Maps
Atlases
Books
Prints
Globes and Planetaria
Featured items
In this section we explore in more detail some of our favourite rare maps, atlases, and first editions of travels and voyages, as well as antique globes and scientific instruments.
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“The most spectacular contribution of the book-maker’s art to 16th-century science”
Petrus Apianus’s Astronomicum Caesareum
Maps of London
The city has been represented in a multitude of forms: London the glutton, purged by fire, the home of the rich as well as the poor, and a refuge and opportunity for strangers; a city not dissimilar to the one we inhabit ourselves.
From the astronomical library of Mary, Queen of Scots
Jacques Bassantin’s Astronomique discourse par Jacques Bassantin Escossois