Add to ORKGThe earliest surviving manuscript charts which include reasonably legible inscriptions around the more southerly coastlines of the British Isles are by Italian or Majorcan/Catalan cartographers of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. The earliest surviving manuscript sailing directions including the same area are in Low German, Italian, French, Portuguese and English. They date from the fifteenth century, but undoubtedly contain some matter copied, probably several times, from originals perhaps a century or more older
On July 29, 1681, a band of English buccaneers that had been terrorizing Spanish possessions on the ...
The notion that Britain has only been successfully invaded twice, by the Romans and the Normans, whi...
Map of Mahone Bay area. This map is an excellent example of Desbarres' tendency to arbitrarily giv...
Those fourteenth-, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mariners who were literate almost certainly reli...
Those 14th, 15th, and 16th century mariners who could read almost certainly relied much more upon sa...
A valuable, though seldom exploited, source of place-name research material is that provided by earl...
The birth of the nautical chart in the late medieval period is seen as a watershed moment in the his...
Four manuscript charts of British ports, and notes on them, were made in the 1590s by an English Cat...
Within the last few years historians of cartography have become increasingly aware of the potential ...
The Harleian and other Dieppe maps made in France in the mid-16th century are manifestly based on Po...
[12], p., [40] leaves of plates : mapsBelow imprint: Cum privilegio.Title page is engraved and is co...
Of all the technical and scientific developments that made possible the European maritime expansion,...
[11], 22, [32], 28, [24] p. : charts, maps.Added engraved t.p.With: Great Britain's coasting-pilot :...
For two centuries the landmass named Jave-la-Grande, which appears south of Indonesia on a number of...
Despite the crucial role played by nautical cartography during the 16th-century Iberian Expansion, s...
On July 29, 1681, a band of English buccaneers that had been terrorizing Spanish possessions on the ...
The notion that Britain has only been successfully invaded twice, by the Romans and the Normans, whi...
Map of Mahone Bay area. This map is an excellent example of Desbarres' tendency to arbitrarily giv...
Those fourteenth-, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mariners who were literate almost certainly reli...
Those 14th, 15th, and 16th century mariners who could read almost certainly relied much more upon sa...
A valuable, though seldom exploited, source of place-name research material is that provided by earl...
The birth of the nautical chart in the late medieval period is seen as a watershed moment in the his...
Four manuscript charts of British ports, and notes on them, were made in the 1590s by an English Cat...
Within the last few years historians of cartography have become increasingly aware of the potential ...
The Harleian and other Dieppe maps made in France in the mid-16th century are manifestly based on Po...
[12], p., [40] leaves of plates : mapsBelow imprint: Cum privilegio.Title page is engraved and is co...
Of all the technical and scientific developments that made possible the European maritime expansion,...
[11], 22, [32], 28, [24] p. : charts, maps.Added engraved t.p.With: Great Britain's coasting-pilot :...
For two centuries the landmass named Jave-la-Grande, which appears south of Indonesia on a number of...
Despite the crucial role played by nautical cartography during the 16th-century Iberian Expansion, s...
On July 29, 1681, a band of English buccaneers that had been terrorizing Spanish possessions on the ...
The notion that Britain has only been successfully invaded twice, by the Romans and the Normans, whi...
Map of Mahone Bay area. This map is an excellent example of Desbarres' tendency to arbitrarily giv...