Basel: PETRI, Heinrich, 1540/42/45
34.0 x 25.4 cm / 13.4 x 10.0 in
Description This is one of the earliest printed maps of Europe and one of the first based on contemporary geographic knowledge. It is from Sebastian Münster’s Geographia, first published in 1540 by Heinrich Petri in Basel. Oriented.....
Cologne: VON BRACHEL, Peter [?], 1588 [but c. 1616-23]
47.7 x 32.5 cm / 18.8 x 12.8 in
Description This charming bird’s-eye view of Bergen was drawn by Hieronymus Scholeus and first published in 1588 in Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum. It is the only Norwegian city depicted.....
![Untitled - Southeast Asia]. Anonymous](https://compassantiquemaps.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779699778)
Amsterdam: JANSSON, Jan, 1621/46
45.0 x 31.9 cm / 17.7 x 12.6 in
Description This sea chart is an extended version of a chart by Theodore de Bry, first published in Part XI of his Les grands voyages, in Oppenheim (Latin edition) and Frankfurt on the Main (German edition) in.....
Paris: JAILLOT, Alexis-Hubert [?], 1671 (dated)
51.6 x 40.2 cm / 20.3 x 15.8 in
Description This is the second state of this very rare, separately issued map of the Americas. It was first published by Nicolas Berey (I?) in Paris, in 1658. Considering that he and his (also engraver-publisher).....
Paris: TAVERNIER, Jean-Baptiste, 1679
77.2 x 51.9 cm / 30.4 x 20.4 in
Description This early landmark map of Japan appeared in the present large format only in the 1679 first edition of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier’s Recueil de plusieurs relations et traitez singuliers et curieux. The publication was an addition to.....
Paris: NOLIN, Jean Baptiste, c. 1700
60.1 x 45.8 cm / 23.7 x 18.0 in
Description This highly decorative map of the world is the outcome of a close cooperation between Vincenzo Coronelli and Jean Nicolas du Tralage (also known as Sieur de Tillemont), a French geographer and cartographer. Its.....
Nuremberg: WEIGEL (the Elder), Johann Christoph, c. 1708
32.7 x 23.5 cm / 12.9 x 9.3 in
Description This uncommon German world map by an anonymous cartographer is a very early example of thematic mapping. Its intent is to show time differences around the world, practically making it an early.....
Paris: ROUSSEL, [Claude?], 1717 (dated)
54.0 x 40.6 cm / 21.3 x 16.0 in
Description This intriguing city plan of Paris from the early 18th century shows what today is the core part of the metropolitan area of the French capital. Oriented to the northeast, it reaches from present-day Saint-Denis.....
Paris [?]: Anonymous, 1757 (dated)
69.2 x 49.0 cm / 27.2 x 19.3 in
Description This unusual map was separately published in France, in 1757. It depicts most of the eastern part of North America, bound by the Hudson Bay, Newfoundland, the Atlantic, northern Florida, and the Mississippi. A large.....
Paris: Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine [?], 1764
16.4 x 21.2 cm / 6.5 x 8.3 in
Description This fascinating chart depicting colonial New York City is from Jacques-Nicolas Bellin’s Le Petit Atlas Maritime. With close to 600 charts and a strong focus on harbour cities and.....
Paris: LE ROUGE, Georges-Louis, 1777 (dated)
66.5 x 48.5 cm / 26.2 x 19.1 in
Description This elegant and detailed map of the Province of Quebec was published by Georges-Louis le Rouge in 1777. It is based on a map originally published by Robert Sayer and John Bennett in 1776.....
Paris: LE ROUGE, Georges-Louis, 1778 (dated)
45.0 x 57.7 cm / 17.7 x 22.7 in
Description This important plan of Philadelphia from the time of the American Revolutionary War was published by Georges-Louis le Rouge in 1778. It is based on a 1777 William Faden edition of a plan originally.....
![On 5 sheets, as issued] Mapa Geológico del Interior de la República Argentina. Construido sobre...](https://compassantiquemaps.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/76.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1783234801)
Gotha: Instituto Geográfico de C. Hellfarth, 1891 (dated)
[each sheet] 61.6 x 46.0 cm / 24.3 x 18.1 in; [if joined] 123.2 x 138.0 cm / 48.5 x 54.3 in
Description This is the first geological map of Argentina, created by Ludwig (Luis) Brackebusch and published in Gotha, in 1891.....
Paris: Imprimerie Perceval, 1951
58.4 x 35.1 cm / 23.0 x 13.8 in
Description This sublime double hemisphere celestial chart was created by Lucien Boucher and published by Imprimerie Perceval in 1951 in Paris. It is the finest out of a series of promotional posters the artist created for French.....
East Berlin: Abteilung Presse und Werbung der Deutschen Lufthansa, Zentralflughafen Berlin-Schönefeld, 1962 (dated)
54.7 x 37.2 cm / 21.5 x 14.6 in
Description There is more to this mid-century pictorial world map than meets the eye! A quick, first glance at it shows an airline route network covering the globe.....