Hello all! In the real world, I'm a hand bookbinder and restorer and, in the course of my work, I frequently restore old maps and atlases etc.
I figured that there would be interested people here, so I thought I'd share some with you.

The first three are from a Cosmographia, which contains volvelles to aid in navigation. This book was missing some so I letterpressed a facsimile onto old paper and added it into the book. Unfortunately I didn't take pictures of the same things at each stage...

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The next two are of a miniature atlas that needed a joint repair on the outside. The maps inside were in fine condition, but because of the fragile joint I couldn't open it far to get a good picture.

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I also work on A LOT of sets of Cook's or Hawkesworth's Voyages, which come with an atlas volume. There are lots of really interesting maps... and then there is this one...
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If this sort of thing is of interest to people on here, I will take more pictures of things I'm working on. And if anyone else has interesting old maps they'd be willing to post, I'd like to see those too!