The Wright map that plots a route to £365,000

A copy of Richard Hakluyt’s 'The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation' takes a six-figure sum at Devon sale.

“If there were a single book that personified the coming of the age of Elizabethan England, it was…

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