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SHIRLEY, Rodney The Mapping of the World: Early Printed World Maps 1472-1700.

Out of stock

Shirley’s Mapping of the World

£600

By SHIRLEY, Rodney, 1993

D'ANVILLE, [Jean Baptiste Bourguignon] Memoire de M. D'Anville, Premier Geographe du Roi,

D’Anville’s maps of China

£4,500

By D'ANVILLE, [Jean Baptiste Bourguignon], 1776 and 1777.

DALRYMPLE, Alexander A Collection of Charts and Memoirs.

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Presentation Copy of Dalrymples work on the Pacific and China

£64,000

By DALRYMPLE, Alexander, 1772

DUDLEY, Robert Carta particolare dell'Isole Celebes e Giliolo parte Australe:le

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Chart of the southern routes to the Spice Islands

£3,000

By DUDLEY, Robert, 1661].

BOUGAINVILLE, Louis-Antoine de Voyage autour du monde,

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France’s first official circumnavigation of the world – and the naming of a flower

£2,760

By BOUGAINVILLE, Louis-Antoine de, 1771.

[WHITTINGTON, Ferdinand] Bermuda.

Eighteenth months on Bermuda

£2,300

By [WHITTINGTON, Ferdinand], 1857.

PINE, John The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords: Representing the several Engagements between the English and Spanish Fleets in the ever Memorable Year MDLXXXVIII...

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John Pine’s striking depictions of the Spanish Armada tapestries

£25,000

By PINE, John, 1739 [1740].

AA, Pieter van der Catalogue des livres des cartes greographiques,

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Wrapped in a map

£4,000

By AA, Pieter van der, [c1710].

BRY, Theodore de. Wunderbarliche,

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De Bry’s seminal description of Virginia in contemporary colour

£300,000

By BRY, Theodore de., 1590

CLARKE, Samuel A true, and faithful account of the four chiefest plantations of the English in America.

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Bermudas: “The Temperature of the Aier; The Nature of the Soil, Trees, Plants, Fruits, Hearbs, Fishes, Fowls, and other Commodities thereof” (page 18)

£1,100

By CLARKE, Samuel, 1670

FLINDERS, Captain Matthew, R.N. A Voyage to Terra Australis:

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The first circumnavigation of Australia

£32,000

By FLINDERS, Captain Matthew, R.N., 1814[-1829].

KIRCHER, Athanasius. Mundus Subterraneus.

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“Horrid phantasms and apparitions of Devils”

£225,000

By KIRCHER, Athanasius., 1665