(World) Mappe Monde ou Description - Asia & Middle East Some maps note the airfields

Some maps note the airfields as well as headquarters and all vignettes of local culture and people

Notes major towns

The Environs of Paris

The major rivers are in black and the streams in blue rendering a pleasing contrast

(World) Mappe Monde ou Description - Asia & Middle East Some maps note the airfieldsMappe Monde ou Description du Globe Terrestre & Aquatique Jaillots striking world map of 1694, reissued almost a century later by Jan Elwe. Probably the last published map to show California as an island. We see the world as it was known in the late 17th century, with many uncertainties and inaccuracies in North America and the Pacific. Australia and New Zealand are very incomplete, and there is still a suggestion of the vast southern continent. It is