Thornton’s first published chart
By THORNTON, John, 1673.
A sea of stories
By [COMMIN, Vincent, probable translator]., before 1552.
Official French account of the Second Opium War
By PALLU (Lieutenant de Vaisseau)., 1863.
“the great prose epic of the Elizabethan period” – the first English map on Mercator’s projection; the first map to name Lake Ontario; and one of the first maps to use the name “Virginia”
By HAKLUYT, Richard, and WRIGHT, Edward, 1599–1600.