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Americas

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VAN SCHOEL, Henricus America

Lafreri school map of the Americas

£27,500

By VAN SCHOEL, Henricus, 1609].

ARNOLDI, Arnoldo di America

Arnoldi’s separately-published map of the Americas, with the thumb print of the printer!

£30,000

By ARNOLDI, Arnoldo di, c1600].

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.