£1,800
By [ABBOTT, Edwin Abbott, pseud.] "A SQUARE", 1884.
£150,000
By LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van, 1598.
£35,000
By THEVENOT Melchisédec, 1666-1672.
£50,000
By COOK, Captain James R.N., F.R.S. HAWKSWORTH, John; and James KING, [1773 -1785].
£500,000
By DUDLEY, Robert; and others, c.1637-1647].
£27,500
By GONZALEZ dE MENDOZA, Juan; and Giuseppe ROSACCIO, 1589.
The hunting ground of the Calpe
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.
“Nothing was more important for [ancient] Geography than to know the size of the Earth, and nothing seemed more difficult to undertake” (Cassini)
The Earl of Lonsdale’s copy of Thompson’s Alcedo 

