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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

World Map 19th Century

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)

Sunday, September 18, 2011

World Map 6th Century BCE

Description: The Babylonian world map, known as Imago Mundi, dated to the 6th century BCE is one of the oldest known world maps, 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)

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

World Map 17th Century

Description: Exceptional map of the world made by the Dutch publisher Jan Jansson (Johannes Janssonius) in 1650. 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)

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

World Map 19th Century

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)

Saturday, July 16, 2011

World Map 19th Century

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

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

Saturday, June 18, 2011

World Map 17th Century

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)

Sunday, May 1, 2011

World Map 19th Century

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)

Sunday, April 3, 2011

World Map 17th Century

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)

Saturday, March 12, 2011

World Map 18th Century

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)

Saturday, February 12, 2011

World Map 19th Century

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)

Monday, January 3, 2011

World Map 16th Century

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)