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

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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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1854: Clipping the Russian Bear’s Claws – “Rock & Droll” – The Comic Map of Europe is born…..

June 9, 2015March 30, 2017

Strolling around the London Map Fair at the Royal Geographical Society last weekend, I was delighted to have drawn to my attention a mid-19th Century Comic map of Europe which, to my great surprise, I had never seen nor encountered…

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A Scotsman’s visit to the Montmartre home of Maurice Neumont, August 1915

May 27, 2015January 24, 2017

Maurice Neumont [1868-1930] was one of the leading French illustrators and poster artists of the late 19th & early 20th Century. Born in Paris in September 1868, he apparently learned his craft at an early age, charcoal or chalk in…

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Temperance Hotels & Comic Maps of Scotland – amid the skirl of bagpipes, an arresting & amusing Victorian mix

May 20, 2015March 29, 2016

Philp’s Comic Maps of Scotland My last post about Leslie George Bullock [1895-1971] referenced the National Library of Scotland’s invaluable Bartholomew Archive, a unique and unrivalled record of the business history and publications of one of Edinburgh’s leading map publishers….

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Leslie George Bullock [1895-1971] – Edinburgh publisher John Bartholomew’s leading designer of decorative & historical maps

May 19, 2015April 13, 2018

Recent blog posts by fellow map dealer, Tim Bryars on the subject of civil servant cartographer, Leslie George Bullock [1895-1971] greatly intrigued me and have led me to delve a little more deeply into the biography & family background of…

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