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![[Anonymous], ΧΑΡΤΗς ΤΗς ΜΕΔΒΑς [Map of Medaba]. [Jerusalem, ca. late 1897-1900?]](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BRM3136-Madaba-map_lowres-150x150.jpg)
A rare and lovely manuscript based on the famed Madaba Map. One of the most spectacular cartographic relics of the ancient world, this enormous sixth-century mosaic floor map includes the earliest extant map of the Holy Land. Created in the late seventh century, the mammoth mosaic of the Middle East now known as the Madaba Map […]
![[Anonymous]. Devizes Prison BLOCK PLAN. [No place, ca. latter part 19th century.]](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/BRM3391-Devizes-Prison_lowres-150x150.jpg)
Fascinating 19th-century manuscript architectural plan of a Wiltshire prison on a revolutionary design, owing a debt to Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon. Devizes Prison (properly Devizes County House of Corrections or colloquially “New Bridewell”) was designed by Richard Ingleman (1777-1838). Construction was completed in 1817, and the facility remained in use until being closed and demolished in […]
![[Probably after Clarence Larkin], THE DISPENSATIONS. No place, no date, but American, 20th century.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/BRM3962-The-Dispensations_lowres-scaled-e1628030280847-150x150.jpg)
A mammoth and striking dispensationalist banner, mapping the spiritual development of humanity as purportedly predicted in the Old and New Testaments. Unsigned and unattributed, but the design strongly reminiscent of the work of Dispensationalist minister Clarence Larkin, and with a crude power that renders it a remarkable piece of American folk art. Clarence Larkin and […]