A plan of Kyoto (Meaco) from a later edition of the Abbé Prévost's travel book, the 'Histoire Generale des Voyages'.
Prévost's work was an expansion of Thomas Astley's 'Voyages and Travels' compiled by Astley from sources including John Atkins, Theodor de Bry and Jean-Baptiste Lavat. The first seven volumes of Astley's work were translated into French by the Abbé Antoine François Prévost (1697-1763). As well as translating Astley's work, Prévost added a general h...
A plan of Kyoto (Meaco) from a later edition of the Abbé Prévost's travel book, the 'Histoire Generale des Voyages'.
Prévost's work was an expansion of Thomas Astley's 'Voyages and Travels' compiled by Astley from sources including John Atkins, Theodor de Bry and Jean-Baptiste Lavat. The first seven volumes of Astley's work were translated into French by the Abbé Antoine François Prévost (1697-1763). As well as translating Astley's work, Prévost added a general history of discoveries and colonisation to his own lifetime, as well as an overview of the historical sources he used.
The maps and plans in Prévost's work were drawn by Jacques Nicolas Bellin, and engraved by Guillaume Dheulland.
The hunting ground of the Calpe
1 × £750
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.
1 × £150,000
“Nothing was more important for [ancient] Geography than to know the size of the Earth, and nothing seemed more difficult to undertake” (Cassini)
1 × £75,000
The Earl of Lonsdale’s copy of Thompson’s Alcedo
1 × £65,000
