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NEWTON, John A New Terrestrial Globe by J. Newton.

Newton in red

£45,000

By NEWTON, John, 1800.

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WALKER, John Map of Kashmir; Ladak & Little Tibet,

British Knowledge of the Sikh Empire at the beginning of the First Anglo-Sikh War

£1,400

By WALKER, John, Nov. 1st, 1842.

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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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JONES, W[illiam] A New Portable Orrery [and planetarium attachment].

An orrery fit for a President

£40,000

By JONES, W[illiam], [after 1798].

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First large-scale map of Barbados

First large-scale map of Barbados

£30,000

By MAYO, William, 1722.

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First large-scale survey of Venice

First large-scale survey of Venice

£75,000

By UGHI, Lodovico, 1729.

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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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Yu Chong (Qing dynasty) Complete Map of the Front and Rear Mountains of Taiwan (全臺前後山輿圖 Quan Tai Qianhou Shan Yutu)

The first official Qing dynasty map to depict the entire island of Taiwan, including its eastern territories

£75,000

By Yu Chong (Qing dynasty), 4th year of the Guangxu reign (1878)

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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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ANDERSON, Margaret Swainson Road Map of Barbados. Compiled from Admiralty Charts 502 and 2485,

The first “good road map” of Barbados

£600

By ANDERSON, Margaret Swainson, 1956.

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