John George Bartholomew — British Isles Geology Map (1942) | Vintage Atlas Print

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John George Bartholomew — British Isles Geology Map (1942) | Vintage Atlas PrintJohn George Bartholomew (18601920) founded the great Edinburgh cartographic tradition that bears his name the Bartholomew firm whose atlases set the standard for British mapmaking for over a century. This geological map of the British Isles, printed by the Edinburgh Geographical Institute, is a masterpiece of thematic cartography: the ancient bones of Britain and Ireland rendered in a painterly mosaic of rose, ochre, sage, and violet, each hue keyed

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