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"First detailed map devoted to Canada"; the first published history of the French settlements in America; The Shirley - Lathrop Harper - Streeter - Javitch copy

“First detailed map devoted to Canada”; the first published history of the French settlements in America; The Shirley – Lathrop Harper – Streeter – Javitch copy

£215,000

By LESCARBOT, Marc; and Jan SWELINCK, 1609

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BROTTON, Jerry A History of the World in Twelve Maps

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

£11

By BROTTON, Jerry, 2 May 2013.

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LE GOBIEN, Charles; Jean-Baptiste du HALDE; Father Patouillet; and Father Ambrose MARECHAL [eds.,] Lettres édificantes et curieuses

Rare complete set of “the most valuable 18th-century source on Jesuit activities in frontier regions throughout the world” (Hill, ‘Collection Of Pacific Voyages’)

£15,000

By LE GOBIEN, Charles; Jean-Baptiste du HALDE; Father Patouillet; and Father Ambrose MARECHAL [eds.,], 1702-1776.

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HAKLUYT, Richard, and WRIGHT, Edward The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, Made by Sea or Over-land,

“the great prose epic of the Elizabethan period” – the first English map on Mercator’s projection; the first map to name Lake Ontario; and one of the first maps to use the name “Virginia”

£800,000

By HAKLUYT, Richard, and WRIGHT, Edward, 1599–1600.

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HERRERA [Y TORDESILLAS], A de; [Jacob Le MAIRE; Willem CORNELIS SCHOUTEN; Giovanni Battista BOAZIO]; et al. Description des Indes Occidentales, qu'on appelle aujourdhuy le Nouveau Monde:

“The first town plan of anywhere in the present- day United States”

£255,000

By HERRERA [Y TORDESILLAS], A de; [Jacob Le MAIRE; Willem CORNELIS SCHOUTEN; Giovanni Battista BOAZIO]; et al., 1622.

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TASTU, Joseph. Mon cher et excellent ami...

The distribution of Dumont d’Urville’s Astrolabe voyage

£7,500

By TASTU, Joseph., 26 and 28 August, 1829.

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CODD, Edward Proceedings of an Inquiry and Investigation instituted by Major-General Codd,

Inquiry in the Poyasian Fraud

£4,000

By CODD, Edward, 1824

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VAN DER KROGT, Peter Globi Neerlandici

Globi Neerlandici

£330

By VAN DER KROGT, Peter, 1993

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WOUTNEEL, Hans; Crispin de PASSE, the elder and younger; and VISSCHER, Claez Jansz, after Jacob and Joris HOEFNAGEL, Assuerus van LONDERSEEL, Nicolaes de BRUYN, and Adrian COLLAERT [Untitled album of Natural History engravings].

An album of engravings from the most famous natural history artists of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, collected and bound for an English patron

£45,000

By WOUTNEEL, Hans; Crispin de PASSE, the elder and younger; and VISSCHER, Claez Jansz, after Jacob and Joris HOEFNAGEL, Assuerus van LONDERSEEL, Nicolaes de BRUYN, and Adrian COLLAERT, [1594-1635].

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