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Nellie Bly, Game Changer

March 8, 2019by themaphouse

This International Women’s Day, we are celebrating a remarkable woman – pioneer of investigative journalism in America, rights activist and intrepid traveller, Elizabeth Jane Cochran (1864-1922), better known as Nellie […]

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Good morning! 🌼🌿💐 Bloomin' beautiful day on Beauchamp Place and the opening day of @RHS_ChelseaFlowerShow. We have filled our window with fine collectable #antique #botanical engravings, #maps of #London and even treated ourselves to some fresh flowers! 🌼🌿💐 • Thank you to @KnightsbridgeFlowers for our stunning bouquets. #flowershow #chelseainbloom #rhschelsea #bouquet #summer #royalhorticulturalsociety #floral #rhs #chelsea #knightsbridge #kensington #antiques #gift #spring #londonshopping #treatyoself #flowers #prints #interiordesign #collection

Provence, with original-colour rainbow title cartouche. 🌈 • This fabulous map by Johann Baptist Homann was published around 1710, during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), in which France found itself against the Grand Alliance of Britain, Austria, Prussia, the Netherlands, and Savoy. • The French fighting spirit is captured in the cartouche, noblemen of Provence are shown offering their wealth to Marshall General de Villars, the leader of the French army, in support of the war effort. Meanwhile, a French city and a whole a fleet of ships burns in the background, likely a reference to the scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon in 1707 to prevent it from falling into the hands of the British. • In the lower-right corner is an inset map of Toulon and environs, showing the city's defenses and the failed attack on the city in 1707. Despite losing their entire Mediterranean fleet, the French were able to hold the city, forcing over 13,000 Allied casualties in the process. • [FR3250] #raremaps #antiquemaps #history #maps #mapa #inspiration #gallery #london #MondayMotivation #provence #toulon #frenchriviera #cotedazur #Mediterranean #nice

Abraham Ortelius's magnificent "Britannicarum Insularum Vetus Descriptio" (1590) • Rare two-sheet map of ancient Great Britain & Ireland decorated with strapwork cartouches and a naval battle scene, the most elaborate on any of Ortelius's maps. • Unusually, Ortelius credits his own geographical studies for the creation of this map rather than a contemporary scholar. Though as Ortelius was an avid historian with a particular interest in the writings of the Roman period, this is quite understandable. The Latin text on the verso provides a history of ancient Britain and Ireland according to classical authors. • This specific map was only published in the 1590, 1591, and 1592 editions of Ortelius's "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum", the first modern world atlas published on this day in 1570. A handful of 'surplus' copies have been found in the 1602 edition as well. Fewer than 750 copies of this map were thought to have been published. It was replaced in the 1595 edition by the more common, smaller, single-sheet map. • Our example features Latin text on verso and fine, full original hand-colour. [GB1965] #raremaps #antiquemaps #history #maps #mapa #england #scotland #ireland #wales #UK #GreatBritain #mapping #cartographer #map #MondayMotivation

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