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Rare Books

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Rare Books

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.

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WILMANS, Frederic Catalogue de la Librarie, Estampes et Estampes et autres Articles de fond de Frédéric Wilmans.

A Frankfurt publisher

£250

By WILMANS, Frederic, 1829.

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HUBBARD, Jason Japoniae insulae. The mapping of Japan.

Hubbard’s cartobibliography of Japan

£159

By HUBBARD, Jason, 2012.

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MARIESCHI, Michele Magnificentiores Selectioresque Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus...

Michele Marieschi’s suite of views of Venice from the library of Louis XV

£120,000

By MARIESCHI, Michele, 1741.

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LE ROUGE, George Louis Catalogue des noms de villes, village, riviers,

Index to Rouge’s Mitchell Map

£10,000

By LE ROUGE, George Louis, 1777.

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LA HIRE, Philippe de Description et explication des globes

With the Arms of the Sun King

£10,000

By LA HIRE, Philippe de, 1704.

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STANFORD, Edward Catalogue of Maps and Books for Tourists.

“Tourists’ Books and Maps, selected from the stock of Edward Stanford”

£450

By STANFORD, Edward, July 1, 1883.

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BLAEU, Willem Institutio astronomica de usu globorum & sphaerarum caelestium ac terrestrium...

Blaeu’s user’s manual for globes, spheres and sundials

£4,000

By BLAEU, Willem, 1652.

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WALKER, George Laurie and Whittle's New Sailing Directions from the Coasts and Harbours of North America...

Rare sailing directions for the Eastern Seaboard

£8,000

By WALKER, George, 1809.

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GREENWOOD, Jonathan The Sailing and Fighting Instructions or Signals as they are Observed in the Royal Navy of Great Britain.

The first printed English signals book

£8,000

By GREENWOOD, Jonathan, 1714-1715].

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ORTELIUS, Abra[ham] [Autograph letter to his nephew].

Ortelius writes to his “most brilliant and dearest nephew”

£50,000

By ORTELIUS, Abra[ham], 4 January 1595.

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SENEX, John A treatise of the description and use of both globes.

“a true and exact representation of the Earth and Heavens”

£1,200

By SENEX, John, 1718.

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