Historic Map : Regal Shoe View Map of New York City, 1898, Vintage Wall Art Lithographs of buildings 5252192 Joan Blaeu

Joan Blaeu

This remarkable map was drawn in 1601 by Theodore de Bry to describe the ill fated third voyage of the Dutch explorer William Barentsz in search of the Northeast Passage

meaning both 'Gaul' and 'Cockerel')

between 80 and 60 degrees of latitude is an archipelago

The Ptolemaic Mountains of the Moon (Monds Berge) are drawn across the central part of the continent with the suggestions that they are the source of several branches of the Nile

Historic Map : Regal Shoe View Map of New York City, 1898, Vintage Wall Art Lithographs of buildings 5252192 Joan BlaeuA fun cartographic curiosity, this is an 1898 shoe advertisement set against and backdrop of New York City. The view, prepared in 1897 by Moses King, has here been coopted to demonstrate the prosperity of the Regal Shoe Company. The caption describes how, if all the shoes they cold in 1897 were made into a single shoe that shoe would be 34 miles long and 17 miles higher hence the illustration at hand. And indeed, the Regal Shoe Company, founded by