Ex Libris Jean R. Perrette: Important Travel, Exploration & Cartography

Highlighting the auction of Ex Libris Jean R. Perrette: Important Travel, Exploration & Cartography is the largest collection of travel narratives by Samuel de Champlain in private hands, an important copy of Ptolemy's great atlas of 1486, and records of exploration and discovery spanning five centuries, from the Old to the New Worlds. Key works in the history of cartography open the sale, which then journeys through Europe to the Middle East, Holy Land, Levant, Asia, India and Africa and terminates in the Americas and the Pacific. A selection of literature, scientific works, and religious texts rounds out this world-encompassing collection.