The National Library of Scotland’s Shakespeare First Folio is now on display alongside a new selection of items as part of its revolving ‘Treasures of the National Library of Scotland’ exhibition.
Maps
Sworders’ upcoming Books and Maps sale will include the collection of London book dealer Paul Bentley (1931-2022).
The Armada Maps National Treasures exhibition offers the chance to view 10 incredibly rare
A market-fresh copy of the first world atlas compiled by an Englishman comes for sale at
New York – On October 25, Bonhams will present the most important 18th century map of California as the highlight of its Exploration and Travel Literature, fea
A research trip to the Beinecke Library at Yale University gave me the opportunity to visit its new exhibition, The World in Maps: 1400-1
Disappointed with the maps of Scandinavia that were circulating throughout Europe in the early sixteenth century, Olaus Magnus (1490–1557) set out on a twelve-year quest to map the region to a leve
Maps set “the stage on which the drama [of politics and business] is played,” reads Rand McNally’s full-page advertisement from 1924, “[and] without this stage, the plot is meaningless.” The statem
In the late summer of 1854, an eerie silence descended over Soho in London’s West End.
A team of cataloguers, curators, conservators, and imaging specialists at the British Library (BL) has completed a seven-year project to digitize a collection of ea
