Collation: Zee Atlas Ofte Water-Wereldt, ca.1654-1658
Library of Congress G1059. C64 1669 vault; Phillips 480 Collated by David Parry The example described is in…
Collation: The New Fierie Sea-Colomne, 1640
[Koeman: J. Col 24 ]Library of Congress G1793 .C6 1640b; Phillips 3332 by Jason Hubbard As in the…
Ephemera: Jefferys Advert
Among the more ephemeral items produced by mapsellers and publishers were engraved advertisement labels. Those that survive generally…
Curiosities: The Blockenberg Witches
HOMANN’S HEIRSPerspectivische Vorstellung Des… Blocken Oder Bloks-Bergs… Nürnberg, 1749-51. A view of Brocken in the Harz mountains of…
Printed Maps of New England: 1630-1660
1630 [1630]: GERRITSZ., HesselNOVA ANGLIA, / NOVVM BELGIVM / ET VIRGINIA. [1b][Inset] ‘Bermuda majori mole expressa’ 82 x…
Herman Moll’s “Maps Of The Several Parts Of Europe…”
While Moll’s county atlases and large maps – most particularly those prepared for “The World Described” – are…
Maps in Colom’s Atlases: De Vyerighe Colom, 1654
[Engraved Title page:]De Vyerighe Colom / waer door de Zeen en Custen van de Noordsche, / Oostersche, en…
Biography: Paolo Forlani
(fl. 1560 – 1571/4?) The ‘Lafreri School’ of mapmakers is the umbrella term frequently applied – for want…
The Atlas of Scotland
Edinburgh, May 18. 1797. -Designed by J.Halliday, Caledonian Mercury Office. -Entered in Stationers Hall.Broadsheet, 420 x 235mm. the…
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…