Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards

Date:
1934
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/5/21
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ATLAS ES—continued. RARE MAP OF SCOTLAND. 32 Nicholay (Nicolas de, Sieur d’Arfeville) La Navication Du Roy d’EcosszE JACQUES CINQUIESME du Nom, Autour de son Royaume, & Isles Hebrides & Orchades, soubz la conduicte d’Alexandre Lyndsay excellent Pilote Escossois, Recueillie & redigée . . . par Nicolay d’Arfeville, etc., folding map, fold- zng woodcut diagram, spherical woodcuts tn text, head-pteces and ornamental capitals, sm. 4to., original vellum, enclosed tn blue crushed Levant morocco case, A Parts, ches Gilles Beys, 418 1583 EXCEEDINGLY RARE, especially with the fine folding map (the third printed map of Scotland). A very fine and tall copy. Brunet: ‘“‘ Livre rare, curieux et fort recherche.” Alexander Lyndsay, the pilot who accompanied James V. on his voyage round Scotland in 1540, supplied the information from which the map was compiled. The outline was an improvement on all previous maps and formed the basis of maps of Scotland for many years. 33: Terra Rossa (P. D. Vitale) Rirtession1 GEOGRAFICHE circa le TERRE incognite, sm. 4to., original vellum, Padova, 41 5s 1586 The Author claims for Venetians the discovery of America and other recently discovered territories. 34 Sanuto (Livio) Geocraria... Ne quali... si dichiarano le Provincie Popoli, Regni, Citta, Porti, Monti, Fiumo, Laghie Costumi dell’ Africa, engraved title and 12 maps, folio, con- temporary calf (neatly repaired), Venice, Appresso Damiano Zenares, 432 1588 THE MOST IMPORTANT PUBLICATION RELATING TO AFRICA ISSUED UP TO THIS DATE. Map X. is of South Africa and depicts Table Bay as ‘‘ Saldanhe Agoada.” The text ineludes accounts of Monomotapa, Zimbabwe, Manica, Golfo do Natal, &e. The maps, all of which are double-page, measure about 203 by 163 in. each. DRAKE’S VOYAGE TO THE SPANISH MAIN, 1585-86. 35 Bloazio] (Baptista) Map of Draxe’s Famous VoyacE to VirGINIA and the West InprEs in 1585-86. ‘* The Famous West Indian voyadge made by the Englishe fleete of 23 shippes and Barkes wherin weare gotten the Townes of St. Iago: Sto. Domingo, Cartagena and St. Augustines the same beinge begon from Plimmouth in the moneth of September, 1585, and ended at Portesmouth in lIulie, 1586, the whole course of the saide Viadge beinge plainlie de- scribed by the pricked line. Newlie come forth by Baptista Bloazio],” FULL CONTEMPORARY COLOURING, FINEST POSSIBLE CONDITION, szse 21 dy 16 an. |London, printed by Richard Field|, #4200 1589 ONLY TWO OR THREE COPIES ARE KNOWN, AND THIS IS THE ONLY ONE IN COLOURS. The map was definitely not issued with Bigge’s Account of Drake’s Voyage,
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