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London, Baldwin &: Cradock, 1831. Steel engraving, 32 x 36.5 cms, engraved by J. & C. Walker, original hand colour, blank verso. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was founded in 1826 with the high-minded aim of making 'useful' information available to self-taught members of the working and lower middle classes. Some of the material was decidedly abstruse, subscribers fell away and the Society was wound up in 1848; however, the series of 209 maps published over a 14 year period from 1829 onwards were highly praised for their superior quality, accuracy and aesthetic appeal and remain an outstanding achievement. Map

The Hague, 1697. Copper engraving, 41 x 55.5 cm, black and white, light staining in upper margin, blank verso. Busca, near Cuneo in Piedmont. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the plates were purchased and reissued (with Blaeu’s imprint erased) by Adriaan Moetjens in 1697. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Bl 80 Map

The Hague, 1697. Copper engraving, 48 x 56 cm, black and white, upper margin cut close, light stain in upper part of the image, blank verso. The Camaldolese hermitage near Lanzo Torinese in Piedmont (visible on the hillside to the left). Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the plates were purchased and reissued (with Blaeu’s imprint erased) by Adriaan Moetjens in 1697. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Bl 80 Map

Amsterdam, c. 1650. Copper engraving, 38.5 x 50 cms, original hand-colour, worming to right margin, Dutch text to verso. (The province of Foggia in Puglia or Apulia) Map

The Hague, 1697. Copper engraving, 43.5 x 58.5 cms, black and white, blank verso. Carmagnola, just south of Turin in Piedmont, was fought over and extensively remodelled in the mid seventeenth-century; it was briefly recaptured by the French in 1690, but its strategic importance declined and the defences were demolished thereafter. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the plates were purchased and reissued (with Blaeu’s imprint erased) by Adriaan Moetjens in 1697. Koeman Bl 80 Map

Naples, 1845. Lithographed folding map, 36.5 x 46.5 cm, original hand colour, dissected into 8 panels and laid on linen, edged in decorative brown cloth. Map of the Bay of Naples, also issued as an atlas map (see the example of Marzolla’s ‘Atlante Geografico’ in the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection). Map

Paris, c. 1770. Copper engraving, 49.5 x 62.5 cm, original hand colour in outline, small stain off the heel of Italy, blank verso. A later state of Robert de Vaugondy’s road map of Italy, showing the Venetian Republic, Papal States, Kingdom of Naples etc. The original date (1756) and privilege have been burnished from the plate, and Elizabeth Haussard has been replaced by Groux as engraver of the cartouche. Both the identity of Groux, and why his name was added to cartouches which were otherwise unaltered, remains mysterious (Pedley p. 67). Pedley, Bel et Utile: the Work of the Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers, 327. Map

The Hague, 1697. Copper engraving, 38 x 52 cm, engraved by Juvenal Boetta, black and white, blank verso. The Charterhouse of Pesio, a Carthusian foundation near Cuneo in Piedmont. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the plates were purchased and reissued (with Blaeu’s imprint erased) by Adriaan Moetjens in 1697. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Bl 80 Map

Leiden, 1713. Copper engraving, 34.5 x 41 cms, black and white as issued, blank verso; from Deseine’s Rome Moderne. Map

Nuremberg, c. 1730. Copper engraving, 49.5 x 59 cms, original hand-colour, blank verso. Map

Amsterdam, Joannes &: Cornelis Blaeu, 1640. Copper engraving, sheet size 49.5 x 30 cm, map 18 x 24 cm, modern hand colour, set within Latin text with further text on verso. The French island of Corsica, rules by the Genoese in the 17th century and included in the Italian volume of Blaeu’s atlas, oriented with north to the left of the map. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Bl 36A. Map

The Hague, 1697. Copper engraving, 46.5 x 62 cm, engraved by Juvenal Boetto, black and white, blank verso. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the plates were purchased and reissued (with Blaeu’s imprint erased) by Adriaan Moetjens in 1697. Demonte is near Cuneo in Piedmont. Koeman Bl 80 Map

Nuremberg, 1735. Copper engraving, 50 x 58 cms, original hand colour, a couple of old paper repairs to lower margin, blank verso. Map

Amsterdam, Joannes &: Cornelis Blaeu, 1640. Copper engraving, sheet size 49.5 x 30 cm, map 20 x 25.5 cm, modern hand colour, set within Latin text with further text on verso. The Tuscan island of Elba, a map newly added to the ‘Atlas Novus’ in 1640; Koeman records that it was first published in the French text edition of the same year. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Bl 36A. Map

Paris, c. 1770. Copper engraving, 50 x 63 cm, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. A later state of Robert de Vaugondy’s map of the Papal States, Tuscany and Corsica. The original date (1750) and privilege have been burnished from the plate. Pedley, Bel et Utile: the Work of the Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers, 356. Map

The Hague, 1697. Copper engraving, 43.5 x 62 cm, black and white, blank verso. Verrua Savoia, north east of Turin in Piedmont. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published in 1682, but the plates were purchased and reissued (with Blaeu’s imprint erased) by Adriaan Moetjens in 1697. Koeman Bl 80 Map

Frankfurt, c. 1650. Copper engraving, 25.5 x 34.5 cms, black and white, blank verso. Ferrara, published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640 and editions of the Theatrum Europaeum. Map

Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1493. Woodcut, 25 x 53 cm, on sheet 42 x 60 cm, black and white, small stain in image, stitch holes at centrefold closed on verso, published in a German text edition with further text on verso. One of the earliest obtainable views of Florence, derived from a lost engraving by Francesco Rosselli. The woodcuts were created in the workshop of Michael Wolgemut and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, possibly assisted by Albrecht Dürer (who was the godson of the book’s printer, Koberger). Hartmann Schedel's encylopedic ‘Liber Chronicarum’, widely known as the Nuremberg Chronicle, is deservededly one of the most famous incunables. As many as 2500 copies in either Latin or German may have been printed; it was instantly popular, widely distributed and hugely influential, perhaps the most significant illustrated secular work of the 15th century. Map

Frankfurt, c. 1650. Copper engraving, 23.5 x 34 cms, black and white, blank verso. Florence, published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640 and editions of the Theatrum Europaeum. Map

The Hague, 1697. Copper engraving, 48.5 x 61 cm, black and white, trimmed to printed area at the top of the image, blank verso. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the plates were purchased and reissued (with Blaeu’s imprint erased) by Adriaan Moetjens in 1697. The Fountain of Hercules was part of the elaborate late seventeenth century garden design at the Palace of Venaria near Turin. Koeman Bl 80 Map