Historic Map : Pallas and Mentelle Map of The Physical World, 1779, Vintage Wall Art Old maps of London towns and villages

towns and villages

and the quest for knowledge

This inclusion suggests that European cartographers had some awareness of North America's interior geography prior to formal exploration

This is a remarkable example of Jan Jansson's 1657 mapping of France or Gaul in antiquity

Historic Map : Pallas and Mentelle Map of The Physical World, 1779, Vintage Wall Art Old maps of London towns and villagesThis is a highly unusual 1779 map of the world exhibiting a very peculiar physical topography that reveals mountain ranges both on land and under the sea. The curious undersea mountain ranges displayed here was drawn by Abbe Mongez to illustrate the ge