Lafreri school map of the Americas
Rare undissected jigsaw map of Asia
The siege of Gibraltar
Paraíba do Sul
Speed’s map of Greece
“Cook’s going out 1776”
Collier’s Plan of Windsor and Eton College
Dudley’s chart of Iceland, the first map of the Island on Mercator’s projection
The first folio Sea Atlas
Speed’s map of Persia
Cruquius’s large wall map of the Delft Region
Iran becomes acquainted with the potato
“The navigator’s vade mecum for the Eastern seas” – one of the most influential English travel books of the sixteenth century
Dudley’s chart of southern India
The twelve months
Precipitous prospectus for Lewis and Clark’s monumental work,… a whole seven years before it was finally published
The Poly-olbion
One of the largest world maps ever printed
The Golden Age of the Dutch Republic
Sao Marcos Bay, Brazil
“Dr Livingstone, I presume?”
A Cyrillic globe
Trade card for the Adams family
Brazil
Blaeu’s user’s manual for globes, spheres and sundials
The mouth of the River of Silver
South-Sea Company
Du vin, Monseigneur?
“…n’a ete découverte que depuis 276 ans”
Eight views from a member of the Nuremberg Academy
“The first [map] published in an atlas to depict California as an island, and an accurate east coast of North America” (Burden)
“The first [map] published in an atlas to depict California as an island, and an accurate east coast of North America” (Burden)
Early New World apocrypha?
Better than Eden
Gastaldi’s hemispherical map of the Americas
“a newe unexpected and neverheretofore discovered Passage” (Phillip)
From the library of George Sandys: “one of the most important men in the history of colonial Jamestown” (Grizzard)
“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)
The first map devoted to America to appear in an atlas
One of only a few maps of the period created from first-hand knowledge
Arnoldi’s separately-published map of the Americas, with the thumb print of the printer!
Lafreri school map of the Americas
Rare undissected jigsaw map of Asia
The siege of Gibraltar
Paraíba do Sul
Speed’s map of Greece
“Cook’s going out 1776”
Collier’s Plan of Windsor and Eton College
Dudley’s chart of Iceland, the first map of the Island on Mercator’s projection
The first folio Sea Atlas
Speed’s map of Persia
Cruquius’s large wall map of the Delft Region
Iran becomes acquainted with the potato
“The navigator’s vade mecum for the Eastern seas” – one of the most influential English travel books of the sixteenth century
Dudley’s chart of southern India
The twelve months
Precipitous prospectus for Lewis and Clark’s monumental work,… a whole seven years before it was finally published
The Poly-olbion
One of the largest world maps ever printed
The Golden Age of the Dutch Republic
Sao Marcos Bay, Brazil
“Dr Livingstone, I presume?”
A Cyrillic globe
Trade card for the Adams family
Brazil
Blaeu’s user’s manual for globes, spheres and sundials
The mouth of the River of Silver
South-Sea Company
Du vin, Monseigneur?
“…n’a ete découverte que depuis 276 ans”
Eight views from a member of the Nuremberg Academy
“The first [map] published in an atlas to depict California as an island, and an accurate east coast of North America” (Burden)
“The first [map] published in an atlas to depict California as an island, and an accurate east coast of North America” (Burden)
Early New World apocrypha?
Better than Eden
Gastaldi’s hemispherical map of the Americas
“a newe unexpected and neverheretofore discovered Passage” (Phillip)
From the library of George Sandys: “one of the most important men in the history of colonial Jamestown” (Grizzard)
“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)
The first map devoted to America to appear in an atlas
One of only a few maps of the period created from first-hand knowledge
Arnoldi’s separately-published map of the Americas, with the thumb print of the printer!
