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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Collection of Martin Copley AM
• Sale Date:
  22 Oct 2017 ~ 2pm
• Lot #:
  51
• Lot Description:
  HARRIS, John, editor. Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca. Or, a complete collection of voyages and travels. . .
  London, 1744-48. Two volumes thick folio, printed double column, with 22 maps, mostly folding or double-page, and 39 plates; contemporary calf finely rebacked, spines with gilt ornaments. Some offsetting and foxing as usual.
• Notes:
  A handsome set of the second and preferable edition, much enlarged by John Campbell, including accounts of the voyages of Tasman, Dampier and Pelsaert, as well as many other voyages to the Pacific and East Indies; the maps including two world charts, and most notably, Bowen’s ‘Complete map of the Southern Continent surveyed by Capt. Abel Tasman’, the first English map of Australia.
• Estimate:
  A$8,000 - 10,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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