{"id":1812216,"date":"2023-01-30T07:25:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T12:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1812216"},"modified":"2023-01-30T07:25:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T12:25:23","slug":"a-kickstarter-project-to-rediscover-19th-century-atlases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/01\/a-kickstarter-project-to-rediscover-19th-century-atlases\/","title":{"rendered":"A Kickstarter Project to Rediscover 19th-Century Atlases"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alejandro Polanco\u2019s latest Kickstarter, Geography 1880<\/em><\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0is in the vein of some of his previous ones: restoring and reprinting works from the late 19th century. This time he\u2019s looking to create an anthology of maps from family and school atlases of the era.<\/p>\n

The idea is to give shape to a new atlas that brings together maps forgotten in time that were once enjoyed again and again, by the light of a fire or gas lamps, from the great era of family atlases. To this end, I am undertaking a process of scanning the atlases of the period between 1860 and 1900 that I have in my library. Alongside this material, the book includes maps from various map libraries around the world (from USA, Spain, UK and Germany), with the corresponding attribution. All this forms an atlas full of authentic 19th century works of art that I hope will spark the imagination of my backers just as it was in the 1880s. Alongside the maps and illustrations of the period, my descriptive commentaries include details of the graphic styles, cartographers and geographical curiosities that appear on each page.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hardcover, softcover and PDF versions will be produced, the hardcover in a 100-copy limited edition that has already been spoken for.<\/p>\n

Previously: A Project to Restore a 19th-Century Treatise on Hand-drawn Mapping<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alejandro Polanco\u2019s latest Kickstarter, Geography 1880,\u00a0is in the vein of some of his previous ones: restoring and reprinting works from the late 19th century. This time he\u2019s looking to create an anthology of maps from… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[148,30,917,104],"class_list":["post-1812216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-atlas","tag-books","tag-crowdfunding","tag-kickstarter","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1820009,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/11\/astronomy-atlas-1899-a-new-kickstarter-project\/","url_meta":{"origin":1812216,"position":0},"title":"Astronomy Atlas 1899: A New Kickstarter Project","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"12 November 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"Alejandro Polanco\u2019s latest Kickstarter project, Astronomy Atlas 1899, does for 19th-century astronomy atlases what his previous Geography 1880 project did for school atlases of the era: create an anthology of the best maps, drawings and diagrams from the books available to him. 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