Geological Map of the British Islands dated 1840 Antique_Rattlesnake With its floating circular motifs

With its floating circular motifs

it has all the drama of a Victorian fossil gallery wall - part natural history study

An antique map of Madagascar has a wonderful sense of mystery about it

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tension and finely observed detail

Geological Map of the British Islands dated 1840 Antique_Rattlesnake With its floating circular motifsBritains geology is like a layered history book chalk downs, granite highs, coal seams and ancient seabeds and Victorian mapmakers were obsessed with putting that story on paper. This 1840 geological map of the British Isles is a wonderfully detailed piece of vintage cartography, originally created to help make sense of the ground beneath our feet (and, in an age of mines and railways, that really mattered). A striking antique style wall map for a