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Paris, 1748. Copper engraving, 21.5 x 28.5 cms, original hand-colour in outline, blank verso. Map

Paris, 1873. French naval chart, sheet 3273, sheet size 105.5 x 72 cm, engraved by Nyon, black and white, centrefold, one or two marginal nicks and tears, blank verso. This detailed chart of Grenada was derived from British Admiralty surveys. Map

Paris, 1873. French naval chart, sheet 3256, sheet size 72.5 x 105 cm, engraved by Delamare, black and white, with coastal profiles in the lower part of the chart, centrefold, one or two marginal nicks and tears, blank verso. This detailed chart of Isla Culebra (now an island-municipality of Puerto Rico) was derived from British Admiralty surveys. With no permmanent population for centuries, the island was settled by the Spanish in the 1880s, and ceded to the United States after the Spanish-American War. Map

Paris, 1873. French naval chart, sheet 3119, 50 x33 cm, black and white, blank verso. Chart of the island of Montserrat in the British West Indies, featuring coastal profiles dominated by the Soufrière Hills volcano, and an inset of Plymouth, the former capital of the island which was destroyed in the volcanic eruptions of the mid 1990s. Map

[Rio de Janeiro?],, c. 1893. Broadsheet publication, 31 x 46 cm, three maps on one sheet, printed in colours, old folds, one or two light spots and stains and some wear to folds, blank verso. The map may have been printed as a supplement for a local newspaper, but appears to have been sold separately (a price is printed, bottom left). The 'Revoltas da Armada', the Brazilian naval mutinies of 1893-1894, were linked with the Federalist Rebellion against the recently-formed First Brazilian Republic. With many of the Brazilian navy's most powerful vessels in the hands of the rebels, the government hastily improvised a 'cardboard fleet' (purchasing whatever warships it could on the open market). However, the government retained the support of the army, and was eventually able to crush the rebellion on sea and land. The foreign fleet - printed in black - were cruisers from Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Argentina, tasked with protecting the interests of their respective… Read More

Paris, c. 1760. Copper engraving, 21 x 30.5 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso. Map

Paris, c. 1758. Copper engraving, 21.5 x 31 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso. Map

Paris, 1780. Copper engraving, 46 x 35 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso; probably from Jean Françoise de la Harpe's ‘Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages’, an abridged octavo edition of Prevost. Map

London, c. 1851. Steel engraving, 26.5 x 33 cm, original outline colour, blank verso; engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘Illustrated Atlas’; black and white vignettes of Belise and Antigua Guatemala engraved by George Richard Manwaring after Henry Winkles. Map

New York, 1855. Steel engraving, 32 x 40 cm, original hand colour, light uniform browning, blank verso. One of the most detailed, mid-19th Century American atlas maps of Cuba and the region, set within Colton’s distinctive style of border, by one of the most active American map and atlas publishers of the period. From 1833 Colton established a successful business publishing guidebooks and railroad maps, and brought his two sons into the firm shortly before entering the atlas market in 1855. Map

London, 1887. Lithograph, 50 x 63 cms, original colour, blank verso; from the first trade edition of Stanford’s London Atlas. Edward Stanford (senior) acquired Arrowmsith's stock in 1874. His own version of the London Atlas, published in Jubilee year and dedicated to Queen Victoria, is considered to be his last significant work before his retirement. Later editions were revised in keeping with the latest information. The foundation map, FitzRoy’s detailed survey, was undertaken in 1833 on FitzRoy’s celebrated second voyage in HMS Beagle - when he was accompanied by Charles Darwin. Map

Amsterdam, c. 1680. Copper engraving, 37.5 x 49.5 cms, original hand-colour, blank verso. A late issue of Blaeu’s map, with full-body colour typical of the later seventeenth-century. Seventeenth and eighteenth century maps modelled on Raleigh’s discoveries typically show the ‘mythical’ Lake Parime, as here, with the mythical city of Manoa, or el Dorado, on its shores. Long assumed to be entirely fictitious, geologists have now discovered traces of a great extinct lake in Roraima, Brazil. Slowly draining away, it disappeared before it could be mapped by later explorers, but a substantial body of water may well have existed in Raleigh’s day. Map

Leipzig, 1777. Copper engraving, 32 x 48.5 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso; from a German text edition of William Robertson’s ‘History of America’. Map

Amsterdam, 1758. Copper engraving, 20.5 x 30 cm, original hand-colour, blank verso. The Caribbean island of St Lucia published in the Dutch edition of Prévost. Jacques Nicolas Bellin the elder (1703-1772) was first chief hydrographic engineer of the "Dépôt des cartes, plans et journaux du Ministère de la Marine," charged early in the reign of Louis XV with mapping the coasts of France first and then the rest of the world. He was also a member of the Royal Society of London. Bellin compiled the maps for Prévost's Histoire Générale des Voyages, and he later reworked them for his Petit Atlas Francaise and his Petit Atlas Maritime. Map

Paris, 1719. Copper engraving, 17 x 22 cm, original hand colour in outline, slight spotting to right of cartouche, blank verso. Published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et historique ...’. Map of South America featuring figures in indigenous costume and a vignette of a sea battle between a European galleon and local craft. Text at the foot of the map describes Magellan's discovery of the Magellan Straits in 1520. Chiquet (1673-1721) was a relatively successful Parisian engraver, print and mapseller. He published Antoine Menard’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas’ in 1711, and reprinted it with Menard’s name burnished from the plate and replaced with his own and a new date, 1719, as here. Map

London, 1758. Copper engraving, 12.5 x 18. 5cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso. Martinique was captured by the british during the Seven Years’ War, but returned to France in 1763. Map

London, 1778. Copper engraving, 24.5 x 20 cm, modern hand colour, lower margin trimmed affecting neatline, blank verso. Published in 'The Gentleman's Magazine' after the French recaptured the island during the Anglo-French War of 1778-83, which the French entered as allies of the United States. Map

London, 1748. Copper engraving, 20 x 11.5 cms, probably engraved by Kitchin, recent hand-colour, blank verso; from the June 1748 edition of the London Magazine, illustrating Admiral Sir Charles Knowles’ successful attack on Fort Saint Louis de Sud during the War of the Austrian Succession (King George’s War). Map

Paris, 1872. French naval chart, sheet 3068, sheet size 36 x 53 cm, engraved by Régnier, black and white, blank verso. The anchorage at San Juan Bautista, located on Cumberland Bay, Robinson Crusoe Island; the main settlement in the Juan Fernández Islands off the coast of Chile. Map

London,, 1873. Engraved chart, 102 x 68.5 cms, engraved by Davies and Company after H. Sharbau, black and white, centrefold, margins a little dusty and with a couple of creases at corners, blank verso; lighthouses/beacons highlighted in colour, shows sands and soundings etc, with interior detail of relief, roads and settlements. Surveyed by Staff Commander J Parsons in 1869, assisted by Navigating Lieutenants H R Harvey and G Staines, this appears to be the first published edition with no revisions or corrections. Later editions saw the addition of two coastal profiles at the foot of the chart. Map