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A fun spiral bound calendar comes from Chronicle Books and Redstone
Press: The 1997 Redstone Diary, "Maps to get lost in."
On the cover is the Beatus Mappamundi, 12th c.
Inside are found the following among others:
Map of Matrimony, from a Valentine card, 19th c.
Chinese Red, a map on the back of a crime thriller, c1948
Phrenological head maps, at least 2 were spotted
Japanese child's board game of a journey to Paradise, 20th century
Numerous Adolf Wolfli drawings
Pilgrim's Way from Pilgrim's Progress, etc., etc.
Perfect mapnerd holiday gift. Look for this at your local bookstore.
[isbn 0-8118-1392-4]
Our copy came from Seattle, a gift to Kristopher Cheppaikode on staff
here in the Map Div. We may purchase this for the Map Division, NYPL,
as a handout for the answer to that question-- "What is a map?"
Alice Hudson
Map Division, NYPL
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