The Works of Sebastian Munster
1. [1514 ca.]: MUNSTER ‘Kollegienbuch’[Manuscript lecture notebook, containing 44 manuscript maps compiled from a variety of sources and…
Collations: Munster’s Geographia (1540, 1542, 1545)
Munster’s Geographia: 1540 GEOGRAPHIA / VNIVERSALIS, VETVS ET NOVA, / COMPLECTENS / CLAVDII PTO- / LEMAEI ALEXANDRINI ENARRATIO-…
Biography: Sebastian Munster (1488-1552)
Sebastian Munster is one of the most important and famous mapmakers of the mid-sixteenth century, on account of…
Book Review: The Mapping of North America
A List of Printed Maps 1511-1670 By Philip D. Burden. Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, Raleigh Publications, 1996. ISBN: 0 9527733 0…
Tarantula Map
Single page engraving from Athanasius Kircher’ Magnes, Sive De Arte Magnetica Opus Tripartitum…, published by Jodocus Kalhoven, in Cologne…
Printed Charts of the Carolinas
1. [1648] DUDLEY, Sir Robert state 1Carta particolare della Virgi= / nia Vecchia è Nuoua. / La longitu:ne…
Biography: Richard Blome
Richard Blome is one of the most interesting, and most active, publishers of illustrated books in post-Restoration London. …
Collation: Claude Buffier’s Geographie Universelle
Claude Buffier was a Jesuit theologian and geographer working in Paris, who wrote the Geographie Universelle, first issued in…
A Note on the Two “New Zealands”
An interesting aspect of cartographic history is how and when names were given to far off places discovered…
Checklist: Maps of Mahon Harbour 1700-1786
Mahon Harbour is one of the largest natural harbours in the world, a deep inlet extending some three…