John Gould (1804-1881), Eriocnemis Squamata Cartographer_Pedro de Medina each with polar calottes

each with polar calottes

The result is the most important and accurate map of the period and a map of considerable importance in the history of the cartography of the region

Valladolid

was "the year of the great maps

The map’s lengthy title translates as “Delineation of the entire world prepared according to the teaching of Ptolemy the cosmographer

John Gould (1804-1881), Eriocnemis Squamata Cartographer_Pedro de Medina each with polar calottesJohn Gould (1804 1881) Eriocnemis Squamata (Scaly Puff leg) Volume IV, Plate 281 From A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Hummingbirds Published: London, 1849 61 (supplement printed 1880 87) Hand colored lithographs Paper size: approx 21 x 14