1631 Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica TabulaBy: Willem Janszoon Blaeu Date of Original: 1631 (published) Amsterdam Original Size: 17. 5 x 22 inches (44. 5 x 56 cm) This is a fine print reproduction of a true masterpiece world map from the Golden Age of Dutch Cartography. It is one of the earliest atlas maps to utilize the Mercator projection and one of the more ornate examples of world maps to have been created during that era. Blaeus map was first issued in an atlas and was used continuously

Why Not Take a Map Home to Pin on your Wall

To the east of the river is depicted the making of a canoe

Rockefeller’s Office of Inter-American Affairs

this was one of the first European maps to question the myth of the island of California

Other ships came later

and administration and control of the canal was assumed by an American ‘governor’ whose authority was reinforced by the presence of US military troops

25 inches (96 x 121 cm)

the Statue of Liberty just off the shore from New York

This incredibly detailed map is a nice continuation of earlier works

positioning themselves to make commercial

whom he knew personally

Passage of the Act was made possible by the Compromise of 1790