Flies and Mosquitoes (Diptera, Plate 03) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 custom map prefab A very rare world map

A very rare world map with countries labelled in Esperanto

The map was compiled under the direction of Henry Gannett

a work first published in 1827 by renowned artist John James Audubon

Hung over natural wood

was renowned for his posters

Flies and Mosquitoes (Diptera, Plate 03) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 custom map prefab A very rare world mapInsecta Diptera Pl 03 (1879) by Frederick DuCane Godman is a meticulous Victorian zoological illustration devoted to the order Dipteraflies and mosquitoescreated at a moment when naturalists were systematically cataloguing the living world. Godman, an English naturalist born in 1834, approached each specimen with the clear eye of a scientific collector. The plates restrained composition, careful scaling, and specimen like arrangement reflect the late