Old World Map 1500s — Antique 16th-Century World Maps

Antique world map of 1540 by Sebastian Münster, the world as Ptolemy described it, restored archival scan

Antique World Map 1540 — Münster, Typvs Orbis a Ptol. Descriptus

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Basel, 1540. The world as Ptolemy described it, a sheet from Sebastian Münster's Geographia universalis with Latin text on the back. Cartoteca Digital scan, prints to 34 cm.

Antique world map 1541 — Lorenz Fries, Typus orbis descriptione Ptolemaei, woodcut

Antique World Map 1541 — Fries, Typus Orbis Ptolemaei

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Vienne, 1541. A woodcut of Ptolemy's world with wind heads blowing in from the border, printed for the Geographia of that year. Library of Congress, the map prints to 51 cm.

Antique World Map c. 1508 — Egerton Atlas, Stevenson Facsimile 1911

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c. 1508, facsimile of 1911. A manuscript world with Terra S. Crucis, Cuba and the land of the bacalaos, the poles named in Greek. Plate II, prints to 30 cm.

Antique World Map 1541 — Fries, Tabula Noua Totius Orbis

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Vienne, 1541. The new map of the world that stood beside Ptolemy's in the same book, cut in wood, with an unread drawing off West Africa. Library of Congress, prints to 47 cm.

Antique World Map 1579 — Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum

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Antwerp, 1579. An oval world map set in a border of engraved clouds, with the cracked plate that dates this state. Library of Congress scan, the map prints to 49 cm.

Antique world map of 1564 after Gerard Mercator, Quam hic vides orbis imaginem, restored full sheet

Antique World Map 1564 — Mercator, Quam Hic Vides Orbis Imaginem

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Rome, 1564. A world map that argues in its own title: later and better corrected than earlier ones, with America, Sarmatia and India as witnesses. National Library of Norway, prints to 101 cm.

Antique World Map 1550 — Münster, Typus Orbis Universalis

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1550. Sebastian Münster's world map as it appears in Ptolemy's Geographia, printed text on the back. Library of Congress, the map prints to 38 cm at 300 dpi.

Antique World Map 1596 — Typus Orbis Terrarum

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Cologne, 1596. A compendious world map made, as the sheet says, in imitation of Mercator's great universal map of 1569. National Library of Norway scan, printable to 59 cm.

Old World Maps of the 1500s