ALTEA GALLERY ALTEA Altea Gallery Catalogue No1 • Summer 2012 CATALOGUE No1 CATALOGUE SUMMER 2012 Item 5 Altea Gallery Limited Terms and Conditions: 35 Saint George Street Each item is in good condition unless otherwise noted in the description, allowing for London W1S 2FN the usual minor imperfections. Measurements are expressed in millimeters and are Tel: + 44 (0)20 7491 0010 taken to the plate-mark unless stated, height by width. (100 mm = approx. 4 inches) Fax: +44 (0)20 7491 0015 All items are offered subject to prior sale, orders are dealt with in order of receipt. [email protected] Prices are quoted in UK Pound Sterling (£/GBP) except Earth Platinum which is priced www.alteagallery.com in US Dollars (US $). Sales tax (VAT) is included where applicable. Company Registration No. 7952137 All goods remain the property of Altea Gallery Limited until payment has been received in full. With thanks to Miles Baynton-Williams and We accept all major credit cards Graham Bush for their help and expertise. Our bank details: Front cover: item 42. Back cover: item 84 HSBC 133 Regent Street, London W1B 4HX United Kingdom Account Name: Altea Gallery Ltd Bank Sort Code: 40-06-02 Account No: 44232860 IBAN : GB07MIDL40060244232860 SWIFT: MIDLGB22 Catalogue produced by atgmedia Altea Gallery Catalogue No1 Summer 2012 Index Page The Civitates Orbis Terrarum 2 Three Ortelius Atlases 4 De Bry’s American Voyages 6 Early Printed Maps 9 Italian Engraving 12 The de Jode Family 18 Romeyn de Hooghe 20 London 22 Wall Maps 28 Cloth Maps 32 The Other Side of the World 37 Naval Battles 39 Curiosity & Caricature maps 41 Games 45 General Selection 48 INTRODUCTION This year I will have been dealing in antique maps for twenty years. Having been introduced to the wonders of cartography by a friend, I have spent the past two decades improving my expertise and knowledge on the subject. It is always a thrill to find a map of particular importance or interest and I have been lucky enough to have come across several on my journey. Up until now I have never issued a printed catalogue as my web site is easily accessible, making it convenient to immediately see what I have in stock. However, I decided that a catalogue would be a fitting way to celebrate my twenty years in the business, and here it is. It is not a conventional catalogue, one organised geographically, but a personal selection of items I have in stock that I find exciting and that remind me why I chose to make antiquarian cartography such an important part of my life. Hopefully my passions have successfully transferred to the printed page: if it inspires anyone to look deeper into the subject my full web catalogue can be found at www.alteagallery.com Massimo De Martini 2 ALTEA GALLERY The ‘earliest systematic city atlas’ 1 BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans. Civitates Orbis Terrarum. Cologne: 1572-1618. Six volumes, folio, contemporary vellum with gilt titles on spine; containing 6 engraved title-pages and 363 double-page plates of maps and views. £150,000 A fine example of this monumental city atlas, produced as a companion to Ortelius’s ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum’ atlas, with text by Georg Braun and plates engraved by Frans Hogenberg and others. The first volume was originally published in 1572, but these are a later printing, making a uniform set with the last volume, the sixth, which first appeared in 1617. The 363 plates are an impressive record of the notable towns of the period, mostly in Europe but also some in Asia and Africa, and even two in the New World, Mexico City and Cusco. The inclusion of dress and events in the foreground add extra local detail. KOEMAN: Vol 2, p 10: ‘the earliest systematic city atlas’; TOOLEY: ‘one of the great books of the World... a wonderful compendium of knowledge of life in Europe in the sixteenth century’. S/N: 13029 WWW.ALTEAGALLERY.COM ALTEA GALLERY 3 See also items 33 & 94 TEL: +44 (0)20 7491 0010 4 ALTEA GALLERY THREE ORTELIUS ATLASES Abraham Ortelius is one of the best-known names in early map-making, and his world atlas, the ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum’, is a landmark publication, regarded as the first atlas in the modern sense of the word. The style he developed was the template for atlas production for several centuries. Here are three atlases in different formats: a ‘Theatrum’, an ‘Additamentum’, a collection of new maps, and a ‘Parergon’, his atlas of the ancient world. Ortelius’s Theatrum in a fine binding 2 ORTELIUS, Abraham. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum... Antwerp: Gillis van den Rade, 1575, Latin text edition. Folio, rebound in contemporary blind-stamped calf gilt; pp. (xix), 70 maps in fine colour with gold highlights.+ (92) (Synonymia & Index) + (6) (De Mona Druidum Insula...) + (2) (Privilege & Colophon). £80,000 An early example of the world’s first regularly-produced atlas, with uniform maps and text designed to be bound, published only five years after the first edition. In that time the number of maps had increased from 53 to 70 and the text had been enlarged with the inclusion of the ‘Synonymia Locorum’ and ‘De Mona druidum Insula’ (Welshman Humphrey Llwyd’s letter to Ortelius about the druids of Anglesey). Originally this example must have been a large-paper example, which someone put to use with extensive old ink marginalia (Italian-language geographical notes) on some maps, particularly the East Indies. When the atlas was rebound in a standard-sized binding great care was taken to preserve the writing, so the edges of some maps are folded in. VAN DEN BROECKE: p.25, estimating 100 copies printed; KOEMAN: Ort 13. S/N: 12866 WWW.ALTEAGALLERY.COM ALTEA GALLERY 5 The rare fourth Additamentum, with the first regular appearances of the maps of Iceland and the Pacific 3 ORTELIUS, Abraham. Additamentum IV Theatri Orbis Terrarum. Antwerp: Officina Plantiana, 1590. Folio, contemporary gilt-tooled calf. Letterpress title page and 22 maps with text on reverse, without pagination, as called for. Two old ink mss. ownership inscription on titlepage. £32,000 A fine example of the fourth Additamentum atlas by Ortelius, containing the twenty-two maps engraved since the 1587 edition of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, arranged in alphabetical order. As the volume was meant to compliment this earlier edition, not many copies were printed: van den Broecke estimates only 100 were printed, of which he could trace 50 existing examples. Of these new maps eight are ‘modern’ and fourteen are maps for the Parergon, Ortelius’s atlas of the ancient world. The ancient maps include the ‘Wanderings of Abraham’, surrounded by 22 roundel scenes; the world as known by the ancients; and a two-sheet map of ancient Britain with a huge vignette sea-battle. The ‘modern’ maps include two of the most popular maps by Ortelius, the superb ‘Maris Pacifici’, the first map of the Pacific Ocean, and ‘Islandia’, showing Iceland surrounded by sea-monsters. The front board has the stamped coat-of-arms of David von Spaur, provost of Bressanone, who also added his signature to the bottom of the title page. KOEMAN: Ort 25; VAN DEN BROECKE: p. 25. S/N: 12947 Ortelius’s atlas of the Ancient World 4 ORTELIUS, Abraham. Theatri Orbis Terrarum Parergon; sive sive Veteris Geographiæ Aliquot Tabulæ, Commentarijs Geographicis et Histroricis illustratæ. Editio Novissima, Tabulis aliquot acuta, et varie emendata atque innovata, Cura et Studio Balthasaris Moreti. [with] Nomenclator Ptolemaicus... Antwerp, Officiana Plantiniana, 1624. Two books in one. Folio, modern vellum over limp boards; engraved title, arms of Philip IV of Spain, dedication; pp. (iv) + xlix (sheets) containing 36 maps on 39 double-page sheets, 3 double-page views, 1 costume plate on two double-pages, as called; pp. 34 (Nomenclator); woodcut printer’s colophon. £19,500 The last and largest edition of the Parergon, Ortelius’s personal project, with new maps of the Eastern and Western parts of the Ancient World, surrounded by text; and the four-sheet Peutinger Table. These were added to other maps with both classical and biblical themes, including the wanderings of Odysseus, Abraham and Paul the Apostle. Unlike the maps in the ‘Theatrum’, Ortelius drew these himself. The first to appear were published in an Additamentum to the Theatrum in 1579, but as more were completed the Parergon became an atlas in its own right. S/N: 13026 TEL: +44 (0)20 7491 0010 6 ALTEA GALLERY DE BRY’S AMERICAN VOYAGES Theodor De Bry’s collection of Great Travels contains important first-hand accounts of attempts to settle North America, including the English colony at Roanoke and the French in Florida. Among the illustrations are John Smith’s drawings of Virginia and Jacques Le Moyne’s of Florida, the first realistic representations of the Americas available to Europeans. Here we have a volume containing approximately the first half of the Voyages, and two of the most significant maps from the series. The Great or American Voyages 5 DE BRY, Theodore et al. Frankfurt: 1594-1617. Parts I-VI only (of 13) in one volume. Latin text. Folio (335 x 235 mm), 17th century vellum over pasteboard, the flat spine with small panel outlined in gilt with rolls, titled in gilt within the panel. Various neat repairs, part VI lacking 2nd section (from page 108 including 2nd frontis. and 28 plates), binding with neat repairs to spine and the board edges, endpapers replaced. £120,000 Containing: IV. [Girolamo Benzoni’s History of the New World.] Americae I. [Thomas Hariot’s Virginia.] Admiranda narratio fida tamen, de pars quarta sive, insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primum commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginiae ..