xxix, 256 pages : colour illustrations, maps ; 27 x 30 cm.

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Part II -- The T-O Map; St Isidore of Seville, The Etymologies -- Updating The Roman World; Anglo-Saxon world map -- The World In Miniature; Psalter world map -- A Beatus Map; Beatus de Liébana, Commentary on the Apocalypse -- From Star-Taker To Sextant; ibn Ahmad Khalaf, Astrolabe -- Squeezing An...

Part IV -- The Indian Ocean World; Petrus Plancius, A new world map, updated in many places; Jan Huygen van Linschoten, His Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies -- Austrialia Del Espiritu Santo; Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Memorial to Philip III of Spain -- Hessel Gerritsz, Master Cartog...

Part V -- The Secret Of The Sea; Sir Robert Dudley, The Secret of the Sea -- The Elusive East Coast Of New Holland; John Thornton, A draught of the coast of New Holland, and parts adjacent; Samuel Thornton, The English Pilot -- 'To See What That Country Would Afford Us'; William Dampier, A New Voya...

Principal Partner's Foreword; Andrew Smith -- Foreword; Anne-Marie Schwirtlich -- Mapping Our World; Nat Williams -- Terra Incognita To Australia; Martin Woods, Susannah Helman -- The Early Printed Maps Collection Of The National Library Of Australia; Martin Woods -- Part I -- The Very First Wo...