Old Map of the North Sea and Atlantic in 1575 by Abraham Ortelius - Iceland, Greenland, Scandinavia, Frisland heritage home accent recording the rural pattern of

recording the rural pattern of the county before the railways and later building booms changed it for good

and this 1862 plan is one of that series

Explore the rugged beauty of coastal Maine with this 1893 map of Mount Desert Island

established as a town in the 12th century

or American heritage enthusiast

Old Map of the North Sea and Atlantic in 1575 by Abraham Ortelius - Iceland, Greenland, Scandinavia, Frisland heritage home accent recording the rural pattern ofThis striking chart of the North Sea and North Atlantic was engraved by the great Flemish Dutch cartographer Abraham Ortelius and included in his 1575 edition of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, widely regarded as the world's first modern atlas and the single most important collection of world maps produced in the sixteenth century. Ortelius worked from Antwerp, compiling and standardising the best available charts of his era into one authoritative