Robert Holmes Laurie and James Whittle | A new and elegant imperial sheet atlas. London, 1814
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Lot 50 | Robert Holmes Laurie and James Whittle | A new and elegant imperial sheet atlas. London, 1814
A new and elegant imperial sheet atlas; comprehending general and particular maps of every part of the world… forming the completest collection of single sheet maps hitherto published… engraved on fifty-five maps, beautifully coloured. London: James Whittle and Richard Holmes Laurie, 1814
Folio (540 x 405mm.), letterpress title and contents leaf, 55 hand-coloured engraved maps, 46 double-page, 8 folding, mounted on guards, modern dark blue half morocco over blue-grey paper boards, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, 3 maps with faint dampstains to fore margins, three maps with short reinforcements on verso
This handsome collection of maps provides a detailed guide to the world as known to Europeans at the turn of the nineteenth century, “rendered particularly convenient by opening without folds,” as the extended title notes.
Engravers Robert Laurie (1755?‑1836) and James Whittle (1757‑1818) met as apprentices to Robert Sayer (1724‑1794), a Fleet Street publisher of prints, maps, and charts. They took over their master’s business on his retirement in 1794, and thus acquired a large stock of maps and maritime charts that would form the profitable core of their business. Their first “Imperial Sheet Atlas” was issued in 1796 and reprised in 1797 with 50 maps “principally compiled from the great French atlas and others of the most distinguished geographers in Europe”, according to the title page. New editions with more and updated maps appeared in 1798 (51 maps), 1800 (53 maps), and 1805 (55 maps); the present edition was the work’s final and most complete iteration. It contains an important suite of maps documenting the United States’ early years of nationhood. Among these are a general map of the “United States of America” (map 48), which shows the Mississippi as the country’s western border, as well as two regional maps (50 and 51), showing the original thirteen colonies plus the neighbouring, unsettled regions of the Mid-South and the Ohio Valley. There are also excellent maps of China and Japan, maps showing much of Africa as unexplored, and a fine twin-hemispherical world map.
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