A pair of pretty engravings of scenes from two of the Cyclades islands. The top one shows two women, a toddler and a baby in a domestic scene on Sifnos. The bottom shows a lovely view from the sea of Sikinos.In 1776 Choiseul-Gouffier and the artist J.B. Hilaire joined a cartographic survey of ...

Dimensions (W x H): 22 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13

Attractive chart of the Shetland coast around the capital, Lerwick, with soundings, rhumb lines, ship at sea, and at lower right a dedicatory cartouche to ‘Daniel Earl of Nottingham’. Captain Greenvile Collins was an outstanding naval officer who became ‘Hydrographer to the King’ before the ...

Dimensions (W x H): 56 x 44 / 22 x 17½

The map is based on a hoax, possibly by Daniel Defoe, that was launched in a London periodical in 1708, concerning a fictitious Spanish Admiral de Fonte.De Fonte apparently, discovered a passage, the ‘ Strait of Juan de Fuca’ through which he sailed north east until he met a ship from Boston that ...

Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 30 / 14 x 12