World and continents

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World and continents

ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, Didier Mappemonde: ou description du globe terrestre,

“Cotes conjectures”

£2,000

By ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, Didier, 1752.

SENEX, John; and John MAXWELL A Map of the World Corrected from the Observations Communicated to the Royal Societys of London and Paris.

“A most dismal description of New Holland” (Brown)

£5,000

By SENEX, John; and John MAXWELL, 1711.

CAMPEN, Jacob van; and Jacob VENNEKOOL Le Pave de la Grand Sale de Bourgeois.

The first depiction of Abel Tasman’s discoveries, on a floor

£2,000

By CAMPEN, Jacob van; and Jacob VENNEKOOL, 1719].

MERCATOR, Rumold Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio Quam ex Magna Universali Gerardi Mercatoris.

A separately-published world map, issued prior to its inclusion in the first “atlas” to be so called

£4,000

By MERCATOR, Rumold, 1587.

Pre-empting the discovery of Western Australia

Pre-empting the discovery of Western Australia

£2,500

By BUNTING, Heinrich, 1581.

“Climata Australia”

“Climata Australia”

£3,000

By APIANUS, Peter; and Gemma FRISIUS, 1583].

MAWSON, Douglas British Antarctic Expedition 1907. Route and Surveys of the South Magnetic Polar Party

Out of stock

Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition

£360

By MAWSON, Douglas, [1909].

PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Martin WALDSEEMULLER Geographiae opus novissima traductione a Grecorum archetypis castigatissime pressum.

Out of stock

“The most important of all the Ptolemy editions”, here in a contemporary binding

£600,000

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Martin WALDSEEMULLER, 1513

GILL, Macdonald Highways of Empire.

Out of stock

So striking “as to cause congestion of the highways of London”

£10,000

By GILL, Macdonald, 1927.

DARTON, William Junior Walker's Geographical Pastime, or Tour Through the Eastern Hemisphere, or Old World. An Amusing and Instructive Game. [and] Walker's Geographical Pastime, or Tour Through the Western Hemisphere, or New World. An Amusing and Instructive Game.

Out of stock

A pair of rare game maps of the world

£4,500

By DARTON, William Junior, 1816

VISSCHER, Nicolas Atlas minor sive totius orbis terrarum contracta delineata.

Out of stock

Spectacular composite atlas including Allardt’s rare and wonderful chart of “Oost Indien”

£68,840

By VISSCHER, Nicolas, [c.1695].

[ANONYMOUS] [Set of nine card maps with views of cities to verso].

Out of stock

An unrecorded geographical primer

£6,000

By [ANONYMOUS], c1840].