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First Edition Bordone
With The First Appearance Of The First Separate Map Of Japan


BORDONE, Benedetto di. ISOLARIO di Benedetto Bordone Nel qual si ragiona di tutte l'Isole del mondo, con li lor nomi antichi & moderni, historie, favole, & modi del loro vivere... Venice, [Niccolo Zoppino], 1528.

Rare first edition of the second isolario to be printed and the first to give prominence to the transatlantic discoveries.
$35,000





Pay Me My £25,000


[PHILIPPINES] DRAPER, Sir WILLIAM. Col.. Draper's answer to the Spanish Arguments, claiming the Galeon, and refusing payment of the ransom bills, for preserving Manila from pillage and destruction; in a letter addressed to the Earl of Halifax. London, J. Dodsley, 1764.

Scare first edition of this document relating to the British occupation of Manila during the Anglo-Spanish War of 1762-3, and an interesting case of international law.
$2,250





The First Separate Appearance Of Drake's Circumvigation And Las Casas En Frans


LAS CASAS, Bartolome. Histoire des Indes Occidentales ov l'on reconnoit la bonte ces pa & de leurs peoples; & les cruautez Tyrannique des Espagnols. Lyon, Jean Caffin & F. Plaignard, 1642.

Scarce French-language editions of two important travel narratives, Las Casas's excoriating account of the Spanish in the New World and an early edition of the first separate appearance of Drake's epoch-making voyage.
$11,500





The History Of Chile, Illustrated


OVALLE, Alonso. Historica Relatione del Regno di Cile, e delle missioni, e ministerii che esercita in quelle la Compagnia di Giesu... Rome, Francesco Cavalli, 1646.

First Italian edition appearing the same year as the Spanish of the best early history of Chile, and one of the great illustrated books on South America published in the seventeenth century.
$11,000





The Most Influential Travel Book Of All Time


POLO, Marco. Delle merauiglie del mondo. per lui vedute. Del costume di varij paesi, & dello stranio viuer di quelli. Della descrittione de diuersi animali. Del trouar dell'oro, & dell'argento. Venice, Ghirardo & Iseppo Imberti, 1626.

Rare Italian-language edition of Marco Polo's 'Il Milione' -"the most widely rea" version of this classic travelogue.
$12,500





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