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The most up-to-date practical knowledge on navigation and information on foreign countries
THEVENOT Melchisédec, 1666.
£35,000
Among the finest illustrated books of the seventeenth century with over 100 engravings
VIRGIL & HOLLAR, Wenceslaus, 1668.
£4,000
Blaeu’s user’s manual for globes, spheres and sundials
BLAEU, Willem, 1669.
£3,500
First edition
SANDFORD, Francis, 1677.
£1,500
The Wardington “vade-mecum for English gentlemen”
SELLER, John, 1678.
£25,000
Visscher family catalogue
VISSCHER, Nicolaes, 1682.
£10,000
Rare complete set of “the most valuable 18th-century source on Jesuit activities in frontier regions throughout the world” (Hill, ‘Collection Of Pacific Voyages’).
LE GOBIEN, Charles; Jean-Baptiste du HALDE; Father Patouillet; and Father Ambrose MARECHAL [eds.,], 1702.
£15,000
With the Arms of the Sun King
LA HIRE, Philippe de, 1704.
£10,000
The first printed English signals book
GREENWOOD, Jonathan, 1715.
£8,000
“a true and exact representation of the Earth and Heavens”
SENEX, John, 1718.
£1,200
Hollar’s first catalogue raisonné
[HOLLAR] VERTUE, George (ed.)., 1745.
£4,500
Caught short? Never settle for bog-standard again!
Lavatory Humour, 1750.
£7,500
“La Pomme Verte”
DIDEROT, Denis [and] D’ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond, 1751.
£950,000
A triumph of Venetian rococo book design
ZATTA, Antonio [VISENTINI, Antonio], 1761.
£50,500
Catalogue of Louis-Charles Desnos
DESNOS, [Louis-Charles], 1765.
£1,000
Manuscript inventory for an important Spanish cartographical library
DE AGUIRRE, Domingo; and others, 1773.
£6,000
D’Anville’s maps of China
D’ANVILLE, [Jean Baptiste Bourguignon], 1776.