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280326

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.

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.

[Anonymous]. [The San Zeno Instrument].

A unique late Medieval/early Renaissance volvelle astronomical calendar

£1,275,000

By [Anonymous]., c1455]

SPILSBURY, J[ohn] Asia in its Principal Divisions, By J. Spilsbury, 1767.

Rare undissected jigsaw map of Asia

£5,000

By SPILSBURY, J[ohn], 1767.

KRAUSS, George Friedrich [78 Solander Boxes from the Albertina Museum Print Collection].

‘One of the world’s finest collections of graphic art’

£210,000

By KRAUSS, George Friedrich, [c1822].

BROMLEY, George W. and Walter S. BROMLEY [Atlas of the City of New York - Borough of Manhattan].

Gotham in the Gilded Age

£115,000

By BROMLEY, George W. and Walter S. BROMLEY, 1908.

BASSANTIN, Jacques Astronomique discourse

“A Scottish astronomer of considerable reputation”

£120,000

By BASSANTIN, Jacques, 1557.