Antique Maps, Charts, Atlases, Books, Prints, and Medieval Manuscripts

Bordone 1528 [Untitled - World] This is one of the earliest world maps drawn on an oval projection, preceded only by that of Francesco Rosselli's ...

Rumold Mercator 1587 Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio quam ex Magna Universali Gerardi Mercatoris Domino Richardo Gartho... An elaborate strapw...

Ortelius/Coignet 1601 Typus Orbis Terrarum This is the first miniature world map presented on Mercator's projection. It depicts the large souther...

Abraham Goos 1617 Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio ex ea, quam ex Magna Universali Mercatoris Rumoldus Mercator... Goos engraved this small dou...

Tomaso Porcacchi 1620 Discorso Intorno alla Carta da Navigare This nautical world map, engraved by Girolamo Porro, was one of two world maps inclu...

Willem Blaeu 1635 Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula A magnificent map featuring a carte-a-figures border with allegor...

Robert Walton 1659 A New and Accurat Map of the World Drawne According to ye Truest Descriptions Latest Discoveries & Best Observations yt Have Be...

Johannes Blaeu 1660 Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula This splendid world map is one of the most elegantly engraved maps from the...

Moses Pitt 1680 Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula This beautiful map is one of the most intriguing examples of the in...

Justus Danckerts 1680 Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula This is Danckerts' version of De Wit's splendid maritime world map. The cartographic feat...

Blaeu/Valck 1695 Novus Planiglobii Terrestris per Utrumque Polum Conspectus This uncommon, beautifully engraved map showing the world on a polar p...

Lasor a Varea 1713 Universi Orbis Descriptio ad Usum Navigantum This small mariner's map is based on one of the most important world maps of the 1...

Lasor a Varea 1713 Universi Orbis Descriptio Girolama Porro originally engraved this map for Giovanni Magini's quarto edition of Ptolemy's Geograp...

Henry Abraham Chatelain 1720 Mappe-Monde pour Connoitre les Progres & les Conquestes les Plus Remarquables des Provinces-Unies... The voyages and ...

Henry Abraham Chatelain 1720 Plan de l'Histoire Universelle, ou l'on voit les Quatre Monarchies du Monde, et Tous les Anciens Etats Aussie Bien qu...

Henry Abraham Chatelain 1720 Mappemonde ou Description Generale du Globe Terrestre This captivating double hemisphere world map is surrounded by a...

Reiner and Joshua Ottens 1740 Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula / Nieuwe en Allernaeukeurigste Weereldt-Kaert This is a reworked ...

Matthias Seutter 1742 Diversi Globi Terr-Aquei Statione Variante et Visu Intercedente, per Coluros Tropicorum... This is one of the most graphic 1...

Nicolas Sanson 1743 [Lot of 3] Mappe-Monde ou Carte Generale du Globe Terrestre Representee en Deux Plan-Hemispheres... [and] Le Globe Celeste, ou...

Isaac Tirion 1744 Wereld-Kaart na de Alderlaatste Ontdekking in't Licht Gebragt Handsome double hemisphere map with polar projections tucked betwe...

Benjamin Cole 1757 A Physical Planisphere Wherein Are Represented All the Known Lands and Seas wth. the Great Chains of Mountains... Very unusual ...

Brouckner/Remondini 1761 Carte Generale du Globe Terrestre... This uncommon map is Remondini's reduction of Isaak Brouckner's map of the world. I...

Janvier/Lattre 1775 Mappe-Monde ou Description du Globe Terrestre, Assujettie aux Observations Astronomiques A lovely double hemisphere map with a...

Pierre Francois Tardieu 1785 Mappe-Monde Suivant la Projection des Cartes Reduites; ou l'on a Trace les Routes de Mr. de Bougainville, et les Deux...

Jocob Keizer & Jan De Lat 1786 De Wareld in een Ronde Gedaante van de Noord Pool te Zien [on sheet with] De Wareld verbeeld in de gedaante van een...

See description. 1796-1800 [Lot of 2] World from the Best Authorities [and] Chart of the World on Mercators Projection A. World from the Best Auth...

Andrew Bell 1798 Geography. Map of the World, Comprehending the Latest Discoverys This elegantly engraved double-hemisphere world map shows the t...

Adrien Hubert Brue 1816 [On 4 Sheets] Mappe-Monde sur la Projection de Mercator Carte Encyprotype... This uncommon large-scale map of the world wa...

Auguste-Henri Dufour 1860 Mappe-Monde Planispherique Physique et Hydrographique The world on Mercator's projection with fine detail throughout. I...

National Geographic Magazine 1928 [Lot of 2] Western Hemisphere - Map of Discovery [and] Eastern Hemisphere - Map of Discovery This attractive pai...

See description. 1564 [Daniel's Dream Map] This unusual little map is also known as the Wittenberg world map. It represents Daniel's interpretati...

Philippe Briet 1649 [Lot of 2] Antiquissima Orbis Delineatio [and] Les Divisions de la Mediterranee Selon les Modernes A. Antiquissima Orbis Delin...

Philippe Briet 1649 La Division de Nostre Ocean This map of the eastern hemisphere identifies each of the oceans and shows the divisions between t...

Emanuel Bowen 1730 A Map of Marco Polo's Voyages & Travels in the 13th Century Through a Great Part of Asia, All Tartary, the East India Islands &...

Sir John Barrow 1796 A General Chart, on Mercator's Projection, to Shew the Track of the Lion and Hindostan from England to the Gulph of Pekin in ...

Maurille Antoine Moithey 1769 Le Globe Terrestre Vu en Convexe par les Deux Poles, l'Equateur Servant d'Horison This rare map is depicted on Cassi...

Mercator/Hondius 1619 Septentrionalium Terrarum Descriptio This influential map was the first separately printed map devoted to the Arctic. The h...

Samuel John Neele 1808 A Map of the Countries Thirty Degrees Round the North Pole This map shows the extent of polar geographical knowledge at the...

Cook/Benard 1775 Carte de l'Hemisphere Austral Montrant les Routes des Navigateurs les Plus Celebres par le Capitaine Jacques Cook This scarce cha...

Edward Stanford 1905 The Antarctic Regions This attractive chart of the South Pole depicts the known portions of Antarctica. The central white ar...

Doppelmayr/Homann 1742 Motus in Coelo Spirales quos Planetae Inferiores Venus et Mercurius Secundum Tychonicorum Hypothesin... This whimsical cele...

Doppelmayr/Homann 1720 Systema Solare et Planetarium ex Hypothesi Copernicana Secundum Elegantissimas Illustrissimi Quondam Hugenii Deductiones No...

Doppelmayr/Homann 1742 Phaenomena in Planetis Primariis quae Facies Diversas, ex Illorum Phasibus... This chart shows the phases of the planets as...

Sebastian Munster 1552 [Monsters] Les Monstres Marins & Terrestres, Lesquelz on Trouve en Beaucoup de Lieux es Parties Septentrionales This is one...

Abraham Ortelius 1571 Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio This is one of the most famous maps of America, and one that had enormous influenc...

Sebastian Munster 1574 Die Neuwen Inseln /so Hinder Hispanien Gegen Orient /bey dem Landt Indie Ligen This map of the New World is often credited ...

Theodore de Bry 1596 America sive Novus Orbis Respectu Europaeorum Inferior Globi Terrestris Pars This beautifully engraved map of the Americas is...

Ortelius/Coignet 1601 America In 1601 Johannes Keerhergen produced a competitive version of Ortelius' miniature atlas. The maps were engraved by ...

Mercator/Hondius 1619 America sive India Nova, ad Magnae Gerardi Mercatoris aui Universalis Imitationem in Compendium Redacta This is one of the m...

John Speed 1626 America with Those Known Parts in That Unknowne Worlde Both People and Manner of Buildings Discribed and Inlarged This English map...

Jan Jansson 1628 Americae Descriptio Abraham Goos engraved this fascinating map for Jansson's new Atlas Minor, first published in 1628. The most ...

Jodocus Hondius 1628 America Jodocus Hondius' map of the Americas is one of the most elaborate examples of fine Dutch cartography. The decoration...

Hondius/Jansson 1632 America Noviter Delineata This rare, magnificent map of the Americas is derived from Jodocus Hondius' map of 1618. Joannes J...

Willem Blaeu 1640 Americae Nova Tabula This stunning carte-a-figures map is a superb example of the fine art of decorative cartography and a seven...

Johannes Blaeu 1662 Circumferentia Terrae Continet Milliaria Germanica 5400. Italica Vero 21600 This simple and elegant map of the Americas appear...

Henry Seile 1666 Americae Descriptio Nova Impensis Philippi Chetwind... Boldly engraved map of the Americas based on the work of Abraham Goos for ...

Philipp Cluver 1711 America This handsome small map was derived from the Nicolas Visscher map of 1658, with a Briggs type island of California and...

Nicholas de Fer 1717 L'Amerique, Meridionale et Septentrionale Dressee Selon les Dernieres Relations et Suivant les Nouvelles Decouvertes... This ...

Henry Abraham Chatelain 1720 Carte du Gouvernement de l'Amerique A folio sheet filled with fascinating French text, statistics and four engravings...

Herman Moll 1732 America Boldly engraved small map showing California as an Island with an indented northern coast, and Mozeemleck and the Str. of...