Google Maps may be available to nearly everyone in the world today, but it hasn’t always been this way. Maps and atlases served as navigational aids going back millennia.
Antique Atlases: Snapshots of History
by Malcolm Hudson
“The best route towards China for leaky crazy ships during the strength of the S.W. Monsoon”
Smith’s rare geological survey of Berkshire
Dudley’s chart of Iceland, the first map of the Island on Mercator’s projection
Daw's detailed plan of mid-Victorian St Pancras
Rare map of the Clyde Estuary and South West Scotland
Nautical instrument maker’s shop sign
Adam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern
Kolkata and the Hoogly River
Du vin, Monseigneur?
Google Maps may be available to nearly everyone in the world today, but it hasn’t always been this way. Maps and atlases served as navigational aids going back millennia.
“The best route towards China for leaky crazy ships during the strength of the S.W. Monsoon”
Smith’s rare geological survey of Berkshire
Dudley’s chart of Iceland, the first map of the Island on Mercator’s projection
Daw's detailed plan of mid-Victorian St Pancras
Rare map of the Clyde Estuary and South West Scotland
Nautical instrument maker’s shop sign
Adam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern
Kolkata and the Hoogly River
Du vin, Monseigneur?
