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Travel & Voyages

PALLACHE, Don Samuel [aka Morenu ha-Rav Shemuel PALACHI] An archive of original unpublished documents related to the trial, in London, of Samuel Pallache, on charges of committing "pyracie, spoyle and outrage at sea", in 1614-1615.

The Rabbi Pirate

£200,000

By PALLACHE, Don Samuel [aka Morenu ha-Rav Shemuel PALACHI], 1376-1615].

MEDINA, Pedro de Arte de navegar.

First edition of the first practical treatise on navigation

£400,000

By MEDINA, Pedro de, 1545.

LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen; and Bernard PALUDANUS Histoire de la navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois: aux Indes Orientales

“Very nobly furnished, and… richly bound and gilded” (John Evelyn)

£220,000

By LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen; and Bernard PALUDANUS, 1638.

MONTALBODDO, Antonio Fracanzano da; translated into Latin by Archangelo MADRIGNANO Itinerarium Portugallensium e Lusitania in Indiam & inde in occidentem & demum ad aquilonem.

The Henry Huth – James C. McCoy copy of the first printed collection of voyages; the earliest mention of the ‘Arabian’ gulf; and, “after Columbus’s letter, the most important contribution to the early history of American discovery”

£550,000

By MONTALBODDO, Antonio Fracanzano da; translated into Latin by Archangelo MADRIGNANO, 1508.

[ABBOTT, Edwin Abbott, pseud.] "A SQUARE" Flatland

“O day and night, but this is wondrous strange”

£1,800

By [ABBOTT, Edwin Abbott, pseud.] "A SQUARE", 1884.

LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van John Huighen van Linschoten his Discours of Voyages unto ye Easte & West Indies. Devided into Foure Bookes.

“The navigator’s vade mecum for the Eastern seas” – one of the most influential English travel books of the sixteenth century

£150,000

By LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van, 1598.

VARIOUS [Collection of 28 pamphlets relating to Scotland, in particular the Scottish economy, the Darien Scheme, and the 1707 Union between England and Scotland]

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A Scottish Sammelband

£30

By VARIOUS,

EBURNE, Richard A plaine path-way to plantations:

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Presentation copy of “the fullest compendium of all on why England should establish colonies in America”

£50,000

By EBURNE, Richard, 1624

STANFIELD, Clarkson [Frederick] Stanfield's Coast Scenery. A Series of Views in the British Channel,

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Scenes from the English Channel

£350

By STANFIELD, Clarkson [Frederick], 1836

PERON, Francois and FREYCINET, Louis [Complete set of first editions of account of Captain Nicolas Baudin's expedition 'Voyage de Découertes aux Terres Australes'].

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The first complete chart of the Australian continent

£30,000

By PERON, Francois and FREYCINET, Louis, 1807-12.

VEER, Gerrit de Tre navigationi fatte dagli Olandesi

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The famous ‘Overwintering on Nova Zembla’ by Willem Barentsz in its rare Italian translation

£4,800

By VEER, Gerrit de, 1599

PREVOST D'EXILES, Antoine François, and BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas Histoire generale des voyages,

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“An important and scarce collection, which includes accounts of all the principal early Australian voyages” from the author of Manon Lescaut

£20,000

By PREVOST D'EXILES, Antoine François, and BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas, 1792