A rare 1600 book which details the ''voyages and discoveries'' of the English and features a fold-out map has sold for £365,000.
The books were bound into two halves of the same text - and were set to fetch just 3K.
It is called: "The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, made by Sea or Over-Land, to the remote and furthest distant quarters of the Earth".
Written by Richard Hakluyt, the book was published between 1599 and 1600.
He was known for his efforts to convince King James I of England to colonize what is now the state of Virginia in the USA.
Hakluyt, who was a priest from Bristol Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, was the Chief Minister to royals Queen Elizabeth I and James I.
A map, which folds into the book was described as being 'in a delicate state' by the Auctioneers Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood in Exeter, Devon.
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The final price fell at £365,000, having been provided by a privately owned library in Devon that has been owned by a family for many years.