£40,000
By GREENWOOD, Christopher and John, 1830.
Panama
Ptolemy’s first projection, with the “finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator”
The first printed map of Yorkshire
Abraham Ortelius
Buckinghamshire – Bryant’s large-scale map of Buckinghamshire
The first European to enter Mecca and Medina
Willdey’s map of Oxford
From the sixth volume of van Keulen’s ‘Zee-Fakkel’
The first atlas printed in Venice, the first wholly printed in colours, incorporating the first map to indicate Japan, the second map in a Ptolemaic atlas to show America.
London after the Great Fire
Speed’s map of ‘Tartary’
By GREENWOOD, Christopher and John, 1830.
Panama
Ptolemy’s first projection, with the “finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator”
The first printed map of Yorkshire
Abraham Ortelius
Buckinghamshire – Bryant’s large-scale map of Buckinghamshire
The first European to enter Mecca and Medina
Willdey’s map of Oxford
From the sixth volume of van Keulen’s ‘Zee-Fakkel’
The first atlas printed in Venice, the first wholly printed in colours, incorporating the first map to indicate Japan, the second map in a Ptolemaic atlas to show America.
London after the Great Fire
Speed’s map of ‘Tartary’
