Travel, Atlases, Maps & Natural History - L11401

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Travel, Atlases, Maps & Natural History

10 mai 2011 • London

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Sale Number: L11401

77. A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean... performed in His Majesty's sloop Providence, and her tender, in the years 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798. London: for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804

Estimation : 3 000 – 5 000 GBP

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78. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of his majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle. London: Henry Colburn, 1839

Estimation : 3 000 – 4 000 GBP

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79. A Voyage round the World, in the years 1803 [-06], performed by order of his Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, Emperor of Russia, in the ship Neva. London: John Booth, 1814

Estimation : 4 000 – 6 000 GBP

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80. Purchas his pilgrimes [- Purchas his pilgrimage. Or relations of the world... in foure parts. This first contayneth a theological and geographical historie of Asia... The fourth edition, much enlarged]. London: William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, 1625-1626

Estimation : 60 000 – 80 000 GBP

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81. A Voyage of Discovery ... in His Majesty's ships Isabella and Alexander, for the purpose of exploring Baffin's Bay, and inquiring into the probability of a North-West Passage. London: John Murray, 1819

Estimation : 1 500 – 2 000 GBP

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83. A set of four celestial charts. Nuremberg: J.B. Homann, 1742, 4 double-page engraved maps, each approx. 500 x 590mm., hand coloured, framed and glazed, 2 with small tear to upper right margin

Estimation : 2 000 – 3 000 GBP

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84. Nova orbis tabula; Novissima et accuratissima totius Americae; Nova et accurata totius Europae; Totius Africae accuratissima tabula; Accuratissima totius Asiae tabula... Amsterdam, 1680, together 5 double-page engraved mapsheets, each approx. 480 x 560 mm., contemporary hand colour, [Shirley 451, state 2; Burden, 465, state 3], a few small repaired terars at lower margins

Estimation : 9 000 – 12 000 GBP

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85. Typus orbis terrarum; Africae tabula nova; Americae sive novi orbis nova descriptio; Asiae nova descriptio; Europae. Antwerp,1587, together 5 double-page engraved general maps, French text on versos, contemporary hand colour, [Shirley 153; Burden 64]

Estimation : 10 000 – 15 000 GBP

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86. Die Obere oder Nordliche Halbkugel der Erde [and] Die Untere oder Sudliche Halbkugel der Erde auf den Horizont von Wien, Stereographisch... [Vienna: P.J. Schalbacher, 1800], pair of hemispherical maps on a stereographic projection, engraved by Hieronymus Benedicti, each 680 x 610mm., original outline colour

Estimation : 1 500 – 2 000 GBP

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87. Orbis terrarum typus de integro in plurimis emendatus, auctus et icunculis illustratus. Amsterdam, [1658], 300 x 460mm., double-page engraved world map from a Dutch bible, early hand colour, [cf. Shirley 403(A.)], shaved at side borders with margins added, light browning

Estimation : 1 800 – 2 200 GBP

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88. Mappemonde dressee sur les relations les plus nouvelle... Paris, 1766, 520 x 760mm., large, separately published engraved twin-hemispherical world map, with decorative allegorical vignettes, hand-coloured, framed and glazed

Estimation : 2 000 – 3 000 GBP

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89. Atlas géographique dressé selon les regles steré et selon les plus nouvelles decouvertes... [title repeated in Danish]. Copenhagen, 1779], 650 x 520mm., mapsheet engraved by O.N. Flint (1 sheet of 4), original outline colour, with celestial hemisphere fully coloured, right hand margin cut close, a few repairs, lightly browned

Estimation : 2 000 – 3 000 GBP

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