Cartography, atlasesThere are 20 items
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Breve compendio dal Theatro Orteliano. Contenendo la delineatione de tutti li Regioni principali, del Mondo, stampate in tauole piccole, & Illustrate con breui declarationi. La postrema editione in molti luoghi emendata & con alcune tauole nuoue augmentata [translated by Giovanni Paulet]
Antwerp, Johann Baptist Vrients, 1502 (i.e. 1602)A “pocket edition” of Ortelius’ Theatrum with maps engraved in the studio of Philip Galle and a text translated from Latin into Italian by Giovanni Paulet d’Anversa. The first owner of this copy was the scientist Federico Cesi, founder in 1603 of the Accademia dei Lincei, the forerunner of all European scientific societies. On its covers appears Cesi’s gilt-stamped heraldic insignia and on its title-page (and once elsewhere) is his emblematic ink stamp. The volume is cited in a manuscript catalogue of Cesi’s library compiled for his widow, Isabella Salviati, and afterwards utilised (with valuations added by the bookseller Hermann Scheus) for the sale of the library, concluded on 23 January 1633, to Cassiano dal Pozzo. Dal Pozzo acquired most, but not all the books in Cesi’s library: about twenty were reserved for Cardinal Francesco Barberini (six of these survive in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana), and others were retained by Isabella Salviati in the Palazzo Cesi di Via della Maschera d’Oro. Our atlas was one of the books retained by Isabella Salviati. After Isabella’s death (circa 1642), her daughter Olimpia inherited about 175 books. Since our atlas was not among these, it presumably already had left Cesi family ownership. -
A survey of Kilkea one of the Manors of the Right Hon.ble James Earl of Kildare by J. Rocque 1760
Dublin, 1760Album of drawings, comprising frontispiece and 33 sheets, executed in pencil, ink, and wash, the frontispiece a fine architectural capriccio signed lower left by Hugh Douglas Hamilton, the plans (numbered 1-33) have their titles inscribed within decorative cartouches, of which six (see below) incorporate local views (three of these signed by Matthew Wren, the others unsigned and here attributed to Hamilton), sheet dimensions 530 × 740 mm.This atlas of manuscript plans (frontispiece and thirty-three drawings in pencil, ink, and wash) is one of a set of eight oblong folio volumes comprising a complete survey of the estates in County Kildare, Ireland, of James FitzGerald (1722-1773), 20th Earl of Kildare and 1st Duke of Leinster. The eight volumes came to light in November 1963, when the set was offered for sale as separate lots in a Sotheby’s auction. The atlases of the manors of manors of Athy (1756) and Kildare (1757) afterwards migrated into the Library of Trinity College Dublin; Castledermot (1758) into the National Library of Ireland; Woodstock (1756) into the British Library; Maynooth (1757) into Cambridge University Library; and Graney (1758) into the British Art Center of Yale University. Until recently, the atlas of the manor of Kilkea (1760) here offered for sale could not be located; the atlas of the manor of Rathangan (1760) is still lost.
The identities of the draughtsmen who collaborated to produce the eight volumes of the Kildare estate survey are not all known. In the entire set of 170 plans, only one frontispiece and three cartouches are signed. That signed frontispiece is a virtuoso drawing by Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1740-1808), who went on to become ‘one of the finest painters ever to come out of Ireland’ (Crookshank & Glin). Hamilton’s “little masterpiece” occurs in the atlas of the manor of Kilkea, here offered for sale. The three signed cartouches also appear in the Kilkea atlas. They contain views of local houses and landscape and were drawn by an Irish surveyor, Matthew Wren. The unsigned map decoration in the Kilkea atlas is here divided between Hamilton (twenty-seven sheets) and Wren (three sheets).
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Le Piante di Roma
Rome, Istituto di Studi Romani, 1962Three volumes (38 cm), I (Testo): 358 pp. Errata sheet loosely inserted (Errata-Corrige for vols. I-III). II (Tavole dal secolo III d. C. all’anno 1625): 322 leaves of plates. III (Tavole dall’anno 1630 all’anno 1962): [361] leaves of plates (some in colour, some folding). Uniform publisher’s cloth, original slipcase. - The first volume describes 245 plans of Rome, with locations of impressions; the other two volumes illustrate the plans on 684 plates. The plans range in date from the reign of Septimius Severus to the years 1961-1962, from which come a tram and bus map of Rome and the Campagna. The most interesting maps are those produced between Bufalini’s woodcut plan (1551) and Nolli’s cartographic masterpiece of 1748, and most of these are reproduced in large scale on folding plates. ¶ Few insignificant marks on covers; otherwise a faultless copy, the heavy volumes in pristine state of preservation. -
Catalogue of the celebrated collection, the property of C.E. Kenney, F.B.A., F.R.I.C.S. (parts 2-8 only, lacking part 1)
London, Sotheby & Co., 1965-1968Seven volumes (24.5 cm), as issued, in the publisher’s printed wrappers. - An incomplete set of the illustrated catalogues, lacking “The first portion” (sold on 10-11 May 1965). Sotheby’s had previously sold books from Kenney’s library, on 28 June 1954 (including the collector’s 1543 Copernicus, now lost; Owen Gingerich, An Annotated Census of Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus, Leiden 2002, p.318 no.I.241), and (anonymously) on 13 April and 2 November 1964. ¶ Good, unmarked copies. -
Atlantes neerlandici : Bibliography of terrestrial, maritime, and celestial atlases and pilot books, published in the Netherlands up to 1880 § Supplement to Volumes I-V and a Bibliography of geographical, celestial and thematic atlases published in the Netherlands between 1880 and 1940, compiled by C. Koeman & H.J.A. Homan
Amsterdam / Alphen aan den Rijn, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (vol. VI: Canaletto), 1967-1985Six volumes (32 cm), I (Atlases, Van de Aa-Blaeu, 1967): xxx, 377 pp. II (Atlases, Blussé-Mercator, 1969): xxxvi, 549 pp. III (Atlases, Merula-Zeegers, 1969): xxvi, 220 pp. IV (Celestial and maritime atlases and pilot books, 1970): xlvi, 519 pp. V (Indexes, 1971): 287 pp. VI (Supplement and bibliography of geographical, celestial and thematic atlases published in the Netherlands between 1880 and 1940, 1985): 249 pp. Uniform publisher’s blue cloth (no dust jackets issued). - A monumental work describing more than 1000 atlases published in the northern and southern provinces of the Low Countries. A revised edition by Peter van der Krogt has been in course of publication since 1997; at time of writing (October 2016), nine volumes have appeared, and the original work continues to be the essential carto-bibliographical research tool for most Dutch land atlases of the modern period (c. 1690-1940) and for all celestial and maritime atlases. For many it will remain the preferred tool, given the high cost of the revised edition (publisher’s retail price for Parts I-IVa is €7335; ISBN 9789061942481; www.brill.com; link). ¶ Fine, unmarked set. -
Willem Jansz. Blaeu : a biography and history of his work as a cartographer and publisher… Revised and edited by Marijke Donkersloot-De Vrij
Amsterdam, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd, 1973(23 cm), xi, 164 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s boards, dust jacket. - The life and work of the foremost Dutch cartographer and publisher of the 17th century. With a list of non-cartographical works issued by W.J. Blaeu (1571-1638), a description of his globes, a bibliography of his maps, and a facsimile of his own catalogue of non-cartographical works of 1633. ¶ Excellent copy. -
Catalogue of the Earl of Crawford’s "Speculum Romanae magnificentiae" now in the Avery Architectural Library
New York, Avery Architectural Library, 1975(23 cm), v (3), 75 (1) pp. 610 catalogue entries. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - The Avery Library’s copy of Lafréry’s “Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae” was purchased from H.P. Kraus in 1950. It had been concocted by James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847-1913), from multiple copies, and contains many extraneous prints. Appended are concordances to the Kraus sale catalogue (c. 1950) and to Christian Huelsen’s checklist (in Collectanea variae doctrinae Leoni S. Olschki, Munich 1921), and an index of proper names. ¶ Good copy.Offered with Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae. Sonderdruck aus unserem Auktionskatalog (catalogue for Auktion 83, conducted by Reiss & Sohn, Königstein im Taunus, 24-27 April 2002). Königstein: Reiss & Sohn, 2002. (23 cm), (4) pp., pp.403-430, lots numbered 3305-3427, illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Two collections of prints association with Lafréry’s “Speculum”: “the first a collection of single prints collected one by one over the last forty years of the 20th century”, “the second compiled around 1595 and bound together” in 19th-century half-calf (title and 149 prints). ¶ Good copy.
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Five centuries of map printing (The Kenneth J. Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography at the Newbery Library, 3)
Chicago & London, University of Chicago Press, 1975(29 cm), xi, 177 pp., 59 illustrations (some in colour). Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - A collection of six essays by the editor and by Arthur H. Robinson, Coolie Verner, Walter W. Ristow, Elizabeth M. Harris, and C. Koeman, examining the changing technology of map printing (woodcut, copperplate engraving, lithography) and the changing relationship between the map printer and the cartographer since the 15th century. ¶ Fine copy. -
L'image de Paris au XVIe siècle (catalogue for an exhibition organised by the Mairie de Paris at the Hôtel de Ville de Paris, 16 December 1980-15 January 1981)
Paris, Mairie de Paris, 1980(21 cm), 35 (1) pp., illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Exhibition organised to coincide with the publication of a facsimile reprint of the woodcut map of Paris by Olivier Truschet and Germain Hoyau, known as the “Plan de Bâle” on account of its survival in a unique impression in Basel University Library. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
Das Bild der Erde : Kontinente, Länder und Städte in der italienischen Kartographie des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts (catalogue accompanying an exhibition)
Cologne, Italienisches Kulturinstitut, 1983(20 cm), [41] pp., illustrations. 146 catalogue entries. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - An exhibition of Italian maps and atlases, succinctly described, and well-indexed. ¶ Slight shelf wear; otherwise a fine, unmarked copy. -
The mapping of the world. Early printed world maps 1472-1700 (Holland Press Cartographica, 9)
London, Holland Press, 1984(35 cm), xlvi, 669 pp., illustrations (some in colour). Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - Second printing (distributed without the slipcase which housed the 1983 first printing). ¶ Fine copy. -
The Earliest printed maps 1472-1500
London, British Library, 1987(26 cm), xi, 244 pp., colour frontispiece, 68 illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - Describes 222 maps, for the most part found in books or atlases, of which 70% were printed in Italy. The earliest is a schematic world map published in Günther Zainer’s edition of the Etymologiae of Isidorus Hispalensis at Augsburg in 1472; the Geography of Ptolemy, represented here by four different editions, counts for more than 100 maps. “Campbell’s work can reasonably be described as the last word on the question of the first printed maps, in the light of present knowledge” (from a review by Mireille Pastoureau, in The Book Collector, Autumn 1989, pp.414-416). ¶ Superior copy in new condition. -
Military architecture, cartography and the representation of the early modern European city : a checklist of treatises on fortification in the Newberry Library
Chicago, Newberry Library, 1991(26 cm), xxxvi, 119 (1) pp., illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Catalogue of 73 books on military architecture held by the Newberry Library, with locations of other copies, biographical information about the authors and brief descriptions of the books. In the introduction, the author traces the evolution of military architects from aesthetic humanists to scientific surveyors, and also the change of audience for their treatises, from patrons to student military engineers. Reviewed by Charles van den Heuvel, in Quaerendo, volume 23 (1993), pp.138-140. ¶ Light shelf wear; otherwise a very good, unmarked copy. -
Military architecture, cartography and the representation of the early modern European city : a checklist of treatises on fortification in the Newberry Library
Chicago, Newberry Library, 1991(26 cm), xxxvi, 119 (1) pp., illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Catalogue of 73 books on military architecture held by the Newberry Library, with locations of other copies, biographical information about the authors and brief descriptions of the books. In the introduction, the author traces the evolution of military architects from aesthetic humanists to scientific surveyors, and also the change of audience for their treatises, from patrons to student military engineers. Reviewed by Charles van den Heuvel, in Quaerendo, volume 23 (1993), pp.138-140. ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy. -
L'Italia nelle vedute e carte geografiche dal 1493 al 1894: libri di viaggi e atlanti : catalogo bibliografico di una collezione privata
Modena, Franco Cosimo Panini Editore S.p.A., 1991-2014Two volumes (31 cm), 526 pp. (consecutively paginated), illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, printed dust jackets. ¶ Fine copies, as new. -
Catalogue of watermarks in Italian printed maps ca. 1540-1600 (Biblioteca di bibliografia Italiana, 141)
Florence, Leo S. Olschki, 1996(25 cm), 204 pp., 335 illustrations. Publisher’s laminated pictorial boards. - An invaluable tool for dating the paper on which maps, prints, and books were printed. Presents over three-hundred photographic images of watermarks, selected from some 1200 beta-radiographs of watermarks gathered by the author from maps issued mostly in composite atlases printed in Venice and Rome between 1540 and 1600. Graphic Index (pp.195-204). ¶ Fine, unmarked copy. -
La laguna di Venezia nella cartografia storica a stampa del Museo Correr
Venice, Musei civici Veneziani / Università IUAV / Marsilio, 2003(29 cm), xix, 137 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. ¶ As new. -
The Wardington Library: Important atlases & geographies. Part one, A-K § Important atlases & geographies: part two, L-Z § Bibles, property from the late Lord Wardington and the Pease family § Incunabula and the Wardington Hours (catalogues for auctions conducted by Sotheby's, London, 2005-2006)
London, Sotheby's, 2005-2006Four volumes (27.5 cm), I (18 October 2005): 344 (4) pp., illustrations. Lots numbered 1-244. II (10 October 2006): 368 pp., illustrations. Lots numbered 245-562. III (12 July 2006): 282 pp., illustrations. 257 lots. IV (5 December 2006): 124 (4) pp., illustrations. 43 lots. Publisher’s printed cloth. - The Bibles and incunabula had been collected by John William Beaumont Pease (1869-1950), created Baron Wardington in 1936; the atlases by his son, “Bic”, the second Baron, who bought his first rare book in 1955 (obituary of the collector by Stephen C. Massey, in The Book Collector, Autumn 2005, pp.456-459). ¶ Very good, unmarked copies. -
Important books, atlases and manuscripts : the private library of Kenneth Nebenzahl (catalogue for an auction conducted by Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc., New York, 10 April 2012)
New York, Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc., 2012(27 cm), 219 (1) pp. (some folded), illustrations (most in colour). 165 lots. Publisher’s red cloth boards, pictorial dust jacket. ¶ Occasional pencil annotation. -
Rare maps from Kenneth Nebenzahl, Inc. : including an important pair of Cary globes (catalogue for an auction conducted by Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc., New York, 1 April 2014)
New York, Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc., 2014(27 cm), 104 pp., illustrations (most in colour). 180 lots. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. ¶ Unmarked copy.
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