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Atlases, maps and printed books, relating to travel and exploration: including Ptolemaeus (Claudius) Cosmographia [1490] ; Geografia, 1561 ; Waghenaer (L.J.) Speculum nauticum super navigatione maris Occidentalis, 1586 ; Ortelius (Abraham) Théâtre de l'Univers, 1574 ; Theatrum Orbis Terrartum, 3 parts in 2 vol., N.D.-1595 ; Speed (John) The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, 1611-12 ; Blaeu (J.) Townbooks of the Netherlands, 2 vol. [1649] ; Blaeu (W. and J.) Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [1640] ; Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [1650] ; Cellarius (A.) Harmonia Macrocosmica, 1661 ; Pitt (Moses) The English Atlas, 4 vol., 1680-83 ; Coronelli (V.M.) Prima parte dello Specchio del Mare, 1698 ; Le Neptune François, 3 parts in 1 vol., 1693-1700 ; Popple (Henry) A map of the British Empire in America [1733] ; Cassini De Thury (C.F.) Carte de France, 3 vol. [1789], also atlases of Arrowsmith, Blaeu, Bowen, Cary, Faden, Johnston, Kitchin, Moll, Pinkerton, Thomson & Co., and others : Camden (William) Britannia, editions of 1695 and 1753 ; Drayton (Michael) Poly-Olbion, 1622 ; Ogilby (John) and John Senex. The Roads through England, 1762, etc. ; engraved maps of many parts of the world, including English counties, mostly of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, by Blaeu, Homann, Mercator, Moli, Ortelius, Senex, Seutter, Speed, Van Der Aa and others ; printed books: Astley (T.), A new general collection of voyages and travels, 4 vol., 1745-47 ; Cook (Capt. James) First, second and third voyages, 1773-85 ; Harris (J.) Collection of voyages, 2 vol., 1744-48 ; Hunter (J.) Journal of transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, 1793 ; Byron (G.A., Lord) Voyage to the Sandwich Islands, 1826 ; Flinders (M.) Voyage to Terra Australis, 1814 ; Franklin (Sir J.) Journey to the Polar Sea, 1823 ; Graah (W.A.) Reise til Ostkysten af Grönland, 1832 ; Saint-Non (l'Abbé R. de) Voyage pittoresque ou description des Royaumes de Naples et de Sicilie, 4 vol. in 6, 1781-86 ; and other works [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1982 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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Atlases, maps and printed books relating to voyages, travel and exploration [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1981 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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Atlases, maps and printed books relating to voyages, travel and British topography: including Ptolemaeus, Geographiae, Venice (1511) and another edition (1535) ; Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum (1573) ; Parergon (1624) ; a sea atlas by Colom (1662) ; six composite atlases, several containing very important maps ; Porcacchi, L'isole (1576) ; Mercator, Atlas (1623) ; Speed, Theatre of the empire of Great Britain (1676) ; Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates orbis terrarum (1582-1600) ; a number of atlases by W. and J. Blaeu ; Visscher, Atlas minor (1682) ; two atlases by J.B. Homann ; and a small collection of continental books relating to surveying ; single maps of all parts of the world ; printed books, including: Campanius, Kort Beskrifning om Provincien Nya Swerige uti America (1702) ; Keymis, A relation of the second voyage to Guiana (1597) ; Maximilian Zu Wied-Neuwied, Reise nach Brasilien (1820-1821) ; Roberts, Holy land and Egypt and Nubia, 6 vol. (1842-1849) ; Spix, Atlas zur Reise in Brasilen (1831) ; Dupré, Voyage a Athenes et a Constantinople (1825) ; Rechberg, Les peuples de la Russie (1812-1813) ; a collection of books relating to Switzerland, including Ebel, Voyage pittoresque dans le Canton des Grisons (1827) ; ten lots containing the topographical illustrations of Germany and France by Merian, with text by Zeiller ; Atlases of the British Isles, including editions of Camden's Britannia (1637, 1695, 1722, and 1806) ; Smith, A delineation of the strata of England and Wales (1815) ; Chapman and André, Map of the county of Essex (1833) ; single maps of the British Isles ; British topography and local history, including: fine extra illustrated copies of Blomefield, An essay towards a topographical history of the county of Norfolk (1739-1775) ; and his History of the city and county of Norwich (1741) ; Boydell, An history of the River Thames (1794-1796), and other works [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1982 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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Atlases, maps and printed books relating to voyages, travel and British topography: a Portolan chart of Europe (mid-sixteenth century) ; several editions of Ptolomaeus, Geographia, including the maps to the edition of 1478 or 1490 ; Waghenaer, Speculum nauticum, Leiden (1586) ; Mercator, Atlas (Amsterdam, 1619) ; atlases by Blaeu, including the Low Countries townbook (1649) [...] ; a fine extra-illustrated set of Horsfield's Sussex and a set of Knight's London similarly extended [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1983 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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Atlases, maps and printed books: including naval and military books - Jenkins, The naval achievements of Great Britain, 1817 ; Charnock, An history of marine architecture, 1800-1802 ; Fontana, I Pregi della Toscana, 1701 ; The British Isles - Speed, Theatrum Magnae Britanniae, 1616; Saxton and Lea, The shires of England and Wales, [c. 1693] ; Ackermann, The microcosm of London, 1808-1810 ; [...] Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, c. 1750 ; Catlin, North American portfolio, 1844 ; printed maps ; a collection of eighteenth-century manuscript charts and plans relating to Texas, Louisiana, the American Northwest and the Pacific ; original drawings by Rugendas for Voyage pittoresque en le Brésil, [c. 1835] [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1984 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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Catalogue of atlases, maps and printed books relating to travel and exploration: including C. Ptolemaeus Geographiae, Strassburg (1513) and other editions of 1525 and 1584 ; A. Ortelius Theatrum orbis terrarum, Antwerp (1570) ; Parergon (1624) ; a fine composite atlas with maps by Ortelius, C. de Hooge, C. de Jode, H.F. van Langeren and others ; G. Mercator Atlas, Duisburg [1595] ; F.M. Levanto Specchio del mare (1664) ; P. Goos Nieuwe Groot Zee-Spiegel (1674) ; M. Pitt The English atlas (vol. 1) (1680) ; J. van Keulen Nieuwe Groote Lichtende Zeefackel (1681-1689) ; V.M. Coronelli, Atlante Veneto (1690-1696) ; Isole Britanniche [c. 1705] ; M. Seutter Atlas novus [c. 1730] ; also atlases by Bickham, Buchon, Camden, Cary, Cellarius, De Fer, Horn, Janvier, Kitchin, Mitchell and others ; an important collection of wall maps comprising De Fer's Mappe-Monde, Asie, Amerique and Europe ; J.B. Nolin's Amerique (1775) ; Paolo Petrini's maps of the four continents (c. 1700) ; a collection of road books, including J. Ogilby Britannia (1675) ; and others by Armstrong, Badeslade, Cary, Owen and Bowen, Paterson and J. Garrett's 'Quartermaster's map' [c. 1676] ; single maps of all parts of the world ; printed books, including P. Apianus Libro della cosmographia (1548) ; J. Boemus Manners, lawes, and customes (1611) ; Sir G. Brydges Letters ... relative to the capture of St. Eustatius, presentation copy [1789] ; Olaus Magnus Historia ... de gentium septentrionalium (1567) ; [G. Orlowski] Costume of the Russian army (1807) ; Recueil de vues de la Suisse [1883] ; L. Rossini Le Antichita de contorni di Roma (1826) ; B. von Breydenbach Sanctarum peregrinationum, first edition (Mainz, 1486) ; and an important collection of books relating to Brazil, including C. Barlaeus Rerum per octennium in Brasilia (1647) ; I. Commelin Histoire de la vie ... de Frederic Henry de Nassau (1656) ; M. Tanner Societas Jesu, first edition, (Prague 1675), and other works [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1982 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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Catalogue of valuable printed books: comprising books relating to natural history, including Bloch's Ichthyology, 1785-97, Elliot's Family of the pheasants, 1872, and Birds of Paradise, 1873, Gould's Birds of New Guinea, 1875-88, Hayes's The portraits of British and exotic birds, 1778, an unrecorded and apparently unique issue, Levaillant's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de Paradis, 1801-06, Low's The breeds of the domestic animals of the British Islands, 1842, Pennant's The history of quadrupeds, 1793, the author's own copy, and Sharpe's Family of kingfishers, 1868-71, and Birds of Paradise, 1891-99 ; a collection of books on fungi ; botanical drawings, including examples by George Edward Lodge, Christian Frederik Baede and Jean Prêtre ; colour-plate books, books on travel and atlases, including Barrow's Travels into the interior of South Africa, 1806, Bleau's Nouveau theatre de l'Italie, 1704, Daniell's Island of Ceylon, 1808, and African scenery, 1804-05, Hart's Afghaunistan, 1843, Kip's Nouveau theatre de la Grande Bretagne, 1715, Laborde's Voyage de l'Espagne, 1806-20, Pine's Tapestry hangings, 1739, Rowlandson's Loyal volunteers, 1798-99, Zurlauben and Laborde's Tableaux topographiques ... de la Suisse, 1780-88, and works by Piranesi ; English literature of the 15th to the 19th century, including Shakespeare's Poems, 1640, and Sandford's Coronation of James II, 1687, in red morocco by the Samuel Mearne Bindery and with a royal grant of license ; broadsides and newspapers ; continental books of the 15th to the 19th century, including Valerius Maximus's Facta et dicta memorabilia, Mainz 1471, printed on vellum, Strabo's Geographica, Venice 1472, Vergil's Opera, Milan 1474, Venice 1480 and Lyon 1492, Ovid's Opera, Rome c. 1471, Speculum humanae salvationis, Augsburg 1473, Schedel's Nuremberg chronicle, Nuremberg 1493, an exceptionally tall copy ; an extensive collection of first editions of Kierkegaard, including many presentation copies ; decorated book bindings [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1982 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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Fine books and manuscripts, including Americana [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1999 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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Fine books and manuscripts, including Americana [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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2000 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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10 |
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Fine books and manuscripts, including Americana [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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2002 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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Fine books and manuscripts including Americana [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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2003 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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Fine travel and plate books: a private collection [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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2013 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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The library of a European gentleman: hunting, incunabula, natural history and atlases [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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2017 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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The library of a gentleman: early trade and exploration in the East [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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2000 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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The library of John and Suzanne Bonham [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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2017 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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The library of Mohamed and Margaret Makiya [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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2016 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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The library of the Earls of Macclesfield removed from Shirburn Castle [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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2004 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 12.
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A magnificent library of natural history and travel books, with five major atlases and Audubon's Birds of America [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1984 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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Magnificent plate books from the library of the Earl of Bradford [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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2000 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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Natural history, travel, atlases and maps [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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2002 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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