from “The Cabinet Atlas of the World”.
Alvin Jewett Johnson (1827 – 1884). Alvin J. Johnson entered into the business of publishing atlases in 1860. Having previously been a book canvasser who sold maps and atlases for the well-known map and atlas publisher, J.H. Colton, Johnson was introduced to the profitability of atlases as a reference book. Whether he originally planned to start his book publishing business with atlases or not is unknown. It does appear that, when he came to New York City in 1857, he began to support Colton in the publishing of his atlases and maps. In 1859, Colton’s General Atlas was published by the firm of Johnson & Browning, and the next year he published the first edition of his own atlas, titled, Johnson’s New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas, With Descriptions Geographical, Statistical and Historical. The early editions of the Family Atlas, as it is most commonly referred to, was comprised of maps developed by the Colton firm, and the title page announces that the publishers, Johnson & Browning, are “formerly (successors to J.H. Colton and Company…”. Browning was an agent who worked in Johnson’s book canvassing business.

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*originally four sheet map…this one is the lower two sheet map…
This map comes from Thomas Kitchin’s A General Atlas. This atlas was conceived of by Thomas Jefferys in the 1760s. Following Jefferys’ bankruptcy in 1766, the atlas was first completed by Robert Sayer in 1773. This was Robert Sayer’s first terrestrial atlas. From 1794 the atlas was published by his successors Laurie & Whittle. Later editions tend to be more desirable. Thomas Kitchin’s name appears on title pages even after his death in 1784. The maps are after a variety of makers such as d’Anville, Roberts, Dunn, Rocque, Delarochette, Rennell, Zannoni, Dury, Cook, Vancouver, Perouse and others.
This map is from the 1797 edition of the atlas. This atlas was later expanded and replaced by Laurie & Whittle’s A New Universal Atlas.
Robert Sayer Biography
Robert Sayer (ca. 1724-1794) was a prominent London map publisher. Robert’s father was a lawyer, but his older brother married Mary Overton, the widow of prominent mapmaker Philip Overton and the proprietor of his shop after his death. Mary continued the business for roughly a year after her marriage and then, in early 1748, it passed to Robert. Robert became a freeman of the Stationers’ Company later that year; his first advertisement as an independent publisher was released in December.
Sayer benefited from Overton’s considerable stock, which included the plates of John Senex. In the 1750s, Sayer specialized in design books and topographical prints, as well as comic mezzotints. In 1753, he, along with John Roque, published a new edition of

Thomas Read’s Small British Atlas, the first of several county atlases that Sayer would publish.
Sayer’s business continued to grow. In 1760 he moved further down Fleet Street to larger premises at 53 Fleet Street. In 1766, he acquired Thomas Jefferys’ stock when the latter went bankrupt. In 1774, he entered into a partnership with John Bennett, his former apprentice. The pair specialized in American atlases, based on the work of Jefferys. They also began publishing navigational charts in the 1780s and quickly became the largest supplier of British charts in the trade.
Bennett’s mental health declined, and the partnership ended in 1784. As Sayer aged, he relied on his employees Robert Laurie and James Whittle, who eventually succeeded him. He spent more and more time at his house in Richmond. In 1794, he died in Bath.

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Italian edition of Ortelius’s map of Turkish Empire, from a later pirated Venice edition of Ortelius’s “Epitome”.

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Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun was a french Georapher and Map maker. His father was the founder of “Société de Géographie”.

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Nice example of Speed’s map of the Turkish Empire, from Speed’s Epitome. The maps were engraved by Peter Van Den Keere (Petrus Kaerius).
John Speed Biography
John Speed (1551 or ’52 – 28 July 1629) was the best known English mapmaker of the Stuart period. Speed came to mapmaking late in life, producing his first maps in the 1590s and entering the trade in earnest when he was almost 60 years old.
John Speed’s fame, which continues to this day, lies with two atlases, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (first published 1612), and the Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World (1627). While The Theatre … started as solely a county atlas, it grew into an impressive world atlas with the inclusion of the Prospect in 1627. The plates for the atlas passed through many hands in the 17th century, and the book finally reached its apotheosis in 1676 when it was published by Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, with a number of important maps added for the first time.

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Superb small map by Ortelius from the famous Plantin printing house.
From the first French edition and evidently an early use of the plate as the impression is good and strong. Finely engraved with all name places easily readable.
Very decorative with stipped sea, galleons, sea monster and box cartouche.
Rare map in excellent condition
Publication…Epitome du Theatre du Monde

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Early map of Turkey, the Arabian peninsula and eastern part of the Mediterranean. From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius” Atlas Minor.
Shortly after the publication of the big folio-atlases the need was apparently felt for a smaller-sized atlas, one that would be handier and above all, cheaper.
The Atlas Minor was larger in format than other small atlases available at the time allowing for significantly greater detail and more place names than found in its rivals.

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An uncommon small version of Seutter’s map of the Turkish Empire, published in the ‘Atlas Minor’. It was engraved c.1744 by Lotter, Seutter’s son-in-law, and published after he took over the firm.
Uncommon version of this small map of the Ottoman Empire extending from the Balkans and the north African coast through Arabia the Black Sea. Decorated with a small compass rose and a title cartouche (uncolored) featuring Turkish merchants, an angel and Mercury. From Atlas Minor, here published by Johann Martin Will, with his address in bottom center of the map.

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