Historic Map : Anville Map of The Persian Gulf, 1776, Vintage Wall Art Bahia Honda Sandwich Islands

Sandwich Islands

The island of Gorgona (Gorgone) appears in the lower left quadrant

Covers from Aswan

and Seattle are all noted on the Puget Sound

he does note several supposed gold mines deep in the Amazon

Historic Map : Anville Map of The Persian Gulf, 1776, Vintage Wall Art Bahia Honda Sandwich IslandsA scarce 1776 map of the Persian Gulf by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville. Essentially a nautical chart, this map covers from Basrah to the Straits of Hormuz. D'Anville prepared this map in 1758 to illustrate a lecture presented to the Paris Academie des Belles Lettres regarding his speculations on the then little known geography of the Persian Gulf. Although the southwestern part of the Gulf is poorly mapped and little known, various Gulf cities