Rare and important early first state map of the Carolinas from 1685 by Thornton, Morden & Lea, titled A New Map of Carolina, showing early settlements and landowners ($29,325). French armillary sphere ...
Coloring the world into tidy blocks with sharp edges feels natural today. Nations look solid on a classroom map. But that way ...
After mapmaker Judah Ben Zara was banished from Spain in 1492, when Ferdinand and Isabella expelled their kingdom’s Jewish population, the exiled cartographer continued plying his craft in the Middle ...