La Jolla map dealer Alex Clausen came across this rare 14th century nautical chart at an estate sale for Ann and Gordon Getty. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Alex Clausen is a map dealer. And ...
As estate sales of the über-wealthy go, the Ann and Gordon Getty Collection sell-off at Christie’s last year was a major success. Across 2,300 sold lots, it netted $200 million for charity, set a ...
WASHINGTON — John Hessler, mathematical wizard and the senior cartographic librarian at the Library of Congress, slipped into the locked underground vaults of the library one morning last week.
One of the largest collections of maps on earth is in Milwaukee. With about 2 million different items, the American ...
TCart a has introduced a new line of Satellite Reconnaissance Charts designed to complement official marine navigation maps in shallow waters. These digital maps, derived from recently acquired ...
In the last third of the 16th century, the Spanish crown set in motion a project to obtain a complete map of the New World. The method thought up for this was to use surveys, known as Relaciones ...
NEW YORK — Not much is known about how Renaissance cartographer Martin Waldseemüller created his 1516 "Carta marina" world map, possibly the most up-to-date conception of the world at the time. But ...
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