Historic Map : S.D.U.K. Antique Map of The Islands in The Atlantic Ocean, 1836, Vintage Wall Art

This is a fine example of the 1836 Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge or S.D.U.K. map of the Islands of Atlantic Ocean. Essentially siin xteen inset maps on one sheet, the map covers the Azores or Western Isles, Faeroe Isles, Madeira Isles, Canary Islands, Princes Island, Anno Bon, Fernando Po, St. Thomas, Ascension Island, St. Helena, Tristan da Cunha Isles, Cape de Verde Isles, Bermuda Isles, Trinidade Isles, Fernando Noronha and the Falkland Islands. Each inset also notes whether the Islands are in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, American, Brazilian or French possession.

This map was originally published by Baldwin and Cradock and copyrighted in 1836, but was issued in Volume two of Chapman and Hall's 1844 edition of Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. It was engraved by John Walker of J. and C. Walker.