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160426

HAKLUYT, Richard, and WRIGHT, Edward The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, Made by Sea or Over-land,

“the great prose epic of the Elizabethan period” – the first English map on Mercator’s projection; the first map to name Lake Ontario; and one of the first maps to use the name “Virginia”

£800,000

By HAKLUYT, Richard, and WRIGHT, Edward, 1599–1600.

HERRERA [Y TORDESILLAS], A de; [Jacob Le MAIRE; Willem CORNELIS SCHOUTEN; Giovanni Battista BOAZIO]; et al. Description des Indes Occidentales, qu'on appelle aujourdhuy le Nouveau Monde:

“The first town plan of anywhere in the present- day United States”

£255,000

By HERRERA [Y TORDESILLAS], A de; [Jacob Le MAIRE; Willem CORNELIS SCHOUTEN; Giovanni Battista BOAZIO]; et al., 1622.

[CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY] Atlas, ay majmu' kharitat rasm al-ard...

The earliest obtainable atlas printed in Arabic

£60,000

By [CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY], 1835].

BOWLES, Thomas A New & Exact Plan of ye City of London

A city of meat eaters

£3,500

By BOWLES, Thomas, 1734.

ALLEN, William Map of the Punjab and the Sikh Territory.

The end of the Sikh Empire

£7,000

By ALLEN, William, 1849.

“The Lowest Class. Vicious, semi-criminal”

“The Lowest Class. Vicious, semi-criminal”

£20,000

By BOOTH, Charles, 1889.

BASSANTIN, Jacques Astronomique discourse

“A Scottish astronomer of considerable reputation”

£120,000

By BASSANTIN, Jacques, 1557.

[NASA] [Set of four Lunar Orbiter V Photographs of the Crater Copernicus].

The Monarch of the Moon

£8,000

By [NASA], 1967].