Antique Map Posters and Art Prints

Antique old world heart shaped map with faces emulating the wind.

Vintage illustration antique world map by Pieter Goos, 1666. Birds are flying towards a shining sun casting rays over the hemispheres and continents. Below the chart is a set of allegorical figures representing the four seasons, summer, autumn, spring and winter. Orbis terrarum nova et accuratissima tabula.

Vintage illustration antique world map featuring a view from the North Pole including the Arctic Circle, ocean and surrounding continents by Gerardus Mercator, 1595.

Antique Naval Sea Map Wind rose Compass Sail Ships Sea Monsters

Vintage illustration antique heart shaped world map by Petrus Apianus, 1520. This map is thought to be the first map to use the name America. Tipus Orbis Universalis iuxta Ptolemei Cosmographi Traditionem et Americi Vespucii Aliorque Lustrationes a Petro Apiano Leysnico Elucbrat An. Do. MDXX

Vintage illustration heart shaped antique world map by Petrus Apianus (aka Peter Apian), 1530. Petrus Apianus was a German humanist, known for his works in mathematics, astronomy and cartography. The lunar crater Apianus is named in his honor.

Antique old world map featuring the Americas by Nicolaes Visscher, 1658. The map shows North and South America, California as an island and Greenland at the top. The upper cartouche is a dedication for Cornelius Witsen. Novissima et accuratissima totius Americae descriptio per Nicolaes Visscher.

Antique Old World Map by Joan Blaeu, c. 1630. The Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula or “A New Geographic and Hydrographic Depiction of All the Lands of the World” was created by Willem Blaeu in Amsterdam in 1630.

Vintage illustration antique old world double hemisphere map by John Seller, 1673, originally published as part of his ‘Atlas Maritimus’, or A Book of Charts. Novissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula. This map combines seasonal, zodiacal and symbolical scenes with astronomical diagrams and two pictures of the surface of the moon.

Vintage illustration antique map of the Americas by Johannes De Ram (1648-1693), c. 1685. A distinct characteristic of this map shows California as an island. The insert in the upper left includes some mythological figures with an angel, the insert in the lower left shows a scene with Natives. Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae Descriptio per Ioannem De Ram

Vintage illustration antique old world map by Johannes Schnitzer von Arnsheim. This antique world map is part of famed cartographer Nicolaus Germanus’ wonderful rendition of Ptolemy’s ‘Cosmographia’ of 1482. The artist responsible for the woodcut map identifies himself at the top of the world map as Johannes of Arnsheim, making it the earliest datable printed map to have a signature.

Vintage illustration antique world double hemisphere map Pieter Goos, 1666 featuring birds flying towards a shining sun casting rays over the hemispheres and continents. Below the chart is a set of allegorical figures representing the four seasons, summer, autumn, spring and winter. Orbis terrarum nova et accuratissima tabula.

Antique City Map of Rome, Italy Including buildings, the Pantheon, the Tiber River, bridges, fortified entrances, etc.

'Typus Orbis Terrarum' from an edition of Ortelius "Theatrum orbis terrarum" published between 1592 and 1613.

Nova Orbis Tabula in Lucem Edita by Frederick de Wit, c. 1665. Antique old world map featuring a double hemisphere with two polar projections and scenes of the four seasons and signs of the zodiac in the corners.

Vintage illustration antique old world double hemisphere map by Frederick de Wit (1629/30-1706). Terrarum Orbis. This antique map features the Eastern and Western Hemispheres as well as the north and south poles. The baroque style illustrations in the corners represent the four elements: Fire with Pluto carrying off Persephone, attended by Cerberus, the three-headed guardian of Hades, as a battle scene rages in the background; Air as the heavenly realm ruled by Zeus and Hera, who are surrounded by winged creatures and other gods; Water with the sea god Neptune, mermen, a spouting whale, and sailing ships in the distance; and Earth represented by a scene with fauns presenting three goddesses with fruits of the harvest and livestock.

Antique old world map of Europe by Gerard and Rumold Mercator, 1595 includes an elegant cartouche in the lower right corner. Europa, ad magnæ Europæ Gerardi Mercatoris P. imitationem / Rumoldi Mercatoris F. cura edita ; servato tamen initio longitudinis ex ratione magnetis, quod Pater in magna sua universali posuit.

Antique map of the northern regions at the north pole featuring Svalbard, Scandinavia, Greenland and other countries in the Arctic Circle from 1895.

Antique old world double hemisphere map by Pieter van den Keere, 1611. nova totius orbis mappa ex optimis auctoribus desumta

Vintage illustration antique world map of the Americas by Abraham Ortelius, 1570. Abraham Ortelius was a Flemish cartographer and geographer, generally recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World). He is also believed to be the first person to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present positions. A beautiful ornate cartouche with the title Americae Sive Novi Orbis No Va Sescriptio is in the corner.

Antique Map of the Americas by John Speed, 1626. America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings discribed and inlarged by John Speed, 1626.

Vintage illustration antique world map featuring both hemispheres by Claude Auguste Berey, 1688 featuring the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, as well as, the north and south poles and all of the continents. Text boxes circle the hemispheres of this atlas, an ornate golden border decorates the edges and a decorative scroll is at the top.

Vintage illustration antique world map featuring the Americas, 1597 by Theodor de Bry. The map includes North, South and Central America, the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and is surrounded by people, explorers in the four corners who are reading maps and helping ships to navigate and travel the world.

Antique old world double hemisphere map by Joan Blaeu, 1662. Nova Et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula. Auctore Ioanne Blaeu. Featuring allegorical figures along the bottom depicting the four seasons, celestial figures along the top, and portraits of the astronomer Galileo Galilei in the upper left and Tycho Brahe in the upper right.

Vintage illustration 17th century antique map by Hendrik Hondius, 1630. Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica AC Hydrographica Tabula. In addition to the hemispheres, continents and oceans, this old world map features portraits of Claudius Ptolemy, Gerardus Mercator, Jodocus Hondius Flander and Julius Caeser in the ornate decorative corners.

Antique old world double hemisphere map by Rumold Mercator, 1587. Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio Quam ex Magna Universali Mercatoris, MDLXXXVII

Antique old world map of Asia by Gerardus Mercator, 1613. Asia ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris desumpta studio et industria G.M. Iunioris.

Antique map of the Western Hemisphere featuring the Americas originally made by Michael Mercator in 1595. America sive India Nova. The inserts show Cuba, Haiti and the Gulf of Mexico. Acanthus leaves surround the map.

Vintage illustration antique world map featuring the British Empire, 1886 by Walter Crane. The text in the top banners reads Freedom, Fraternity, Federation and the map is surrounded by people and animals representing the international diversity of the globe.

Vintage illustration antique world map featuring the Americas by Jodocus Hondius (aka Jodocus Hondius the Elder), 1606.

Vintage illustration antique world map by Frederick De Wit, 1668. Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula. The double hemispheres feature the island of California and shorelines of western Australia and New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and includes Terra Esonis, the mythical land bridge which virtually connects Japan and California. The scenes surrounding the map are by Dutch artist Romeyn de Hooghe and represent the four elements. Fire is shown by war and destruction; air by the heavens; earth by harvesting and husbandry; and water by ships, a spouting whale and mermaids. There are groups of figures between the hemispheres and polar projection maps are above and below the atlas.

A Modern and Complete Map of the World by the Royal Mathematician Oronce Fine of the Dauphiné, 1534. Orontius Finnaeus. Recens et integra orbis descriptio. Orontius F. Delph Regi mathematic facebiat

Antique map from 1538 featuring the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, Yucatan Peninsula, island nations of Cuba and Haiti with a decorative border.

Antique old world map from 1705 featuring North America by Pieter van der Aa. The map features California as a peninsula, New Mexico, parts of Canada, Greenland, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America. Neptune and two Native Americans flank the large title cartouche. The routes of the explorers Cortez, Drake and Olivier are shown in the Pacific. L'Amerique Septentrionale Suivant les Nouvelles Observations de Messrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, etc

Vintage illustration antique South Asian map by Jodocus Hondius for the Gerardus Mercator Atlas, 1606. India Orientalis. This old world map of southeast Asia extends from India to the coasts of Southern China with the Pearl River Estuary, Canton and Formosa, it also includes all of the Malay peninsula and Indochina, northern Borneo and the Philippines, Japan and China. The decorative detail includes a large sea monster and an oriental junk in the Bay of Bengal as well as fine scroll work title and scale cartouches.

Antique map of the Turkish Empire and Ottoman Empire by Frederick de Wit featuring the Eastern Mediterranean, Greece, and Italy in the West and Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf and Caspian Sea in the east and centered on Turkey and Cyprus.