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415 GLOBE
HILL (NATH[ANIEL]) A New Terrestrial Globe, hand-coloured and varnished terrestrial pocket globe, small dent and hole in northern hemisphere, contained within an hook-and-eye closing hinged shagreen cover, opening along the line of the equator with hand-coloured and varnished unsigned representation of the celestial sphere on inner surface, [Stevenson II p187, citing similar copy with cover in Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris], 70mm. diameter, [email protected] sphere is covered by 12 gores truncated in latitude both north and south at about 68 degrees and has the polar spaces covered by circular discs. The Pacific is called 'The Great South Sea', while 'The Pacifick Sea' is found just off the coast of S. America. 'Florida', 'Virginia', 'Carolina', 'Maryla' are named, the Missouri River is called the 'Long R.', Alaska is omitted. 'New Holland' and 'New Zeeland' are shown with incomplete coastlines. £500-700 416 GLOBE
417 GLOBE GORES
418 GLOBE GORES
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423 MARTIN (ROBERT MONTGOMERY)
Tallis's Illustrated Atlas, and Modern History of the World, engraved frontispiece depicting the Great Exhibition, pictorial title, 2 engraved plates, 108 engraved maps and city plans, many hand-coloured, 2 folding, 8 double-page, contemporary half calf, worn, folio, John Tallis, 1851 £5,000-5,500 424 AFRICA
426 ASIA
429 CHINA
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436 ITALY
Composite Atlas, 58 engraved maps (2 hand-coloured, several hand-coloured in outline), edge-bound in early quarter calf, marbled boards, worn, oblong folio, [c. 1650-1680] Includes maps by Jansonnius (45), Visscher (4, including Malta), Blaeu (2), de Witt (6), Sanson d'Abbeville (1). £1,500-2,000 444 VIRGINIA, PENNSYLVANIA AND MARYLAND
448 WORLD
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456 KENT
LAMBARD (WILLIAM) A Perambulation of Kent: Conteining the description, Hystorie, and Customes of that Shyre, first edition, title within woodcut border, engraved map of the Heptarchy with early hand-colouring, without the folding map, early ownership inscription of "Robert Harte" on title, modern half crushed morocco [STC 15175; Goldsmiths 178], small 4to, Ralphe Newberie, 1576 £600-800 467 SMITH (CHARLES)
469 CHESHIRE
472 GREAT BRITAIN, HEPTARCHY
473 LANCASHIRE
474 LIVERPOOL
475 LIVERPOOL
476 LIVERPOOL
478 LONDON
479 MANCHESTER
480 MIDDLESEX SPEED (JOHN) Midle-Sex described with the most Famous Cities of London and Westminster, double-page engraved map, inset bird's-eye views of London and Westminster, and views of Saint Pauls, and Saint Peters, some place-names underlined in red, one small hole (with loss of the Y in Gunnersbury), 380 by 510mm., G. Humble, 1610 [but later] £300-500 487 STAFFORDSHIRE
488 WESTMORLAND
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