Miniature atlas
Atlas minima, comprehended in 30 Maps
£353
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
Edinburgh: Alex Macredie, c.1825. Oblong 16mo (9.5 x 6.4cm), contemporary red half morocco, title-page, contents leaf, 30 maps by W. Murphy, engraved throughout, the maps hand-coloured in outline, extremities rubbed, rear board detached, juvenile pencil-markings to endpapers, title-page, index leaf and several maps (mainly on versos, and very faint where on rectos), ink inscription to front pastedown offset onto title, small ink-stain to Europe map. Together with an 18th-century almanac (The Polite Repository or Pocket Companion, London: W. Peacock, 1796, 12mo, original red morocco wallet binding, engraved frontispiece and headpieces depicting country seats, and S. Leigh Sotheby & Co., Catalogue of the Important Collection of Manuscripts from Stowe, which will be sold by Auction by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & Co., on Monday 11th of June 1849. 8vo, with earlier engraved portrait of the Duke of Buckingham bound in, two engraved plates, modern blue cloth library binding
Footnote
Note: Library Hub traces two copies only of the Atlas Minima, British Library and National Library of Scotland (providing different dates).