A chart by Thomas Jefferys showing the physical make up of the English Channel, from the Scilly Isles to Orford Ness.

A chart of the Eastern Approaches to the Thames, showing sands and navigable channels. Details include bouys, soundings in fathoms and sailing directions. Shows the Isle of Sheppey - Whitstable Street - Margate and then on to North Foreland.

The English Channel, shows the Isles of Scily up to Harwich, also shows the Channel Isles.

A superb and decorative chart of the south coast from Dorset (naming Weymouth) to the Devon coast just west of Plymouth. Published in the 'De Spieghel der Zeevaerdt' and engraved by Johannes Doetecom. The first printed chart of the area. Decorated with an elaborate title cartouch, a sea monster, a magnificent compass rose and sailing ships.

The finest and most decorative of all the charts of the South East of England, two large sheets conjoined, showing the River Thames to London, and the sea coast round to Portland Bill, with the Isle of Wight and Alderney, an inset detail of the Strait of Dover and prospects of Portsmouth and Rochester & Chatham. Published in Mortier's 'Neptune François', entitled 'Cartes Marines a l'Usage des Armées du Roy de la Grande Bretagne'. One of nine charts, engraved by Romeyn de Hooghe, one of the foremost artist/etchers of the period. Mortier's motives in the production of this atlas was undoubtedly to flatter the new King William III (to whom this map is dedicated), after James II was overthrown in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Koeman describes the sea atlas as the 'most expensive sea atlas' of the period, 'intended more as a show-piece than something to be used by the pilots as sea'.

A chart of the north coasts of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset with the Bristol Channel and South Wales. Inset chart of the Scilly Isles.

A highly decorative chart of the English Channel, shows Southern England and Northern France. Decorative figured cartouche bottom right.

Three charts on one sheet, half the sheet has a detailed chart of Milford Haven, with safe anchorage, leading marks and depths in fathoms, the other half shows two charts, one of the mouth of the River Avon and part of the River Severn and the other shows the Scilly Isles in some detail.

A detailed chart of the English Channel. Published by John Thomson & Company in 'A New General Atlas'.

A total of 10 engraved charts, were drawn by Robert Adams and engraved by Augustine Ryther for the book 'Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam vera descritio, Anno Do MDLXXXVIII', published, London 1590. In 1591, to commemorate the defeat of the Spanish Armada, Lord Howard of Effingham commissioned the Dutch marine painter Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom to design ten scenes of the Spanish Armada to be made into tapestry wall-hangings by François Spierinck of Delft. The tapestries were purchased by James I in 1616 and later came to hang in the House of Lords, where they were copied by John Pine (1690-1756). The tapestries were destroyed in the great fire of 1834. These later highly decorative engravings were drawn by Hubert-François Gravelot and engraved and published by John Pine in 1739. It is lucky that Pine worried that "'Time, or Accident, or moths may deface these valuable shadows" Both charts cover the coast of part of Cornwall from Dodman Point to Maidencombe in Devon. The charts show wind-heads blowing from the SW and the flight of the Spanish Fleet, with the English Fleet in pursuit. The left chart shows the engagement between the two fleets off Looe.

A total of 10 engraved charts, were drawn by Robert Adams and engraved by Augustine Ryther for the book 'Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam vera descritio, Anno Do MDLXXXVIII', published, London 1590. In 1591, to commemorate the defeat of the Spanish Armada, Lord Howard of Effingham commissioned the Dutch marine painter Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom to design ten scenes of the Spanish Armada to be made into tapestry wall-hangings by François Spierinck of Delft. The tapestries were purchased by James I in 1616 and later came to hang in the House of Lords, where they were copied by John Pine (1690-1756). The tapestries were destroyed in the great fire of 1834. These later highly decorative engravings were drawn by Hubert-François Gravelot and engraved and published by John Pine in 1739. It is lucky that Pine worried that "'Time, or Accident, or moths may deface these valuable shadows". The charts show the formation and course of Spanish Armada and English fleet in the English Channel. This double chart engraving shows; on the left, the Dorset and Devon coast from Dartmouth to just beyond Portland Bill and on the right, the Dorset and Hampshire coast from Portland Bill to Portsmouth, including the Isle of Wight.

A total of 10 engraved charts, were drawn by Robert Adams and engraved by Augustine Ryther for the book 'Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam vera descritio, Anno Do MDLXXXVIII', published, London 1590. In 1591, to commemorate the defeat of the Spanish Armada, Lord Howard of Effingham commissioned the Dutch marine painter Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom to design ten scenes of the Spanish Armada to be made into tapestry wall-hangings by François Spierinck of Delft. The tapestries were purchased by James I in 1616 and later came to hang in the House of Lords, where they were copied by John Pine (1690-1756). The tapestries were destroyed in the great fire of 1834. These later highly decorative engravings were drawn by Hubert-François Gravelot and engraved and published by John Pine in 1739. It is lucky that Pine worried that "'Time, or Accident, or moths may deface these valuable shadows" This sheet covers the coast of Dorset and Hampshire from Portland Bill to Portsmouth and from Portsmouth to Sandwich. The charts show wind-heads blowing from the SW and the flight of the Spanish Fleet, with the English Fleet in pursuit. The left chart, off the Isle of Wight, shows engagement between the two fleets.