atlases
Results 1–48 of 49
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"The greatest and finest atlas ever published"
- Title
- Le Grand Atlas,
- Author
- BLAEU, Johannes
- Publication
- 1663
- Price
- £750,000
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The geometrization of space: "the most important of all the Ptolemy editions"
- Title
- Geographiae opus novissima traductione a Grecorum archetypis castigatissime pressum.
- Author
- PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Martin WALDESEEMULLER
- Publication
- 1513
- Price
- £600,000
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The earliest obtainable printed depiction of the Americas
- Title
- In hoc Operae haec continétur Geographia Cl. Ptholemaei a plurimis uiris utriusqß. linguae doctiss. emendata:& cum Archetypo graeco ab ipsis collata...
- Author
- PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius
- Publication
- 1507
- Price
- £500,000
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A magnificent portolan atlas signed by a member of the leading family of chart-makers of the Mediterranean
- Title
- [Portolan Atlas of the Mediterranean].
- Author
- OLIVA, Franciscus [II]
- Publication
- 1658
- Price
- £450,000
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The third printed atlas, and the first in Italian
- Title
- Geographia.
- Author
- PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; BERLINGHIERI, Francesco.
- Publication
- 1482
- Price
- £400,000
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Second Rome edition with the "finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator"
- Title
- Cosmographia.
- Author
- PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius
- Publication
- 1490
- Price
- £300,000
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Unrecorded Spanish edition of the First Sea Atlas of America
- Title
- La Primera Parte Del Nuevo Gran Espejo Maritimo, Alumbrando las Costas Maritimas de la Navigacion de la India Occidental,
- Author
- ROGGEVEEN, Arent
- Publication
- 1690
- Price
- £180,000
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The first atlas wholly printed in colours, incorporating the first printed map to indicate Japan
- Title
- Liber geographiae
- Author
- PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Bernadus SYLVANUS
- Publication
- 1511
- Price
- £150,000
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An unrecorded French edition of Jacob Colom's 'Atlas of Werelt-Water-Deel'
- Title
- Atlas ou Colom Ardante
- Author
- COLOM, Jacob Aertsz
- Publication
- 1668
- Price
- £140,000
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"A Scottish astronomer of considerable reputation"
- Title
- Astronomique discourse
- Author
- BASSANTIN, Jacques
- Publication
- 1557
- Price
- £120,000
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"the earliest Dutch Sea Chart of the Maritimes"
- Title
- Klaer-Lichtende Noort-Star oste zee-atlas;
- Author
- LOON, Johannes van
- Publication
- 1666
- Price
- £120,000
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The Low Countries divided
- Title
- Novum ac magnum theatrum urbium Belgicae.
- Author
- BLAEU, Willem and Joan
- Publication
- 1649
- Price
- £100,000
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The first 'atlas'
- Title
- L'Atlas ou Meditations cosmographiques de la Fabrique du Monde
- Author
- MERCATOR, Gerard; Jodocus HONDIUS
- Publication
- 1613
- Price
- £100,000
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A compendium of geographical, cosmographical, and scientific information...
- Title
- Atlante Veneto.
- Author
- CORONELLI, Vincenzo
- Publication
- 1691
- Price
- £100,000
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From the libraries of William Morris and Emery Walker, founders of the Kelmscott Press
- Title
- A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World [with:] The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine
- Author
- SPEED, John
- Publication
- 1631
- Price
- £95,000
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"One of the most authoritative and comprehensive atlases of America..." (Walter Ristow)
- Title
- The American Atlas:
- Author
- JEFFERYS, Thomas
- Publication
- 1776
- Price
- £90,000
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The most up-to-date sea atlas of the second half of the seventeenth century
- Title
- De Zee-Atlas Ofte Water-Waereld
- Author
- DONCKER, Hendrik
- Publication
- 1666
- Price
- £80,000
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First map in an edition of Ptolemy to name "America"
- Title
- Geographicae enarrationis libri octo
- Author
- PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius
- Publication
- 1525
- Price
- £75,000
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Willdey's rare composite atlas
- Title
- [Composite atlas].
- Author
- [WILLDEY, George]
- Publication
- 1721
- Price
- £75,000
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The Earl of Lonsdale's copy of Thompson's Alcedo
- Title
- Atlas to Thompson's Alcedo; or Dictionary of America & West Indies;
- Author
- ALCEDO, Antonio de, and G.A. THOMPSON
- Publication
- 1816
- Price
- £65,000
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A composite atlas of Italy bound in red morocco with the arms of Louis, Dauphin of France, the only surviving son of King Louis XV, and the father of three kings of France
- Title
- [Composite atlas].
- Author
- JAILLOT, Alexis-Hubert, and others
- Publication
- 1753
- Price
- £65,000
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A fine composite atlas of Leiden
- Title
- [Composite atlas of Leiden].
- Author
- VAN DER HAGEN, Christiaan
- Publication
- 1724
- Price
- £65,000
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A presentation copy of the last gasp for Edmund Halley's theory for the determination of longitude by magnetic declination
- Title
- To George Washington President of the United States of America this Magnetic Atlas or Variation Chart is humbly inscribed by John Churchman.
- Author
- CHURCHMAN, John
- Publication
- 1790
- Price
- £50,000
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Rare English edition of Colom's Mediterranean Sea pilot
- Title
- Lighting Colom of the Midland-Sea,
- Author
- COLOM, Arnold
- Publication
- 1660
- Price
- £44,000
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An unrecorded English edition of Lootsman's pilot of the Mediterranean
- Title
- Lighting Colom of the Midland-Sea,
- Author
- LOOTSMAN, Jacob
- Publication
- 1677
- Price
- £44,000
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The first Servetus edition of Ptolemy
- Title
- Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae enarrationis libri octo
- Author
- PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Michael VILLANOVANUS, known as 'SERVETUS'
- Publication
- 1535
- Price
- £35,000
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A rare Mediterranean 'Straights Book'
- Title
- Lighting Colom of the Midland Sea…
- Author
- GOOS, Pieter
- Publication
- 1669
- Price
- £33,000
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Evans' Maps of New Jersey
- Title
- A Bill in the Chancery of New-Jersey,
- Author
- FRANKLIN, Benjamin; Lewis EVANS
- Publication
- 1747
- Price
- £30,000
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Marine atlas of Jamaica
- Title
- Leard's Pilot for Jamaica and the Windward Passages,
- Author
- LEARD, John
- Publication
- 1793
- Price
- £30,000
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The first Western atlas devoted to China
- Title
- Novus Atlas Sinensis
- Author
- BLAEU, Joan
- Publication
- 1655
- Price
- £28,000
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Sir Henry Neville's "Holster Atlas"
- Title
- The American Military Pocket Atlas;
- Author
- SAYER, Robert & BENNETT, John
- Publication
- 1776
- Price
- £24,000
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Levanto's rare pilot of the Mediterranean
- Title
- Prima Parte dello Specchio del Mare, nel quale si Descrivono tutti li Porti, Spaggie, Baye, Isole, Scogli, e Seccagni del Mediterraneo…
- Author
- LEVANTO, Francesco Maria
- Publication
- 1664
- Price
- £22,000
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'The XIII United States of America'
- Title
- [German Atlas of the World].
- Author
- ANONYMOUS
- Publication
- 1783
- Price
- £20,000
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"The finest general atlas produced in the United States"
- Title
- A general atlas containing distinct maps of all the known countries in the world.
- Author
- LUCAS, Fielding Jr.
- Publication
- 1823
- Price
- £20,000
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Camden's Britannia in original colour
- Title
- Britannia, sive florentissimorum regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae,
- Author
- CAMDEN, William
- Publication
- 1607
- Price
- £20,000
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The best British mapmakers of the late eighteenth century
- Title
- [Composite atlas]
- Author
- FADEN, William; WHITTLE, James and LAURIE, Robert; BOWLES, Henry Carington and CARVER, Samuel
- Publication
- 1783
- Price
- £20,000
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Fine atlas of Southern Holland in full original colour
- Title
- Voorne caart-boeck van alle de dorpen,
- Author
- HOOGHE, Romeyn de; Jan & Caspar LUYKEN; Heyman van DIJCK
- Publication
- 1701
- Price
- £18,000
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Sealing the fate of 'America' as the name for the New World
- Title
- Geographia Universalis,
- Author
- PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; MUNSTER, Sebastian.
- Publication
- 1545
- Price
- £18,000
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The new republic of Texas does not confine its claims to the limits of the Province
- Title
- A Universal Illustrated Atlas,
- Author
- BRADFORD, Thomas Gamaliel & GOODRICH, Samuel Griswold
- Publication
- 1846
- Price
- £16,000
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The first British atlas of Scotland, and the first road atlas of the country
- Title
- A Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales.
- Author
- MOLL, Herman
- Publication
- 1724
- Price
- £15,000
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"Senex is so much a tool of Dr. Halley's, and affronted Mr. Flamsteed so much in his lifetime"
- Title
- [Atlas Coelestis].
- Author
- [SENEX, John]
- Publication
- 1768
- Price
- £15,000
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Ruscelli's Humanist translation of Ptolemy, including the first twin hemisphere world map in an atlas
- Title
- La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino
- Author
- PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Girolamo RUSCELLI.
- Publication
- 1561
- Price
- £12,500
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Dedication copy of Badeslade's 'Chorographia Britaniae'
- Title
- Chorographia Britanniae,
- Author
- BADESLADE, Thomas [and] TOMS, William Henry
- Publication
- 1742
- Price
- £7,500
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Rare Geographical Playing Cards
- Title
- [Playing Cards] New Geographical Cards.
- Author
- HODGES, Charles
- Publication
- 1827
- Price
- £7,500
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Superb facsimile of the Vatican's Ptolemy Cosmographia of 1472
- Title
- Die Cosmographia des Claudius Ptolemaeus 1472/3
- Author
- PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius
- Publication
- 1472
- Price
- £6,000
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Luffman's rare pocket atlas of England and Wales
- Title
- A New Pocket Atlas and Geography of England and Wales,
- Author
- LUFFMAN, John
- Publication
- 1806
- Price
- £5,000
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Rare atlas of India and the Far East
- Title
- The Atlas of India
- Author
- THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE
- Publication
- 1857
- Price
- £3,000
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