Illustration from a Tacuinum Sanitatis, 14th century {via taf-art}
Handwritten tables. From the back matter of Epitome of the Art of Navigation: or, A Short, Easy, and Methodical Way to Become a Compleat Navigator by James Atkinson and William Mountaine (1765). (via theartofgooglebooks)
IWW Poster from the University of Washington collection. {via myimaginarybrooklyn}
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{Manuscripts as maps}
A manuscript page from Yves Bonnefoy’s poem “Ce qui fut sans lumiére.” {via theparisreview}
Tear. From p. 10 of Iohn Huighen Van Linschoten, His Discours of Voyages Into Ye Easte [and] West Indies: Deuided Into Foure Bookes by Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1598). Original from the Complutense University of Madrid. Digitized February 10, 2009. (via theartofgooglebooks)