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The Wardington Library: Important Atlases & Geographies. Part One: A-K - Part Two: L-Z. 2 vols complete set

2005009901London: Sotheby's 2005 2 volumes 4to 27.5 cm 344 pp; 368 pp. Publisher's cloth marked copy. The two-part sale catalogue for the dispersal of the remarkable atlas collection formed by Lord Wardington 1924-2005 described by Rodney Shirley in his introduction as "the finest collection in private hands." Part One A-K lots 1-244 was sold on Tuesday 18 October 2005; Part Two L-Z lots 245-562 in two sessions on Tuesday 10 October 2006 both at Sotheby's London. With an appreciation of Lord Wardington by Andrew Phillips Honorary Secretary of the Friends of the British Library of which Lord Wardington served as Chairman Vice-President and President and a memoir by Lord Wardington himself describing his lifelong passion for maps and atlases from childhood. An introductory essay on the history of cartography by Rodney Shirley author of The Mapping of the World discusses the scope and significance of the collection which comprised over 650 atlases containing some 60000 maps spanning from the 1477 Bologna Ptolemy to atlases of the late twentieth century and notable throughout for fine contemporary hand-colouring distinguished provenances including royal libraries of Belgium Great Britain Hanover Spain and Sweden; Chatsworth; Pierpont Morgan; Harrison Horblit; and many others and early or specially commissioned bindings. The catalogue entries each with colour illustration include the opening lot of Pieter van der Aa's Nouveau théâtre du monde Leiden 1713 numerous Blaeu and Janssonius atlases Dutch sea-atlases by Colom Doncker Goos and De Wit in fine contemporary colouring Ortelius Theatrum orbis terrarum in multiple editions Mercator's Atlas Saxton's Atlas of England and Wales 1579 Speed's Theatre of the Empire the "Doria Atlas" of c. 1570s lot 143 and a vast range of Ptolemaic national maritime celestial and thematic atlases. Part Two includes a full index index of notable provenances and bibliography. Sotheby's hardcover

Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko · Pologne260,00 PLN≈ 61,65 €