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MÜNSTER, Sebastian Erklerung des newen instruments der Sunnen

The Consolidation of Cartography

£18,000

By MÜNSTER, Sebastian, 1528.

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MÜNSTER, Sebastian Mappa Europae,

The work that turned Europe Upside Down

£60,000

By MÜNSTER, Sebastian, 1536.

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HOGENBERG, Frans [The Royal Exchange, London

The First Commercial Building in London, and the Earliest English Copper Engraved Topographical Print

£12,500

By HOGENBERG, Frans, c1569].

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MÜNSTER, Sebastian Cosmographei,

The Book that “sealed the fate of ‘America’ as the name of the New World”

£50,000

By MÜNSTER, Sebastian, 1550.

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MONTALBODDO, Antonio Fracanzano da Paesi nouamente ritrovati per la Navigatione di Spagna in Calicut Et da Albertutio Vesputio Fiorentino Intitulato Mondo Nouo.

With an early bird’s-eye view of Venice

£80,000

By MONTALBODDO, Antonio Fracanzano da, 1521.

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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Bernardus SYLVANUS Liber geographiae

The first atlas printed in Venice, the first wholly printed in colours, incorporating the first map to indicate Japan, the second map in a Ptolemaic atlas to show America.

£150,000

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Bernardus SYLVANUS, 1511.

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GONZALEZ dE MENDOZA, Juan; and Giuseppe ROSACCIO Il gran regno della China, novamente dalli Reverendi Padri di S. Agostino, S. Francesco, & Gesù, discoperto

The first map to show Korea as a peninsula, the only known example of this issue

£27,500

By GONZALEZ dE MENDOZA, Juan; and Giuseppe ROSACCIO, 1589.

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PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro De la Sfera del Mondo. [and] De Le Stelle Fisse.

The first printed star atlas

£12,000

By PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro, 1540.

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BORDONE, Benedetto di Isolario di Benedetto Bordone

Bordone’s Isolario in contemporary binding

£40,000

By BORDONE, Benedetto di, [c1565].

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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Michael VILLANOVANUS, known as 'SERVETUS' Geographicae Enarrationis, Libri Octo.

The first map in an atlas to name America, and Ptolemy’s third projection

£200,000

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Michael VILLANOVANUS, known as 'SERVETUS', 1541.

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LA SALE, Antoine de La Salade, nouvelleme[n]t imprimee

Salad Days

£75,000

By LA SALE, Antoine de, 1521].

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LESCARBOT, Marc; and Jan SWELINCK Contenant les Navigations, Decouverts, & Habitations faites par les Francois es Indes Occidentales & Nouvelle-France.

“First detailed map devoted to Canada”; the first published history of the French settlements in America; The Shirley – Lathrop Harper – Streeter – Javitch copy

£215,000

By LESCARBOT, Marc; and Jan SWELINCK, 1609.

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