Restorations
The Map Collection regularly restores the fund's rarest documents at its own expense. You can see a selection of them in the following gallery.
Pairs of photos always capture the "before" and "after" state.
BLAEU, Willem Janszoon. Hanc Terræ Marisq[ue] Sphæram. [Amstelodamum]: Guilielmus Janssonius Blaeu, 1602. 1 globe ; diameter 24 cm.
HONDIUS, Jodocus. Globus terrestris summa curra ac diligentia. Amsterodami: Jodoco Hondio, 1613. 1 globe ; diameter 55 cm.
Die Erde. Rostok b. Prag : J. Felkl & Sohn, [between 1870 and 1914?]. 1 globe ; diameter 8,6 cm.
Obraz zeměkoule. V Roztokách n. Vlt. : J. Felkl a syn, [between 1906 and 1908?]. 1 globe ; diameter 21,9 cm.