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An intriguing late 18th Century mystery of map authorship finally solved: the French “Pimpernel” is at last unveiled…

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An intriguing late 18th Century mystery of map authorship finally solved: the French “Pimpernel” is at last unveiled…

April 9, 2024January 30, 2025

Writing in Treasures from the Map Room ((Ed. Debbie Hall) Bodleian Libraries, 2016), Assistant Map Librarian John Mackrell highlighted one of the most curious and intriguing maps in the Bodleian’s remarkable collections. It is a map whose mysterious authorship and…

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Travels in Book Land: Alphons Woelfle’s imaginary map of 1938…

June 16, 2015January 25, 2017

May and June are traditionally the highpoint of the London bookselling calendar, so it seems fitting to draw attention to another of our recent acquisitions, one of the most charming imaginary maps of the late 1930’s, German artist Alphons Woelfle’s…

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Henry Gardiner’s “Map of Man” – a very rare late 18th Century allegorical map printed on calico

May 13, 2015January 24, 2017

One of our most unusual map acquisitions offers a glimpse into the little-known history of English calico printing in the London metropolitan suburb of Wandsworth in the late 18th and early 19th Century. Probably dating from the last decade of…

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