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Johannes Putsch’s 1533 map personified the continent as a queen and inspired a wave of mapmaking that depicted places as people, animals, and even plants. "Europa regina" ("Queen Europe") is seen in ...

THE most recent volumes which have appeared of this handy encyclopaedia carry the alphabet nearly to the end of the letter H. They are well supplied with finely produced coloured maps, of which the ...