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Category Archives: Map of the Month

Putting Women On The Map

March 8, 2021by themaphouse

This International Women’s Day, it seems only right that we are celebrate women in cartography, highlight their achievements and put them on the map. Here are a selection from The […]

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Maps of the Month

December 24, 2020by themaphouse

This feature on our blog is dedicated to an extraordinary collection of sea charts from the Amsterdam edition of the “Neptune Francois,” the “Cartes Marines a l’Usage des Armees du […]

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Map of the Month

September 10, 2020by themaphouse

Aaron Arrowsmith is often cited as the greatest English map maker of the 18th Century, with his monumental wall maps of all parts of the world reaching a geographical apogee […]

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Unique Collection of Operational D-Day Maps

June 6, 2019by themaphouse

Utah An extraordinarily rare surviving ultra-top secret operational map for landing craft commanders on Utah Beach used during the D-Day landings. “Top Secret – Bigot” was the Allies’ highest level […]

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Collections, Map of the Month, Specialist Catalogues

The Nearest Point of Heaven and Earth

August 3, 2018by themaphouse

From Olympus to Vesuvius, Everest to Kilimanjaro, mountains have held a powerful even intoxicating significance to every culture on earth. They have inspired poets, pilgrims and explorers alike and their […]

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Collections, Map of the Month, Prints

The Extraordinary Life of George Melville Boynton

May 17, 2018by themaphouse

This unusual, and possibly unique, 1908 map of South America is a superb relic of the Heroic Age. It is a recruitment poster for “The Discovery Darkest America Expedition”, a […]

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Finding Our Place in the Universe

May 17, 2018by themaphouse

The story of early mapmaking has always been about the conflict between innate beliefs and empirical evidence. The accuracy of maps was frequently distorted by partial, contradictory and misunderstood geographical […]

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Collections, Map of the Month

Military Map of Zulu Land

May 17, 2018by themaphouse

Published during the Anglo-Zulu War, this superb map is a rare surviving 19th century campaign map that was actually used by officers in the field during the war. Printed by […]

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Map of the Month: “When the bubble bursts”

November 27, 2017by themaphouse

This month’s “Map of the Month” feature discusses the role of speculation and map-making in the Mississippi Bubble of 1720.

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Maps of the Month

August 1, 2017by themaphouse

One of the privileges of working in The Map House with such a large collection of antique maps  is the ability to compare different printings of the same map and […]

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