Historic Map : Ogilby Map of West Africa (Gold Coast, Slave Coast, Ivory Coast), 1670, Vintage Wall Art Maps in French with numerous triangulation lines

with numerous triangulation lines

A beautiful 1855 first edition example of Colton's map of Nebraska and Kansas

including all o

Lower right hand quadrant has an inset map of Gibraltar

This is most likely the most important map of Africa produced in the 18th century

Historic Map : Ogilby Map of West Africa (Gold Coast, Slave Coast, Ivory Coast), 1670, Vintage Wall Art Maps in French with numerous triangulation linesThis is a remarkable example of Jan Jansson's 1657 mapping of France or Gaul in antiquity. Cartographically this map exhibits heavy influence from a very similar map of the same name published by A. Ortelius in his 1597 Parergon . Based on Greek and Ro