The Vatican & the adjoining districts of Rome with Castel Sant’ Angelo on a detailed, informative & beautifully presented street plan from Gizi Map with additional plans of Saint Peter’s, the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel, the grotto with papal tombs, etc. The street plan is drawn at 1:2, 250 with exceptional clarity & attention to detail not often found on present day maps, & covers the whole of the Vatican City, extending along both banks of the Tiber beyond Castel Sant’ Angelo to Piazza Cavour. Streets with bus services show both line numbers & stops. The plan also shows locations of hotels indicating their star rating. Both within the Vatican & in the rest of the plan individual important buildings & churches are named. The plan also names various sections of St Peter’s & Vatican’s famous museums, indicating locations of several important treasures, the Pietá, the School of Athens, etc. Further information is provided on three separate panels showing in great detail the interior of the basilica, the ceiling & the walls of the Sistine Chapel, plus the grottoes with papal tombs & the necropolis below. Names of buildings, churches, etc, are given in both Italian & English (even if in some cases the translations may be unnecessary or quirky). Names of popes, panels in Michelangelo’s ceiling, etc, are in English. Multilingual map legend is in English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Polish & Hungarian. Rome’s historic centre within the city’s old walls is shown on a separate street plan at 1:30, 000 indicating the seven hills, locations of the ancient sites, important churches & other buildings, metro lines & stations, etc. An additional panel on the map cover shows a road map of the environs of Rome, including both international airports & access to the Pope’s summer residence in Castel Gandolfo.A beautiful, thoughtfully designed map not just for visitors to Rome but also for anyone who is interested in art or history, or simply needs to be persuaded that digitalization has not ruined cartographic skills in map publishing. Please note: this title is also available, to order only, as a wall map. ...

The Vatican & the adjoining districts of Rome with Castel Sant’ Angelo on a detailed, informative & beautifully presented wall map, size 98 x 67.5cm (39” x 27.5” approx), from Gizi Map with additional plans of Saint Peter’s, the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel, the grotto with papal tombs, etc. The street plan is drawn at 1:2, 250 with exceptional clarity & attention to detail not often found on present day maps, & covers the whole of the Vatican City, extending along both banks of the Tiber beyond Castel Sant’ Angelo to Piazza Cavour. Streets with bus services show both line numbers & stops. The plan also shows locations of hotels indicating their star rating. Both within the Vatican & in the rest of the plan individual important buildings & churches are named. The plan also names various sections of St Peter’s & Vatican’s famous museums, indicating locations of several important treasures, the Pietá, the School of Athens, etc. Further information is provided on three separate panels showing in great detail the interior of the basilica, the ceiling & the walls of the Sistine Chapel, plus the grottoes with papal tombs & the necropolis below. Names of buildings, churches, etc, are given in both Italian & English (even if in some cases the translations may be unnecessary or quirky). Names of popes, panels in Michelangelo’s ceiling, etc, are in English. Multilingual map legend is in English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Polish & Hungarian. Rome’s historic centre within the city’s old walls is shown on a separate street plan at 1:30, 000 indicating the seven hills, locations of the ancient sites, important churches & other buildings, metro lines & stations, etc. An additional panel on the map cover shows a road map of the environs of Rome, including both international airports & access to the Pope’s summer residence in Castel Gandolfo.A beautiful, thoughtfully designed map not just for visitors to Rome but also for anyone who is interested in art or history, or simply needs to be persuaded that digitalization has not ruined cartographic skills in map publishing. Please note: this title is also available as a folded map. ...

Vatican City presented by Freytag & Berndt in a pocket map at 1:2, 500 with a multilingual guide on the reverse side, plus maps of areas around three other famous Rome churches: San Giovanni in Laterano, San Paolo Fuori le Mura & Santa Maria Maggiore. On one side is a plan of the Vatican City with the surrounding streets around St. Peter’s Square & the Cipro-Musei Vaticani metro station. The plan (and the plans of the other three churches) is an enlargement from mapping prepared at a smaller scale, so all street & place names are large & easy to read. The plan is annotated with numbers referring to various recommendations on listed on the reverse side. On the reverse five panels in 10 languages, including English, present recommendations for sights, culture, shopping, eating & nightlife (both religious & the other type) in & around the Vatican. Three large insets shows Rome’s other famous churches: San Giovanni in Laterano, San Paolo Fuori le Mura & Santa Maria Maggiore. All the plans are indexed. Also provided are a diagram of Rome’s metro network & a very generalized small plan of the city showing locations of main sights. ...

One of the titles in the 1:50, 000 topographic survey of Icel&. The series is not complete. So far 102 maps have been published, out of the total of 199, with the north-west & the east of the country not yet covered. The series has been compiled from aerial photography & has contours at 20m intervals. The maps do not give as much information on the type of the terrain & land use as the 1:100, 000 series, but the cartography

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Features: hot & cold springs & wells, streams graded by width, etc. Each map covers an area of Approx. 23 x 28 km / 14 x 17 miles. The maps have a UTM grid, with margin ticks showing latitude & longitude in steps of 5'. Map legend

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Vatnsdalur, map no. 10, in the topographic survey of Iceland at 1:100, 000 published by Mál og menning, with excellent, vivid presentation of the terrain, footpaths & bridleways, campsites, etc. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by bold relief shading plus colouring and/or graphics to show glaciers, lava fields, sands & mudflats, as well as to distinguish land with vegetation cover from the more sparsely covered terrain. The series provides a splendid presentation of the country’s topography, with large amount of detail & over 43, 000 place names. Road network indicates gravel roads &

Includes:: country tracks. Also marked are local footpaths, clear to see with their distinctive colouring, & bridleways. Symbols shows campsites, tourist huts or shelters, emergency shelters, summer houses, river fords, golf courses & swimming pools, hydro-electric or thermal power stations, local airports, etc, & detail such as individual farms, abandoned farms or ruins, sheepfolds, etc. Each map covers an area of 84 x 67km (53 x 42 miles approx.) & has latitude & longitude lines drawn at intervals of 2’ & 5’ respectively. Map legend

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A classic French globe stand in a rich & perfect match of ebonized wood & bronze. Solid & still fragile, elegant & imposingly present. Complicated `gravure` printing process has been replicated to result in the sharpest lines, words & symbols, Choose from three cartographers: maps are from the 16th, 17th & 18th C. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

14 cm globe- colour. Even history & science can be playful. A “must” classic in stark graphic line-art & executed in various sizes. Spheres are after all home décor pur-sang, & what better sphere than the antique world. Easy to keep on eye level & to follow Magellan & other early heroes of exploration. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

14 cm globe- cream. Even history & science can be playful. A “must” classic in stark graphic line-art & executed in various sizes. Spheres are after all home décor pur-sang, & what better sphere than the antique world. Easy to keep on eye level & to follow Magellan & other early heroes of exploration. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

Father, Gilles Robert de Vaugondy, & son, Didier Robert de Vaugondy, were the leading mapmakers in France during the 1700s. Didier was appointed geographer to Louis XV in 1760 & published globes of various sizes, the biggest with a diameter of 2.6m, 8.5. The charming size of this globe conveys the same historical detail as our larger globe models. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

14 cm globe- black. Even history & science can be playful. A “must” classic in stark graphic line-art & executed in various sizes. Spheres are after all home décor pur-sang, & what better sphere than the antique world. Easy to keep on eye level & to follow Magellan & other early heroes of exploration. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...