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From Collins’ Great Britain’s Coasting Pilot. Collin’s
infamous folio was first published in 1693, and sold by
Richard Mount of London. The collated charts represent a
significant achievement in hydrography for they instantly
superseded the outmoded Dutch charts on which Britain
had been previously reliant. The remarkable archive of
this point in naval history confirms that the Collins charts
were frequently mentioned as the best available for many
years after their publication. In the century to follow,
Collins’ charts were reissued over twenty times without
revision.
Condition: Centre fold as issued.
[29876]
£500
Inscription Content: Contains a dedication to Robert Yate
Esq., the Mayor of Bristol, and Master of the Merchants
Hall.
[29974]
£770
91. Oxonia Antiqua Instaurata Sive Urbis &
Academiae Oxoniensis Topographica...
Copper engraved
Whittlesey, Robert
1728
660 x 955 mm on two sheets
framed
90. Dartmouth
Copper engraved with hand colouring
Francis Lamb after Captain Greenville Collins
c. 1725
472 x 567 mm
unmounted
Captain Greenville Collins’ work depicts Gemton Bay
and Dittason to the mouth of the River, as well as the civil
parish of Dartmouth, which is more centrally located. The
geography has been rotated clockwise by approximately
ninety degrees, as the English channel appears to the
East of the River Dart. The work contains three coastal
profiles, a compass rose, soundings, anchorages and other
navigational notes. It also contains decorative cartouches
featuring the title and a dedication to the Lord of Dartmouth,
as well as the scale. A large inset of ‘Tarr Bay’
appears at the top of the map.
Printed by E.Butler and dedicated to Henry Duke of
Beaufort, this eleborate and highly detailed plan was the
first and most important derivative of a plan of the city by
Ralph Agas in 1578, and known only from a unique example
in the Bodleian Library. It is surrounded by seventeen
views of the Oxford colleges. They were taken from
drawings made by John Bereblock in 1566 for the visit
of Queen Elizabeth to Oxford, and were apparently much
admired by the sovereign. These views were the earliest
of their kind. The originals have since been lost, though a
copy of them was presented to the Bodleian in 1630.
Condition: Pressed horizontal and vertical folds, full
margins on all sides, light dicolouration to the top left and
right of the map, otherwise an excellent example of this
very rare map.
[29258]
£2,750
Inscription Content: ‘To the Right Honorable George
Lord Dartmouth, Mr Generall of his Majesty’s Ordnance
&c. This Map humbly Dedicated, and Presented, by G.
Collins Hydrographer to the King.’