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…
A continuing series of posts to highlight my small antique map collection. All scans are taken directlly from an original copy, not a reproduction. This third map in the series is also taken from “The British Atlas” by George Cole and John Roper published in 1810 (although the map carries the legend of 1807 at the bottom). This was a…
