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The Prime Meridian

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We buy and sell pre-20th century maps, atlases and related books,
and stock a wide general inventory.

Specific inquiries are welcome:


Member, International Map Collectors Society
Member, Washington Map Society
Member, Philip Lee Phillips Society
Member, William P. Cumming Map Society

Maps have many functions and many faces, and each of us sees them with different eyes...some will look for evidence of historical facts; others for the reflection of the mapmaker's knowledge, thought, and state of mind; others again for the formal qualities of design which distinguish the map as an artefact or a work of art.

from R. A. Skelton, chapter 1, page 3, in Maps: A Historical Survey of Their Study and Collecting, 1972.







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