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“don’t one of you fire until you see the white of their eyes”
The Emperors’ lineage
Speed’s map of Oxfordshire
Rare French Edition of Belcher’s chart of Hong Kong
“The greatest and finest atlas ever published”
Greenwood’s large-scale map of Lincolnshire
A striking map of Arabia from the 1482 Ulm Ptolemy
England and Wales as an old man
A striking map of Southeast Asia from the 1482 Ulm Ptolemy
London
Horse Trading at Smithfield
Southern entrance to the Sunda Strait
The Empire of Japan
Hampstead
Coronelli’s Asia showing the discoveries of the Jesuits and the Dutch
A Japanese house and people
The first world map in a world atlas compiled and published by an Englishman
“The navigator’s vade mecum for the Eastern seas” – one of the most influential English travel books of the sixteenth century
“Whoso committe themselves unto the huge, and mayne Ocean, in a small vessell, may sooner expect to be swallowed in that vastity of waters, through the rage and furie of the Sea, then [sic] hope to gaine the desired, and intended haven” (Lok) 