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Date: Friday, April 15, 2005
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Waldseemueller terrestrial globe gores (1507) for auction

Yesterday (Thursday in London, England) I was somewhat surprised that
nobody drew our collective attention to the announcement, in some of our
'quality' newspapers in Britain, to the 8 June 2005 auction sale of a
fourth exemplar of the Waldseemueller terrestrial globe gores of 1507.
So I offer just one online (illustrated) report on this.  Personally, I
read it in (also illustrated) 'The Independent').  Rodney (Shirley) will
have yet another reason to produce an www-available 'Addenda &
Corrigenda' to the 4th edition (2001) of his carto-bibliography on
printed world maps from 1477 to 1700 . . .





http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-2-1567990,00.html



PS: there is a coloured illustration (of the black-&-white gores!) in
'The Daily Express' report.



Francis Herbert (Curator of Maps)

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http://www.rgs.org <http://www.rgs.org/> [see 'Collections' - including
some online catalogues (e.g., maps up to ca 1940)]




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