World and continents

BLAEU, Jean Novus Atlas Sinensis

First atlas of China made in Europe

£35,000

By BLAEU, Jean, [1655].

[CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY] Atlas, ay majmu' kharitat rasm al-ard...

The earliest obtainable atlas printed in Arabic

£60,000

By [CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY], 1835].

PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Michael VILLANOVANUS, known as 'SERVETUS' Geographicae Enarrationis, Libri Octo.

The first map in an atlas to name America, and Ptolemy’s third projection

£200,000

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Michael VILLANOVANUS, known as 'SERVETUS', 1541.

PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius Die Cosmographia des Claudius Ptolemaeus 1472/3

Superb facsimile of the Vatican’s Ptolemy Cosmographia of 1472

£6,000

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius,

CLOPPENBURG, Johannes Gerardi Mercatoris - Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica mundi et fabricate figura

From the inventory of the Van Keulen family of cartographers

£60,000

By CLOPPENBURG, Johannes, Anno 1630.

LA SALE, Antoine de La Salade, nouvelleme[n]t imprimee

£75,000

By LA SALE, Antoine de, 1521].

[WILLDEY, George] [Composite atlas].

Willdey’s rare composite atlas

£75,000

By [WILLDEY, George], [c1721].

[CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY] Atlas, ay majmu' kharitat rasm al-ard...

The earliest obtainable atlas printed in Arabic

£60,000

By [CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY], 1835].