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THEVENOT Melchisédec Relations de divers voyages curieux,

The most up-to-date practical knowledge on navigation and information on foreign countries

£35,000

By THEVENOT Melchisédec, 1666-1672.

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ANDERSON, George William; and Captain James COOK Chart of the Friendly Islands.

“Rose Island” by any other name

£400

By ANDERSON, George William; and Captain James COOK, [1784-1786].

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MONTALBODDO, Antonio Fracanzano da Paesi nouamente ritrovati per la Navigatione di Spagna in Calicut Et da Albertutio Vesputio Fiorentino Intitulato Mondo Nouo.

with an early bird’s-eye view of Venice

£80,000

By MONTALBODDO, Antonio Fracanzano da, 1521.

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DEVERSON, H.J. and LAMPITT, Ronald The Map That Came to Life.

Five Go Mapping

£500

By DEVERSON, H.J. and LAMPITT, Ronald, 1948

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DUDLEY, Robert; and others Direttorio Marittimo

Dudley’s original manuscript manual for the use and instruction of the officers of the Tuscan fleet

£500,000

By DUDLEY, Robert; and others, c.1637-1647].

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GONZALEZ dE MENDOZA, Juan; and Giuseppe ROSACCIO Il gran regno della China, novamente dalli Reverendi Padri di S. Agostino, S. Francesco, & Gesù, discoperto

The first map to show Korea as a peninsula, the only known example of this issue

£27,500

By GONZALEZ dE MENDOZA, Juan; and Giuseppe ROSACCIO, 1589.

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HUMBOLDT, Alexander von [and] Aime J.A. BONPLAND Essai Politique sur le Royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne.

The first scientific analysis of the American Southwest

£45,000

By HUMBOLDT, Alexander von [and] Aime J.A. BONPLAND, 1811

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[WHITTINGTON, Ferdinand] Bermuda.

Eighteenth months on Bermuda

£2,300

By [WHITTINGTON, Ferdinand], 1857

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VARTHEMA, Ludvico di De uytnemende en seer vvonderlijcke zee-en-landt-reise van de heer Ludovvyck di Barthema, van Bononien, Ridder &c. Gedaen inde Morgenlanden, Syrien, vrughtbaer en woest Arabien, Perssen, Indien, Egypten, Ethiopien en andere.

The first European to enter Mecca and Medina

£20,000

By VARTHEMA, Ludvico di, 1654

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GREENWOOD, Jonathan The Sailing and Fighting Instructions or Signals as they are Observed in the Royal Navy of Great Britain.

The first printed English signals book

£8,000

By GREENWOOD, Jonathan, 1714-1715].

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ORTELIUS, Abra[ham] [Autograph letter to his nephew].

Ortelius writes to his “most brilliant and dearest nephew”

£50,000

By ORTELIUS, Abra[ham], 4 January 1595.

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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

£220,000

By LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van., 1598.

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