Lot 250: LAURIE, ROBERT

AND JAMES WHITTLE.
A NEW UNIVERSAL ATLAS, EXHIBITING ALL THE EMPIRES, KINGDOMS, STATES, REPUBLICS &C. &C. IN THE WHOLE WORLD... AUGMENTED FROM THE LAST EDITION OF D'ANVILLE AND ROBERT, WITH MANY IMPROVEMENTS BY MAJOR JAMES RENNEL... THE FIFTH EDITION. LONDON : R. LAURIE & J. WHITTLE, 1801

A NEW UNIVERSAL ATLAS, EXHIBITING ALL THE EMPIRES, KINGDOMS, STATES, REPUBLICS &C. &C. IN THE WHOLE WORLD... AUGMENTED FROM THE LAST EDITION OF D'ANVILLE AND ROBERT, WITH MANY IMPROVEMENTS BY MAJOR JAMES RENNEL... THE FIFTH EDITION. LONDON: R. LAURIE & J. WHITTLE, 1801

Fifth edition, folio (540 x 390mm.), 59 engraved maps on 75 mapsheets (some 2 sheets joined), contemporary outline colour, contemporary tree calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, black morocco lettering-piece, maps 18, 61 and 63 heavily stained (France, lower corner of wall-map of Africa and Western Africa)

LITERATURE

Phillips, Atlases 3534; cf. Shirley, British Library T.LAU-1a

NOTE

Laurie and Whittle took over the business of Robert Sayer following his death in 1794. The General Atlas previously published by Sayer and Bennett in 1773 was enlarged by Laurie and Whittle with additional maps and published under the title A New Universal Atlas. Thomas Kitchin's name still appears as the main author on the title-page although he had died in 1784. The maps are after a variety of mapmakers such as d'Anville, Roberts, Dunn, Rocque, Delarochette, Rennell, Zannoni, Dury, Cook, Vancouver, Perouse and many others.