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Expeditions into the Valley of the Amazons,
PIZARRO, Gonzalo; ORELLANA, Francisco de; ACUÑA, Father Christoval de.Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £0.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00| /Gonzalo Pizarro (1510-1548) was a Spanish conquistador and brother of Francisco Pizarro, who led the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.In 1539 G...
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A Voyage round the World,
ANSON, George.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /A landmark of eighteenth-century English circumnavigation. Anson's voyage recounts the expedition made to cut off Spanish supplies of wealth from S...
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Il Gazzettiere Americano
[AMERICAS].Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £5,000.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /A crisp copy of this wide-ranging topographical dictionary of the New World, in the preferred Italian version. Published in English a year earlier...
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Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836,
DARWIN, Charles; FITZROY, Capt. Robert; KING, Capt. Philip Parker.Original price £65,000.00 - Original price £65,000.00Original price £0.00£65,000.00£65,000.00 - £65,000.00Current price £65,000.00| /With important Australian provenance. Darwin's first published, and his most widely read book: the account of the most important 19th-century voyag...
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Histoire de l'expedition de trois vasseaux,
[BEHRENS, Carl Friedrich].Original price £7,250.00 - Original price £7,250.00Original price £0.00£7,250.00£7,250.00 - £7,250.00Current price £7,250.00| /Roggeveen's voyage - Europeans discover Rapa Nui (Easter Island). The first French account of Roggeveen's voyage and the European discovery of Rapa...
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Journal de la navigation autour du globe
BOUGAINVILLE, Hyacinthe Yves Philippe Potentien (Baron de).Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00| /The official record of Bougainville's voyage around the world. The main intention of the voyage was political: to extend French influence in Indoc...
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Voyage autour du monde sur la Frégate La Vénus
DU PETIT-THOUARS, Abel.Original price £65,000.00 - Original price £65,000.00Original price £0.00£65,000.00£65,000.00 - £65,000.00Current price £65,000.00| /With the rare Atlas Hydrographique. One of the most important and complete records of the Mexican period in California. 'This voyage, ostensibly to...
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Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae Navigationum;
SPILBERGEN, Joris Van.Original price £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00Original price £0.00£20,000.00£20,000.00 - £20,000.00Current price £20,000.00| /A book of primary importance in the history of dutch navigation. The first Latin edition of the first circumnavigation to have the official support...
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[Brazil] VII. Il Braasile appartiene al Portogallo.
[RABATTA, Augusto da & BAILLOU, Jean-Baptist de].Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00| /Rare playing card map. Designed to play the Florentine version of the tarot game, the 'Minchiate'.The card features a miniature map to its upper p...
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Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos
HERRERA TORDESILLAS, Antonio de.Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00| /The second Spanish edition of a highly important collection of Spanish narratives of exploration and conquest, drawing on some sources no longer e...
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A true and impartial Journal of a Voyage to the South-Seas,
[ANSON'S VOYAGE]. THOMAS, Pascoe.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /Earliest account of Anson's Voyage. Pascoe Thomas kept a full and faithful daily journal of the incidents of this important four-year voyage. Inclu...
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Hechos de Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza, quarto margues de cañete.
SUAREZ DE FIGUEROA, Cristobal.Original price £16,000.00 - Original price £16,000.00Original price £0.00£16,000.00£16,000.00 - £16,000.00Current price £16,000.00| /First edition of this account of the deeds of Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza (1535-1609), Captain General of Peru and from 1590-1596 Viceroy of Peru. ...
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Relacion del viage que por orden de su Magestad, y acuerdo de el real Consejo de Indias...
NODAL, Bartolome Garcia de & NODAL, Goncalo.Original price £9,000.00 - Original price £9,000.00Original price £0.00£9,000.00£9,000.00 - £9,000.00Current price £9,000.00| /The first to include the important Derrotas, the instructions for navigation within the Americas. 'The original edition of the voyage for the disc...
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Viage al estrecho de Magallanes
SARMIENTO DE GAMBOA, Pedro.Original price £9,000.00 - Original price £9,000.00Original price £0.00£9,000.00£9,000.00 - £9,000.00Current price £9,000.00| /Illustrious provenance of Straits of Magellan classic. A fine copy of this rare book from the library of Charles de Fleurieu, author of Discoveries...
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The Naturalist on the River Amazons:
BATES, Henry Walter.Original price £1,400.00 - Original price £1,400.00Original price £1,400.00£1,400.00£1,400.00 - £1,400.00Current price £1,400.00| /One of the finest accounts of natural history travels. Henry Bates (1825 1892) was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific...
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Travels in the Free States of Central America:
SCHERZER, Carl.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £450.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /A frank account of conditions in the region. In addition to the customary account of the peoples, customs, and natural history of the area, the au...
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Chart of the world, on Mercator's projection, illustrative of the impolicy of slavery.
[SLAVERY]. [CROPPER, James].Original price £1,000.00 - Original price £1,000.00Original price £1,000.00£1,000.00£1,000.00 - £1,000.00Current price £1,000.00| /Rare slavery chart. Scarce colour-coded map concerning the sugar trade and its link to slavery.The section shaded yellow is the appropriate climate...
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Amerique Meridio.
MORTIER, Pieter.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £650.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /A wonderful cartographic playing card in fine original colour.By the early 18th century the cartographic range of playing cards was almost complet...
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Bresil.
MORTIER, Pieter.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £850.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /A wonderful cartographic playing card in fine original colour.By the early 18th century the cartographic range of playing cards was almost complet...
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Terre Magellanique.
MORTIER, Pieter.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £750.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /A wonderful cartographic playing card in fine original colour.By the early 18th century the cartographic range of playing cards was almost complet...
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Chili.
MORTIER, Pieter.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £450.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /A wonderful cartographic playing card in fine original colour.By the early 18th century the cartographic range of playing cards was almost complet...
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R. de Perou.
MORTIER, Pieter.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £450.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /A wonderful cartographic playing card in fine original colour.By the early 18th century the cartographic range of playing cards was almost complet...
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