Item 160 is Het Britannische Ryk in Amerika, the 1721 Dutch edition of John Oldmixon's "The British Empire in America." It contains a section on coffee and coffee plantations that was not included in the English edition, though you will need to read it in Dutch. It also includes eight folding maps, with the one of North America containing the misconception common during the late 17th/early 18th century - that California was an island. This book was one of the most thorough accounts of British America written to that time. €8,500 (US $10,478).

Item 115 offers a description of one of the more dramatic natural wonders in Europe, the Dobsina ice cave in Slovakia. Discovered in 1870, Jozsef Krenner published this illustrated description of the cave in 1874: A Dobsinai Jegbarlang. The cave stretches for miles, containing a 2-acre ice field large enough to be used for skating along with stalagtites and stalagmites of ice. €1,250 (US $1,540).

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