Antique World Maps — Old World Map Posters & Prints

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.

Antique map of the world known to the ancients, 1714, by Guillaume Delisle, restored full sheet

Antique World Map 1714 — Delisle, Orbis Veteribus Noti

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Paris, 1714. Delisle's circle of the world as the ancient geographers knew it, 49 cm across, engraved at the author's own address. National Library of Poland scan, prints to 99 cm.

Antique World Map 1870 by George Barber — the pharmaceutical or medico-botanical map of the world, full sheet

Antique World Map 1870 — Barber, Pharmaceutical Map

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Liverpool, 1870. Barber maps the world by the plants of the materia medica, naming where each drug plant grows. National Library of Scotland scan, prints to 61 cm.

Antique World Map 1811 — d'Anville, Orbis Veteribus Notus

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Nuremberg, 1811. D'Anville's classical world — Europe, Asia and Africa — hand-colored, with a diagram of the winds and longitude counted from Ferro. Boston Public Library scan, prints to 58 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 1811 — Van Schaack, Most Recent Discoveries

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1811. A hand-drawn world map in pen and watercolor by Mary Van Schaack, two hemispheres of 32 cm. Library of Congress vault item, the map prints to 65 cm.

Antique World Map c. 1807 — Arrowsmith, The World

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London, c. 1807. A hand-colored world in two hemispheres of 22 cm, drawn from the discoveries of the latest voyages. Library of Congress scan, the map prints to 59 cm.

Antique World Map c. 1690 — Morden & Berry, To Capt. John Wood

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London, c. 1690. Mercator's projection on two joined sheets, with California drawn as an island and a north polar inset. Library of Congress, the map prints to 97 cm.

Antique World Map 1715 — Renard, Planisphere

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Amsterdam, 1715. Louis Renard's planisphere of the whole world, made for a book, as its own title says. Museo Naval copy, digitized in Spain, the map prints to 56 cm.

Antique World Map 1652 — Sanson, L'Hydrographie

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Paris, 1652. Sanson's map of the world's waters, with California still drawn as an island. Library of Congress scan, hand colored, the map prints to 54 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 1800 — Wallis, A New Map of the World

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London, 1800. John Wallis's dissected world map, cut into 54 pieces, with six small explanatory maps around it. Library of Congress, the map prints to 41 cm.

Antique map of the world known to the ancients, 1818, drawn by Alexander Macpherson and engraved by Alexander Findlay, restored full sheet

Antique World Map 1818 — Macpherson, Orbis Veteribus Cognitus

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Plate I of Geographiae antiquae, 1818. The world as it was known to the ancients, drawn by Alex. Macpherson and cut by Alex Findlay. Cartoteca Digital scan, prints to 40 cm.

Antique World Map 1628 — Danckerts, Charte Vniuerselle

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Paris, 1628. Two hemispheres of 45 cm, with two celestial hemispheres on the same sheet, colored in green alone in this copy. Library of Congress, the map prints to 93 cm.