Old Maps

Old map prints based on historical world maps, regional maps, symbolic maps, city views, sea charts, and early cartographic works. This collection brings together pieces that show how mapmakers once pictured the world through geography, belief, discovery, decoration, and imagination.

You will find world maps, Europe maps, Asia maps, Ptolemaic maps, shaped maps, and richly decorated cartographic illustrations recreated as handmade wall art. Each piece is made on hand-processed paper, finished with gold paint highlights, sealed with beeswax, and given softly burned edges for a parchment-style look.

This category is for old maps with real historical character. Some maps show careful geography. Others include unknown lands, mythical shapes, wind heads, sea monsters, decorative borders, or symbolic figures. Together, they show how people once tried to understand the world before modern mapping.

Browse the collection to find old map prints for a study, library, hallway, office, or any room where historical map wall art and handmade home decor fit naturally.

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Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis (Visscher, 1652.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
An antique world map showing the world in two hemispheres, surrounded by one of the richest borders found on 17th century cartography. The top and bottom panels show the Twelve Caesars on horseback, while the sides include cities, costumed figures, and continent symbols. As a world map in color, it combines geography, Roman history, decoration,…

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Fool’s Cap World Map (1590.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
An antique world map placing the known world inside a jester’s cap instead of a normal map frame. The oval world map in color sits where the face would be, surrounded by Latin sayings, bells, and a fool’s staff. The image turns cartography into satire, using the jester to point at human pride, vanity, and…

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Asia Secunda in Forma Pegasi (Heinrich Bünting, 1581.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
An antique Asia map showing the continent as Pegasus, the winged horse from Greek myth. The soft blue sea, warm parchment tone, place names, ships, and gold-painted wing make the image feel strange in a good way, half map and half symbol. As a map in color, it keeps the old geography readable while letting…

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A New and Accurat Map of the World (John Speed, 1651.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
An antique world map showing the earth as two colored hemispheres rather than a plain navigation chart. The portraits, celestial circles, eclipse diagrams, and symbolic figures are gathered tightly around the map, which is part of what gives the image its strength as a world map in color. The large southern unknown land at the…

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A New Mappe Of The Romane Empire (John Speed, 1626.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
An antique Roman Empire map with the rich border detail that makes John Speed’s work easy to recognize. The Mediterranean, Italy, and the surrounding provinces fill the main sheet, while city views and figures in regional dress frame the map, which is part of what gives it such a strong presence as an antique map…

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Europae (Abraham Ortelius, 1572.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
A color version of Abraham Ortelius’s famous map of Europe. This antique Europe map comes from Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, first issued in 1570. and widely regarded as the first modern atlas. The coastlines, peninsulas, and overall outline of the continent feel much closer to later atlas mapping than older medieval images, which is part…

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Holland (Abraham Ortelius, 1570.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
A color version of Abraham Ortelius’s famous map of Holland. This antique map comes from Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, first issued in 1570. and widely regarded as the first modern atlas. The sheet shows the old County of Holland with its towns, waterways, and coastal edge in the crisp engraved style that gives it a strong…

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Romani Imperii Imago (Abraham Ortelius, 1584.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 49,00 €
An antique Roman Empire map from Ortelius’s Parergon, his atlas of ancient geography. The Mediterranean-centered layout, ornate cartouche, and dense historical framing give the sheet the strong presence of a Roman Empire map in color. Unlike much of the Theatrum, the Parergon was treated as Ortelius’s own historical-geographic work. About the original If you want…

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Ptolemaic World Map (Sebastian Münster, 1544.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
An antique world map showing the inhabited world in the old Ptolemaic form instead of a full globe. Europe, North Africa, and Asia are set inside an oval frame, with named wind heads blowing from the clouds around the edge. As a world map in color, it shows an earlier stage of cartography, when mapmakers…

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Tabvla Evropae V (Sebastian Münster, 1552.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
An antique Italy map showing the peninsula, Corsica, the Adriatic, and the Balkan coast in the older Ptolemaic form still used in the middle of the 16th century. The trapezoid frame, Latin place names, and compact coastlines give the sheet a strict, geometric character, which is part of what makes it stand out as a…

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Untitled Ptolemaic World Map (Gregor Reisch, 1503.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
An antique world map from the moment when older textbook geography was starting to meet new discovery. The tight half-oval world, enclosed Indian Ocean, and ring of 12 wind heads give the sheet the closed early character of a Ptolemaic image, which is part of what makes it work naturally as world map wall art….

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Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula (Joan Blaeu, 1664.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
An antique world map with the full scale and richness of 17th century Dutch cartography. The two hemispheres, small polar projections, celestial figures, and seasonal chariots give the sheet a dense Baroque character, which is part of what makes it stand out as a world map in color. Blaeu prepared this map for his Atlas…

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Leo Belgicus (Famiano Strada, 1684.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
An antique map of the Low Countries with one of the most recognizable symbolic designs of the 17th century. The provinces are arranged as a walking lion holding a shield, which is part of what makes the image so distinctive as an antique map in color. Famiano Strada’s version became the most popular of the…

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Typus Orbis Universalis (Sebastian Münster, 1550.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
An antique world map from the middle of the 16th century, set inside a long oval and surrounded by clouds, wind heads, ships, and sea creatures. The design gives the sheet a strong early-cartography feel, and the colored version makes those details read even more clearly as world map wall art. Münster used this map…

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Typus Universalis (Sebastian Münster, 1542.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
An antique world map with the dense border and early geographic language that make 16th century world sheets so recognizable. The long oval frame, clouds, wind heads, ships, and sea creatures give the image a strong old-atlas character, which is part of what makes it work naturally as world map wall art. Münster included it…

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Globe Gore World Map (Francesco Ghisolfi, 16th century.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
An antique world map first meant to wrap around a globe. The long curved strips, tiny place names, and thin coastlines give the sheet the compact, technical character of a Renaissance map, which is part of what makes it work naturally as world map wall art. The design is linked to Francesco Ghisolfi and the…

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