RECENT ACQUISITIONS

Department of Printed Books

Acquisitions 1968-1978, Map Library

By Sarah Tyackc and Helen Wallis

Between 1968 and 1978 the Map Library has acquired a number of important and unusual atlases, maps, and globes dating; from c. 1500 to 1850. Although all acquisitions are entered in the published Map Catalogue and in its subsequent accessions parts, this article provides fuller descriptions of some of the more interesting items acquired which, it is hoped, will reach a wider audience. A second article will complete the listing of notable acquisitions for the period 1968-78.

ATLASES plates before tbe lettering engraver bad started work. On only one has the dedication been BEVIS, John. [Tbirty-four proof states of star filled in. Comparison of the proots with the charts prepared for the Uranograpbia Britan- nica by Jobn Bevis, c. 1750.] pi. 34; 36 x tinisbed maps also shows that many significant 31 cm. additions were made tor the final publication, botb of extra outlines to constellations and of John Bevis (1693-1711), F.R.S., undertook the extra stars. Although heavily indebted to tbe compilation of bis star atla.s in 1745 after seven work of Jobann Bayer, tbe atlas of 1786 con- years of astronomical observations made at bis tains about tive times as many stars as Bayer's observatory at Stoke Newington. He bad the atlas, Vranometria, and Bevis introduced plates finished and ready for the press when. Gotbic lettering to indicate tbese additions. in 1750, the publisher, Jobn Neale, became A copy of tbe Atlas Celeste (17H6), itself a very bankrupt. Bevis was tbus deprived of the rare work comprising fitty-t)ne star charts and opportunity to publish the work in bis lifetime, an engraved trontispiece, is already in tbe Map although in 1750 he was honoured by tbe Library collection. Berlin Academy of Sciences for his 'inimitable Maps C,2i.e.S. atlas', shortly expected to appear. When in 1786 the publisbers offered for sale sets of the Bo WEN, Emanuel, and KITCHEN, Thomas. sheets remaining from the original impression Tbe Royal Englisb Atlas: Being a New and as an atlas of 51 maps witb tbe title Atlas Accurate Set of Maps of all the counties in Celeste, tbe work was publisbed witbout men- England and Wales... London: printed for and tion of Bevis's name. sold by Cartngton Bowles, 1177S.] pi. 44; 47 cm. Tbe set of thirty-four proof sbeets which Tbe Royal Englisb Atlas was tirst published have now eome to light show the state of the about 1763 and is known in six editions, whicb 181 THE ROYAL ENGLISH ATLAS:

.BEING A NEW AND ACCURATE SET OF MAPS

OF ALL THE

COUNTIES IN ENGLAND AND WALES,

DRAWN FROM THE

Several SURVEYS which have been hitherto Publiflicd, With a general Map of ENGLAND, AND WALES.

From the laieft and bcft Authoriea.

I Englnnd J 5 Hampfhirc 39 OKfordfliirc a Bedfordrhirc 16 HcnlorJlhire 30 Shropfhirc I 7 Hcn:iordlhire 31 Somcrfetfliirc 3 18 HuntingdoDiliire 32 Staflordlhirc 4 Buckingham Hiir 19 Kcn[ 33 SufFoik. 5 Combridgcjliirc 10 Lancalhirc 34 Surrcj' b aicfliire • Leiceftcriliirc 35 Sulitrv 7 Cornwall Leice: j6 Warwickihirc CCumbcriancI { Rutla id/hifc 37 Wiltrtiirc L Wtftmor I and 37 LincolnDiire 3fl Worccftcrlhire g Dcrbylliirc 3j Middlcfcx 39 Yorkiliire 10 Devonlliirc 24 Monmouciiniuc +0 Eaft Riding o( York 11 Dorfctftiirc as Norfolk 41 North Ridmg of ditto ti Durham a 6 Northampton (hire 4a Weft Riding of ditto •13 Ll&x 27 Notfinghamlltire 43 Nonh Walci (4 Glouccftcrihiic lit Northumberland 44 South Wain.

Containing all the CiTiii, TowNi, VILLAORI, and Cii URCIIEI, whether RECTOIIEI, ViCAiLAOBi, or CHAriLi, many NoiLBUEh* and GENTLIMEN'I SHAT!1, V(. Sfc.

EACH MAP IS ILLUSTRATED

Wiili » Genen! Dclcripiion ofihcCouwTf, itiCiTrei, BORODOH and MARKET TOWN 1, th«Number of MiMXx rclumcd 10 P A « L 1 AM E HT, rAXiiiill, HOUSLI, AcftEt of LAND, dc.

And Hlftorical Ennfti rciitin to the TRADT, MAITFACTOSFI. uidCoTiitKMFHr ofthe CITIEI, uid Principal Towm, »i«l ihc prdinl Slate of their Inhibitant), (i(.

By EMANUEL BOWEN, Gioc«ArHi« to llii MAJIITV, THOMAS KITCHEN, and Qiben.

LONDON: Frinlcit for ind Sold hj CA«IIIOTOJI BowtH, ai hii M»p and Print Warchoufe, at N" 69, in St. P»ul'i Church Yiri,

182 are distinguishable by their imprints. The an atlas but lacking the completed revision.s maps were reduced and modified versions of noted in his advertisement of 1694, those engraved for The Large English Athis This example of the 'pre-1694' atlas is the (1749-60) and included additional views and earliest issue so far identified. The engraved descriptive legends. This example of the atlas title-panel does not yet include in the 'Table of is the second edition and, from the evidence of the Shires' the subheadings 'Wales' and an the map imprints, was published c. 1778. One 'Explanation of the Symbols'. In this respect other example of this edition is recorded by the atlas is apparently unique. Although this Thomas Chubb in The Printed Maps in the particular copy (formerly in the Gardner Col- Atlases of Great Britain and Ireland {1927), lection) is described by R. A. Skelton in County n. CCXIX. The edition is further identifiable Atlases of the British Isles i^yg-iyo,^ {1970), hy the presence of the name of Carington pp. 171-5, its contents do not match the list of Bowles in the imprint. By 1778 the original maps given there. consortium of seven publishers, which did not The atlas includes three non-county maps, include Carington Bowles, had been reduced to namely: 'A New Mapp of England Scotland three, namely John Bowles, Robert Sayer, and and Ireland. Sold by Robert Morden ... Phillip John Bennett; Carington Bowles had been Lea. . .John Seller'[f. 1689.1;'An Epitome of added. S"" William Petty's large survey of Ireland . . . Maps C.29.C.2. By Phillip Lea' [c. 1690.]; and This New and Accurate Mapp of France ... By Philip Lea' [c. 1690]. LEA, Philip. All the Shires of England and It lacks three maps called for on the title- Wales Described by Christopher Saxton page: 'A Map of the Isle of Wight Portsea Being the Best and Original Mapps with Halinge . . . made & sold by Philip Lea' —this many Additions and Corrections by Philip map IS listed as 'Islands' on the title-page; Lea. [London:] Sold by Phillip Lea, [c. 1690.] [York-Shire Described by Ch. Saxton. Many 39 unnumbered maps; 44 cm. foi. additions and Corrections as ye Roads, Wapen- takes &c. by P. Lea.]; and 'Cambridge-Shire The first printed atlas of the counties of and The Great Levell of ye Fenns . . . by Sr England and Wales, prepared by the surveyor Jonas Moore'. Christopher Saxton (_/?. 1573-96) and pub- The atlas was probably bound after 1689 but lished in 1579, was re-issued in many forms before 1694 when Lea's corrections and plate until about 1770. At some point before 1689 substitutions were completed. It was formerU the globe maker and map-seller Philip Lea in the possession of Dr. Eric Gardner who (d. 1700) came into possession of the Saxton acquired the atlas from the noted writer on plates and, having reworked them extensively, cartography. Sir Herbert George Fordham began to issue them both as separate maps and (1854-1920). bound in atlas form. Maps C.2i.e.io. On 12 February 1693/4 Lea first advertised in the London Gazette the sale of The County Maps of England and Wales, in large sheets: LEA, Philip. [All] The Shires of England and described by Christopher Saxton, being the Wales Described by Christopher Saxton Originals, with a great many Additions and Being the Best and Original Mapps with many Corrections, as the Roads, Hundreds, Towns additions and corrections by Philip Lea. ...' Before this date, however, he seems to have [London:] Sold hy Phillip Lea, [c. 1694 or issued a number of the Saxton maps bound as later]. 51 unnumbered maps; 53 cm. foi. (the 183 CHRI STOVHF.R ^AXTO^ ^ Mai>p f!iis,W(/C "vw^ nil! II' I. J \

184 word 'Air has been erased from the title after lisher Thomas Jefferys {fl. 17.^2 71) about printing). 1749. The only recorded example of this edition of the atlas that was complete with Jetterys's A later issue of Philip Lea's collection of the title-page as given above, was described by county maps by Christopher Saxton. This issue Harold Whitaker in Imago Mundi {1939)1 P- ^'^• (at the time in the possession of A. D. Baxter) The atlas he described was subsequently is described by R. A. Skelton in County Atlases broken although the title-page survives in the of the British Isles 1579-1703 (London, t97o), Whitaker Collection at the Brotherton Library, p. 176 and Appendix A, p. 217. The printed Leeds. The plates had been previously owned title of this particular copy, however, does not, by George Willdey who issued them in atlas as indicated in Skelton's work, omit the first form about 1730. They presumably passed to word 'All'; this has merely been scratched out George Willdey's brother Thomas who died in after printing. The title-panel, although not 1748. Jefferys then acquired them, as is evident in its final torm, now includes in the 'Tables of from the atlas's imprint noted by Whitaker the Shires', the subheadings 'Wales' and an above: until 1750 when he moved to number 5 'Explanation of the Symbols'. It still does not Charing Cross, Thomas Jefferys published include 'Also the new Surveis of Ogilby, Seller from 'Red Lyon Street near St. John's Gate' &c.' and 'Viz \* Hunde, Roads &;c\ and so the and so the atlas may be assumed to have been title-page was presumably printed before 1694 issued before then. when Lea advertised the finally revised maps for sale. Maps C.2re.r2. In addition to the reworked Saxton plates and Lea's substituted county maps the atlas includes the following maps: 'A New Map, LE CLERC, Jean. Theatre Geographique du shewing the Naturall face of England . . . Sold Royaume de France. Contenant les cartes & by Arthur Tooker'. 'A Travelling Map of Eng- descriptions particulieres des provinces land . . . Sold by Arthur Tooker' [c. 1680]. d'icL'Iuy. Oeuvre nouvellemcnt mis en 'Scotia Regnum cum insulis adjacentibus lumiere: avec une table, ou sont les noms de Robertus Gordonius a Straloch descripsit'. toutes les cartes de chacune desdites pro- This is a close copy of the map published by vinces. .\ Puns, chcz lean Ic CIcrc, 1620. Blaeuin 1654 and was advertised as being in the 40 unnumbered maps on 39 plates; 41 cm. Saxton atlas in The Term Catalogues for June In 1594 Maurice Bouguereau published the 1699. 'A New Map of Ireland . . . Dedicated by first national atlas of France entitled the ...P. Lea and H. Moll'[c. 1692], 2 sheets. 'The Theatre francoys. Afrer his death the Parisian English Channel and ye Adjacent Countries. publisher Jean le Clcrc acquired the fourteen Sold by Philip Lea\ plates of the atlas and they were issued, with Maps C.2i.e.ii. ever-increasing numbers of additional maps, in seven editions from 1619 to 1632. The sole LEA, Philip. [The Shires of England and Wales surviving example of the first edition of 1619 is ... Sold by Thomas Jefferys Geographer to his already held in the British Library (Maps Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, in Red C.7.d.io). The 1619 edition contains a dated Lyon Street near St. John's Gate, c. 1749.] title-page of 1619 and thirty-seven plates as 39 unnumbered plates; 47 cm. foi. (lacking listed in the table of contents. It also includes the title-page). SIX maps more than listed in the contents; these This example of Philip Lea's Saxton atlas was are dated 1620-1. The atlas, as bound was probably issued by the map maker and pub- therefore presumably issued in 1621 or later 185 This example of the second edition of 1620 . . . iterata delineatione . . . de A. R. P. Augus- also includes three maps not listed in the table tini a Tisana . . . Mediolani, 1712. Mediolani, of contents of thirty-seven plates, all dated Ex typographia losephi Pandulphi Malatestae, 1620. These are the "Description du Pais de 1721. pp. 10, pi. 63; 28 X40 cm. obi. foi. (The Normandie', 'Carte du Pais de Loudunois', engraved title-page bears the date 1712.) and the 'Carte du Pais de Retelois'. Fran(;ois de A later edition of the atlas first published in Dainville in his article 'L'Evolution de I'atlas 1712, based on the 'Chorographia Descriptio' de France sous Louis XIH\ Actes du Quatre- of Joannes Moriundus a Montecalerio of 1643. Vmgt-Septihne Congres national des societes A rare Italian atlas showing the establishments savtirjtes. Poitiers, ig62 (Paris, 1963), p. 13, of the Capuchin order in Europe and parts of records the maps' first appearance in the r62i Asia and Africa, and recorded in the Capuchin edition ot" the atlas, but the evidence of this bibliography by Dionysius of Genoa published example indicates that the engraving of the in Venice, 1747. Based on the work of the maps was completed in time for the second Piedmontese Friar Joannes Moriundus a edition of 1620. Montecalerio (d. 1654), this edition of the atlas Maps C.7.C.26. has been revised by Friar Joannes Baptista a Cassini, an accomplished geographical author, LE CLERC, Jean. Theatre Geographique du and three of the maps are signed by him. The Royaume de France. Contenant les cartes & engraver's name appearing on four of the maps descriptions particulieres des provinces is that of Brother Michael Angelus of Dinant d'iceluy. Oeuvre nouvellement mis en and the title-page together with the map of lumiere: avec une table ou sont les noms de Franconia are by Durello (perhaps Simone toutes les cartes de chascune desdites pro- Durelli, an engraver at Milan). vinces. A Paris, chez la veiifue [sic] Jean le The atlas was formerly in the possession of Clerc, i63t. ^2 unnumbered maps on 50 the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dubhn. plates; 41 cm. Maps C.3.b.6. In 1631 Jc.in Ic Clerc the younger finished the Theatre Geographiijue w hich included filty-two NOR IE, John William. The Complete Mediter- maps—three more than the edition of 1626; ranean Pilot, being a set of new and accurate these were maps of the river Garonne and of charts comprehending the whole navigation north and south Languedoc. A newly engraved from London to any part of the coasts of title-page by Leonard Gautier was also added Spain, Portugal, the Mediterranean & Black to the atlas in 1631 but only one example of the Seas ... A new edition, corrected to the edition with this title-page is at present present year. By J. W. Norie, Hydrographer. recorded; this is in the Bibliotheque Nationale. London: J. W. Norie & Co., i824[-3o]. This present example of the 1631 edition was pi. 20; 66 cm. (A manuscript note after the formerly in the collection of John Evelyn imprint reads: 'Additions to 1829 & 30'.) (1620-1706). The maps are variously dated between 1812 Maps C.'j.c.i']. and 1830, and the earlier ones carry the imprint of William Heather, whom J. W. Norie MoRiLNDLS, Joannes f7 Montecalerio. Choro- succeeded in 1812. The volume also contains graphica Descriptio Provinciarum, et conven- Admiralty charts of Valletta, Malta, by Cap- tuum FF. Min. S. Francisci Capucinorum ... tain W. H. Smyth, 1823, and the Bay of Naples, Impressa iussa A. R. P. Ioannis a Monte- by G. A. Rizzi Zannoni, republished by calerio: nunc vero F. lo: Baptistae a Cassinis W. Faden, 1803. 86 The charts were intended to be accompanied hy New Piloting Direetionsfor the Mediterranean Sea by J. W. Norie (London, 1831). (B.L. 795.e.35). Earlier editions of the atlas published by Heather in 1802 and 1810 are held at Maps 27.a.3i. and Maps 47.a.9. respectively. Maps 6.e.25.

PETTY, William. An Abstract of the Geo- metrical Surveyes. Made by Dr. William Petty. Presented to S*" Allen Brodrick Kf & Baronet, his Majesties Surveyor-Generall [for the Use of his Office, c. 1667]. 35 unnumbered plates; 42 cm. foi. (with a manuscript title- page and index). Between 1655 and 1660 William Petty, then attached to the headquarters ot the Common- wealth army in Dublin, surveyed the Irish baronies and tbrfeited estates to facilitate their division amongst the army and other 'adven- turers tor lands'. The resulting maps were the basis for the series of county maps which he finally published in 1685 as an atlas entitled sized celestial atlas to be printed in England. Hibermae Delineatio. Designed to give a popular and instructive history of the various celestial systems, and to This collection of proof impressions of the provide an easy reference to the stars tor the maps probably dates from the period i6(>o 7. amateur astronomer, the atlas enjoyed a long The maps lack engraved titles, which have been lite. This edition, dated about 1700 from the supplied in manuscript. One of only two such evidence ot the imprint, was published by proof collections known; this atlas includes a Seller's younger son Jeremiah and is hitherto specially designed manuscript title-page and unrecorded. It includes substantial additions was presented to Sir Alan Brodrick, Surveyor- which take account ot the work of post- General of Ireland, during his term of office. Copernican astronomers, notably Tycho Brahe and Rene Descartes. Maps C.2i.f2. Maps C.2i.a.5. SELLER, John. Atlas Coelestis, containing the systems and theoryes of the planets, the SPEED, John. England, Wales And Ireland: constellations of the Starrs, and other pheno- Their severall Counties. Abridged from A farr mina's [stc] of the Heavens. London: Sold hy larger vollume: By John Speed. And are to bee Ier: Seller ^ Cha: Price at ye Hermitage William Camden's man's Guide. A later edition of 1745, described Britannia (1617). They were first engraved and as the 'second edition', is already in the British published by Pieter van den Keere about 1605. Library at Maps 162.r.i. At some point after 1618 and probably betore Maps C.22.b.5. 1623 the London publisher of Speed's Theatre, George Humble, acquired the plates and pre- CovKNS, Jean, and MORTIER, Cornelis. pared them lor publication as a 'pocket edition' Novissima nee non Pertectissima Regnorum of the Theatre. They were then issued in 1627 Anglicae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae Tabula . . . with the addition of twenty-three new maps Amstelodami, Apud I. Covens et C. Mortier, under the title England Wales Scotland and [c. 1745'']. 1:633,600; ioi X 123 cm. [Inset: Ireland Descrihed and Abridged with ye Historie Scotia Septentrional. A second title reads: Relation oJ things worthy memory from a Jarr 'Theatre de la Guerre en Angleterre Escosse Larger Voulume Done hy John Speed. This et Irlande . . .') present edition with seventeen new maps repre- The date of this somewhat irregularly com- sents an intermediate stage in the development posed wall map is conjectural. The second title, of the miniature atlas of the British Isles and is 'Theatre de la Guerre en Angleterre Escosse the first edition of the atlas as published by et Irlande . . .', suggests that the map may have George Humble. been published to coincide with an attempted Maps C.2i.a.4. invasion of England. If so, the conflict in question may well have been the Jacobite MAPS AND CHARTS rebellion in Ireland after 1689. Clearly the map Bow LES, Thomas, and BOWLES, John. The was first engraved before 1711, as this later English Gentleman's Guide: Or, A New and state bears the imprint of Pierre Mortier, who Compleat Book of Maps of all England and died in that year. Covens and Mortier, his Wales, shewing its antient and present govern- .successors, founded their publishing firm in ment . . . With many additions and corrections 1721, and this map, with the royal arms pre- not extant in any maps . . . London: Printed sumably altered to the Hanoverian form, was and sold hy Thomas Bowles... and John Bowles, re-issued at some point atter 1721, possibly at 1738. 12 map plates joined into 4 folding the time of the 1745 rebellion. sheets and bound into a leather travelling- Maps *i 125(74). case; 24 cm. In 1700 Christopher Browne, the London map DANCKERTS, Justus. India quae Orientalis publisher, issued a large wall map ot England dicitur et Insulae adiacentes. Gedruckt and Wales entitled 'Nova Totius Angliae t\4msterdam, hij Justus Danckerts, voor aen in Tabula' which he dedicated to the then heir de Calverstraet hiJ den Dam^ inde Danckers, to the throne William, Duke of Gloucester. [c. 1660]. Atter Browne's retirement trom business about This map, hitherto unrecorded, demonstrates 1712, the map plates evidently passed into the the extent of Dutch sea-power in the East hands of Philip Overton and Thomas Bowles Indies in the mid-seventeenth century and also II, who advertised it in The Monthly Catalogue shows the results of the two Australian expedi- for February 1717 with the title The English tions of Abel Tasman in 1642-3 and 1644. The Gentleman's Guide. No example of the 1717 publisher of this wall map was Justus Danckerts edition is known but in 1738 Thomas Bowles the elder (1635-1701) who, with his three sons. 188 Gedruckt t'AmJterdam. voor aen inde CalvcrJt worked at their shop in the 'Calverstraet bij den Asiaticus' published in 1659 and on his 'Asiae Dam, inde Danckers' until 1669. After that Descriptio Novissima' published in the same date the family business moved, so presumably year. The decorative embellishments are very this map was published before 1669. Tbe family similar indeed to those found on Hugo Allard's were famous for their production of finely map of the same name—'India qua Orientalis decorative atlases and ornamental wall maps; dicitur. Et Insulae Adiacentes', which was apart from this map of the East Indies, Justus dedicated to the burghers of Amsterdam about Danckerts held in stock a complete set of wall 1652 and included in the specially prepared maps of the world and four continents. atlas presented to Charles 11 at the Restoration The content of the map seems to be based in 1660. The atlas is preserved in the British on Joan Blaeu's 'Archipelagus Orientalis sive Library at K.A.R. Maps* 58415(8). [89 G()i:T/, Conrad. Angliae et Hyberniae Com- The chart maker Thomas Hood (fl. 1577- pend: Descriplio. Jodocus Hondius figuravit. 1604) was one of the leading mathematicians C.onradus Gol/ius tc. Pet'' Ouerradt exc. of his day and, in 1588, was appointed mathe- [Cologne, c. 1600]. 22'• t6 cm. (Copied from matical lecturer to the City of London. He the map by Hondius published in 1590, with drew a number of charts and maps including the decorative teatures reversed.) two celestial planispheres which were also engraved by Augustine Ryther (//. 1576-95). This map of the British Isles was engraved These were published to accompany Hood's c. 1600 in Cologne by Conrad Goltz, who is tract on The Use of the Celestial Glohe in piano recorded as working for Bussemacher in 1597. (1590), Few examples of the Atlantic chart are It is a copy of an earlier map by the Dutch- known; other copies are to be found in the New man Jodocus Hondius, 1590, with the decora- York Public Library, Peterborough Cathedral tive tc'atures reversed. The only other known Library, and the Pepys Library, Magdalene example of this version is bound into a copy ot College, Cambridge. Maps C.20.b.2(2). the miniature English county atlas by Hon- dius's brother-in-law Pieter van den Keere [c. 1605I, at present in private ownership. An PRICE, Charles. A New and Correct Map of emigre living in London from 1584 to 1593, Great Britain and Ireland. By Charles Price. Hondius made several small circular and oval [London:] Printed for Iohn Bowles at the maps at this early stage of his career as an Black Horse in Cornhill, [c. 1740]. 2 sh. engraver and map maker. The map ot t59O is 118x49 cm. noteworthy as his earliest map of the British The map bears separate titles for each sheet, Isles. The decorative borders display a portrait 'North Part ofGreat Britain' and 'South Part of Queen Elizabeth accompanied by adulatory ofGreat Brittain. By Charles Price'. Separately verses, and the figures of an English nobleman engraved borders comprising views of the and citizen of London with their respective British Isles, a dedication to George II, and wives. Maps 177.d.1(10). parts of Ireland and of northern France have been pasted to the map as side panels. Hoon, Thomas. |A chart of the north-east Advertised in John Bowles's catalogue of Atlantic Ocean showing the coasts of West- 1753, this map was described as one of a series ern Europe and north-west Africa from of wall maps 'ready fitted up on cloth, with the British Isles to the Cape Verde islands.] rollers and ledges. Price 75. 6^/. . . .' This T. Hood descripsit. A. Ryther sculpsit 1592. example is unmounted and was originally 39x53 cm. engraved by Charles Price about 1705 as two The chart was engraved to accompany Thomas separate maps, which were later joined to- Hood's The Mariners Guide which was included gether to form a wall map of Great Britain. in Hood's revision of W'illiam Bourne's A Regi- The engraving of the side panels to torm a ment for the Sea in 1596. The title-page to the border of views, and the publication of the Regiment states that with the Mariners Guide is enlarged map, must be dated after 1727, when 'adioyned ... a perfect sea carde by tbe said George II acceded to the throne, and before Thomas Hood', and the text makes it clear that 1753, when John Bowles's catalogue recorded the chart was devised to illustrate the art of the map. Charles Price died in 1733, and pre- Maying off' a course with a ruler and a pair of sumably the plates of this map were then compasses. As such this is the earliest English acquired by John Bowles, who issued it under chart to be printed for the instruction of sailors his own imprint. The map is otherwise in navigation. unrecorded. Maps 177.d. 1(21). I go 191 Zttdii. Nanscn hushu Bankoku was formerly in the possession of Sir George Shoka nElizabeth I c. 1600, C. Saxton. And now carefully corrected with and described by Speed in his Broadside, new Additions. By Philip Lea. S.N. sculpsit. A Description of the Ciuill Warres of England PrintedJor T. Bowles m St. Pauls Churchyard (1600). A reduced version of the manuscript (5 John Bowles £5' Son, at the Black Horse map was published with the Broadside, c. 1601. in CornhiU, [c. 1760]. pi. XX; 32x47 cm. The original map may be conjectured to have (Engraved by Sutton Nichols.) been the work of John Norden, whose manu- script map of battles in sixteen sheets was This is the final surviving state of Saxton's map recorded in 1708 to have hung in former years of F.ngland of 1583. It was printed from the in the Bodleian Library Picture gallery at plates of the last edition by Philip Lea as Oxford. The present map is apparently unique. issued, after his death in 1700, by his widow Anne Lea and his son-in-law Richard Glynne Maps i88.t.i(i). from their shop 'At the Atlas and Hercules in Fleet Street'. An example of this 'Lea' state is TAVERNIER, Melchior. Le plan de la ville, held at Maps K. Top. V.46; it was issued before cite, universite, fauxbourgs de Paris avee la 1720, by which time the plates had passed to description de son antiquite. A PariSy Chez Thomas Bowles IL At some point between Melchio[r Tavernier., c. 1630]. 74x48 cm. r7S3 and 1763 Thomas Bowles II and his With marginal text (damaged), and sur- brother John with his son Carington issued this mounted by eight vignettes depicting the king present state of the map with only an alteration and queen and their subjects arranged in order to the imprint. This particular copy of the map of rank. 192 193 The plan of Paris published in 1615 by the Whiston's of 1724. The map is dedicated to German topographical engraver and publisher the President and Fellows ofthe Royal Society, Matthias Merian proved so successful that to which John Senex, a leading cartographer, Melchior Tavernier, printer to the French engraver, and bookseller of London, had been king, used il as a basis for this map published elected in 1728. in about i()30. It was revised to show the new Maps 177.d.1(19). buildings and the districts (quartiers) which had been built round the outskirts of Paris GLOBES during the previous fifteen years. This seems -. [Pocket terrestrial globe. to be the first edition of the plan, hitherto only BURBIDGE, - [London, c. 1835.] 8 cm. in diameter. In an known in its later stare, of 1635. Melchior outer case, bearing on its inner faces, a repre- Tavetnier (1544-1641) was of Flemish origin, sentation ofthe celestial planispheres. and founded a distinguished French family of cartographers and map publishers. This very A later revised state of the pocket globe pub- rare example of Tavernier's work was preserved lished by Minshull about 1830. The globe in the Evelyn Estates at Wotton, Surrey. shows 'Enderby's Land 1833'. The engraver's name J. Mynde Sc/ is erased and the calotte Maps showing the Arctic regions has been re- engraved. Maps C.4.a.4(6). WRIGHT, Thomas. The Passage of the Annu- lar Penumbra over Scotland &c. In the Central CASSINI, Giovanni Maria. Globo terrestre. Eclipse ofthe Sun on the iSth day of February Delineato sulle ultimo osservazioni con i 1736/7 in the Afternoon. Humbly Inscribed to viaggi e nuove scoperte de Cap. Cook Inglese the President, Council and Fellows of the . . . Gio M^ Cassini C.R.S. inc. In Roma, Royal Society. By Thomas Wright of the Presso la Calcograf. Cam''\ 1790. 5 sh. City of Durham . . . \London:] Sold by John 49 • }2 cm. Senex at the Globe over iigainsi Si. Dunstans Church in Flcctstrcet, 1737. 50 x 39 cm. A set of twelve terrestrial globe goreS'engraved for a globe 35 cm. in diameter. Thomas Wright of Durham (1711-H6), on whose calculations this map was based, was to — Globo celeste. Calcolato per il corrente anno become a distinguished astronomer who pub- sulle osservazioni de'Sigg. Flamsteed, et de la lished, amongst other works. An Original Caille . . . Inciso dal P. Gio. M? Cassini Theory . . . ofthe Universe (1750). This map of C.R.S. Roma, Presso la Calc''. Cam", 1792. the solar eclipse of i March 1737 indicates the 5 sh. 49x32 cm. form ia which the eclipse would be seen in fifty-four selected places in the British Isles. A set of twelve celestial globe gores engraved The central part of the eclipse passed over for a globe 35 cm. in diameter. Edinburgh, and the deeply shaded band reveals Giovanni Maria Cassini (//. 1780-1810), the extent of the full annular effect (i.e. the the last important Italian globe maker of the phenomenon when the moon, in passing in eighteenth century, engraved and published front of the sun, only partially eclipses it, between the years 1790 and 1792 a terrestrial leaving an outer ring of light). Earlier maps of and celestial globe 35 em. in diameter. The this kind had been published to show the path gores of both globes were drawn according to of solar eclipses over the British Isles, notably the precise calculations set down in the intro- Edmund Halley's of 1715 and William duction to Cassini's Nuove Atlante Geografico 194

ale . . . (1792). The lerrestrial display shagreen covered case. On the inside of the the track and discoveries of Captain Cook's case are pasted paper gores showing the three voyages of 1768-80, and the celestial celestial hemispheres. The terrestrial globe depict the heavens according to the observa- lacks four gores. tions of the astronomers and mathematicians The globe was advertised by Joseph Moxon John Flamsteed and De la Caille. (1627-91) in his Mechanick Dyalling of 1679 Maps C.6.cl.4( 0(2). as the 'Concave Hemispheres of the Starry Orb., which serves for a case to a Terrestrial MlNSHti.i., ——. IPockct terrestrial globe.] globe of 3 Inches Diameter made portable for J. Mynde Sc. [London, c. 1830.] 8 cm. in the pocket.' Moxon is well known as a printer diameter. In an outer case, bearing on its and as the author of Mechamck Exercises on the inner taces, a representation of the celestial Whole Art of Printing (1684) but about 1653 he hemispheres. also turned to globe and chart making. In 1670 he was appointed Hydrographer to Charles II. The globe shows the track of Anson's voyage of This pocket globe is the earliest example of its 1740-4, of the Endeavour on Cook's first kind and Moxon is generally thought to have circumnavigation in 1768 71, of Cook's out- been the inventor of such globes. The globes ward voyage in 1776-9, and of Captain King's were characterized by their size, usually about return in 17S0. It is a later revised state ofthe 3 inches in diameter, and by their cases which globe published by N. Lane in 1818 which is showed the celestial hemispheres. Only two already in the Map Library at Maps C.4.a.2(4). other examples of Moxon's pocket globe are Maps C.4.a.4(10). recorded: one is in the Huntington Library, California, the other was listed by Einar Bratt MoxoN, Joseph. IA pocket globe.] Londini in En Kriinika om Svenska Globes (1968) as Sumptihits J. .Wnxiin, \c. 1679]. 7 cm. in dia- being owned by J.-G. Sack of Stockholm. meter. 'Fhe terrestrial globe is placed in a Maps C.4.a.4(7).

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