£70,000
By APIANUS, Petrus; and Gemma FRISIUS, 1545
£550,000
By MONTALBODDO, Antonio Fracanzano da; translated into Latin by Archangelo MADRIGNANO, 1508.
£50,000
By ACOSTA, Jose de; [translated by Edward GRIMESTONE], 1604.
£150,000
By LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van, 1598.
£125,000
By GASTALDI, Giacomo & LAFRERI, Antonio, 1561].
£12,500
By HOGENBERG, Frans, c1569].
£200,000
By OLIVA, Joan, 1610].
Rare final state – materially different
“The capabilities of this most important possession to the British interest are too numerous for the undersigned here to set forth” (Peel)
First issue of the first commercially available map to show Dutch discoveries along the northern coastline of Australia
The first map to focus on “Australia”
With the addition of the “Isles de Cooke”
Coronelli’s map of Asia identifying Australia with Marco Polo’s “Lochac”
“The least known to Europe of any of the Eastern Countries”
Flinders’s survey of central New South Wales
With the tracks of all the explorers
Naming “Australia”
Gastaldi’s seminal map of Southeast Asia
An early bird’s-eye view of Sydney
Following in Louis Freycinet’s “footsteps” 

