[Rarebooks] FS: Cellarius Atlas 1804 with 33 double-page maps

[Charles Agvent]

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[CELLARIUS, Christoph (Christopher Keller)] . [GEOGRAPHIA ANTIQUA: BEING 
A COMPLETE SETT OF MAPS OF ANTIENT GEOGRAPHY]. [London]: [Rivington], 
[1804]. Small quarto (8-1/4" x 10"), disbound, with one original board 
present. Lacking the title page but with the table of contents and all 
33 double-page maps present. The first 20 were engraved by Richard 
William Seale; William Henry Toms engraved the remainder. None of the 
maps is colored, and most measure about 12" x 8-1/4" on 15" x 10" pages. 
Apparently Seale issued these beginning about 1731, and they continued 
in print until about 1819. The paper is watermarked 1804.

  The maps are quite clean but with offsetting. One map has a small, 
dark stain toward the top. Very Good.
Christoph Cellarius (1638-1707) was a German classicist and geographer 
who was an early advocate of using maps to illustrate his publications. 
His most notable publication was Geographia Antiqua... (1686), and it 
was reissued throughout the next century and a half in various forms. 
Apparently the combination of maps varied for different editions. Most 
of the maps in this edition are the classical ones: the Roman Empire, 
ancient Greece, Macedonia, Palestine, etc. (#016250)        $650.00

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