CATALOGUE XVI SINGLE OWNER COLLECTION OF THE BRITISH ISLES CLIVE A. BURDEN LTD Christopher & John Greenwood. (Item 139) CATALOGUE XVI A SINGLE OWNER COLLECTION Item 76. Terms & Conditions All items are original maps or books printed at the time indicated. If an item is coloured the following terms are used. Early colour means an item was coloured at or near the time of publication. Modern colour refers to an item coloured within the last few decades. All measurements are given in centimetres, height by width. The condition of each item is described noting serious flaws. If a buyer is not satisfied for any reason they may return the item for a full refund of the purchase price, provided it is sent back within seven days of receipt at the expense of the buyer, properly wrapped in the condition and manner in which it was received and fully insured. All items are offered subject to prior sale and remain the property of Clive A. Burden Ltd. until payment has been received in full. 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P O Box 863 Chalfont St. Giles Bucks HP8 4AW UK Tel. +44 (0)1494 763313 Tel. +1 (757) 634 3813 Skype: philipburden www.caburden.com [email protected] Front cover illustration: John Cary (Item 17 detail) Back cover illustration: Christopher Greenwood (Item 131) Photography edited by Julia Burden Layout by Stephanie and Samantha Burden ©, 2020 Terms & Conditions ENGLISH COUNTY ATLASES All items are original maps or books printed at the time indicated. 1 - AA, Pierre van der. Vues des Villes, Edifices & autres choses remarquables de la Grand’ Bretagne & d’Irlande, Representees en tailles-douces tres exactes, avec une courte Description sous chaque If an item is coloured the following terms are used. Early colour means an item was coloured at or near the time of figure. c.1730. Leiden. Oblong quarto (190 x 240 mm.), full contemporary calf, joint to upper board weak, spine with publication. Modern colour refers to an item coloured within the last few decades. All measurements are given in raised bands, ornate gilt decorated compartments, gilt title and volume number. With three half titles to each part, centimetres, height by width. The condition of each item is described noting serious flaws. part 4 contains 6 maps, 9 town plans and 39 plates; part 5 contains 2 maps and 34 plates; part 6 contains 8 maps, 4 plan and 16 plates, in total 114 plates consisting of 16 maps, 9 plans and 89 plates light water stain affecting about 6 If a buyer is not satisfied for any reason they may return the item for a full refund of the purchase price, provided it is plates, otherwise in good condition. sent back within seven days of receipt at the expense of the buyer, properly wrapped in the condition and manner in which it was received and fully insured. Pierre van der Aa (1659-1733) was born in Leiden, the son of a stone cut- ter or sculptor. By the time he was but nine years old he was already ap- All items are offered subject to prior sale and remain the property of Clive A. Burden Ltd. until payment has been prenticed to a bookseller. By 1682 he was the owner of a bookshop and received in full. Prices are net and exclude the cost of postage. auction. His output is so large that Koeman was sure that there were works yet to be identified. His printed catalogue of 1729 alludes to the All orders are sent by registered or recorded mail, by air to overseas customers, unless the customer requests a couri- fact that works could be made to order. er service at their own expense. Prices are quoted in £ sterling unless otherwise indicated and payment may be made with a personal cheque, banker’s draft or debit card. For credit card payments we require the name, number and ex- As with many of his published books the source of the plates contained piry date of the card, security code if required, a contact phone number and the full billing address of the card for within is various. This work appears to be on the British Isles and to con- shipping purposes. sist of 6 parts, the last three of which are present here. The 16 maps were those first published in Jan Jansson’s ‘Atlas Minor’ of 1648. Here the fundamental difference is the titles are now in French. The 9 plans were all first published in ‘Britannia Magna sive Anglia’ by Rutger Hermannides. The main dif- ference here is the addition of a key above and some additional toponyms on each plate. The 89 views, largely birds- eye images of country houses, are all from James Beeverall’s ‘Les Delices de la Grand Bretagne et L’Irlande’ first pub- lished in 1707 and expanded in 1727. Beyond this work we now very little about Beeverall. The illustrations are de- rived from Loggan, Kip, Slezer and others and are engraved by Jan Goeree (1670-1731). First published in 1707 this second edition is greatly expanded and updated. Despite many images being derived from earlier published works they are by no means slavish copies. Many bear additional decoration of features. Provenance: bookplate of Sir William Maxwell of Monreith pasted inside upper cover. Adams (1967) 20; Brunet (1860-80) 1735; Burden (1992) ‘Berkshire Town Plans’ pp. 10-11; Deadman & Brooks (2015) pp. 22 & 24; Frostick (2011) no. 15; Koeman (1967-70) I pp. 1-30, II Me 204; Lowndes (1864) 146; Upcott (1968) p. xxiv. [9775] - £1,000 2 - AIKIN, John. England Delineated; or, a Geographical Description of Every County in England and Wales: with a concise account of its most important products, natural and artificial. 1803. London. Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church-Yard. Octavo (195 x 120 mm.), full contemporary calf, rebacked with gilt ruled spine, gilt calf title label affixed. With typographic title page, pp. 396, (4), numbered to ‘x’ in roman, with 43 Clive A. Burden Ltd. copper plate maps consisting of England (folding), 40 county, North Wales and South Wales, in good condition. P O Box 863 Chalfont St. Giles Joseph Johnson (1738-1809) was originally from Liverpool. He was a bookseller and publisher who specialised in Bucks HP8 4AW medical works and was Joseph Priestley’s first publisher. This work was first issued in 1788 and only one example at UK Cambridge University Library is known to bear a series of maps. They are accepted to have been first published for the second edition of 1790. They are indeed not ‘called for’ until the third edition of Tel. +44 (0)1494 763313 1795 when first mentioned on the title page. A fourth edition was issued in 1800 fol- Tel. +1 (757) 634 3813 lowed by this fifth edition. Carroll states that Johnson was the engraver of the maps Skype: philipburden but does not identify the evidence for this. The maps are simple with no scale or com- www.caburden.com pass and are shown in basic outline. Features shown are rivers, market towns, bounda- [email protected] ries and neighbouring counties. The Preface by John Aikin (1747-1822) states that ‘the principal object of this work is to make my young countrymen better acquainted than Front cover illustration: John Cary (Item 17 detail) they are usually found to be with their native land’. Back cover illustration: Christopher Greenwood (Item 131) Aikin was born at Kibworth, Leicestershire, and following an apprenticeship with an apothecary in Uppingham then a surgeon. He studied medicine at Edinburgh and Ley- Photography edited by Julia Burden den. He pursued his practice in Great Yarmouth and London before suffering a stroke. Layout by Stephanie and Samantha Burden As a bit of a dissenter he settled in Manchester and took up writing and befriended Joseph Priestley and Thomas Pennant. He has the distinction of being named in Karl ©, 2020 Marx’s ‘Das Kapital’; ‘What would the good Dr. Aikin say if he could rise from his grave and see the Manchester of today’. Provenance: ownership inscription of ‘Isabella Hunter’ on title page; private Eng- lish collection. Carroll (1996) 48; Chubb (1927) 289; refer Shirley (2004) T.Aik 1a. [9920] - £195 3 - ARMSTRONG, Mostyn John. An Actual Survey of the Great Post-Roads between London and Ed- inburgh. 1st of August 1776. London. Octavo (190 x 120 mm.), contemporary half calf, marbled paper boards, spine with raised bands, blind ruled, with gilt red calf title, worn. With engraved title, pp. 7, (1), 44, (1), with general plan and 44 maps, in early outline colour, in good condition. Mostyn John Armstrong (fl.1769-91) was the son of Andrew Armstrong, both were cartographers although only the son published any atlas. Their focus was on Scottish related material with the notable exception of three large-scale county maps of Cam- bridgeshire, Lincolnshire and Norfolk. This is the second edition of this work, the date on the title page is altered to 1 August 1776, from 1 June, matching that of the dedication to Thomas Pennant on the following page.