Ancient World Maps

World Map 17th Century

2011-12-11T17:28:00.003+01:00

Description: Foldable map of the world, contained in "The world encompassed by Sir Francis Drake...", London 1628.

(Highest res.: jpg, 2967 x 2043 pixel, 300 dpi, file size: 1,81 MB)

World Map 17th Century

2011-11-27T22:04:00.004+01:00

Description: Decorative maps of the world from the French cartographers Nicholas Sanson and Alexis Hubert Jaillot published in 1691.

(Highest res.: jpg, 6000 x 3673 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 6,15 MB)

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World Map 19th Century

2011-11-15T21:48:00.004+01:00

Description: Japanese world map from a unknown author dated to 1875, the 8th year of the Emperor's Meiji's reign.

(Highest res.: jpg, 6000 x 4589 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 8,97 MB)

World Map 19th Century

2011-10-26T16:02:00.003+02:00

Description: Charles Desilver's world map, published in his New Universal Atlas 1856/USA.

(Highest res.: jpg, 3500 x 2374 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 2,34 MB)

World Map 6th Century BCE

2011-09-18T19:56:00.006+02:00

Description: The Babylonian world map, known as Imago Mundi, dated to the 6th century BCE is the oldest known world map, which shows Babylon on the Euphrates, surrounded by a circular landmass with Assyria, Armenia, Ocean and islands arranged around, forming a seven-pointed star.

(Highest res.: jpg, 368 x 500 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 187 KB)

World Map 17th Century

2011-09-06T21:30:00.010+02:00

Description: Exceptional map of the world made in 1650 by the Dutch publisher Jan Jansson (Johannes Janssonius). Such maps, showing comtemporary geopraphy with ancient place names, were popular in the post-renaissance period.

(Highest res.: jpg, 3500 x 2762 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 2,87 MB)

World Map 19th Century

2011-08-09T00:35:00.009+02:00

Description: World map made by the English cartographer, engraver and publisher Aaron Arrowsmith in 1812.

(Highest res.: jpg, 6410 x 3530 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 10,5 MB)

World Map 19th Century

2011-07-16T12:31:00.006+02:00

Description: Map of the world centered on America prepared by the American altlas publisher Joseph Hutchins Colton in 1852.

(Highest res.: jpg, 6000 x 4322 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 9,49 MB)

World Map 17th Century

2011-06-18T21:34:00.006+02:00

Description: World map by the Dutch-German cartographer Andreas Cellarius published in 1661.

(Highest res.: jpg, 2900 x 2470 pixel, 120 dpi, file size: 1,87 MB)

World Map 19th Century

2011-05-01T09:12:00.005+02:00

Description: Japanese world map in two hemispheres dating to 1848 by Shincho Kurihara and Heibe Chojiya.

(Highest res.: jpg, 5000 x 2925 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 4,59 MB)

World Map 17th Century

2011-04-03T21:14:00.005+02:00

Description: A New And Accurat Map Of The World published by the Belgian engraver Peter van den Keere in 1646.

(Highest res.: jpg, 1687 x 1224 pixel, 144 dpi, file size: 1,88 MB)

World Map 18th Century

2011-03-12T18:58:00.005+01:00

Description: World map created by the German or Dutch cartographer Herman(n) Moll in 1709.

(Highest res.: png, 1423 x 826 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 2,59 MB)

World Map 19th Century

2011-02-12T17:41:00.005+01:00

Description: Political world map illustrated by the English artist Walter Crane showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886.

(Highest res.: jpg, 9876 x 7346 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 20,3 MB)

World Map 16th Century

2011-01-03T23:07:00.005+01:00

Description: World map of the Portuguese cartographer Domingo Teixeira drawn in 1573 with the sea routes of Vasco da Gama and Hernando de Magallanes. Moreover the map shows the the meridian of Tordesillas, which devided the new discovered lands between Spain and Portugal.

(Highest res.: jpg, 5000 x 2447 pixel, 254 dpi, file size: 2,51 MB)

World Map 18th Century

2010-12-11T09:43:00.003+01:00

Description: World map (1745) from an unknown author.

(Highest res.: jpg, 1000 x 672 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 165 KB)

World Map 11th Century

2010-11-13T22:29:00.007+01:00

Description: "Cotton" of Anglo-Saxon world map (c. 1040) appears in a copy of a classical work on geography (British Library; Cotton MSS, Tib. B. V, folio 56.)

(Highest res.: png, 1827 x 2256 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 6,31 MB)

World Map 12th Century

2010-10-03T06:48:00.006+02:00

Description: World map made in 1190 by the German or Burgundian theologian Honorius Augustodunenesis, also known as Honorius of Autun.

(Highest res.: png, 1270 x 1859 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 5,27 MB)

World Map 16th Century

2010-09-02T22:53:00.003+02:00

Description: World map made by the French mapmaker Guillaume Brouscon in 1543.

(Highest res.: jpg, 8497 x 7924 pixel, 300 dpi, file size: 23,4 MB)

World Map 16th Century

2010-08-14T07:47:00.003+02:00

Description: "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" (Theatre of the World) made by the Flemish cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius in 1570, who is generally recognised as the creator of the first modern atlas.

(Highest res.: jpg, 6736 x 5160 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 32,5 MB)

World Map 16th Century

2010-07-08T12:47:00.003+02:00

Description: World map made by Laurent Fries, woodcut 1522.

(Highest res.: jpg, 3000 x 2190 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 3,83 MB)

World Map 17th Century

2010-06-29T12:13:00.004+02:00

Description: World map made by the Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu in 1664.

(Highest res.: jpg, 5500 x 4226 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 4 MB)

World Map 17th Century

2010-06-12T09:54:00.006+02:00

Description: Novissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula made by the Dutch timber merchant Joannes de Ram, first published in 1683.

(Highest res.: jpg, 5500 x 4421 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 16,1 MB)

World Map 17th Century

2010-06-03T02:09:00.006+02:00

Description: World map from 1666 by Peter Goos, a Dutch cartographer, engraver and bookseller.

(Highest res.: jpg, 459 x 390 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 110 KB)

World Map 16th Century

2010-05-31T20:33:00.003+02:00

Description: The Caverio Map (also called Caveri Map or Canerio Map) is a world map drawn by the Genoese cartographer Nicolay de Caveri, circa 1505.

(Highest res.: jpg, 1236 x 654 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 484 KB)

World Map 16th Century

2010-05-04T00:39:00.005+02:00

Description: Orbis Terrarum published by the Dutch astronomer, cartographer and clergyman Petrus Plancius in 1594.

(Highest res.: jpg, 2671 x 1891 pixel, 300 dpi, file size: 2,12 MB)

World Map 16th Century

2010-04-05T23:30:00.005+02:00

Description: Map of the world 1552 by the Siebenbuerger Saxon humanist and Protestant Reformer Johannes Honterus.

(Highest res.: jpg, 800 x 649 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 304 KB)

World Map 16th Century

2010-03-07T22:26:00.005+01:00

Description: "Orbis Terrarum" from the Dutch astronomer, cartographer and clergyman Petrus Plancius, published in 1590.

(Highest res.: jpg, 1747 x 994 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 2,27 MB)

World Map 15th Century

2010-01-07T13:27:00.004+01:00

Description: T-O world map based on the medieval world view of the Spanish Archbishop Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636), published between 1459-1463 in La Fleur des Histoires by Jean Mansel.

(Highest res.: jpg, 600 x 819 pixel, 75 dpi, file size: 121 KB)

World Map 18th Century

2009-12-08T00:03:00.005+01:00

Description: World map from the French cartographer Nicolas de Fer, published in 1722.

(Highest res.: jpg, 2048 x 1365 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 1 MB)

World Map 15th Century

2009-11-01T20:17:00.005+01:00

Description: World map of the German cartographer Andreas Walsperger made in 1448.

(Highest res.: jpg, 1013 x 1024 pixel, 200 dpi, file size: 1,05 MB)

World Map 14th Century

2009-10-25T10:45:00.005+01:00

Description: The Catalan Atlas produced in 1375 by the Majorcan cartographers Abraham and Jehuda Cresques is the most important Catalan world map of the Middle Ages. The world map originally consisted of various leaves.

Europe
Middle East

East Asia
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World Map 18th Century

2009-09-20T10:05:00.004+02:00

Description: The so-called "Zheng He map" is a Chinese world map, probably produced in 1763 at the base of Zheng He's voyages.

(Highest res.: jpg, 5274 x 3742 pixel, 475 dpi, file size: 3,38 MB)

World Map 18th Century

2009-09-16T20:14:00.006+02:00

Description: Engraved world map by the German cartographer Leonhard Euler first published 1753 in his school atlas "Geographischer Atlas".

(Highest res.: jpg, 2615 x 2252 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 2,78 MB)

World Map 15th Century

2009-09-01T10:20:00.004+02:00

Description: The "Genoese map" is a world map from an unkown Italian cartographer made in 1457.

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World Map 16th Century

2009-08-25T11:55:00.005+02:00

Description: The "Dieppe maps" are several maps produced in the school of cartographers in Dieppe, France during the 16th century as this world map made by the Scottish cartographer Johne Rotz, published 1542 in the Boke of Idrography.

(Highest res.: jpg, 500 x 356 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 70,5 KB)

World Map 13th Century

2009-08-04T11:35:00.003+02:00

Description: "Psalter World Map" is a detailed T-O Map drawn by an unknown author around 1260.

(Highest res.: jpg, 3791 x 5496 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 19,4 MB)

World Map 16th Century

2009-07-11T23:17:00.005+02:00

Description: "A Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection", also known as the Wright–Molyneux Map. This Map is the first world map produced in England and based on the projection of the English mathematician and cartographer Edward Wright.

(Highest res.: jpg, 2800 x 1880 pixel, 2212 dpi, file size: 1 MB)

World Map 15th Century

2009-06-15T12:57:00.004+02:00

Description: The "Columbus map" which perhaps was drawn by Christopher Columbus and his brother Bartolomeo in Lisbon around 1490 before the discovery of the New World, showing the known world in their time.

(Highest res.: jpg, 1970 x 1260 pixel, 300 dpi, file size: 878 KB)

World Map 16th Century

2009-06-11T13:06:00.004+02:00

Description: World map of the Dutch explorer, cartographer, astronomer and painter Johannes Ruysch published in 1507. Ruysch's work is the second oldest known printed map showing the New World.

(Highest res.: jpg, 640 x 472 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 343 KB)

World Map 16th Century

2009-05-27T17:22:00.009+02:00

Description: World maps of the Northern and Southern hemisphere published in 1593 by the Dutch cartographer and engraver Gerard de Jode.

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World Map 17th Century

2009-04-08T13:11:00.003+02:00

Description: World map Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula Autore made by the Dutch cartographer Claes Janszoon Visscher in the 17th century, published in 1652.

(Highest res.: jpg, 3391 x 2733 pixel, 305 dpi, file size: 4,85 MB)

World Map 18th Century

2009-03-24T13:31:00.006+01:00

Description: World map with the trade winds from the German or Dutch cartographer Herman(n) Moll first published in England 1719. Picture from Atlas Minor, 3rd edition, London 1736.

(Highest res.: png, 1400 x 1083 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 3,22 MB)

World Map 14th Century

2009-03-09T11:05:00.005+01:00

Description: World map made around 1420 by the Italian cartographer Pietro Vesconte.

(Highest res.: jpg, 2218 x 2213 pixel, 300 dpi, file size: 3,85 MB)

World Map 14th Century

2009-02-25T09:44:00.005+01:00

Description: World map from the English chronicler and Benedictine monk Ranulf Higdon, published in the late 14th century.

(Highest res.: jpg, 1923 x 2610 pixel, 300 dpi, file size: 3,95 MB)

World Map 19th Century

2009-01-23T10:23:00.004+01:00

Description: Dutch world map from Otto Petri published in 1860.

(Highest res.: jpg, 2484 x 2042 pixel, 183 dpi, file size: 1,03 MB)

World Map 16th Century

2009-01-03T14:10:00.003+01:00

Description: World map from the Italian captain and cartographer Antonio Millo, published between 1582-1584.

(Highest res.: jpg, 618 x 421 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 93 KB)

World Map 16th Century

2008-12-22T01:22:00.006+01:00

Description: World map from the Italian cartographer Battista Agnese published in the Portolan Atlas 1544. The map shows the route Magellan took around the world and the route from Cadiz/Spain to Peru.

(Highest res.: jpg, 3585 x 2450 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 2,4 MB)

World Map 18th Century

2008-12-16T12:26:00.003+01:00

Description: World map from the German geographer and cartographer Johann Baptist Homann, published in Nürnberg 1707.

(Highest res.: png, 1620 x 1400 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 4,8 MB)

World Map 7th Century

2008-12-01T12:33:00.011+01:00

Description: T-O map from the 7th century, the early Middle Ages, with the description of the world according the Etymologiae of Isidore of Sevilla, who was Archbishop of Seville/Spain for more than three decades. This T and O map is a copy from the 12th century.

(Highest res.: jpg, 608 x 608 pixel, 81 dpi, file size: 72 KB)

World Map 12th Century

2008-11-16T16:14:00.004+01:00

Description: World map from the Italian monk Beato di Liebana, made in the 12th century.

(Highest res.: jpg, 563 x 387 pixel, 300 dpi, file size: 115 KB)

World Map 15th Century

2008-10-05T17:48:00.008+02:00

Description: Historical world map from Johannes de Armsshein, published in 1482 in Ulm/Germany at the base of Ptolemy's view of the world.

(Highest res.: jpg, 8073 x 5813 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 18 MB)

World Map 17th Century

2008-09-12T15:46:00.006+02:00

Description: World map of Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612) a Flemish artist, engraver and cartographer who worked at the base of the Mercator projection. The map is part of an atlas published in 1630.

(Highest res.: jpg, 5248 x 3688 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 5,02 MB)

World Map 15th Century

2008-08-16T19:35:00.006+02:00

Description: World map of Hartmann Schedel published in the Schedel's World Chronicle in 1493 showing Europe, Asia and Africa. Schedel (1440-1540) was a German physician, humanist and historian, one of the first cartographers who used the printing press.

(Highest res.: png, 1702 x 1244 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 4,83 MB)

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World Map 16th Century

2008-07-02T19:40:00.009+02:00

Description: World map of Diego de Ribero made in 1529. Ribero was a Spanish cartographer of Portuguese origin, who worked for Charles V at the Casa de Contratación in Seville. His map is considered as the first scientific world map based on empiric latitude observations. It delineates precisely the coasts of North, South and Central America. Neither Australia nor the Antartica appear.

(Highest res.: jpg, 747 x 431 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 111 KB)

Large version from 1539

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World Map 16th Century

2008-06-09T00:20:00.005+02:00

Description: World map of Pietro Coppo (1470-1555) from Venice/Italy, published in 1520.

(Highest res.: jpg, 2000 x 1485 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 4,08 MB)

World Map 18th Century

2008-06-01T23:51:00.004+02:00

Description: World map made by the French geographer Guillermo Delisle in 1707.

(Highest res.: jpg, 1978 x 1300 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 7,36 MB)

World Map 16th Century

2008-04-27T19:54:00.005+02:00

Description: Waldseemüller map from 1507. The carthographers Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann from southern Germany collected map data over several years, including about the most recent discoveries, to realize this world map. They incorporated the first time in history the name America on a map.

(Highest res.: jpg, 29700 x 16500 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 97,9 MB)

World Map 17th Century

2008-03-16T13:22:00.007+01:00

Description: Ancient world map made by the Dutch cartographer Frederik de Wit in 1662, during the Golden Age of Dutch history (1584-1702) when Dutch trade, science and art were among the most acclaimed in the world.

(Highest res.: jpg, 2172 x 1820 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 888 KB)

World Map 6th Century

2008-02-08T15:21:00.006+01:00

Description: World Map by Cosmas Indicopleustes arround the year 550. Cosmas was a Greek monk from Alexandria and travelled several times to India as a merchant. In his worldview the world was flat.

(Highest res.: jpg, 1539 x 1208 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 654 KB)

World Map 17th Century

2008-01-12T19:58:00.002+01:00

Description: Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis made in 1606 by the Dutch cartographer Willem Janszoon Blaeu, who worked together with his son Joan Blaeu. First published in 1635 in their atlas Theatrum orbis terrarum.

(Highest res.: jpg, 1533 x 1152 pixel, 70 dpi, file size: 2,35 MB)

World Map 4th Century

2007-12-31T01:18:00.003+01:00

Description: The Tabula Peutingeriana
This Roman map of the acient world shows the road network in the Roman Empire in the 4th century and covers Europe, parts of Asia (India) and North-Africa.

(Highest res.: jpg, 21657 x 930 pixel, 75 dpi, file size: 7,62 MB)

Detail with Rome

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World Map 16th Century

2007-08-14T22:02:00.003+02:00

Description: The Cantino planisphere is the earliest surviving map showing the new Portuguese discoveries in the world, including a fragmentary record of the Brazilian coast. The antique map is named after the Italian Alberto Cantino, who smuggled it from Portugal to Italy in 1502.

(Highest res.: png, 3528 x 1656 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 11,8 MB)

World Map 15th Century

2007-06-14T17:23:00.002+02:00

Description: The Bianco World Map published by the Italian sailor and cartographer Andrea Bianco in 1436.

(Highest res.: jpg, 700 x 536 pixel, 300 dpi, file size: 153 KB)

World Map 16th Century

2007-05-05T08:46:00.008+02:00

Description: World Map created by the Flemish cartographer Rumold Mercator in 1587, son of the famous cartographer Gerardus Mercator, who developed the modern projection of the world.

(Highest res.: jpg, 1496 x 1077 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 558 KB)

World Map 11th Century

2007-05-01T13:53:00.006+02:00

Description: World map of Mahmud al-Kashgari. Turcocentric world map published in al-Kashgari's "Compendium of the languages of the Turks" in the 11th century. The map is oriented with east on the top and the world is shown as encircled by the ocean.

(Highest res.: jpg, 741 x 670 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 128 KB).

World Map 18th Century

2007-04-29T20:03:00.002+02:00

Description: World map of the Turkish encyclopedist Ibrahim Hakki Erzurumi published in 1756.

(Highest res.: png, 357 x 573 pixel, 199 dpi, file size: 599 KB)

World Map 2nd Century

2007-04-25T20:00:00.003+02:00

Description: Ptolemy world map ca. 150 AD. Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy), was a mathmatician, geographer, astronomer and astrologer who lived in the Hellenistic culture of Roman Egypt. One of his main works is his Geographia, a compilation of the known geography in the Roman Empire. This map is a reconstruction made in the 15th century.

(Highest res.: jpg, 1344 x 915 pixel, 200 dpi, file size: 810 KB)

World Map 16th Century

2007-04-24T13:01:00.003+02:00

Description: The world map of the Spanish cartographer, conquistador and explorer Juan de la Cosa created in 1500 is the earliest world map showing part of the Americas. Juan de la Cosa sailed the first 3 voyages with Columbus and was the captain of the Santa María.

(Highest res.: jpg, 1163 x 2127 pixel, 200 dpi, file size: 3,3 MB)

World Map 12th Century

2007-04-23T22:18:00.003+02:00

Description: World map made by the Arab cartographer and geographer Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi in 1154 under the court of King Roger II of Sicily.

(Highest res.: jpg, 1424 x 1552 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 916 KB)

World Map 15th Century

2007-04-23T22:05:00.003+02:00

Description: World map made between 1457 and 1459 by the Venetian monk Fra Mauro. The map is a circular planisphere drawan on parchment and set in a wooden frame.

(Highest res.: jpg, 1062 x 1107 pixel, 180 dpi, file size: 990 KB)

Detail Europe

(Highest res.: jpg, 600 x 415 pixel, 324 dpi, file size: 131 KB)

World Map 15th Century

2007-04-23T21:11:00.002+02:00

Description: The Kangnido Map created in Korea in 1402 is one of the oldest known world maps from East Asia.

(Highest res.: jpg, 600 x 556 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 81,1 KB)

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Details

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World Map 17th Century

2007-04-23T21:06:00.002+02:00

Description: World map published in 1627 by the German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer Johannes Kepler.

(Highest res.: jpg, 1776 x 1056 pixel, 1350 dpi, file size: 555 KB)

World Map 14th Century

2007-04-23T19:58:00.003+02:00

Description: The Hereford Mappa Mundi is a world map dating to ca. 1300, derived from the T and O maps and the largest known medieval map.

(Highest res.: jpg, 4200 x 4989 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 11,1 MB)

Detail showing the British Isles

(Highest res.: jpg, 1407 x 1146 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 380 KB)

World Map 16th Century

2007-04-23T19:46:00.003+02:00

Description: World map published by Nicola van Sype in 1581, showing the Drake circumnavigation 1577-1580 as a dotted line.

(Highest res.: jpg, 4000 x 2225 pixel, 80 dpi, file size: 7,75 MB)

World Map 16th Century

2007-04-23T19:26:00.002+02:00

Description: Bunting clover leaf map with Jerusalem in the center, sourrounded by Europe, Asia and Africa, published 1581 in Magdeburg/Germany.

(Highest res.: jpg, 4441 x 3496 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 14,3 MB)

World Map 16th Century

2007-04-23T19:16:00.004+02:00

Description: Heart shaped world map from the French scientist Oronce Finé first published in 1536.

(Highest res.: jpg, 588 x 516 pixel, 100 dpi, file size: 196 KB)

World Map 18th Century

2007-04-23T18:59:00.002+02:00

Description: World map published by Vasily Kipriynov at the beginnung of the 18th century.

(Highest res.: jpg, 563 x 477 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 130 KB)

World Map 17th Century

2007-04-23T18:43:00.002+02:00

Description: World map created in 1689 by the Dutch cartographer Gerrit van Schagen.

(Highest res.: jpg, 4560 x 3936 pixel, 150 dpi, file size: 8,58 MB)