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PALLACHE, Don Samuel [aka Morenu ha-Rav Shemuel PALACHI] An archive of original unpublished documents related to the trial, in London, of Samuel Pallache, on charges of committing "pyracie, spoyle and outrage at sea", in 1614-1615.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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APIANUS, Petrus; and Gemma FRISIUS Petri Apiani cosmographia,
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One of the most popular books on cosmography ever published

£70,000

By APIANUS, Petrus; and Gemma FRISIUS, 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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ACOSTA, Jose de; [translated by Edward GRIMESTONE] The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies.

From the library of George Sandys: “one of the most important men in the history of colonial Jamestown” (Grizzard)

£50,000

By ACOSTA, Jose de; [translated by Edward GRIMESTONE], 1604.

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[after ROSE, Frederick William] [A Persian caricature map based on Fred Rose's 'Octopus' map of 1877].
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The Octopus in Persian

£12,800

By [after ROSE, Frederick William], [c1880].

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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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GASTALDI, Giacomo & LAFRERI, Antonio La descrittione della prima parte dell'Asia. [and] Il disegno della seconda parte dell'Asia.

The most important maps of the Middle East and Arabia published in the sixteenth century

£125,000

By GASTALDI, Giacomo & LAFRERI, Antonio, 1561].

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CRUCHLEY, [George Frederick] Cruchley's New Plan of London

Cruchley’s New Plan of London in Miniature

£850

By CRUCHLEY, [George Frederick], [1851].

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HOGENBERG, Frans [The Royal Exchange, London

The First Commercial Building in London, and the Earliest English Copper Engraved Topographical Print

£12,500

By HOGENBERG, Frans, c1569].

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OLIVA, Joan [Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean].
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A fine portolan signed and dated by one of the most prolific chart makers of the Mediterranean

£200,000

By OLIVA, Joan, 1610].

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