Antique Maps 2016 Calendar

Antique Maps Wall Calendar: Antique Maps 2016 Wall Calendar features a collection of antique maps from the British Library. For centuries, explorers, merchants, and military forces have relied upon maps to help them describe and navigate our planet. Using anecdotal evidence and sometimes scant geographical data for places they themselves may never have seen, cartographers frequently included fanciful or factual drawings to tease the imagination and the intellect-including a mythical sea dragon on a map of Ireland, figureheads symbolizing the wind rose on Ptolemy's World Map, heraldic imagery on the Map of the World with Coats of Arms of Various Countries.Features antique mapsPerfect for history buffsPrevious and next month viewsObserves major holidays and moon phases