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Recent acquisitions this month include this #map by Homann Heirs of the Kingdom of #China 🌏 with a decorative title cartouche flanked by dragons 🐉 Published in circa 1740 and featuring bright original colour. View more new additions: https://t.co/u97GJAo2NA
#OTD 1804 #ornithologist & #artist John Gould FRS was born. 🐦View our collection from "The Father of Ornithology" on The Print Gallery website: https://t.co/51cks8mIec #birdman
Additions this month: Laurie & Whittle's 1810 map showing #Regency developments in #London🌎Finely engraved 1757 map of #SouthAmerica by Covens & Mortier 🌏Fascinating map of the arena of the Great Game by Stanford,1912🌍Unusual #BritishEmpire map, c1942 🌎https://t.co/5wb36FW8R7
🌴Born #OTD 1802, Alcide d'Orbingy - #French zoologist, palaeontologist, #geologist and archaeologist (d. 1857). Find out more about d'Orbigny and our collection of his remarkable hand-coloured lithographs of Palms from South America: https://t.co/qjMiu8zBbb 🌴
LAST CHANCE to visit Adam Dant's "Maps of London & Beyond" @TheMapHouse with @TAGFineArts. Exhibition ends tomorrow at 5pm! Signed books, original and limited edition artworks available! Email maps@themaphouse.com for a price list https://t.co/2WuLvaTBex
Maps of London & Beyond has been open for a whole week🗺✏Thanks to all who have visited so far. #Exhibition of #AdamDant's striking work with @TAGFineArts runs til 14 July🌍"London Enraged", an arresting #map illustrating reasons for which #Londoners riot https://t.co/kn2uj5PBf8
It's also #WorldHydrographyDay 🌊Hydrography is the #science of #surveying and charting seas, lakes, rivers and more. Theme for 2018 is Bathymetry. Map by the Royal Geographical Society using #data compiled by Dr. John Murray. Pub. 1899 💦 More sea charts: https://t.co/CpVuXmDeGS
Inspired by @The_RHS #ChelseaFlowerShow2018 we have arranged a beautiful bouquet of botanical prints for you to enjoy. Pick your own at https://t.co/u98v0VvIbO or email prints@themaphouse.com for more! 💐
We love the #googledoodle today celebrating the publishing of the very first #atlas "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum", on this day in 1570 by Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius. Find out more about Ortelius and his stunning world #maps here: https://t.co/eO352Ysrk8 🌍📚
Thank you to Dame Jane Francis (@BAS_News), @JFRumble, @KlausDodds and Damon Stanwell-Smith (@sea_urchin) for an enlightening and informed conversation @BritishLibrary - What does the #Antarctic mean? #BLCookVoyages For history of #mapping of #Antarctica: https://t.co/oTKuQ3gzsn