There are many treasures to glean from a glance at a beautifully wrought antique map -- just don't expect that any sailor worth his salt ever actually used one while at sea. "Sailors wanted clean ...

Where to See Some of the World’s Oldest and Most Interesting Maps Chart humanity’s course through history with these antique navigational tools Jennifer Billock - Travel Correspondent July 18 ...

Cartographers shape how we think about the world. The designers and explorers who create maps influence things like whether we think of North America as above South America or below, how big we ...

A rare antique map of the world found during building work has returned to Aberdeenshire after being saved by conservation experts. The map, found in the 1980s, was identified as a late 17th ...

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In my office hangs an antique world map drawn in 1717, on which Antarctica, the Arctic Ocean, Alaska, and Hawaii are absent. The Mercator projection was already widely adopted in drawing maps with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Antique maps and atlases are certainly a niche collectible, but are gaining in popularity, according to Crouch, a London-based ...

Jonathan Potter began to assemble his collection of antique maps almost 40 years ago. Gradually, his hobby became his business and he went on to establish a gallery that houses one of the largest ...

A rare antique map of the world found during building work goes on public display after being saved by conservation experts.

Check out Laura Ten Eyck's appraisal of a 1791 Jane Young world map needlework in Junk in the Trunk 12. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on ...