Beck’s 1938 Passenger Map, No. 1 Printed Area Measurement_28 x 36 cm

Beck’s 1938 Passenger Map, No. 1 Printed Area Measurement_28 x 36 cmBecks 1938 passenger map features on its reverse an enlargement of the central London area with interchange stations named inside large diamonds. This is the last of Becks prewar card folders. The diagram is one of the most innovative and influential designs of the twentieth century. Becks design was first published in 1933, and he remained directly associated with the map until 1960 except for a short period when responsibility for revising and

from Matteo Pagano’s magnificent 21 sheet wall map

Cowesfield

This map of Udrone from is the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri

Title page

it disappeared before it could be mapped by later explorers

[Arrianou Peri Anabaseos Alexandrou historion biblia 8] Arriani (qui alter Xenophon vocatus fuit) De expedit

et ex variis auctoribus a multibus erroribus expurgata

The 16th century translation is by the Parisian scholar Joannes Curterius (possibly Jean Courtier

painted on vehicles for swift recognition

particularly during the ‘scramble’ for Africa

5 cm diameter hole in the scale

additional allegorical title-page engraved by Frans van Bleyswyk