Ortelius writes to his “most brilliant and dearest nephew”
“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”
France’s first official circumnavigation of the world – and the naming of a flower
Rare pilot of the Arabian Gulf with early views of Dubai and Abu Dhabi
The first printed English signals book
