Impossible places and creatures (illustrations left folded).
Throughout A Voyage to the Coast of Africa, in 1758 by Rev. John Lindsay (1759). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized November 28, 2007.
May 6, 2013
April 29, 2013
![Map left folded.
From p. 297 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.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/e976caeb0c37d332b8c259ac9beddb09/tumblr_mm0segoHjO1qixa76o1_1280.png)
Map left folded.
From p. 297 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.
April 16, 2013
Maps left folded.
Throughout The Crooked & Narrow Streets of the Town of Boston 1630-1822 by Annie Haven Thwing (1920). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).
April 15, 2013
Neon ephemera.
Between p. 3 and 4 of A New Compendium of the Whole Art of Practical Navigation; Containing the Elements of Plain Trigonometry, and It’s Application to Plain, Mercator’s and Middle-latitude Sailing by William Jones (1702). Original from Oxford University. Digitized February 27, 2009.
March 19, 2013
Employee holds folded plate closed.
The frontispiece to A Picturesque Tour Along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India by Lieut. Colon Forrest (1824). Original from Lyon Public Library. Digitized August 22, 2011.
March 5, 2013
Plates left folded, one with burn.
Throughout The Preceptor: Containing a General Course of Education by Robert Dodsley (1784). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).
January 14, 2013
Digitally severed maps.
Throughout A Popular Atlas of Comparative Geography: Comprehending a Chronological Series of Maps of Europe and Other Lands, at Successive Periods, From the Fifth to the Later Half of the Nineteenth Century by William Hughes (1870). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized February 2, 2009.
January 12, 2013
Hybridized diagram (plate left folded).
Frontispiece comparing the heights of buildings from The World’s Religions by George Thomas Bettany (1890). Original from the University of California. Digitized February 18, 2011.
December 22, 2012
Hybrid places (plates left folded).
Throughout Romæ Antiquæ Notitia: or, The Antiquities of Rome by Basil Kennett (1731). Original from Oxford University. Digitized June 1, 2007.
December 17, 2012
Hand-drawn map.
From the front matter of Psychology by William James (1893). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized July 21, 2005.
December 13, 2012
Map severed by digital gutter.
The frontispiece to Cary’s Actual Survey of the Country Fifteen Miles Round London by John Cary (1786). Original from Oxford University. Digitized April 26, 2007.
November 2, 2012
Map of London and Thames left folded.
From On the Mode of Communication of Cholera by John Snow (1855). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized December 1, 2009.
October 30, 2012
Plates left folded.
Throughout A Plain Method of Determining the Parallax of Venus by James Ferguson (1761). Original from Oxford University. Digitized March 25, 2009.
October 11, 2012
An impossible place (map left folded).
From An Arctic Boat Journey in the Autumn of 1854 by Isaac Israel Hayes (1860). Original from Harvard University. Digitized October 24, 2007.
August 28, 2012
Digitally severed maps.
Throughout The Illuminated Atlas of Scripture Geography by William Hughes (1840). Original from Oxford University. Digitized October 4, 2006.
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