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LAS CASAS, Bartolomé de Brevissima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias.

An indictment of the brutal Spanish conquest of the New World

£175,000

By LAS CASAS, Bartolomé de, 1552-1553.

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STADEN, Johann von Warhafftig Historia vnnd Beschreibung einer Landtschafft der wilden, nacketen, grimmigen Menschfresser Leuthen, in der Newen Welt America gelegen.

A sensational tale of cannibalism in the New World

£50,000

By STADEN, Johann von, 1557 [dedication, page 14, 1556].

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LOPEZ DE GOMARA, Francisco Con privilegio del Principe nuestro Senor: Cronica de la Nueua España: con la conquista de Mexico, y otras cosas notables:

The conquest of Mexico

£40,000

By LOPEZ DE GOMARA, Francisco, 1554.

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BLAEU, Willem Janszoon [Pair of nine-inch table globes].

A pair of table globes by Blaeu

£350,000

By BLAEU, Willem Janszoon, 1602 [but c1621].

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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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FADEN, William The Course of Delaware River from Philadelphia to Chester.

The British take Philadelphia: “the definitive contemporary source map for these events” (Taliaferro)

£15,000

By FADEN, William, April 30, 1778.

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FADEN, W[illiam] Plan of the City of Quebec,

The Battle of Quebec

£7,500

By FADEN, W[illiam], 12th Sept., 1776.

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“good, loyal, dry and merchantable fat beaver”

“good, loyal, dry and merchantable fat beaver”

£120,000

By RADISSON, Pierre-Esprit., 19th April 1655, and Quebec, 12th October 1655.

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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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[BRETEZ, Louis] and [TURGOT, Michel-Etienne]. [Plan de Paris].

Turgot’s monumental plan of Paris

£30,000

By [BRETEZ, Louis] and [TURGOT, Michel-Etienne]., 1739

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ANDERSON, Margaret Swainson Road Map of Barbados. Compiled from Admiralty Charts 502 and 2485,

The first “good road map” of Barbados

£600

By ANDERSON, Margaret Swainson, 1956.

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SAXTON, Christopher [Yorkshire] Eboracensis Comitatus

The first printed map of Yorkshire

£7,500

By SAXTON, Christopher, 1579].

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