The Real Direccion de Trabajos Hidrograficos was an important Spanish nautical institution, created in 1797 to compile, keep and publish, the sheer volume of information brought back from Spanish voyages of exploration in the last decades of the eighteenth century.
The separate issues of the catalogue that compose this volume, list the charts drawn and supervised by the Real Direccion de Trabajos Hidrograficos, and notes the estimated prices of the maps, as ...
The Real Direccion de Trabajos Hidrograficos was an important Spanish nautical institution, created in 1797 to compile, keep and publish, the sheer volume of information brought back from Spanish voyages of exploration in the last decades of the eighteenth century.
The separate issues of the catalogue that compose this volume, list the charts drawn and supervised by the Real Direccion de Trabajos Hidrograficos, and notes the estimated prices of the maps, as offered for sale in Spain, as well as in the Spanish overseas colonies: the prices in the colonies are consistently calculated as half of that in Spain.
Moll’s striking map of Scotland
1 × £3,000
Original manuscript plat map of the area in lower Manhattan that would later become the site of the World Trade Center, and ultimately the 9/11 Memorial
1 × £10,000
The Earl of Lonsdale’s copy of Thompson’s Alcedo
1 × £65,000
The first appearance in an English atlas of any part of the Australian coastline
1 × £30,000
First printed sea chart of the northeastern seaboard by an Englishman, and the first with soundings
1 × £25,000
Original manuscript plat map of the area in lower Manhattan that would later become the site of the World Trade Center, and ultimately the 9/11 Memorial 
The Earl of Lonsdale’s copy of Thompson’s Alcedo 
The first appearance in an English atlas of any part of the Australian coastline 
First printed sea chart of the northeastern seaboard by an Englishman, and the first with soundings 
