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Suitable for use in a large lecture hall; viewable to and beyond 40 feet. Language(s): German. Map is paper on muslin. Mounted on wood rods. Prime Meridian is Greenwich. Projection is not specified. Length of rolled wall map is 240 cm. Topics include: topography, hydrography, political boundaries, cities. Department of Geography, University of California at Berkeley, Call Number 220-A-4., Current editions available from http://www.klettmaps.com, UCBGEOG1, Current editions available from http://www.klettmaps.com UC Berkeley, Geography Department Call Number 220-A-4.

Map of Islamic countries, 945-1055. With 4 insets., 3rd. edition of Atlas for the history of the Middle Ages and modern times, edited by Dr Karl Spruner von Metz, Karl von Spruner, revised by Dr Heinrich Theodor Menke. Published by J. Perthes in Gotha. 1st. edition published 1846-51.  2nd. edition, 1854-55. 3rd. edition published 1880. Atlas contains 42 pages of text, 90 color in outline copper engraving double page historical and geographical maps, with 376 insets, dated 1871-1880. Maps have dual numbering, covering: Europe - Iberian Peninsula - Italy - Merovingians and Carolingians - Germany - France - British Isles - Scandinavia - Slavic empires - Hungary and Orient. Engraved by Hassenstein, Mayr, Breithaupt, Schaffer, Breithaupt, Hein, Carl Hellfarth, J. Caro, Koffmahn, C. Poppey, and Reichenbecher. Maps showing political and administrative boundaries, major cities, towns, rivers, canals, mountains, battle grounds, fortifications, and possessions of European in the area. Most maps include legend and color coded reference, abbreviations, and text. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Ferro and Greenwich. Bound in half leather cloth covered boards, with title in gilt “Spruner’s histor. Atlas. Mittelalters u. der neure Zeit”in front cover and spine.

Map of Islamic countries, 1055-1163. With 4 insets., 3rd. edition of Atlas for the history of the Middle Ages and modern times, edited by Dr Karl Spruner von Metz, Karl von Spruner, revised by Dr Heinrich Theodor Menke. Published by J. Perthes in Gotha. 1st. edition published 1846-51.  2nd. edition, 1854-55. 3rd. edition published 1880. Atlas contains 42 pages of text, 90 color in outline copper engraving double page historical and geographical maps, with 376 insets, dated 1871-1880. Maps have dual numbering, covering: Europe - Iberian Peninsula - Italy - Merovingians and Carolingians - Germany - France - British Isles - Scandinavia - Slavic empires - Hungary and Orient. Engraved by Hassenstein, Mayr, Breithaupt, Schaffer, Breithaupt, Hein, Carl Hellfarth, J. Caro, Koffmahn, C. Poppey, and Reichenbecher. Maps showing political and administrative boundaries, major cities, towns, rivers, canals, mountains, battle grounds, fortifications, and possessions of European in the area. Most maps include legend and color coded reference, abbreviations, and text. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Ferro and Greenwich. Bound in half leather cloth covered boards, with title in gilt “Spruner’s histor. Atlas. Mittelalters u. der neure Zeit”in front cover and spine.

Map of Islamic countries, 750-945. With 3 insets., 3rd. edition of Atlas for the history of the Middle Ages and modern times, edited by Dr Karl Spruner von Metz, Karl von Spruner, revised by Dr Heinrich Theodor Menke. Published by J. Perthes in Gotha. 1st. edition published 1846-51.  2nd. edition, 1854-55. 3rd. edition published 1880. Atlas contains 42 pages of text, 90 color in outline copper engraving double page historical and geographical maps, with 376 insets, dated 1871-1880. Maps have dual numbering, covering: Europe - Iberian Peninsula - Italy - Merovingians and Carolingians - Germany - France - British Isles - Scandinavia - Slavic empires - Hungary and Orient. Engraved by Hassenstein, Mayr, Breithaupt, Schaffer, Breithaupt, Hein, Carl Hellfarth, J. Caro, Koffmahn, C. Poppey, and Reichenbecher. Maps showing political and administrative boundaries, major cities, towns, rivers, canals, mountains, battle grounds, fortifications, and possessions of European in the area. Most maps include legend and color coded reference, abbreviations, and text. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Ferro and Greenwich. Bound in half leather cloth covered boards, with title in gilt “Spruner’s histor. Atlas. Mittelalters u. der neure Zeit”in front cover and spine.

Outline hand colored map of Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Egypt. Shows political boundaries, Nile valley, major cities and towns. Relief shown by hachures., 2d edition, 1855. First published in 1850 as the first part of Spruner's historische-geographischer hand-atlas, issued in 3 parts, 1846-51. Title Page in Latin, half title page, inside front cover in German. Historical and geographical Atlas Antiquus includes table of contents on title pages, 6 pages of explanatory text, 1 page advertisement inside back cover, and 27 maps, engraved by C. Poppey, W. Behrens, Guil. Alt. W. Alt, Edler and C. Stier. Published by Justus Perthes in German or Latin. Outline hand colored maps, showing political and administrative divisions, major cities, towns, rivers, lakes and mountains. Bound in Green hard covers with title "Spruneri Atlas- Antiquus. XXVII Tab." on front cover in gilt. Karl Spruner von Merz, was a German cartographer and scholar. He spent most of his long life in military service. He is best known for his historical atlases. The first of these was his Historischer Atlas von Bayern (historical atlas of Bavaria), published in 1838. His greatest work was his Historisch-Geographischer Hand-Atlas, whose first edition appeared in parts from 1848 to 1853. Heinrich Theodor Menke made major contributions to its second and third editions., Tooleys dictionary of mapmakers, p. 199. Phillips, 151.

Outline hand color engraved map of Turkey in Asia. In upper right margin: "Atlas Universel Pl. 26.", Physical and political atlas of the world, by Adrien Hubert Brue, containing maps of ancient and modern geography. Published in Paris, by J. Goujon, Geographer-Editor. Unusual edition of Brue's Atlas, complete with its 36 maps on heavy paper, dated between 1762 and 1825 and supplementary 8 maps, in addition to the 36 plates. including: Comparative and figurative table of the height of the main mountains … 1829; La Palestine 1767; 3 plates from an atlas of Africa (nos. 1, 3 and 2); Plate no. 59 United States of Mexico, 1830, and plates nos. 64-65, South America, 1828-1830. Maps are engraved hand color in outline. Most maps double page, with title cartouche, some on multiple plates. Showing political and administrative boundaries, cities, towns, roads, exploration routes, rovers, canals and mountains. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Depth shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Ferro and Paris.

Hand colored outline map of Arabian Peninsula. Relief shown pictorially., First printed in Latin in Vicenza in 1475 without maps; the maps from engraved copperplates were first included in the Bologna, 1477 edition. This edition holds the distinction of being prepared by Gerhard Mercator. The maps were first printed, without the text of the Geographia, in Cologne, 1578. The version of the text of the Geographia is by Willibald Pirckheimer and was edited by Arnold Mylius. The maps were engraved on copperplates by Mercator himself, according to Shirley; each map contains explanations on the recto of the outer forms and sometimes on the verso, as well, regarding the corrections Mercator made in the accepted Ptolemaic types. Descriptive text appears on the recto of the outer form of the double maps and sometimes on the verso of the outer form of the double maps; the 27 full folio double maps and the 1 smaller double map of the Nile Delta are bound between leaf [5] verso and leaf [6] recto, which begins the index, and are either signed **² A-L ²L² M-N² chi² O-2C² or A-L² K² M² O² N² chi² ²O² P-2B² or A-L² K² M² O² chi² ²N-²O² P-2B², while the text of the annotations of each map have been mostly reset. No maps have American content but Shirley notes that Mercator's revision of the Ptolemaic mappamundi [1]. Vniversalis tabvla ivxta Ptolemaevm. In qua tres continentis partes, Europa, Africa, & Asia, quatenus ipsius tempore innotuerant, delineatae sunt was part of a grand scheme occupying nearly all of Mercator's life in his attempt to describe all of the ancient and modern world both geographically and historically. The mappamundi is framed by an ornate engraved border with the twelve named windheads; ornate engraved cartouches with mathematical details appear on each of the maps of Europe, Africa, and Asia. "Clavdii Ptolemaei Alexandrini, Geographicae enarrationis", p. 1-90 [i.e. 108], 2nd count, has separate caption title. "Index eorvm qvae in octo libris Ptolemaei, continentvr nvmervs nominibvs additvs paginam, a priorem, b posteriorem paginae colvmnam indicat, qvae nominibvs adduntur, ne eadem saepius repetantur, paucissimis literis compraehensa sunt: ... ", p. [1-30], 3rd count, has separate caption title. "Tabvlae geographicae Cl. Ptolemaei ad mentem avctoris restitvtae et emendatae, per Gerardvm Mercatorem illvstiss. dvcis Cliviae &c. cosmographvm", p. [33-40], 3rd count, has divisional title page and includes 28 double maps. "Indicem hvnc in tres classes distinxi, ivxta trimembrem continentis et tabvlarum divisionem ... ", p. [41-70], 3rd count, has separate caption title. Relief shown pictorially. Signatures: pi² (pi1 verso blank) A-L⁶ (H3 missigned H4) M⁴ (M4 blank) ⁴ ( 1 verso blank) a-b⁶ c⁴ (c4 blank). Includes indexes. Title page fully engraved with a globe showing Europe, Asia, and Africa; woodcut tail pieces; initials; includes one in text woodcut diagram on p. [39], 3rd count, and a full page woodcut diagram on p. [40], 3rd count. (Titles from the recto of outer forms or at head of map) [1]. Vniversalis tabvla ivxta Ptoemaevm. In qua tres continentis partes, Europa, Africa, & Asia, quatenus ipsius tempore innotuerant, delineatae sunt -- [2]. Evropae tabvla I. In qua insulae Britannicae duae, Hibernia & Albion cum minoribus adiacentibus describuntur -- [3]. Evropae tabvla II. In qua describuntur Hispaniae, quam Graeci Iberiam vocant, tres prouinciae Baetica, Lusitania, & Tarraconensis -- [4]. Evropae tabvla III. Continet Galliae, Graecis Geltogalatiae, quatuor prouincias, Aquitaniam, Lugdunensem, Belgicam, & Narbonensem -- [5]. Evropa tabvla IIII. Continet Germaniam magnam -- [6]. Evropae tabvla V. Continet Raetiam, Noricum, vtramque Pannoniam & Illyricum -- [7]. Evropae tabvla VI. Continet Itialiam & Cyrnum siue Corsicam insulam -- [8]. Evropae tabvla VII. Continet Sardiniam & Siciliam insulas -- [9]. Evropae tabvla VIII. Continet Samartiam Europae & Tauricum Chersonesum -- [10]. Evropae tabvla IX. Continet Iazyges Metanastas, Daciam, Mysiam superiorem, Mysiam interiorem, & Thraciam -- [11]. Evropae tabvla X. Continens Macedoniam, Epirum, Achaiam cum Euboea insula, Peloponnesum & Cretam insulam -- [12]. Africae tabvla I. Continet ambas Mauritanias, Tingitanam & Caesariensem -- [13]. Africae tabvla II. Continet Africam minorem -- [14]. Africae tabvla III. Continet Cyrenaicam & Aegyptum -- [15]. Appendix III in tabvlae Afr: (showing the Nile Delta) -- [16]. Africae tabvla IIII. Continet Libyam interiorem, Aethiopiam quae sub Aegypto est, & Aethiopiam interiorem -- [17]. Asiae tabvla I. Continet Pontum cum Bithynia, Asiam proprie[m] dictam, Lyciam, Galatiam, Pamphyliam, Cappadociam, Armeniam minorem, & Ciliciam -- [18]. Asiae tabvla II. Continet Sarmatiam Asiaticam -- [19]. Asiae tabvla III. Continet Colchidem, Iberiam, Albaniam, & Armeniam maiorem -- [20]. Asiae tabvla IIII. Continet Cyprum, Syriam, cuius pars est Palestina, quae & Iudaea, Arabiam Petr[a]eam, Mesopotamiam, Arabiam desertam, Babyloniam -- [21]. Asiae tabvla V. Continet Assyriam, Mediam, Susianam, Persidem, Parthiam, Carmaniam desertam -- [22]. Asiae tabvla VI. Continet Arabiam Foelicem & Carmaniam -- [23]. Asiae tabvla VII. Continet Hyrcaniam, Margianam, Bactrianam, Sogdianam, Sacas, & Scythiam intra Imaum -- [24]. Asiae tabvla VIII. Continet Scythiam extra Imaum montem & Sericam -- [25]. Asiae tabvla IX. Continet Ariam, Paropanisum, Drangianam, Arachosiam, & Gedrosiam -- [26]. Asiae tabvla X. In qua continentur India, intra Gangem fluuium -- [27]. Asiae tabvla XI. Continet Indiam extra Gangem & Sinas -- [28]. Asiae tabvla XII. Continet Taprobanam. This copy is from the National Library of Scotland and we are grateful to them for providing scanned images of the atlas as part of a joint project under the guidance of Christopher Fleet, Senior Map Curator at the NLS. See our 11296.000 for the updated 1619 edition by Bertius

Engraved political map of northeastern Africa (including the region of Nubia and Abyssinia [present-day Ethiopia]) and the Arabian Peninsula, with hand-colored outlines delineating boundaries. Title translates to: [Supplement to the maps of Asia and Africa, that is Arabia, Nubia, Abyssinia]. Shows political boundaries, topography, drainage, coastlines, islands and routes of travel. Relief shown pictorially. With latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as a bar scale. Imprint beneath title. Map is 22 x 29 cm, on sheet 35 x 47 cm. Descriptive text appears on prior plate (138)., Borghi Bartolomeo’s Atlante generale [= General atlas], published in Florence in 1819. Borghi - Italian writer, mathematician and geographer - was born in 1750 in Monte del Lago, on the shores of Lake Trasimeno. Atlante generale was his main work. The atlas reflects the new geopolitical structure implemented by the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815). Bound in vellum-covered board, with marbled pattern. Abbreviated atlas title is gilded along spine, with authorship, publication place and year, in Roman numerals. Includes a portrait of Borghi engraved by Giuseppe Canacci. Also includes an index preceding maps. Collation: 175 plates. 137 of those plates contain engraved maps with hand-colored outlines. Some maps are composed of multiple plates (such as northern and southern parts), bringing the total number of complete maps to 123. Descriptive text precedes maps and includes tables listing geographical divisions. Maps show political boundaries, topography, drainage, coastlines, islands and routes of travel. Some maps show historical geography, including the ancient world, eras of political dominance such as that of the Ottoman Empire, the 18th century, and the 19th century, up to the time of publication. Maps of the Americas feature territories of indigenous peoples, and also delineate areas unexplored by Europeans. "a rare and important Italian atlas. The library of the Senato della Repubblica only acquired a copyof this atlas this year (2008); the atlas is described on the library’s web site as “one of the rarest specimens complete.” Valerio described this work as “the most important Florentine atlas…[It] remained an unsurpassed model for many other lesser and larger works.” One of the most important aspects of the atlas is that it incorporatedthe new geo-political contours of Europe decided upon at the Congress of Vienna held at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Accordingly, the 12 mapsof Italy and its various parts likewise reflect the new political order. Heldbetween November, 1814 and June, 1815 and chaired by the Austrian statesman, C. W. von Metternich, the Congress sought to re-draw the mapof Europe after the defeat of Napoleonic France in the previous year. Theresulting political changes for Italy were many, among them being the reestablishmentof traditional monarchies in the kingdoms of Sardinia, Sicily and Naples; the rule of the Hapsburg princes being re-established in the duchies of Tuscany and Modena; the restoration and extension of papalauthority in the Papal States; and a number of other changes. Accompanying text in the atlas explains the geo-political changes made inItaly and elsewhere.The atlas also gives close attention to the mapping of North America and is quite up-to-date in this regard. In addition to a single-sheet map of NorthAmerica, there is also a much more detailed four-sheet depiction of North America. One of the sheets has surprisingly good detail for the West,incorporating quite fully Lewis and Clark information. Another of the sheets has a well-detailed inset of the Northwest. Vermiglioli, in his biographical dictionary of Perugian writers, described Bartolomeo Borghi (1750-1821) as “one of the greatest geographers of Europe.” Early in his career, he was involved in the production of severalcartographic works, both his own and those of others, that were primarily of local Italian interest. The present atlas, however, is considered “his mostimportant work.”"(Martayan Lan (2019), Not in Cremonini; Valerio, V. in Library of Congress, Images of the World, pp. 275-76; Valerio, V. “Italian atlases and their makers” in The Map Collector, Issue 45, pp. 11 & 14, atlas no. 25; Phillips 735; Tooley’s Dictionary of Mapmakers, A-D, p. 166; web site: http://www.senato.it/index.htm (search site under ‘borghi’ and click on first item).

Engraved double page map. Shows boundaries and division, major cities, rivers and mountains. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian is Greenwich., Modern Atlas, with Melish U.S. 1820 edition. Includes separate North America and United States by Arrowsmith for the English edition. Bound in quarter leather with with paper covered boards with "Atlas. Modern." on a cover label. The atlas includes uncolored maps, with no pagination and no tile page. Map count includes 2 separate maps. 41 unnumbered maps of the modern world double page, some folded. Shows political and administrative divisions, major cities, towns, roads, railroads, canals, rivers, lakes, and mountains. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian is Greenwich. Includes handwritten index. For "Atlas Ancient" see Publist # 0843.000., Walsh S-09234; P711,4312a.

Engraved views, showing a coffee tree, plant and fruit, with description about its growing process., First edition of this Historical atlas of the world, with new introduction to history and chronology and updated maps, in 7 volumes, dated 1714-1720. By Henri Abraham Chatelain and descriptive text for volumes I-VI, by Nicolas Gueudeville. Include 308 maps, views and charts, some folded, some double page. Vol. 1-2, 4-5 and 7 have added illustrated title-pages. Vol. 2-3, nouvelle. edition, 1720; Vol. 2 called "Tome II, Premiere partie". Vol. 3 called "Tome II, seconde partie.." Vol. 7 has title: Supplement a l’Atlas historique ... avec des dissertations sur chaque sujet, par mr. H.P. Limiers ... Tome VII & dernier. Volumes 1-6 covers: T. I. Grece, Romaine, Italie, France, Espagne, Provinces-Unies. T. II. Allemagne, Prusse, Hongrie, Boheme. T. III. Grande Bretagne, Irlande, Suisse, Savoye, Lorraine, Venise. T. IV. Dannemarck, Suede, Pologne, Moscovie, Turquie. T. V. Asie. T. VI. Afrique. Volumes are bound in brown leather covers with gold-embossed on spine and title "Atlas Historique Tom ..." stamped in gold. "Henri Abraham Chatelain, whose "Atlas Historique" was one of the most expansive Dutch encyclopedias of the age. First published in 1705, Chatelain's Atlas Historique was part of an immense seven-volume encyclopedia. Although the main focus of the text was geography, the work also included a wealth of historical, political, and genealogical information. The text was compiled by Nicholas Gueudeville and Garillon with a supplement by H.P. de Limiers and the maps were engraved by Chatelain, primarily after maps by De L'Isle. The maps were accompanied by information pertaining to cosmography, geography, history, chronology, genealogy, topography, heraldry, and costumes of the world. The maps in the Atlas Historique were mainly based on those of the French cartographer, Guillaume De L’Isle, but were presented by the Chatelains in an encyclopaedic form. The accompanying text is in French and often is printed in two columns on the page with maps and other illustrations interspersed. Each map and table is numbered consecutively within its volume and all maps bear the privileges of the States of Holland and West-Friesland. An ambitious and beautifully-presented work, the Atlas Historique was intended for the general public, fascinated in the early eighteenth century by the recently conquered colonies and the new discoveries. Distant countries, such as the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, Mongolia, China, Japan, Indonesia, etc., take an important place in this work. In addition to the maps, many of which are based on Guillaume De L'Isle, the plates are after the best travel accounts of the period, such as those of Dapper, Chardin, de Bruyn, Le Hay and other. Other sections deal with the history of the european countries, and covers a wide range of subjects including genealogy, history, cosmography, topography, heraldry and chronology, costume of the world, all illustrated with numerous engraved maps, plates of local inhabitants and heraldic charts of the lineages of the ruling families of the time. The maps, prints and tables required to make up a complete set are listed in detail in each volume. The encyclopaedic nature of the work as a whole is reflected in this six frontispiece. The pages are the work of the celerated mr. Romeijn de Hooghe. and are engraved by J.Goeree, T.Schynyoet and P.Sluyter. New scholarship has suggested the compiler of the atlas, who is identified on the title as "Mr. C***" not to be Henri Abraham Châtelain, but Zacharie Châtelain. (See Van Waning's article in the Journal of the International Map Collectors' Society for persuasive evidence of the latter's authorship.)" (From Paulus Swaen catalog), Phillips 548

Descriptive text., First edition of this Historical atlas of the world, with new introduction to history and chronology and updated maps, in 7 volumes, dated 1714-1720. By Henri Abraham Chatelain and descriptive text for volumes I-VI, by Nicolas Gueudeville. Include 308 maps, views and charts, some folded, some double page. Vol. 1-2, 4-5 and 7 have added illustrated title-pages. Vol. 2-3, nouvelle. edition, 1720; Vol. 2 called "Tome II, Premiere partie". Vol. 3 called "Tome II, seconde partie.." Vol. 7 has title: Supplement a l’Atlas historique ... avec des dissertations sur chaque sujet, par mr. H.P. Limiers ... Tome VII & dernier. Volumes 1-6 covers: T. I. Grece, Romaine, Italie, France, Espagne, Provinces-Unies. T. II. Allemagne, Prusse, Hongrie, Boheme. T. III. Grande Bretagne, Irlande, Suisse, Savoye, Lorraine, Venise. T. IV. Dannemarck, Suede, Pologne, Moscovie, Turquie. T. V. Asie. T. VI. Afrique. Volumes are bound in brown leather covers with gold-embossed on spine and title "Atlas Historique Tom ..." stamped in gold. "Henri Abraham Chatelain, whose "Atlas Historique" was one of the most expansive Dutch encyclopedias of the age. First published in 1705, Chatelain's Atlas Historique was part of an immense seven-volume encyclopedia. Although the main focus of the text was geography, the work also included a wealth of historical, political, and genealogical information. The text was compiled by Nicholas Gueudeville and Garillon with a supplement by H.P. de Limiers and the maps were engraved by Chatelain, primarily after maps by De L'Isle. The maps were accompanied by information pertaining to cosmography, geography, history, chronology, genealogy, topography, heraldry, and costumes of the world. The maps in the Atlas Historique were mainly based on those of the French cartographer, Guillaume De L’Isle, but were presented by the Chatelains in an encyclopaedic form. The accompanying text is in French and often is printed in two columns on the page with maps and other illustrations interspersed. Each map and table is numbered consecutively within its volume and all maps bear the privileges of the States of Holland and West-Friesland. An ambitious and beautifully-presented work, the Atlas Historique was intended for the general public, fascinated in the early eighteenth century by the recently conquered colonies and the new discoveries. Distant countries, such as the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, Mongolia, China, Japan, Indonesia, etc., take an important place in this work. In addition to the maps, many of which are based on Guillaume De L'Isle, the plates are after the best travel accounts of the period, such as those of Dapper, Chardin, de Bruyn, Le Hay and other. Other sections deal with the history of the european countries, and covers a wide range of subjects including genealogy, history, cosmography, topography, heraldry and chronology, costume of the world, all illustrated with numerous engraved maps, plates of local inhabitants and heraldic charts of the lineages of the ruling families of the time. The maps, prints and tables required to make up a complete set are listed in detail in each volume. The encyclopaedic nature of the work as a whole is reflected in this six frontispiece. The pages are the work of the celerated mr. Romeijn de Hooghe. and are engraved by J.Goeree, T.Schynyoet and P.Sluyter. New scholarship has suggested the compiler of the atlas, who is identified on the title as "Mr. C***" not to be Henri Abraham Châtelain, but Zacharie Châtelain. (See Van Waning's article in the Journal of the International Map Collectors' Society for persuasive evidence of the latter's authorship.)" (From Paulus Swaen catalog), Phillips 548

Engraved folded map, covers Arabian Peninsular, Egypt, Persia, Caspian Sea, north eastern part of Africa, Cyprus and Mediterranean. Includes descriptive text., First edition of this Historical atlas of the world, with new introduction to history and chronology and updated maps, in 7 volumes, dated 1714-1720. By Henri Abraham Chatelain and descriptive text for volumes I-VI, by Nicolas Gueudeville. Include 308 maps, views and charts, some folded, some double page. Vol. 1-2, 4-5 and 7 have added illustrated title-pages. Vol. 2-3, nouvelle. edition, 1720; Vol. 2 called "Tome II, Premiere partie". Vol. 3 called "Tome II, seconde partie.." Vol. 7 has title: Supplement a l’Atlas historique ... avec des dissertations sur chaque sujet, par mr. H.P. Limiers ... Tome VII & dernier. Volumes 1-6 covers: T. I. Grece, Romaine, Italie, France, Espagne, Provinces-Unies. T. II. Allemagne, Prusse, Hongrie, Boheme. T. III. Grande Bretagne, Irlande, Suisse, Savoye, Lorraine, Venise. T. IV. Dannemarck, Suede, Pologne, Moscovie, Turquie. T. V. Asie. T. VI. Afrique. Volumes are bound in brown leather covers with gold-embossed on spine and title "Atlas Historique Tom ..." stamped in gold. "Henri Abraham Chatelain, whose "Atlas Historique" was one of the most expansive Dutch encyclopedias of the age. First published in 1705, Chatelain's Atlas Historique was part of an immense seven-volume encyclopedia. Although the main focus of the text was geography, the work also included a wealth of historical, political, and genealogical information. The text was compiled by Nicholas Gueudeville and Garillon with a supplement by H.P. de Limiers and the maps were engraved by Chatelain, primarily after maps by De L'Isle. The maps were accompanied by information pertaining to cosmography, geography, history, chronology, genealogy, topography, heraldry, and costumes of the world. The maps in the Atlas Historique were mainly based on those of the French cartographer, Guillaume De L’Isle, but were presented by the Chatelains in an encyclopaedic form. The accompanying text is in French and often is printed in two columns on the page with maps and other illustrations interspersed. Each map and table is numbered consecutively within its volume and all maps bear the privileges of the States of Holland and West-Friesland. An ambitious and beautifully-presented work, the Atlas Historique was intended for the general public, fascinated in the early eighteenth century by the recently conquered colonies and the new discoveries. Distant countries, such as the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, Mongolia, China, Japan, Indonesia, etc., take an important place in this work. In addition to the maps, many of which are based on Guillaume De L'Isle, the plates are after the best travel accounts of the period, such as those of Dapper, Chardin, de Bruyn, Le Hay and other. Other sections deal with the history of the european countries, and covers a wide range of subjects including genealogy, history, cosmography, topography, heraldry and chronology, costume of the world, all illustrated with numerous engraved maps, plates of local inhabitants and heraldic charts of the lineages of the ruling families of the time. The maps, prints and tables required to make up a complete set are listed in detail in each volume. The encyclopaedic nature of the work as a whole is reflected in this six frontispiece. The pages are the work of the celerated mr. Romeijn de Hooghe. and are engraved by J.Goeree, T.Schynyoet and P.Sluyter. New scholarship has suggested the compiler of the atlas, who is identified on the title as "Mr. C***" not to be Henri Abraham Châtelain, but Zacharie Châtelain. (See Van Waning's article in the Journal of the International Map Collectors' Society for persuasive evidence of the latter's authorship.)" (From Paulus Swaen catalog), Phillips 548

Black and white outline map of Turkey in Asia, Iran and Arabian Peninsula on 2 pages, with manuscript geographical names. Relief shown by hachures., General geographical school atlas of the world, in Ottoman script. No Cover and title page. Atlas consists of 23 different maps of the world countries, regions, and continents, with repeating examples bringing the total to 54 double page maps, for the geography courses in the state school during the late period of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. This work was made as an exercise book, in 54 double page black and white outline maps from the atlas “Mekatib-i rustiye-i askeriye ucuncu seneleri”, by Mehmed Remzi, published in 1905 for use in the state schools, with 23 chromolithographed color maps with geographical names. This version composed of black and white exercise maps, some repeating 2 or more times, with no printed geographical names, some hand colored, with handwritten out of sequence numeration on verso and manuscript annotation and geographical names on some maps in Ottoman script in pencil or ink, some with color annotations and sporadic scribbling. Includes maps of the world, Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Australia.

Six historical color maps by Muslim Geographers, on sheet 55x37. Including Carte No. 1: Carte generale d' Al-Istakhri et Ibn Ḥawqal. Xeme. Siecle. No.2: Carte generale de l' Idrisi l' an 1154. Cartes No.3-6 : Possessions tourques dans la mer Ionienne. Les provinces Tourques du Caucase. Arabie. Perse. 1640 par Kiatib-Tchekebi. Covering the world, Africa, Turkey, Saudi Arabi and Iran. In Franche and Ottoman Turkish languages. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially., Atlas of Economic Geography of Turkey, by Zadig Khanzadian. Published by L. de Bertalot. Consists 28 pages of text and 30 sheets of maps and diagrams, most in color. Lacks Planche 14, Carte 28 (Constantinople, par Sanson) although it appears to never have been bound in and other copies are also lacking that plate. Covers and title page printed in two colors decorated with a red frame. Some maps engraved by P. Monsanglant, P., and published by Gaillac - Monrocq et Cie, Paris. Lieutenant-Commander Khanzadian became a hydrographer of the French navy in 1903, then inspector of the Ottoman Navy and a member of the Armenian delegation to the 1920 peace conference.

Hand colored in outline engraved map. Shows political and administrative boundaries. Relief shown by hachures., Lizars' New Edinburgh general atlas of the world, contains engraved title page, with decorative borders, text and contents, 44 lithographed hand colored maps on 62 plates, some double and folded. Maps show political and administrative boundaries, cities, villages, rivers, post roads, exploration routes, rivers, lakes and mountains. Relief shown by hachures. Some maps includes notes. Prime meridian is Greenwich. The map of the United States, covers eastern and central states. Covers are brown half leather paper covered boards with title in black on front cover, the spine in seven compartments with six raised bands, gilt-lettered in one and stamped in the rest with title" New Edinrg. Atlas". Manuscript notes inside front cover and verso of title page.

Color Lithograph map 150x124, dissected into 24 sections 20x32 and mounted on linen. Includes 2 insets of Saudi Arabia, scale 1: 6,000,000; Tripoli, Libya, scale 1:4,000,000. Map is in Ottoman script, covers Ottoman Empire, the Balkan and the Arabian Peninsula. It was designed by the Government Map Office in Istanbul, under direction of Ali Sheref Pasha, who was also known as Hafız Ali Eşref, the first modern Turkish cartographer. Map showing cities, towns, roads, railroads and rivers. Relief shown by hachures., Alex Johnson: "A gigantic lithographed map shows the Ottoman Empire with the Balkans and the Arabic Peninsula. Importantly, the map delineates some of the world’s most strategically important railway lines.  The Haimidian era marked intense railway construction in both the European and Asiatic parts of the Ottoman Empire, with profound ramifications to both the national economy and geopolitics. In South-eastern Europe, the map depicts the first Trans-Balkan rail route, built at the initiative of the Chemins de fer Orientaux, that connected Istanbul with Vienna, and beyond to the general European railway system.  Against much political and technical difficulties, this line was completed in 1888, and beginning the following year hosted the Orient Express; running from Paris to Istanbul, it is history’s most famous ultra-luxe rail service, immortalized in countless books and movies, including, most notably Agatha Christie’s thriller.  The eastern terminus of the line was the elegant Sirkeci Station, on the shores of the Golden Horn, completed in 1890.  As shown here, the main route of the connection ran from Vienna, then to Budapest, Belgrade, Niš, Sofia, Plovdiv, Edirne and then Istanbul. Crossing the Bosporus, the map depicts the routes of Anatolian Railway, an epic project that opened the heart of Turkey to the industrial revolution and modern travel.  The construction of the railway commenced in 1871, under the guidance of the brilliant German engineer Wilhelm Pressel, at its western origin, Haydarpaşa, Üsküdar (Istanbul).  It was progressively extended eastward to Ismit, by August 1873.  Due to the Empire’s extreme political and economic problems, further construction was paused until 1880, when the line was extended to Adapazarı.  It was intended for the railway to continue to Ankara and Konya, but the immense costs and technical difficulties of building the line over the rocky elevations of the Anatolian interior for some years frustrated the efforts of various syndicates. Finally, in October 1888, a consortium headed by Deutsche Bank assumed control of the railway and all future construction.  Importantly, this arrangement represented the first bold German bid to gain political and economic power within the Ottoman Empire, as in winning control of the line, Deutsche Bank had aggressively muscled out the Franco-British interests that had held sway at the Sublime Porte for some decades.  Indeed, in 1889, Deutsche Bank took over the Chemins de fer Orientaux, and in the coming years Germany continued to expand its role in railways across the Ottoman Empire.  German control of the railways formed the basis of the German-Ottoman Alliance (and the gradual side-lining of France and Britain) that was to eventually take both nations united into World War I. Returng to the construction of the Anatolian Railway, the German engineering firm Philipp Holzmann made remarkable progress cutting the line into the interior, completing the link to Ankara by the end of 1892.  The following year, the southern branch was commenced, departing the Ismit-Ankara line at Eskişehir, working down to Konya.  Progress on this route was likewise impressive, as the line was opened to Afyon by August 1895.  The present map shows the southern route in the latter stages of it progress, nearly reaching Konya, which was achieved in July 1896. The Sublime Porte, with German financial and technical backing, envisaged the continuation of the rail networks from Konya that would eventually result in two epic railway lines.  First, the Ottoman-German planners conceived the Baghdad Railway, commonly known as the Berlin-Baghdad Express, or Bagdadbahn, which would run from Europe, through Istanbul and Konya, across Anatolia and then into Mesopotamia, reaching Baghdad (and then hopefully the port of Basra, near the head of the Persian Gulf).  Second, the Sublime Porte conceived the Hejaz Railway, a line running southwards from Anatolia, though Damascus and then to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.  This line would greatly ease the arduous annual journeys of thousands of Haj pilgrims.  As the Ottoman Sultan was also the Caliph, or the supposed temporal head of the Islamic faith, the completion of such a line had immense symbolic importance, in addition to profound practical ramifications. Unlike the other Ottoman lines, financing for the Hejaz Railway was to come from donations given by pious Muslims all around the world.  While post-dating the map, the Hejaz Railway was commenced in 1900, working south from Damascus, under the guidance of the German engineer Heinrich August Meissner.  By 1908, it was completed as far as Medina, about 400 km short of Mecca.  The line would never reach Mecca, in part owing to the opposition of local potentates who felt that the line threatened their political security. The Bagdadbahn was formally commenced in 1903, working across Anatolia towards Iraq, with the intention of including a branch linking southwards to join the Hejaz Railway.  The project was financed by Deutsche Bank and undertaken by Philipp Holzmann.  Political turmoil, including the Young Turk Revolution (1908) and the toppling of Sultan Abdulhamid II, in 1909, greatly retarded progress.  Moreover, cutting tunnels through the Taurus and Amanus (Nur) Mountains proved to be exceedingly difficult, such that the uninterrupted rail passage across Anatolia remained unrealized at the beginning of WWI.  The incompleteness of the railway severely hindered the German-Ottoman ability to battle the British-Arab forces in Levant and Iraq, and precluded any hope of gaining access to oil supplies near the Persian Gulf.  Had the line be completed in time, the war in the Middle Eastern theatre may have very well have turned out differently. Parts of the Hejaz Railway were famously disrupted during the war by Lawrence of Arabia and his Arab allies.  In 1920, owing to political conflicts in the wake of WWI, the railway was partially closed, and henceforth only operated in sections.  The Baghdad Railway was only completed in 1940. While the dream of a seamless rail connection from Western-Central Europe directly into the heart of the Middle East was never fully realized, as envisaged by its German and Ottoman sponsors, the various rail lines and sections that were completed had transformative socio-economic effects upon modern Turkey and the other nations which the lines traversed, a legacy that, in many areas, lives on to the present day.    Ali Şeref Paşa or Hafız Ali Eşref Not much is known about the author, who was known as Ali Şeref Paşa or Hafız Ali Eşref. He was a soldier, who was schooled in Paris as a cartographer around 1862. Already in Paris he published his first atlas with 22 maps, called Yeni atlas. Upon his return to Istanbul he became a chief cartographer at the Matbaa-i Amire Printing Press in Beyazit, which was the successor of the Müteferrika press from 1727. Among others he translated the large Kiepert map of Anatolia to Ottoman. He died in 1907, leaving his large project of a gigantic map of Anatolia in 100 sheets unfinished.  Ali’s name is often misunderstood or even listed as two different people: Ali Şeref Paşa and Hafız Ali Eşref. Until the surname law adopted on June 21, 1934 Turks did not have surnames. They were born with one first name and were until the adulthood described only as sons or daughters of their parent’s names. Later they were given titles such as Effendi (Sir), Bey (Chief) or Hanım (Madam) for higher classes, or they were given names according to their work or class. The names were not inherited by children until 1934, when the surname law was enforced. The map maker Ali received names Şeref, the honourable, and Paşa, the dignitary. He was also known as Hafız, the memorizer of Qur'an, and Eşref, proud.So Ali Şeref Paşa would have a meaning Honourable Dignitary Ali, and Hafız Ali Eşref, Memorizer of Qur’an Proud Ali.   Darüttıbaa - Matbaa-i Amire Printing Press  The first press in the Muslim world, called Darüttıbaa, was founded in Istanbul by İbrahim Müteferrika in 1727, with a permission of Sultan Ahmet III. It was located in Müteferrika’s house. The first book was published in 1729 and until 1742 sixteen other works followed. After Müteferrika’s death the press was supressed for printing, as printed books were considered dangerous. In 1796 the press was purchased by the government and moved to Üsküdar in Istanbul, and in 1831 finally to Beyazit, where it was renamed to Matbaa-i Amire in 1866. The press was closed in 1901 and was reopened in 1908 under the name Millî. In 1927 the name changed to State Printing House. The press still exists and is known for publishing school and educational books.   The map is very rare. It was probably only printed in limited edition for government purposes and also a survival rate of such large maps is extremely low. Most of them would be destroyed after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. We could not trace any other examples of the map."

Arabian Peninsula and Red Sea region on sheet 53x64 dissected into 6 sections, backed with linen. Covers Egypt, Sudan and Somalia, Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean. Showing political divisions and kingdoms, ciliates, villages, roads, trails, river, lakes and mountains. Shows Nile River from the source to the mouth Relief shown by hachures., "This is one of the only large format Ottoman maps to focus on the Arabian Peninsula; indeed, it is the only one of which we are aware. It was issued in 1897 by the General Staff of the Ottoman Army during an especially dramatic period, when the Sublime Porte was going to great lengths to shore up its authority in the Red Sea region (Hejaz, Asir and Yemen), while being pressured by Britain to retreat from the domains it claimed in the Persian Gulf region (Kuwait, Al-Qatif/Hofuf and Qatar). Indeed, the present map would have been of great value to Ottoman generals and cabinet officials for strategic planning, as Arabia was increasingly a focus of global attention and interference. The map encompasses all of the Arabian Peninsula, and extends north as far as Haifa and Baghdad, and west to embrace Egypt, Sudan, and the Nile Valley, and runs south to Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, while Persia appears in the upper right. The map has a very clean and precise appearance, making it easy to read and analyze, its design seemingly influenced by the German engineers who were then advising the Ottoman Army. The coastlines, rivers and swamplands are crisply depicted; mountain ranges are expressed by delicate tan shading; all cities and towns of note are labelled; the names of regions and tribal areas are noted; while all key roads and Hajj caravan routes are delineated. The map was predicated upon recent scientific mapping and is methodically empiricist in nature; all conjectural information is avoided. Sultan Abdul Hamid II (reigned 1876 - 1909) was obsessed with maintaining control of Hejaz and Islam’s holiest cities of Mecca and Medina, as the possession of these sites underpinned his claim to being the Caliph (Protector) of Islam. Mecca appears near the centre of the map, while the nearby port of Jeddah was home to the Red Sea command of the Ottoman Navy; while to the north is Medina. Much of the Syrian Hajj Road, perhaps the most frequented single overland route for pilgrims, is shown to run down to Mecca from the direction of Damascus. To the south of Hejaz is the region of Asir, and beyond northern Yemen, both areas to which the Ottomans had in recent years deployed massive military resources in an effort to subdue determined local unrest. Further still, is the British protectorate of Aden, home to a key Royal Navy Base, and up the coat, Oman, long a British protectorate. The map features stellar coverage of the Persian Gulf, labelling all the constituent sheikhdoms of the Trucial States, the future United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Ras el Khaimah, etc.); Qatar (then an autonomous part of the Ottoman Empire); Bahrain (a British protectorate prized for its fine natural harbour); and Kuwait, an autonomous sheikhdom within the Ottoman Empire that would shortly become a British protectorate. Inland, the map details the Saudi-Wahhabi domains Nejd, with its capital Riyadh, while to the northwest is the territory of the rival Al-Rashid clan, with its capital Ha’il. Squeezed on both sides by Kuwait and Persia, the map shows that the Ottomans’ only remaining window to the Persian Gulf was the river port of Basra, on the Shatt al-Arab waterway, a major commercial centre and the regional headquarters of the Ottoman Army and Navy. Notably, extending from Najaf, Iraq, down to Mecca is one of the great Shia Hajj caravan routes. A Note on Rarity The present map was issued in only a very small print run for the exclusive use of the Ottoman military high command, as well as senor political figures; it was not to be sold or otherwise distributed. The map is extremely rare, we can locate only a single institutional example, held by the Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi Kütüphanesi (TBMM) [Library of Grand National Assembly], the Turkish parliamentary library in Ankara. Moreover, we are not aware of any other examples as having appeared on the market in recent times. The Anglo-Ottoman Contest for Control of Arabia The present map appeared at an especially tense time in the history of the Arabian Peninsula, when it was essentially a giant chessboard on which Britain and the Ottoman Empire were engaged in a complex contest for control, while the various local players struggled for autonomy. In essence, through the 19th Century, Britain, from her base in India, sought to gain ever more control over the Persian Gulf, while the Ottomans endeavored to shore up their powerbases in the Red Rea region (their efforts in the Gulf proved largely unsuccessful). Upon the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the Ottoman Empire’s authority on the Arabian Peninsula was on life support. The Sublime Porte was struggling to maintain control of Hejaz, home to Mecca and Medina, the holiest cities of Islam. Importantly, the Ottoman Sultan’s control of these sites was integral to his claim to being the Caliph (Protector) of Islam; the loss of the sites would completely undermine his legitimacy, especially in his Arab dominions. Beyond Hejaz, the Ottomans had long been evicted from Yemen and Asir. Turning to the Persian Gulf, the Sublime Porte claimed sovereignty over the coast from Kuwait, through the Al-Qatif-Hofuf region (now part of Saudi Arabia) to Qatar, as part of the Vilayet of Baghdad. However, their control beyond the great river port of Basra was weak, if not, in many places, nonexistent. Indeed, the Ottomans faced opposition from the Egyptians (former vassals who recently became de facto rivals), the Wahabis of the Nejd, Persia, as well as innumerable local sheikhs. Meanwhile, Britain, having consolidated its control of the Indian Subcontinent, was looking to expand it horizons towards the Persian Gulf. Britain, which had essentially made Oman a protectorate in 1800, signed the General Maritime Treaty of 1820 with Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Ras al Khaimah, Sharjah and Bahrain, that locked these sheikhdoms into the British defensive-economic system (Dubai would join the accord in 1835); these territories (with the exception of Bahrain) would become known as the ‘Trucial States’, the forerunner to the United Arab Emirates. In 1839, Britain established the port of Aden, in South Yemen, as a military base. During the Anglo-Persian War (1856-7), the British forced the weak Qajar Dynasty into staying out of their way, making the Gulf into something close to a ‘British Lake’. Meanwhile, the in 1840s, the Ottomans’ predicament the Red Sea improved somewhat. They managed to maintain absolutely secure control of Hejaz, and in 1849 mounted an invasion of North Yemen, that while unsuccessful on taking the highlands, managed to give the Sublime Porte a beachhead along the tihama, the coastal plain. The construction of the of the Suez Canal, which would be completed in 1869, was a transformative event, that shocked the Sublime Porte into drastic action. The canal, controlled by Anglo-French interests, would suddenly make the Red Sea into one of the world’s most important shipping lanes, posing a direct threat to Ottoman authority in the Arabian Peninsula. In 1869, the Ottomans sent a large army under their best field commander, Ahmed Muhtar, to conquer North Yemen and Asir. The difficult task of gaining the (recalcitrant) cooperation of the Zaidi Imams, who controlled the Yemen Highlands, was accomplished in 1872, giving the Sublime Porte control of Sana’a. Meanwhile, Midhat Pasha, the reforming Vali of Baghdad, sent armies to the Gulf, asserting Ottoman authority on the ground in Kuwait, Al-Qatif, Hofuf and Qatar for the first time in ages. The Ottomans henceforth maintained sizable permanent garrison of 600 men at Hofuf. At this point, it must be noted that Britain and the Ottoman Empire were not technically enemies but were rather engaged in an incredibly complex relationship. Britain was one the Sublime’s Porte largest trading partners, creditors, and often its military protector (notably during the Crimean War 1853-6). However, at the same time, Britain was happy to exploit the Ottomans’ weaknesses, taking from them whatever they could, while supporting them just enough so that the empire remained strong enough to survive. Britain expanded its presence in Yemen, essentially making all of the south of the country into the Aden Protectorate in 1872, while dramatically upgrading its naval bases in the region. Critically, Britain made Egypt a protectorate in 1882, essentially ending the Sublime Porte’s authority in the country (although Egypt technically remained part of the Ottoman Empire until 1914). The new Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II (reigned 1876-1909) was a complex and clever man who tried to balance his desire to strengthen the Sublime Porte’s authority in Arabia (especially in the Red Sea) with his fear of provoking Britain. Unlike some of his predecessors were not religiously inclined, Abdul Hamid II passionately valued his role as Caliph of Islam; maintaining control over Hejaz was his overriding imperative. In 1887, the Ottomans established a large permanent naval base at Jeddah and continued to send sizeable expeditions into the highlands of Asir and Yemen. This succeeded in causing the Zaidis in Sana’a to stand down from a planned revolt in 1891, although the Ottomans’ control of Yemen and Asir beyond their garrisons was very limited. As such, most of the time their forces were engaged in moving around the country simply ‘putting out fires’, as opposed to locking down control of the territory. To anchor Ottoman authority in the Red Sea, Abdul Hamd II authorized the construction of the Hejaz Railway, which was to run from Damascus to Mecca. Construction commenced in in 1900, and the line reached Medina by 1908, where progress was halted. While never completed to Mecca, the railway played vital role in giving the Ottomans a fighting chance to hold on to Hejaz, Asir and North Yemen. While Ottoman authority in the Red Sea was stable, its prospects in the Gulf were deteriorating. It must be noted at this point that a bit of local power vacuum had developed, as the interior of what is today Saudi Arabia was locked in struggle between the rival Saudi and Al Rashid clans. In 1891, the Al Rashids, based in Ha’il, had dislodged the Saudis from their capital Riyadh, and the conflict was ongoing; it would not be until 1906 that the Saudis would regain the upper hand. In 1892, Britain locked down its political-economic suzerainty over the Trucial States and Oman into “exclusive agreements” (Bahrain signed a similar accord in 1880), essentially banning these states from having anything to do with any other entity unless sanctioned by Britain. Meanwhile, the Al Thani clan which ruled Qatar revolted and defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Al Wajbah (1893), essentially making Qatar autonomous of the Sublime Porte. Shortly after the present map was issued, Britain signed the Anglo-Kuwaiti Agreement of 1899, which made the sheikhdom a British protectorate, even if it was still technically a part of the Ottoman Empire. Essentially, the by the end of the 19th century, the Ottoman presence in the Gulf was limed to the small window provided by Basra and the Shatt al-Arab waterway. At the dawn of the new century, Britain’s interest in the Gulf heightened as it began to search for commercially exploitable petroleum deposits in order to fuel its industrial economy and to provide a new, improved power source for the Royal Navy (big oil would be struck in southwestern Persia in 1908). Meanwhile, the Sultan Abdul Hamid II, seeking to counter British influence, solidified his alliance with Germany, which was quickly rising to become Britain’s main geostrategic rival. In 1903, the German interests commenced the building of the Baghdad Railway, from Istanbul to the Iraqi capital, that was proposed to one day be extended to provide a rail link from Berlin to Basra. If ever completed, the Baghdad Railway would pose a grave threat to British interests in the Gulf. Returning to the Red Sea, in 1904, the new Zaidi leader, Imam Yahya, mounted a full-scale rebellion against Ottoman rule. A highly intelligent and disciplined guerrilla commander, his tactics outmatched the Sultan’s overstretched forces and the Ottomans were virtually driven out of the Yemeni highlands. After years of hard fighting that wore down both parties, the Imam and the Sublime Porte signed the Treaty of Da’an (1911), which settled matters largely on Zaidi terms; essentially the Zaidis would rule North Yemen, with only very light Ottoman oversight. Meanwhile, the Ottomans were also having trouble in Asir, as beginning in 1906 the local leader Muhammad ibn Ali al-Idrisi rebelled against the Sublime Porte. The Idrisids succeeding in driving the Ottomans out of much of Asir and Jizan by 1910, forming the Idrisid Emirate of Asir. In an effort to deescalate tensions in the Gulf, in the Sublime Porte and Britain signed the Anglo- Ottoman Convention of 1913, by which the Ottomans essentially agreed not to attempt to occupy Kuwait and the other Gulf sheikhdoms they claimed, in exchange for Britain acknowledging the Sublime Porte’s de jure sovereignty over these areas. As is well known, the Ottoman presence on the Arabian Peninsula was brought to an end during World War I. The British mounted the Mesopotamian Campaign, taking Basra in November 1914, completely removing the Ottomans from the Gulf forever. On the other side of the peninsula, the Sharif of Mecca formed an alliance with Britain, flamboyantly represented by Lawrence of Arabia, resulting Arab Revolt (1916-8), which eventually succeeded in running the Ottomans out of the region (only the Ottoman garrison at Medina held out for the duration of the war). Further south, the Ottomans joined forces with the Zaidis against Britain, for a time putting up very strong resistance; however, the Sublime Porte’s efforts in the region were all for naught upon the war’s end.. (Alexander Johnson and Dasa Pahor, 2020), Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi Kütüphanesi (TBMM) [Library of Grand National Assembly], Ankara: 201102358.

Decorative title cartouche. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Shows settlements., Bellin was an important maker of charts for the French Depot de la Marine. He was born in Paris in 1703 and educated as an engineer. He produced many important charts and published them individually and in compilations. The Neptune Francais was published in 1753 and the Hydrographie Francaise in 1756. His largest and most comprehensive work is the Petit Atlas Maritime with 581 charts (our copy has 582, including the rare "Carte Reduite des Decouvertes des Russe Entre L'Asie et L'Amerique.") that cover the coasts and important port cities of the known world. The Petit Atlas Maritime is probably the best compilation of plans of maritime towns and harbors of its time. Bellin died in Versailles in 1772. According to Tooley, Bellin issued an earlier version of this atlas in 1763 titled Petit Atlas Francois. The Duc de Choiseul provided financial support for the publication of the atlas. J. Arrivet is listed as engraver on the chart index pages and may also have engraved the charts themselves., P638 and P3508; National Maritime Museum 211; Tooley Mapping America, p208-209.

First edition of Arrowsmith atlas published in 1817. Although the maps are not large, they are dense with information. This complete atlas features index and 53 copperplate maps, drawn by Arrowsmith and engraved by Sidney Hall, with a few engraved by Thomson in collaboration with Hall. The maps include two world, 29 related to Europe and Scandinavia, 16 on Asia, Africa, and Oceania, and six related to the Americas. The United States map shows Georgia extending from the coast to the Mississippi River. The area west of the Mississippi is blank and labeled Louisiana. Engraved title page has Atlas holding the globe above two putti, one sailing a dingy, the other engaged in cartographic studies with a globe, map and dividers. Hardbound with marbled paper and original paper label printed with "Arrowsmith's New General Atlas Comprehended in Fifty three Maps From Original Drawings. Price L 2,12,6. coloured". Black leather spine has a label embossed with "Atlas (18)17" in gilt. Maps have original outline color, with many tissue guards still in place., First edition of Arrowsmith atlas published in 1817. This complete atlas features index and 53 copperplate maps, drawn by Arrowsmith and engraved by Sidney Hall, with a few engraved by Thomson in collaboration with Hall. The maps include two world, 29 related to Europe and Scandinavia, 16 on Asia, Africa, and Oceania, and six related to the Americas. The United States map shows Georgia extending from the coast to the Mississippi River. The area west of the Mississippi is blank and labeled Louisiana. Engraved title page has Atlas holding the globe above two putti, one sailing a dingy, the other engaged in cartographic studies with a globe, map and dividers. Hardbound with marbled paper and original paper label printed with "Arrowsmith's New General Atlas Comprehended in Fifty three Maps From Original Drawings. Price L 2,12,6. coloured". Black leather spine has a label embossed with "Atlas (18)17" in gilt. Maps have original outline color, with many tissue guards still in place.

Hand col. engraved map. Relief shown pictorially., Contains 62 hand col. double-page engraved maps (10 folding). Contemporary ink inscription on front blank endpaper. Newer full polished calf with original gilt-lettered red leather label. A few minor repairs. The Atlas Minor was first published in 1729 and reprinted in 1732. This ed. has new engraved title-page with contents and revised maps. The maps in the third ed. are similar to those of the 2nd, except that a number of the American maps contain added place names. Like most of Moll's works, the majority of the maps are undated, although the maps of Great Tartary (no. 32) and "The West Part of Barbary" (no. 41) are dated 1732. The deciding factor which makes this copy the 3rd. ed. is map no. 13 (Germany) which carries the added legend, "Lorrain was ceded to France A.D. 1736 ..." Includes 29 maps of Europe, 10 of Asia, 5 of Africa and 18 of the Americas, including the double-hemisphere world map (no. 1) and the map of America (no. 45) that show California as an island. The Rumsey Collection copy includes 17 extra inserted, uncolored, undated maps (13 folding, 2 manuscript), 7 of which deal with the West Coast of Africa, and 2 of which are manuscript maps of the harbors at Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, the mouth of the Amazon River and Straits of Magellan, all with captions and place names in French; 3 others are of Upper and Lower Canada. The 17 maps appear to have been taken from several later 18th century sources, and were probably extracted from Kitchen's Pocket Atlas, Child's Universal Traveller, the English ed. of Du Halde's Description of China, and other works. A folded world map shows George Anson's track on his voyage of circumnavigation in 1740-1744, and is probably from one of the numerous eds. of his Voyage. Includes folded descriptions from John Howell Books and the Argonaut Book Shop., Phillips, 585; Tooley. Dictionary of mapmakers, p. 444; Tooley. Maps and map-makers, p. 55; Tyacke. London map-sellers, 1600-1720, pp. 122-123.

John Lothian was an Edinburgh geographer and publisher who issued atlases of Scotland and its counties from 1825 to 1835, and a General Atlas in 1834 (R. Baskes). Tooley and British Museum list and 1846 edition of this atlas, probably the first. This 1848 second edition is a late production for Lothian, engraved in the style of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK), but lithographed, with considerably less detail. On first glance the maps appear to be derived or copied lithographically from other maps of the period, but no engraver credit is given and we can not find any source maps. The mountains and rivers plate is unusual - it is a schematic representation that is decidedly "modern" in style. Outline color., Tooley Dictionary p.401; British Museum World, p. 400; Tooley Australia, p. 117.

Revision of 1846 edition., Date estimated. Most of the maps are dated 1852 or 1853. The U.S. maps are dated 1852 and show the formation of California, Utah, and New Mexico in the west. Maps are hand painted with full and outline color., cf P6120 (1855 edition); Espenhorst H 3.1.

Relief shown pictorially. Includes decorative title cartouche and bar scales. In Volume III., 3-volume atlas contains 182 maps: 55 in Volume I, 70 in Volume II and 57 in Volume III. Dimensions: Volume I = 44 x 33 cm; Volume II = 47 x 33 cm; Volume III = 48 x 34. Board covers with abbreviated spine titles: Atlante geografico universale I -- Atlante geografico universale II -- Atlante geografico universale III. Cassini was both a painter and engraver who trained in Rome under Giambattista Piranesi (1720-1778). "Piranesi taught him the strict principles of Roman and Greek architecture, albeit that both Piranesi and Cassini utilized classical images in a Baroque style and context. Cassini's preparedness to contemplate a hybrid classical format - incorporating classical architecture and figures as fashionable forms - characterized a celestial glove he engraved in 1792. Cassini produced influential atlases, maps and globes at a time of major political upheaval in Europe. Many redrawn boundaries followed in the wake of the French Revolution and Napoleon's conquest. While Britain, Spain and France were engaged in worldwide imperial conflict, Cassini's views emerged, anticipating by over fifty years the insurrections in Italy in 1831 and 1848-49, as well as Cavour's advocacy at the Congress of Paris in 1856 of an "Italian State". The survival of some of Cassini's globes in Italian schools attests to his educational contribution to the emergence of Italian nationalism, if not to the great power campaigns and treaties that led to the creation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1859-60. Cassini's globes also provide insights into the ecclesiastical politics of Rome, and to successive military occupations of the Papal Sates - occupations that led to loss of sovereignty and the Law of Guarantees of 1871, passed by an Italian Parliament to safeguard the Pope in the Vatican". - Baldwin, Robert W. (1995). P. Giovanni Maria Cassini, C.R.S. (1745-1824 ca.) and his globes. International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes, (43/44), 201-218. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41622076, Phillips 670; Tooley 243

Chart of the city of Jeddah on the coast of Red Sea. Depth shown by soundings., French marine atlas of the eastern oceans, updated to 1810 using French admiralty charts to provide a full working atlas for officers navigating towards the east, with routes to the Red Sea, coasts of India, China, northern parts of Indonesia and South-East Asia. Atlas contains 69 maps, many double-page, bound in large nineteenth-century quarter calf and green papered boards, with "D'Apres - Hydrographie Francaise. 469 A 557", in gilt on spine. D'Apres de Mannevillette published the first edition of the Neptune Oriental in 1745, with 22 charts, as being superior to all previous maps of Southeast Asian coasts (Suarez p.238). Thirty years later, in 1775, he published a second edition, completely revised and greatly increased. This 1810 edition was published with 69 maps from three different sources: 46 maps derive from the 1775 edition of the Neptune Oriental; 6 maps are added from a separately published supplement of 1781; and 17 French admiralty charts are added, based chiefly on the work of d'Apres de Mannevillette, but many of them post dating his death and most of them updated with recent surveys and discoveries . This is the latest dated reference in the charts, suggesting a date of publication of around 1810. Despite their different sources, the maps are similar in appearance and printing, have the insignia of the Depot Generale de la Marine and some are priced at 1-3 francs. Most of the charts are engraved by De la Haye.

"Printed title within elaborate woodcut border, 27 double-page maps of the ancient world, 22 double-page maps of the modern world, one full-page map of Lotharingia on verso of map 46, together 50 woodcut maps, most with Latin text on versos enclosed in elaborate woodcut borders, mounted on vellum guards, woodcut diagrams in the text (one by Dürer), including one full-page of an armillary sphere. Contemporary half blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, two clasps; lacking one strap., published 3 April, 1525. Fine example of Fourth Strassburg edition of Ptolemy. The work includes the first printed map in an edition of Ptolemy to name America, the first printed map of Southeast Asia, and the first printed map of China. The list of contributors is a veritable ‘who’s who’ of German Renaissance publishing: the text was translated by Wilibald Pirckheimer using the notes of Johannes Regiomontanus, perhaps under the editorship of Johann Huttich; the ornamental woodblock designs on the reverse of the maps are attributed to Albrecht Dürer, who also contributed the woodblock of the armillary sphere. The present edition was printed for Johann Koberger by Johann Grüninger, using the woodblocks of the first Grüninger edition of 1522. The present edition features 27 woodcut maps based on Ptolemy and 23 ‘modern’ maps based on geographical knowledge of the time. All are in the trapezoid shape developed by the German cartographer Nicolaus Germanus in 1460. The ‘modern’ section was copied by Lorenz Fries, in a reduced format, from maps prepared by Waldseemüller in 1513, and accordingly contains new maps of North America and the West Indies, Lorraine, Switzerland, Crete, North Africa, Southern Africa, Southern Asia and the World. To that group Fries added three maps: South East Asia and the East Indies, China and Japan, and a navigational map of the world. The two former are the first separate printed maps of the regions they depict. With the exception of Quinta Asie Tabula, the maps are from the same blocks as those of the 1522 edition. Map 47 is single page on verso of map 46. Map 50, Orbis typus universalis by Laurentius Fries, is the first map in a Ptolemy in which the name America is used. The account of the discoveries of Columbus and others is on the back of Map 28. The dedication by Bilibaldus Pirckeymherus, dated at Norenberge. Kalendis septembris. Anno Salutis nostre. M.D.XXIV., begins on the verso of the title and ends on the verso of folio 2. Index Ptolemaei (with half-title within illustrated border): [68] p. at end." (Bruce Marshall Books, 2021). This copy is from the National Library of Scotland and we are grateful to them for providing scanned images of the atlas as part of a joint project under the guidance of Christopher Fleet, Senior Map Curator at the NLS. See our 11325.000 for the updated 1841 edition by Fries.

Engraved and hand painted with outline color map. Shows political boundaries, major cities, rivers and mountains. Relief shown by hachures. Includes descriptive text., New elementary hand atlas of the world, designed for primary grades. Consists of 17 maps, accompanied by a statistical survey of all parts of the world in geographical and political terms. Designed by I.E. Lange. 1809. Title page includes table of contents "Register", contains 16 maps, map of China "Charte von China" not included in the contents. Maps are engraved and hand painted with outline color, showing political and administrative boundaries, major cities, towns, mountains, waterways, ports, etc., some maps include explanatory text, title cartouche and compass rose. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians are Ferro, Paris and Greenwich. Covers are gray marbled paper covered boards.

Engraved hand color map. Relief shown pictorially., Marmocchi's Atlas of universal geography in 101 pages, consists of vocabulary of the technical terms in geography, statistical geography, political and administrative divisions, Globe Political Scale and Statistical Scale, 58 plates, including maps, views, cross-sections, and diagrams. The first part, Cosmography, The second, Physical Geography, subdivided as follows: Globes mappings, in different projections, different contours of the continents and the comparative height of the mountains and the length of river currents. Rose of the Winds and geography of the burning and extinct volcanoes. Maps are mostly hand colored, some plates folded, dated 1832-1846. Engraved in copper and finished in color. Showing political and administrative divisions, cities, towns, roads, railroads, rivers and mountains. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Some maps include title cartouche, the national flags and coat of arms. Bound in half leather, with title "Atlante" on spine in gilt. Marmocchi was an Italian geographer, cartographer and patriot, born in Poggibonsi in 1805, died in 1858. He studied natural sciences, especially geography. In 1829 he published the first of his many works "The animal kingdom described according to the observations of the most famous naturalists". He dedicate himself to his discipline, attending the GS Vieusseux Cabinet in Florence and creating a Universal Geography Course developed in one hundred lessons, reissued several times. In 1847 he directed the weekly Florentine Sabatino and later collaborated with the Florentine newspaper L'Alba. In 1848 he became deputy in the Tuscan Parliament, and then held the office of Secretary of the Interior under Guerrazzi. He was one of the pioneers to design an interesting planisphere with fossils of vertebrates and invertebrates. His works cover all aspects of "sciences": geography, archeology, history, paleontology, economics, public and private law, commerce, finance and merchant science.

Woodcut uncolored 6th. map of Asia. Covers Persia between Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region. Shows cities, towns, land marks, rivers and mountains. Relief shown pictorially. Includes notes., First edition of Sebastian Munster’s Geographia Universalis, published in 1540. A new and important edition of Ptolemy, with redesigned maps and the text revised by Sebastian Munster, based on the Willibald Pirckheimer Latin translation, with corrections of 1535 by Servetus. A reprint was made in 1542 and two re-editions, adding maps, in 1545 and 1552. The atlas consists of Letterpress title, Liber I-VIII, plus text printed in two columns, including 7 woodcut diagrams in the text, tables, errata, index and one full-page printer’s woodcut device on verso of colophon leaf. Also includes 48 double-page woodcut maps, 27 maps of the ancient world, 21 of the modern world, each within a woodcut border, and with descriptive text on reverse of each map, printed within ornamental woodcut borders, designed in the Holbein style. Includes the first separate maps of the four continents, and the earliest maps of Western Hemisphere and Africa, also the first separately printed map of England, and the oldest obtainable woodcut of Scandinavia. The map Novarum insularum is one of the earliest available separate maps depicting the Americas in a recognizable form. Maps are uncolored, showing settlements, landmarks, roads, rivers and mountains. Bound in reddish brown full calf embossed binding, with title "Ptolemaei Geographia Universalis" stamped on spine. Sebastian Munster,1448-1552, was a mathematician, geographer and professor at Basel University. He also compiled a highly influential encyclopedic work entitled Cosmographia Universalis, which first appeared in 1544 and contained forty-eight woodcut maps. He was among the first editors of a published geographical text to quote or acknowledge his sources and authorities.

Engraved hand-colored in outline, double-page map of Arabian Peninsula, with decorative title cartouche. Shows political divisions, cities, towns, rivers and mountains. Relief shown pictorially., Zatta's atlas in 4 volumes, dated MDCCLXXIX - MDCCLXXXIV (1779-1784). The most comprehensive world atlas issued in Italy in the 18th. century, based on observations and discoveries made by the most famous and most recent geographers. Volumes 2-4 have full engraved title pages, including borders with geographical instruments and maps, seaside scenes at bottom with a large globe and several putti engaged in mapmaking and observation and a scene in the center. Vol. I, has decorated engraved title page/frontispiece, dedication text " a Sua Eccellenza il Signor Carlo Spinola ..." and index. Bound in half leather marbled covered boards with "Atlante novissi. Venez, 1788 P.A. Zat." stamped in gold on spine. 217 detailed maps, engraved hand colored, double-page, with title cartouches showing vignettes of topographical and historic scenes, dated 1774-1788. Some maps engraved by Giovanni Marco Pitteri, Giuliano Zuliani, and Pietro Antonio Novelli. Shows political and administrative divisions, cities, villages, landmarks, rivers, lakes, and mountains. Relief shown by hachures. Map of Guinea Orientale repeated twice, Guinea Occidentale is inserted, it was missing from volume IV. Maps of the New World and the Pacific reflect the most recent explorations and discoveries in those areas. Zatta includes 12 maps in reference to the United States "Colonie Uniti", dated 1778, which he also published in "Storia Dell' America Settentrionale Del Signor Abate Raynal" - see our 5007.000, Phillips, 650

Copper engraved double page, hand colored in outline map, with decorative cartouche. Showing political boundaries, major cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, drainage, etc. Relief shown pictorially., Atlas of Asia, dedicated to Nicolas Fouquet, 104 pages of explanatory text and 17 folded maps of various Empires, Kingdoms, States, Republics and Islands. Maps based on Jesuit missionary sources, copper engraved double page, hand colored in outline, with decorative cartouches, some engraved by A. Peyrounin. Showing major cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, drainage, etc. Relief shown pictorially. This is the second volume of the first edition of Sanson's quarto Atlas, a geographical description of the four continents of the world in four separate volumes, L'Europe, Asie, Afrique, Amerique, each with engraved title page, accompanied by text and folded maps, bound in full brown calf with rich gold decoration and gold title on spine. Published over the period 1648 to 1657, these are the first atlases published by Sanson, a noted French historian and cartographer, the geographer to the French king. Most of the maps were engraved especially for these works and are not reductions of larger previously published maps., Pastoreau Sanson IA, IIA, IIIA, VIIA; Phillips 494.

Engraved ancient map of Arabian Peninsula, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. Shows settlements, towns, landmarks, rivers and mountains. Relief shown pictorially., The first pocket atlas and the first edition of Ptolemy's Geographia in Italian, also the first engraved Ptolemy edition since Berlingheri in 1482. Maps engraved on copper by Giacomo Gastaldi, the foremost Italian cartographer of the 16th century, marking a turning point in the history of cartography, mostly based on those of Munster woodcuts in the Latin edition of 1540. Nordenskiold noted that "Copper engraving was reintroduced into the service of cartography" as it was the first atlas in the 16th century to use this process. Maps are accompanied by descriptive text printed on the backs. It is likely the most important atlas published between Waldseemuller's 1513 Ptolemy and Ortelius's Theatrum of 1570. The translation was made by Pietro Andrea Mattioli, the famous botanist. The atlas contains 60 double page copperplate maps, 26 of Ptolemy, supplemented by 34 Modern maps, woodcut title page, illustrated page of "Ptolemeo degli astronomi prencipe ..." and text. Bound in contemporary limp vellum covers with title inked on spine. Most of the Ptolemy and Modern maps showing illustrations of ships, sea monsters, fishes, trees, figures, landmarks and place names. Every where in this atlas are indications of Gastaldi's effort to use the most up-to-date geographical information available. Atlas includes the first engraved maps of part of North America and South America, Tierra Nueva map of the East coast of North America from Florida to Lavrador, is considered the earliest map to focus on the East Coast of North America. Nordenskiold calls it "the very first atlas of the New World". It also has the earliest maps to reflect Verrazano and Cartier's explorations. One of the two world maps in the atlas, the "Universle Novo is the reduction of an extremely rare map published just two years earlier that Tooley described as "one of the most important map of the sixteenth century." Borri provides a thorough analysis of both general maps of Italy. Gole described Calecut Nova Tavola as the first separate map of Indian peninsula. Although only one edition of this atlas is known, a somewhat enlarged edition first published by G. Ruscelli in 1561 (see our copy). In this form the atlas was issued five more times by various publishers.

Engraved map of the Arabian Peninsula and adjoining regions., Second edition of Michael Servetus' Ptolemy 's Geographia utilising Lorenz Fries's woodcut maps, was published by Gaspar Trechsel in Vienna, in 1541 and sold by Hughes de la Porte in Lyons. This atlas is divided into three parts: First, the text comprising the new Latin translation by the humanist Wilibald Pirckheimer of the 1525 edition, which has been edited by Michael Servetus, for the first time for 1535 edition and the second time for this 1541 edition. The second part consists of 50 maps, comprising 27 Ptolemaic and 23 modern maps. The maps were printed from the same wooden blocks which were made for the first edition in 1522 by Lorenz Fries, the famous physician, astrologer and geographer, many with descriptive text on recto and verso. With half title index before or after the maps varies. A special feature of the 1541 edition is the missing text on verso of some modern maps. This is due to the action of Calvinism, especially since the text on verso of the Holy Land map provoked controversy. The third and final part consists of a comprehensive index. Many of the first three editions were burned, which led Servetus to abdicate on some text on the map versos. Maps Showing rivers, canals, waterways, place names, fortifications, and administrative boundaries. Relief shown pictorially. Some maps drawn in a trapezoidal projection., Mickwitz, Ann-Maria (& others) ed. The A.E. Nordenskiold Collection..., II, 211.

Engraved modern map of Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf and Red Sea. Relief shown pictorially., The first edition of Girolamo Ruscelli's translation of Claudius Ptolemy's Geographia, published in Italian. It was printed by Vincenzo Valgrisi in Venice, with the text translated from Greek by Ruscelli. The 64 double page copperplate maps were partly based on those of Jacopo Gastaldo in the edition of 1548, with descriptive text on recto of first leaf and verso of last leaf. 27 Ptolemy maps and 37 'modern' map, including 3 world maps, 6 maps of America (South America, Mexico with Florida, Brazil, east coast of North America, Haiti, Cuba), 27 European maps (including the North-Atlantic map with parts of Labrador), 9 maps of Africa and 19 maps of Asia. Maps showing settlements, landmarks, rivers, mountains, ports, forests, illustrations of wildlife,etc. Includes index. Relief shown pictorially. Bound in half leather marbled paper covered boards, with title "Geografia di Tolomeo" on spine. Claudius Ptolemy (90-168 CE) was a Roman geographer and mathematician living in Egypt, who compiled his knowledge and theories about the world's geography into one seminal work. Although his maps did not survive, his mathematical projections and location coordinates did. Girolamo Ruscelli (c. 1504-1566) was a Venetian editor, whose maps are primarily based on those by Jacopo Gastaldi (1548) but with many of his own additions and reproduced on a larger scale. Ruscelli introduces several important innovations in this volume through his 37 "modern" maps, which cover Europe, Africa, Asia and the New World. Ruscelli includes a double hemisphere world map, which was the first of its kind to be used in an atlas, and "Carta Marina Nuova Tavola", a rare sea chart of the world.

Engraved map of Arabian Peninsula. Relief shown pictorially., The first edition of Girolamo Ruscelli's translation of Claudius Ptolemy's Geographia, published in Italian. It was printed by Vincenzo Valgrisi in Venice, with the text translated from Greek by Ruscelli. The 64 double page copperplate maps were partly based on those of Jacopo Gastaldo in the edition of 1548, with descriptive text on recto of first leaf and verso of last leaf. 27 Ptolemy maps and 37 'modern' map, including 3 world maps, 6 maps of America (South America, Mexico with Florida, Brazil, east coast of North America, Haiti, Cuba), 27 European maps (including the North-Atlantic map with parts of Labrador), 9 maps of Africa and 19 maps of Asia. Maps showing settlements, landmarks, rivers, mountains, ports, forests, illustrations of wildlife,etc. Includes index. Relief shown pictorially. Bound in half leather marbled paper covered boards, with title "Geografia di Tolomeo" on spine. Claudius Ptolemy (90-168 CE) was a Roman geographer and mathematician living in Egypt, who compiled his knowledge and theories about the world's geography into one seminal work. Although his maps did not survive, his mathematical projections and location coordinates did. Girolamo Ruscelli (c. 1504-1566) was a Venetian editor, whose maps are primarily based on those by Jacopo Gastaldi (1548) but with many of his own additions and reproduced on a larger scale. Ruscelli introduces several important innovations in this volume through his 37 "modern" maps, which cover Europe, Africa, Asia and the New World. Ruscelli includes a double hemisphere world map, which was the first of its kind to be used in an atlas, and "Carta Marina Nuova Tavola", a rare sea chart of the world.

Engraved map of Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf and Red Sea. Relief shown pictorially., Ruscelli's Italian translation from the Greek of Ptolemy's Geographia. The fourth edition of Ruscelli's Ptolemy, revised, enlarged, and edited by Giuseppe Rosaccio, 4 parts in one volume, with 69 engraved double-page uncolored maps, five entirely new maps, including one of the Americas. With various pagination, showing landmarks, rivers, ports, fortifications, major cities and towns, some with decorative cartouches, illustrations of sea monsters and ships. Relief shown pictorially. Bound in full leather covers. Claudius Ptolemy (90-168 CE) was a Roman geographer and mathematician living in Egypt, who compiled his knowledge and theories about the world's geography into one seminal work. Although his maps did not survive, his mathematical projections and location coordinates did. Girolamo Ruscelli (c. 1504-1566) was a Venetian editor, whose maps are primarily based on those by Jacopo Gastaldi (1548) but with many of his own additions and reproduced on a larger scale. Ruscelli introduces several important innovations in this volume through his 37 "modern" maps, which cover Europe, Africa, Asia and the New World. Ruscelli includes a double hemisphere world map, which was the first of its kind to be used in an atlas, and "Carta Marina Nuova Tavola", a rare sea chart of the world.

Engraved map of Arabian Peninsula. Relief shown pictorially., Ruscelli's Italian translation from the Greek of Ptolemy's Geographia. The fourth edition of Ruscelli's Ptolemy, revised, enlarged, and edited by Giuseppe Rosaccio, 4 parts in one volume, with 69 engraved double-page uncolored maps, five entirely new maps, including one of the Americas. With various pagination, showing landmarks, rivers, ports, fortifications, major cities and towns, some with decorative cartouches, illustrations of sea monsters and ships. Relief shown pictorially. Bound in full leather covers. Claudius Ptolemy (90-168 CE) was a Roman geographer and mathematician living in Egypt, who compiled his knowledge and theories about the world's geography into one seminal work. Although his maps did not survive, his mathematical projections and location coordinates did. Girolamo Ruscelli (c. 1504-1566) was a Venetian editor, whose maps are primarily based on those by Jacopo Gastaldi (1548) but with many of his own additions and reproduced on a larger scale. Ruscelli introduces several important innovations in this volume through his 37 "modern" maps, which cover Europe, Africa, Asia and the New World. Ruscelli includes a double hemisphere world map, which was the first of its kind to be used in an atlas, and "Carta Marina Nuova Tavola", a rare sea chart of the world.

Color map. Relief shown by hachures. Includes geographic notes on selected locations., Revised edition of the Atlas of India, produced by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge to encourage broad use of maps in education. Date estimated. Includes 26 double page maps, including: 13 of India (an index map and 12 regional maps), 10 maps covering surrounding territories in the Middle East, South Asia and the Far East (including one showing Canton and Macao with an inset of Hong Kong), 1 map of the islands of the Pacific and a map of the world on Mercator's Projection in two sheets. Most sheets engraved by J. and C. Walker. Atlas is bound in half leather dark brown cloth covered boards with "Indian atlas" stamped in gold on the front cover. Maps are hand colored, showing political and administrative divisions, roads, railroads, major cities and towns, fortifications, rivers, canals and lakes. Relief shown by hachures, shading, and pictorially.

Hand colored outline map of Arabian Peninsula. Relief shown pictorially., Three parts bound together in a single volume. The first part (tomus prior) includes a decorative colored title page which is filled with geographers with mapping instruments and globes at the top and bottom within an architectural surrounding. Includes 28 maps of Ptolemy, engraved by Gerhard Mercator, with an engraved portrait of Mercator for his edition of Geographia in 1578. The second part contains the engravings of the Peutinger Roman World Map from the plates Ortelius used on four sheets, and an extra 9th map which was made specifically for this atlas and does not occur anywhere else. Finally, in the third part there are 14 historical maps of Europe with accompanying text, 12 of them borrowed from the Parergon maps of Ortelius, a Low Countries map of Kaerius, and an Italy map of Cluverius, both based on Ortelius. Willebrord Snellius of Leiden also belonged to the contributors of this atlas. Maps are outline hand colored with decorative title cartouche, showing geographical features, major cities and towns. Relief shown pictorially. Imprint in the last page of atlas states: Lugduni Batavorum, Excudebat typis suis Isaacus Elzevirius, sumptibus Iudoci Hondii, anno MDCXVIII. Imprint from title page to the last part: "Amstelodami : Ex officina I. Hondii, 1619." Includes tables and index. Bound in leather brown covers with title "P. Bertii, Theatrum geographiae veteris" on spine. Petrus Bertius was born at Beveren, Flanders, Nov. 14, 1565. Became professor of mathematics and librarian at University of Leiden. In 1618 became cosmographer and histographer to Louis XIII of France. He was the author of many geographical and theological works. This three part atlas is the most celebrated work of Petrus Bertius (1565-1629). It is based primarily on Ptolemy's Geographia, produced around 150 AD. It includes engraved folding maps, drawn from earlier work by Mercator and Ortelius.

Color map. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths by isolines. Includes inset at 1:1,500,000 of the Suez Canal and vicinity and at 1:3,000,000 of Iraq and part of Iran., P6715; World 477.

Explanation to map., P6715; World 477.

Engraved map. Relief shown by hachures. Country borders hand col., The SDUK, as the Society was known, produced inexpensive maps to encourage broad use in education. The maps in these two volumes were issued in parts over several years. The city plans are of particular interest, with vignettes and great detail. The gnomonic star maps were issued separately in this edition in their own covers. This is the second edition, the first being by Baldwin and Cradock, with the maps issued in numbers and later bound as a set. Rumsey Collection copy originally issued without the 6 "World on a gnomonic projection" maps; copies of them have been laid in. Atlas is bound in half leather dark brown cloth covered boards with "Maps. Vol. 1," "Maps. Vol. 2" stamped in gold on the spines. Maps with outline color; geological map of England and Wales hand colored in full color., Phillips, 794.

Engraved map. Full hand col. Relief shown by hachures. "Pinkerton's modern atlas.", A superb copy. One of the best English Atlases of the period, similar to Thomson's General Atlas of 1817. See the Philadelphia edition of 1818. Maps are hand painted in full color and bound in new half leather beige cloth covered boards with "Pinkerton Atlas" stamped in gilt on a black spine label., P724; NMC 409.

Full color map by provinces. Includes explanation chart, showing capitals, important towns, etc. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian is Greenwich., The Oregon and Upper California map is enlarged to include all of New Mexico and New Mexico is added to the title. Last edition published by Mitchell. Full color maps. Covers are half leather marbled paper covered boards with "Mitchell's Universal Atlas" stamped in gilt on the front cover label., P797.

Double page engraved hand colored in outline. Relief shown by hachures. Shows political boundaries, towns, roads, rivers and mountains., A later edition of the 1826 atlas, published by William H. Lizars, a Scottish painter and engraver. Date is on the spine only. Atlas contains 69 double-page engraved hand colored in outline map sheets, contents ”Index to the maps”, numbered 1-70, as listed but no. 32 omitted, no. 70 is double-page engraved “Table of mountain chains”, and 16 pages of index to the name of places and maps" at the end. Maps show political and administrative boundaries, cities, villages, rivers, lakes and mountains. This volume includes two maps, one of the United States and one of Mexico, both showing the Republic of Texas. Relief shown by hachures. Some maps includes notes. Prime meridian is Greenwich. Covers are half leather dark green cloth covered boards with "Lizars' General Atlas. 1841" stamped in gilt on the spine., Philips Atlases 782.

Hand colored engraved map. Relief shown by hachures. Shows settlements, caravan routes, oases, etc., P761; World 396.

Prime meridians are Greenwich and Washington D. C., This edition changes the U.S. map, adds Wyoming to the North America map, adds the map of the northwest states and several other maps (but not to the U.S. map). Has an unusual Alaska map. In several of the western maps (Iowa, etc.) the phrase "Township Map of..." that appeared in the 1868 atlas, is dropped. Florida and New Jersey are enlarged to double page. Relief shown by hachures. Political units (mostly counties) shown in color., cfP4348.

Prime meridians are Greenwich and Washington D.C., This edition changes the U.S. map, adds Wyoming to the North America map, adds the map of the northwest states and several other maps (but not to the U.S. map). Has an unusual Alaska map. In several of the western maps (Iowa, etc.) the phrase "Township Map of..." that appeared in the 1868 atlas, is dropped. Florida and New Jersey are enlarged to double page. Relief shown by hachures. Political units (mostly counties) shown in color., cfP4348.

Prime meridians are Greenwich and Washington D.C. Relief shown by hachures., Has letter from J.H. Colton to his Pastor tipped in. Phillips shows 1860 and 1864 editions, with none in between. Colton might not have published the General Atlas in this period because of the Family Atlas collaboration with Johnson (just saw an 1862 & 1863 listed in World - Brit Museum, but maybe small editions were run?). That collaboration ended in 1863 (we believe) when Colton's name was dropped from the direct title page credits. Ristow states (p325) that Colton retired in 1864, and the General Atlas thereafter was published by G.W. & C.B. Phillips does not list this 1865 (which has J.H. as publisher) but has 1866 (P6155) published by G.W. & C.B. Colton adds the "Johnson" western states maps in this edition (and may have done this also in 1864), while Johnson drops them in 1864 and replaces them with maps of unknown source. Full color used to differentiate the political boundaries., cfP6148.

Prime meridians are Greenwich and Washington D.C. Relief shown by hachures., Has letter from J.H. Colton to his Pastor tipped in. Phillips shows 1860 and 1864 editions, with none in between. Colton might not have published the General Atlas in this period because of the Family Atlas collaboration with Johnson (just saw an 1862 & 1863 listed in World - Brit Museum, but maybe small editions were run?). That collaboration ended in 1863 (we believe) when Colton's name was dropped from the direct title page credits. Ristow states (p325) that Colton retired in 1864, and the General Atlas thereafter was published by G.W. & C.B. Phillips does not list this 1865 (which has J.H. as publisher) but has 1866 (P6155) published by G.W. & C.B. Colton adds the "Johnson" western states maps in this edition (and may have done this also in 1864), while Johnson drops them in 1864 and replaces them with maps of unknown source. Full color used to differentiate the political boundaries., cfP6148.

In full color. Different typefaces used to denote Scriptural names, classical names and modern names., This large one volume 1856 edition is scarcer than the two volume edition. Initially, Colton's atlas was published by subscription (see our subscribers salesman's book) and in parts, then in a two volume edition with the first volume (North and South America) issued in 1855 and the second volume (Europe, Asia, etc.)in 1856. This atlas was the first world atlas produced by Colton, after many years of issuing pocket maps, wall maps, guides, and maps for books. The atlas was one of the finest and most accurate of the period - it had a long publishing run, continuing for over thirty years (with the title changed to Colton's General Atlas after 1856). In this issue, the Texas map is single page, 2nd state. New Mexico and Utah 2nd state. Bound into quarter leather embossed brown cloth covered boards with "Colton's Atlas Of The World" and an illustration stamped in gold. The same title is stamped on the spine. Full color maps., P816.