Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas by Battista Agnese, included wind heads—illustrations of human faces with puffed cheeks to indicate wind directions. Initially ...

More than structural necessities, these endpapers serve as prime real estate for maps, engravings and illustrations, particularly in children’s books. The end of A.A. Milne’s The World of Pooh ...

Piri Reis succeeded in producing a detailed and considerably accurate depiction of the coastline and islands of the newly discovered regions of the world and formed a circular map designed on a ...

More than structural necessities, these endpapers serve as prime real estate for maps, engravings and illustrations, particularly in children’s books. The end of A.A. Milne’s The World of Pooh ...