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SPEED, John [Set of the world and continents]

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Speed’s view of the world

£30,000

By SPEED, John, [1631].

PREVOST D'EXILES, Antoine François, and BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas Histoire generale des voyages,

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“An important and scarce collection, which includes accounts of all the principal early Australian voyages” from the author of Manon Lescaut

£20,000

By PREVOST D'EXILES, Antoine François, and BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas, 1792

HAKLUYT, Richard, and WRIGHT, Edward. The Principall Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation,

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“the great prose epic of the Elizabethan period” with both the Wright-Molyneux world map and the rare suppressed ‘Voyage to Cadiz’ from the library of the Earls of Macclesfield.

£500,000

By HAKLUYT, Richard, and WRIGHT, Edward., Anno 1599–1600.

VAN SCHOEL, Henricus America

Lafreri school map of the Americas

£27,500

By VAN SCHOEL, Henricus, 1609].

BLAEU, Johannes. Nova Belgica Et Anglia Nova.

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The first printed map to depict Manhattan as an island

£3,000

By BLAEU, Johannes., 1662].

JAILLOT, Alexis Hubert [and] MORTIER, Pieter Le Neptune François,

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A sumptuous example of the ‘Neptune François’, in full red morocco, lavishly gilt

£450,000

By JAILLOT, Alexis Hubert [and] MORTIER, Pieter, 1693–1708.

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].

SPEED, John The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine.

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The first English world atlas – a spectacular example: red-ruled and with fine period colour.

£110,000

By SPEED, John, 1676

PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius Terra Nova.

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From Terra Incognita to Terra Nova

£4,800

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius, 1541

SPEED, John The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine

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The first English world atlas

£75,000

By SPEED, John, 1676

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.