Historic Map : Black Map of Europe, 1840, Vintage Wall Art Size:24in x 16in Showing the modern day countries

Showing the modern day countries of Spain

The whole is beautifully rendered with wonderful detail regarding the early states

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

The Buenaventura is the last incarnation of the apocryphal River of the West

noting rivers

Historic Map : Black Map of Europe, 1840, Vintage Wall Art Size:24in x 16in Showing the modern day countriesAdam 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