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KIRCHER, Athanasius. Mundus Subterraneus.

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“Horrid phantasms and apparitions of Devils”

£225,000

By KIRCHER, Athanasius., 1665

DE LA RUE & CO. De La Rue & Co.'s Playing Cards.

‘More graceful figures than those now seen’ (Dickens)

£10,000

By DE LA RUE & CO., 1878-1879.

DELISLE, Guillaume; BUACHE, Philippe; DEZAUCHE, Jean-Claude Catalogue des Cartes Geographiques de Mm. De L'Isle et Buache,

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The inaugural cartographic inventory of the successor to Delisle and Buache

£1,500

By DELISLE, Guillaume; BUACHE, Philippe; DEZAUCHE, Jean-Claude, [c1781].

ROCQUE, John An Index adapted to the plan of the City and suburbs of Dublin, from an actual and exact survey made by J. Rocque, etc. - Le Guide, etc. Eng.

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John Rocque’s rare index to his large wall map of Dublin, including a price list of all Rocque’s published works

£1,200

By ROCQUE, John, 1756.

BIGGE, John Thomas; and Governor Lachlan MACQUARIE Collection of Parliamentary Papers related to John Thomas Bigge's Inquiry into the State of the Colony of New South Wales

Bigge’s damning report of Macquarie’s tenure as emancipist Governor of the Colony of New South Wales

£5,000

By BIGGE, John Thomas; and Governor Lachlan MACQUARIE, 1822-1828

STRANGEWAYS, Thomas Sketch of the Mosquito Shore, Including the Territory of Poyais,

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The work that helped promote the Poyaisian Fraud

£2,000

By STRANGEWAYS, Thomas, 1822

HOLLAR, Wenceslaus, and VIRGIL Opera per Johannem Ogilvium edita et sculpturis aenis adoranata.

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First edition of this translation by Ogilby illustrated with more than seventy engravings by Hollar

£1,800

By HOLLAR, Wenceslaus, and VIRGIL, 1654-1658.

CHAMPLAIN, Samuel de Les Voyages de la Nouvelle France occidentale...

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The first complete edition of the voyages of Champlain, here with the rare map

£250,000

By CHAMPLAIN, Samuel de, 1632

[TUTTELL, Thomas] Mathematical Cards.

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One of the earliest illustrated trade catalogues and a fascinating glimpse into the use of scientific instruments at the beginning of the eighteenth century

£28,000

By [TUTTELL, Thomas], c.1700-1718].

VISSCHER, Nicolaes Catalogus Van groote en kleene Land-Kaerten, Steden, Print-Kunst En Boecken.

Visscher family catalogue

£10,000

By VISSCHER, Nicolaes, [1682].

VARTHEMA, Ludvico di De uytnemende en seer vvonderlijcke zee-en-landt-reise van de heer Ludovvyck di Barthema, van Bononien, Ridder &c. Gedaen inde Morgenlanden, Syrien, vrughtbaer en woest Arabien, Perssen, Indien, Egypten, Ethiopien en andere.

The first European to enter Mecca and Medina

£20,000

By VARTHEMA, Ludvico di, 1654.

LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen van Navigatio ac itinerarium Johannis Hugonis Linscotani in orientalem sive lusitanorum Indiam

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Linschoten’s ‘Itinerario’ in the rare first Latin edition, including Barentsz’ map of the Arctic

£95,000

By LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen van, 1599.