Historic Map : De L'isle Map of Artois, Northern France (PasdeCalais), 1711, Vintage Wall Art Size:24in x 18in a white wine

a white wine

south to Ceylon and the Maldives

and the Sand Island Bank

Mitchell's 1866 map of Mexico

An inset map in the lower left corner details the Territory and Isthmus of Tehuantepec - the site of a proposed but never built Panama-like trans-continental canal

Historic Map : De L'isle Map of Artois, Northern France (PasdeCalais), 1711, Vintage Wall Art Size:24in x 18in a white wineThis is a beautiful 1711 Guillaume De L'isle map of Artois region and its environs in northern France. It covers from Calais to Bouchain and from Abbeville north as far as Gravelines. Includes the southwestern parts of modern day Belgium. The map renders the entire region in extraordinary detail offering both topographical and political information with mountains and forests beautifully rendered in profile. Artois is former province located in the