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Rare Atlases
We are the world’s leading dealer in rare atlases by mapmakers such as Blaeu, Mercator, Ortelius, Ptolemy, Speed, and Waghenaer.
(40 results)
The first atlas illustrated with woodcut maps
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, and edited by Nicolaus GERMANUS.
£1,200,000
Second Rome edition with the “finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator”
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius
£300,000
The first atlas printed in Venice, the first wholly printed in colours, incorporating the first map to indicate Japan
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Bernardus SYLVANUS
£150,000
Salad Days
LA SALE, Antoine de
£75,000
The first map in an atlas to name America, and Ptolemy’s third projection
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Michael VILLANOVANUS, known as 'SERVETUS'
£200,000
A Scottish astronomer of considerable reputation
BASSANTIN, Jacques
£120,000
Bordone’s Isolario in contemporary binding
BORDONE, Benedetto di
£40,000
A rare portolan atlas showing the shift in focus from the Mediterranean to northern Europe
DOSSAIGA, Jaime [DOUSAIGO, Jacques]
£385,000
The first ‘atlas’
MERCATOR, Gerard; Jodocus HONDIUS
£100,000
First edition of Magini’s Italia
MAGINI, Giovanni Antonio, and Fabio
£40,000
From the inventory of the Van Keulen family of cartographers
CLOPPENBURG, Johannes
£60,000
The scarce English edition of the Mercator/Hondius atlas in original colour
MERCATOR, Gerard
£250,000
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Saturday: by appointment
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Opening hours, New York
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