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ANTIQUE MAPS SPRING 2018 NEWSLETTER AND JUNE LONDON MAP FAIR
I hope everyone is well and those of you in the Northern Hemisphere are enjoying spring. The dates for the excellent London Map Fair 2018 are Saturday the 9th and Sunday the 10th of June and it will take place … Continue reading
NAGALAND INDIA .. FROM HEADHUNTERS TO BAPTISTS
Flying to Dibrugarh Airport in Assam took us over the devastating flooding of the Brahmaputra river, India’s only ‘male’ river ..pretty as it looked from the air, with the sun glistening on the water, underneath were 500,000 acres of destroyed … Continue reading
MUNSTER’S RARE EARLY MAP OF THE AMERICAS 1552
RARE MAP OF THE AMERICAS EXCELLENT CONDITION PRINTED BASEL 1552 LE MONDE DE NOUVEAU..LES TABLES DES ISLES NEUFUES.. This map of the New World is often credited with popularizing the name America due to the popularity of Munster’s Cosmographia and … Continue reading
MICHAEL JENNINGS ANTIQUE MAPS CHRISTMAS NEWSLETTER 2017
First I wish everyone a Happy Christmas and a Great 2018. If you are stuck for an interesting Christmas present I have added many interesting and affordable maps to my website that can be sent in time for Christmas. An … Continue reading
KASHMIR PARADISE ON EARTH ?
It was a two day drive from Manali to Srinigar, and most of the second day we were driving in Kashmir on the heavily guarded N1, with tanks, police machine gun posts and truck loads of Indian soldiers on permanent … Continue reading
Michael Jennings Antique Maps Autumn Newsletter
I hope everyone had a great Summer.. and are surviving what we call here in France La Rentree | the post holiday back to work blues. Below are some new not too expensive maps. I realised the other day that … Continue reading
FOOTHILLS OF THE HIMALAYAS , SIMLA AND MANALI
The drive from Haridwar to Simla or Shimla looked a short distance on the map but as with most of Indian roads it took longer than planned. Slow means more interesting though, and 5 minutes spent in a traffic jam … Continue reading
