The first printed map of Alaska and the first map to focus on “Australia”
Venezuela, showing Caracas & Curaçao
First English map to focus on Australia
Thevenot’s Voyages
“Outlandish creatures and beings that were thought to inhabit the furthermost parts of the earth”.
Leiden – home to Rembrandt, Lievens and, Dou
Victoria during the Gold Rush
Entering the City
The first aeroplane?
An 8m globe, and the first world atlas on a uniform scale
A serious proposal…
Plan of Kyoto from the first edition of ‘Histoire du Japon’
Set of Cook’s three voyages, with the plates and maps bound separately in three atlas volumes
Philip’s new map of the Gold Fields of Australia, for the Welsh
Prague
Rare sailing directions for the Eastern Seaboard
New York “the capital of the 13 United States of America”
