Schenk & Valk’s Map of the Bay of Bengal dictionaries colourful Scottish financier John Law

colourful Scottish financier John Law won the confidence of the Duke of Orleans (then Regent of France)

and an equally ludicrous land-ship sailing towards a lunatic asylum

already re-branded as London Transport

This map of Central Europe is from the third edition of A Complete Course of Geography

Schenk & Valk’s Map of the Bay of Bengal dictionaries colourful Scottish financier John LawSinus Gangeticus; vulgo Golfo de Bengale nova descriptio This is a map of the Bay of Bengal with north oriented to the right. Petrus Schenk and Gerard Valk often worked in partnership, towards the end of the Dutch Golden Age, when the United Provinces still led Europe in the field of map making. Together they purchased the surviving copper printing plates of the famous Janssonius firm, among others, and reissued them under their own imprint. Condition