Antique Map of Paris

This hand-colored map of Paris and Environs is a copper plate engraving dating to 1855.

I've always been fascinated by maps, and I think of all the gifts I've given, the one that was the most appreciated was a book of old maps that I gave to my Aunt one year.

The love of maps must run in my family. While visiting my uncle recently, he showed me an antique map of my grandmother's home town in Austria. His map was produced around the same time as this mid-19th century map of Paris, which covers the Seine valley in a roughly 30 mile radius of Paris.

There's something about gazing at maps that I enjoy. They're one of the things that makes the world of old paper such a fascination.

Comments

[Rabbi Meish]

Marty:

That map of Paris is awesome! I, too, am a big map fan. The Rebbitzen gave me a map a few years ago that shows the U.S. as of 1864. It's framed in my office -- if that warrant expires and you can ever come back to Chicago, I'd gladly show it to you.

Rabbi Meish