In 2011 Daniel Crouch Rare Books acquired the only surviving complete example of Luis Teixeira’s 1604 Magna Orbis Terrarum Nova. In 2015 another copy came to light. Monumental seventeenth century wall maps, it appears, are like London buses: you wait 400 years, and then two come along at once!

A newly-discovered sixteenth century rosary telling the story of creation and the early ages of man. Only the second known example of such an extraordinary devotional object, the Boncompagni Rosary features two miniature globes. These celestial and terrestrial spheres, bearing many of the hallmarks of contemporary cartography and astronomy, are part of a globe-making tradition that spanned Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Carletti’s ambitious project was spurred by the urban reform brought about by the new ruler of Naples, Charles of Bourbon, who had been installed as King of the Two Sicilies in 1734. The last accurate map of Naples had been made by Antonio Lafreri in 1566 — it was high time for another. The civic tribunal of San Lorenzo agreed to finance the map in 1750, although the project took a quarter of a century to complete.

The story of London told in 30,000 books, maps, and prints spanning 400 years.

In 1675, the same year that De’ Rossi secured the prestigious and valuable commission of decorating the papal summer residence, the Castel Gandolfo, with nearly two hundred engraved maps of Europe, America and the city of Rome, he also created this magnificent and elaborate wall map of the world, published with the privilege of the Pope.

Daniel Crouch took part of this year’s Malcolm Young Lecture, which is the Society’s annual lecture given in honour of Malcolm Young, co-founder of IMCoS.

California Map Society Spring Conference – Day One (1 May 2021)

Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) has been called the father of geography.

The Greek astronomer and cartographer was born and lived in Alexandria in Egypt between c100 and 170.

A rare and fascinating manuscript globe of Mars made during a period of renewed interest in the red planet and suggestive of the possibility of Martian civilisation.

One of the finest maps of – what is now – Greater London ever produced.