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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. Cosmographia.

Ptolemy’s first projection, with the “finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator”

£300,000

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius., 1490.

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DUDLEY, Robert; and others Direttorio Marittimo

Dudley’s original manuscript manual for the use and instruction of the officers of the Tuscan fleet

£300,000

By DUDLEY, Robert; and others, c.1637-1647].

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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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LANE, [Thomas after ADAMS, Dudley; and FERGUSON, James] Lane's Improved Globe

The Swan River Colony

£15,000

By LANE, [Thomas after ADAMS, Dudley; and FERGUSON, James], [c1833]

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MELISH, John Map of Pennsylvania, Constructed from the County Surveys…Corrected and Improved to 1825

Unrecorded example of Melish’s map of Pennsylvania

£26,000

By MELISH, John, 1825.

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KIP, Johannes A Prospect of the City of London [with] A Prospect of Westminster.

London’s calling

£12,000

By KIP, Johannes, 1718.

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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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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, and edited by Nicolaus GERMANUS Cosmographia.

The world Columbus knew – Ptolemy’s Second Projection, and the first map signed by its author

£1,200,000

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, and edited by Nicolaus GERMANUS, 16 July 1482.

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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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HOLLAR, Wenceslaus The Prospect of London and Westminster

The legacy of the seventeenth century in London

£8,000

By HOLLAR, Wenceslaus, [after 1697].

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