在此浏览关于航海与大发现的稀有书籍与初版资料,包括哥伦布 (Columbus)、库克 (Cook)、达尔文 (Darwin)、德雷克 (Drake)、克鲁森施滕 (Krusenstern)、拉彼鲁兹 (La Perouse)、斯科特 (Scott) 和温哥华 (Vancouver) 等探险家的著作。
By LAS CASAS, Bartolomé de, 1552-1553.
By STADEN, Johann von, 1557 [dedication, page 14, 1556].
By APIANUS, Petrus; and Gemma FRISIUS, 1545
By MONTALBODDO, Antonio Fracanzano da; translated into Latin by Archangelo MADRIGNANO, 1508.
By SCHOUTEN, Willem Corneliszoon; [translated by William PHILLIP], 1619.
Arrowsmith’s map of the Bahamas
Chelsea Physic Gardens
The Capital of Prussia
A unique, accomplished, and mammoth manuscript of the American West Coast
Rare broadsheet of the Siege of Colchester
Speed’s map of Norfolk
The Consolidation of Cartography
The first printed plan of Amsterdam
Steel’s rare chart of the Indian Ocean
A map of Japan and Korea following d’Anville map of 1732
The Hereford Mappa Mundi
A ground-breaking work on public health and prostitution
A verbal and visual map of London’s “cottages”
“O day and night, but this is wondrous strange”
Blaeu’s user’s manual for globes, spheres and sundials
Manderson’s pilot of the Gulf of Florida
Full of “non descript” natural history
“A work of conscious art” (Firzhardinge)
“The navigator’s vade mecum for the Eastern seas” – one of the most influential English travel books of the sixteenth century
From the library of George Sandys: “one of the most important men in the history of colonial Jamestown” (Grizzard)
“Whoso committe themselves unto the huge, and mayne Ocean, in a small vessell, may sooner expect to be swallowed in that vastity of waters, through the rage and furie of the Sea, then [sic] hope to gaine the desired, and intended haven” (Lok) 

