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
