is notable for the suppression by tissimis nunc [pjrimum revisa ac infinitis fere

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00 E. in locis correcta et locupletata. [ Venice: Matteo LILY, George. Britannia Insula quae duoregna Pagano, c, 1561.] Nine sheets, together forming continet Angliam et Scotiam cum Hibernia an oval map; 91 x 180 cm. adiacente. [Monogram] I.H.S.: [Rome], 1556. 48 X 35 cm. The only known example of one of the most Maps C.20.b.2.(i.) important maps to be produced in the sixteenth century, Gastaldi's large woodcut map of the Britanniae Insulae quae nunc Angliae et world. Its date is derived from a booklet hy Gastaldi, La Universale descrittione del mondo, Scotiae regna continet cum Hibernia adiacente of 1561, in which a similar map is described. nova descriptio. Rome: Ioannes Orlandi formis The booklet's publisher, Matteo Pagano, is romae, 1602. 40 x 54 cm. assumed to have issued the map as well. This is Maps C.2o.b.2.(3.) the earliest map to show the 'Strait of Anian' Lily's map of 1546 was the first separately pub- separating Asia and America. On this example lished map of the British Isles. Successive re- the seven cartouches are left blank. issues appeared up to the early seventeenth Maps C.i8.n.i. century, variously cut in wood or engraved in copper, oriented to the west (like the original) or GouRMONT, Jerome de. Nouuelle description to the north. Acquisition of these two variants dangleterre. Imprime a Paris par Hierosme gives the British Library nine out of the fifteen Gourmont, 1545. 30 x 38 cm. versions so far identified. The first is one of two The third known example of a woodcut map, of issued at Rome in 1556 with the I.H.S. mono- which all three impressions are significantly gram; the second gives indications of its own different. Rodney W. Shirley, Early Printed history by means of the earlier imprints which Maps of the British Isles: A Bibliography 1477- it retains: 'Romae Anglorum studio et dili- i6so (1980), describes an unsigned version, gentia, 1558', 'Claudii Duchetti formis', and titled in Latin and dated 1545, in Leiden 'Sebastianus a Regibus Clodiensis in aes University Library (no. 40) and a 1548 state incidebat'. with French text and Gourmont's imprint in the Bibliotheque Nationale (no. 48). This QUARTER MASTER GENERAL'S OFFICE. hitherto unrecorded version—signed and dated [Sketch of the battle of 21 August 1808 1545—contains a glowing account of England between the British and French forces near and its people in notes within and beneath the Vimieiro, Portugal.] [London, Horse Guards}: map. Quarter Master GeneraPs Office, 5 September Maps CC.2.b.8. 1808. 50 X 38 cm. It was the military arm which first applied litho- LANGLOIS, JOS. Cartes Typo-geographiques, graphy to maps in England, in May 1808. This inventees et imprimees par Firmin Didot. example was produced four months later and France. Jos. Langlois delin. Barbie du Bocage only a year after the Assistant Quartermaster dir. Paris: Firmin Didot, [1823]. 35 x 38 cm. General, Colonel Brown, had bought the secret Printed in eight impressions of which six were of lithographic printing from the German from colour plates and two from movable type. licence-holder, along with the necessary The map of France was produced to illustrate a equipment. multicolour map-printing process patented by No other early proof is known. A con- Firmin Didot in 1823. temporary annotation points to continuing Maps CC.2.b.7. problems with the new technique: 'This

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Experiment has failed in these impressions, SMITH, William, Rouge Dragon Poursuivant. another Drawing will be made, & Distributed'. [Six English county maps. London?: Hans Maps CC.5.a.3. Woutneel?, 1602-3.] The herald and topographer William Smith ROCQUE, John. Apian of the cities of London (£:.i55o-i6i8) embarked on a systematic survey and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark of the English counties which would have ... to which is added all the new buildings and superseded Christopher Saxton's atlas of 1579 alterations to the year 1761. [London: Sayer ^ had it not been abandoned, apparently in the Bennett, c.1775, but watermark date 0/1825.] face of expected competition from John Speed's Twenty-four sheets, each 48 x 68 cm. series, in about 1603. Contemporary documents The final state of Rocque's large-scale plan of as well as reissues by Peter Stent (f.1641-65) 1746. Amendments, including a reference to show that only twelve maps were published. Portland Place, whose construction began in The British Library already holds the maps 1774, provide a link with a reissue promised in of Essex, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire and Sayer & Bennett's catalogue of 1775. The 1825 Rutland, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Surrey (Maps watermark date on this set, and the sections C.2.CC.2. (2-4, 9-11)). This purchase gives the where erased detail has not been replaced, indi- Library the only complete set of Smith's maps cate that the 1775 reissue never materialized. in their original form, through the addition of Cheshire, Lancashire, Northamptonshire, Maps 185.p.I. Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcester- shire. S A X T O N, Christopher. [A copper-plate bearing the engraved outlines of part of a wall map Jodocus Hondius probably engraved the of England and Wales, covering Northern series in Amsterdam and Hans Woutneel, a England, most of the Isle of Man and a small Dutch bookseller resident in London £;.i58o- part of North Wales. London}, c.1580.] after 1604 (whose imprint appears on the map of 40 X 53 cm. Essex), was apparently the publisher. The maps of Cheshire and Worcestershire were previously Saxton's wall map of England and Wales unrecorded in their original forms. The Map appeared in 1583. One of the two surviving Library already holds the engraver's fair draw- copies of the twenty-sheet map in its original ings for four counties (Maps C.2.cc.2.(i2-i5)) form is already held in the Library (Maps and the Department of Manuscripts has Smith's C.7.d.7.). This newly discovered copperplate drafts of the maps of Cheshire and Lancashire shows that another version of the wall map was (MSS. Harl. 1046,6159). planned—at the same scale but probably in a Maps C.2.CC.2.(19-24) twelve-sheet arrangement. Toponymic differences between the plate and the corresponding sections of the com- WELCH, Andrew. [A Chart of the Isles of Scilly pleted map indicate that the plate's engraver and West Cornwall from St Ivcs Bay to the was working from Saxton's manuscript and not Lizard.] Andreas Welch delineavit, [London]: from the published map. The plate's slight 1680/1. Manuscript in coloured inks and incompleteness suggests that it should be con- washes on two joined pieces of vellum; sidered as the only surviving evidence of an 57 X 124 cm. early, abandoned attempt to produce the wall Andrew Welch belonged to a seventeenth- map. century school of chartmakers, apprenticed one Maps 177.j.2. to another in the Drapers' Company, whose

191 members worked beside the Thames. Welch able difficulties to chartmaker and navigator gave his address as 'At the Signe of the Platt' alike. There are clear indications, for instance, [i.e. sea chart] near Radcliffe'. This becomes the that Welch has had to move his plotting of the latest of Welch's identified productions. Until Seven Stones. they were adequately charted in the nineteenth Maps 183.S.2. century, the Isles of Scilly presented consider-

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193 Globes CuSHEE, Richard. A New Globe of the Earth open at the equator in order to reveal an armil- laid down according to the latest Observa- lary sphere demonstrating the motions of the tions. By Richard Cushee 1730. Sold by heavenly bodies. R. Cushee at the Globe and [Sun over against] Maps C.2i.d.i4. St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-Street, London, 1730. MOLL, Herman. A Correct Globe. With ye Trade winds, by H. Moll. [London: H. Moll, A New Celestial Globe. By R. Cushee C.1710]. 1730- A pair of globes, 30 cm. in diameter, mounted on four-legged wooden stands with brass A Correct globe with ye New Constella- meridian and wooden horizon circles. tions of M'"- Hevelius. [London: H. Moll], The 3-inch (7 cm.) globes by the estate sur- 1710. veyor and globemaker Richard Cushee are Terrestrial globe, 7 cm in diameter, in a shagreen relatively common, but no other pair of his 12- case bearing representations of the celestial inch (30 cm.) globes can be traced in the British hemispheres on its inner surface. An early and Isles. rare English pocket globe, whose terrestrial Maps G.14. outlines incorporate William Dampier's dis- coveries to New Holland (Australia) and the Pacific on voyages of 1686-91 and 1699-1701, THE DISSECTED GLOBE. [London ?, f.i868.] as well as his observations about the trade On the principle of a three-dimensional jigsaw winds. Moll had earlier compiled the official puzzle, the thirty-eight pieces join to form a maps for Dampier's Voyages and would later globe. Divided horizontally, the planes of the feature in Gulliver's Travels. sections bear maps of the continents on one Maps C.4.a.4.(i.) side, pictures and statistical information on the other. The device would probably have been used as an educational aid in a Victorian PRICE, Charles. [Terrestrial globe, signed:] schoolroom. Caro: Price Londini Fecit. London: Sold by C. Price ^ B. Scott at the Atlas against Exeter Maps G.3. Change in ye Strand, 1715. 31 cm. in diameter. One of the few surviving examples of an English HOMANN, Johann Baptist. Globus Terrestris table globe of the early eighteenth century, a [j]uxta observationes Parisienses Regiae type known from contemporary announcements Academiae Scientiarum Constructus . . . to have been produced in some quantity. No Globus Coelestis . . . Norimbergae: Opera loh. other example of this particular globe can be Bapt. Homanni Geographi [17.1700]. 7 cm. in traced. diameter. Maps G.I5. Pocket globes habitually consisted of a solid terrestrial sphere in a case lined with the RUSSELL, John. A Globe representing the celestial hemispheres. Homann's version is visible surface of the Moon constructed from unusual in that the globe is hollow, designed to Triangles measured with a Micrometer and

194 Maps G.45. accurately drawn and engraved from a long 'Painter to the King and Prince of Wales'. Only series of Telescopic Observations by J. Russell six other examples can be traced. The Library R.A— This Globe being part of the Apparatus already holds the accompanying Description^ named the Selenographia . . . Published by the which explains how the rotating brass hemi- Author, Newman Street, London, 1797. Height sphere surrounding the globe demonstrates the 52 cm. orbital motion of the moon and its position relative to the earth. The earliest extant English lunar globe, drawn and stipple engraved by the artist John Russell, Maps G.45.

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

TONY CAMPBELL: Research Assistant in the Map Library. R. D. DUNN: Research Fellow at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. MILTON Me C. GATCH: Provost and Academic Dean of Union Theological Seminary, New York. FRANCES HARRIS: Senior Research Assistant in the Department of Manuscripts. P. R. HARRIS: Deputy Keeper in the Department of Printed Books. ROBERT A. H. SMITH: Assistant Keeper in the Department of Manuscripts. NoRAH M. TITLEY: Formerly Assistant Keeper in the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books. M. I. WALEY: Assistant Keeper in the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books.

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