£175,000
By LAS CASAS, Bartolomé de, 1552-1553.
£50,000
By STADEN, Johann von, 1557 [dedication, page 14, 1556].
£15,000
By FADEN, William, April 30, 1778.
£18,000
By SAUTHIER, Claude Joseph, 25 February 1777.
£95,000
By SCHOUTEN, Willem Corneliszoon; [translated by William PHILLIP], 1619.
Norie’s rare chart of the Pacific, and a tale of ‘Moby Dick’
“A work of conscious art” (Firzhardinge)
The whale and the warships
A revolution in epidemiology – John Snow’s cholera map
Tokyo’s Imperial Palace
An iconic image of the 1683-84 Frost Fair
Following in Louis Freycinet’s “footsteps”
A striking map of Southeast Asia from the 1482 Ulm Ptolemy
The “bicycle spoke” map of the world
The Gaspar Strait
Gambols on the River Thames
The distribution of Dumont d’Urville’s Astrolabe voyage
A revolution in data visualisation – First state of Beck’s iconic tube map
Foundation map of Silicon Valley – inscribed by the artist
Arrowsmith’s map of the Bahamas
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