By [COMMIN, Vincent, probable translator]., before 1552.
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Rare complete set of “the most valuable 18th-century source on Jesuit activities in frontier regions throughout the world” (Hill, ‘Collection Of Pacific Voyages’)
£15,000
By LE GOBIEN, Charles; Jean-Baptiste du HALDE; Father Patouillet; and Father Ambrose MARECHAL [eds.,], 1702-1776.
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“the great prose epic of the Elizabethan period” – the first English map on Mercator’s projection; the first map to name Lake Ontario; and one of the first maps to use the name “Virginia”
£800,000
By HAKLUYT, Richard, and WRIGHT, Edward, 1599–1600.
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“The first town plan of anywhere in the present- day United States”
£255,000
By HERRERA [Y TORDESILLAS], A de; [Jacob Le MAIRE; Willem CORNELIS SCHOUTEN; Giovanni Battista BOAZIO]; et al., 1622.
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The distribution of Dumont d’Urville’s Astrolabe voyage
£7,500
By TASTU, Joseph., 26 and 28 August, 1829.
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The rare works of Cieza de Leon and Gomara bound in one volume
£20,000
By CIEZA DE LEON, Pedro, and LOPEZ DE GOMARA, Francisco, 1560 and 1557.