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ose, key to paths and river depth and distance charts
from Boulter’s Lock and London Bridge.
Condition: Printed on three sheets, manuscript repair to
top of first sheet, vertical and horizontal folds as issued,
repaired tear to horizontal fold on third sheet.
[30188]
£1,100
95. Italiae Novissima Descriptio Avctore Jacobo
Castaldo Pedemontano
Copper engraved with early hand colouring
Ortelius, Abraham
c.1574
350 x 495 mm
framed
Based on Giacomo Gastaldi’s earlier map of Italy, this
highly decorative map shows the whole of Corsica as
well as areas of France, Switzerland, Sardinia, Sicily
and the Adriatic coast. It includes an allegorical scene of
Neptune, a sea monster and sailing ships in addition to a
decorative cartouche and mileage scale.
[29759]
£1,100
96. A Plan of the River Thames from Boulter’s lock to
Mortlake. Surveyed by order of thr City of London in
1770. by James Brindley Engineer.
Revised and continued to London Bridge in1774 by
Robert Whitworth.
Copper engraved with original hand colour
Jefferys, Thomas after Whitworth, Robert
1771 - 1774.
645 x 1403
unmounted
97. Mappa Aestivarum Insularum Alias Barmudas [...]
Copper engraved with hand colouring
Arnoldus, Montanus
London: John Ogilby, 1671
290 x 352 mm
framed
A wonderful map of Bermuda with a highly decorative
cartouche. This map is from John Ogilby’s ‘America:
being the latest, and most accurate description of the New
World...’, the English translation of Montanus’ ‘De Nieuwe
en Onbekende Weereld’ which was widely considered
as the first encyclopedia of the Americas. It is based upon
the earlier Speed map of 1627, and the Eastern coastline
of America runs along the top edge of the map.
Condition: Light crease to the top right hand corner of
map. Some tiny spots to the sheet but otherwise a very
clean impression. Examined out of the frame there is
some toning to the verso and margins.
[29547]
£1,100
A rare eighteenth-century engraved map of the River
Thames on a scale of 2 inches to the Mile. With compass