An early trade card for John Browne, who subsequently moved to "near Wapping Old Stairs" where he sold "all Sorts of Instruments for Sea or Land, As Compasses, Glasses, Lathorns, & Colours. Likewise Books for Navigation & Sea Charts, Also Guns, Gunpowder, Shot, and all Sorts of Ship Chandlery and Turnery Wares".
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An early trade card for John Browne, who subsequently moved to "near Wapping Old Stairs" where he sold "all Sorts of Instruments for Sea or Land, As Compasses, Glasses, Lathorns, & Colours. Likewise Books for Navigation & Sea Charts, Also Guns, Gunpowder, Shot, and all Sorts of Ship Chandlery and Turnery Wares".
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See BM Heal for a later, c1750, trade card for Browne
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The first chart of the Pacific region in a Dutch atlas 
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Speed’s map of China 
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