Antique maps from my collection.
A continuing series of posts to highlight my small antique map collection. All scans are taken directly from an original copy, not a reproduction. Map of Russia from J. Carver’s “New Universal Traveller: Containing a Full and Distinct Account of all the Empires, Kingdoms, and States, in the Known World”, published by G. Robinson 1779. As far as I can…
A continuing series of posts to highlight my small antique map collection. All scans are taken directlly from an original copy, not a reproduction. Map of Britain by Thomas Cox from his “Magna Britannia” published 1731. Thomas Wright wrote in 1836: “Map of the Country Surrounding London to the extent of Thirty Miles” from Dr. Hughson’s “Description of London” published…
A continuing series of posts to highlight my small antique map collection. All scans are taken directlly from an original copy, not a reproduction. Map of Britain by Thomas Cox from his “Magna Britannia” published 1731. Thomas Wright wrote the following in 1836:
A continuing series of posts to highlight my small antique map collection. All scans are taken directlly from an original copy, not a reproduction. Other than knowing that this was published in 1740 by J. Keizer and I. de Lat, and that they were Dutch, I know very little more about this one. From an item on the Christie’s web…
