Historic Map : Colton Map of Florida, 1855, Vintage Wall Art Maps of the Society Islands by Johann Baptist Homann

by Johann Baptist Homann

Only one recorded example of this map has appeared at auction in the last 30 years

Drawn to illustrated the Primitive Settlements and Subsequent Progress of the Posterity of Noah compiled from Bochart

The curious undersea mountain ranges displayed here was drawn by Abbe Mongez to illustrate the ge

Hand colored in pink

Historic Map : Colton Map of Florida, 1855, Vintage Wall Art Maps of the Society Islands by Johann Baptist HomannA beautiful 1855 first edition example of Colton's map of Florida. Like most of Colton's state maps, this map is largely derived from an earlier wall map of North America produced by Colton and D. Griffing Johnson. In this particular case, Colton has a