Auctions A Nautical Chart Sold at Auction for $239,000 Is Revealed as the 4th Oldest of Its Kind and Is Now Tagged at $7.5 Million. The map depicts the waterways of the Mediterranean and beyond.

La Jolla map dealer Alex Clausen knew there was something unusual about the nautical chart he spotted at a Getty estate sale. His careful eye uncovered a 14th century treasure he purchased for a ...

The nautical map of the Mediterranean and Black seas is inked onto the skin of a single sheep. It is a rare representative of one of the world’s greatest and most enduring mysteries: ...

It is a hand-drawn nautical chart from February 1580, done with great exactness for the standards of the time. It shows in great detail the coast, the estuaries, bays, capes, ...

This week on “ALL OVER THE MAP” Maritime atlases – govt nautical charts in book format for small boats – first appeared in the NW in the 1950s.

The new products are particularly valuable for shallow water navigation, where official nautical map products, primarily designed for commercial shipping lanes, may lack detail. Available in ...

La Jolla map dealer Alex Clausen knew there was something unusual about the nautical chart he spotted at a Getty estate sale. His careful eye uncovered a 14th century treasure he purchased for a ...

One of the few original copies of historic maps that the Bay County History Museum acquired is the earliest American navigation map of St. Andrew Bay. The other bays, East, West and North are omitted.

Become a paid member to listen to this article. Have you ever noticed the nautical maps on every window of the Smith-9th Street subway? In fact, the station which re-opened in April 2013 after a ...