Large Old Geological Map of Italy by Virano e Teano, 1880: Alps, Apennines, Vesuvius, Etna, Po River Size:56x70in (142x178cm) With its rich details and

With its rich details and historical significance

Gerhard Mercator

offering a window into the captivating world of John James Audubon’s ornithological artistry

a bird abundant across the United States

Large Old Geological Map of Italy by Virano e Teano, 1880: Alps, Apennines, Vesuvius, Etna, Po River Size:56x70in (142x178cm) With its rich details andCarta Geologica d'Italia is a tour de force of late nineteenthcentury scientific cartography, created in 1880 by Virano e Teano at a moment when a newly unified Italy was mapping the depths beneath its surface as eagerly as the contours above. Across a grand sweep from the ramparts of the Alps to the volcanic south, the sheet embraces Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily, and reaches west to Frjus in France and east to Fiumetodays Rijekaon the Adriatic. An