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Discover the strange tales of Broughton Island, from WWII mines to forgotten maps, now part of Myall Lakes National Park.

  1572 (dated)         1 : 12900000 Description This is a scarce and important 1571 map of the world by Benedict Arias Montanus. Finely engraved and prepared for the eight-volume Plantin Polyglot Bible, this elegant map was intended to bring the new discoveries of the Americas into a coherent religious context. It further established the Native American population as Hebrew descendants of Noah, and thus Children of God whom the dedicatee of the Polyglot, Philip II of Spain, was obl...

Antique Maps of the World. Gallery of authentic historic rare world maps from the 16th to the 19th centuries.