Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Cartography as art

Antique maps and sea charts, atlases and travel books

America atlas by Acosta 

America by Blaeu

  America atlas by de Laet

  America by Munster

Anemographica by Lotter 

Waghenaer chart of Holland

  Schagen world map

  Arctic by Mercator

Anonymous Holland map

Magellanica by Jansson

Moluccas by Blaeu

America by Schagen

Virginia by Blaeu

America by Ortelius 

Septentrionalium by Ortelius

America by Sadeler

West Africa by Linschoten

North America by Coronelli

Iceland by Ortelius

New Netherlands by Jansson

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Posted via web from Fred's posterous

1 comment:

  1. Ah. I see it's an inventory from a seller of old maps. I was wondering why the image didn't include the 1507 Waldseemuller world map--it was the first map to use the label "America" and pretty artistic in its own right. (Only one copy exists. It's on display at the LOC.)

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