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Rare Atlases

Rare Atlases

Rare Atlases

WAGHENAER, Lucas Janszoon Speculum Nauticum super navigatione maris Occidentalis...

Out of stock

The first printed sea atlas

£140,000

By WAGHENAER, Lucas Janszoon, 1591

ORTELIUS, Abraham Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. The Theatre of the Whole World: Set Fourth by That Excellent Geographer Abraham Ortelius.

Out of stock

The first printed map of China in Ortelius’s ‘Theatrum’ in English with original colour

£250,000

By ORTELIUS, Abraham, 1606

CLOPPENBURG, Johannes Gerardi Mercatoris - Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica mundi et fabricate figura

From the inventory of the Van Keulen family of cartographers

By CLOPPENBURG, Johannes, Anno 1630.

ROGGEVEEN, Arent La Primera Parte Del Nuevo Gran Espejo Maritimo, Alumbrando las Costas Maritimas de la Navigacion de la India Occidental,

Unrecorded Spanish edition of the First Sea Atlas of America

By ROGGEVEEN, Arent, 1690

SPEED, John England Fully Described in a Compleat Sett of Mapp's of ye County's of England and Wales,

Out of stock

Rare Speed Overton Atlas in original outline colour

£16,320

By SPEED, John, 1743

TEMPLEMAN, Thomas A New Survey of the Globe:

Out of stock

Big data in the eighteenth century

£2,000

By TEMPLEMAN, Thomas, [1729?].

ORTELIUS, Abraham Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.

Out of stock

“the first true atlas” in a contemporary Plantijn binding

£120,000

By ORTELIUS, Abraham, 1603

BLAEU, Johannes [England and Wales] Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus Pars Quarta.

Out of stock

Fine example of Blaeu’s atlas of England and Wales

£11,000

By BLAEU, Johannes, 1648

PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Bernardus SYLVANUS Liber geographiae

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.

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Bernardus SYLVANUS, 1511

[SAXTON, Christopher] [An Atlas of England and Wales].

Out of stock

The first national atlas

£185,000

By [SAXTON, Christopher], 1579].

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

BLAEU, Johannes Atlas Major Sive Cosmographia Blaviana,

Blaeu’s Grand Atlas

By BLAEU, Johannes, 1665 [but later]