The scarce English edition of the Mercator/Hondius atlas in original colour
Detailed chart of the Singapore Strait
First English map to focus on Australia
The Chaworth Roll
Dr Seuss’s Malaria Map
The first appearance in an English atlas of any part of the Australian coastline
Michele Marieschi’s suite of views of Venice from the library of Louis XV
The first map devoted to America to appear in an atlas
The first map dedicated to Australia in English
Ptolemy’s first projection, with the “finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator”
The first atlas printed in Venice, the first wholly printed in colours, incorporating the first map to indicate Japan, the second map in a Ptolemaic atlas to show America.
