http://www.geographicus.com Our online antique map gallery is updated daily. This is our weekly feed detailing the last rare antique maps added. en-us info@geographicus.com (Kevin J Brown) info@geographicus.com (Kevin J Brown) http://www.geographicus.com http://www.geographicus.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/antiquemaprss.gif 144 39 Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:51:00 +0000 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/TargetTokyoTargetBerlin-manning-1943 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/TargetTokyoTargetBerlin-manning-1943 Two of the most iconic American World War II propaganda maps, these are F. E Manning's 1943 propaganda broadsides 'Target Berlin' and 'Target Paris.' The focus of the broadsides are dramatic shaded panoptic views centered on Berlin and Tokyo, respectively, from which a series of concentric circles radiate creating a distinctive target-like effect. The ever widening circles extend to include much of the world. The first broadside, Target Berlin, formally entitled Newsmap. ... more
PRICE: 2000.00 USD]]> Sun, 17 May 2015 23:29:00 +0000 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/NewMapoftheWorld-senex-1721 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/NewMapoftheWorld-senex-1721 An impressive 1721 double hemisphere map of the World by John Senex. This map covers the entire world in two hemispheres. It appeared during a period of rapid globalization and discovery. Senex here attempts to reveal both the most up-to-date cartographic data as well as previous notions. He does this by rending earlier mappings with ghostlike outline. Here we can see revising cartographies in Asia, the South Pacific, and Africa. ... more
PRICE: 3700.00 USD]]> Thu, 07 May 2015 15:33:00 +0000 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/World-ewing-1845 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/World-ewing-1845 This is a fine example of Thomas Ewing's 1845 map of the World in two hemispheres. Both the Western and Eastern Hemispheres are drawn and offer a fascinating snapshot of the world during a period of rapid globalization and discovery. Africa and Australia are largely unmapped in the interiors with coastlines accurately rendered. The map is color coded according to continents with counties named but their boundaries not defined. ... more
PRICE: 175.00 USD]]> Thu, 14 May 2015 17:23:00 +0000 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/World-schnell-1862 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/World-schnell-1862 This is a remarkable 1862 Yokohama Published Japanese large format Japanese map of the world by Edward Schnell and Kango Takeda. This map is based upon an English map drawn by John Purdy and others in 1845. Kango Takeda published a Japanese version of the chart in 1858. The map details the world with numerous Japanese notes and annotations, including the routes of prominent explorers. ... more
PRICE: 6000.00 USD]]> Fri, 08 May 2015 15:29:00 +0000 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/TheWorld-bullard-1910 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/TheWorld-bullard-1910 This is a large 1910 Bullard Company Gazetteer map of the World. Centered on North America and South America, it covers the entire world on a globular projection. The map is highly detailed, noting numerous cities, towns, islands, railways, rivers, coaling fields, battlefields, and a host of additional topographic features. ocean currents and shipping lines are also noted. ... more
PRICE: 150.00 USD]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2015 16:37:00 +0000 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/TargetBerlin-manning-1943 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/TargetBerlin-manning-1943 One of the most iconic American World War II propaganda maps, this is F. E Manning's 1943 propaganda broadside map 'Target Berlin.' The focus of the broadside is a dramatic shaded panoptic view centered on Berlin, then the capital of the Third Reich, from which a series of concentric circles radiate creating a distinctive target-like effect. ... more
PRICE: 1200.00 USD]]> Thu, 07 May 2015 15:49:00 +0000 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/PhysicalPlanisphere-buache-1757 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/PhysicalPlanisphere-buache-1757 This is a beautiful 1757 Philippe Buache map of the world represented on an unusual polar projection rendered from the North Pole. The map covers from the North Pole Arctic region south beyond Tasmania (Van Diemen's Land) to include parts of New Zealand and even Cap de la Circoncision (Bouvet Island). This curious projection has its origins in a 1752 essay presented by Philippe Buache to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris. ... more
PRICE: 250.00 USD]]> Fri, 17 Apr 2015 17:40:00 +0000 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/KnownWorld-bowen-1747 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/KnownWorld-bowen-1747 This is an extremely attractive 1747 decorative double hemisphere world map by the English cartographer Emmanuel Bowen. This beautiful map covers the entire world as it was understood in the middle part of the 18th century, before the explorations of Cook, Wilkes, and others. Surrounded by decorative engravings of women representing each of the continents: America in the upper left, Europe in the upper right, Asia in the lower left, and Africa in the lower right. ... more
PRICE: 1500.00 USD]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:43:00 +0000 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/KankyoShinkanYochiZenzu-seiyosato-1862 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/KankyoShinkanYochiZenzu-seiyosato-1862 An impressive 1862 (Bunkyu 2) Japanese map of the world by Seiyo Sato. This is an enormous and graphically impressive map covering the entire world on Mercator's projection and surrounded by 159 flags of various foreign nations. It identifies the routes of various explorers throughout with extensive annotation along the bottom of the map prepared by Sato Masayaoshi in 1861. All text is in Sino-Japanese characters, as was standard when this map was issued. ... more
PRICE: 7500.00 USD]]> Fri, 03 Apr 2015 16:29:00 +0000 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/World-munster-1588 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/World-munster-1588 An attractive example of Sebastian Munster's 1588 map of the world. Munster presents us with an expansive view the world with a number of interested cartographic features. Along the bottom of the map the dramatic unknown southern continent (Terra Australis Nondum Congnita) stretches to include the discovered lands of Tierra de Fuego and what appears to be a proto-Australia. South America bears the characteristic western budge in the vicinity of Chile that appeared on many early maps. ... more
PRICE: 1500.00 USD]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2015 15:43:00 +0000 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/World-johnson-1866 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/World-johnson-1866 This is A. J. Johnson's 1866 map of the world on Mercator's Projection. It depicts the entire world centered on North and South America and offers a fascinating snapshot of the world during a period of rapid globalization and discovery. Updated from earlier versions to reflect recent discoveries in Africa, including Lake Victoria's, and the ongoing exploration of Antarctica. ... more
PRICE: 225.00 USD]]> Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:11:00 +0000 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/World-moll-1701 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/World-moll-1701 This is a scarce 1701 map of the world in hemispheres by Herman Moll. It depicts the world on a hemispheric projection and the map of the northern hemisphere with polar projection centered on the North Pole. The map features much of note including a presentation of California as an Island and early speculative mappings of Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. Moll boldly presents California in insular form on the Luke Foxe model popularized by Nicholas Sanson in 1657. ... more
PRICE: 550.00 USD]]> Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:10:00 +0000 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/WorldGlobe-okumura-1940s http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/WorldGlobe-okumura-1940s This is a beautiful 1940s vintage Japanese world globe made by Okumura of Osaka, Japan. Made before World War II, this globe represents the entire world on a three-dimensional scale mode of the Earth. Notes cities, rivers, lakes, railways, shipping lines, mountains and a host of other topographical features throughout. Includes a legend and name of creator near the bottom. Mounted at a 23. ... more
PRICE: 1500.00 USD]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2015 17:47:00 +0000 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/MappeMonde-tardieu-1874 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/MappeMonde-tardieu-1874 This is a beautiful 1874 map of the World in hemispheres by Ambroise Tardieu. It offers a fascinating snapshot of the world during a period of rapid globalization and discovery. The Antarctic continent is shown only sketchily, representing the relatively primitive state of Antarctic exploration in 1874. Continents are color coded with countries named, but boundaries not depicted. ... more
PRICE: 175.00 USD]]> Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:36:00 +0000 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/OrbisVetus-vaugondy-1757 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/OrbisVetus-vaugondy-1757 This is a striking and impressive 1752 map of the world by Gilles Robert de Vaugondy. The map depicts the entire world embraced in two hemispherical projections separated by the Vaugondy firm's distinctive bold cartouche work. This map is a curious work following somewhat on Sanson in that it attempts to express the New World (Americas) within the context of Hellenic tradition. ... more
PRICE: 2250.00 USD]]> Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:57:00 +0000 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/MappeMondePhysique-mentelle-1779 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/MappeMondePhysique-mentelle-1779 This is a highly unusual 1779 map of the world exhibiting a very peculiar physical topography that reveals mountain ranges both on land and under the sea. The curious undersea mountain ranges displayed here was drawn by Andre Mongez to illustrate the geographical theories of Peter Simon Pallas, a German polymath living in Russia, who speculated that mountain ranges originated from a series of interterrestial explosions (volcanoes), many of which are noted on the map as asterisks. ... more
PRICE: 450.00 USD]]> Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:55:00 +0000 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/MondeAnciens-dufour-1860 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/MondeAnciens-dufour-1860 This is an uncommon and attractive large 1859 elephant folio map of the Ancient World, including Asia, Europe and Africa by A. H. Dufour. The map shows the World during the time of the Ancient Roman Empire from the Atlantic Ocean to Burma in Asia and from the Indian Ocean to the North Sea. Includes all of Europe, Arabia, part of Asia including the Indian Subcontinent and the northern part of Africa. An inset in the lower left quadrant depicts the World according to Herodotus. ... more
PRICE: 225.00 USD]]> Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:53:00 +0000 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/MappeMontePlanispherique-dufour-1860 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/MappeMontePlanispherique-dufour-1860 This is an unusual 1860 elephant folio map of the world exhibiting its planispheric, physical and hydrographic features. The map shows extraordinary detail throughout noting European possessions around the world, cities, islands, rivers, lakes, mountains, deserts, oceans and ocean currents, magnetic curves, isothermal lines, sea routes of explorers and a host of other geographical, topographical and physical features. Several notes are included along the bottom border of the map. ... more
PRICE: 400.00 USD]]> Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:47:00 +0000 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/WorldInHemispheres-mitchell-1866 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/WorldInHemispheres-mitchell-1866 This is a beautiful example of S. A. Mitchell Jr.'s 1866 decorative double hemisphere map of the world. Depicts the world on a hemisphere projection. The upper part of the map shows the rivers in relative proximity while the lower half features three additional world maps, a hemisphere map on a polar projection, a land and water hemisphere projection, and one of the northern Polar Regions. Countries are named but boundaries are not defined. ... more
PRICE: 200.00 USD]]> Wed, 18 Jun 2014 12:46:00 +0000 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/WorldMercator-black-1844 http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/WorldMercator-black-1844 This is a fine example of Adam and Charles Black's 1844 map of the world on Mercator's Projection. An interesting map of the world issued just as most of the Earth's non-polar shore has been explored. Vast stretches of unmapped territory and speculative cartography fill central Africa and Australia. In Africa, Lake Nyasa is shown only speculatively. Neither Mt. Kenya nor Mt. Kilimanjaro are shown. ... more
PRICE: 150.00 USD]]>