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Including All the late important Discoveries made by the English, and other celebrated Navigators of the various Nations, in the different Hemispheres …

During a four months' residence in a valley of the Marquesas.


This is the first American edition of Melville's novel set in the Marquesas Islands.

A sequel to the "Residence in the Marquesas Islands"

This is the first English edition of the sequel to Melville's Typee.

(with wood engravings by Rene Clarke)

Poe's novel was written early in his career after being advised that his short stories would not make a profit in the publishing climate of that time. He took the suggestion and produced a narrative in a genre…

The true story of his voyage there in 1774 with Captain Cook, of how he was feted by Fanny Burney, approved by Samuel Johnson, entertained by Mrs. Thrale & Lord Sandwich, and painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Shown here is the titlepage from a reprint of the Roman geographer Pomponius Mela's Description of the World. He described the world as it was perceived by the ancient Romans.

His work is presented as a circumnavigation of the known world at that…

Robert Morden was a geographer and a prolific maker of maps and globes. Displayed here are maps from the first edition of his Geography Rectified.

This geographical primer was reprinted in 1688, 1693, and 1700. In addition to containing a small…

In late 1530 when the city of Florence submitted to Pope Clement's forces, Michelangelo believed himself to be in danger with the other Florentines who were being exiled or executed, and took refuge in the campanile di San Niccolo, near the Arno…

Ignis, Plate I - The Four Elements by Joris Hoefnagel

Ignis, Plate I - The Four Elements by Joris Hoefnagel