The ship's pharmacy of the Magellan-Elcano expedition

A spectacular milestone of the age of world exploration: Ferdinand Magellan's and Juan Sebastián Elcano's famous circumnavigation of the globe in a unique compendium of the most important documents from three museums

The local medicinal plants of the Iberian Peninsula and their pharmaceutical use: the comprehensive pharmacist's handbook of the Jewish doctor Saladino d'Ascoli in a Spanish translation

Highly praised by Cicero and imitated by Ovid: Nicander of Colophon's famous work on theriac, the panacea for stings and bites from poisonous animals, transferred to the Spanish Renaissance

Powerfully orchestrated by the brilliant artist and botanist Gherardo Cibo: the translation and additions by the famous physician Pietro Andrea Mattioli to the groundbreaking De Materia Medica by Dioscorides

The search for a shortcut to Asia and an agonizing winter on an island in the Arctic Ocean: the fascinating and richly illustrated account by Gerrit de Veer of the three Dutch expeditions of 1594–1596

The pantry for one of the most fascinating expeditions in European history: the original inventories of the food supplies carried on the first circumnavigation of the world as an insight into early modern Iberian cuisine