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ARROWSMITH, Aaron To The Hon[oura]ble the Court Directors of the East India Company This Improved Map of India

The largest map of India produced before the trigonometrical survey

£12,000

By ARROWSMITH, Aaron, 2nd January, 1816.

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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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SMITH, William A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, with Part of Scotland;

A revolution in Geology – “The Map that Changed the World”

£180,000

By SMITH, William, 1815.

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BECK, Harry Map of London's Underground Railways.

A revolution in data visualisation – First state of Beck’s iconic tube map

£4,000

By BECK, Harry, [January, 1933].

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[ANONYMOUS] Plan of the Encampment, on Warley Common,

The Revolutionary War comes to England

£2,500

By [ANONYMOUS], Aug.t 12th, 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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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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SENEX, John [and Mary SENEX] A New & Correct Globe of the Earth.

A pocket globe by a female mapmaker

£30,000

By SENEX, John [and Mary SENEX], after 1744].

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Mind the gap, please!

Mind the gap, please!

£50,000

By STINGEMORE, Fred H.; Harry BECK; Hans SCHLEGER; Harold HUTCHISON; Paul E. GARBUTT; and LONDON UNDERGROUND,

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[SAXTON, Christopher] [The Shires of England and Wales...

Jefferys’s edition of Saxton’s Atlas of England and Wales

£30,000

By [SAXTON, Christopher], c1749].

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PRY, Paul [pseud. of Thomas BURKE] with illustrations by Philip GOUGH For Your Convenience

A verbal and visual map of London’s “cottages”

£7,500

By PRY, Paul [pseud. of Thomas BURKE] with illustrations by Philip GOUGH, 1937.

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