Travel & Voyages

Travel & Voyages

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Travel & Voyages

Travel & Voyages

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PALLACHE, Don Samuel [aka Morenu ha-Rav Shemuel PALACHI] An archive of original unpublished documents related to the trial, in London, of Samuel Pallache, on charges of committing "pyracie, spoyle and outrage at sea", in 1614-1615.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

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MEDINA, Pedro de Arte de navegar.

First edition of the first practical treatise on navigation

£400,000

By MEDINA, Pedro de, 1545.

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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.

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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.

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[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.

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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.

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THEVENOT Melchisédec Relations de divers voyages curieux,

The most up-to-date practical knowledge on navigation and information on foreign countries

£35,000

By THEVENOT Melchisédec, 1666-1672.

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BOUGAINVILLE, Louis-Antoine de Voyage autour du monde,

France’s first official circumnavigation of the world – and the naming of a flower

£8,000

By BOUGAINVILLE, Louis-Antoine de, 1771.

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THEVENOT, Melchisedec; and Abel Janszoon TASMAN Relations de Divers Voyages Curieux

Thevenot’s Voyages

£35,000

By THEVENOT, Melchisedec; and Abel Janszoon TASMAN, 1663.

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COOK, Captain James R.N., F.R.S. HAWKSWORTH, John; and James KING [Complete Set of the Official Accounts of His Three Voyages Round the World].

Set of Cook’s three voyages, with the plates and maps bound separately in three atlas volumes

£50,000

By COOK, Captain James R.N., F.R.S. HAWKSWORTH, John; and James KING, [1773 -1785].

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MONTALBODDO, Antonio Fracanzano da Paesi nouamente ritrovati per la Navigatione di Spagna in Calicut Et da Albertutio Vesputio Fiorentino Intitulato Mondo Nouo.

With an early bird’s-eye view of Venice

£80,000

By MONTALBODDO, Antonio Fracanzano da, 1521.

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DEVERSON, H.J. and LAMPITT, Ronald The Map That Came to Life.

Five Go Mapping

£500

By DEVERSON, H.J. and LAMPITT, Ronald, 1948.

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