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Posts under tag: antique maps

Alejandro Polanco’s Lost Worlds

May 31 2018 □ [Archived Version] □ Published at The Map Room under tags  antique maps map errors phantom islands posters


PBS NewsHour on ‘The Phantom Atlas’

May 31 2018 □ [Archived Version] □ Published at The Map Room under tags  antique maps books map errors phantom islands


New Books for May 2018

May 29 2018 □ [Archived Version] □ Published at The Map Room under tags  antique maps books france hand-drawn literature


An Interview with Joaquim Alves Gaspar, Nautical Historian

May 28 2018 □ [Archived Version] □ Published at The Map Room under tags  antique maps history of cartography nautical


Abraham Ortelius as Google Doodle

May 20 2018 □ [Archived Version] □ Published at The Map Room under tags  antique maps gif google history of cartography ortelius


A Gang of Hungarian Map Thieves on Trial in France

May 18 2018 □ [Archived Version] □ Published at The Map Room under tags  antique maps france libraries map thefts


An 18th-Century Manuscript Map of the St. Lawrence River

May 16 2018 □ [Archived Version] □ Published at The Map Room under tags  1700s antique maps banq canada libraries


National Geographic Teases Its Map Archive on Social Media

May 16 2018 □ [Archived Version] □ Published at The Map Room under tags  antique maps national geographic social media


Mercator Globes at the University of Lausanne

May 16 2018 □ [Archived Version] □ Published at The Map Room under tags  1500s antique maps exhibitions globes mercator


The Urbano Monte Map in 20 Different Projections

May 09 2018 □ [Archived Version] □ Published at The Map Room under tags  1500s antique maps map projections planisphere rumsey


Exhibitions on Maps of the American West

May 04 2018 □ [Archived Version] □ Published at The Map Room under tags  1800s american west antique maps exhibitions texas


Map Dealer Carole Spack Profiled

May 02 2018 □ [Archived Version] □ Published at The Map Room under tags  antique maps industry map dealers


Too Né’s Map for Lewis and Clark

May 01 2018 □ [Archived Version] □ Published at The Map Room under tags  1800s antique maps arikara indigenous lewis and clark


Re-Analyzing the Vinland Map

Apr 30 2018 □ [Archived Version] □ Published at The Map Room under tags  antique maps beinecke exhibitions forgeries hoaxes


New and Reissued Books for April 2018

Apr 24 2018 □ [Archived Version] □ Published at The Map Room under tags  antique maps art books cartography history


Texas A&M Acquires Copy of Austin’s 1830 Map of Texas

Apr 20 2018 □ [Archived Version] □ Published at The Map Room under tags  antique maps libraries texas


The Rumsey Collection’s Augmented Reality Globe App

Apr 12 2018 □ [Archived Version] □ Published at The Map Room under tags  antique maps astronomy augmented reality celestial maps ios


314 Rare Books and Maps Stolen from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Apr 03 2018 □ [Archived Version] □ Published at The Map Room under tags  antique maps libraries map thefts pittsburgh


‘Art of the Spheres’ at the Osher Map Library

Mar 31 2018 □ [Archived Version] □ Published at The Map Room under tags  antique maps astronomy exhibitions libraries osher


The Boston Globe on ‘Breathing Room’

Mar 30 2018 □ [Archived Version] □ Published at The Map Room under tags  antique maps boston boston globe bpl cities



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