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PALLACHE, Don Samuel [aka Morenu ha-Rav Shemuel PALACHI] An archive of original unpublished documents related to the trial, in London, of Samuel Pallache, on charges of committing "pyracie, spoyle and outrage at sea", in 1614-1615.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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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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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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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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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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SCHOUTEN, Willem Corneliszoon; [translated by William PHILLIP] The Relation of a Wonderfull Voiage made by William Cornelison Schouten of Horne.

“a newe unexpected and neverheretofore discovered Passage” (Phillip)

£95,000

By SCHOUTEN, Willem Corneliszoon; [translated by William PHILLIP], 1619.

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WILLES, Richard; after Richard EDEN The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towards the fruitfull and ryche Moluccas.

Better than Eden

£115,000

By WILLES, Richard; after Richard EDEN, 1577.

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ANGLIARA, Juan de; [possibly after Fr. Juan DIAZ] Die schiffvng mitt dem Lanndt der Gvlden Insel gefvndē durch Hern Johan vō Angliara

Early New World apocrypha?

£45,000

By ANGLIARA, Juan de; [possibly after Fr. Juan DIAZ], c.1522].

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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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