Old World Maps of the 1800s

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Stuttgart, 1895. Konrad Miller’s collotype plate of the world map in the Turin Beatus, with Paradise, Adam and Eve, and four winds riding inflated skins. e-rara scan, prints to 47 cm.
Stuttgart, 1895. Konrad Miller’s collotype plate of the 12th-century Jerome map of Palestine, built around a large drawing of Jerusalem. e-rara scan, prints to 50 cm.
Edinburgh, c. 1845. Outlines of Botanical Geography from A. K. Johnston’s Physical Atlas, built on Berghaus and engraved by W. and A. K. Johnston. Wellcome scan, prints to 49 cm.
1850s. British Empire throughout the World Exhibited in One View, compiled by John Bartholomew, with British possessions in red. Library of Congress scan, prints to 51 cm.
Edinburgh, 1848. Outlines of Botanical Geography from A. K. Johnston’s Physical Atlas, published by Blackwood, after Berghaus. National Library of Scotland scan, prints to 67 cm.
Stuttgart, 1895. Konrad Miller’s collotype plate of the Psalter map, the small round world map with Jerusalem at its center from a 13th-century psalter. e-rara scan, prints to 53 cm.
Paris, 1873. Plate XII of the atlas to Vivien de Saint-Martin’s Histoire de la géographie, on Mercator’s projection with the Paris meridian. Polona scan, prints to 92 cm.
Hot Springs, South Dakota, 1893. A square, unmoving Earth with an angel at each corner, against the “Globe Theory”. Hand colored, Library of Congress copy, prints to 106 cm.
Paris, 19th century. Jomard’s lithographed facsimile of Higden’s oval world map, east at the top, with Adam and Eve in Paradise. Bibliothèque de Genève scan, prints to 31 cm.
Paris, 19th century. Jomard’s facsimile of the circular Turin world map, east at the top, with Adam and Eve and four wind riders. Bibliothèque de Genève scan, prints to 28 cm.
Leipzig, 1872. A printed copy of a mid-16th-century Italian world map with the course of Magellan’s voyage and twelve wind heads. Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde scan, prints to 30 cm.
Paris, 1862. Charles Joseph Minard’s flow map of the world’s emigrants in 1858, each band as wide as the number of people it carries, hand colored. LoC scan, prints to 70 cm.
Brussels, 1852. Joachim Lelewel’s plate with the round world map of al-Istakhri and Ibn Hawqal, south at the top, and a Hindu cosmography. Geneva scan, prints to 33 cm.
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