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Dec 08 2010 ∞

Mappa del Sole via vintageprintable.com

Sep 05 2009 ∞

Pianta dei due barchi, viali, fontane, e fabbriche, della Real Villa di Pratolino.

Jun 29 2009 ∞

flight2 (via airform)

Apr 28 2009 ∞

Emotional Cartography - Edited by Christian Nold

Apr 27 2009 ∞

ONI Internet Filtering Map

The ONI collects global data on Internet filtering using technical and contextual tools.

Mar 24 2009 ∞

Tax heavens map (via hulk4598)

Mar 17 2009 ∞

Beautiful Map and Chart Bloopers from New York Times

Mar 12 2009 ∞

Clickable map of heads of state and heads of government (and, in certain cases, de facto leaders not occupying either of those formal positions) of all countries and territories, going back to about 1700 in most cases.

Feb 09 2009 ∞

You open the book and notice that the first thing you see (on the front endpaper) is a map which guides you through the subsequent narrative. Sometimes the back end paper is a different map (perhaps a resolution of the narrative), but usually it is the same.

Nursery Rhyme Land, London c1925
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George R.Stewart’s US 40, CROSS SECTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Houghton Mifflin Boston 1953, illustrations by Erwin Reisz.
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Donald Foster / John Wood/ Quietest Under the Sun , Museum Press London 1944; 21 x 27cms; an illustrated Guidebook to Mercia and Mid Wales for the literate rambler.
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Arthur Ransome/ Arthur Ransome/ Missee Lee, Cape, London, 1941 20 x27cms; a children’s fictitious adventure set off the coast of China; here with clear colour coded tracks that correspond exactly with the narrative.
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Joan Hassall/ Frances Brett Young/ Portrait of a Village Heinemann London 1937, 21 x 30cms. “I take this opportunity of declaring that no village like it [Monk’s Norton] has ever existed outside my imagination…” FBY
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A.M.Highes, J.K.Stanford, Bledgrave Hall, Country Book Club, London 1953, 20 x 27cms., and an account of efforts to encourage avocets to breed in the marshland around Bledgrave Hall.
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Melville Colley/Melville Colley/The Bamboo Bird, Press, London 1947, 25 x 35cms. an illustrated book for children , a Bamboo Bird hatches and saves Chinese twins from an Evil spell.
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George Him/ Ann Thwaite/ The Day with the Duke, Brockhampton Leicester 1969; an illustrated book for children about a girl and a boy who spend the day at a Stately Home - and are driven home in the carriage at the end of the Day. For George Him, see Archive
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Rockwell Kent/ Rockwell Kent , Wilderness A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska, Blue Ribbon, New York 1920, 28 x 34 cms. Not so much a bird’s eye view but that of one of Kent’s idealised spirits.