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Sunday, September 30, 2012

World Map 19th Century

Description: 1819 French world map by unknown author.














(Highest res.: jpg, 3658 x 2280 pixel, 305 dpi, file size: 3,29 MB)

Thursday, June 7, 2012

World Map 17th Century

Description: World map published in 1625 by Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612) a Flemish artist, engraver and cartographer.


(Highest res.: jpg, 1701 x 1221 pixel, 75 dpi, file size: 1,02 MB)

Saturday, May 5, 2012

World Map 17th Century

Description: New and Accurate Map of the World of 1627 possibly by the English cartographer and historian John Speed.

 (Highest res.: png, 1621 x 1212 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 4,14 MB)

Sunday, April 22, 2012

World Map 17th Century

Description: World Map published in 1606 by the Dutch cartographer and atlas maker Willem Janszoon Blaeu.
















(Highest res.: jpg, 3639 x 2504 pixel, 300 dpi, file size: 13,00 MB)

Saturday, March 24, 2012

World Map 19th Century

Description: World Map published by the Scottish engraver, printer and publisher Daniel Lizars in 1814.

(Highest res.: png, 1280 x 884 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 2,42 MB)

Sunday, March 4, 2012

World Map 16th Century

Description: World map published in 1589 by the Dutch cartographer and engraver Gerard de Jode.

(Highest res.: jpg, 3080 x 2152 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 1,46 MB)

Sunday, December 11, 2011

World Map 17th Century

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)

Sunday, November 27, 2011

World Map 17th Century

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)

(Highest res.: jpg, 6000 x 3675 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 5,66 MB)

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

World Map 19th Century

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)

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)