Ephemera: Colin Lamont
Unusual broadside catalogue/advertisement for Colin Lamont, advertising himself as seller of sea-atlases and charts, related scientific and timekeeping…
Collations: Munster’s Geographia (1540, 1542, 1545)
Munster’s Geographia: 1540 GEOGRAPHIA / VNIVERSALIS, VETVS ET NOVA, / COMPLECTENS / CLAVDII PTO- / LEMAEI ALEXANDRINI ENARRATIO-…
Printed Charts of the Carolinas
1. [1648] DUDLEY, Sir Robert state 1Carta particolare della Virgi= / nia Vecchia รจ Nuoua. / La longitu:ne…
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Publisher’s Adverts
From the 1670’s through to the 1760’s publishing maps and atlases in London was a fierce and cut-throat…
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…
Satirical Cartography: The Isle of Mad-Head
[ANONYMOUS / Henri Abraham CHATELAIN ?]AFBEELDINGHE van’t zeer vermaerde Eiland GEKS-KOP. geligen in de Actie-ze, ontdekt door Mons.r…
Printed Maps of the Carolinas: 1590 – 1800
This checklist is based on research work done over a period of some ten years while assembling a…
John Speed: Subsequent Ownership of Speed’s Plates
While Dr. John Speed inherited some of his father’s maps and books, the materials for the History and Theatre were the property…
The Zulu War: Isandhlwana & Rorke’s Drift
STANFORD’S / LARGE SCALE MAP / OF ZULU LAND / WITH ADJOINING PARTS OF / NATAL, TRANSVAAL &…
John Speed: A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World
In 1627 as a complement to the Theatre, George Humble published the Prospect Of the Most Famous Parts…