Curiosities: Maps with Flaps
The vast majority of maps, whether printed or manuscript, depict a single moment in time, in essence a…
Ephemera: Jefferys Advert
Among the more ephemeral items produced by mapsellers and publishers were engraved advertisement labels. Those that survive generally…
California on the East Coast
Mallet: Novveav Continent. From the German edition, ‘Beschreibung Des Gantzen Welt-Kriesses’ (‘Description de l’Univers’), published by Johann David…
Biography: Richard Blome
Richard Blome is one of the most interesting, and most active, publishers of illustrated books in post-Restoration London. …
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…
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…