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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Typus Orbis A Ptol. Descriptus (Sebastian Münster, 1542.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
An antique world map with a very old point of view. Based on Ptolemy’s geography, it shows the inhabited world as ancient scholars understood it, stretching across Europe, Africa, and Asia and leaving out the Americas entirely. The wind heads, enclosed seas, and older geography are part of what gives the image its character as…

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The Americas (Abraham Ortelius, 1570.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
An antique map of the Americas from Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the atlas generally regarded as the first modern atlas. It shows North and South America as 16th century Europe understood them, with open northern coastlines, no Great Lakes, ships and sea creatures in the water, and the oval portraits of Vespucci and Columbus that…

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Argonautica (Abraham Ortelius, 1624.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
An antique map of the Argonauts’ Voyage with a very unusual point of view. Rather than mapping a state or coastline for its own sake, Ortelius turns Jason’s journey to Colchis into geography, tracing the route across the eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. Though it is not a full world map in color, the inset…

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Clover Leaf World Map (Heinrich Bünting, 1581.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
An antique world map with one of the most unusual symbolic designs of the sixteenth century. Bünting turns Europe, Asia, and Africa into a clover leaf and places Jerusalem at the center, which is part of what makes the image so distinctive as world map wall art. First published in Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae in 1581,…

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World Map (Francesco Ghisolfi, 16th century.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
An antique world map with a very different Renaissance point of view. Instead of spreading the world across one flat sheet, this design breaks it into curved globe gores, which is part of what makes it so distinctive as world map wall art. The map is linked to Francesco Ghisolfi and the Genoese cartographic tradition,…

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Illyricum Hodiernum (Joan Blaeu & Ivan Lučić, 1668.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
An antique map of Croatia with unusual historical importance. Published in 1668, Illyricum Hodiernum is often described as the first integral map of the Croatian historical regions, bringing Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, and Bosnia into one image. The coats of arms, Latin panels, and Adriatic coastline give it the character of a major 17th century regional…

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Europa Regina (Sebastian Münster, 1588.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
A map of Europe as a Queen with one of the most unusual symbolic designs of the 16th century. Europe is turned into a crowned female figure, with Iberia as the head and central Europe forming the body, which is part of what makes the image so distinctive as an antique map in color. Included…

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Typus Orbis Terrarum (Abraham Ortelius, 1570.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
An antique world map with unusual historical importance. First published in 1570, Typus Orbis Terrarum was the world map in Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the work generally regarded as the first modern atlas. The oval form, cloud border, and half-known shape of the world give the image a strong Renaissance point of view, and as…

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Europae Tabula (Sebastian Münster, 1540.)
Price range: 29,00 € through 149,00 €
An antique Europe map with a very unusual point of view. South sits at the top, so Italy, Spain, and the Mediterranean rise along the upper edge, which gives the whole piece a strong, striking look from the first glance. This antique map in color has bold woodcut lines, scattered place names, and a warm…

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