“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”
Ortelius writes to his “most brilliant and dearest nephew”
The distribution of Dumont d’Urville’s Astrolabe voyage
Oxford from above extra-illustrated with Richard Rallingson’s ‘Ichnographia Oxoniae’, 1648 plan of the defences of Oxford during the civil war
Unrecorded second state of De Jode’s map of Asia
“The first town plan of anywhere in the present- day United States”
A Prospect of Britain
Rare pilot of the Arabian Gulf with early views of Dubai and Abu Dhabi
The first scientific analysis of the American Southwest
Rare undissected jigsaw map of Asia
The first European to enter Mecca and Medina
A rare map of Asia showing the Sea of Korea
The first printed English signals book
A sea of stories
Dudley’s original manuscript manual for the use and instruction of the officers of the Tuscan fleet
Bryant’s large-scale map of Suffolk
Rare complete set of “the most valuable 18th-century source on Jesuit activities in frontier regions throughout the world” (Hill, ‘Collection Of Pacific Voyages’)
