This map was created by Spanish cartographer Tomás López de Vargas Machuca in 1773 and published posthumously...
Antique Maps
Map of the East Indies (1856)
This map was published by George W. Colton in his Atlas of the World in...
Map of the province of Guadalajara (1766)
This map was created by Spanish cartographer Tomás López de Vargas Machuca in 1766 and published posthumously...
Demographic map of Brazil (1908)
This map of Brazil was drawn by Manoel Paulino Calvacanti in 1908 for the Agricultural Geography Section of the...
Map of the province of Toledo (1768)
This map was created by Spanish cartographer Tomás López de Vargas Machuca in 1768 and published posthumously...
Map of Mexico (1831)
This map of Mexico was published by Anthony Finley as part of his 1831 atlas, ten years after...
Map of the province of Madrid (1773)
This map was created by Spanish cartographer Tomás López de Vargas Machuca in 1773 and published posthumously...
United States and Mexico (1859)
This map, published by Johnson & Browning under the direction of Carlos Butterfield, shows the political situation in the United States...
Map of Peru and Bolivia (1856)
This map was published by George W. Colton in his Atlas of the World in...
Polynesian navigation chart (1920)
This is one of the typical navigation charts used in the Marshall Islands until the mid-20th century...
Map of the North Pole, by Gerardus Mercator (1595)
This map was created by Gerardus Mercator to compensate for the shortcomings of his projection in covering the polar regions. Mercator...
Map of New Zealand, by James Cook (1773)
This map, drawn by John Hawkesworth in 1773, depicts John Cook's readings on his first voyage of exploration...
Map of James Cook's voyages (1794)
This map, published by William Faden in 1794, depicts the world and includes the discoveries made by the explorer and...
Mercator's world map, copy from Basel (1569)
This map was published by Gerardus Mercator in 1569 and marked a turning point in cartography. Until...
Universalis Cosmographia by Martin Waldseemüller (1507)
This map was published by Martin Waldseemüller in 1507. It is a world map measuring 1.3 x 2.3 metres...
The world according to Ptolemy (1420)
This map is a reconstruction based on information found in the book Geographia, published by Claudius Ptolemy around...
The world according to Hecateo (1901)
This is a copy of the world map according to Hecataeus of Miletus, published by George Franklin Cram in his atlas...
The first map of the Nile River (1036)
This map is the oldest preserved representation of the Nile River, by Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī. It was...
Map of the unexplored world (1881)
This map appears in the first pages of the book «The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century», the English publication of...
Map of the Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
This map, owned by the Royal Geographical Society, was used to sign the agreement whereby the British Empire...
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