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Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
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Rare and early American allegorical map on temperance
MURRELL, W[ILLIAM]. M[EACHAM]. Map on Temperance. Boston: J. Howe, 1846. Broadside with hand-colored lithographed map by E.W. Bouve above three columns of letterpress within an ornamental border. The sheet measures 23 3/4 x 19 inches (60.5 x 48.5 cm). Toning, dampstaining, a few small spots and ink splatters, pinholes in upper corners, side edges folded back with small holes, possibly the result of stitching.
A rare broadside with an allegorical map and poem advocating for temperance. The map suggests a metaphorical sea voyage that begins in a drunken continent, with place names like Crime Empire and Misery Regions, continues across the Ocean of Life, past the Alcohol Islands, then Missionary Island, and finally arrives at a teetotaling continent with place names like Repentance Kingdom and Contentment Province. The map's designer, William Murray, was the author of a seafaring memoir titled Cruise of the Frigate Columbia Around the World, Under the Command of Commodore G.C. Read, in 1838, 1839 and 1840, and he also claims in the cartouche to be "A Reformed Cruiser," implying that the map's inspiration is autobiographical. This copy of the map has the widest margins of any that we have encountered. Rare: we can locate only two institutional copies of this map, one other copy with a Boston imprint (PJ Mode Collection at Cornell), and one copy with a Pawtucket, Rhode Island imprint (Boston Athenaeum).
Sold for $2,048
Estimated at $400 - $600
Includes Buyer's Premium
MURRELL, W[ILLIAM]. M[EACHAM]. Map on Temperance. Boston: J. Howe, 1846. Broadside with hand-colored lithographed map by E.W. Bouve above three columns of letterpress within an ornamental border. The sheet measures 23 3/4 x 19 inches (60.5 x 48.5 cm). Toning, dampstaining, a few small spots and ink splatters, pinholes in upper corners, side edges folded back with small holes, possibly the result of stitching.
A rare broadside with an allegorical map and poem advocating for temperance. The map suggests a metaphorical sea voyage that begins in a drunken continent, with place names like Crime Empire and Misery Regions, continues across the Ocean of Life, past the Alcohol Islands, then Missionary Island, and finally arrives at a teetotaling continent with place names like Repentance Kingdom and Contentment Province. The map's designer, William Murray, was the author of a seafaring memoir titled Cruise of the Frigate Columbia Around the World, Under the Command of Commodore G.C. Read, in 1838, 1839 and 1840, and he also claims in the cartouche to be "A Reformed Cruiser," implying that the map's inspiration is autobiographical. This copy of the map has the widest margins of any that we have encountered. Rare: we can locate only two institutional copies of this map, one other copy with a Boston imprint (PJ Mode Collection at Cornell), and one copy with a Pawtucket, Rhode Island imprint (Boston Athenaeum).
Auction: Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection, ending Mar 7, 2024
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Timed Auction of Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including the Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
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Bidding Will Open on February 22 and Close on Thursday, March 7, 2024 beginning at 10am
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Consignments Are Currently Being Accepted for Future Auctions
NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle will hold a timed online auction of Maps, Travel & Sporting Books closing on Thursday, March 7, 2024 beginning at 10am. Explore the world through a fascinating range of offerings featuring maps, Americana, travel, sporting books, literary sets and the Esmond Bradley Martin Collection of Africana.
Esmond Bradley Martin
Esmond Bradley Martin (1941-2018) was educated as a geographer and philosopher. He and his wife Chryssee had an enduring fascination with Africa, and settled in Nairobi, Kenya, in the mid-1970s. He wrote extensively, oftentimes in conjunction with his wife, publishing works including Zanzibar. Tradition and Revolution, Hamish Hamilton, 1978; Cargoes of the east. The ports, trade, and culture of the Arabian Seas and western Indian Ocean, Elm Tree Press, 1978; and many other works on African history and conservation. In the late 1970s, he began extensive research into the illegal trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, which included substantial stints incognito posing as a buyer of illicit wildlife products. For a while, he served as special envoy for rhino conservation for the United Nations.
For about thirty years, beginning in the mid-1960s, Esmond Bradley Martin assiduously collected books and manuscripts on Africa and its history, acquiring a phenomenal collection of letters by many of the major English explorers of the nineteenth century, as well as numerous rarities from earlier centuries. He was buying at a time when troves of such material surfaced frequently at English auctions. Doyle was privileged to offer the first selection from his collection in the November 7, 2023 auction. We are pleased to present this second offering of property from The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection.
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