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…
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…