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“O day and night, but this is wondrous strange”
The first printed view of Santiago, Cape Verde
Los Angeles goes for the gold!
Hondius updates Mercator
An early chart of the Southern Atlantic
Rare chart of the Mediterranean
Speed’s map of Oxfordshire
A monumental plan of Lyon
View of the Singel canal in Amsterdam as viewed from the Prins Hendrikkade
Cary’s rare wall maps of the world and four continents
“The navigator’s vade mecum for the Eastern seas” – one of the most influential English travel books of the sixteenth century
“Nothing was more important for [ancient] Geography than to know the size of the Earth, and nothing seemed more difficult to undertake” (Cassini)
The search for black gold continues 