Rare Maps
Rare Atlases
Rare Books
Rare Prints
So striking “as to cause congestion of the highways of London”
£10,000
By GILL, Macdonald, 1927
An unrecorded English edition of Lootsman’s pilot of the Mediterranean
£44,000
By LOOTSMAN, Jacob, 1677
“… some of the most dreaded tropical diseases…”
£500
By ARTZYBASHEFF, Boris, May 1, 1944.
Unrecorded state of William West’s two sheet world map
£5,000
By WEST, William, April 1st, 1816.
Ptolemy’s first projection, with the “finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator”
£300,000
By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius., 1490.
The most up-to-date sea atlas of the second half of the seventeenth century
£80,000
By DONCKER, Hendrik, 1666.
First edition, first state of Speed’s iconic world map
£10,000
By SPEED, John, 1626, [but 1627].
First and only edition of the first cartobibliography
£6,000
By PAULLI, Simon, 1670.
Levanto’s rare pilot of the Mediterranean
£22,000
By LEVANTO, Francesco Maria, 1664
“Once you’ve finished with all the useful stuff you’ll want something entertaining”
£2,300
By RANDALL, Neil; and Timothy Edward DOWNS, 1995
A well-deserved prayer is made for the young man who smells the requisite flowers along the winding paths of geography
£40,000
By MELA, Pomponius., 18th July, 1482.
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.
£150,000
By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Bernardus SYLVANUS, 1511.
