Help and Advice
We have put together some pages of information which will help you with your map collection.
- Collecting Antique Maps - some hints and tips to help you build your collection
- Frequently Asked Questions and Less Frequently Asked Questions - to help you understand map collecting
- A Brief History of Cartography - the Fascinating World of Antique Maps - Over the last five hundred years printed maps have recorded where man has been and detailed where one might go ...
- 500 years printing x (science + art) = cartography - The earliest map publications, produced around 1480, derived from the theories of Claudius Ptolemy, whose “Geographia Tabula”, in which more than 8,000 places were identified with their mathematical co-ordinates, provided the basis for the set of 27 maps of the ancient world ...
- British County Maps - Between 1579 and 1850, over one hundred different maps of each county have been published ...
- Mapmaking Types and Techniques - Sea charts, town plans, celestial charts, road maps.
- Biographies of Some of the More Famous Cartographers - brief biographies of those mapmakers most often encountered.