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An exceptionally fine example of Blaeu’s great work on the towns of the Netherlands bound in full red morocco with the coats-of-arms of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond
£300,000
By BLAEU, Willem and Johannes BLAEU., [1652].
The first map in an atlas to name America, and Ptolemy’s third projection
£200,000
By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Michael VILLANOVANUS, known as 'SERVETUS', 1541.
Superb facsimile of the Vatican’s Ptolemy Cosmographia of 1472
£6,000
By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius,
From the inventory of the Van Keulen family of cartographers
£60,000
By CLOPPENBURG, Johannes, Anno 1630.
A presentation copy of the last gasp for Edmund Halley’s theory for the determination of longitude by magnetic declination
£50,000
By CHURCHMAN, John, 1790.
![PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius [translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, edited by GERMANUS, Nicolaus] [Central Asia and China] Septima Asie tabula.](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/18406_1H.jpg?fit=3500%2C2570&ssl=1)
A striking map of Central Asia and China from the 1482 Ulm Ptolemy
£12,000
By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius [translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, edited by GERMANUS, Nicolaus], 16 July 1482.
![PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius [translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, edited by GERMANUS, Nicolaus] [Arabia] Sexta Asie Tabula.](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/18405_1H.jpg?fit=3500%2C2619&ssl=1)
A striking map of Arabia from the 1482 Ulm Ptolemy
£150,000
By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius [translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, edited by GERMANUS, Nicolaus], 16 July 1482.
