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TASTU, Joseph. Mon cher et excellent ami...

The distribution of Dumont d’Urville’s Astrolabe voyage

£7,500

By TASTU, Joseph., 26 and 28 August, 1829.

HERRERA [Y TORDESILLAS], A de; [Jacob Le MAIRE; Willem CORNELIS SCHOUTEN; Giovanni Battista BOAZIO]; et al. Description des Indes Occidentales, qu'on appelle aujourdhuy le Nouveau Monde:

“The first town plan of anywhere in the present- day United States”

£255,000

By HERRERA [Y TORDESILLAS], A de; [Jacob Le MAIRE; Willem CORNELIS SCHOUTEN; Giovanni Battista BOAZIO]; et al., 1622.

LE GOBIEN, Charles; Jean-Baptiste du HALDE; Father Patouillet; and Father Ambrose MARECHAL [eds.,] Lettres édificantes et curieuses

Rare complete set of “the most valuable 18th-century source on Jesuit activities in frontier regions throughout the world” (Hill, ‘Collection Of Pacific Voyages’)

£15,000

By LE GOBIEN, Charles; Jean-Baptiste du HALDE; Father Patouillet; and Father Ambrose MARECHAL [eds.,], 1702-1776.

[COMMIN, Vincent, probable translator]. Le Premier Volume de la mer des Histoires

A sea of stories

£24,000

By [COMMIN, Vincent, probable translator]., before 1552.

THE ADMIRALTY Persian Gulf Pilot

Rare pilot of the Arabian Gulf with early views of Dubai and Abu Dhabi

£20,000

By THE ADMIRALTY, 1932 [additions to 1936].

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.

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].

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.

[WHITTINGTON, Ferdinand] Bermuda.

Eighteenth months on Bermuda

£2,300

By [WHITTINGTON, Ferdinand], 1857

HUMBOLDT, Alexander von [and] Aime J.A. BONPLAND Essai Politique sur le Royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne.

The first scientific analysis of the American Southwest

£45,000

By HUMBOLDT, Alexander von [and] Aime J.A. BONPLAND, 1811.

BUCK, Nathaniel & Samuel Antiquities; or Venerable Remains of above Four Hundred Castles, Monasteries, Palaces, &c. In England and Wales. With near One Hundred Views of Cities and Chief Towns.

A Prospect of Britain

£75,000

By BUCK, Nathaniel & Samuel, 1774.

GONZALEZ dE MENDOZA, Juan; and Giuseppe ROSACCIO Il gran regno della China, novamente dalli Reverendi Padri di S. Agostino, S. Francesco, & Gesù, discoperto

The first map to show Korea as a peninsula, the only known example of this issue

£27,500

By GONZALEZ dE MENDOZA, Juan; and Giuseppe ROSACCIO, 1589.

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