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Browse our collection of rare books and first editions specialising in travel and discovery, including the works by explorers such as Columbus, Cook, Darwin, Drake, Krusenstern, La Perouse, Scott, and Vancouver.
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A volume containing three works concerned with the Delisle-Buache controversy over the geography of the North Pole
DELISLE, Joseph-Nicolas and Philippe BUACHE
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A Scottish Sammelband
VARIOUS
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The first illustrated printed travel book
BREYDENBACH, Bernhard von, 1486.
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The famous Nuremberg Chronicle, a history of the world, published the year that Columbus returned to Europe
SCHEDEL, D. Hartman, 1493.
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“… the first hint of Columbus’s discoveries on a printed world map.”
REISCH, Gregor, 1504.
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The first book to name America
WALDESEEMULLER, Martin, 1507.
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The first map devoted to the New World
MARTYR d’ANGHIERA, Peter., 1511.
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Agricultural secrets of the sixteenth century
ZOPPINO, Niccolò, 1520.
£9,000
Apianus’ rare work on cosmology
APIANUS, Petrus, 1524.
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The instructions to the famous “Carta Marina”, incorporating a rare map by Martin Waldseemüller showing the voyage of Alvise Cadamosto
FRIES, Laurent [and WALDESEEMÜLLER, Martin], 1527.
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The Paris edition of Huttich’s ‘Novus Orbis’ containing Oronce Fine’s striking world map
HUTTICH, Johann and Simon GRYNAEUS, 1532.
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The Basel edition of Huttich’s ‘Novus Orbis’ containing the Holbein/Münster Map of the World
HUTTICH, Johann and Simon GRYNAEUS, 1537.
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The first text on surveying printed in English
FITZHERBERT, [?Anthony or John], 1539.
£7,000
The 1540 and 1550 Latin editions’ of Apianus’s ‘Cosmographia’ bound in one volume
APIANUS, Petrus; Gemma Frisius, 1541.
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A sea of stories
COMMIN, Vincent, probable translator, 1552.
£24,000
Territorial sovereignty in the classical world
LAZIUS, Wolfgang, 1558.
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The rare works of Cieza de Leon and Gomara bound in one volume
CIEZA DE LEON, Pedro, and LOPEZ DE GOMARA, Francisco, 1560.
£20,000
“See that your vines are well married”
COPLAND, Wyllyam [William], 1565.