187 British Islands. Speed (John), Holy Iland, Garnsey, Farne [and] Jarsey, pub. Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, c.1676, four hand coloured engraved maps on one sheet (as published), each with a strapwork cartouche, compass rose and rhumb lines, 385 x 515mm, English text on verso, mounted, together with, Morden (Robert), The Smaller Islands in the British Ocean, [1695 or later], eight hand coloured engraved maps on one sheet (as published), 365 x 420mm, mounted, two copies (one trimmed to neat line), with a badly damaged and heavily restored copy of John Speed’s map of the Isle of Man, 385 x 510mm, mounted (4)
190 Cambridgeshire. Jansson (Jan), Comitatis Cantabrigiensis vernacule Cambridge Shire, c.1648, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, decorative cartouche and mileage scale, 420 x 520mm, Latin text on verso, together with, Morden (Robert), Cambridgeshire, [1695 or later], hand coloured engraved map, 430 x 360mm, mounted (2)
£120-180
£200-300
188 British Isles. Jaillot (Alexis-Hubert), Les Isles Britanniques; qui contiennent les Royaumes d’Angleterre, Ecosse et Irlande...., pub. Paris, 1692, hand coloured engraved map on two conjoined sheets (as published), inset map of the Faroe, Shetland and Orkney islands, large decorative cartouche and mileage scale, title repeated in French above map, 575 x 875mm, mounted
191 Celestial Chart. Homann (Johann Baptist), Hemisphaerium Coeli Boreale in quo Fixarum loca secundum Eclipticae ductum ad anum 1730....., pub. Nuremberg, [1730 or later], hand coloured celestial chart of the stars visible in the Northern hemisphere, vignette engravings of observatories to each corner, descriptive tables to margins, occ. marginal repaired closed tears, 495 x 580mm
R.W.Shirley, Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1650 - 1750, Jaillot 1, Plate 2 state 2. (1) £200-300
A fine and detailed chart based on the observations of Johanne Gabriele Doppelmayr. The map was published by Homann in Doppelmayr’s celestial atlas, the ‘Atlas Coelestis Novus’. (1) £300-500
189 British Isles. Lily (George), Britannia Insula quae duo Regna Continet Angliam et Scotiam cum Hibernia Adjacente, pub. Rome, c.1556, engraved map with early hand colouring, trimmed to neatlines on vertical margins, some old restoration, margins strengthened on verso, laid on later paper, 500 x 355mm, mounted R.W.Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1477 - 1650. no. 60. The second Rome printing of Lily’s important map of the British Isles. The engraver is unknown but the map was possibly published by Michele Tramenzini, who worked in both Venice and in Rome. Uncommon. (1) £3000-5000
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