| Description | Fifteen cards produced by the British Library and printed at the Oxford University Press, includes:
The World by Claudius Ptolemeaus, pre 140 A.D.;
Great Britain by Claudius Ptolemeaus, pre 140 A.D.;
The World by St. Beatus, a monk of Valcavado, Spain, 776;
The World, believed to belong to Battle Abbey in the reign of Henry II, drawn c.1000 A.D.;
The World, with East at the top, drawn about 1200 A.D.;
The British Isles, from Francesco Berlinghieri's edition of Ptolemaeus's geographical work printed in Rome, with Latin inscription, original drawn before 140 A.D.;
The World by Henricus Martellus Germanus in his insularium Illustratum, drawn in 1492;
Ireland, by Claudius Ptolemeaus of Alexandria, drawn before 140 A.D., from a copy, with Greek inscriptions, made c.1400;
The World, showing the Northern shores of South America and some part of the Northern Continent, drawn in 1508 by Ruysch;
Chart of the North Atlantic from an Italian portolano of 1508, showing part of the coast of America;
The World, by John Rotz, hydrographer to Henry VIII, drawn 1542;
The British Isles, drawn by George Lily in 1546, published at Rome by Antonio Lafreri;
Map showing the track of Drake's circumnavigation of the Globe, 1577-1580, and that of Cavendish 1586-1588, published at tyhe Hagie by Jodocus Hondius in 1595;
Guiana, showing the site of El Dorado on the Mythical Lake of Manoa, drawn by or for Sir Walter Raleigh c.1595 |