“the great prose epic of the Elizabethan period” with both the Wright-Molyneux world map and the rare suppressed ‘Voyage to Cadiz’ from the library of the Earls of Macclesfield.
By HAKLUYT, Richard, and WRIGHT, Edward., Anno 1599–1600.
![WHITTLESEY, Robert [After] Ralph AGAS Oxonia Antiqua Instaurata, sive Urbis & Academiae Oxoniensis Topographica delineatio olim a Rudolph Agas](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1366_1H.jpg?x74793)
Elizabethan Oxford
By WHITTLESEY, Robert [After] Ralph AGAS, 1728.
![[DEE, John (1527-1608)]. General and Rare Memorials Pertayning to the Perfect Arte of Navigation.](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/3206_1H.jpg?x74793)
A hand-coloured example of the first work to discuss the law of the sea, the first to use the term “Brytish Impire”, and the first to propose a “Pety-Navy-Royall’.
By [DEE, John (1527-1608)]., 1577
“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.
![KAERIUS, Petrus [Pieter van den Keere] and Petrus MONTANUS. Germania Inferior](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/23918_1H.jpg?x74793)
The first folio atlas of the Netherlands
Plan of London showing troop dispositions
![[SNOW, W., after Robert DIGHTON] A Caricature of England and Wales.](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/3205_1H.jpg?x74793)
England and Wales as an old man
