The beautifully detailed, early 19th-century map of the United States pictured ... Public Library This practice likely originated in Europe and then spread to female academies, which were becoming ...

Find out more about what this space is all about here. This stunning geological map of Europe was produced in 1875 by Andre Dumont, a Belgian scientist and mapmaker. Dumont, who previously ...

The Library of Congress has recently digitized a group of puzzle maps dating from the late 18 th to the early 20 th century ... the 1812 map of Europe lost its Italy somewhere along the way.

Of course, Europe doesn’t have a monopoly on monstrous maps. A massive dragon rings a 19th century Japanese map, the Jishin no ben. The final answer, Blake writes, may be just this ...

The pre-industrial revolution capital was still the largest in the world at the time - but appears an oasis of green compared to today's urban jungle A REMARKABLE early 19th century map of London ...

is intended to conduct a profound reappraisal of the cartography of 19th-century Palestine between the years 1830-1880. The rediscovered map is highly significant. “It was sketched by hand by a ...