World and continents

BLAEU, Johannes Atlas Major Sive Cosmographia Blaviana,

Blaeu’s Grand Atlas

£700,000

By BLAEU, Johannes, 1665 [but later]

ANONYMOUS [German Atlas of the World].

The XIII United States of America’

By ANONYMOUS, 1783-1789].

ROGGEVEEN, Arent; [and] LOOTSMAN, Jacob and Caspar [The fifth part of the new great sea-mirrour: discovering the west coasts of Africa with the great dial of America...] [bound with] The Coasting Pilot, Describing the Sea-Coasts of England, Scotland...

Out of stock

Loots’ rare edition of Roggeveen’s ‘Burning Fen’, bound with an unrecorded English Coasting Pilot

£200,000

By ROGGEVEEN, Arent; [and] LOOTSMAN, Jacob and Caspar, 1717

BLAEU, Willem Janszoon Het Licht der Zeevaert.

Blaeu’s first sea pilot

£160,000

By BLAEU, Willem Janszoon, 1630.

BLAEU, Johannes Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.

Out of stock

Blaeu’s five volume world atlas

£120,000

By BLAEU, Johannes, 1640-1654.

STEPHENSON, John and George BURN The Channel Pilot,

Out of stock

Rare Coastal Pilot of the British Isles

£12,500

By STEPHENSON, John and George BURN, 1795

BLOME, Richard Cosmography and Geography In Two Parts:

Out of stock

Blome’s world atlas in contemporary full red morocco

£45,000

By BLOME, Richard, 1682

PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius Cosmographia.

Out of stock

The first atlas printed in Germany, the first atlas made from woodcut blocks, the first to contain hand-coloured maps and the first mapping of the world by a named cartographer

£750,000

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius, 1482

BLOME, Richard Britannia,

Out of stock

Blome’s Britannia in contemporary full red morocco

£20,000

By BLOME, Richard, 1673

BRAUN, Georg; and Franz. HOGENBERG Civitates Orbis Terrarum.

Out of stock

The earliest systematic city atlas

£300,000

By BRAUN, Georg; and Franz. HOGENBERG, 1585-1617.

WAGHENAER, Lucas Janszoon Speculum Nauticum super navigatione maris Occidentalis...

Out of stock

The first printed sea atlas

£140,000

By WAGHENAER, Lucas Janszoon, 1591

ORTELIUS, Abraham Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. The Theatre of the Whole World: Set Fourth by That Excellent Geographer Abraham Ortelius.

Out of stock

The first printed map of China in Ortelius’s ‘Theatrum’ in English with original colour

£250,000

By ORTELIUS, Abraham, 1606