de l'sle et al.
Atlas Russicus
St Peterburg, Akademie von Wissenschaften. 1745 - (Philips, atlasses 3109; Bagrow, 1975, chapter 10; Postnikov, 1996). Imperial folio (53x37 cm), contemporary, Russian binding in full calf with simple tooling. 4nn folios; 20 double page & folding maps in contemporary OL colour. Text of cartouches etc in Latin ; extra: 17 double page or folding maps, contemporary coloured in full and in in outline plus two double page and coloured explanatory tables. The binding, paper, prints and maps are in excellent condition and have not been restored.
The Russian Academy of Sciences was created in 1724 in St Petersburg. It was not only intended to coordinate and produce science but also to aid in solutions to practical problems. Many foreign scientists were invited to participate. Joseph Nicolas de l' Isle was invited to head the department of geography and came in 1726. The making of the first atlas Russicus , not surprisingly considering the size of the country, took a long time. New bearings in trigonometry had to be taken all over the country. Existing cartographic material had to be obtained and analysed. Among the Russian scientists that worked on the atlas was Kirilow, the man who published the first map of Russia in 1734. The best known expedition that fed data into the Atlas Russicus was the great Northern Expedition (1735-1743) . Gmelin; Muller; Krshnininnikow; Krasilnikow & Steller were among its participants. Except for reliable data printing facilities were needed. The Academies engraving shop was set up in 1728 with staff as Ellinger; Unversagt; Zubov and Rostovtsev. Eventually in September 1745 the atlas was printed in St Peterburg in Russian, Latin and German. “Send out to various governments..the atlas met with great praise everywhere” (Bagrow). After an unnumbered general map of Russia there are 13 numbered maps that cover European Russia (scale 1; 1.527.000). The other (last) 6 maps cover Asian Russia (Siberia, scale 1: 3.360.000) (Bagrow, pp 190). Apart from the Atlas Russicus, our Sammel Atlas has 17 additional maps that can be divided into four groups: City maps (3 sheets: St Petersburg & Moscow); Maps of Turkish war (7 sheets); Maps of Ladoga Lake, St Peterburg, Cronstad and the Finnish gulf (8 maps). All these maps were produced during the first 30 years of the Academy, at the request of interested authorities, and most of them are known in only a few copies, or not described at all. The city maps : In 1739 a plan of Moscow was prepared (Nagrow, Fig 64, page 183) under the supervision of I Michurin. It was engraved, it would seem, by Makhayev in 1741. IN 1742 the order was given to add a two page text to the plan (Bagrow) That is the Plan of Moscow & text sheets in our atlas. (rare, not in Fauser) (image see Bagrow, Fig 64). Our plan of St Peterburg (map 21) however precedes these plans. It is known as the Academy Map. It is based on initial drawings by George Wolffgang Krafft (1728) and published by de l Isle in 1737, engraved by Unversagt. (rare, not in Fauser) (image see Fig 26 in Postnikov). There is no doubt the map served as example for Seutters well known map of the city (1744). Maps for the Turkish Campaign : The war against the Turks broke out in 1735. De l' Isle and other cartographers and army officials were sent out to make military maps. Eventually 5 of them were accepted (August 1738) by the Academy and published: three by de l' Isle (our maps 25; 26 & 30) ; one by Frauendorf (our map 27) and another after an original manuscript by Frauendorf (our map 29). According to Bagrow, the Ottens (Amsterdam) published reedited our maps 27 and 29 and added a sheet of explanatory text (our sheet 28). That leaves our map 24, Mare Caspii descriptio, which describes the borders with Turkey as drawn and agreed upon in 1727, and dated in print 1728 as unidentified but probably one of those intermediary prints of the first years of the Academy and possibly based on the detailed map that Moll printed in London in 1727, drawn by the Tsars special command by Carl van Velden in the year 1719, 1720 and 1721. Our map 31: Battle against the Turks 17/08/1739 can not be identified. Maps of Finland, Karelia, Neva, Petersburg, Cronstad & Ladoga : Contemporaries stated (Muller 1761) that a series of maps was published which included Finland, Karelia,Ingria,the Neva and adjacent areas and possibly ended with the map of St Petersburg (our map 21). The series would include (Bagrow, part V, note 18): Lacus Ladoga (our map 32); Sinus Finnicus & Cronstadt (our 35); Fluvius Neva & Lacus Ladoga (our 34); Canalis Ladogensis (our 33); Magnus ducatus Finlandiae (our 39); Ingermanlandii I Karelli (in Russian, our 37) and the same in Latin Ingria et Carelia (our 36). Bagrow mentions the reedition by Seutter of these six maps but ours are the originals. (no additional texts or name of Seutter). The one undetermined map in our atlas than is 38, the siege of Willmannstrandt, august 27, 1741. Annex 1: the maps of the Atlas Russicas(20) and the extra maps(19) are: (1) Mapa generalis totius Russici (2) Lapponia Russica (nr 1) (3) Territorium Archangelopolin; Petroburgum… (nr 2) (4) Ducatum Estoniae et Livoniae (nr 3) (5) Moscoviae Gubernium (nr 4) (6) Gubernium Smolenscense (nr 5) (7) Territorium Mesenense (nr 6) (8) Tataria minor (nr 7) (9) Provinciarum Ustiugae... (nr 8) (10) Casaniae Regnum (nr 9) (11) Delineatio fluvii Volgae (nr 10)(12) Territorium Pontum Euxinum et Mare Caspeum (nr 11) (13) Pars Siberiae (nr 12) (14) Uffensis Provincia (nr 13) (15) Partes fluviorum petchorae Obii..(nr 14) (16) Tractus fluviorum Irtisch, Tobol.... (nr 15) (17) Pars maris glacialis... (nr 16) (18) Irkutensis Vice Praefectura.. (nr 17) (19) Territorii Iacuttensis..parte terrae Kamchatkae (nr 18) (20) Ostium fluvii Armur (nr 19) Extra maps & plates: (21) Plan of St Peterburg, 1737 (Tab 1); 47x62 cm. Orig full colour; G I Unvertsagt, sculpsit (22) Double page table with explantions to plan of Moscow (map 23); 42x52 cm. Six columns, each in colour(23) Plan of MOCBA , Moscow. 42x52 cm Original full colour. Text in Russian (24) Maris Caspii description; 50x40 cm; Orig OL colour (25) Charte der Kriegsaktionen ; am Don und Dnjepper. 1736; 40x46 cm. Orig OL colour. German text (26) Charte von dem Russischen Armee; In 1736 zwischen Don und Dnjepper Wider der Turcken und Tartaren…; 60x75 cm. Original OL colour. German text. (27) Verus..Crimeae conspectus (Krim); Ejercitu 1736 & 1737 adversus Tattaros… Editus ex autographus Carolia Frauendorff; In Academia Petropolit; 50x66 cm. Orig OL colour. Text Latin. (28) Double page explanation of maps (6) and (7); In Latin, Russian and German in three columns. Each column coloured. 45x61 cm (29) Theatrum belli…1737 adversas Turcas Tattarosque; Ex autographis in Acad. Scient. Petropol; 49x65 cm. Orig OL colour. Text Latin (30) Theatrum belli ad Borystenem, Tyram et Danumbium. 1738; In Academia scientiarum Petropolitana; 50x64 cm. Orig OL colour. Text Latin (31) Plan der Bataille 17 aug 1739 Gegen den Turcken und Tartaren; 50x64 cm. Orig OL colour. Text in Russian and German. Military map. (32) Lacus Ladoga et Sinus Finnicus, J Grimel delin(eavit). 49x64 cm. Contemp OL colour. Text in Russian and Latin. (33) Canalis Ladogensis; 45x64 cm. Contemp OL colour. Inset: transversal cut of chanel (to be made) (34) Fluvius Neva et Lacus Ladoga; 46x59 cm. Orig OL colour. Text Russian and Latin (image: Bagrow, Fig 66) (35) Sinus Finnicus von Cronstad biss St Petersburg; 47x61 cm. Orig OL colour. Inset Cronstad. Text Russian & German. (36) Ingria et Carelia. 59x46 cm. Orig OL colour. Text Latin (37) the same map as (16) but now in Russian, Lacking the ships at sea, else the same(image: Bagrow Fig 65) (38) no title but the siege of Willmannsstrand (1741) Defended by the Swedes but taken by the Russians, August 27, 1741. 33x39 cm. Orig OL colour. Text German (39) Magnusa ducatus Finlandiae. 51x60 cm. Orig OL colour. Text Russian and Latin.
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Various authors
Bogs of Ireland
Four parts in three volumes. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed. No place. 1810-1814. In folio, contemporary half calf (spines restored).
Part I (1810): 56 pages; 4 folded maps - Part II (1811): 206 pp; 16 folded maps - Part III (1814): 166 pp; 1 nn leaf; 27 folded maps - Part IV: (1814): 216 pp; 1 nn leaf 18 folded maps. Apparently complete though some maps are misbound. Some marginal water stains to text. A few maps dirty and with small, restored tears. Else fine copy.
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Colton, J.H.
Atlas of the World
New York. 1859 - Large folio (47x37 cm). Original gilted linnen ; lithographed frontis ; 110 maps in 108 map sheets ; printed in chromo lithography. Dampstaining cover and first few leaves. Else fine.
Colton was an important map and atlas maker, based in New York. His folding pocket maps and his atlases are famous as early American atlases. His atlas of the world was first printed in 1856 with a dated licence of 1855 (like in this atlas). After a geographical introduction there are 56 maps of Canada and the US, including 11 city plans. All US maps show family bound districts. Famous maps are maps (3) USA; map (13) Boston; map (18) New York; map 21 (Philadelphia; maps 23 and 24: Washington and Baltimore, the double page map after Cordoba of Texas (36); plan of Chicago (45), California (52) and Washington/Oregon (53). Other striking maps include Mexico (54); Cuba (57); Venezuela (59); China (28); Japan (29) Indonesia (31) and Australia (32)
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