Saleroom assistant Syd Drew was handling the 1573 map with care after it was bought for £1900. Cathy Marsden, book specialist at Lyon & Turnbull, said: “De Jode’s atlas was not a financial ...

Yet, continued use of blind representations of old colonial boundaries causes us to misread the reality on the ground in many African states and overestimate their empirical effectiveness. The ...

Most might recognize the old map from faded school textbooks ... Greenland should be 14 times smaller than Africa and three times smaller than Australia, whilst Alaska appears three times larger than ...