Entries tagged #cartography on Unique.https://unique.rzen.dev/en-ushttps://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/edward-quin-historical-atlas/https://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/edward-quin-historical-atlas/Edward Quin's posthumous 1830 atlas draws everything a given age had not yet found as a mass of engraved black cloud that recedes across twenty-one plates — plus a second, flat olive tint that never lifts at all.Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThistorymapscartographyengraving19th-centurypublic-domainaquatinthttps://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/agloe-paper-town/https://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/agloe-paper-town/The paper town Otto G. Lindberg and Ernest Alpers planted on a 1920s Esso map to catch plagiarists — and what the record does and does not support about what happened next.Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThistorymapscartographycopyrightcuriositycatskillshttps://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/david-rumsey-map-collection/https://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/david-rumsey-map-collection/A free, openly browsable archive of more than 149,000 historical maps — part of a 200,000-item collection now donated to Stanford — with an AI-assisted search that reaches past titles and dates into the maps themselves, plus georeferencing tools and orderable prints.Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThistorymapsarchivecartographyhistorypublic-domain