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Gerard de Jode 1593 Map Southern hemisphere

Gerard de Jode 1593 Map Southern hemisphere

Latina: Hemisperium ab aequinoctiali linea, ad circulum poli antarctici. Antwerp 1593 English: Map of the Southern hemispere, Antwerp 1593. Color print from copper engraving (printer Arnold Coninx), 33 x 52 cm

Tabula Terre Nove - Public domain vintage map

Tabula Terre Nove - Public domain vintage map

Map of the New World (Tabula Terre Nove), an extra-Ptolemaic map of the lands around the South Atlantic by Martin Waldseemüller(1513)

Great Burgerzaal Map

Great Burgerzaal Map

The Amsterdam City Hall Floor Map (De Grondt en Vloer vande Groote Burger Sael), a 29.5x17 in. print of a hand-colored copperplate from Jacob von Campden's 1661 Afbeelding van't Stadt Huys van Amsterdam depict... More

1646 New Speed Kaerius

1646 New Speed Kaerius

A New and Accurat Map of the World, marking the Gulf of Carpentaria as the Mare Lanthidol. The Hebrew name of G-d YHWH is written between the hemispheres. Nederlands: Kaartje v d wereld: A New And Accurat Map... More

Castiglione Map

Castiglione Map

A replica of the 1525 "navigation map on parchment" held at Baldassare Castiglione's estate in Toledo, detailed in inventory of his library commissioned by his mother on 4 February 1530. Held by his heirs unti... More

Jan-of-Stobnica-Cosmographiam-of-Ptolemy

Jan-of-Stobnica-Cosmographiam-of-Ptolemy

Map of North and South America showing the connection of the two continents by an isthmus. Published in Introductio in Ptholomei Cosmographiam (Introduction to the Cosmography of Ptolemy) by Jan of Stobnica, 1512

Taboas Geraes de Toda a Navegacao

Taboas Geraes de Toda a Navegacao

João Teixeira Albernaz's 1630 "General Chart for All Navigation" (Taboas Geraes de Toda a Navegação), presumably based on the Portuguese royal standard map (Padrão Real) of the era, with the demarcation lines ... More

World Map 1595 - Public domain vintage map

World Map 1595 - Public domain vintage map

Latin: Typus orbis terrarumtitle QS:P1476,la:"Typus orbis terrarum" label QS:Lla,"Typus orbis terrarum" English: World Map, 1595. A quotation from Cicero on the lower margin: Quid ei potest videri magnum in ... More

Geographic Chart of the Kingdom of Chile WDL3968

Geographic Chart of the Kingdom of Chile WDL3968

Русский: Данная карта, составленная чилийским священником-иезуитом Алонсо де Овалле (1601–1651 гг.), представлена в его книге Histórica Relación del Reyno de Chile ("Повествование об истории Королевства Чили")... More

PSM V49 D338 Map of the unknown polar regions

PSM V49 D338 Map of the unknown polar regions

Map of the Arctic from Proposed System of Continuous Polar Exploration from Volume 49 of the Popular Science Monthly.

Claudius Ptolemaeus - Geographiae opus novissima traductione e Grecorum archetypis castigatissime pressum

Claudius Ptolemaeus - Geographiae opus novissima traductione e Grecoru...

Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus). Geographiae opus novissima traductione e Grecorum archetypis castigatissime pressum. Translated from the Greek into Latin by Mathias Ringmann. Strassburg: Johannes Schott, 12 March 1513.

Flickr - USCapitol - Terra Incognita

Flickr - USCapitol - Terra Incognita

EverGreene Painting Studios Oil on Canvas 1993-1994 The map is inscribed "Terra Incognita" (Latin for "Unknown Territory"). On it, the names of the original Native American tribes of the eastern coast of North ... More

Atlas nautique du Monde Baptista Agnese Januensis fecit Venetijs anno domini 1543 die 25 juny - btv1b5901086g (15 of 21)

Atlas nautique du Monde Baptista Agnese Januensis fecit Venetijs anno ...

Français : Sujet : Monde Ancien possesseur : Piccolomini. Ancien possesseur Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : PortulFr Couverture : Monde Langue : multilingue

Map North America 1566 - Public domain vintage map

Map North America 1566 - Public domain vintage map

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

1665 Kircher Map of the World (Earliest Map of World to Show Currents) - Geographicus - GeoHydro-kircher-1665

1665 Kircher Map of the World (Earliest Map of World to Show Currents)...

A rare and spectacular 1665 map of the world by the extraordinary Germany scholar Athanasius Kircher. This is most likely the first world map to depict the oceans currents. Shows the entire world in accordanc... More

Atlas nautique du Monde Baptista Agnese Januensis fecit Venetijs anno domini 1543 die 25 juny - btv1b5901086g (08 of 21)

Atlas nautique du Monde Baptista Agnese Januensis fecit Venetijs anno ...

Français : Sujet : Monde Ancien possesseur : Piccolomini. Ancien possesseur Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : PortulFr Couverture : Monde Langue : multilingue

Weimar 1527

Weimar 1527

c. 1900 reproduction on 12 linen canvases for Edward Luther Stevenson of the 1527 Weimar world map, believed to be a reproduction by Diogo Ribeiro of the Spanish Padron Real (Royal Standard Map) held at the Se... More

Hemisphere Occidental Dressé en 1720 pour l'usage particulier du Roy sur les Observations Astronimiques et Geographiques (MAPS 35)

Hemisphere Occidental Dressé en 1720 pour l'usage particulier du Roy s...

Copper engraving handcolored with watercolor. Full color. Mounted on muslin. Relief shown pictorially. Printed at top of map: "Hemisphere Occidental Dressé en 1720 pour l'usage particulier du Roy sur les Obser... More

Juan Vespucci 1526

Juan Vespucci 1526

Deutsch: Vespuccis Weltkarte von 1526 ist eine vermutlich Kopie des Padrón Real und war wahrscheinlich als Geschenk für Karl V. anlässlich seiner Hochzeit mit Isabella von Portugal am 10. März 1526 in Sevilla gedacht..

Mer Orientale, où l'on trouve l'isle de Jedso, de laquelle on doutoit si c'étoit une isle ou non - btv1b550030195

Mer Orientale, où l'on trouve l'isle de Jedso, de laquelle on doutoit ...

Français : Sujet : Japon, Mer du Kamtchatka, Presqu'Île du Japon -- Côtes Corée, Péninsule de -- Côtes Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : FranceJp0 Couverture : Russie Japon Langue : français

Planisferio Salviati

Planisferio Salviati

A 1525 or 1526 map of the world given by Charles V to Giovanni Cardinal Salviati, who officiated Charles's wedding to Isabel of Portugal in Seville in 1526, thought to be a copy of the Spanish Padron Real (roy... More