Hartman Schedel and The Nuremberg Chronicle
One of the most fascinating printed books from the fifteenth century is Hartman Schedel’s ‘Liber Cronicarum ..’ or,…
Beginner’s Guide: Coloring on Antique Maps
All early maps are printed in black and white: the British Ordnance Survey maps were not printed in…
Frans Hogenberg & The Poitiers Stone
Braun and Hogenberg’s Civitates Orbis Terrarum is famed as the first published collection of plans and views of cities (mostly…
Satirical Cartography: The Isle of Mad-Head
[ANONYMOUS / Henri Abraham CHATELAIN ?]AFBEELDINGHE van’t zeer vermaerde Eiland GEKS-KOP. geligen in de Actie-ze, ontdekt door Mons.r…
Index to The Map Collectors’ Circle Series
Compiled by Paula Dryburgh INTRODUCTION The ‘Map Collectors Circle’ was founded by the late R.V. Tooley in 1963. …
John Law and the Mississippi Scheme
John Law was born in Scotland in 1671, the son of a Scottish banker. He received an education…
Collation: Rocque’s Plans & Forts in America
A SET of / PLANS and FORTS / IN / AMERICA. / Reduced from Actual Surveys / 1763.…
Biography: John Rocque
John Rocque (properly Jean) was a French Huguenot émigré, one of four children (including three brothers), who seems…
A Short History of Print Art from 1500 to 1860
There is a mystique surrounding the ways that old prints were made, although the main printing techniques are…
The Italian “Island of Matrimony”
LE NOBLE.CARTA / TOPOGRAFICA / DELL’ISOLA / DEL MARITAGGIO / DI MONSIEUR LE NOBLE / PER LA PRIMA…