Rare Atlases
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(42 results)
The first atlas illustrated with woodcut maps
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, and edited by Nicolaus GERMANUS.
£1,200,000
Second Rome edition with the “finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator”
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius
£300,000
The first atlas printed in Venice, the first wholly printed in colours, incorporating the first map to indicate Japan
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Bernardus SYLVANUS
£150,000
The geometrization of space: “the most important of all the Ptolemy editions”
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Martin WALDSEEMULLER
£600,000
Servetus – the expurgated edition – with contemporary hand-colour
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Michael VILLANOVANUS, known as 'SERVETUS'
£200,000
A Scottish astronomer of considerable reputation
BASSANTIN, Jacques
£120,000
Ruscelli’s Humanist translation of Ptolemy, including the first twin hemisphere world map in an atlas
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Girolamo RUSCELLI.
£12,500
Bordone’s Isolario in contemporary binding
BORDONE, Benedetto di
£40,000
A rare portolan atlas showing the shift in focus from the Mediterranean to northern Europe
DOSSAIGA, Jaime [DOUSAIGO, Jacques]
£385,000
The first ‘atlas’
MERCATOR, Gerard; Jodocus HONDIUS
£100,000
First edition of Magini’s Italia
MAGINI, Giovanni Antonio, and Fabio
£40,000
The first world atlas published by an Englishman
SPEED, John