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Lucas Jansz Waghenaer's Speculum Nauticum (1591). Part 2: map 23. Thames
This first nautical atlas in history served perfectly the purposes of invasion or plundering of the enemy coasts that the respective armadas of Philip…
Paolo Giovio's Regionum et insularum atque locorum descriptiones (1578). Pp. 76-77
The divorce of Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon swerved the course of the Anglo-Spanish dynastic alliances. In this work, the papal historian Paolo Giovio, a contemporary, recounts the geography and history of England down to the Anglican schism.…