Printed Maps of New England: 1630-1660
1630 [1630]: GERRITSZ., HesselNOVA ANGLIA, / NOVVM BELGIVM / ET VIRGINIA. [1b][Inset] ‘Bermuda majori mole expressa’ 82 x…
Maps in Colom’s Atlases: Atlas ou Colom Ardante, 1668
Atlas / ou / Colom Ardante / Demonstrant toutes les Costes de la Grand / Mer, de tout…
The Lost Island of Atlantis
Prevalent among western European cultures are traditions of lost or mysterious islands in the western ocean, and these…
The Works of Sebastian Munster
1. [1514 ca.]: MUNSTER ‘Kollegienbuch’[Manuscript lecture notebook, containing 44 manuscript maps compiled from a variety of sources and…
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…
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…
Hartman Schedel and The Nuremberg Chronicle
One of the most fascinating printed books from the fifteenth century is Hartman Schedel’s ‘Liber Cronicarum ..’ or,…
Index 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. …
John Law and the Mississippi Scheme
John Law was born in Scotland in 1671, the son of a Scottish banker. He received an education…
Collation: Rocque’s Plans & Forts in America
A SET of / PLANS and FORTS / IN / AMERICA. / Reduced from Actual Surveys / 1763.…