Lot 249: LAURIE, ROBERT (1755--1836)

AND JAMES WHITTLE (1758--1818).
A NEW AND ELEGANT IMPERIAL SHEET ATLAS, COMPREHENDING GENERAL AND PARTICULAR MAPS OF EVERY PART OF THE WORLD. LONDON : R. LAURIE & J. WHITTLE, 1797

A NEW AND ELEGANT IMPERIAL SHEET ATLAS, COMPREHENDING GENERAL AND PARTICULAR MAPS OF EVERY PART OF THE WORLD. LONDON: R. LAURIE & J. WHITTLE, 1797

Second edition, folio (534 x 400mm.), 52 engraved maps (of which 45 are double-page and 5 folding), contemporary hand colour, nineteenth-century purple half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, many maps repaired at folds, only rarely with any loss, some maps rather browned, upper joint cracked, corners renewed

PROVENANCE

un-named owner, sale in these rooms, 20 June 1977, lot 251, £1,100, Charles W. Traylen, Guildford, Surrey, for Lord Wardington

LITERATURE

cf. Phillips, Atlases 4302; cf. Shirley, British Library T.LAU-2a

NOTE

This copy contains two additional maps (one of the Invasions of England, the other of Brazil) which are not called for in the list of contents.

This is the second edition of this important new atlas which replaced the extended General Atlas of Thomas Kitchin (see Wardington Library: Atlases, part I, A--K, lot 240).