Description of the world posters & prints

Marco Polo with elephants and camels arriving at Hormuz on the Gulf of Persia from India, c.1410-12 (and workshop) Boucicaut Master

Navigators using an astrolabe in the Indian Ocean, c.1410-12 Boucicaut Master

A Map of the World John and Maxwell John Senex

World map from Cosmographia Nicolaus Germanus

General Map of the Earth Abbe Clouet

World map Universalis Cosmographia, 1507 Martin Waldseemüller

The World Anonymous

A general map of the world or terraqueous globe by Samuel Dunn, 1787 English School

Volcano, 1558 French School

A chart of the East coast of Scotland English School

World Map Anonymous

A New Discovery of a Large Country in America Father Lewis Hennepin

World map. The world, centering on the Persian Gulf, ca 550 Anonymous

Title Page for Book Describing New World Anonymous

A True Description of the Naval Expedition of Francis Drake Francis Drake

World map, Orbis Veteribus Notus Anonymous

A 'petrified tooth' in the Royal Society's Repository Anonymous

Creation of the World Filippo Rusuti

Erich Maria Remarque, German author, late 1920s Unknown

World map tracing Magellan's world voyage Battista Agnese

A hippopotamus skull in the Royal Society's Repository Anonymous

Terrestrial Globe, 1720 Anonymous

Globe Jennifer Kennard

Theory of Continental Drift, 1922 Unknown

Globe against starfield Anonymous

Description of the Great Flood Leonardo Da Vinci

Terrestrial Globe, showing the Indian Ocean, made in Nuremberg Martin Behaim

Orson Welles, American actor and film director, 30 October 1938 Unknown

Terrestrial globe Martin Waldsemuller

Molyneux Globe Emery Molyneux

Earth surrounded by Water, Air, Fire, the planets and stars, 13th century Unknown

The day and night of the Microcosm English School

Map of The World Andreµ Cellarius

Map of the world, c. 1490 Henricus Martellus Germanus

A New and Correct Map of the World, 1770-97 Robert Wilkinson

Chart of the World, printed at the Lithographic Establishment, Horse Guards, 1821 James the Elder Wyld