Mallet’s Turks Mapmaker(s)_Kerry Lee

Mallet’s Turks Mapmaker(s)_Kerry LeeCondition & Materials Copper engraving, 15 x 10. 5 cm, recent hand colour, French text on verso, from Mallets Description de lUnivers.

The original boards of this edition retain most of the original title

Seine and Meuse are also marked

[Bound with:] The Court Kalendar: 1737

This map of Merionethshire is from the second edition of Philemon Holland’s English translation of Camden’s Britannia

Joseph Spence

and his behaviour impulsive: he delays his departure from Moscow (in 1811) as a result of going for a walk by the lagoons

The result was a series of five volumes of outstanding historical interest

one or two neat annotations in blue pen

trimmed by the publisher as usual where tabbed into the book

one of just 30 people excluded from William III’s 1690 Act of Grace)

Satyrici minores

and a highly significant advance cartographically