Featured Items
In this section we explore in more detail some of our favourite rare maps, atlases, and first editions of travels and voyages, as well as antique globes and scientific instruments.
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Heute Deutschland! Morgen die Welt!
“Heute Deutschland! Morgen die Welt!” – (Germany today! Tomorrow the world!) was a popular slogan among the Nazis during their rise to power, not disguising at all their plans for world domination. The scale of this ambition is visible in the detail and the efficiency of the cartography of the Third Reich, and was made explicit with a series of maps related to Germany’s projected global empire.
A composite atlas of Italy with the arms of the father of three kings of France
Louis, Dauphin of France was the only surviving son of King Louis XV and the father of three kings of France
A magnificent portolan atlas by Battista Agnese in its original binding
Inscribed and attributed to Agnese by the eminent bibliographer Henry Harisse
Charting the course for Queen Victoria's Royal Yacht
A glass-fronted chart case and set of charts from Queen Victoria’s Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert (II)
The most spectacular contribution of the book-maker's art to 16th-century science
Petrus Apianus’s Astronomicum Caesareum
Maps of London
The city has been represented in a multitude of forms: London the glutton, purged by fire, the home of the rich as well as the poor, and a refuge and opportunity for strangers; a city not dissimilar to the one we inhabit ourselves.
From the astronomical library of Mary, Queen of Scots
Jacques Bassantin’s Astronomique discourse par Jacques Bassantin Escossois