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  • Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis (Visscher, 1652.)

    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.)

    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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  • A New and Accurat Map of the World (John Speed, 1651.)

    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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  • Ptolemaic World Map (Sebastian Münster, 1544.)

    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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  • Untitled Ptolemaic World Map (Gregor Reisch, 1503.)

    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.)

    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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  • Typus Orbis Universalis (Sebastian Münster, 1550.)

    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.)

    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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  • 16th-century Francesco Ghisolfi world map with tiny gold accents on aged beeswax paper with burned edges.

    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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  • Typus Orbis A Ptol. Descriptus (Sebastian Münster, 1542.)

    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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  • Argonautica (Abraham Ortelius, 1624.)

    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.)

    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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  • 16th-century oval world map by Francesco Ghisolfi on beeswax paper with burned edges

    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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  • Typus Orbis Terrarum (Abraham Ortelius, 1570.)

    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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