Checklist: Southeast North America
1. [1548] GASTALDI, GiacomoNVEVA HISPANIA TABVLA NOVA . [1a, ob – 4a, ob]From: Ptolemy Geografia Venice 1548 131 x 172Not…
Another Langenes Collation
Roger Baskes, an atlas collector, has sent in a collation of his copy of the Langenes/Visscher, complimenting the…
Collation: Arnold Colom’s Zee-Atlas 1658
Referring to the Zee Atlas, Koeman wrote: “This chartbook by Arnold Colom … is one of the most important…
A Beginner’s Guide to Re-engraving
The cost of producing a copperplate map, or even an atlas, represented a considerable investment for any publisher…
Curiosities: Asia in the Shape of a Pegasus
One of the most unusual works relating to the Bible was composed by Heinrich Bunting, and first published…
Treacle & Vinegar:
Publisher’s Adverts
From the 1670’s through to the 1760’s publishing maps and atlases in London was a fierce and cut-throat…
Ferguson’s Machine for Timing Solar Eclipses
Transcribed from the Universal Magazine for July 1755. A Description of a Piece of Mechanism contrived by James Ferguson, for…
The Charting of Cape Fear, N.C., 1525 to 1800
The first European to see the Cape Fear peninsula was Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524. Verrazzano was a…
Collation: The ‘Atlas Maritimus’
John Seller Sr. (d.1697) is one of the most important figures in the early history of the map…