This man’s map collection is off the charts. David Rumsey, 79, has acquired more than 200,000 maps over four decades, with a collection that spans from around 1500AD to the present day. The collector, ...
These strip maps of roads around London come from an atlas printed in 1790 by mapmaker John Cary. For travelers moving on foot or on horseback, the level of local information in Cary’s maps allowed ...