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Ancient Maps and Plans - An old map of a large body of water

Public domain scan of 17th-18th century dutch print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and Black Seas with the west coas...

Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines. Title devised by cataloguer. Fragmentary signature on upper right portion leading into neck reads "Io Placid...". Oriented with north to the right (in... More

Europae. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Includes notes, ill., and cartouche with dedicaton and text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Fold-lined. LC copy imperfect: Margin in upper a... More

Die neuwen Inseln, so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land India...

Relief shown pictorially. South America labeled in German, geographic features otherwise in Latin. Appears in the author's Cosmographei. Basel, Switzerland. 1550. Available also through the Library of Congress ... More

Irlandiae regnum. Historic map, Library of Congress

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

[Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc. Dedicated to Hierony...

Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on vellum. Each double-page illumination (col. diagrs., col. maps) 21 x 29 cm. Compass rose on inside back cover. "Maps 1, 2, and 10 show America. No. 1 shows the Gulf of... More

[Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea ca. 1320-1350 : manuscript ch...

Anonymous nautical chart in portolan style probably drawn in Genoa. Covers Mediterranean Sea from the Balearic Islands to the Levantine coast; also covers western part of Black Sea. Oldest original cartographic... More

[Chart of the Mediterranean, Black Sea, and the coasts of western Euro...

Nova et rece terraum et regnorum Californae, nouae Hispaiae Mexicanae,...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Vault

China - Ancient Maps and Plans - Public domain old map

Paris - Ancient Maps and Plans - Public domain old map

Public domain image of a vintage city plan, 18th-19th century map, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc. Dedicated to Hierony...

Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on vellum. Each double-page illumination (col. diagrs., col. maps) 21 x 29 cm. Compass rose on inside back cover. "Maps 1, 2, and 10 show America. No. 1 shows the Gulf of... More

[Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc. Dedicated to Hierony...

Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on vellum. Each double-page illumination (col. diagrs., col. maps) 21 x 29 cm. Compass rose on inside back cover. "Maps 1, 2, and 10 show America. No. 1 shows the Gulf of... More

Hua yi tu. Historic map, Library of Congress

Stone rubbing dated 1903? Original stone was engraved in Fuchang 7 nian, i.e. 1136 A.D. The stone is now in the Forest of Stone Steles Museum in Xi'an, China. Covers China in Nan Song Dynasty, from east to the ... More

Noua, et integra uniuersi orbis descriptio /

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Americae sive qvartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio /

Public domain scan of an 18th-century map, vintage, old city plan, fortifications, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Yu ji tu. Historic map, Library of Congress

(1881) - T1 - Globus des J. Schöner a. d. J. 1520

(1881) - T2 - Globus des J. Schöner a. d. J. 1515

Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati f...

The first part, originally published in 1585, is composed of three fascicles, each with a special t. p.: Galliæ tabulę geographicæ ; Belgii Inferioris geographicæ tabulę ; Germaniae tabulę geographicæ. The ... More

Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni tÿpus., Abraham Ortelius

Covers northern Asia. Relief shown pictorially. From Abraham Ortelius's atlas: Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm, 1603 ed. Hand col. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes tex... More

[Portolan chart of the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and the coasts of...

Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines. Title devised by cataloguer. Contains 4 compass roses in a circle centered in Italy to the north of Rome and half of a fifth on the trimmed center lef... More

Map of America by Diego Ribero 1529.

Spanish; title in English. Pen-and-ink and blue watercolor, mounted on cloth, mounted on paper. Traced from a map by Diego Ribero. On label affixed in upper right corner: 41. Available also through the Library ... More

[Atlas, dressed like an ancient king, holding earth centered universe ...

Illus. in: The cosmographical glasse / William Cuningham. Excusum Londini : I Day, 1559. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 16.

Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam vera descriptio. Anno Do: M D LXXXV...

Intended to accompany: Ubaldini, Petruccio. A discourse concerninge the Spanishe fleete invadinge Englande in the yeare 1588. Some of the plates are signed by Robert Adams, artist, and Augustine Ryther, engrav... More

[San Juan de Ulúa / - Public domain vintage map

Ground plan of a projected fortress. In black ink, with a part in yellow watercolor, on vellum. Mounted on cloth. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, 47 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a r... More

Asia. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Includes notes, ill., and cartouche with text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Fold-lined. LC copy imperfect: Margin in upper and lower left ... More

Ancient Maps and Plans - Public domain vintage map

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Tongguk yŏjido. Historic map, Library of Congress

Romanized. Purchased from Shannon McCune in 1982. Annotated catalogue of old Korean atlases and maps in the Library of Congress, p. 7, McCune #1 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a rast... More

[Portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea, western Europe, and the nort...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[La Coruña. El Ferrol, Spain] - Public domain old map

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[Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc. Dedicated to Hierony...

Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on vellum. Each double-page illumination (col. diagrs., col. maps) 21 x 29 cm. Compass rose on inside back cover. "Maps 1, 2, and 10 show America. No. 1 shows the Gulf of... More

[Mapa del Golfo y costa de la Nueva España : desde el Río de Panuco ha...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows the coast from the vicinity of the Cape Fear River in North Carolina of the United States, location of Indian settlements, and lakes and rivers in the region to the Pánuco River ... More

Loeven, Flanders - Public domain city architecture engraving

Frans Hogenberg (1535 – 1590) was a Flemish and German painter, engraver, and mapmaker. Hogenberg was born in Mechelen as the son of Nicolaas Hogenberg In 1568 he was banned from Antwerp by the Duke of Alva. Ge... More

Mons Olivarum S - Cootwijck Johannes Van - 1619

Johannes Van Cootwijck. Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum et Syriacum, Antwerp, Ηieronymus Verdussen, 1619.

[Portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea, western Europe, and the nort...

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[Map and views illustrating Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage, 15...

The first engraving is a map of Drake's voyage [showing Europe, western Africa, northern South America, and eastern North America]; the four other engravings consist of bird's-eye battle plan views of the citie... More

Pingjiang tu. Historic map, Library of Congress

Stone rubbing dated between 1858 and 1869. One of the earliest and biggest stone rubbing maps in China. Original stone was engraved in 1229 under Li Shoupeng. The map is now in the Museum of Engraved Stone Tabl... More

Africa. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes notes, ill., and cartouche with text. Fold-lined. LC copy imperfect: Margin in upper and lower left ... More

[Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and connecting seas]. nautical ch...

Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines. Does not cover Black Sea. Title devised by cataloguer. Oriented with north to the right (indicated by fleurs-de-lys). Contains 11 compass roses in a c... More

FLAMINUS(1681) p255 Nr.4 - EUROPA PARS, HELLESPONTUS

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[Portolan chart of the Pacific coast from Mexico to northern Chile].

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[Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc. Dedicated to Hierony...

Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on vellum. Each double-page illumination (col. diagrs., col. maps) 21 x 29 cm. Compass rose on inside back cover. "Maps 1, 2, and 10 show America. No. 1 shows the Gulf of... More

Yu ji tu. Historic map, Library of Congress

Stone rubbing dated 1903? One of the earliest stone maps, it consists of 5,110 grids, each grid is approximately 100 li. Original stone was engraved in Fuchang 7 nian, i.e. 1136 A.D. The stone is now in the For... More

Vera totius expeditionis nauticæ : descriptio D. Franc. Draci ... /

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Von den newen Inseln : der Statt Themistitan in den newen Inseln geleg...

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated in ink: "From an unidentified German edition of Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia Universalis, 1597 or later. Bought f... More

China - Ancient Maps and Plans - Public domain old map

Public domain scan of an 18th-century map, vintage, old, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Ancient Maps and Plans - Public domain vintage map

Peruuiae avriferæ regionis typus /, Abraham Ortelius

Shows portion of Central America, northwestern South America, southern United States, and coast of Tamaulipas in Mexico. Relief shown pictorially. Appears in the author's Theatrum orbis terrarum. Includes ill. ... More

Tongguk yŏjido. Historic map, Library of Congress

Romanized. Purchased from Shannon McCune in 1982. Annotated catalogue of old Korean atlases and maps in the Library of Congress, p. 7, McCune #1 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a rast... More

[Map and views illustrating Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage, 15...

The first engraving is a map of Drake's voyage [showing Europe, western Africa, northern South America, and eastern North America]; the four other engravings consist of bird's-eye battle plan views of the citie... More

Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Ve...

Relief shown pictorially. First document known to name America. Red ink grid on 2 sheets. Text applied over blank areas on 2 sheets. Manuscript annotations in the margin of 1 sheet. All sheets bear a watermark ... More

[Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc. Dedicated to Hierony...

Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on vellum. Each double-page illumination (col. diagrs., col. maps) 21 x 29 cm. Compass rose on inside back cover. "Maps 1, 2, and 10 show America. No. 1 shows the Gulf of... More

[Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc. Dedicated to Hierony...

Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on vellum. Each double-page illumination (col. diagrs., col. maps) 21 x 29 cm. Compass rose on inside back cover. "Maps 1, 2, and 10 show America. No. 1 shows the Gulf of... More

Puzzle initial from BL Arundel 93, ff. 91v-92

Cadels and puzzle initial. Image taken from ff. 91v-92 of Bibliotheca historiarum, in the translation of Poggio Bracciolini. Written in Latin. The Arundel Manuscript Collection was amassed by the Howard family... More

Image from BL Arundel 93, f. 143v

Image taken from f. 143v of Bibliotheca historiarum, in the translation of Poggio Bracciolini. Written in Latin. The Arundel Manuscript Collection was amassed by the Howard family, particularly Thomas Howard, ... More

Puzzle initial from BL Arundel 93, f. 32

Puzzle initial 'S'. Image taken from f. 32 of Bibliotheca historiarum, in the translation of Poggio Bracciolini. Written in Latin. The Arundel Manuscript Collection was amassed by the Howard family, particular... More

Image from BL Arundel 93, f. 154

Image taken from f. 154 of Bibliotheca historiarum, in the translation of Poggio Bracciolini. Written in Latin. The Arundel Manuscript Collection was amassed by the Howard family, particularly Thomas Howard, t... More

Image from BL Arundel 93, f. 141

Image taken from f. 141 of Bibliotheca historiarum, in the translation of Poggio Bracciolini. Written in Latin. The Arundel Manuscript Collection was amassed by the Howard family, particularly Thomas Howard, t... More

Image from BL Arundel 93, f. 148v

Image taken from f. 148v of Bibliotheca historiarum, in the translation of Poggio Bracciolini. Written in Latin. The Arundel Manuscript Collection was amassed by the Howard family, particularly Thomas Howard, ... More

Puzzle initial from BL Arundel 93, f. 48

Detail of puzzle initial. Image taken from f. 48 of Bibliotheca historiarum, in the translation of Poggio Bracciolini. Written in Latin. The Arundel Manuscript Collection was amassed by the Howard family, part... More

Image from BL Arundel 93, f. 146v

Image taken from f. 146v of Bibliotheca historiarum, in the translation of Poggio Bracciolini. Written in Latin. The Arundel Manuscript Collection was amassed by the Howard family, particularly Thomas Howard, ... More

Danzig - Ancient Maps and Plans

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Great Mandarin - China - Ancient Maps and Plans

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Ancient Maps and Plans - Public domain vintage map

Ancient Maps and Plans - Public domain vintage map

Ancient Maps and Plans - Public domain vintage map

Ancient Maps and Plans - Public domain vintage map

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Ancient Maps and Plans - Public domain vintage map

Versailles - Ancient Maps and Plans - Public domain map

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Ancient Maps and Plans - Public domain vintage map

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Mons - Belgian city, and the capital of the province of Hainaut in the...

Frans Hogenberg (1535 – 1590) was a Flemish and German painter, engraver, and mapmaker. Hogenberg was born in Mechelen as the son of Nicolaas Hogenberg In 1568 he was banned from Antwerp by the Duke of Alva. Ge... More

Mariebourg, Flanders - Public domain map engraving

Frans Hogenberg (1535 – 1590) was a Flemish and German painter, engraver, and mapmaker. Hogenberg was born in Mechelen as the son of Nicolaas Hogenberg In 1568 he was banned from Antwerp by the Duke of Alva. Ge... More

Tornacum, Flanders - Public domain city architecture engraving

Frans Hogenberg (1535 – 1590) was a Flemish and German painter, engraver, and mapmaker. Hogenberg was born in Mechelen as the son of Nicolaas Hogenberg In 1568 he was banned from Antwerp by the Duke of Alva. Ge... More

Theatro del Mondo di Abraamo Ortelio 1655 (107305449)

Polski: Adres wydawniczy: Venetia : per il Turrini, [1655]Współtwórcy: Turrini, Giovanni Maria (16-post 1665) DrukOpis fizyczny: 1 atlas ([8], 231, [17], 12 stron) : mapy, miedzioryt ; 8° (14x9 cm)

Theatro del Mondo di Abraamo Ortelio 1655 (107305648)

Polski: Adres wydawniczy: Venetia : per il Turrini, [1655]Współtwórcy: Turrini, Giovanni Maria (16-post 1665) DrukOpis fizyczny: 1 atlas ([8], 231, [17], 12 stron) : mapy, miedzioryt ; 8° (14x9 cm)

Theatro del Mondo di Abraamo Ortelio 1655 (107305657)

Polski: Adres wydawniczy: Venetia : per il Turrini, [1655]Współtwórcy: Turrini, Giovanni Maria (16-post 1665) DrukOpis fizyczny: 1 atlas ([8], 231, [17], 12 stron) : mapy, miedzioryt ; 8° (14x9 cm)

Theatro del Mondo di Abraamo Ortelio 1655 (107306115)

Polski: Adres wydawniczy: Venetia : per il Turrini, [1655]Współtwórcy: Turrini, Giovanni Maria (16-post 1665) DrukOpis fizyczny: 1 atlas ([8], 231, [17], 12 stron) : mapy, miedzioryt ; 8° (14x9 cm)

Theatro del Mondo di Abraamo Ortelio 1655 (107306214)

Polski: Adres wydawniczy: Venetia : per il Turrini, [1655]Współtwórcy: Turrini, Giovanni Maria (16-post 1665) DrukOpis fizyczny: 1 atlas ([8], 231, [17], 12 stron) : mapy, miedzioryt ; 8° (14x9 cm)

FLAMINUS(1681) p211 Nr.2 - Land Kart des Gelobten Lands

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FLAMINUS(1681) p276 Nr.10 - MALTA - INSOLA

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Liber Insularum Cycladum (Arundel MS 93.art.7, f.144r)

Panaya

Asie Mineure au temps d'Alexandre le Grand - Texier Charles Félix Mari...

Félix Marie Charles Texier. Asie Mineure. Description géographique, historique et archéologique des provinces et des villes de la Chersonnèse d’Asie, Paris, Firmin-Didot, MDCCCLXXXII (1882).

Baye de Sofa - Roux Joseph - 1804 - Public domain map

Recueil des principaux plans, des ports, et rades de la Méditerranée, chez Yves Gravier Libraire sous la Loge de Banchi, 1804

Carte de la plaine de Troie levée en 1786 et 1787 - Choiseul-gouffier ...

Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste Comte de Choiseul-Gouffier. Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce. Paris, J.-J. Blaise M.DCCC.IX, (1782 1st volume, 1809 2nd volume, 1822 3rd volume, 1842 2nd edition)

Citta di Corinto - Coronelli Vincenzo - 1688

Vincenzo Coronelli - Repubblica di Venezia p. IV. Citta, Fortezze, ed altri Luoghi principali dell' Albania, Epiro e Livadia, e particolarmente i posseduti da Veneti descritti e delineati dal p. Coronelli, Venice, 1688.

Conquista dell Serenissima Republica di Venetia nella Morea sotto le c...

Vincenzo Coronelli - Repubblica di Venezia p. IV. Citta, Fortezze, ed altri Luoghi principali dell' Albania, Epiro e Livadia, e particolarmente i posseduti da Veneti descritti e delineati dal p. Coronelli, Venice, 1688.

Di Hungaria et Transilvania - Rosaccio Giuseppe - 1598

Giuseppe Rosaccio. Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli : per mare, e per terra & insieme quello di Terra Santa, Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598

Disegno topograficode luoghi dell'Acarnania hoggidi Carnia nelle coste...

Vincenzo Coronelli - Repubblica di Venezia p. IV. Citta, Fortezze, ed altri Luoghi principali dell' Albania, Epiro e Livadia, e particolarmente i posseduti da Veneti descritti e delineati dal p. Coronelli, Venice, 1688.

Durazo - Rosaccio Giuseppe - 1598 - Public domain map

Giuseppe Rosaccio. Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli : per mare, e per terra & insieme quello di Terra Santa, Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598

Golfe de Salonique - Roux Joseph - 1804

Recueil des principaux plans, des ports, et rades de la Méditerranée, chez Yves Gravier Libraire sous la Loge de Banchi, 1804

Insula Thune - Sandrart Jacob Von - 1687

Jacob von Sandrart. Kurtze und vermehrte Beschreibung von dem Ursprung, Aufnehmen, Gebiete und Regierung der weltberühmten Republik Venedig, Nürnberg, Kupfferstechern und Kunst-Händlern, 1687.

Insula Metileme - Sandrart Jacob Von - 1686

Jacob von Sandrart. Kurtze und vermehrte Beschreibung von dem Ursprung, Aufnehmen, Gebiete und Regierung der weltberühmten Republik Venedig, Nürnberg, Kupfferstechern und Kunst-Händlern, 1687.

Insula Scio - Sandrart Jacob Von - 1687

Jacob von Sandrart. Kurtze und vermehrte Beschreibung von dem Ursprung, Aufnehmen, Gebiete und Regierung der weltberühmten Republik Venedig, Nürnberg, Kupfferstechern und Kunst-Händlern, 1687.

Isle Estampalie - Roux Joseph - 1804

Recueil des principaux plans, des ports, et rades de la Méditerranée, chez Yves Gravier Libraire sous la Loge de Banchi, 1804

Mistra D'après le plan de l'ouvrage «Monuments byzantins de Mistra», d...

Francesco Perilla. Mistra. Histoires franques-byzantines-catalanes en Grèce, notes d’art et de voyages. Dessins-aquarelles-photographies de l’auteur, Athens, Éditions Perilla (1929).

Murgo - Rosaccio Giuseppe - 1598 - Public domain old map

Giuseppe Rosaccio. Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli : per mare, e per terra & insieme quello di Terra Santa, Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598

Plan de l'isle Spine Longue sur l'isle Candie - Roux Joseph - 1804

Recueil des principaux plans, des ports, et rades de la Méditerranée, chez Yves Gravier Libraire sous la Loge de Banchi, 1804

Plan de la ville et des ports de Rhodes - Choiseul-gouffier Gabriel Fl...

Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste Comte de Choiseul-Gouffier. Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce. Paris, J.-J. Blaise M.DCCC.IX, (1782 1st volume, 1809 2nd volume, 1822 3rd volume, 1842 2nd edition)

Plan de la ville de Pergame - Choiseul-gouffier Gabriel Florent August...

Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste Comte de Choiseul-Gouffier. Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce. Paris, J.-J. Blaise M.DCCC.IX, (1782 1st volume, 1809 2nd volume, 1822 3rd volume, 1842 2nd edition)