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Maps & Atlases

Lewis Evans: An Overview of Creating ‘General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America’

Lewis Evans’ General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America was one of the most significant and influen…

Maps & Atlases

Records & Results: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books

Maps were so plentiful at our December 5 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books that…

Maps & Atlases

The Foundation of a Capital: Early Maps of Washington D.C.

Washington, D.C., with its neoclassical architecture and grand monuments, almost seems as if it arose organically ov…

Maps & Atlases

A Famous Cartographic Blunder: The Island of California

For more than a century the state of California was thought to be an island. How? Misinformation by way of maps. In …