This exquisite piece, engraved by Adriaen Collaert and designed by Johannes Stradanus, was published in Florence c.1600. A tribute to Christopher Columbus, it praises his accomplishments and illustrates the 1492 endeavour to the New […]
This Map of the Month is a piece celebrated as one of the most important documents in the annals of European activity in the Far East. The “Nova Tabula Insularum Iavae, […]
Britain and France had been at war for twelve years when James Gillray created what is now considered to be his most notable caricature – The Plumb-Pudding in Danger; – […]
The map featured on our blog today is a very complicated piece of cartography. It was first issued as a topographical folding map of the Balkan Peninsula; however, in 1878, […]
The next map featured on our blog records one of the most remarkable archaeological expeditions ever undertaken. Its accomplishments changed the history of the printed word; in fact, these accomplishments […]
This particular entry into our blog is entitled “The Southern Countries of India from Madrass to Cape Comorin, describing the Routes of The Armies of Colonels Fullarton and Humberston during […]
Jumping forward in time, our offering this month is an important piece of map-making in the annals of oil discovery and production in the 20th century: “Geologic Map of the […]
On this occasion, we present a glorious sea chart of the Philippines with many aspects of interest, including not one but two treasure ships. “A Chart of the China Sea […]
This entry into our blog showcases a region which, to the Victorians, was a land of exoticism and mystery.. Map of the Burmese Empire, published by James Wyld in 1886 […]
This month’s entry to Map of the Month, “Map of Exploration and Surveys in New Mexico and Utah”, by Captain John N. Macomb was published in 1864 and details the […]
