Classic World Maps

A collection of historical world maps showing global exploration, routes, and political boundaries from the 17th to 19th centuries.

Orbis terrarum nova et accuratissima tabula, Visscher, Nicolaes (1618-1679)
Orbis terrarum nova et accuratissima tabula, Visscher, Nicolaes (1618-1679)
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A General map of America divided into North and South, and West Indies : with the newest discoveries Cartographic. Maps. 1773-03-02. Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division. America
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1770 Janvier Map of Asia
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Map of the world , World maps Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection
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PRIMER MAPAMUNDI EN EL QUE APARECE AMERICA - 1507. Author: Martin Waldseemüller (c. 1470-1520). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION, MADRID, SPAIN.
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Cornelis De Jodes verdenskart, 1593 - Cartographer Cornelis de Jode.
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Oval Map of the World Showing Three Routes: North West Passage, Route from Spain to Peru and Around c. 1540 Giovanni Battista Agnese T The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
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This map showing the two hemispheres of the world was made for the 2nd Qing Emperor, Kangxi (1662-1722) by the Jesuit Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-88), in 1674. Verbiest was one of a few Jesuits who were employed at the Chinese court during the period. Printed from woodblocks using Mercator's projection, the map was part of a larger geographical work called Kunyu tushuo (Illustrated Discussion of the Geography of the World) and called: Kunyu wanguo quantu (A Map of the Myriad Countries of the World). It was one of a series of maps produced by the Jesuits at the Court in Beijing, beginning with Matteo Ricci's two maps of 1584 and 1602.
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Planisfero settentrionale, corretto, et accresciuto di molte stelle calcolato all' epoca dell' anno 1700 , Stars, Maps, Early works to 1800, Astronomy, Northern Hemisphere, Charts, diagrams, etc, Early works to 1800, Planispheres, Maps, Early works to 1800 Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection
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Planisfero settentrionale, corretto, et accresciuto di molte stelle calcolato all' epoca dell' anno 1700. Also shows constellations. Includes dedication and tables of star magnitudes. In Coronelli's Atlante veneto, v. 1 (Venetia, 1691). Cataloging, conservation, and digitization made possible in part by The National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.... ,
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Map of Africa, 1726, 1726 print Map of Africa. Plate no. 484 in Part XX of the print work: Les Forces de l'Europe, Asie, Afrique et Amerique ... Comme Aussi Les Cartes des Côtes de France et d'Espagne from 1726, this second part with 271 by hand numbered Plates of renowned strong cities and fortresses in the context of the Spanish War of Succession 1701-1713. For the most part, these records have been copied to the anonymous French records of renowned strong cities and forces: in Les Forces de l'Europe and in: Le Theater de la Guerre, Dans Les Pays-Bas, both originally published by Nicolas de Fer in Paris (1693-1697) in the context of the Nine Years' War. Title and inscriptions in French. print maker: Northern Netherlandspublisher: Leiden paper etching / engraving maps of the continents and the polar regions Africa
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Embroidered map sampler 1783 British. Embroidered map sampler. British. 1783. Silk on silk. Textiles-Embroidered
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Map and performances of the fights in Brabant and Limburg, 1793, Daniël Specelewaard (I), After Jacobus van Meurs, 1793 print Medallion with a map of Brabant and Limburg with the march routes during the first coalition war with the French in 1793. With five separate performances of individual events in Venlo, Klundert and Willemstad. Northern Netherlands paper etching / engraving battle (+ land forces) Klundert. Venlo. Willemstad
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Bulb-Shaped World Map 1520.
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Map of the heavens and the earth Cartographic. Maps. 1699. Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division. Stars, Northern Hemisphere, World maps, Constellations, Bible , Geography, Northern sky (Astronomy)
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World Map of Henricus Martellus Germanicus, 1489.
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Nieuwe kaart van America uitgegeven te Amsterdam , Western Hemisphere, Maps, Early works to 1800, America, Maps, Early works to 1800 Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection
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Map - Carte du monde Bernardus Sylvanus (1490-1511)
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Homann's Moon Map.
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Discovery of America in Bibliotheque Nationale. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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World map. Title supplied by cataloger. Cordiform projection. Map is printed in two colors, red and black. Outer map border shows decorative windheads and zodiacal signs. Appears in Ptolemy's Geographia, edited by Bernard Sylvanus. Venetiis : Per Iacobum Pentium de Leucho, anno Domini 1511. The author's name is often given as Bernard Sylvanus (see Shirley entry 32, plate 35) or Bernardus Sylvanus. Cataloging, conservation, and digitization made possible in part by The National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.. The winds, known collectively as Venti, have long been viewed as both bringers of good fortune and sources of chaos. In ancient Greece and Rome, the winds were seen as personas; gods who brought favorable or difficult weather. The Greek philosopher Aristotle (4th cent. BCE) named twelve winds, which are illustrated on this world map in the 1511 edition of Claudius Ptolemys (2nd cent. CE) Geographia. The map also features climate zones, shown here as hor
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World map. 1579. Madrid, Geographic department of the Army. Author: ABRAHAM ORTELIUS (1527-1598). Location: SERVICIO GEOGRAFICO DEL EJERCITO. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Vintage World Pictorial Map of the Colonial British Empire in 1886 by Walter Crane, 19th Century
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Authentische antike Karte. Exploration, Geographie, Vintage Hintergrund Authentische antike Karte. Exploration, Geographie, Vintage Hintergrund Copyright: xZoonar.com/PAOLOxGALLOxMODENAx 22612967
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Heliogravure from 1880-1908 reproducing Michael Ostendorfers 1530 world map of Peter Apian, showing continents, oceans, geographic details, and cartographic symbols in European print style.
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World from Atlas by Abraham Ortelius Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 1570
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Map of Africa ca.1595 Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594/Netherlandish) Royal Geographical Society, London
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Westliche halbkugel , Western Hemisphere, Maps Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection
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Northern Circumpolar Map, Celestial & Astrological Charts
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Index diagram of sheets for the International map on the scale of 1:1,000,000. G.S.G.S. No. 2486. Exhibited in Journeys of the Imagination, at the Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, April - August 2006. MB (BRL). Ushering in an era of international co-operation at the beginning of the 20th century, the world's major countries joined together to create a comprehensive and uniform series of topographic map sheets for the entire world. The participating countries agreed that the proposed series would use standardized map symbols, including hypsometric tints (a gradation of assigned colors) to show elevations. Each map sheet, corresponding to four degrees of latitude and six degrees of longitude, would have a scale of 1:1,000,000 (or 1 inch equals 15.78 miles). Subsequently, the map series was known as the International Map of the World (IMW) or the Millionth Map. Most standard-sized world maps (two by three feet) have a scale in the range of 1:50,000,000 (one inch equals 800 miles). These
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United Kingdom: Map of the World showing the British Empire highlighted in red, London, 1886. The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. At its height, it was the largest empire in history and, for over a century, was the foremost global power.
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Hemelkaart with the constellations, Anonymous, After Pieter Le Clerc, 1780 print Hemelaart with the constellations. With this card one would designate the stars for a hundred years, from 1780, both during the day and at night. The book 'Description of a heaven card (...)', written by Pieter Le Clerc, explains how to use the card. paper engraving / etching star-chart, star map. zodiac; the twelve zodiacal signs together
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After a map from 1671 of the Americas by Dutch cartographer Gerard van Schagen. It shows California as an island. Its full name is Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae Descriptio.
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Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio. Cartographic. Maps. 1573. Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division. America , Maps , Early works to 1800
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World map; Mapemonde Planisphere Ou Carte General Du Monde / General Wareld card. Map of the world, divided into a western and eastern hemisphere. Part of an Atlas with 223 maps of countries and cities and war scaffolding in Europe in the period approx. 1690-1735.
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A new and correct map of the United States of North America layd down from the latest observations and best authorities agreeable to the peace of 1783 Cartographic. Prints, Maps. 1784. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. cartouches, United States, Canada
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Atlas des enfans..., Frontispiece Frontispice. Frontispieces, Illustrations. 1790. Rare Book Division. Geography
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Map of Africa, 1645, Blaeu, Guillaume.
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A map of the world known by Ptolemy as shown on a Mercator projection. Dated 18th century
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04/30/2014. Seville. 04/30/14. Report from the university archive, depository of old bibliographical funds. Photos: Jose Galiana. Archsev.
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New map of Europe. (IT)
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1856 Burritt - Huntington Map of the Constellations or Stars in October, November and December
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Seven miles around Jerusalem : from original surveys and observations. Seven colored concentric circles drawn around Jerusalem with sites identified. Relief shown by hachures. Includes legend, glossary of Arabic terms, key to places of interest and note. Publisher's advertisement pasted on inside of front cover.... , Israel , Jerusalem ,territory
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Seven miles around Jerusalem : from original surveys and observations , Jerusalem, Antiquities, Maps Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection
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A map of the world on a globular projection : exhibiting particularly the nautical researches of Captain James Cook, F.R.S. : with all the recent discoveries to the present time , World maps, Early works to 1800, Western Hemisphere, Maps, Early works to 1800, Eastern Hemisphere, Maps, Early works to 1800 Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection
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Allegory of the 1st partition of Poland, showing Catherine II of Russia (left), Joseph II of Austria and Frederick the Great of Prussia (right). The First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth took place in 1772 as the first of three partitions that ended the existence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1975. Dated 1795.
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Hemelkaart van het Zuidelijk Hemelrond, Albrecht Dürer, After Conrad Heinfogel, 1515 print paper letterpress printing stars, represented symbolically or allegorically. star-chart, star map. armorial bearing, heraldry
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Mappemonde projetee sur l'horizon d'Angers. Manuscript map by a schoolgirl attending the institution of Madamoiselle Le Bailleul in Angers. Double hemisphere map depicts a northern hemisphere centered on Angers and a southern hemisphere centered on Angers' antipode. Includes a colored view of Beaupreau. Relief shown pictorially. Inset: Vue de Beaupreau. "Exposition du 2 Septembre 1839." "Institution de Melle. Le Bailleul.". Women in Cartography: This student map depicts the world in a double-hemisphere, centering the left half on Angers, France, and the right on its antipode, or opposite point on earth. Drawn by a French girl in 1839, this thoughtfully conceived map includes two colored views and extensive calligraphy in a fine hand. The unusual elliptical design places the northern and southern borders meshing with the two hemispheres for a unique overall presentation of the world, most likely based on a similar map from an early 19th-century French world atlas... , World
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Antarctica map showing the various national zones or bases for countries including the UK; France; USA; Russia. 1958
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1850s BURRITT-HUNTINGTON MAP OF VARIOUS STAR GROUPS OR CONSTELLATIONS FOR EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR FOR THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE - ks38499 NAW001 HARS REPRESENTATION
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Globes. April 21, 1950.
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mappamondo, 1957
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Map of the municipality of Paris / Since the times and oldest in its history, to the memorable headquarters of 1870-1871. (IT)