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SAXTON, Christopher Anglia

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The first map of England and Wales printed in England

£5,000

By SAXTON, Christopher, 1579.

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.

WHITTLESEY, Robert [After] Ralph AGAS Oxonia Antiqua Instaurata, sive Urbis & Academiae Oxoniensis Topographica delineatio olim a Rudolph Agas

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Elizabethan Oxford

£4,500

By WHITTLESEY, Robert [After] Ralph AGAS, 1728.

[DEE, John (1527-1608)]. General and Rare Memorials Pertayning to the Perfect Arte of Navigation.

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A hand-coloured example of the first work to discuss the law of the sea, the first to use the term “Brytish Impire”, and the first to propose a “Pety-Navy-Royall’.

£250,000

By [DEE, John (1527-1608)]., 1577

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.