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More Tips for the Novice Map Collector . . . There's lots of advantages to collecting small. Yes I do mean literally 'small' not just a smaller budget. For one thing you don't have a problem with storage space. You can amount frame and provide wall space easily with a collection of smaller maps, Health Warning! It's also less of a shock for your partner when they return home from shopping only to discover that large map now taking pride of place on your office wall or even the lounge wall! Only to be asked "How much did you pay for that thing?".
Above: Terre De Iesso (Hokkaido) Japan by Alain Manesson Mallet c1683. This from Volume 1 of the French text edition published by Johann David Zunner 1684. The plates engraved for Zunner are close copies of the originals and still have French titles and names. A few are signed by there engravers: J.P. Aubrey, Johann J. Vogel and W.C. Daucher. Info Link: Japan by Mallet
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