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This is a fantastic resource, thank you. I really enjoy these old hand-drawn maps. I've collected a few myself, including a German map of the north coast of BC,
by cgh 7y ago
This is a fantastic resource, thank you. I really enjoy these old hand-drawn maps. I've collected a few myself, including a German map of the north coast of BC, Alaska and eastern Russia, including Kamchatka, unfortunately undated but I believe it's pre-sale of Alaska to the US. It's primarily an ethnographic map made for the "Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie", or Journal of Ethnology, which I guess was a German anthropological journal. The various Inuit groups are represented in different colours.
Another nice one is labeled "Polar Regions of British Nth America" and is principally of Canada. It dates from 1839 and shows Devon Island connected to Greenland, amongst other inaccuracies. It's beautifully drawn and quite small, perhaps 20 cm a side.
- mcguire 7y ago"It's primarily an ethnographic map made for the "Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie", or Journal of Ethnology, which I guess was a German anthropological journal." Still is, I think. https://www.dgska.de/zeitschrift-fuer-ethnologie/ https://www.dgska.de/zeitschrift-fuer-ethnologie/
- germinalphrase 7y agoDid you purchase these maps from a specialty shop, a dealer, or just grubbing around at flea markets?
- cgh 7y agoYears ago, there was a map shop in Vancouver that sold a small collection of old maps. I managed to snag a few before it inevitably went out of business.