Welcome to a world of imagination. Viewing the world through the eyes of our ancestors.
These are the writings from Tales from the Rare Map Cabinet by Luke A. Vavra.
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List of our posts:
- THE THREE “STATES” OF WHITE’S 1590 MAP OF VIRGINIA
- FINDING THE AUTHOR OF THE MAP IN THEODORE DE BRY’S PART IV, GRAND VOYAGES
- Selling Your Maps
- The “Official” Plan of Washington, DC
- Determining Longitude and Latitude at Sea During the Age of Exploration
- What price Allegiance!
- WHAT CENTURY IS IT?
- ADAM AND EVE IN THEODORE DE BRY’S GRAND VOYAGES.
- WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS [MAPS] GONE?
- FIRST PRINTED PLAN OF WASHINGTON, DC
- DOES EDITION REALLY MATTER?
- TWO KENTUCKY TOWNS THAT NEVER WERE
- MERCATOR PROJECTION, RHUMB LINES AND MERIDIANS
- The “Dog Days of Summer” – A Map of the Night Sky.
- Collecting Antique Maps
- WHERE IN THE WORLD IS THE “PRIME MERIDIAN”?
- VIRGINIA. LONDON MAGAZINE. WASHINGTON’S JOURNEY. 1754.
- Lord Dunmore’s Depredations
- More than meets the eye on this map of the Atlantic Ocean.
- Decisions, Decisions: The Story Behind a Map.
- TO APPRAISE OR NOT TO APPRAISE.
- The 1819 Edition of John Smith’s Map of Virginia
- WHAT? LLAMAS IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA?
- THE RAREST JOHN SMITH’ DERIVATIVE
- TAKE A LETTER, GEORGE.
- BONNEVILLE’S MAP OF THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST
- CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND
- JOHN SMITH AND HIS MAP OF VIRGINIA
- THE “OREGON COUNTRY”
- FIRST PRINTED MAP OF BARBADOS: ENGLISH COLONIALISM AND SLAVERY
- PRIME MERIDIAN AT YALE COLLEGE!!!!
- RICHMOND, VIRGINIA AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
- Bermuda Hundred – More than a rare Topographic Map
- “Mortimer, how long is a Degree of Latitude?”
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