Description
Atlases.- Morden (Robert) [Geography Rectified: or, A Description of the World], maps only, no title or text, comprising double-page engraved 'Catalogue of Mapps in This Booke' and 77 double-page engraved maps only (of 78, lacking map of Bermudas), all with attractive bright outline hand-colouring in contemporary hand, all mounted on stubs, some offsetting and foxing, 2 maps with repairs to margins, 1 map closely shaved at foot, just within plate margin, ink inscription to front endpaper, faint ink stamp to rear endpaper, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, retaining much of original backstrip, 8vo, n.p., [c.1688]
⁂ Bound volume of maps from Morden's Geography Rectified including a twin hemisphere map and 16 maps of the Americas, with a general map of America showing California as an island. The work was first published in 1680 with 62 maps and a second, enlarged, edition in 1688 with 78 maps.
Provenance: Susanne Simond Louise (ink inscription).
Lot 299
Atlases.- Morden (Robert) [Geography Rectified: or, A Description of the World], [c.1688].
Hammer Price: £4,200
Description
Atlases.- Morden (Robert) [Geography Rectified: or, A Description of the World], maps only, no title or text, comprising double-page engraved 'Catalogue of Mapps in This Booke' and 77 double-page engraved maps only (of 78, lacking map of Bermudas), all with attractive bright outline hand-colouring in contemporary hand, all mounted on stubs, some offsetting and foxing, 2 maps with repairs to margins, 1 map closely shaved at foot, just within plate margin, ink inscription to front endpaper, faint ink stamp to rear endpaper, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, retaining much of original backstrip, 8vo, n.p., [c.1688]
⁂ Bound volume of maps from Morden's Geography Rectified including a twin hemisphere map and 16 maps of the Americas, with a general map of America showing California as an island. The work was first published in 1680 with 62 maps and a second, enlarged, edition in 1688 with 78 maps.
Provenance: Susanne Simond Louise (ink inscription).