Last week the Library Company hosted a book club, On the Map, to compliment our current exhibition, The Living Book : New Perspectives on Form and Function. The discussion explored how maps relate and realign our history. We also found some interesting beasts splashing around like this one in our hand-colored copy of Theatrum orbis terrarum by Abraham Ortelius (1595).
Ortelius, Abraham. Theatrum orbis terrarum... . [Antverpiae : Ex officina Plantiniana, M.D.XCV.]












