Historic Map : Vaugondy, Diderot Map of California in Five States, California as Island, 1772, Vintage Wall Art decorative map 5252488 South Pole"

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Covers from Greece (Graecia) and the Aegean Sea eastward to include all of Asia Minor as far as Armenia

An uncommon and extremely attractive 1852 map of Turkey in europe and Greece by A

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It was issued around 1726 to illustrate Joseph Stöcklein's [Stoecklein] compellation of Jesuit missionary letters Allerhand So Lehr-als G

Historic Map : Vaugondy, Diderot Map of California in Five States, California as Island, 1772, Vintage Wall Art decorative map 5252488 South Pole"A rare and important map of California in five different states, ranging from roughly 1656 to 1767. Engraved by the important French cartographer Robert De Vaugondy, for the c. 1770 edition of the Denis Diderot (1713 84) Encyclopedie . This map explores the confused state of California cartography in the late 18th century. Examines the gradual discovery of California through various seminal mappings. Initially uses the work of Italian cartographer