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  • March 23, 2022

MapForum ArticlesHartman Schedel and The Nuremberg Chronicle

    One of the most fascinating printed books from the fifteenth century is Hartman Schedel’s ‘Liber Cronicarum ..’ or,…
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    • March 22, 2022

    MapForum ArticlesBeginner’s Guide: Coloring on Antique Maps

      All early maps are printed in black and white: the British Ordnance Survey maps were not printed in…
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      • March 16, 2022

      MapForum ArticlesFrans 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…
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        • March 16, 2022

        MapForum ArticlesSatirical 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…
            • Issue 5
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          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. …
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            • March 16, 2022
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            • March 14, 2022

            MapForum ArticlesJohn Law and the Mississippi Scheme

              John Law was born in Scotland in 1671, the son of a Scottish banker.  He received an education…
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              • March 9, 2022

              MapForum ArticlesCollation: Rocque’s Plans & Forts in America

                A SET of / PLANS and FORTS / IN / AMERICA. / Reduced from Actual Surveys / 1763.…
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                • March 9, 2022

                MapForum ArticlesBiography: John Rocque

                  John Rocque (properly Jean) was a French Huguenot émigré, one of four children (including three brothers), who seems…
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                  • March 7, 2022

                  MapForum ArticlesA 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…
                      • Issue 4
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                    The Italian “Island of Matrimony”

                      LE NOBLE.CARTA / TOPOGRAFICA / DELL’ISOLA / DEL MARITAGGIO / DI MONSIEUR LE NOBLE / PER LA PRIMA…
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                      • March 4, 2022

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