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The Maps and Texts of the Boke of Idrography, one of 40 copies, 1981
The Maps and Texts of the Boke of Idrography, one of 40 copies, 1981
The Maps and Texts of the Boke of Idrography, one of 40 copies, 1981
The Maps and Texts of the Boke of Idrography, one of 40 copies, 1981
The Maps and Texts of the Boke of Idrography, one of 40 copies, 1981
The Maps and Texts of the Boke of Idrography, one of 40 copies, 1981
The Maps and Texts of the Boke of Idrography, one of 40 copies, 1981
The Maps and Texts of the Boke of Idrography, one of 40 copies, 1981

Lot 68. ROTZ, Jean; WALLIS, Helen (editor).

The Maps and Texts of the Boke of Idrography

£600 - £800

The Maps and Texts of the Boke of Idrography 100079
presented… to Henry VIII now in the British Library.
Oxford, for presentation to the members of the Roxburghe Club, 1981

With a Foreward by Viscount Eccles, a member of the Roxburghe Club, who produced this facsimile of the original in the British Library for his fellow members of the Club A magnificent undertaking, reproducing Rotz’s celebrated charts. The Boke of Hydrography is the earliest surviving work of the Dieppe cartographers to show ‘the Londe of Java’, later ‘Java la Grande’, which hints at the existence of Australia.

One of 40 copies for presentation to members of the Roxburghe Club, with Lord Clark’s name in red on the list of members. Folio. Coloured illustration to the titlepage and 16 double-page coloured plates, and 11 illustrations in the text. Fine original half morocco, Henry VIII’s insignia of crown above a double (Tudor) rose stamped in gilt to upper board, top edge gilt.

Provenance: Kenneth, Lord Clark (with his Saltwood Castle bookplate to front pastedown).