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(31 results)
Ptolemy’s first projection, with the “finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator”
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius.
£300,000
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.
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Bernardus SYLVANUS
£150,000
The first map in an atlas to name America, and Ptolemy’s third projection
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Michael VILLANOVANUS, known as 'SERVETUS'
£200,000
Bordone’s Isolario in contemporary binding
BORDONE, Benedetto di
£40,000
A fine example of Camden’s Britannia in a contemporary binding
CAMDEN, William
£16,000
The Poly-olbion
DRAYTON, Michael
£15,000
The first ‘atlas’
MERCATOR, Gerard; Jodocus HONDIUS
£100,000
First edition of Magini’s Italia
MAGINI, Giovanni Antonio, and Fabio
£40,000
The Poly-olbion
DRAYTON, Michael
£12,500
From the inventory of the Van Keulen family of cartographers
CLOPPENBURG, Johannes
£60,000
The scarce English edition of the Mercator/Hondius atlas in original colour
MERCATOR, Gerard
£250,000
The first folio Sea Atlas
JANSSONIUS, Johannes