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BLAEU, Johannes Atlas Major Sive Cosmographia Blaviana,

Blaeu’s Grand Atlas

£700,000

By BLAEU, Johannes, 1665 [but later]

WILLDEY, George [Map screen].

Out of stock

“…one of the largest, beautifullest, most useful, and diverting Ornaments…”

£85,000

By WILLDEY, George, [1721].

ANONYMOUS [German Atlas of the World].

The XIII United States of America’

£20,000

By ANONYMOUS, 1783-1789].

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A Goos’s view of the world

£20,000

By GOOS, Pieter, 1666].

CHURCHMAN, John The Magnetic Atlas, or Variation Charts of the whole Terraqueous Globe;

Out of stock

Rare work on magnetic variation

£9,000

By CHURCHMAN, John, 1804

ORTELIUS, Abraham Theatro del Mondo

Out of stock

The ‘Vrients’ Atlas with a letter to Ortelius explaining how to smuggle heretic and erotic prints past the Inquisition

£250,000

By ORTELIUS, Abraham, 1608

HAKLUYT, Richard, and WRIGHT, Edward. The Principall Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation,

Out of stock

“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.

ARROWSMITH, Aaron Hydrographical Chart of the World:

Pivot to the Pacific

£35,000

By ARROWSMITH, Aaron, 1814.

MONACHUS, Franciscus [Francois Le Moyne/Francis the Monk]. De Orbis Situ…

Out of stock

America as part of Asia, and the great southern continent on one of the first twin-hemispherical maps

£27,500

By MONACHUS, Franciscus [Francois Le Moyne/Francis the Monk]., 1527

NAGAKUBO, Sekisui Chikyu Bankoku Sankai Yochi Zenzusetsu.

The first Japanese world map with latitudes and longitudes

£20,000

By NAGAKUBO, Sekisui, [c1790].

JAILLOT, Alexis Hubert [and] MORTIER, Pieter Le Neptune François,

Out of stock

A sumptuous example of the ‘Neptune François’, in full red morocco, lavishly gilt

£450,000

By JAILLOT, Alexis Hubert [and] MORTIER, Pieter, 1693–1708.

MÜNSTER, Sebastian Cosmographei,

The Book that “sealed the fate of ‘America’ as the name of the New World”

£50,000

By MÜNSTER, Sebastian, 1550.