Maps, Globes, Atlases and Geographies through the Year 1800: The Eleanor Houston and Lawrence M. C. Smith Cartographic Collection at the Smith Cartographic Center, University of Southern Maine

Abstract

In the seventeenth century, Robert Burton wrote in his Anato my of Melancholy that a study of maps was a good antidote for melancholy: ((What greater pleasure can there now be, than to view those elaborate maps of Ortelius, Mercator, Hondius, &c.? To peruse those books of cities put out by Braunus and Hogen bergius? " What, indeed? This catalogue then may be your guide to travel at the lowest price and least discomfort to that new world contained within these maps.