Description
Atlases.- Waghenaer (Lucas Janszoon) The Mariners Mirrour, wherin may playnly be seen the courses, heights, distances, depths, soundings, flouds and ebs... for th'entrings of the harbouroughs [sic], havens and ports of the greatest part of Europe... Together with the Rules and instruments of Navigation. First made & set fourth in diuers exact Sea-Charts, by that famous Nauigator Luke Wagenar of Enchuisen and now fitted with necessarie additions for the use of Englishmen by Anthony Ashley..., 2 parts in 1, first edition in English, engraved title to each part, the first signed in the plate by Theodore de Bry, engraved dedication to Sir Christopher Hatton, 4 engraved navigational diagrams and star chart, without volvelles or moving parts [no sign of ever being present], with 35 double-page maps engraved only (of 45) by De Bry and Joducus Hondius, all leaves on stubs, maps not bound in correct order with maps from first part at the end of second part, maps lacking from part 1 include nos. 15, 16, 17, and from part 2, nos. 6, 12, 15, 18, 19, 20 and 21, with pt. 2 no. 2 bound upside-down, each double-page map sheet approx. 390 x 520 mm (15 ¼ x 20 in), map no. 1 from part 2 trimmed within platemark [as issued?], on various laid paper sheets with late 16th century watermarks of bunch of grapes and armorial gate, part 1 title with early partial ink inscription that reads '... noble of London the XXIXth of December 1591... [?] Johan Harries... [?]', part 1 title and dedication with right edge of sheet reinforced and extended verso, both with handling creases, surface dirt and minor damp-stains, otherwise some scattered damp-stains within central sections of maps and text leaves, surface dirt, occasional minor offsetting, some of the maps printing weakly, others well inked excellent impressions, some printer's creases present within the maps, minor nicks and tears to some extremities, 19th century half calf over marbled boards, spine splitting, rubbed and worn, folio, [1588].
⁂ The essential early guide for English mariners, with the author's name being so thoroughly adopted that a "Waggoner" eventually became synonymous with any volume of sea charts. Two years after the highly successful appearance of Waghenaer's Spieghel der Zeevaerdt Lord Charles Howard of Effingham, Lord Admiral of England, drew the attention of Her Majesty's Privy Council to Waghenaer's sea-atlas, and suggested that it was the answer to a long-felt want. Shortly thereafter it was "esteemed by the chief personages of the grave counsell worthy to be translated and printed into a language familiar to all nations." One Anthony Ashley was commissioned to translate the text and place names; the charts, entirely re-engraved, are among the earliest copper plates made in England. ['World Encompassed', Baltimore Museum of Art, 1952, cat. No. 182].
"Heerin also may be understood the exploits of lately atchived by the right honorable the L. admiral of Englad with her maties navie; and some former services don by that worthy knight sr. Fra. Drake" [title page, Mariners Mirrour, 1588].
Provenance: Johan Harries, London [1590s] (ink inscription on title).
Literature: S.T.C. 24931; Phillips, Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress, no. 3981.
Lot 464
Atlases.- Waghenaer (Lucas Janszoon) The Mariners Mirrour, [1588].
Hammer Price: £35,000
Description
Atlases.- Waghenaer (Lucas Janszoon) The Mariners Mirrour, wherin may playnly be seen the courses, heights, distances, depths, soundings, flouds and ebs... for th'entrings of the harbouroughs [sic], havens and ports of the greatest part of Europe... Together with the Rules and instruments of Navigation. First made & set fourth in diuers exact Sea-Charts, by that famous Nauigator Luke Wagenar of Enchuisen and now fitted with necessarie additions for the use of Englishmen by Anthony Ashley..., 2 parts in 1, first edition in English, engraved title to each part, the first signed in the plate by Theodore de Bry, engraved dedication to Sir Christopher Hatton, 4 engraved navigational diagrams and star chart, without volvelles or moving parts [no sign of ever being present], with 35 double-page maps engraved only (of 45) by De Bry and Joducus Hondius, all leaves on stubs, maps not bound in correct order with maps from first part at the end of second part, maps lacking from part 1 include nos. 15, 16, 17, and from part 2, nos. 6, 12, 15, 18, 19, 20 and 21, with pt. 2 no. 2 bound upside-down, each double-page map sheet approx. 390 x 520 mm (15 ¼ x 20 in), map no. 1 from part 2 trimmed within platemark [as issued?], on various laid paper sheets with late 16th century watermarks of bunch of grapes and armorial gate, part 1 title with early partial ink inscription that reads '... noble of London the XXIXth of December 1591... [?] Johan Harries... [?]', part 1 title and dedication with right edge of sheet reinforced and extended verso, both with handling creases, surface dirt and minor damp-stains, otherwise some scattered damp-stains within central sections of maps and text leaves, surface dirt, occasional minor offsetting, some of the maps printing weakly, others well inked excellent impressions, some printer's creases present within the maps, minor nicks and tears to some extremities, 19th century half calf over marbled boards, spine splitting, rubbed and worn, folio, [1588].
⁂ The essential early guide for English mariners, with the author's name being so thoroughly adopted that a "Waggoner" eventually became synonymous with any volume of sea charts. Two years after the highly successful appearance of Waghenaer's Spieghel der Zeevaerdt Lord Charles Howard of Effingham, Lord Admiral of England, drew the attention of Her Majesty's Privy Council to Waghenaer's sea-atlas, and suggested that it was the answer to a long-felt want. Shortly thereafter it was "esteemed by the chief personages of the grave counsell worthy to be translated and printed into a language familiar to all nations." One Anthony Ashley was commissioned to translate the text and place names; the charts, entirely re-engraved, are among the earliest copper plates made in England. ['World Encompassed', Baltimore Museum of Art, 1952, cat. No. 182].
"Heerin also may be understood the exploits of lately atchived by the right honorable the L. admiral of Englad with her maties navie; and some former services don by that worthy knight sr. Fra. Drake" [title page, Mariners Mirrour, 1588].
Provenance: Johan Harries, London [1590s] (ink inscription on title).
Literature: S.T.C. 24931; Phillips, Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress, no. 3981.