World Map 1700s — Antique 18th-Century World Maps

Antique world map 1720 — Guillaume Delisle, Mappemonde a l'usage du Roy, two hemispheres

Antique World Map 1720 — Delisle, Mappemonde

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Paris, 1720. The world map Delisle drew for the king's use, in two hemispheres with its original outline coloring. National Library of Finland scan, prints to 41 cm.

Antique World Map c. 1450 — Borgia Map, Facsimile Borgia 1797

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Rome, 1797. Cardinal Borgia’s engraved facsimile of a round 15th-century world map with south at the top, filled with peoples and animals. Library of Congress scan, prints to 70 cm.

Old World Map 1786 — Delamarche, Mappe Monde with Cook’s Voyages

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Paris, 1786. Delamarche’s hand-colored world map after Robert de Vaugondy, with the routes of Captain Cook’s three voyages. Boston Public Library copy, prints to 81 cm.

Antique World Map c. 1780 — Bowles, New and Accurate Map of the World

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London, c. 1780. Two hemispheres with the newest discoveries of Anson, Byron, Wallis, Bougainville and Cook, and maps of the solar system and the Moon. Library of Congress copy, prints to 126 cm.

Antique World Map 1724 — Delisle, Hemisphere Oriental

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Paris, 1724. The eastern hemisphere drawn for the King from the Academy’s observations, longitude from Ferro. National Library of Poland scan, prints to 98 cm.

Ottoman World Map 1795 — Hajji Ahmed, Heart-Shaped Map of 1559

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Venice, 1795. A heart-shaped world map with Ottoman Turkish text, printed from woodblocks cut in 1559–60. One of 24 impressions, Library of Congress copy, prints to 115 cm.

Old World Maps of the 1700s