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  • 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,…
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    • March 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. …
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      • March 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…
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        • March 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
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          Biography: John Rocque

            John Rocque (properly Jean) was a French Huguenot émigré, one of four children (including three brothers), who seems…
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            • March 9, 2022
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            • March 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. …
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              • February 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…
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                • February 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…
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                  • February 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
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                    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…
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                      • February 10, 2022

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