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170x120mm. Mann's Cottage on Gwavas road, Newlyn. The last thatched cottage in Newlyn. Burnt down in 1938

Photograph of a double photograph pinned to a wall ,with old Reservoir Wall and cottages

Mannell's had another shop in Caldwells Road Pz

Manuscript pages from John Ralfs Manuscript 'Flora of West Cornwall' pages 236. stored in Artwork and Archive neg Catalogue.
NO NEGATIVE OR PRINT

Slide is labelled "The World according to Cosmas, with the walls and arch of Heaven. Above the Creator surveying his works. The rising and setting sun are moving round the mountain in the north."

A copy of a 6th century map by Cosmas, showing the known world, centred on the Mediterranean Sea. It includes the Nile, Tigris and Euphrates and also the Arabian and Persian Gulfs.
The slide is labelled "The Cosmas Map"

Map of Europe and the Mediterranean, showing sites of principal ancient mines.

Map of Jamaica several negs.

Hand drawn and illustrated map of Matthew Paris' journey in the 13th century from London to Apulia. This image is a single page detailing part of Italy.
Paris created a number of expanded road maps known as itineraries, which detail the routes…

Overview

Map of Roman Cornwall showing discovered coin sites.

Part of Ordnance Survey Map showing the area around Bickleigh and Yelverton.
Slide is annotated "Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey Map with the sanction of the Controller of HM stationery Office"

An illustrated map of the world entitled "The World according to Hecataeus BC 500." The world is shown as a disc encircled by oceans. The coastline on the slide has been high-lighted with a thick pen.

Map of the world by Herman Moll (c. 1654-1732),
one of the most important London mapmakers in the first half of the eighteenth century.
The earth is split into 2 hemispheres and illustrates the known world. Coastlines of the southern hemisphere…

Map of the world by Eratosthenes - 200 B.C..

Map showing distribution of Spirals in Great Britain and Irealand.

Detail of Map 82, sheet 20