America Borealis - 1699 Size:30"x20" Fairfax County in Virginia and

Fairfax County in Virginia and Montgomery and Prince George Counties in Maryland

Published in 1886 by famous German cartographers

Peet and Co depicted a color perspective view of Manhattan

Tonga is also featured within the Fiji inset

this bird's eye view of Coney Island

America Borealis - 1699 Size:30"x20" Fairfax County in Virginia andThis 1699 map by cartographer Heinrich Scherer depicts the early territories of the North American continent. The bright colors and vivid detail in this early American map show a reality when California was thought to be an island, separated from mainland N. America by Vermilion Sea now known as the Gulf of California which separates the Baja Peninsula from mainland Mexico.