Historic Map : Hachette City Plan or Pocket Antique Map of Paris, France, 1878, Vintage Wall Art decorative map 5252399 Turkey in europe and Greece

Turkey in europe and Greece

Drawn at the height of the California Gold Rush

this map illustrates the transition from medieval to modern understandings of the Arctic region

Marshfield Point

He also names the sites of various Spanish towns and missions along the numerous inland rivers systems that spring from the Amazon and Orinoco

Historic Map : Hachette City Plan or Pocket Antique Map of Paris, France, 1878, Vintage Wall Art decorative map 5252399 Turkey in europe and GreeceThis is a beautiful c. 1878 city plan or map of Paris, France by the French cartographer A. Vuillemin. Centered on the Seine River, it covers embastilled Paris as contained in the Thiers Wall. Parts of the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes is also included. It reflects the transformation and modernization of Paris under Napoleon III and George Eugene Haussmann. Known in French as the 'Grands Travauin x,' Haussmann's redesign of Paris defined