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Travel & Voyages

LIGON, Richard A True & Exact History of the Island of Barbados.

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The first separate map of Barbados

£6,100

By LIGON, Richard, 1657.

LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen Histoire de la navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois: aux Indes Orientales contenant diverses descriptions des lieux jusques à present descouverts par les Portugais: observations des coustumes & singularitez de delà, & autres declarations …

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“The navigator’s vade mecum for the Eastern seas”

£50,000

By LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen, 1638.

PURCHAS, Samuel Purchas his pilgrimes... [WITH] Purchas his pilgrimage. Or relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places.

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“One of the fullest and most important collections of early voyages and travels in the English language”

£110,000

By PURCHAS, Samuel, 1625 [but 1626].

STAUNTON, Sir George An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China.

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A fine copy of Staunton’s account of Macartney’s embassy to China.

£10,000

By STAUNTON, Sir George, 1797.

MACGREGOR, Gregor Plan of a Constitution for the Inhabitants of the Indian Coast, in Central America, commonly called the Mosquito Shore.

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The last throw of the Poyaisian dice

£6,000

By MACGREGOR, Gregor, 1836.

DELISLE, Joseph-Nicolas and Philippe BUACHE Exposé des découvertes au nord de la Grande Mer;

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A volume containing three works concerned with the Delisle-Buache controversy over the geography of the North Pole

£50,000

By DELISLE, Joseph-Nicolas and Philippe BUACHE,

SCHEDEL, D. Hartman Liber chronicarum...

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The famous Nuremberg Chronicle, a history of the world, published the year that Columbus returned to Europe

£320,000

By SCHEDEL, D. Hartman, June 1493.

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

£12,000

By VEER, Gerrit de, 1599.

HAKLUYT, Richard The Principall Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation,

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The great prose epic of the Elizabethan period” with the rare suppressed ‘Voyage to Cadiz’

£20,000

By HAKLUYT, Richard, 1812

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.

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

Five Go Mapping

£500

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

FRIES, Laurent; and Martin WALDSEEMÜLLER Uslegung der Mercarthen oder Cartha Marina.

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The instructions to the famous “Carta Marina”, incorporating a rare map by Martin Waldseemüller showing the voyage of Alvise Cadamosto

£250,000

By FRIES, Laurent; and Martin WALDSEEMÜLLER, 1527