Map Forum
  • MapForum Articles

Archives

  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021

Categories

  • 10th Issue
  • 11th Issue
  • 12th Issue
  • 13th Issue
  • 14th Issue
  • 15th Issue
  • 1st Issue
  • 2nd Issue
  • 3rd Issue
  • 4th Issue
  • 5th Issue
  • 6th Issue
  • 7th Issue
  • 8th Issue
  • 9th Issue
  • MapForum Articles
Map Forum
  • MapForum Articles
Subscribe

Browsing Tag

london

19 posts
mapforum
  • October 12, 2022

15th IssueCuriosities: Maps with Flaps

    The vast majority of maps, whether printed or manuscript, depict a single moment in time, in essence a…
    mapforum
    • October 12, 2022

    15th IssueEphemera: Jefferys Advert

      Among the more ephemeral items produced by mapsellers and publishers were engraved advertisement labels.  Those that survive generally…
      mapforum
      • August 22, 2022

      MapForum ArticlesCalifornia on the East Coast

        Mallet: Novveav Continent. From the German edition, ‘Beschreibung Des Gantzen Welt-Kriesses’ (‘Description de l’Univers’), published by Johann David…
        mapforum
        • July 13, 2022

        MapForum ArticlesBiography: Richard Blome

          Richard Blome is one of the most interesting, and most active, publishers of illustrated books in post-Restoration London. …
            • 6th Issue
            • MapForum Articles

          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…
            mapforum
            • May 6, 2022
            mapforum
            • May 5, 2022

            MapForum ArticlesTreacle & 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…
              mapforum
              • May 4, 2022

              MapForum ArticlesFerguson’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…
                mapforum
                • May 2, 2022

                MapForum ArticlesCollation: The ‘Atlas Maritimus’

                  John Seller Sr. (d.1697) is one of the most important figures in the early history of the map…
                  Fletcher Huntley
                  • 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,…
                      • 6th Issue
                      • MapForum Articles

                    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…
                      mapforum
                      • March 22, 2022

                      Recent Posts

                      • Collation: Zee Atlas Ofte Water-Wereldt, ca.1654-1658
                      • Collation: Introduction to Jacob Aertsz. Colom
                      • Collation: Atlas Maritimo o Mundo Aquatico, 1668 
                      • Collation: The New Fierie Sea-Colomne, 1649 (1651)
                      • Collation: The New Fierie Sea-Colomne, 1640

                      Recent Comments

                      1. Geography Bewitched! (Again) – Map Forum on Geography Bewitched!
                      2. Beginner’s Guide: Building a Collection – Map Forum on Biography: John Speed
                      3. Beginner’s Guide: Collecting – Map Forum on Biography: John Ogilby
                      Map Forum
                      Powered by RareMaps