Antique World Maps — Old World Map Posters & Prints

Antique world map of 1744 by Le Rouge, Mappe Monde Nouvelle, restored archival scan

Antique World Map 1744 — Le Rouge, Mappe Monde Nouvelle

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Paris, 1744. Two hand-colored hemispheres of 36 cm on a sheet 55 × 78 cm, relief drawn pictorially. Restored from the Library of Congress scan and printable to 73 cm at 300 dpi.

Antique World Map 1757 — The Earth's Western Planisphere

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London, 1757. A single hand-colored circle of the earth's western half, ringed by notes on climate, compass variation and the planets. Boston Public Library scan, prints to 60 cm.

Antique world map 1641 — Jodocus Hondius, Nova totivs terrarvm orbis, two hemispheres

Antique World Map 1641 — Hondius, Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis

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Amsterdam, 1641. Two hemispheres flanked by the four elements and portraits of Caesar, Ptolemy, Mercator and Hondius. Library of Congress scan, the map prints to 55 cm.

Antique world map 1764 — Bellin, Carte reduite du globe terrestre, plate 1 of the Petit atlas maritime

Antique World Map 1764 — Bellin, Carte réduite du globe

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Paris, 1764. The world map that opens Bellin's pocket sea-atlas, plate 1 of volume 1, with longitude counted from the Paris meridian. Library of Congress scan, printable to 48 cm.

Antique world map c. 1635 — Willem Janszoon Blaeu, Nova totius terrarum orbis, with decorative borders

Antique World Map c. 1635 — Blaeu, Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis

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Amsterdam, c. 1635. Blaeu's world map framed by allegorical borders — the four elements, the seasons and the seven wonders of the ancient world. Rijksmuseum, the map prints to 39 cm.

Antique World Map 1794 — Dunn, A New Map of the World

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London, 1794. A double-hemisphere world in outline hand coloring, from A New Atlas of the Mundane System. Restored from the Wikimedia Commons scan and printable to 102 cm at 300 dpi.

Antique world map of 1724 by Guillaume Delisle, Hemisphere Occidental, western hemisphere

Antique World Map 1724 — Delisle, Hemisphere Occidental

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Paris, 1724. The western hemisphere drawn for the private use of the King from the Academy's own observations, longitude from Ferro. National Library of Poland scan, prints to 99 cm.

Antique World Map c. 1750 — Izobrazhenie Zemnogo Globusa

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Saint Petersburg, about 1750. The imperial arms in the cartouche, longitude counted from Ferro, and north-west America left off the sheet. Library of Congress, prints to 68 cm.

Antique World Map 1848 — Johnston, Zoological Geography

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Edinburgh, 1848. Johnston maps where the world's birds live, with engraved plates of birds down both margins. National Library of Scotland scan, prints to 69 cm.

Antique world map of 1651 by Nicolas Sanson, Mappe-monde ou carte générale du monde, restored full sheet

Antique World Map 1651 — Sanson, Mappe-Monde ou Carte Générale

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Paris, 1651. Two hand-colored hemispheres by Nicolas Sanson, with California still drawn as an island. Library of Congress scan, prints to 57 cm at 300 dpi.

Antique world map of 1700 by Edward Wells, A new map of the terraqueous globe

Antique World Map 1700 — Wells, Terraqueous Globe

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Oxford, 1700. Two hemispheres of the ancient world, English in the west and Latin in the east, printed at the Theater for Wells's atlas. Library of Congress, map to 51 cm.

Antique world map of 1618 by Nicolaes Geylekerck, Orbis terrarum descriptio in two hemispheres, restored full sheet

Antique World Map 1618 — Geylekerck, Orbis Terrarum Descriptio

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Amsterdam, 1618. Two hemispheres from the Janssonius press, framed by the garden of Eden, the last judgement and the four seasons. Library of Congress, the map prints to 57 cm.

Old World Map — Mappemonde de Leipzig, Jomard's Monuments

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The Leipzig mappemonde, a plate of Jomard's Monuments de la géographie, a collection of old maps reproduced. The record gives 1800. e-rara scan, prints to 28 cm.

Antique world map of 1778 by Louis Brion de la Tour, Mappemonde

Antique World Map 1778 — Brion de la Tour, Mappemonde

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Paris, 1778. Two hand-colored hemispheres just 9 cm across on a sheet of 19 × 24 cm. Restored from the Library of Congress scan and printable to 17 cm at 300 dpi.

Antique World Map 1684 — Sanson, Mappa Mondo

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Rome, 1684. Two hemispheres of 27 cm after Sanson, engraved by J. Luillier and newly corrected from the latest reports. Library of Congress scan, prints to 55 cm.

Antique World Map 1708 — De la Feuille, Mapemonde Planisphere

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Amsterdam, 1708. Two hemispheres on a small copper plate from Les tablettes guerrières, maps chosen for officers and travelers. Polona scan, prints to 43 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 c. 1508 — Egerton Portolan Atlas, Plate 14

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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 14, prints to 30 cm.

Antique World Map 1677 — Duval, Carte Vniverselle du Commerce

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Paris, 1677. A chart of the coasts of the four parts of the world, with ships drawn along the trade routes and California still an island. Library of Congress scan, prints to 53 cm.