A well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Augsburg. After a design by P.van Blankaert.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, there were many popular s...
A detailed map of the European part of the Russian Empire. Scarce map. Copper etching by C. Mannert and edited by Adam Gottlieb Schneider and Johann Christoph Weigel. Man...
The Fan palm, on the island of Krakatoa (Indonesian name: Krakatau), in the Sunda Strait, taken from "Views in the South Seas" being a very important and early ...
Two boats and passengers with Cavite Philippines in the background as if was seen from Manila Bay in January 1787. After a design of Gaspard Duchè de Vancy and engraved ...
![[Ritter Sundial Map of the World]](/uploads/cache/60731-250x250.jpg)
This highly unusual map projects the world from the north pole as though it were the table of a sundial, with the land masses drawn to scale in proportion to their distan...