Browse Items (5 total)

John Ogilby, Road from London to the City of Bristol. Plate I. London to Marlborough., 1675

First edition, large paper copy. Chubb: "This is the first survey of the roads of England and Wales. It is composed of 102 copper plates and 200 pages…

Hans Holbein, Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve ('The Ambassadors'), 1533

This picture memorialises two wealthy, educated and powerful young men. On the left is Jean de Dinteville, aged 29, French ambassador to England in…

O.H. Bailey & Co., O.H. Bailey & Co., Lewisburgh (1884), 1884

Bird's eye map. Copy hanging in Freas Admissions lobby. Available at the Library of Congress.

Tags: bird's eye map, commodity, nineteenth century, Pennsylvania

Unknown., The "Vinland Map" (15thC? 19thC? 20thC?)

From Yale University Library/Beinecke Digital Collections:

Originally the Vinland Map, Speculum historiale, and Hystoria Tartarorum were bound…

Tags: commodity, controversy, Norse, provenance, university

Vincenzo Coronelli, Terrestrial Globe (Gores 21-23), Academia Cosmografica degli Argonauti, 1688

Date estimated. Images provided by the State Library of New South Wales where the original printed globe gores reside. From the catalog record of the…

Tags: Canada, globe gore, Mexico, North America, seventeenth century