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Travel & Voyages

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

£8,000

By MACGREGOR, Gregor, 1836.

BUCK, Nathaniel. [Cities, Sea-ports, and Capital Towns]

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A Prospect of Britain

£40,000

By BUCK, Nathaniel., 1728-1749.

MELA, Pomponius; SOLINUS, Julius; POSTELLO, Guglielmo De Situ Orbis; Polyhistoria; De Magistratibus Atheniensium

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The rebirth of classical geography: the first extant geographical work in Latin, from the library of Abraham Ortelius

£15,000

By MELA, Pomponius; SOLINUS, Julius; POSTELLO, Guglielmo, 1576.

Commission des sciences et arts d'Egypte Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française.

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A very fine example of “one of the greatest achievements of French publishing” in its original binding presented to Guy de Lavau, Prefect of the Police of Paris

£267,700

By Commission des sciences et arts d'Egypte, 1809-1828.

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

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The first separate map of Barbados

£12,000

By LIGON, Richard, 1657.

GREENWOOD, Jonathan The Sailing and Fighting Instructions or Signals as they are Observed in the Royal Navy of Great Britain.

The first printed English signals book

£8,000

By GREENWOOD, Jonathan, 1714-1715].

NIEUHOF, Johannes, and John OGILBY An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces

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One of the most informative accounts of China from the seventeenth century

£7,500

By NIEUHOF, Johannes, and John OGILBY, 1669

RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista Delle navigationi e viaggi.

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“The definitive geographies of the sixteenth century” with the first printed map devoted toNew England

£32,000

By RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista, 1588 (vol I); 1583 (vol II); 1565 (vol III).

ORTELIUS, Abra[ham] [Autograph letter to his nephew].

Ortelius writes to his “most brilliant and dearest nephew”

£50,000

By ORTELIUS, Abra[ham], 4 January 1595.

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

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

£250,000

By LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van., 1598.

HUTTICH, Johann and Simon GRYNAEUS Novus Orbis

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The Basel edition of Huttich’s ‘Novus Orbis’ containing the Holbein/Münster Map of the World

£19,624

By HUTTICH, Johann and Simon GRYNAEUS, 1537.

[DEE, John (1527-1608)]. General and Rare Memorials Pertayning to the Perfect Arte of Navigation.

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A hand-coloured example of the first work to discuss the law of the sea, the first to use the term “Brytish Impire”, and the first to propose a “Pety-Navy-Royall’.

£250,000

By [DEE, John (1527-1608)]., 1577