“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” 
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Browse our collection of rare books, antique books and first editions. Specialising in travel and discovery, including antiquarian books and works by explorers such as Columbus, Cook, Darwin, Drake, Krusenstern, La Perouse, Scott, and Vancouver.
£175,000
By LAS CASAS, Bartolomé de, 1552-1553.
£50,000
By STADEN, Johann von, 1557 [dedication, page 14, 1556].
![PALLACHE, Don Samuel [aka Morenu ha-Rav Shemuel PALACHI] An archive of original unpublished documents related to the trial, in London, of Samuel Pallache, on charges of committing "pyracie, spoyle and outrage at sea", in 1614-1615.](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/35651_1H.jpg?fit=4000%2C2765&ssl=1)
£120,000
By RADISSON, Pierre-Esprit., 19th April 1655, and Quebec, 12th October 1655.
£220,000
By LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen; and Bernard PALUDANUS, 1638.
£550,000
By MONTALBODDO, Antonio Fracanzano da; translated into Latin by Archangelo MADRIGNANO, 1508.
![SCHOUTEN, Willem Corneliszoon; [translated by William PHILLIP] The Relation of a Wonderfull Voiage made by William Cornelison Schouten of Horne.](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/24359_1H.jpg?fit=8633%2C4483&ssl=1)
£95,000
By SCHOUTEN, Willem Corneliszoon; [translated by William PHILLIP], 1619.
![ANGLIARA, Juan de; [possibly after Fr. Juan DIAZ] Die schiffvng mitt dem Lanndt der Gvlden Insel gefvndē durch Hern Johan vō Angliara](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/24357_1H.jpg?fit=4372%2C5418&ssl=1)
