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superseded the outmoded Dutch charts on which Britain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