Medium to large scale map that shows a precise map of the terrain

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A map of the area of Villcabamba, Ecuador, illustrated with buildings, rivers, people, animals and flowering plants and trees. Watercolour.

Messina, Sicily, Italy: map of the port; with numbered key. Tinted aquatint after Villamaga, 1699.

Soraluze-Placencia de las Armas, Spain: the town and its surrounding places, its armaments factory, inscribed tabernacles describing them, and dedications to King Ferdinand VI and the Conde de Aranda. Engraving by J.F. Palomino after J. Zameza after F.J. de Lamot, 1756.

The island of St Helena: map. Photozincograph, 1904.

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Messina, Sicily, Italy: map of the port; with numbered key. Tinted aquatint after Villamaga, 1699.

A map of the area of Villcabamba, Ecuador, illustrated with buildings, rivers, people, animals and flowering plants and trees. Watercolour.

The island of St Helena: map. Photozincograph, 1904.

Soraluze-Placencia de las Armas, Spain: the town and its surrounding places, its armaments factory, inscribed tabernacles describing them, and dedications to King Ferdinand VI and the Conde de Aranda. Engraving by J.F. Palomino after J. Zameza after F.J. de Lamot, 1756.