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First atlas of China made in Europe
BLAEU, Jean
£35,000
The first atlas illustrated with woodcut maps
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, and edited by Nicolaus GERMANUS., 1482.
£1,200,000
Second Rome edition with the “finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator”
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius, 1490.
£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, 1511.
£150,000
The geometrization of space: “the most important of all the Ptolemy editions”
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Martin WALDSEEMULLER, 1513.
£600,000
Servetus — the expurgated edition — with contemporary hand-colour
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Michael VILLANOVANUS, known as ‘SERVETUS’, 1541.
£200,000
“A Scottish astronomer of considerable reputation”
BASSANTIN, Jacques, 1557.
£120,000
Ruscelli’s Humanist translation of Ptolemy, including the first twin hemisphere world map in an atlas
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Girolamo RUSCELLI., 1561.
£12,500
Bordone’s Isolario in contemporary binding
BORDONE, Benedetto di, 1565.
£40,000
A rare portolan atlas showing the shift in focus from the Mediterranean to northern Europe
DOSSAIGA, Jaime [DOUSAIGO, Jacques], 1590.
£385,000
A fine example of Camden’s Britannia in a contemporary binding
CAMDEN, William, 1600.
£16,000
Rare miniature atlas
BERTIUS, Petrus, 1603.
£12,000
The first ‘atlas’
MERCATOR, Gerard; Jodocus HONDIUS, 1613.
£100,000
First edition of Magini’s Italia
MAGINI, Giovanni Antonio, and Fabio, 1620.
£40,000
The first world atlas published by an Englishman
SPEED, John, 1627.
£95,000
From the inventory of the Van Keulen family of cartographers
CLOPPENBURG, Johannes, 1630.
£60,000
The Mercator-Hondius atlas, beautifully coloured and bound
MERCATOR, Gerard, 1630.
£193,000
The first atlas on Mercator’s Projection from the library of Imperial geographer Wolfgang Engelbert, Earl of Auersperg
DUDLEY, Robert., 1646.