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Gorgeous and vibrantly colored 1939 New York World’s Fair souvenir map designed and illustrated by German-American artist and puppeteer Tony Sarg.
C’est le quatorze juillet! Vive le France!
Carte Botanique de France (Botanical Map of France and French Flora) from Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck’s Flore françoise, ou, Description succincte… (1778)
Johann Elert Bode (1747-1826)
Deutliche Abhandlung … von dem bevorstehenden merkwürdigen Durchgang der Venus…(Clear treatise on the forthcoming remarkable transit of Venus)
Hamburg: Dieterich Anton Harmsen, 1769.
Map showing the areas from which the 1769 transit would be observable.
Image Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
