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The Barry Lawrence Ruderman antique map shop is listing the chart, now dubbed the Rex Tholomeus Portolan Chart of 1360, for $7.5 million. With such a price tag, ...
Not technically maps, portolans are nautical charts that offer few geographic details about the interiors of the land masses they depict. Like other examples from the period on display, Ben Zara’s ...
John Alsop Paine (January 14, 1840-July 24, 1912) was an archeologist and naturalist who drew the maps included in Sebastian Adams’s Chronological Chart of Ancient, Modern and Biblical History. Paine ...