The first modern chart of the Maldive Islands
Keeping a watch on Women’s Suffrage
Speed’s map of Britain in the time of the Heptarchy
Rare broadsheet of the Siege of Colchester
Cary’s rare wall maps of the world and four continents
Speed’s map of Norfolk
“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)
Late Qajar Dynasty Tehran
The eastern fortifications of Brussels
“The Lowest Class. Vicious, semi-criminal”
From the library of George Sandys: “one of the most important men in the history of colonial Jamestown” (Grizzard)
A striking map of Arabia from the 1482 Ulm Ptolemy
Dalrymple proposes an EIC settlement on Balambangan
