World Map with Wind Heads - Antiquarian Map or Portolan Chart from 16th Century Portolan Atlas
High quality scanned image from a 16th century book: Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc. Dedicated to Hieronymus Ruffault, Abbot of St. Vaast. (Agnese, Battista). These maps and images are scanned at high resolution and then edited and enhanced for best presentation for many uses. There might be some discrepancy in color due to the editing process. Some flaws in the original will have been repaired digitally. To see a wide variety of quality, large scale antiquarian and other world maps collected in a gallery on Alamy go to:
Size: 4000px × 2850px
Photo credit: © Antiquarian Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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