Kircher Tabula Geographico-Hydrographica Motus Oceani - Earliest Map of the World showing the ocean's currents Artists_Edward Lear or a sleek mirror

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Wilkes returned to New York Harbor with only two of his six ships and a mountain of ethnographic

The colours are also totally different: here

169029 1/2” x 18 1/2” sheet

Texas is still in large configuration with a panhandle running up to Oregon

Kircher Tabula Geographico-Hydrographica Motus Oceani - Earliest Map of the World showing the ocean's currents Artists_Edward Lear or a sleek mirrorKIRCHER, Anthanasius (German, 1602 1680). Tabula Geographico Hydrographica Motus Oceani, Currentes, Abyssos, Montes Ignivomos in universo orbe Indicans Engraved map. From: Mundus Subterraneus Amsterdam, 1665. 14 1 2" x 22 1 2" sheet. Earliest Map of the World showing the ocean's currents, chasms and volcanoes as then recorded.