mapforumMarch 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,…
mapforumMarch 16, 2022 MapForum ArticlesIndex to The Map Collectors’ Circle Series Compiled by Paula Dryburgh INTRODUCTION The ‘Map Collectors Circle’ was founded by the late R.V. Tooley in 1963. …
mapforumMarch 14, 2022 MapForum ArticlesJohn Law and the Mississippi Scheme John Law was born in Scotland in 1671, the son of a Scottish banker. He received an education…
mapforumMarch 9, 2022 MapForum ArticlesCollation: Rocque’s Plans & Forts in America A SET of / PLANS and FORTS / IN / AMERICA. / Reduced from Actual Surveys / 1763.…
Issue 5 MapForum Articles Biography: John Rocque John Rocque (properly Jean) was a French Huguenot émigré, one of four children (including three brothers), who seems… mapforumMarch 9, 2022
mapforumMarch 2, 2022 MapForum ArticlesWilliam Darby’s “A View of the United States” William Darby was an American geographer and cartographer of Irish descent, born in Pennsylvania on August 14th 1775. …
mapforumFebruary 28, 2022 MapForum ArticlesPrinted Maps of the Carolinas: 1590 – 1800 This checklist is based on research work done over a period of some ten years while assembling a…
mapforumFebruary 18, 2022 MapForum ArticlesThe Map Room at the British Library Paul Sandby’s Map of Scotland Despite having worked extensively on Sandby’s map, this was only the second time…
mapforumFebruary 18, 2022 MapForum ArticlesGeography Bewitched! (Again) Robert Dighton was a well known painter of portraits and caricatures, as well as decorative subjects, who is…
Issue 3 MapForum Articles 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… mapforumFebruary 10, 2022