1644 Willem Blaeu Antique Map of Iceland - Beautiful Original Hand Colouring Peru Each days progress was recorded

Each days progress was recorded along the route

with Louis Antoine de Bougainville naming Choiseul in 1768 and Jean-François-Marie de Surville exploring the islands in 1769

Especially striking the form of Sakhalin that hitherto – but also still on the Truscot map of 1776 – appears far more stocky

Printed sheet completed in manuscript

and many freedmen chose to have subsistence farms rather than to work on plantations

1644 Willem Blaeu Antique Map of Iceland - Beautiful Original Hand Colouring Peru Each days progress was recordedTitle : Tabula Islandia Auctore Georgio Carolo Flandro Ref #: 35625 Condition: (A) Very Good Condition Size: 23 1 2in x 20in (590mm x 510mm) Date: 1644 Description: This original copper plate engraved antique map, with beautiful original hand colouring by Willem Blaeu, was engraved by Jodocus Hondius after Joris Carolus, and was published by Guillaume Blaeus in the 1644 Latin edition of Atlas Nouvs. This is beautiful example of this early map of