Bill Hecht

A huge collection of articles, maps, pictures, postcards, air photos and geology info for Cayuga County and the Finger Lakes. An interesting and valuable repository. Link…

A stroll by the Basque coast

From a repository of Gipuzkoa related images. Link…

Piri Reis

A 1513 map of from Turkey with notes. One of the notes is "This country is inhabited. The entire population go naked." Link…
I have hugely downsampled the image from here

Signs of the Times

The Historical Marker Database. Link…

Atlas and Cyclopedia of Ireland (1900)

"A Comprehensive Delineation of the Thirty-two Counties, with a Beautifully Colored Map of Each, arranged Alphabetically, showing over 11,000 Cities, Towns, Villages, and Places of Public Interest.
Embracing over Two Hundred Illustrations of the Natural Scenery, Public Buildings, Abbeys, Round Towers and other Romantic Places, reproduced by Eminent Artists from Photographs especially taken for this Work."

The history section is quite interesting, for example: "The pagan Irish warriors sometimes took the brains out of champions whom they had slain in single combat, mixed them up with lime, and rolled them into balls, which hardened with time, and which they preserved as trophies. It was with one of these balls, which had been abstracted from his armory, that Conor Mac Nessa was wounded." Link…

A Medieval Mariner and his Manuscript

In 1401 a young man named Michael of Rhodes joined the Venetian navy as a lowly galley oarsman. Over the next four decades, he sailed on more than 40 voyages and took part in five major sea battles, rising through the ranks to become a trusted galley commander. Link…

Joseph Dalton Hooker

Himalayan journals; or, notes of a naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia mountains etc. 2 volumes - 1854. Link…