Jonathan Potter Limited Jonathan Potter Limited A Selection Of Stock And Some Recent Acquisitions A very busy year has made production of this catalogue particularly difficult as we have simply been otherwise occupied, but we hope our clients have enjoyed our recent newsletters Encompass, our revitalised website www.jpmaps.co.uk, and our latest gallery exhibits. Nevertheless, we are always pleased to produce a printed catalogue which has some interesting and rare material to offer ranging in age from Heinrich Schedel‟s 500 year-old spectacular woodblock panoramas of Central European cities to just over 100 year-old accounts of the Boer War, in price from below one hundred to many thousands of pounds, and in size from Reuben Ramble‟s charming English county miniatures to multi-sheet wall-maps. Within the catalogue are maps, plans and charts, many of them notably fine, decorative or rare, and varying in appearance from the extraordinary to the mundane but, nevertheless, interesting. In closing, may we take this opportunity to wish all our friends in the map collecting world happy holidays and a great 2008. Jonathan Potter. Contents World 1-10 Europe 11-57 Russia 58-62 Africa 63-74 Asia & The Middle East 75-86 Jerusalem & The Holy Land 87-93 The Far East 94-114 Charts & Voyages 115-118 Australasia & The Antarctic 119-126 The Americas 127-128 North America 129-160 The West Indies & South America 161-175 England & The British Isles 176-193 Reuben Rambles 194-222 London 223-231 Ireland 238-237 Scotland 238-240 Welsh Counties 241-248 Page | 1 Jonathan Potter Limited World Maps 1) Die Weltkarten Waldseemullers (Ilacomilus) 1507 & 1516 M.Waldseemuller / J.Fischer & F.V.Wieser Insbruck, 1903 Lithograph. Uncoloured Folio 54 x 65cms, £1,950 “Herewith two old cartographic works which have long been sought for in vain and which are of monumental importance for the history of cartography and the era of discoveries are given over to publicity; the two large maps of Waldseemuller of the years 1507 and 1516”. Thus begins the preface to this historic publication - the first broadcasting of the existence, with full-size facsimiles, of the ten million dollar map recently acquired by the Library of Congress. This is a fascinating and scarce work, with analysis and description of the 3) Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac circumstances of these maps‟ finding by Professors Hydrographica Tabula Fischer and Weiser. The maps are reproduced at full size; J.Colom / H.Allard / H.Doncker “Universalis Cosmographia Secundum Ptholomaei ...” of Amsterdam, c. 1650 -c.1690 1507 at 2.28 x 1.24m and the “Carta Marina ...” of 1516 Copperplate. Original colour at 2.32 x 1.26m. At the time of reproduction, the maps 53 x 38.5cms, were in the possession of Prince Waldburg-Wolfegg at the £8,200 castle of Wolfegg in Wurttemberg. Here the maps are A particularly attractive example of a rare double presented laid on canvas, as issued, folding and held hemisphere world map in typically elegant Dutch style. loose in a portfolio, accompanied by the text volume, in Engraved by Jacob Colom, one of the first Dutch German and English, “The Oldest Map With The Name publishers to produce a world atlas of sea-charts, the America Of The Year 1507 And The Carta Marina Of The design copies, in general, that of Henricus Hondius‟ Year 1516 By M.Waldseemuller (Ilacomilus) Edited With famous world map of 1630 with portraits of Caesar and The Assistance Of The Imperial Academy Of Sciences At Ptolemy, but has Brahe and Copernicus replacing the Vienna”. The Academy sponsored the publication, original Mercator and Hondius images. The engraver also distributed in the English-speaking world by Henry copies, as did many others in creating map imagery, the Stevens, Son & Stiles of London. Original portfolio with vignettes of the four elements; air, fire, earth and water. replaced spine, maps clean but canvas a little grubby, but However, the central decoration is new with a celestial a wonderful chance to acquire the earliest available zodiac shown above a scene of geography scholars edition of two fantastic maps. (32294). studying instruments, topped with an illuminated column - alluding to the map‟s author. Geographically, the map 2) Typus Orbis Terrarum displays features typical of the period with the island A.Ortelius California, parts of north Australia and its western Antwerp, 1570 -1572/3 coastlines, and the vague remnants of a Great Southern Copperplate. Coloured Continent. The copperplate for this map was used by a 49 x 33.5cms, number of publishers including Hendrik Doncker and, as £5,800 here, Hugo Allard - an issue not recorded by Shirley, but An attractive example of this famous world map from the no issue is easily found. Fine original colour complements “first modern atlas”. Abraham Ortelius is one of modern this delicate engraving with just minor surface defects. cartography‟s founding figures - being responsible for the (30453). production of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, regarded as Shirley, Mapping Of The World, 381. the first modern atlas. This is the first plate of three to be used in the 40-odd editions of the atlas and has the 4) Planisphere Ou Carte Generale Du Monde ... signature of the engraver, Frans Hogenberg, below the P.Du Val / La Veuve Du Val quotation from Cicero set into the border of clouds. The Paris, 1684 map copies much of its detail from Gerard Mercator‟s Copperplate. Original o/l colour great map of 1569 and provides a clear picture of current 57.5 x 33cms, geographical knowledge. Features include a vast “Terra £2,800 Australis”, the potato-shaped outline for South America, a A scarce and unusual map produced by one of the few relatively accurate North America and an almost circular females to be involved in the largely male dominated Japan. The copperplate from which the map was printed world of map-making. Shirley describes this double has a curious history, sustaining a crack at lower left hemisphere as a close re-engraving of Pierre Du Val‟s first which subsequently needed repair. This printing shows world map of 1666, issued by one of his two daughters, in the crack in its earliest stages, just appearing at the edge 1684, however this example has the imprint of “La Veuve of the engraving and before remedial action was required. Du Val”. The map shows California as an island and has a A good early example of one of the iconic maps of distinctive, if rough outline for Australia. Each side cartographic history. (31928). margin restored but no printed detail missing. An Shirley, Mapping Of The World, 122, Plate 1. apparently unrecorded variant. (31127). cf. Shirley, Mapping Of The World, 522. Page | 2 Jonathan Potter Limited 5) A New Map Of The World ... Wright's Alias Described. At the lower right on the engraved map, Moll Mercator's Projection advertises his 26-map atlas but this example, which H.Moll appears to predate any others we can find, with only London, 1706 -c.1740 Moll‟s imprint, has an interesting additional advertisement Copperplate. Coloured pasted over the second title in a panel at lower centre. A 93 x 57cms, responsible geographer (despite his adherence to the £2,800 notion of California as an island), Moll has inserted up-to- A large and clearly engraved world map on Mercator‟s date thematic observations within the map, including projection originally prepared for the early editions of detail of the prevailing winds over the oceans, and Harris‟ ... Complete Collection Of Voyages ... and here Edmund Halley‟s observations on the variation of the published by the chartmakers Richard Mount and Thomas Compass in the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean. The Page. Herman Moll was probably the most active map map contains, in his characteristic style, an acerbic note engraver in London around this time and his map on Moses Pitt‟s „English Atlas‟, with the interesting auto- combines navigating features such as arrows and shading biographical comment that he was directed by Prince indicating “The Course Of Those General And Coasting Rupert to draw “several new Draughts” for that atlas. Trade Winds” with contemporary geographical perceptions The large and dramatic title-piece at top left incorporates - California is shown as an island, the mythical “River figures from each continent along with mythical and Longue” reaches from the upper Mississippi nearly to the biblical characters. Despite one tear (in the lower part of Pacific and Korea is shown in an ambiguous outline the South Atlantic), this is the finest example of this betraying uncertainty as to its status as peninsula or enormous map we have ever seen, clean, with large island. An inset projection in the North Pacific region margins and none of the wear normally associated with shows the North Pole while the Australian and New such large items. (32140). See inside front cover Zealand coastlines await Cook‟s discoveries later in the illustration. century. With a little wear at old folds, this is a decorative and attractive early eighteenth century map, 8) A New Map Of The Whole World With The Trade delicately engraved. (30677). Winds ... H.Moll 6) Mappe-Monde Geo-Hydrographique, Ou London, 1729 -c.1755 Description Generale Du Globe Copperplate. Original o/l colour J.Covens & C.Mortier 26 x 20cms, Amsterdam, c. 1711 - £850 Copperplate. Original colour An attractive double hemisphere world map from Herman 96 x 57cms, Moll‟s most popular series of maps, here, as issued in the £5,000 Atlas Minor and also used, on inferior paper, for a variety A fascinating and scarce double-hemisphere map of geography text books.