'Pittsburgh pair charged with stealing rare books. Researchers find more than 300 items damaged or missing, a loss estimated at $8 million' . The archivist Greg Priore and bookseller John Schulman were charged on 20 July. https://t.co/bNlCdhWC7o
Unique Dutch first navigational map of the Indian Ocean made in 1621 . First ever mention of the Western coast of Australia! And Reunion Island is mapped there, if unnamed...#HungarianNationalLibray#MELCom2018
Updated "Serio-Comic Map" of Europe 2018 (after Fred W Rose), complete with Renaissance "wind-heads" for a nice, satisfied client. Lot of work but very enjoyable (and probably out of date by tomorrow) #politics#Europe
Answers to our Cotton manuscripts quiz coming up tomorrow.
One more tester before then.
Q8. Name the English monarch for whom this map was made.
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By combining data on historical #Amsterdam with the expertise of researchers, computer & information scientists, and heritage professionals, a time machine is created with which we can #walk the streets of Amsterdam’s #past and meet the inhabitants. https://t.co/08kA9welrJ
Cauce Río Grande de la #Magdalena, ca. 1601
#Toponimia, Santa Marta, Cartagena Indias, Santa Fe, Villeta, La Palma, Muzo, Vélez, Pamplona, Tenerife, Honda, Zaragoza, Mariquita...
#AGIndias
Rodrigo Bastidas lo bautizó, 1525. García de Lerma lo navegó en 1531
@colombia_hist
Salud.
Sometimes you learn new words while researching maps, like Tortelduyf, or turtledove. A shoal named for a Dutch ship of that name off west coast of Australia in 1624. https://t.co/h75Spz83OL #maps#Australia#exploration