A pair of table globes by Blaeu
By BLAEU, Willem Janszoon, 1602 [but c1621].
A beautiful pictorial map of Kyoto and surrounding hills
By ANONYMOUS, [c.1800]
The Battling for Buda
By WENING, Michael; after Ludwig Nicolaus von HALLART, 1684.
Early Stuart London
By JAILLOT, Alex Hubert, 1678.
The city that keeps Virgil’s golden egg?
By JAILLOT, Alex Hubert, 1699.
The “Ratzen plan” of New York – Made just prior to the American Revolution
By RATZER, Bernard, January 12, 1776
A revolution in data visualisation – First state of Beck’s iconic tube map
By BECK, Harry, [January, 1933].
The British take Philadelphia: “the definitive contemporary source map for these events” (Taliaferro)
By FADEN, William, April 30, 1778.
Rare chart of Panaji
By INVERARITY, Captain David, 1816 [but circa 1835]
‘Nahval. If anyone eats of this fish, he will die immediately’
By ORTELIUS, Abraham, 1595].
The Principal Navigations of Europeans to Foreign Nations
By SCHERER, Heinrich, 1702.
The second commercially available map to show BOTH the Dutch discoveries of the west coast of Cape York Peninsula AND the most northerly discoveries of the western coast of Australia
By HONDIUS, Hendricus, 1636].