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He opted to say on in India and devoted the remaining thirty years of his life to compiling the definitive account of the Survey: ‘for the first three volumes alone he studied no fewer than seven hundred volumes of manuscript letters and reports and had them indexed and deposited among the State archives in India. He collected information at the India Office Library, the British Museum, and from records in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras. He delved into genealogies and family histories, discovered descendants of the old adventurers and was able to make use of much long-forgotten material. The result was a series of five volumes of outstanding historical interest, factually exact but lightened by a human insight into the virtues and frailties of the actors in this period of Indian history’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition \u0026amp; Materials\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDehra Dun, Survey of India, 1945-1958. 4 vols. 4to. Vol I, 1945 (18th Century) pp. xx, 400, [xvi] + 21 plates; vol II, 1950 (1800 to 1815) pp. xxviii, 478 + 25 plates; vol III, 1954 (1815 to 1830) pp. xxii, 534 + 24 plates; vol IV, 1958 (1830 to 1843, George Everest) pp. xviii, 493 + 23 plates. The collation of plates includes the map end-papers in each volume; many of the plates are folding, many are printed in colours. Green publisher’s cloth with Survey of India crest (pre- and post-Independence according to date) blocked in gilt on the front covers. Vol I is ex-library, Directorate of Colonial Surveys (later, Directorate of Overseas Surveys) with the usual ink stamps including withdrawal stamp, and shelf mark on the spine. Some wear to bindings, inner hinges of vol II a little weak, vol III bumped at the foot of the spine; vol IV has a tipped in slip, probably clipped from a letter, ‘with the author’s compliments’, signed by Phillimore in blue ballpoint. 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Lucas; illustrations by Frank Brangwyn, Spencer Pryse and McDonald Gill ; edited by Martin Hardie; with a preface by J.H. Thomas… [presented by the London and North Eastern Railway]\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1924, visitors to the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley could view a ‘historical epic’ with a cast of 15,000 people, 300 horses, 500 donkeys, 730 camels, 72 monkeys, 1000 doves, seven elephants, three bears and one macaw. It took three days to see the whole performance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is one of the examples of the book presented by the LNER, specifically by the District Passenger Manager at Newcastle-on-Tyne, who has filled in the appropriate space on the first page. On the verso of the presentation leaf is an additional illustration for the LNER edition, Brangwyn’s ‘The Border Bridge’, advertising the east coast route to Scotland. The book is lavishly illustrated in colour throughout, while the folding plate depicts the pageant itself, for which Brangwyn designed the scenery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMacDonald Gill worked on other projects associated with the Exhibition, such as Queen Mary’s Dolls House, and went on to produce striking posters for the Empire Marketing Board.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition \u0026amp; Materials\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFolio. pp. 55 + four panel folding plate by Frank Brangywn, showing slight adhesion damage. Decorative printed boards designed by MacDonald Gill, who also designed the double-page map on pp. 20-21, ‘The world in the time of Cabot’. 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By the affectation peculiar to his countrymen, or the negligence of his printer, he has given directions scarce intelligible to us, though copied from English guides”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe need for a work of this nature - at the height of the Seven Years’ War and with the real possibility of a French invasion - will be readily apparent; however, the quality of engraving and printing is as superb as one might expect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition \u0026amp; Materials\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJacques Nicolas Bellin: Essai Géographique sur les Isles Britanniques. 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To which is added, the Coast of Italy from the River Var to Orbitello; with the Gulf of Naples, and the Island of Corsica; illustrated with charts, plans, \u0026amp;c. London: printed for W. Faden, 1793\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis atlas is an adaptation of ‘Le petit flambeau de la mer’ by the 17th century French map-maker Georges Boissaye du Bocage. Thomas Jefferys published an English version of the atlas with ‘large improvements’ in 1761, which was a step towards improving the reliability of charts of the French coast available to the Royal Navy during the Seven Years’ War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA second edition appeared in 1774 under the joint imprint of Jefferys and William Faden; the elder Jefferys died in 1771, deeply in debt, and his son, the younger Thomas Jefferys, went into partnership with William Faden, then a young man himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the 1790s Faden was firmly established in his own right, and the outbreak of war with Revolutionary France provided the impetus for a new edition. According to the map historian and bibliographer Rodney Shirley, ‘many of the charts in Faden’s Le Petit Neptune follow those in Thomas Jeffery’s atlas of the same name of thirty years’ earlier. They are however newly engraved with Faden’s imprint… and a plate number in the upper right corner’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book’s earliest recorded owner, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eacclaimed sculptor Anne Seymour Damer (1748-1828)\u003c\/span\u003e, would have found it a useful travelling companion. Damer enjoyed the wealth and social status to travel with relative freedom, even in wartime. She moved in aristocratic Whig circles – she was a close friend and supporter of Charles James Fox – and her art reflected her political beliefs as well as her fascination with classical antiquity. Admired and encouraged by David Hume and Horace Walpole, she became Britain’s first famous woman sculptor, the object of satirical attacks as well as critical recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWalpole introduced her to the Berry sisters, and bequeathed her Strawberry Hill (where she was living for at least some of the time that this atlas was in her possession). She travelled to Paris with Mary Berry during the peace of Amiens in 1802, where she met Napoleon and presented him with her busts of Fox and Nelson, but our atlas would have been of limited use for a short hop across the Channel. However, it covers the Italian coastline as far south as Naples, which Anne had first visited in 1780.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Oxford Dictionary of National Biography suggests she travelled there again in 1798, where she met Nelson through her old friend Sir William Hamilton and his wife Emma. 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Bordered by 176 coats of arms of Oxford colleges, towns and local members of the nobility and gentry, Plot claimed in his preface that it was an advance on all previous maps of Oxfordshire, and it is dedicated to John Fell, who had recently become Bishop of Oxford.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFell was one of the great figures in university life after the Restoration, and both Plot and Burghers had benefited from his patronage: Plot in his travels and research; Burghers as it was Fell who encouraged Dutch and Dutch-trained engravers such as David Loggan (and Burghers himself) to settle in Oxford. Fell drove the construction of the Sheldonian Theatre and was responsible for rehoming the university press inside it, and it was largely thanks to Fell that it became one of the leading publishers of illustrated and scientific books - Plot's Oxfordshire being an early landmark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlot was rapidly elevated to fellowship of the Royal Society and became the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, and in a remunerative career with the university press spanning half a century Burghers came to be regarded as 'the best general engraver in England' (Thomas Hearne). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition \u0026amp; Materials\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst edition, folio. pp. [xii], 358, [xii] + folding map and 16 single-page plates; lacks 3B2 (blank final leaf); neatly closed tear to map, without loss, where the map is tabbed into the book; old repair to plate 3, reinforced on the verso with paper; light waterstaining, mostly affecting upper and outer margins at intervals throughout; leather stain affecting gutter of title-page and facing imprimatur leaf, where the leather lettering piece had been loosely inserted for safe keeping, after becoming detached from the spine; contemporary blind-ruled calf, rebacked, with old lettering piece restored and replaced. 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Cams also identifies a rare wall map, printed in Nanjing in 1644, as the source for 'all of the statistical and distance data contained in Martini's text'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile in China Martini had to perform a delicate shift in allegiance from the failing Ming dynasty to the Manchu-Qing dynasty. Although Beijing fell in 1644, it would be decades before Qing power was fully consolidated, but it was clear to Martini and his Jesuit colleagues which way the wind was blowing. Its sensitive and ground-breaking subject matter ensured that the creation of Martini's atlas was thoroughly entangled in the commercial, political and religious rivalries of its time, between Dutch and Portuguese and Catholic and Protestant as well as Ming and Qing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is also an underlying respect for Martini's scholarship throughout. After a 'long, adventurous voyage' (Catholic Encyclopedia 1913) Martini was able to return from Beijing to Rome with his library intact.En route for the Vatican in 1651, his Portuguese ship was captured by the Dutch, and Martini and his collection were detained in Batavia for some months. The VOC officials there quickly realised the importance of their prize, learning from Martini that the Qing dynasty had consolidated its hold on power,and was potentially more receptive to foreign trade than the Ming dynasty which preceded it. This was sufficient to encourage the Dutch to send their first formal embassy to China, 1655-57, which the Portuguese of Macao and Martini's fellow Jesuits at the Chinese court did their best to scupper, presenting the Dutch as untrustworthy heretics from their ancient religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile Martini had been granted passage for Europe – but on a Dutch ship – and he reached Amsterdam in 1654, the year in which Joannes Blaeu published the first printed atlas of Scotland. With access to the latest cartographic information and an international market, Blaeu could print material (and of a quality) that his rivals could only dream of. Martini appears to have persuaded him to drop work on all his other projects, including his great town books of Italy, to bring the Atlas Sinensis into print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe politics were handled with tact – the volume is dedicated to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, a noted patron of the arts who was then serving as Governor of the (Catholic) Habsburg Netherlands – but as official cartographer to the VOC as well as a commercial publisher Blaeu will have understood the full value of the material which Martini had placed in his hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe maps presented a wealth of new geographical information, each illustrated with Blaeu's elaborate cartouches, showing regional costume, customs and animals. The text included Martini's own account of his travels, with supporting information about the history, politics and administration of China. European understanding of the region was transformed, and Martini's work supplied the foundations for generations of scholars. After his long-delayed audience with the Pope, Martini himself returned to Beijing in 1658.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition \u0026amp; Materials\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFolio (51.5 x 33 cm), pp. [viii], 171, [xxv], xii, 33, [iii] + engraved architectural title-page and 17 double-page engraved maps with original hand colour, versos blank, mounted on guards; occasional browning or spotting to text and slight spotting to some maps; closed 17 cm tear, without loss, to map of ‘Xansi’ (Shaanxi); ‘Chekiang’ (Zhejiang) map with 6 cm strip torn from lower margin; very small tear to final leaf affecting one or two letters of text, with old repair on blank verso.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe full title of the atlas is revealed on the back of an open door engraved on the title-page, through which geographically-minded putti (depicted locating China on a globe and examining a more detailed regional map) are granted a direct view of a distant landscape. A variant title-page, perhaps intended for stand-alone copies, contained more explicit religious imagery in the upper part of the page; our example contains the 'Novus Atlas' title within a simple pediment.Bound in handsome contemporary panelled calf, newly rebacked in an appropriate 17th century style, repair to lower cover and some other minor wear, all edges gilt. An early ownership signature has been washed from the title-page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReferences\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003esee, for example, IMCoS Journal 158\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Note on Shipping\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShipping rates are not available for this item. Select ‘pick up’ at checkout to collect it from the shop, or \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bryarsandbryars.co.uk\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003econtact us\u003c\/a\u003e for a custom quote. We will email you an invoice for the item price plus shipping, and you can complete the transaction securely online.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bryars \u0026 Bryars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45566978359511,"sku":"9539","price":25000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0579\/2550\/1126\/products\/9539v.jpg?v=1628604386"},{"product_id":"reuben-rambles-county-atlas-for-children","title":"Reuben Ramble's' county atlas for children","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eReuben Ramble's Travels in the Counties of England\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is a county atlas designed for children or ‘the little geographer’, with simple text by Samuel Clark (1810-1875) relating to the size, position, resources and history of each county\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis example has a contemporary (1859) gift inscription to the eight-year-old Randall Proctor Burroughes Spinks (1851-1898) from his aunt.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe text is enriched and illustrated with forty maps by Robert Miller, which were first published in 1821 but are here newly surrounded by vignettes of local scenes intended ‘effectually to fix the counties on the recollection’, according to the preface.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe atlas was issued in parts, and sometimes sections (southern, western, eastern northern and midland counties) are found separately, but this is the complete work.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe authority on Darton publications, Jill Shefrin, has firmly attributed the new illustrations to James Richard Barfoot (1796-1863; attribution via Laurence Worms). Generally dated to about 1845, a copy has recently been reported with an ownership inscription dated 1843 (Worms), which is perhaps closer. It was advertised for sale in the June 1844 issue of \u003ci\u003eThe Publisher’s Circular\u003c\/i\u003e, and in a list of new publications in the November 1844 issue of \u003ci\u003eThe Gentleman’s Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition \u0026amp; Materials\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst edition, small 4to. (22cm) pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e[\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eiv\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e[\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e80\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Lithographic frontispiece, extra title, and forty decorative maps, all with attractive original hand colour.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOriginal red cloth, blocked in gilt and blind; rebacked, restored and refurbished, with expert repairs to spine and endleaves; internally a few minor, marks, spots and small flaws, with a slight nick to one map, but overall a very good copy of a notable rarity.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bryars \u0026 Bryars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55390414340478,"sku":"9841","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0579\/2550\/1126\/files\/9841_bf3398d8-1ba5-4e40-9bfd-e07c5baa314d.jpg?v=1744890474"},{"product_id":"ashes-history-of-the-azores","title":"Ashe's History of the Azores","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eHistory of the Azores, or Western Islands; containing an account of the government, laws, and religion, the manners, ceremonies, and character of the inhabitants: and demonstrating the importance of these valuable islands to the British Empire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThomas Ashe (1770-1835) led a somewhat rackety existence, embroiled in a series of scandals (allegations of dueling, embezzlement, attempted blackmail of Queen Caroline) and he died in reduced circumstances in the fashionable spa town of Bath.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAshe spent time in the Azores on his way back to Britain from America (whence he sent the first known mammoth specimens, described in his 1806 treatise \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of a Mammoth\u003c\/i\u003e) and attempted to interest the British government in increasing its commercial and political influence in the islands.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition \u0026amp; Materials\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e4to. pp. viii, vi, 310 + 5 engraved views and 3 maps, of which 2 are folding, engraved by Henry Cooper. 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Most of his squadron was wrecked, or limped back to England independently, and barely a quarter of his his crews survived the voyage.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHowever, the capture of the Manila galleon ‘ Nuestra Señora de Covadonga’ with 1,313,843 pieces of eight on board was a cause for national celebration, and made Anson a rich man for life. This memoir was compiled from Anson’s notes and the journals of his ship’s chaplain, Richard Walter,\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eby pioneering scientist, mathematician and military engineer Benjamin Robins.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition \u0026amp; Materials\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e10th edition. 8vo. pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e[\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003exii\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 536 + 4 folding engraved charts, three signed by Richard William Seale, a clean example; contemporary gilt-ruled sprinkled calf, a little rubbed, some wear to headcap.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOwnership isncription of Sarah Clarke dated 1763; amorial bookplate of Thomas Sneyd Kynnersley pasted over another bookplate on the verso of the title.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bryars \u0026 Bryars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55390602199422,"sku":"9867","price":600.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0579\/2550\/1126\/files\/9867.jpg?v=1744814513"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0579\/2550\/1126\/collections\/atlasesandbookswithmaps_ct.jpg?v=1628603059","url":"https:\/\/bryarsandbryars.co.uk\/collections\/atlases-books-with-maps.oembed?page=2","provider":"Bryars \u0026 Bryars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}