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200326

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.

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.

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

The first printed star atlas

£12,000

By PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro, 1540.

BORDONE, Benedetto di Isolario di Benedetto Bordone

Bordone’s Isolario in contemporary binding

£40,000

By BORDONE, Benedetto di, [c1565].

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.

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

£75,000

By LA SALE, Antoine de, 1521].

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

£175,000

By LESCARBOT, Marc; and Jan SWELINCK, 1609.

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.

BASSANTIN, Jacques Astronomique discourse

“A Scottish astronomer of considerable reputation”

£120,000

By BASSANTIN, Jacques, 1557.