Historic Map : Black Map of Europe, 1840, Vintage Wall Art Size:24in x 16in Homann Heirs

Homann Heirs

noting rivers

As this map was being printed

Features some offshore detail and several sailing ships plying the Zuyder Zee ( Zuiderzee )

making this one of the first known to address the Circuit of the Penny Post

Historic Map : Black Map of Europe, 1840, Vintage Wall Art Size:24in x 16in Homann HeirsAdam and Charles Black's 1840 map of europe. The map covers the continent in its entirety from the North Atlantic Ocean to the Caspian Sea and from the Arctic Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, including Iceland. It shows the Austrian empire at its height, the many states of the German Confederacy, and a pre Garibaldi Italy split into numerous small duchies and states. It notes the legendary and semi mythical whirlpool known as the Lofoten Maelstrom