The island of St Helena is seen right in a folding plate from a 1598, first English edition of Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s famous Itinerario – published as Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies – offered by Ketterer Kunst (20% buyer’s premium) on May 22.
Like the example in the Streeter library, which 10 years ago sold for $130,000 (then just £65,000) at Christie’s New York, this example in a restored contemporary vellum binding contained an extra series of plates from the original Dutch edition of 1595-96. It sold at €60,000 (£51,725).