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Moxon's theory of a Northwest Passage
- Title
- Certain Errors in Navigation. Detected and Corrected... with many Additions that were not in the former Editions.
- Author
- WRIGHT, Edward
- Publication
- 1657
- Price
- £400,000
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Inscribed by Darwin
- Title
- Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of his Majesty's ships adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836.
- Author
- DARWIN, Charles, KING Philip Parker and Robert FITZROY
- Publication
- 1839
- Price
- £220,000
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Michele Marieschi's suite of views of Venice
- Title
- Magnificentiores Selectioresque Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus...
- Author
- MARIESCHI, Michele
- Publication
- 1741
- Price
- £200,000
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The first printed history of Mexico, and the first appearance of the name "California" to describe the West Coast of North America
- Title
- Primera y segunda parte dela historia general de las Indias contodo el descubrimiento y cosas notables que han acaecido dende que se ganaron ata el año de 1551. con La cõquista de Mexico y de la Nueua España.
- Author
- LOPEZ DE GOMARA, Francisco.
- Publication
- 1553
- Price
- £160,000
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the first issue of the first and most enduring English novel
- Title
- The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner:
- Author
- DEFOE, Daniel
- Publication
- 1719
- Price
- £125,000
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A triumph of Venetian rococo book design
- Title
- L'Augusta ducale basilica dell'evangelista San Marco
- Author
- ZATTA, Antonio [VISENTINI, Antonio]
- Publication
- 1761
- Price
- £50,500
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Bound in red morocco for "The True Queen of France"
- Title
- Vraye description des trois voyages de mer tres admirables faicts en trois ans,
- Author
- VEER, Gerrit de
- Publication
- 1604
- Price
- £50,000
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Apianus' rare work on cosmology
- Title
- Cosmographicus liber.
- Author
- APIANUS, Petrus
- Publication
- 1524
- Price
- £35,000
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One of only two known examples complete with maps
- Title
- La Universal Fabrica del Mondo
- Author
- ANANIA, Giovanni Lorenzo d'
- Publication
- 1573
- Price
- £35,000
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The first Englishman to set foot on the Australian mainland
- Title
- A New Voyage Round the World
- Author
- DAMPIER, William; and MOLL, Herman
- Publication
- 1697
- Price
- £34,000
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"his Majesty's armed vessel Bounty under my command, was taken from me, by some of the inferior officers and men" (Bligh, page 2)
- Title
- Minutes of the Proceedings of the Court-Martial held at Portsmouth, August 12, 1792
- Author
- [BARNEY, Stephen and BLIGH, William]
- Publication
- 1794
- Price
- £32,500
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A pirate moves from boats to books
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- Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae navigationum, quorum una Georgii à Spilbergen, altera Jacobi le Maire auspiciis imperioque directa, Annis 1614, 15, 16, 17, 18.
- Author
- SPILBERGEN, George de and LE MAIRE, Jacob
- Publication
- 1619
- Price
- £30,000
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