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R.A.F. World Aeronautical Chart of Bahrein (Bahrain) Island.
[ARABIAN GULF].Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00First edition of the 1951 issue of the R.A.F. Aeronautical map of Bahrain and Qatar. The War office issued the R.A.F. series alongside a separate ...
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Scotiae Regnum.
MERCATOR, Gerhard.Original price £1,350.00 - Original price £1,350.00Original price £0.00£1,350.00£1,350.00 - £1,350.00Current price £1,350.00Gerhard Mercator is one of the most famous cartographers of all time. Mercator was born in Flanders and educated at the Catholic University in Leu...
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Arabian Peninsula
[BROWN, Glen Francis].Original price £11,500.00 - Original price £11,500.00Original price £0.00£11,500.00£11,500.00 - £11,500.00Current price £11,500.00Large scale map of the Arabian Peninsula. The first edition, English language issue of this large-scale chromolithographed map of the Arabian Penin...
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Arabia. The Red Sea, and the Valley of the Nile,
Hughes F.R.G.S., W.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00William Hughes FRGS was an English geographer, cartographer, author and academic.Colour lithograph map, centre fold as published, sheet size: 535m...
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Chart of the Arctic regions
WYLD, James.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00An attractive copy of Wyld's hemisphere map of the Arctic regions, dedicated to Lady Franklin, in its original binding. The map can be approximate...
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CYPRI INSVLAE NOVA DE SCRIPT 1573.
ORTELIUS, Abraham.Original price £1,950.00 - Original price £1,950.00Original price £0.00£1,950.00£1,950.00 - £1,950.00Current price £1,950.00Well-preserved example of Ortelius' map of Cyprus, taken from the fifth, final, and most complete French edition of Theatre de l'Univers. Enriched...
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JAPONIAE INSVLAE DESCRIPTIO.
ORTELIUS, Abraham.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00Well-preserved example of Ortelius' map of Japan, taken from the fifth, final, and most complete French edition of Theatre de l'Univers. Enriched ...
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MARIS PACIFICI.
ORTELIUS, Abraham.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00Well-preserved example of Ortelius' map of the Pacific, taken from the fifth, final, and most complete French edition of Theatre de l'Univers. Enr...
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ISLANDIA.
ORTELIUS, Abraham.Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £0.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00Well-preserved example of Ortelius' map of Iceland, taken from the fifth, final, and most complete French edition of Theatre de l'Univers. Enriche...
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GuidesA Guide to Guidebooks
by Lucinda BoyleKarl Baedeker was head of a successful publishing business, when in 1832 he acquired the publishing house of Franz Röhling which four years earlier had published a travel guide Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln: Ein Handbuch für Schnellreisende by Professor...
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LiteratureUkrainian Modernism
A visit to the Royal Academy in London by Eleanor MooreThe Royal Academy's new exhibition, In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930s, is the most comprehensive exhibition to date in the UK, celebrating a period of bold artistic experimentation. Despite profound upheaval, there was a true flourishing...
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TravelProvenance
Julian MacKenzie chooses books from the collections of 3 great bibliophiles, currently on our shelves.The great thing about collecting books is that they were produced as multiples giving lots of collectors a chance to own a copy. To distinguish between copies the most desirable factors are condition and provenance and for me the greatest...
