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    1 : 2000000 Description This is a beautiful strike of Gerhard Mercator's map of Iceland, included by Jodocus Hondius and his heirs in their Atlas sive Cosmographicae. It is the second map of Iceland to appear in a modern atlas, and the second map overall of Iceland based on data originating from an Icelander, placing it among the first accurate maps of the island. Mercator's map first appeared in 1595, only five years after Abraham Ortelius' famous map; both maps shared the same ultimate source: Guðbrandur Þorláksson, Bishop of Holar. SourcesIt is not known if Mercator received t...

THE various locales of Hampshire have been explored in a new book that delves into the history of the wonderful county. 50 Gems gems of Hampshire by Peter Kilby contains insightful and intriguing information about the quieter areas of the county as well as its major conurbations. The following is a small taste of what the new book offers:   Southampton Common Southampton Common is one of the best-known open spaces within the environs of the city, comparable with the city parks and vast waterfront. It sits neatly alongside the adjoining suburbs of Bassett to the north and Portswood ...

Last modified on Mon 3 May 2021 13.02 EDT Resting on gingham cloth, a sugar-crusted apple pie cools on the window sill of a midwestern farmhouse. Nothing could be more American. Officially American. The Department of Defense once featured the pie in an online collection of American symbols, alongside Uncle Sam and cowboys. Not that apples are particularly American. Apples were first domesticated in central Asia, making the journey along the Silk Road to the Mediterranean four thousand years ago. Apples traveled to the western hemisphere with Spanish colonists in the 1500s in what used to be c...

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  1654 (undated)         1 : 70000 Description This is a classic 17th-century map Dutch of Bermuda, printed by Jan Jansson in 1654 and here in an original color example from the collection of the illustrious map collector, dealer, and scholar Kenneth Nebenzahl. Actually engraved by Jansson's brother-in-law Henricus Hondius, this map was based on Richard Norwood’s chart produced in 1618 for the Bermuda Company. Norwood's chart provides the primary depiction of the island available for that century. Versions of this map were printed by John Speed as well as Hondius' and Jansson's co...