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See how New York looked in 1664

Medieval knowledge and belief in miniature

Sumptuous 16th-century map made for Henri II of France

For a pilgrimage to Mecca in the year 836 AH (1432-33 AD)

For the temple of Jagannath on the east coast of India

Made by European Jesuits for the Chinese court in 1623

Holy city on the Ganges painted by Thomas Daniell (1789)

Outstanding medieval depiction of Great Britain

From the greatest English Tudor mapmaker

First atlas, compiled in the 1570s

Containing the earliest realistic depiction of the British Isles

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