£3,000
By THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, [1857].
Peter Martyr d'Anghiera
Blaeu’s Atlas of England and Wales in full red morocco
A striking map of Sri Lanka from the 1482 Ulm Ptolemy
Hertfordshire - Rare large-scale map of Hertfordshire
Cartographic game board celebrating the British Empire in India
Jan Huyghen van Linschoten
Set of Cook’s three voyages, with the plates and maps bound separately in three atlas volumes
The siege of Gibraltar
A striking map of Balkans from the 1482 Ulm Ptolemy
The Paris playing cards, with grammatical game
“The largest view of London ever to be published”
The earliest obtainable sea chart of Europe
A puzzling gift
Half a tent is better than none…
“Occasionally, everyone gets too far out”
Telling the time with stars
The first printed star atlas
“How beautiful are the one hundred sweet honey’s who are waiting for you”
Giovanni Antonio Magini
Rare planisphere
The only known examples of instruments made for an unpublished quarto edition of ‘Dell’Arcano del Mare’
America Hams it Up
The greatly enlarged second edition of this rare French Sea Atlas with four maps of the Arabian Peninsula
By THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, [1857].
Peter Martyr d'Anghiera
Blaeu’s Atlas of England and Wales in full red morocco
A striking map of Sri Lanka from the 1482 Ulm Ptolemy
Hertfordshire - Rare large-scale map of Hertfordshire
Cartographic game board celebrating the British Empire in India
Jan Huyghen van Linschoten
Set of Cook’s three voyages, with the plates and maps bound separately in three atlas volumes
The siege of Gibraltar
A striking map of Balkans from the 1482 Ulm Ptolemy
The Paris playing cards, with grammatical game
“The largest view of London ever to be published”
The earliest obtainable sea chart of Europe
A puzzling gift
Half a tent is better than none…
“Occasionally, everyone gets too far out”
Telling the time with stars
The first printed star atlas
“How beautiful are the one hundred sweet honey’s who are waiting for you”
Giovanni Antonio Magini
Rare planisphere
The only known examples of instruments made for an unpublished quarto edition of ‘Dell’Arcano del Mare’
America Hams it Up
The greatly enlarged second edition of this rare French Sea Atlas with four maps of the Arabian Peninsula
