1.3K views · 28 reactions | Si todavía no conoces los mapas antiguos de David Rumsey Map Collection te estás perdiendo un tesoro. https://www.cartografiadigital.es/2014/01/mapas-antiguos.html | Cartografía Digital | Facebook

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The Jacksonville Public Library houses the Lewis Ansbacher Map Collection, a donation of historical maps and prints incorporating the state of Florida. James Brasfield in the Main Library's Special Collections department provides free map tours of the collection by request. To book a tour, contact Special Collections at (904) 255-6195. For more information about the collection or to browse the digital version of it, go here: https://jaxpubliclibrary.org/research/collections/ansbacher-map-collect

The David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University collects & preserves not only maps, atlases, & globes from centuries past, but also artifacts from our more recent era of satellite imagery & digital cartography. | The Long Now Foundation

Title: Composite: Tavola 1-60. (Map of the World) (In Google Earth) Author: Monte (Monti), Urbano, 1544-1613 Collector: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Published: 1587, Milan, Italy “An important and extraordinary manuscript world map drawn up on a north polar projection to form the largest manuscript map of the world at 9 by 9 feet. This map is one of 3 examples extant (2 manuscript, 1 printed) that form the continuum of Urbano Monte's work on his ultimate world map. The other two exampl