John Horrigan Antique Maps
@jhmaps.bsky.social
A wide selection of 18th to 20th century maps - local (Edmonton), regional, & worldwide.
Research, collection advice, presentations, and displays.
Research, collection advice, presentations, and displays.
Reposted by John Horrigan Antique Maps
Rumsey Says #LakeOntario
tinyurl.com/43pxydrs
Not a fan of the ai-on-and-on. The #PubNotes written by humans so much better - concise. Sadly the ai-verbiage has pushed the notes down in the metadata - you can't see them. The "search by text on maps" though is a great way to explore the collection
tinyurl.com/43pxydrs
Not a fan of the ai-on-and-on. The #PubNotes written by humans so much better - concise. Sadly the ai-verbiage has pushed the notes down in the metadata - you can't see them. The "search by text on maps" though is a great way to explore the collection
![[screen capture] of "Lake Ontario" results by search the David Rumsey Map Collection's "Search by text on map" feature. This feature allows users to search the textual information embedded in the map scans that have been georeferenced.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q66r3vy7xepmx62ti4vt7uzb/bafkreifijwoxuh25li6c3p6fiacumbpqfhhe4eikqygc7ztoguvdi7xvju)
August 28, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Rumsey Says #LakeOntario
tinyurl.com/43pxydrs
Not a fan of the ai-on-and-on. The #PubNotes written by humans so much better - concise. Sadly the ai-verbiage has pushed the notes down in the metadata - you can't see them. The "search by text on maps" though is a great way to explore the collection
tinyurl.com/43pxydrs
Not a fan of the ai-on-and-on. The #PubNotes written by humans so much better - concise. Sadly the ai-verbiage has pushed the notes down in the metadata - you can't see them. The "search by text on maps" though is a great way to explore the collection
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#CivilWar [!] #Map of the #WolfRunShoals [!], 1863, an important crossing between North and South, used by both sides. [!]
Also used by #Washington and #Rochambeau on their way to besiege #Yorktown. [!] (1781)
#antiquemaps #maps #milhist #history
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#CivilWar [!] #Map of the #WolfRunShoals [!], 1863, an important crossing between North and South, used by both sides. [!]
Also used by #Washington and #Rochambeau on their way to besiege #Yorktown. [!] (1781)
#antiquemaps #maps #milhist #history
Gallery Item Display (U.S. National Park Service)
Gallery Item Display
www.nps.gov
August 20, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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#CivilWar [!] #Map of the #WolfRunShoals [!], 1863, an important crossing between North and South, used by both sides. [!]
Also used by #Washington and #Rochambeau on their way to besiege #Yorktown. [!] (1781)
#antiquemaps #maps #milhist #history
Took us 1/2 hour to unpack this SPARSE entry.
#CivilWar [!] #Map of the #WolfRunShoals [!], 1863, an important crossing between North and South, used by both sides. [!]
Also used by #Washington and #Rochambeau on their way to besiege #Yorktown. [!] (1781)
#antiquemaps #maps #milhist #history
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"eye of faith and a little imagination"
#Africa 1923. End of a hot day. Tired #surveyors want to go back to base camp. To finish a map they quickly add an #elephant shaped #contour (hill) on the NW corner, Sheet 17, Africa (Gold Coast) #British 1:62,500 #map series.
tinyurl.com/y9wbzk7k #colonialism
#Africa 1923. End of a hot day. Tired #surveyors want to go back to base camp. To finish a map they quickly add an #elephant shaped #contour (hill) on the NW corner, Sheet 17, Africa (Gold Coast) #British 1:62,500 #map series.
tinyurl.com/y9wbzk7k #colonialism
July 28, 2026 at 6:02 PM
"eye of faith and a little imagination"
#Africa 1923. End of a hot day. Tired #surveyors want to go back to base camp. To finish a map they quickly add an #elephant shaped #contour (hill) on the NW corner, Sheet 17, Africa (Gold Coast) #British 1:62,500 #map series.
tinyurl.com/y9wbzk7k #colonialism
#Africa 1923. End of a hot day. Tired #surveyors want to go back to base camp. To finish a map they quickly add an #elephant shaped #contour (hill) on the NW corner, Sheet 17, Africa (Gold Coast) #British 1:62,500 #map series.
tinyurl.com/y9wbzk7k #colonialism
#Napoleon threatens #Vienna (UR) at the end of the #War of the First Coalition. Sheet 5 of 30(!) sheet #map of #Italy, sold by early subscription 1797-1803 for 144 francs net. (3x10 #maps)
Bacler d’Albe: prolific artist & mapmaker; dir. Dépôt de la #Guerre; Emperor's closest advisor.
Bacler d’Albe: prolific artist & mapmaker; dir. Dépôt de la #Guerre; Emperor's closest advisor.
June 29, 2026 at 8:21 AM
We'll be at The Military Collectors Club of Canada convention next Saturday (June 27) at the #EdmontonInn from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
We'll have maps from #FWW, #WW2, and more.
If you’re into #milhist, #collecting, or just like seeing cool old stuff, please stop by.
#maps #antiquemaps
We'll have maps from #FWW, #WW2, and more.
If you’re into #milhist, #collecting, or just like seeing cool old stuff, please stop by.
#maps #antiquemaps
June 21, 2026 at 6:38 PM
We'll be at The Military Collectors Club of Canada convention next Saturday (June 27) at the #EdmontonInn from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
We'll have maps from #FWW, #WW2, and more.
If you’re into #milhist, #collecting, or just like seeing cool old stuff, please stop by.
#maps #antiquemaps
We'll have maps from #FWW, #WW2, and more.
If you’re into #milhist, #collecting, or just like seeing cool old stuff, please stop by.
#maps #antiquemaps
County atlases were sold by subscription. If you paid a little more, you could have your portrait, residence, or business featured. This _ #Atlas of the Counties of #Frontenac, #Lennox, and #Addington, #Ontario_ is full of dour Scots and impossibly neat farms.
#maps #antiquemaps #Kingston #history
#maps #antiquemaps #Kingston #history
June 18, 2026 at 5:22 PM
County atlases were sold by subscription. If you paid a little more, you could have your portrait, residence, or business featured. This _ #Atlas of the Counties of #Frontenac, #Lennox, and #Addington, #Ontario_ is full of dour Scots and impossibly neat farms.
#maps #antiquemaps #Kingston #history
#maps #antiquemaps #Kingston #history
Unsigned Stanley Turner, "Strategic #War #Map", June 1941.
Sponsored by #Westinghouse for the #Canadian home front.
#MilitaryHistory #WWII #WW2 #History #cartography
Sponsored by #Westinghouse for the #Canadian home front.
#MilitaryHistory #WWII #WW2 #History #cartography
May 29, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Unsigned Stanley Turner, "Strategic #War #Map", June 1941.
Sponsored by #Westinghouse for the #Canadian home front.
#MilitaryHistory #WWII #WW2 #History #cartography
Sponsored by #Westinghouse for the #Canadian home front.
#MilitaryHistory #WWII #WW2 #History #cartography
"Picture #Map of #Mexico." Map & illustrations by Janet Smalley & Jeanne McLavy; text by Mary Lago. 38x48"
Pub'd 1951 by Friendship Press, the publishing arm of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA.
Rare! Only 2 on OCLC & no dealer listings.
#maps #missionary #Evangelical
Pub'd 1951 by Friendship Press, the publishing arm of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA.
Rare! Only 2 on OCLC & no dealer listings.
#maps #missionary #Evangelical
May 25, 2026 at 12:34 AM
"Picture #Map of #Mexico." Map & illustrations by Janet Smalley & Jeanne McLavy; text by Mary Lago. 38x48"
Pub'd 1951 by Friendship Press, the publishing arm of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA.
Rare! Only 2 on OCLC & no dealer listings.
#maps #missionary #Evangelical
Pub'd 1951 by Friendship Press, the publishing arm of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA.
Rare! Only 2 on OCLC & no dealer listings.
#maps #missionary #Evangelical
#Map of #Sicily showing salt mines, salt pans, and sulphur deposits. c. 1901
#antiquemap #maps #Italy
#antiquemap #maps #Italy
May 20, 2026 at 8:03 PM
#Map of #Sicily showing salt mines, salt pans, and sulphur deposits. c. 1901
#antiquemap #maps #Italy
#antiquemap #maps #Italy
" #Map of the Asiatic Part of #USSR." (Moscow, 1935)
Pre-war #Soviet #Asia includes the #Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobijan ( #Birobidzhan), a divided #Sakhalin Island, and the Republic of #Tuva.
A Stalinist map in English! ???
#antiquemap #maps
Pre-war #Soviet #Asia includes the #Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobijan ( #Birobidzhan), a divided #Sakhalin Island, and the Republic of #Tuva.
A Stalinist map in English! ???
#antiquemap #maps
May 18, 2026 at 7:26 PM
" #Map of the Asiatic Part of #USSR." (Moscow, 1935)
Pre-war #Soviet #Asia includes the #Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobijan ( #Birobidzhan), a divided #Sakhalin Island, and the Republic of #Tuva.
A Stalinist map in English! ???
#antiquemap #maps
Pre-war #Soviet #Asia includes the #Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobijan ( #Birobidzhan), a divided #Sakhalin Island, and the Republic of #Tuva.
A Stalinist map in English! ???
#antiquemap #maps
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#Map of #Greece and vicinity, showing the classical #geography of the #Greeks, according to #Homer and #Hesiod. Published in Firenze by V. Batelli e Compagni, 1842. Shows the travels of the #Argonauts and #Ulysses #Homer #Odysseus #Odyssey #OdysseyMaps
www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet...
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May 7, 2026 at 11:18 PM
#Map of #Greece and vicinity, showing the classical #geography of the #Greeks, according to #Homer and #Hesiod. Published in Firenze by V. Batelli e Compagni, 1842. Shows the travels of the #Argonauts and #Ulysses #Homer #Odysseus #Odyssey #OdysseyMaps
www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet...
www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet...
Welcoming comments on where this fits in the #historiography. Definitely not a general
#history of the #war.
Should it have the subtitle: The Soviet Takeover of the Republican Cause ?
Not disputing his conclusions but it's a *lot* more focused than I expected.
#HistBookChat #MilitaryHistory #Spain
#history of the #war.
Should it have the subtitle: The Soviet Takeover of the Republican Cause ?
Not disputing his conclusions but it's a *lot* more focused than I expected.
#HistBookChat #MilitaryHistory #Spain
May 4, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Welcoming comments on where this fits in the #historiography. Definitely not a general
#history of the #war.
Should it have the subtitle: The Soviet Takeover of the Republican Cause ?
Not disputing his conclusions but it's a *lot* more focused than I expected.
#HistBookChat #MilitaryHistory #Spain
#history of the #war.
Should it have the subtitle: The Soviet Takeover of the Republican Cause ?
Not disputing his conclusions but it's a *lot* more focused than I expected.
#HistBookChat #MilitaryHistory #Spain
_ #Polar Regions Including British North America &c._ 1829.
Shows the results of Franklin's overland journeys along the Coppermine and Mackenzie Rivers as well as Parry and Ross's early work further north.
#MapMonday #antiquemaps #maps #Canada
Shows the results of Franklin's overland journeys along the Coppermine and Mackenzie Rivers as well as Parry and Ross's early work further north.
#MapMonday #antiquemaps #maps #Canada
April 27, 2026 at 7:01 PM
_ #Polar Regions Including British North America &c._ 1829.
Shows the results of Franklin's overland journeys along the Coppermine and Mackenzie Rivers as well as Parry and Ross's early work further north.
#MapMonday #antiquemaps #maps #Canada
Shows the results of Franklin's overland journeys along the Coppermine and Mackenzie Rivers as well as Parry and Ross's early work further north.
#MapMonday #antiquemaps #maps #Canada
A double-hemisphere map of the world, c.1770, shows a poorly understood #Australia/ Micronesia, De Fonte's mythical #NWPassage, and a misaligned #Japan.
#maps #antiquemaps #mappemonde
#maps #antiquemaps #mappemonde
April 22, 2026 at 3:40 PM
A double-hemisphere map of the world, c.1770, shows a poorly understood #Australia/ Micronesia, De Fonte's mythical #NWPassage, and a misaligned #Japan.
#maps #antiquemaps #mappemonde
#maps #antiquemaps #mappemonde
"Humboldt’s Distribution of Plants in Equinoctial America, According to Elevation Above the Level of the Sea." 1840.
Repro of Humboldt's influential 1805 chart comparing elevation with plant species on Ecuador's, Mount #Chimborazo. #maps #antiquemaps #botany
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/pion...
Repro of Humboldt's influential 1805 chart comparing elevation with plant species on Ecuador's, Mount #Chimborazo. #maps #antiquemaps #botany
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/pion...
April 22, 2026 at 3:31 PM
"Humboldt’s Distribution of Plants in Equinoctial America, According to Elevation Above the Level of the Sea." 1840.
Repro of Humboldt's influential 1805 chart comparing elevation with plant species on Ecuador's, Mount #Chimborazo. #maps #antiquemaps #botany
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/pion...
Repro of Humboldt's influential 1805 chart comparing elevation with plant species on Ecuador's, Mount #Chimborazo. #maps #antiquemaps #botany
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/pion...
April 4, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Van Langren's estimate of longitude vs. those of his predecessors. Google says the correct distance is 177 to 180 German miles.
#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
📅Mar, 1628 [no day] Michael Florent van Langren presented the FIRST STATISTICAL GRAPH, in a letter to Isabella of Spain [Friendly-etal:2010]
A simple 1D dot plot, showing the 'extravagent errors' in estimates of longitude
👀 bit.ly/3DXaBZJ for the story
📅Mar, 1628 [no day] Michael Florent van Langren presented the FIRST STATISTICAL GRAPH, in a letter to Isabella of Spain [Friendly-etal:2010]
A simple 1D dot plot, showing the 'extravagent errors' in estimates of longitude
👀 bit.ly/3DXaBZJ for the story
April 2, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Van Langren's estimate of longitude vs. those of his predecessors. Google says the correct distance is 177 to 180 German miles.
Details of the #StraitofHormuz from the "Geological Map of #SaudiArabia. I-270A, 1963.
Produced by the #USGS and the Arabian American Oil Company ( #Aramco ), sponsored by the Saudi Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources.
#antiquemaps #maps #Iran
Produced by the #USGS and the Arabian American Oil Company ( #Aramco ), sponsored by the Saudi Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources.
#antiquemaps #maps #Iran
March 28, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Details of the #StraitofHormuz from the "Geological Map of #SaudiArabia. I-270A, 1963.
Produced by the #USGS and the Arabian American Oil Company ( #Aramco ), sponsored by the Saudi Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources.
#antiquemaps #maps #Iran
Produced by the #USGS and the Arabian American Oil Company ( #Aramco ), sponsored by the Saudi Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources.
#antiquemaps #maps #Iran
A rare copy of Vergil’s _Anglica Historia_, with 4 ms. maps has come on the market. Previously owned by #QueenMary, "...the book and its #maps are perhaps the most significant artifact of #Tudor intellectual history still in private hands."
#antiquemaps
#antiquemaps
Rare Atlas Owned by Queen Mary I Could Sell for $1.6 Million
When a savvy book dealer bought an atlas that Queen Mary I of England once owned, they weren't expecting to find the first maps of Britain.
news.artnet.com
March 21, 2026 at 6:36 PM
A rare copy of Vergil’s _Anglica Historia_, with 4 ms. maps has come on the market. Previously owned by #QueenMary, "...the book and its #maps are perhaps the most significant artifact of #Tudor intellectual history still in private hands."
#antiquemaps
#antiquemaps
When #SherwoodPark was tiny. I always found the street naming system maddeningly vague: birds, the letter G, trees, the letter V... #antiquemaps #maps #ShPk #Strathco #YEG
March 21, 2026 at 9:01 AM
When #SherwoodPark was tiny. I always found the street naming system maddeningly vague: birds, the letter G, trees, the letter V... #antiquemaps #maps #ShPk #Strathco #YEG
Love the way the old 170th St. overpass is shown on this 1982 #map by the #Edmonton Real Estate Board. The overpass came down a few years after this and traffic entering the city was routed down 100 Ave. #antiquemaps #YEG
March 19, 2026 at 6:04 AM
Love the way the old 170th St. overpass is shown on this 1982 #map by the #Edmonton Real Estate Board. The overpass came down a few years after this and traffic entering the city was routed down 100 Ave. #antiquemaps #YEG
