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Secunda etas mundi. Folium XIII.
Schedel's world map was based on the cartographic system of Claudius Ptolemy, the great second-century AD geographer whose scholarship formed the foundation for map produ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
[No title] 'Daniel's Dream Map' or 'Wittenberg World Map'.
Wood block print engraved by the famous engravers Jost Amman and Virgil Solis - with their initials in lower bottom of the map. This somewhat curious map of Europe, Afric...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1564
[No title - Daniel's Dream map]
Wood block print engraved by the famous engravers Jost Amman and Virgil Solis - with their initials in lower bottom of the map. This somewhat curious map of Europe, Afric...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1564
Benedict. Arias Montanus Sacrae Geographiae Tabulam Ex Antiq
THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST STATE landmark world map, famed for its depiction of the Australian landmass.One of the earliest printed maps to depict the “terra incognitaâ€...
Place & Date: Anvers 1571 /1572
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio.
Gerard Mercator's great world map of 1569 was condensed into double hemispherical form by his son Rumold. It first appeared in 1587 in Casaubon's edition of Strabo's Geog...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1595-1609
Summa philosophiae quadripartita, de rebus dialecticis, moralibus et metaphysicis . . [ With unrecorded world map ]
On page 107 a finely copper engraved world map (88x84mm.) Paradigma Terrae Plagas 4.ac 12. Ventorum situm indicans., centered on Europe and Africa, with parts of America,...
Place & Date: Leiden, Peter Rigaud, 1626
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica..
The first of four states of the map. French text on verso. One of the most beautiful world maps ever engraved and one of the most influential in promulgating the Californ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630-1633
Nouvelle et exacte description du globe terrestre reveue corrigée et augmente´e suivant les derniéres relations des Anglais et Hollandois. Par Guillaume Blaeu 1645.
Extremely rare and decorative "carte a figures" world map published by Anthoine de Fer. The double hemisphere world map is surrounded by constellations of the A...
Place & Date: Paris, 1645
Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula.
Since its appearance as an Appendix in 1630, the atlas launched by Willem Blaeu and continued by his son Joan had expanded greatly. But despite many new regional maps the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Nova Orbis Tabula in Lucem edita A.F.de Wit.
According to Shirley, De Wit's map is one of the most attractive of its time. The brilliant scenes in the corners combine images of the four seasons, the elements, and th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula.
A beautifully decorative world map taken from the 'English Atlas' by Moses Pitt and Steven Swart, based on an earlier engraved world map by Pieter van den Keere ca. 1630,...
Place & Date: Oxford, 1680
[Il mondo a pezzi - Europa].
Satirical representation of the division of the world by the main European powers. At the center of the scene a globe on which is written "MONDO Maledeto Interesse ...
Place & Date: Bologna, 1690
Mappe-Monde ou carte Universelle. . .
Uncommon world map in Mercator's projection, which first appeared in De Fer's Atlas Curieux.Showing California as an island. Engraved by C.Inselin.Shows the explorer's ro...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Hemisphaerium Orbis Antiqui cumzonis circulis. . .
A chart showing the eastern hemisphere, including north eastern coast of Australia with, superimposed, climatic zones and planetary details. Surround by most decorative s...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1708
Nansenbushu bankoku shoka no zu.
This wall-map is a great example of Japanese world maps representing Buddhist cosmology with real-world cartography. It is the earliest one and - therefore - the prototyp...
Place & Date: Kyoto, (Hoei 7 = Year of the Tiger) 1710
A new and correct map of the world.
The early eighteenth century was one of the most important periods for English cartography. One of the period's most intriguing world maps is this large-scale map which o...
Place & Date: London 1714
[Printed on silk] Nieuw Wassende Graaden Paskaart Vertoonende alle de bekende Zeekusten en Landen op den geheelen Aard Boodem of Werelt door Gerard van Keulen. . .
A very scarce and beautiful chart on Mercator's projection printed on silk. With the name of Gerard van Keulen and the privilege. The map shows great interior detail, inc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1728
Mappe-Monde pour connoitre les progres & les conquestes..
Unusual double hemisphere map with California as an Island. Dutch text describes the expeditions and colonial possessions of the Dutch East India Company. The map origina...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1729
[World and 4 continents] Carte Geographique Astronomique Chronologique et Historique du Monde.
French wall map of the world in 4 sheets published by Crépy "à l'entrée du Cloistre de St. Benoist du côté des maturins". A decorative wall map of the worl...
Place & Date: Paris, 1720-1735
Hemisphere septentrional pour voir plus distinctement les terres arctiques. . .
Showing the Northern Hemisphere with North America, the Arctic, the Pacific, Asia and Europe after the cartographic source by the French map maker Guillaume De Isle. The ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1740
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Matching set of four wallmaps of America, Asia, America, Europe.
Rare and decorative set of four wall maps published by Louis Charles DESNOS ( fl.1750-1770), including a border with vignettes describing native scenes. Each panel is acc...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760-1761
Le globe terrestre representé en deux plans-hemispheres, Dressé sur la Projection de Mr. De la Hyre...
“This splendid GlobeTerrestre originally published by J.B. Nolin is one of the finest large-scale world maps to be produced and is a fitting bridge between the geograph...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1780
Nouvelle Mappa Monde.
State 2 of this fine double hemisphere world map, from an unusual perspective, with a "Mer de L'Ouest" or "Sea of the West". Paris is located at the c...
Place & Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784
Mappemonde ou globe terestre dressée sur les Nouvelles Observations . . .
Scarce world map with all the major early explorers. Jean Baptiste Louis Clouet (born 1730) was a member of the Academie Royale des Sciences de Rouen and the author of Ge...
Place & Date: Paris, Mondhare, 1787
[Set of five maps] Carte Générale de la Terre ou Mappe Monde
Rare and decorative set of five wall maps of the world and the four continents, prepared by Clouet, in very fine bright contemporary coloring. Each map ca. 965 x 1230 mm ...
Place & Date: Paris and Cadiz, Mondhare, 1785-1793
Partie Orientale de la Carte des Anciennes Monarchies. . .
This map depicts the eastern part of the Ancient World, Partie Occidentale de la Carte des Anciennes Monarchies including the Near East, Cyprus, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, I...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1800
Mappe-Monde ou Description du Glôbe Terrestre Assujettie aux Observs Astronoms.
Double hemisphere map with a curious shape for Australia, from Atlas moderne portatif composé de vingt-huit cartes sur toutes les parties du globe terrestre .. A l'usage...
Place & Date: Paris, Prudhomme, Levrault, Debray, 1806
Tableau Sphéroïdal de la Terre ou Mappemonde en deux Hémispères. . .
Large steel engraving presenting the whole World in different projections, namely showing the convexity of the Earth.At the bottom a temperature contour map of the world ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1860
A Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection Shewing the Principal Ocean Steam Routes, the Submarine Telegraphs &c.
Charming, folding world map on Mercator's projection showing extensive steam routes and underground and undersea telegraph cables. The map is annotated in blue and red wi...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1890
World Flight Routes (all in Japanese).
A large very decorative Japanese world map published as sugoroku (a Japanese game which might be compared to backgammon) published as a supplement to the 1930 New Year’...
Place & Date: Osaka, 1930
McCormick's Map of the World.
Colorful promotional map of the 20th century spice trade.What better way to showcase the global composition of a multi-national company than with a world map? This lovely...
Place & Date: United-States, 1931
Carriers of the New Black Plague.
A powerful satirical commentary on totalitarian control of speech from the first issue of Ken Magazine. "Caught here in all their peculiar beauty by the soul searchi...
Place & Date: Chicago, 1938
Nous vaincrons parce que nous sommes les plus forts. Souscrivez aux bons d'armement.
We win because we are the strongest. Support good armaments". Quote by the French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud. French wartime propaganda poster. colored world map - ...
Place & Date: Pars, ca. 1939
British Empire Trade Map WWII Eric Fraser.
Original vintage World War Two period British Empire trade map poster with the stylised text in Spanish reading: For more than two centuries the British fleets have kept ...
Place & Date: England, 1941
Carte de la Charte de L'Antique . . .
The rare French version of this decorative pictorial world map by MacDonald Gill. "This magnificent map drawn up while the Second World War still raged is already en...
Place & Date: London, Alf Cooke Ltd, 1943
Renault Savane 1951 L. La nouvelle voiture mixte 6 / 7 places 800 kg moteur
Original advertising poster for the French car brand Renault, printed by Barreau.Read more about Poster History [+]
Place & Date: Paris, 1951
AIR France - Super constellation, Lockhead L - 10 - 49.
Promotional poster attributed to Lucien Boucher showing of a Lockhead L - 10 - 49 on a Mercator projection world map. The map depicts a pictorial map of the entire world ...
Place & Date: Perceval, Paris, 1953
(World map). Americus Vespucio novo te Duce Ducta Freto Ambivi Meritoqs Vocor.
Manuscript world map showing the American and African continent and the southern parts of Asia. In the Indian Ocean a large depiction of Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512) o...
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1954
AIR France - Le plus grand réseau du monde.
Created in 1959 by the artist Lucien Boucher, showing all of the DC-7 Air France Routes. The Blue Pink Poster is one of a series of eight posters commissioned by Air Fran...
Place & Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, 1959
[TAI travel poster]
A whimsical travel poster for "Transport Aeriens Intercontinentaux" (TAI), published in Paris in 1960, design by François Lesourt (Périgueux, 1913 - 1997). Th...
Place & Date: Paris, Hubert Baille & Cie Paris, 1960
[TAI travel poster]
A whimsical travel poster for "Transport Aeriens Intercontinentaux" (TAI), published in Paris in 1960, by Luc-Marie Bayle (1914-2000). The poster depicts a twin...
Place & Date: Paris, 1960