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Yu Chong (Qing dynasty) Complete Map of the Front and Rear Mountains of Taiwan (全臺前後山輿圖 Quan Tai Qianhou Shan Yutu)

The first official Qing dynasty map to depict the entire island of Taiwan, including its eastern territories

£75,000

By Yu Chong (Qing dynasty), 4th year of the Guangxu reign (1878)

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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen; and Bernard PALUDANUS Histoire de la navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois: aux Indes Orientales

“Very nobly furnished, and… richly bound and gilded” (John Evelyn)

£220,000

By LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen; and Bernard PALUDANUS, 1638.

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MONTALBODDO, Antonio Fracanzano da; translated into Latin by Archangelo MADRIGNANO Itinerarium Portugallensium e Lusitania in Indiam & inde in occidentem & demum ad aquilonem.

The Henry Huth – James C. McCoy copy of the first printed collection of voyages; the earliest mention of the ‘Arabian’ gulf; and, “after Columbus’s letter, the most important contribution to the early history of American discovery”

£550,000

By MONTALBODDO, Antonio Fracanzano da; translated into Latin by Archangelo MADRIGNANO, 1508.

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[BRETEZ, Louis] and [TURGOT, Michel-Etienne]. [Plan de Paris].

Turgot’s monumental plan of Paris

£30,000

By [BRETEZ, Louis] and [TURGOT, Michel-Etienne]., 1739

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MUSTAFA, Ezzedin Ibrahim; and Muhammad Morsi ABDULLAH United Arab Emirates.

A landmark in the cartography of the UAE

£18,000

By MUSTAFA, Ezzedin Ibrahim; and Muhammad Morsi ABDULLAH, 1973.

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MUSTAFA, Ezzedin Ibrahim; and Muhammad Morsi ABDULLAH [United Arab Emirates].

Arabic edition of a landmark in the cartography of the UAE

£7,500

By MUSTAFA, Ezzedin Ibrahim; and Muhammad Morsi ABDULLAH, 1974.

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SENEX, John [and Mary SENEX] A New & Correct Globe of the Earth.

A pocket globe by a female mapmaker

£30,000

By SENEX, John [and Mary SENEX], after 1744].

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“Then the map was drawn for you, and I am much mistaken if it does not tell you plainly where to go” — ‘The Hobbit’

“Then the map was drawn for you, and I am much mistaken if it does not tell you plainly where to go” — ‘The Hobbit’

£1,500

By TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel; and BAYNES, Pauline, 1970.

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The earliest extant plan of London

The earliest extant plan of London

£7,500

By BRAUN, Georg and Franz HOGENBERG, 1575].

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[LANDSAT, attributed to] [Aerial photograph of Dubai].

Dubai from the sky

£30,000

By [LANDSAT, attributed to], [c1984-1985].

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ANDERSON, Margaret Swainson Road Map of Barbados. Compiled from Admiralty Charts 502 and 2485,

The first “good road map” of Barbados

£600

By ANDERSON, Margaret Swainson, 1956.

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LANDSAT [Group of four aerial photographs of Abu Dhabi].

Abu Dhabi from above

£80,000

By LANDSAT, 1984-1985.

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