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“A patched-up treaty of Peace that humiliates nobody except England”: Rock Brothers & Payne’s 1856 Treaty map depicting Europe at the end of the Crimean War

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“A patched-up treaty of Peace that humiliates nobody except England”: Rock Brothers & Payne’s 1856 Treaty map depicting Europe at the end of the Crimean War

March 30, 2017May 31, 2017

Yesterday, March 29th 2017, marked an historic landmark in British relations with Europe, with the delivery of Theresa May’s letter to Donald Tusk triggering Article 50 of the 2007 Lisbon Treaty and Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union by March

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Politics personified: Fred W. Rose and Liberal & Tory serio-comic maps, 1877-1880 – Part 1

March 11, 2016January 24, 2017

Fred W. Rose and Liberal & Tory serio-comic maps, 1877-1880 – Part 1
In W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan’s famous comic operetta, Iolanthe, or the Peer and the Peri [1882], which so cleverly lampoons the British peerage and House of

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US Comic Maps & the Prohibition era, 1920-1933 – Part 1: Isle of Pleasure

October 2, 2015March 14, 2018

Henry J Lawrence’s Map of the Isle of Pleasure [1931]
As noted on the introductory flyleaf of Edward Behr’s splendid 1997 study, Prohibition – The Thirteen Years that changed America:
On 16th January 1920, at the stroke of midnight, America

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“The one and only original Map of Breakfast Island” – Cyril Phillips’ map of “life & taste in Britain at the beginning of the 2nd Elizabethan Reign”, 1953

September 9, 2015June 27, 2018

“It is our hope that Her Majesty may live long and happily and that Her reign may be as glorious as that of her great predecessor Queen Elizabeth I. Let us hope we are witnessing the beginning of a new

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Europe in 1915 – German perspectives on the war through two sets of satirical propaganda maps

July 30, 2015January 25, 2017

Two pairs of German satirical propaganda maps of Europe published in Hamburg in 1915
Exactly one hundred years ago, at the end of July 1915, after the successes of the preceding Gorlice-Tarnow campaign and the recapture by Austrian forces of

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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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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

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