Collection items

A chart of Botany Bay by James Cook

Map

James Cook’s chart shows the main channels, notes the location of fresh water, and gives English names to locations, sev...

A chart of New Zealand by James Cook

Map, Pen and Ink

James Cook’s completed chart of New Zealand shows the course of the Endeavour as the ship circumnavigated the North Isla...

Diagram naming the parts of a terrestrial and cele...

Map

These engravings of a terrestrial and celestial globe have been taken from Benjamin Martin’s The Description and Use of ...

Jain diagram Two and a Half Continents, Adhai-dvip...

Manuscript, Map

Jains believe the universe is divided in three worlds: the heavens, the middle world and the hells. This is a traditiona...

Plan of the River Tees and of the intended navigab...

Map, Engraving, Hand-Colouring

Plan of the River Tees and of the intended navigable canal from Stockton by Darlington to Winston, by Thomas Kitchin (ac...