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Antique World Map c. 1675 — Seller, Novissima Totius Orbis

Name: Antique World Map c. 1675 — Seller, Novissima Totius Orbis
Brand: Old Map Studio
SKU: LOC2017585802
Price: 14.9 USD
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CODE: LOC2017585802

Antique world map by John Seller, London about 1675 — two hemispheres with California as an island

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Description

An old world map of about 1675, with California as an island

Two hemispheres, each 27 cm across, on a sheet of 45 by 55 cm, from John Seller's Atlas maritimus. The Library of Congress record names the one thing everybody looks for first — California is drawn as an island, not as a coast — and then lists what fills the corners: scenes of the four seasons, and small astronomical charts showing the phases of the moon and the competing hypotheses of how the planets are arranged. The record dates the sheet as 1675 with a question mark, which is why the year in the title is given as approximate.

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Original	John Seller, London, about 1675, from his Atlas maritimus
Sheet	45 × 55 cm, two hemispheres of 27 cm
Scan	6485 × 5335 px, from the library's own scan, not an upscale
Print size at 300 dpi	the map prints to 54 cm (21 in) on the long side; the library's copy was trimmed to the border before it was scanned, so the full sheet is the same 54 cm
You download	six ZIP archives: full sheet, trimmed, 3:2, 4:3, 5:4 and ISO A
Inside each one	one JPEG at 300 dpi, the restoration passport as a PDF, a READ ME

How to print

Print at 300 dpi at the size above and do not let the shop scale the file up.
Pick the archive whose proportions match your frame, so nothing is cropped or stretched.
Ask for matte fine-art paper, printed in sRGB with auto-enhancement off.
Where to print it: print shops near you and checked prices at online labs.

Source and rights

Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, call number G3200 1675 .S4, LCCN 2017585802. The library states the sheet is free to use and reuse. The library's own copy was trimmed to the neat line on three sides long before it was scanned, so this sheet has almost no blank margin — that is the original, not our crop. Catalogue record: Library of Congress →

Every map is a scan of a real sheet held in a named archive — library, shelfmark and year, all stated. Nothing generated, nothing redrawn.