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CAMDEN, William Britannia, sive florentissimorum regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae,

A fine example of Camden’s Britannia in a contemporary binding

£16,000

By CAMDEN, William, 1600

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DUDLEY, Robert Dell'arcano del Mare di D. Ruberto Dudleo Duca di Northumbria, e Conte di Warwich…

The first atlas on Mercator’s Projection

£900,000

By DUDLEY, Robert, 1661.

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BORDONE, Benedetto di Isolario di Benedetto Bordone

Bordone’s Isolario in contemporary binding

£40,000

By BORDONE, Benedetto di, [c1565].

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WAGHENAER, Lucas Janszoon Teerste Deel vande Spieghel der Zeevaert... [and] Der ander Theil. Dess Spiegels der Seefart

The first printed sea pilot

£325,000

By WAGHENAER, Lucas Janszoon, 1589.

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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius [translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, edited by GERMANUS, Nicolaus] [Pakistan] Nona Asie tabula.

A striking map of Pakistan from the 1482 Ulm Ptolemy

£12,000

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius [translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, edited by GERMANUS, Nicolaus], 16 July 1482.

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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius [translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, edited by GERMANUS, Nicolaus] [Sri Lanka] Duodecima et ultima Asie tabula.

A striking map of Sri Lanka from the 1482 Ulm Ptolemy

£15,000

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius [translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, edited by GERMANUS, Nicolaus], 16 July 1482.

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RENARD, Louis. Atlas van Zeevaert en Koophandel door de Geheele Weereldt.

A magnificent example of Renard’s ‘Sea Atlas’

£65,000

By RENARD, Louis., 1745.

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BLAEU, Willem and Johannes BLAEU. Nouvum ac magnum theatrum urbium Belgicae

An exceptionally fine example of Blaeu’s great work on the towns of the Netherlands bound in full red morocco with the coats-of-arms of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond

£300,000

By BLAEU, Willem and Johannes BLAEU., [1652].

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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.

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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius Die Cosmographia des Claudius Ptolemaeus 1472/3

Superb facsimile of the Vatican’s Ptolemy Cosmographia of 1472

£6,000

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius,

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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.

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CHURCHMAN, John To George Washington President of the United States of America this Magnetic Atlas or Variation Chart is humbly inscribed by John Churchman.

A presentation copy of the last gasp for Edmund Halley’s theory for the determination of longitude by magnetic declination

£50,000

By CHURCHMAN, John, 1790

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