William Berry | [Composite World Atlas], c.1680-1688

William Berry.

Composite World Atlas. [London: c.1680-1688]

Large folio (613 x 483 mm), world map by Thomas Bakewell and 32 further double-page engraved maps by William Berry, of which 7 maps accompanied by engraved table, all maps hand-coloured in outline, 7 further eighteenth- and nineteenth-century maps loosely inserted, early manuscript index tipped onto front pastedown, contemporary boards, boards very rubbed

Berry's world atlas, which has earned him the name "the English Sanson", was based around derivatives of 32 maps from Alexis Hubert Jaillot's Atlas nouveau, published in Paris in 1674-1681. The bound maps comprise:

1.      The World (dated 1680)

2.      Europe (dated 1680)

3.      Asia

4.      Africa

5.      North America

6.      South America

7.      Spain (dated 1682, with table dated 1681)

8.      Catalonia

9.      Scandinavia (dated 1684)

10.  Denmark

11.  Hungary

12.  Turkey in Europe

13.  Italy

14.  The Alps (dated 1683)

15.  France

16.  Germany

17.  The Rhine

18.  Westphalia

19.  Swabia

20.  Bavaria

21.  Austria

22.  Austria (dated 1688)

23.  Pomerania

24.  Brandenbourg

25.  Colen

26.  Poland

27.  Russia (dated 1682)

28.  Mediterranean

29.  Turkish Empire

30.  The Catholic Provinces

31.  The United Provinces

32.  England

33.  The Circle of the Rhine

PROVENANCE:

Pencil inscription in the hand of Arthur Barwick Lloyd Baker (1883-1979) to upper pastedown, with his initials penciled to upper board