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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius. Cosmographia.

Ptolemy’s first projection, with the “finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator”

£300,000

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius., 1490.

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DONCKER, Hendrik De Zee-Atlas of Water-Waerelt,

The most up-to-date sea atlas of the second half of the seventeenth century

£80,000

By DONCKER, Hendrik, 1666.

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LEVANTO, Francesco Maria Prima Parte dello Specchio del Mare, nel quale si Descrivono tutti li Porti, Spaggie, Baye, Isole, Scogli, e Seccagni del Mediterraneo…

Levanto’s rare pilot of the Mediterranean

£22,000

By LEVANTO, Francesco Maria, 1664

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MELA, Pomponius. Pomponij Mellæ Cosmographi Geographi

A well-deserved prayer is made for the young man who smells the requisite flowers along the winding paths of geography

£40,000

By MELA, Pomponius., 18th July, 1482.

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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Bernardus SYLVANUS Liber geographiae

The first atlas printed in Venice, the first wholly printed in colours, incorporating the first map to indicate Japan, the second map in a Ptolemaic atlas to show America.

£150,000

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Bernardus SYLVANUS, 1511.

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FADEN, William; WHITTLE, James and LAURIE, Robert; BOWLES, Henry Carington and CARVER, Samuel [Composite atlas].

The best British mapmakers of the late eighteenth century

£20,000

By FADEN, William; WHITTLE, James and LAURIE, Robert; BOWLES, Henry Carington and CARVER, Samuel, 1783-1797.

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JANSSONIUS, Johannes Cinquiesme partie du grand atlas

The first folio Sea Atlas

£60,000

By JANSSONIUS, Johannes, 1650

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GOOS, Pieter Lighting Colom of the Midland Sea…

A rare Mediterranean ‘Straights Book’

£33,000

By GOOS, Pieter, 1669

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HOOGHE, Romeyn de; Jan & Caspar LUYKEN; Heyman van DIJCK Voorne caart-boeck van alle de dorpen,

Fine atlas of Southern Holland in full original colour

£18,000

By HOOGHE, Romeyn de; Jan & Caspar LUYKEN; Heyman van DIJCK, 1701.

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MAGINI, Giovanni Antonio, and Fabio Italia.

First edition of Magini’s Italia

£40,000

By MAGINI, Giovanni Antonio, and Fabio, 1620

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JAILLOT, Alexis Hubert, [and] Nicolas SANSON Atlas Nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du monde.

Jaillot’s Atlas Nouveau published in Amsterdam by Pieter Mortier

£80,000

By JAILLOT, Alexis Hubert, [and] Nicolas SANSON, 1692-96.

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TEIXEIRA ALBERNAZ, João Descripçao dos portos maritimos do reyno de Portugal, por...Anno 1648.

Beautiful Portolan of the Portuguese Coast

£50,000

By TEIXEIRA ALBERNAZ, João, 1648.

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