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Description
1. ff. 1-4v: Enssuyt le Regime et Gouvernement du Solleil: Preliminary sheets of nautical information and tables of declinations). ff. 5v-34: 15 portolan charts of: 1, "Terra Java" (east coast of Australia?); 2, "La Jave" (north coast of Australia?), East Indies, part of Asia; 3, "Terra Java" (west coast of Australia?); 4, Arabian Sea, Red Sea, and Persian Gulf; 5, Southern Africa and southwest Indian Ocean; 6, Atlantic Ocean with coast of Africa and Brazil; 7, Northwest Africa; 8, Europe and northern Africa; 9, North America, east coast; 10, West Indies, Mexico, Central America, northern South America; 11, Northeastern South America; 12, Southeastern South America, Straits of Magellan; 13, Western Europe and northwestern Africa; 14, Adriatic Sea (by a different cartographer); 15, Aegean Sea (same cartographer as chart 14). World atlas containing 15 nautical charts, tables of declinations, etc. Of anonymous production, possibly by a Portuguese cartographer or based on a Portuguese prototype; the 2 final charts by a different person. Bound, circa 1805, in French straight grain red morocco, gilt; rebacked, original spine laid down. Also widely known as the "Vallard atlas". Parchment, ff. iv (early modern parchment and paper) + 34 (17 sheets folded in center, back sides of nautical charts are blank) + iv (early modern parchment and paper); 390 x 280 mm. (map size, 370 x 480 mm. on double page openings, with many variants). Title from printed catalog. HM 29. The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Atlases--France--Early works to 1800 Early maps Nautical charts--Early works to 1800 World maps--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts (documents) France 16th century. (aat) Atlases (Geographic) (rbgenr)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
On title page, f. 1, under an armillary sphere is written "Nicolas Vallard de Dieppe, 1547." Vallard was probably not the cartographer, but the first owner, whose coat of arms may be those in the center of the border illustrations on chart 11: argent on a saltire sable (or gules?) five besants, in chief a mullet sable pierced of the field. Owned by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Bénévent (1754-1838). His sale, London, 8 May 1816, n. 3464 to Robert Triphook. His sale, Evans, 29 March 1833, n. 445 to Henry Bohn. David Steward Ker sale, London, 7 May 1849, pt. IV, n. 791 to Sir Thomas Phillipps. "Phillipps MS 13199" inscribed on flyleaves ii and iii and his Middle Hill bookplate on front pastedown along with date "1850" and note describing the manuscript.
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