Antique Maps

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

Regions and Seasons: In Greek mythology, the Horae – a group of three rain-giving goddesses – ruled over natural order and the seasons, and through their gift of water from the heavens they brought agricultural More

Syracuse, the main city of classical Sicily, was settled by the Corinthians in the 8th century BCE. By the 2nd century CE, Syracuse was under Roman control, and it was during this time that the first burials to More

Relief shown in hachures. From: An atlas to accompany Productive geography. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy stamped on: 626888.

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The Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae is a collection of engravings of Rome and Roman antiquities, the core of which consists of prints published by Antonio Lafreri and gathered under a title page he printed in t More

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

Scale not given. Stone rubbing dated 1933? 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, More

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

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

This image has been taken from scan 000309 from "Köln und seine Bauten. Festschrift zur VIII. Wanderversammlung des Verbandes deutscher Architekten- und Ingenieur-Vereine in Köln ... 1888. Herausgegeben vom A More

This image has been taken from scan 000355 from volume 02 of "Magyarország 1848/49. évi függetlenségi harczának katonai története. Irta: B. J. [i.e. Breit J.]". The title and subject terms of this image More

This image has been taken from scan 000015 from "Las siete centurias de ciudad de Alfonso VIII. Recuerdos históricos de la ... ciudad de Plasencia, en Estremadura, etc". The title and subject terms of this ima More

This image has been taken from scan 000349 from volume 02 of "Magyarország 1848/49. évi függetlenségi harczának katonai története. Irta: B. J. [i.e. Breit J.]". The title and subject terms of this image More

This image has been taken from scan 000455 from volume 02 of "Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey; edited from manuscript journals, by R. Walpole. (Travels in various countries of the East; being a More

This image has been taken from scan 000427 from "Köln und seine Bauten. Festschrift zur VIII. Wanderversammlung des Verbandes deutscher Architekten- und Ingenieur-Vereine in Köln ... 1888. Herausgegeben vom A More

This image has been taken from scan 000349 from volume 01 of "Magyarország 1848/49. évi függetlenségi harczának katonai története. Irta: B. J. [i.e. Breit J.]". The title and subject terms of this image More

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

Literary map. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Paris. Red, blue, and black ink and watercolor. Includes 6 ancillary maps. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LMP Vault

Covers vicinity of Center Market bounded by 4th, B, 11th, and D streets N.W. Shows block outlines, numbers, and dimensions. Pen-and-ink (black and brown) on tracing linen. Probably traced by Dr. Joseph M. Toner More

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

Public domain document scan of Eastern Europe map, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Illus. in: Claudii Ptholemei Alexandrini philosophi Cosmographia. Rome : Arnoldus Buckinck, 10 Oct. (VI Idus Octobris) 1478. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Le More

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

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

Asie maioris tabule decem quarum prima Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special More

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The classical Greek and Roman world view is known to us through the writings of Claudius Ptolemy, a 2nd century A.D. astronomer, mathematician, and geographer who lived in Alexandria, Egypt. Although his origin More

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France Courtesy of Boston Public Library

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

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special More

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

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special More

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

Public domain scan of a vintage map, city plan, atlas, cartoghraphy, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special More

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special More

Public domain scan of a vintage map, city plan, atlas, cartoghraphy, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special More

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

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special More

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

Public domain scan of a 17th-18th-century map, vintage, old, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special More

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special More

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special More

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

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

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special More

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special More

Decima Asia tabula continet India int. Gangem Courtesy of Boston Public Library

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The circular world map that appeared in the 1475 Latin edition of ''Rudimentum Novitorium'' and its subsequent French translations is considered the first printed map of the world. Drawn in the tradition of Med More

Public domain image of German master print from the National Gallery of Art collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Although published just as news of Christopher Columbus's discoveries was beginning to spread, this was the last noteworthy world map to be produced without any indication of the New World. This depiction of th More

Casmirus | Lubeca | Cracovia Courtesy of Boston Public Library

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Casmirus | Lubeca | Cracovia Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Beneath Our Feet: Mapping of the features beneath the ocean’s surface began in Europe in the late-16th century, with cartographers using simple symbols such as soundings (numbers that indicate depth in fathoms) More

Located at the southeastern base of Mount Vesuvius, the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii were discovered in the late 16th century; however, serious archaeological excavations did not begin at the site until More

This modern navigational chart serves as a reminder that England is an island nation off the coast of Europe and that seafaring was an important activity in its history, especially since the late 16th century. More

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

Using the latest advances in modern technology for gathering depth soundings and generating automated cartography, this chart was prepared primarily for navigational purposes, testifying to sailors' continual q More

Wall map of history of territorial expansion of the Russian Empire (European portion) in the 16th and 17th centuries. Relief shown by hachures. Also covers Baltic States, Poland-Lithuania, and Moldavia. Title f More

In 1507, the same year that Martin Waldseemüller issued three works announcing the existence of a new continent which he named America, Johann Ruysch published a totally different world map. This rendition, wh More

Bernardus Sylvanus or Bernardo Silvani, was an Italian scholar and printer born in the 1460s. In 1511 he published a single edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, the first printed using two-color woodblocks.

India Citra Gangem Fluvium Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Bernardus Sylvanus or Bernardo Silvani, was an Italian scholar and printer born in the 1460s. In 1511 he published a single edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, the first printed using two-color woodblocks.

Bernardus Sylvanus or Bernardo Silvani, was an Italian scholar and printer born in the 1460s. In 1511 he published a single edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, the first printed using two-color woodblocks.

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 di More

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

Public domain image of an artwork, medieval, renaissance, 14th, 15th, 16th-century art, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Bernardus Sylvanus or Bernardo Silvani, was an Italian scholar and printer born in the 1460s. In 1511 he published a single edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, the first printed using two-color woodblocks.

Bernardus Sylvanus or Bernardo Silvani, was an Italian scholar and printer born in the 1460s. In 1511 he published a single edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, the first printed using two-color woodblocks.

Bernardus Sylvanus or Bernardo Silvani, was an Italian scholar and printer born in the 1460s. In 1511 he published a single edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, the first printed using two-color woodblocks.

Bernardus Sylvanus or Bernardo Silvani, was an Italian scholar and printer born in the 1460s. In 1511 he published a single edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, the first printed using two-color woodblocks.

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As the first map printed in two colors, this is a monument to map printing. The place names in capital letters were printed in red ink by means of type set into the woodblocks. The decorative windheads, zodiaca More

Bernardus Sylvanus or Bernardo Silvani, was an Italian scholar and printer born in the 1460s. In 1511 he published a single edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, the first printed using two-color woodblocks.

Public domain scan of an 16th-century map, vintage, old, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Bernardus Sylvanus or Bernardo Silvani, was an Italian scholar and printer born in the 1460s. In 1511 he published a single edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, the first printed using two-color woodblocks.

Ptolemaic world map Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Bernardus Sylvanus or Bernardo Silvani, was an Italian scholar and printer born in the 1460s. In 1511 he published a single edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, the first printed using two-color woodblocks.

Bernardus Sylvanus or Bernardo Silvani, was an Italian scholar and printer born in the 1460s. In 1511 he published a single edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, the first printed using two-color woodblocks.

India Extra Gangem Fluvium Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Scythia Intra Imaum Montem Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Bernardus Sylvanus or Bernardo Silvani, was an Italian scholar and printer born in the 1460s. In 1511 he published a single edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, the first printed using two-color woodblocks.

Bernardus Sylvanus or Bernardo Silvani, was an Italian scholar and printer born in the 1460s. In 1511 he published a single edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, the first printed using two-color woodblocks.

Bernardus Sylvanus or Bernardo Silvani, was an Italian scholar and printer born in the 1460s. In 1511 he published a single edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, the first printed using two-color woodblocks.

Scythia Extra Imaum Montem Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Public domain scan of a vintage map, city plan, atlas, cartoghraphy, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Bernardus Sylvanus or Bernardo Silvani, was an Italian scholar and printer born in the 1460s. In 1511 he published a single edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, the first printed using two-color woodblocks.

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Waldseemüller may have had second thoughts about his 1507 proposal for naming the new continent "America." In 1513, he issued a fourth publication, a new edition of Claudius Ptolemy's Geographia. In it he incl More

Title provided by cataloger. Likely proof sheets, as lines for the tropics and the ecliptic are missing. Earliest known celestial gores. Bound in the Schöner Sammelband. Gores trimmed and mounted on paper. LC c More

Title provided by cataloger. Bound in the Schöner Sammelband. Found in the binding of the Sammelband in 1905, mounted on paper, and bound in. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Although in his later publications Waldseemüller apparently retracted his depiction of a separate continent named America, other publishers quickly accepted his initial concept and imitated the shapes and nome More