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
Set of Cook’s three voyages, with the plates and maps bound separately in three atlas volumes
A Prospect of Britain
“The first town plan of anywhere in the present- day United States”
