9 Sep 2024
For our new series of #mapmonstermonday, we're offering this 1595 [but 1596] map of the East Indies.
The map records information from Marco Polo's travels, including the “beach provincia auriferain”, where the northwest coast of Australia would eventually be discovered.
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27 Nov 2023
The closer you look, the more you see! Elephants, monkeys, deer and sea monsters spotted on a 1706 world map by Joseph Da Costa E Miranda. #MappyMonday #MapMonsterMonday
Here's a video on how we digitised this map: ow.ly/lGHF50QblZc
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11 Sep 2023
For #MapMonsterMonday, here’s a #map I drew for The Drinnglennin Chronicles series. 🐉
How many #mapmonsters can you count?
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7 Aug 2023
It's #mapmonstermonday - so here we have some lovely sea monsters from 'Duchetti’s Cyprus', [Published in Venice, 1570].
A map of Cyprus from Claudio Duchetti’s composite atlas.
#cyprus #maps #raremaps #mapmonster #seamonster crouchrarebooks.com/maps/duc…
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Bonus for #MapMonsterMonday: there's a lot going on in the upper right corner including a dragon, a monkey(?), and a scorpion-wielding woman with an elephant trunk coming out of her head!
ALT Detail showing torso of woman. She's holding a scorpion in her hand and an elephant trunk is coming out of the top of her head and curving around. An elephant stands in front of a mountain in the background
ALT Detail showing a dragon
ALT Detail showing a monkey or ape
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22 May 2023
For #MapMonsterMonday, enjoy the beasts of Verbiest. This is the 1860 pull of the 1674 original (@RGS_IBG mr World 276). #maps
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15 May 2023
#MapMonsterMonday
"Italia..."
Author: Hendrik Hondius (1597-1651)
Publisher: Johannes Janssonius (1588-1664)
Published: Amsterdam, 1644
lovelyantiqueprints.com/sear…
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17 Apr 2023
🐟Today’s #MapMonsterMonday sees a creature making its way up Cardigan Bay towards Barmouth.
🗺️Map of ‘Merionethshire described 1610’ by John Speed
🔗viewer.library.wales/1445694……
ALT Map of ‘Merionethshire described 1610’ by John Speed
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27 Mar 2023
That Monday morning after the clocks go forward feeling.... #MapMonsterMonday
ALT drawing of map monster, with long tail, furry crest down back and mane.
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13 Mar 2023
Hier das kleine Dreieck ist #Helgoland. Die ganze Insel drumrum ist hinfort.
mprove.de/chrono?m=DK77602&d…
#mapmonstermonday @baakenwerder
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20 Feb 2023
🐟Cardigan Bay seems full of mysterious creatures according to John Speed’s map of ‘Cardigan Shyre’. We can confirm no sightings here in Aberystwyth today!
#MapMonsterMonday
🔗viewer.library.wales/1445650…
ALT Map of 'Cardigan Shyre' by John Speed
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Love is in the air! 💕 Even among the #MapMonsters and merpeople on this ~1638 #map of Africa. #MapMonsterMonday #Valentine bit.ly/3DERgZV
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30 Jan 2023
Taking the nautical theme a little too far on #MapMonsterMonday as we head for @hielandcoo 'Beyond The Farther Shore' @ccfest And @SessionA9 too!! 🕺💃 🌊
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30 Jan 2023
Today is #MapMonsterMonday (who knew that was a thing??) so we're sharing this little guy found lurking off the coast of Sutherland on Abraham Ortelius 16th century Scotiae Tabula.
From @CRC_EdUni collections on @Europeanaeu
europeana.eu/en/item/9200274… CC BY.
ALT Illustration of a sea monster from a 16th century map of Scotland. CC BY, University of Edinburgh.
ALT Abraham Ortelius 16th century Scotiae Tabula, map of Scotland. CC BY, University of Edinburgh.
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30 Jan 2023
This #MapMonsterMonday we bring you this stunning illustration of land and sea creatures of the Northern regions by Sebastian Münster, from Cosmographiae universalis, 1552.
Which is your favourite?
ALT coloured illustration of sea monsters, from Sebastian Munster's Cosmographiae universalis. 1552
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This #MapMonster from John Seller’s ~1672 world #map looks like it was taken out of Avatar: The Way of Water 🌊 bit.ly/3y5zVFC #MapMonsterMonday
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Breaking News: 2023 officially declared the year of the #MapMonster 😈 bit.ly/3VpGxIL #MapMonsterMonday
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