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ACOSTA, Jose de; [translated by Edward GRIMESTONE] The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies.

From the library of George Sandys: “one of the most important men in the history of colonial Jamestown” (Grizzard)

£50,000

By ACOSTA, Jose de; [translated by Edward GRIMESTONE], 1604.

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MARTYR d'ANGHIERA, Peter; Richard EDEN; and Michael LOK De Novo Orbe, or the Historie of the west Indies,

“Whoso committe themselves unto the huge, and mayne Ocean, in a small vessell, may sooner expect to be swallowed in that vastity of waters, through the rage and furie of the Sea, then [sic] hope to gaine the desired, and intended haven” (Lok)

£40,000

By MARTYR d'ANGHIERA, Peter; Richard EDEN; and Michael LOK, 1612.

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PARENT-DUCHATELET, Alexandre J.B. De la Prostitution dans la ville de Paris...

A ground-breaking work on public health and prostitution

£1,500

By PARENT-DUCHATELET, Alexandre J.B., 1836.

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TENCH, Watkin A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay,

“A work of conscious art” (Firzhardinge)

£3,000

By TENCH, Watkin, 1789.

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[ABBOTT, Edwin Abbott, pseud.] "A SQUARE" Flatland

“O day and night, but this is wondrous strange”

£1,800

By [ABBOTT, Edwin Abbott, pseud.] "A SQUARE", 1884.

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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van John Huighen van Linschoten his Discours of Voyages unto ye Easte & West Indies. Devided into Foure Bookes.

“The navigator’s vade mecum for the Eastern seas” – one of the most influential English travel books of the sixteenth century

£150,000

By LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van, 1598.

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PRY, Paul [pseud. of Thomas BURKE] with illustrations by Philip GOUGH For Your Convenience

A verbal and visual map of London’s “cottages”

£7,500

By PRY, Paul [pseud. of Thomas BURKE] with illustrations by Philip GOUGH, 1937.

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MÜNSTER, Sebastian Erklerung des newen instruments der Sunnen

The Consolidation of Cartography

£18,000

By MÜNSTER, Sebastian, 1528.

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BLAEU, Willem Institution Astronomique de l'usage des globes et spheres...

Blaeu’s user’s manual for globes, spheres and sundials

£4,000

By BLAEU, Willem, 1642.

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MANDERSON, Captain [James] An Enquiry into the causes of The Stream which sets through the Gulf of Florida into the Atlantic Ocean: with Directions for Navigating that Passage from Jamaica.

Manderson’s pilot of the Gulf of Florida

£5,000

By MANDERSON, Captain [James], 1823.

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WHITE, John Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales,

Full of “non descript” natural history

£5,000

By WHITE, John, 1790.

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BURDEN, Philip D. The Mapping of North America

The book documents the printed cartographic record of the discovery of the continent in 1492 to 1670

£250

By BURDEN, Philip D., 1996.

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