Armorial général, par J. B. Rietstap, précédé d'un Dictionnaire de Termes du Blason: A complete list of all the great Euro- pean Families, with an indication of their Coats of Arms, 2 stout vols. 8vo. some plates of Coats of Arms, (pub. at £4. 48), bds. £2. 168 Gouda, 1883-87 the same, 2 vols. 8vo. hf. bd. morocco, £3. 38 The first edition gave an Account of 46,000 Families and their Coats of Arms, the second edition exceeds 100,000 European Families, including English, Scottish, and Irish. This is really a most necessary book of reference; it is the ONLY General Armorial of Europe, giving the names, branches, the country, and a description of the Coats of Arms of all English Ballads ; BIBLIOTHECA LINDESIANA; Catalogue of a collection of English stout sm. 4to. not for sale Privately printed at the Aberdeen University Press, 1890- A monument of bibliographical industry. One hundred copies printed. The third leaf has the inscription: LINDESIORUM PRINCIPIS Titles, ded. preface and contents, 8 leaves; the Catalogue of English Ballads, pp. 1-530; Additional References, pp. 531-534; List of Printers, Publishers, and Booksellers, pp. 535-546; Index, pp. 547-650; Appendices A and B, pp. 651-686; The Aberdeen University Press, the The arrangement is by an Alphabet of the first word in the first line, thus: 4. Adieu my dear whom I adore | thou art the cause of all my grief | The dispairing Youth's Grief Crowned with Joy and Happiness, | By the Return of his Dear Love. | Forsaken Lovers thus complain, But when their Loves return again, (These four lines in two cols. two and two.) To the tune of, Black and sullen hour. This may be printed, R.P. I have been fortunate enough to obtain a few copies; immediate application is necessary to secure a copy at the price of £5. 58. Birdwood (Sir George) Report on the old RECORDS OF THE INDIA OFFICE, with supplementary note and appendices, 8vo. A most valuable introduction to the History of the English in India. The "Supplementary Note" alone consists of 160 pp., and reviews the entire course of European relations with India from the earliest times. The portion which deals with the recovery and development of geographical knowledge in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is especially interesting. Bradley's Giorgio Giulio Clovio, Miniaturist, the Life and Works of, 8vo. XXVIII and 400 pp, with 18 plates, hf. morocco, With notices of his Contemporaries and of the Art of Book Decoration in the XVIth ARISTOTLE on the Constitution of Athens, edited by F. G. Kenyon, 8vo.. Introduction LII. pp; the Greek Text, with English Notes and Index, 190 pp. ARISTOTLE on the constitution of Athens-the facsimile edition, folio, bds. 1891 WORKS ON THE HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, AND LANGUAGES OF ASIA, AFRICA, AMERICA. OFFERED BY BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 PICCADILLY, W. I. GEOGRAPHY AND CHARTOGRAPHY. α. Collections of Maps. £ s. d. 1 SANTAREM'S GRAND ATLAS. Atlas composé de MAPPEMONDES, et PORTULANS, et Cartes hydrographiques et historiques depuis le VIe jusqu'au XVIIe siècle, pour la plupart inédites, devant servir de preuves à l'Histoire de la Cosmographie et de la Cartographie pendant le Moyen âge et à celle des progrès de la Géographie, atlas folio, containing the 78 maps which constitute a PERFECT set of Santarem's collection, several upon double sheets, and FORTY-FIVE ILLUMINATED OR COLOURED, with the title and Index which have been additionally printed, the suppressed Advertisement, and the preliminary leaves Paris, 1842-53 another copy, containing 78 maps, a perfect set, 10 of them coloured, with the title and Index which have been additionally printed, the suppressed Advertisement and the preliminary leaves, hf. morocco 1842-53 50 00 another copy, containing 67 maps, with the preliminary leaves, and the new Title and Index 1842-53 25 0 0 List of Maps missing from this copy: Mappemonde du VIIIe siècle, Bibl. Text to the above: Essai sur l'histoire de la Cosmographie et de la The Atlas of Viscount Santarem is extraordinarily rare: few copies contain more than forty to sixty maps, in consequence of the desultory and unequal manner in which the plates were produced-nearly all separately and with a varying number of impressions. 3 LELEWEL (J.) Géographie du Moyen Age, 4 vols. in 3, 8vo. 10 facsimile 8 250 0 10 0 0 15 0 Paris (1854-56) 10 0 0 the same, imp. atlas folio, 50 maps of which 20 are COLOURED; hf. green morocco, uncut Paris (1854-56) 15 0 0 With Cortambert's "Introduction," 8vo. 61 pp. sd. 1879. 9 GHILLANY (F. W.) Geschichte des Seefahrers Ritter Martin BEHAIM, nach den ältesten vorhandenen Urkunden bearbeitet; eingeleitet durch eine Abhandlung über die ältesten Karten des Neuen Continents und den Namen Amerika, von Alexander v. HUMBOLDT, atlas 4to. portrait of Behaim, three large folding facsimiles of Behaim's and Schöner's globes, facsimiles also of the maps of De la Cosa and Ruysch, and plates of Regiomontanus' Astrolabe, bds. Nürnberg, 1853 1492 is the date of Behaim's globe; 1500 that of Cosa's map, 1508 that of Ruysch's; and 1520 that of Schöner's globe. The Astrolabe bears date 1468. Martin Behaim was off the coast of Guinea with the Portuguese in 1484. 10 KUNSTMANN (Friedrich) Die Entdeckung Amerikas, nach den ältesten Quellen geschichtlich dargestellt, 4to. text, and imperial folio atlas, containing 13 sixteenth-century maps, previously unpublished, facsimiled in gold and colours; sd. München, 1859 1859 11 another copy, bound in half morocco, top edge gilt 12 NORDENSKIOLD'S ATLAS. FACSIMILE-ATLAS till Kartographiens äldsta Historia, innehållande afbildningar af de vigtigaste Kartor tryckta före 1600, imp. folio, 51 plates containing 70 maps, besides 84 which are printed in the text; altogether 154 reproductions of maps printed or designed before the year 1600; in portfolio Stockholm, 1889 10 The most methodical and complete of all works of its kind; and the best apparatus for studying the growth of geographical science, and the gradual enlargement of knowledge with regard to the surface of the globe. 13 ASIE ET AFRIQUE. A collection of over 200 VALUABLE OLD MAPS, most of them engraved, from various rare works, with a number of original Roteiro Maps painted on Vellum by or after Portuguese Pilots (Joao Teixeira Albernas and Manoel Alvez Batalhos) about 1660-80, and some Original Maps of the Indian Ocean, etc. drawn by Boitout pilote Français, 1675; bound in 2 great volumes, impl. folio, old calf About 1670-1740 45 Some full maps of Cyprus are found in the volume relating to Asia. b. Ancient Geographers. 1883 0 14 BUNBURY (E. H.) History of Ancient Geography among the Greeks and Romans from the earliest ages till the fall of the Roman Empire, 2 vols. 8vo. with 20 illustrative maps (pub. 21s) cloth 15 GOSSELLIN (P. F. J.) Recherches sur la Géographie systématique et positive des Anciens; pour servir de base à l'Histoire de la Géographie Ancienne, 4 vols. 4to. numerous maps, calf Paris, an V (1797)-1813 16 GEOGRAPHIE VETERIS Scriptores Græci Minores, cum interpretatione latina, dissertationibus, ac annotationibus (H. Dodwelli, J. Hudson et E. Wells), 4 vols. sm. 8vo. blue morocco, gilt edges Oxon. 1698-1712 the same, 4 vols. old calf, 1698-1712-DIONYSII Geographia, additione scil. GEOGRAPHIE HODIERNÆ græco carmine pariter donate (curante E. Wells), 16 maps (including America), 1704-together 5 vols. in 6, 8vo. LARGE PAPER, bound, not uniform 1698-1712 17 18 another copy, 5 vols. LARGE PAPER, four vols. old calf gilt, uniform, and one volume in old red morocco 1698-1712 19 MANNERT (Konrad) Geographie der Griechen und Römer aus ihren Schrif 1 6 5 ten dargestellt, 10 vols. in 14, 8vo. maps, calf neat Leipzig, 1825-29 1 0 с 20 Pytheas. FUHR (M.) de Pythea Massiliensi, 8vo. sd. Darmstadii, 1835 21 LELEWEL (J.) Pythéas de Marseille et la Géographie de son temps, 8vo. maps, sd. Bruxelles, 1836 Pytheas sailed in the Northern Seas about the same time that Alexander the Great was overrunning the East. 22 ELTON (Chas. I.) Origins of English History, second improved edition, 8vo. 10 facsimiles of early maps, cloth, new 1890 The voyages of Pytheas of Massilia are largely treated in this important work. 23 Nearchus. Voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates collected from the original journal preserved by Arrian in English, by William Vincent, 4to. plate and maps, calf 1 1797 0 24 VINCENT (William) Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian 27 28 29* Strabo compiled this great work about the beginning of the Christian era. the same, 5 vols. 4to. maps, hf. vellum neat 1 8 0 050 3 3 0 3 3 0 Paris, 1805-19 1 12 0 Paris, 1805-19 2 10 0 2 16 0 30 Pomponius Mela. POMPONIJ MELLE Cosmographi de situ orbis liber sm. 4to. Roman Letter, old English red morocco, gilt edges 31 .. Venetijs per Franciscum renner de Hailbrun, 1478 Pomponivs Mela. Ivlivs Solinvs. Itinerarivm Antonini Avg. Vibivs Seqvester, P. Victor.. Dionysius Afer. . 12mo. fine copy in orange morocco extra Venetiis in ædibvs Aldi, et Andreae Soceri, 1518 Thirteen leaves of maps are added from the rare Epitome of Vadianus. de Sitv Orbis, cum notis criticis et exegeticis variorum, additis svis a Carolo Henrico Tzschvckio, 7 vols. 8vo. Fine Paper, maroon morocco extra, gilt edges, by Lewis Lipsia, 1807-6 Pomponius Mela composed his work about A.D. 40-50. 33 Dionysius Periegetes cum comment. etc. Gr. et Lat. ed. G. Bernhardy, stout 8vo. bds. Lips. 1828 Written about A.D. 90-100. It is Vol. I (all pub.) of the Geographi Græci. 34 Ptolemy. PTOLEMÉE, GEOGRAPHIE: reproduction photolithographique du manuscrit grec de la Géographie, découvert au mont Athos, folio, bds. an admirable facsimile of the text and the coloured maps, bds. Paris, 1867 Facsimile of a MS. written about the year 1200, and preserved at Mount Athos. Ptolemy compiled this great work about A.D. 150. Clavdii Ptolemaei . . De Geographia libri octo (Græce). . sm. 4to. bound Basilea, Froben, 1533 Editio Princeps of the Greek text. Erasmus was the editor. Geographie Libri octo Græco-Latini, Latine primum recogniti et emendati, cum tabulis geographicis ad mentem auctoris restitutis per Gerardum Mercatorem: jam vero ad Græca & Latina exemplaria a Petro Montano recogniti, folio, 28 maps, coloured, fine clean copy, calf Amsterodami, Jodocus Hondius, 1605 The maps relate to the old World only. 35 36 37 neat .... THEATRI GEOGRAPHIE VETERIS: tomus prior in quo Cl. Ptol. Alexan- Fol. la: Boninus Mōbritius fol. 1 : C. Iulii Solini 3 C. IVLII SOLINI Polyhistor, rervm toto orbe memorabilivm 39*SOLINI Polyhistor, sm. folio, hf. cf. neat 40 Basilea, 1543 The second of the two large maps represents Asia (with portions of Europe and Africa), and shows in the extreme North-east corner a coast divided from Asia by a broad expanse of water, and bearing the words Terra incognita.-There is no difference between the two editions. Solinus lived towards the middle of the third century. the same, 1543-Gerbelii (Nic.) pro declaratione picturæ suæ sive descriptionis Græciæ Sophiani, libri VII ib. (1550)--2 vols. in 1, sm. folio, calf 1543-50 An interesting volume, as containing the autograph of the celebrated author of the Anatomy of Melancholy-" Rob. Burton ex æde Cri. Oxon."-The maps of the Solinus belong properly to the period between the issue of the first Novus Orbis (1532) and the Münster Ptolemy of 1540. 41 Ethicus. ETHICI Istrici Cosmographiam, ab Hieronymo ex Græco in Latinum Breviarium redactam, primum ed. H. Wuttke, 8vo. map and facsimile, hf. calf Lips. 1853 42 ETHICUS et les ouvrages cosmographiques intitulés de ce nom; suivi d'un apendice contenant la version latine abrégée, attribuée à S. Jérôme d'une cosmographie supposée écrite en grec par le noble Istriote Ethicus, 4to. sd. 42* the same, 4to. hf. morocco Paris, 1852 1852 Here was published for the first time the genuine Ethicus existent only in a Latin translation. The often printed Ethicus is an original Latin summary of a Roman itinerary of the Empire. The two had been usually confounded. Ethicus lived about A.D. 310. 43 Peutinger Itinerary. PEVTINGERIANA TABVLA ITINERARIA. . adevrate exscripta .. a Francisco Christophoro de Scheyb, impl. folio, with the famous Tabula engraved on 12 open sheets, by Salomon Kleiner, old French calf gilt Vindobona, 1753 The first real reproduction of the famous Itinerary chart which was compiled about A.D. 400 for the use of the Roman military leaders. The MS. in the Vienna library, here facsimiled, is not the very original but a copy made in A.D. 1265 by a monk dwelling near the Vosges. It is unique. 43*TABULA ITINERARIA PEUTINGERIANA primum aeri incisa et edita a Franc. Christoph. de Scheyb MDCCLIII, denuo cum codice collata et nova Conradi Mannerti introductione instructa, impl. 4to. with facsimile of the map on 12 open sheets, sd. 44 Ravenna Cosmographer. RAVENNATIS Anonymi Cosmographia et Guidonis Geographica, ed M. Pinder et G. Parthey, sm. 8vo. map, sd. Berol. 1860 C. Mediæval Geographers. Best edition of the Peutingerian Table. ( 1 Lipsia, 1824 0 0 45 FISCHER (Theobald) Sammlung mittelalterlicher Welt- und See-Karten Italienischen Ursprungs.. 8vo. sd. morocro Venedig, 1886 0 0 0 An essay on Italian maps and portulans of the XIV-XV century. 46 SCHMELLER (J. A.) über einige ältere handschriftliche Seekarten, 4to. sd. (München, 1843) 47 Dicuil. Recherches sur le livre de Mensura Orbis Terræ, composé en Irlande au Xme siècle, suivies du texte, par A. Letronne, 8vo. hf. Paris, 1814 48 (Honorius Augustodunensis) Cristianus ad solitariu quendam de ymagine mundi. Honorio: folio, Gothic letter, 46 printed leaves, 30 lines per page; red morocco extra, gilt edges, by Derome jeune, with the oval label of Girardot de Préfond s. n. (Norimbergo, Ant. Koburger, circ. 1471-2) 12 A short general geography compiled in the first half of the twelfth century. 49 Sanuto. GESTA DEI PER FRANCOS, sive Orientalium Expeditionum et Regni Francorum Hierosolimitani Historia (per BONGARSIUM-Marini Sanuti Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis de Terræ Sanctæ recuperatione, Terræ Sanctæ historia et geographia, 1 vol.-together 2 vols.in 1, folio, the paper as usual foxed, plan and plates; vellum Hanovice, 1611 The above comprise all the contemporary chronicles relative to the Crusades and the History of the Christian Empire of Jerusalem. The curious plans by Sanuto, which he presented to Pope John XXII and the Cardinals in 1324-25, after having travelled through various countries, one of them being a Map of the then known world, in a circular form, with Jerusalem as its centre-give this work a peculiar interest in relation to the history of early geography. 2 |