John Rocque’s rare index to his large wall map of Dublin, including a price list of all Rocque’s published works
An Index adapted to the plan of the City and suburbs of Dublin, from an actual and exact survey made by J. Rocque, etc. - Le Guide, etc. Eng.
Dublin,
Printed for the Author, and sold at his House opposite the Bagnio-slip on the Batchelor's-walk, and G. Faulkner in Essex-street,
1756.
Octavo. viii, [3], 8-35, [5] pages; red marbled paper wrappers.
220 by 150mm. (8.75 by 6 inches).
12768
notes:
The index to the map is followed by price list of all Rocque's published works, affording an insight into the market for maps and prints in eighteenth century London.
The works are as follows:
London (24 sheets, 16 sheets, reductions of both on 2 sheet); Dublin (4 sheet and 1 sheet), and environs of Dublin (1 sheet); Paris and the Country adjacent (7 sheet and 1 sheet); Rome (1 sheet), Shropshire (4 sheets), City of Paris (1 sheet); Bristol (4 sheet an...
The works are as follows:
London (24 sheets, 16 sheets, reductions of both on 2 sheet); Dublin (4 sheet and 1 sheet), and environs of Dublin (1 sheet); Paris and the Country adjacent (7 sheet and 1 sheet); Rome (1 sheet), Shropshire (4 sheets), City of Paris (1 sheet); Bristol (4 sheet an...
bibliography:
BL Maps.198.c.17.
provenance:
Expanded to include Australia
Joseph Huddart’s Certificate of Admittance to Trinity House, the Lighthouse Authority
Rare sailing directions for the Eastern Seaboard
The whale and the warships
Manderson’s pilot of the Gulf of Florida
Admiralty Chart of the North Sea
The Battle of the Downs
Rare eighteenth-century chart of Northeastern Sri Lanka
The Battle of Bugia
“more knowledge of the Eastern Seas than perhaps any other man”
A guide to sailing to Jamaica
“Dr Livingstone, I presume?”
Heather’s rare pilot of the English Channel
D is for Drawing Master
“in all these straits Piratical Proas usually Lurk, ready to Assault Defenceless Vessels…” 



