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MÜNSTER, Sebastian Cosmographei,

The Book that “sealed the fate of ‘America’ as the name of the New World”

£50,000

By MÜNSTER, Sebastian, 1550.

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COOK, Captain James R.N., F.R.S. HAWKSWORTH, John; and James KING [Complete Set of the Official Accounts of His Three Voyages Round the World].

Set of Cook’s three voyages, with the plates and maps bound separately in three atlas volumes

£50,000

By COOK, Captain James R.N., F.R.S. HAWKSWORTH, John; and James KING, [1773 -1785].

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GASTALDI, Giacomo' Paolo FORLANI; and Ferrando BERTELLI Il disegno della terza parte dell'Asia.

Gastaldi’s seminal map of Southeast Asia

£125,000

By GASTALDI, Giacomo' Paolo FORLANI; and Ferrando BERTELLI, 1562 and c1568].

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THEVENOT, Melchisedec; and Abel Janszoon TASMAN Hollandia Nova detecta 1644 – Terre Australe decouverte l'an 1644.

Australia revealed

£18,000

By THEVENOT, Melchisedec; and Abel Janszoon TASMAN, 1663.

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SCHENK, Petrus Nova totius Asiae tabula.

The only known example of Peter Schenk’s wall map of Asia

£150,000

By SCHENK, Petrus, [c1710].

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HAYNES, John An Accurate Survey of the Botanic Gardens at Chelsea
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Chelsea Physic Gardens

£10,000

By HAYNES, John, March 30th, 1753.

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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.

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PAULLI, Simon Orbis terraqueus in tabulis geographicis et hydrographicis descriptus

First and only edition of the first cartobibliography

£6,000

By PAULLI, Simon, 1670.

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FAWEKNER, W. H. A Chart Shewing the North West Passage Discovered by Capt. R. le M. McClure

The first man to traverse the Northwest Passage

£20,000

By FAWEKNER, W. H., 14 October 1853.

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[PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius] Septima Asiae Tabula

Trapezoid projection of the Caspian Sea

£4,000

By [PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius], 1490].

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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, and edited by Nicolaus GERMANUS Cosmographia.

The world Columbus knew – Ptolemy’s Second Projection, and the first map signed by its author

£1,200,000

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, and edited by Nicolaus GERMANUS, 16 July 1482.

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GREGORY, Augustus Charles; and John ARROWSMITH Map of part of Australia, Shewing the Route of the North Australian Expedition in 1855 & 1856.

“decisive of the general character of the Australian interior” (Sturt)

£1,500

By GREGORY, Augustus Charles; and John ARROWSMITH, 1857 "/8".

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