Sourced from vintage archival materials
described as a mixture of cartoon
emphasizing both their strength and intelligence
Published in 1575 by Georg Braun and engraved by Frans Hogenberg for their great atlas of world cities
A must-have for lovers of English history
Old Map of the Inner & Outer Hebrides in 1690 by Valk & Schenk - Mull, Skye, Lochaber, Uist, Harris, Barra iconic railway lines Sourced from vintage archival materialsAmsterdam, rather than Edinburgh or London, was where much of Scotland's coastline first reached print in reliable detail, and this 1690 map of the Hebrides was issued by the Dutch map publishing partnership of Gerard Valk and Petrus Schenk, who acquired and reissued a considerable stock of plates from earlier Dutch workshops. Much of the underlying geography derives from surveys gathered decades earlier by the Scottish laird and cartographer Robert