We are pleased to share with you the description of a very special item, actually, items, which contain a geographical atlas to be viewed and displayed in a way that is very rarely seen, especially in such an early and fine sample.

Please click the following link in order to view our extraordinarily-fine poplar wall mount map cabinets veneered in mahogany from the late 1830s or early 1840s.

An ingenious spring mechanism allows one to roll out and then roll up back in place the maps, by pulling brass pins found at the bottom corners of the cabinets.

These rare early items help one better understand the manifold ways in which cartography was arranged and kept for optimal fruition in the past. They were part of the set of elegant furniture made by the English cabinet maker Henry Thomas Peters for a private library in Genoa, Italy.