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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
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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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“One of the fullest and most important collections of early voyages and travels in the English language”
£110,000
By PURCHAS, Samuel, 1625 [but 1626].
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The first English map of Australia
£12,000
By HARRIS, John, 1744
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“Huc Franciscus Dra. Appulit”
£1,280
By MERCATOR, Gerard; and Jodocus HONDIUS, 1609, or later].
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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.