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CHURCHMAN, John To George Washington President of the United States of America this Magnetic Atlas or Variation Chart is humbly inscribed by John Churchman.
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A presentation copy of the last gasp for Edmund Halley’s theory for the determination of longitude by magnetic declination

£19,000

By CHURCHMAN, John, 1790.

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ROUX, Joseph Recueil [sic.] des principaux plans des ports et rades de la mer Mediterranée.
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Roux’s rare chart book of the Mediterranean

£4,000

By ROUX, Joseph, 1764.

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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius Geographicae enarrationis libri octo
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First map in an edition of Ptolemy to name “America”

£75,000

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius, 1525

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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius [translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, edited by GERMANUS, Nicolaus] Quarta Europe Tabula.
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Germany

£8,000

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius [translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, edited by GERMANUS, Nicolaus], 16 July 1482.

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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Martin WALDSEEMULLER Geographiae opus novissima traductione a Grecorum archetypis castigatissime pressum.
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The first atlas map devoted entirely to the New World – “the most important of all the Ptolemy editions”

£356,535

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Martin WALDSEEMULLER, 12th March, 1513.

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HEATHER, William [Composite sea atlas]
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Rare composite pilot of the South China Sea

£30,000

By HEATHER, William, 1840.

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COLOM, Arnold Zee-Atlas, ofte Water-Wereldt.
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“One of the most important … Dutch sea-atlases”

£50,000

By COLOM, Arnold, [c.1658–1659].

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SELLER, John Atlas Terrestris
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From the library of the Earl of Macclesfield

£12,500

By SELLER, John, [c.1685].

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JEFFERYS, [Thomas] The West India Atlas
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‘…A Compendious Description of the West-Indies’

£55,000

By JEFFERYS, [Thomas], 1780 [–1782].

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BRAUN, Georg, HOGENBERG, Franz Civitates Orbis Terrarum.
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A celebration of the city state in a contemporary Plantijn binding

£200,000

By BRAUN, Georg, HOGENBERG, Franz, [1575-1593].

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KEULEN, Gerard van De Groote Nieuwe Vermeerderde Zee-Atlas ofte Water-Waerld.
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A grand edition of van Keulen’s Zee-Atlas

£400,000

By KEULEN, Gerard van, 1706

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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.

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