The first atlas printed in Germany, the first atlas made from woodcut blocks, the first to contain hand-coloured maps and the first mapping of the world by a named cartographer
By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius, 1482
“the first true atlas” in a contemporary Plantijn binding
By ORTELIUS, Abraham, 1603
Jewish East London
By ARKELL, George E., 1899
“… the first hint of Columbus’s discoveries on a printed world map.”
By REISCH, Gregor, 1504
“the principal cartographic authority on China during the eighteenth century”
By D'ANVILLE, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon, 1737
The first ‘atlas’
By MERCATOR, Gerard; Jodocus HONDIUS, 1613.
An unique magnificent coloured astronomical work from the library of Mary, Queen of Scots
By BASSANTIN, Jacques, 1557
The Poly-olbion
By DRAYTON, Michael, 1622
The first epidemiological maps
By PICQUET, Charles and CHATEÂUNEUF, Louis-François Benoiston de, 1834
“the first true atlas” in a contemporary red morocco binding