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RSS feed for this sectionTravel Tuesday Map Feature: Our Annual One-For-You and One-For-Them Sale!
27
Nov
‘Tis the season for Pumpkin Spice EVERYTHING! And our annual one-for-you-and-one-for-them sale! All of November and December we offer one of our most beautiful maps as a free gift with every shipment….Our Nova Totius, a classical map filled with ancient wonders and Greek Gods….This is a map that over the years has appealed to all map […]
Travel Tuesday Map Feature: Our Annual One-For-You and One-For-Them Sale!
20
Nov
‘Tis the season for Pumpkin Spice EVERYTHING! And our annual one-for-you-and-one-for-them sale! All of November and December we offer one of our most beautiful maps as a free gift with every shipment….Our Nova Totius, a classical map filled with ancient wonders and Greek Gods….This is a map that over the years has appealed to all map […]
Travel Tuesday Map Feature: Our Annual One-For-You and One-For-Them Sale!
13
Nov
‘Tis the season for Pumpkin Spice EVERYTHING! And our annual one-for-you-and-one-for-them sale! All of November and December we offer one of our most beautiful maps as a free gift with every shipment….Our Nova Totius, a classical map filled with ancient wonders and Greek Gods….This is a map that over the years has appealed to all map […]
Travel Tuesday Map Feature: Lake Michigan
27
Aug
The third largest of the gems that are the Great Lakes of North America, Lake Michigan is a natural lake entirely sheltered within the borders of the United States, and touches the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana. Its name originates in the Ojibwa (Chippewa) word “michi- gami,” meaning “large lake.” At roughly 22,300 […]
Constellation Charts Part 3: September, August, July + June, May, April
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May
The Constellations (September, August, July; June, May, April) Star gazing into the night sky creates a sense of wonder and curiosity. The names of the constellations, their stars, the image they create and their place in the heavens, all play into what makes celestial maps so intriguing and useful in understanding the stars. September’s ten […]
Educational Map Series: The Brave Map Depicting the new Continent
08
Apr
Did you know that before this map Europeans believed that the world was divided into only three parts? They knew a world divided into Europe, Asia, and Africa. This ambitious project served to document and update new geographic knowledge derived from the discoveries of explorers in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, and in […]
Giclees: The Perfect Gift for Any Occasion
30
Sep
Would you like to own a custom a work of art, but can’t get past the price tag? Consider a giclee. They make art collecting affordable, but they are so much more than that. Depending on the type of giclee you own, the value could be substantially different. This elevates art collecting to an entirely […]
Catalan Atlas: Portolan Meets Mappa Mundi
20
Jun
Referred to as one of the last great mappa mundis before the emergence of ptolemic maps in the 15th century, the Catalan Atlas was produced in 1375, with the originals in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (National Library of France) in Paris today. The creator of the Catalan Atlas is believed to be the Majorcan […]
The story of old maps
13
Jun
Mapmaking or cartography has been a part of our world’s history since ancient times. In truth, many specialists agree that map making had its beginning with cave paintings. However, the oldest known maps are carved on Babylonian clay tablets dating to about 2300 B.C. These maps were considered extremely advanced in Old World Greece. In […]
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