“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
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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.
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Lafreri school map of the Americas
£27,500
By VAN SCHOEL, Henricus, 1609].
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The first printed map to depict Manhattan as an island
£3,000
By BLAEU, Johannes., 1662].
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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.
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Arnoldi’s separately-published map of the Americas, with the thumb print of the printer!
£30,000
By ARNOLDI, Arnoldo di, c1600].
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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
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From Terra Incognita to Terra Nova
£4,800
By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius, 1541
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The first English world atlas
£75,000
By SPEED, John, 1676
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“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.