Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Silver Map of the World, a Contemporary Medallion Commemorative of Drake's Great Voyage (1577-80): A Geographical Essay, Including Some Critical Remarks on the Zeno Narrative and Chart of 1558 and on the Curious Misconception as to the Position of the Discoveries Made by Martin Frobisher in 1576-7-8 Which Crept Into the Cartography of the North Atlanti
If this example was not one which Sir Wollaston Franks had owned and lost some years previously (as is quite possible), there is yet a fourth example of the medallion in existence somewhere.
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