The map is the same map as a rare 17th-Century wall map of Australia that survived for more than 350 years in a private home in Italy. The map is believed to have remained since the late 19th-Century.

On the precious map , San Antonio shows up as a cluster of dots within concentric ovals. ... A rare journey A map of Zebulon Pike’s 1807 side trip through Texas is amazingly accurate.

James MacDougald shows off rare maps of the New World from 1527 and 1529 that include the Gulf Coast and Florida, on Oct. 14, 2020, in St. Petersburg, ...

Rare map dealer Edward Smiley admits to stealing millions of dollars worth of rare maps from libraries around the country. This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. Talk about a ...

The experts — including Clausen’s employer, Barry Ruderman of Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps, and Michal Peichl, a Houston-based paper restorer — had many concerns about the map.

These antique maps showed how people saw the world. What did they get right? Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to ...

Maps were part of the rare books and manuscript department, housed in a little-visited room on the library’s third floor. There, Smiley would fill out call slip after call slip.

The antique maps, dating from 1475 to 1800, were preserved by Golden, who collected historical maps of Israel over several decades.