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Auction archive: Lot number 29

Seller, John. (fl.1660-1697). Atlas Maritmus, or the Sea-Atlas; being a Book of Maritime charts describing the sea-coasts, capes...in most of the know parts of the world, collected from the latest and best discoveries that have been made by .. Naviga...

Auction 10.07.2002
10 Jul 2002
Estimate
£25,000 - £35,000
ca. US$38,837 - US$54,372
Price realised:
£50,190
ca. US$77,970
Auction archive: Lot number 29

Seller, John. (fl.1660-1697). Atlas Maritmus, or the Sea-Atlas; being a Book of Maritime charts describing the sea-coasts, capes...in most of the know parts of the world, collected from the latest and best discoveries that have been made by .. Naviga...

Auction 10.07.2002
10 Jul 2002
Estimate
£25,000 - £35,000
ca. US$38,837 - US$54,372
Price realised:
£50,190
ca. US$77,970
Beschreibung:

Seller, John. (fl.1660-1697). Atlas Maritmus, or the Sea-Atlas; being a Book of Maritime charts describing the sea-coasts, capes...in most of the know parts of the world, collected from the latest and best discoveries that have been made by .. Navigators of our English Nation. London: John Darby, 1675. [but ?c.1680] 2° (445 x 280mm). Engraved frontispiece incorporating portraits of Sir Francis Drake and Thomas Cavendish, letterpress title, dedication to Charles II, 1p preface, 10pp text. 20 double-page engraved charts of, each mounted on thicker paper, on guards. (Some light browning, mainly to the margins and at lower centre fold, the maps of the world and of Lapland slightly shaved at lower margin, a few small clear tears at folds.) Contemporary speckled calf, remnants of old label on upper cover (worn, upper compartment of spine chipped with loss). Provenance : Lieutenant Webb (inscription on front pastedown 'This book of Maritime Charts given to Lieutenant Webb by The Earl of Clarendon 1795'). A FINE AND RARE MARITIME ATLAS issued by Seller in response to the need for English charts. The Dutch sacking of the British Navy in the Thames in 1667, brought about the birth of the new Navy under Pepys, and accordingly the need for accurate English navigational charts. John Seller was a maker of mathematical instruments and globes, and in 1671 was appointed Hydrographer to Charles II. In this role he set about publishing a comprehensive survey of the coasts of Britain; the English Pilot was started in 1671 and completed in 1720, in 5 volumes. The cost of the project forced Seller to bring in a variety of collaborators. The two volumes on Northern and Southern Europe of the English Pilot appeared in 1671 and 1672, and presumably popular demand for a world atlas encouraged Seller to issue the Atlas Maritimus. In this work many of the maps record his collaborators W. Fisher, J. Colson, J. Atkinson, J. Thornton. Seller mostly used Dutch sources and often reused Dutch plates (some of which were up to 50 years old) adapting them with English titles. In many ways the inadequacies of Sellers maps in the English Pilot created the impetus for Pepy's decision to appoint Captain Grenville Collins in 1681 to properly chart and survey the coastlines of Britain. This world atlas has an interesting range of maps including a world map, North Polar regions, East Indies, Pacific, West Indies, Atlantic and New England. The latest discoveries includes an additional note on the list of North West Passage explorers of the North Pole map that ingenious and industrious C:John Wood and C: Will Hawes attempted the like discovery 1676! The National Maritime Museum holds a 20 chart atlas with a similar range of maps as this copy. cf NMM 429, p. 493.

Auction archive: Lot number 29
Auction:
Datum:
10 Jul 2002
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

Seller, John. (fl.1660-1697). Atlas Maritmus, or the Sea-Atlas; being a Book of Maritime charts describing the sea-coasts, capes...in most of the know parts of the world, collected from the latest and best discoveries that have been made by .. Navigators of our English Nation. London: John Darby, 1675. [but ?c.1680] 2° (445 x 280mm). Engraved frontispiece incorporating portraits of Sir Francis Drake and Thomas Cavendish, letterpress title, dedication to Charles II, 1p preface, 10pp text. 20 double-page engraved charts of, each mounted on thicker paper, on guards. (Some light browning, mainly to the margins and at lower centre fold, the maps of the world and of Lapland slightly shaved at lower margin, a few small clear tears at folds.) Contemporary speckled calf, remnants of old label on upper cover (worn, upper compartment of spine chipped with loss). Provenance : Lieutenant Webb (inscription on front pastedown 'This book of Maritime Charts given to Lieutenant Webb by The Earl of Clarendon 1795'). A FINE AND RARE MARITIME ATLAS issued by Seller in response to the need for English charts. The Dutch sacking of the British Navy in the Thames in 1667, brought about the birth of the new Navy under Pepys, and accordingly the need for accurate English navigational charts. John Seller was a maker of mathematical instruments and globes, and in 1671 was appointed Hydrographer to Charles II. In this role he set about publishing a comprehensive survey of the coasts of Britain; the English Pilot was started in 1671 and completed in 1720, in 5 volumes. The cost of the project forced Seller to bring in a variety of collaborators. The two volumes on Northern and Southern Europe of the English Pilot appeared in 1671 and 1672, and presumably popular demand for a world atlas encouraged Seller to issue the Atlas Maritimus. In this work many of the maps record his collaborators W. Fisher, J. Colson, J. Atkinson, J. Thornton. Seller mostly used Dutch sources and often reused Dutch plates (some of which were up to 50 years old) adapting them with English titles. In many ways the inadequacies of Sellers maps in the English Pilot created the impetus for Pepy's decision to appoint Captain Grenville Collins in 1681 to properly chart and survey the coastlines of Britain. This world atlas has an interesting range of maps including a world map, North Polar regions, East Indies, Pacific, West Indies, Atlantic and New England. The latest discoveries includes an additional note on the list of North West Passage explorers of the North Pole map that ingenious and industrious C:John Wood and C: Will Hawes attempted the like discovery 1676! The National Maritime Museum holds a 20 chart atlas with a similar range of maps as this copy. cf NMM 429, p. 493.

Auction archive: Lot number 29
Auction:
Datum:
10 Jul 2002
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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