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March #maps acquisitions include... 🌍 section of South East #London from Rocque's landmark survey (1674) 🌎 #Barcelona (1858) 🌍intricately detailed map of #MountEverest (1957) 🌏 Victorian tourist map of the Battle of #Waterloo (1845). See more: https://t.co/5wb36FW8R7

Pinch punch first edition on the first of the month🗓🌬This chilly day, we bring you Stanford's 1904 map of Antarctica - the first map of the South Pole to feature in Stanford's "London Atlas" and marks Shackleton & Scott's furthest south (1902). See more: https://t.co/2CAMnFXnOv

Experiencing wild weather?🌈🌨☀️🌬🌑 This charming Victorian educational Meteorology chart can tell you what to expect, "displaying the various phenomena of the atmosphere". (Reynolds, c.1850). More peculiar prints: https://t.co/yktjiOSIJl #WednesdayWisdom #blameitontheweatherman

Separately issued folding #map of the #MontBlanc Range published in 1929 for the President of the Diablerets of the Club Alpin Suisse, Albert Barbey. Includes the important resort towns of #Chamonix, #Martigny, and #Couermayeur. #InternationalMountainDay

"When you go home, tell them of us and say, For your Tomorrow, we gave our Today" - J. M. Edmonds, 1919

Explore our October Acquisitions.. sail into the city of #Cartagena, Colombia (c.1745), take a stroll through St. James's Park in #London (1827), visit the beaches of #Sydney (1939) and cruise the highways of #LosAngeles (1916). See more: https://t.co/5wb36FW8R7 #MondayMotivation

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 🌴