World Maps

This section contains maps of the Ancient and Biblical Worlds as well as more orthodox maps. It also has certain charts of oceans, mountains and diagrams of planetary and solar orbits.

Naturally it also has a wealth of maps of the whole world from relatively modern times.

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*Sizes are all in millimetres.*
Item	Date	Description	Cartographer Publisher	Mounted Matted	Overall Size	Price £
WW 081	1598	World , ancient - the famous cartographic treasure "Geographia Sacra" by Ortelius. This truly rare map was printed on two joined pieces of paper and time has taken its toll of this -expert repairs do not completely hide some loss where the join became separated. Ask for the set of scans - one is above but there are 2 others. Only 200 were printed and 140 exist in complete atlases so there can be no more than 60 possible owners of this princely rarity if all survived!	Abraham Ortelius	Unmounted Coloured	535x410	250
WW 082	1710	World - Ancient World " Orbis Vetus Juxta Strabonum" [as known to Strabonius]. Quaint very early engraved map with Jupiter and The Winds, vignette showing an American Indian myth. Fine condition. See scan above.	Pieter van der Aa	Mounted Coloured	400x280	55
WW 091	C.1714	World - very large old map in superb condition. Centre shows a map of the ancient civilizations. Numerous tables then give the rulers of the Great Ancient Kingdoms over several hundred years - Pharoanic Egypt, Ptolemaic Egypt, Persia, China, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Arabia and so on with hundreds of dates. Exceptionally attractive large showpiece. All text in French but easy enough to follow if you had school French. Attractive hand colouring of central map.	Chatelain Brothers at Amsterdam	Unmounted Coloured	560x440	95 SOLD
WW 102	1788	World - Eastern Hemisphere from a French atlas. Shows Australia and Tasmania joined. Small stain in the Arctic ocean condition otherwise very fine indeed.. Recent hand colouring.	Bonne and engraved by Andre.	Unmounted Coloured	370x255	35 SOLD
WW 079	1788	The Ancient World - Mappa Dispersus Filiorum Noemi [Map showing the dispersal of the Sons of Noah]. Fascinating hand coloured engraving showing the location of Eden as well. Longitude is taken from the island of Hierro in the Madeiras. Good condition.	Bonne and engraved by Andre.	Unmounted Coloured	375x255	35
WW 080	1788	World - Orbis Antiquus [The Ancient World]. Fine hand coloured engraved map by Louis XVII's Chief Naval Hydrographer. Shows the territories of such as the Aethiopes, Scythians, Hibernians, Belgae, Nergon and Lappiones and such as the fabled Land of Ophir and a source of the Nile in the Mountains of the Moon.	Bonne and engraved by Andre.	Unmounted Coloured	375x255	55
WW 063	1809	Atlantis. Astonishing and very rare map by Colonel Bory St. Vincent from his work "Essais sur les Iles Fortunees" this being "Carte Conjecturale de L'Atlantide". Hardly needs translation but it is a theoretical map of the lost continent of Atlantis based around peaks and ranges of the Azores, Madeira, Canaries [The Fortunate Isles] and the Cape Verde Islands. Elegantly drawn and with the original hand colouring. Longitude Zero is, of course, on Paris.	St. Vincent engraved by Berthe	Unmounted Coloured	280x425	60 SOLD
WW 093	1809	World - a pretty decorative and hand coloured engraved map with ornamental strapwork title "Map of the World Exhibiting the Principal Features in Natural Geography" [no country names, no cities marked]. This is a purely attractive frameable item of little research value but is exceptional condition for its age..	Cooper engraver, published Sherwood, Nealy & Jones - Jan 2nd 1809	Unmounted Coloured	415x265	20
WW 094	1809	World - a quite handsome map on a Mercator projection and [odd for a French map of that era] Greenwich as the Prime Meridian. This hand coloured copper engraving shows the distribution of the stem races across the world based on 15 ethnic groupings. Legend in French but easy to understand if you have only a little French.	Drawn by Col. Bory de St. Vincent and engraved by Ambrose Tardieu.	Unmounted Coloured	425x280	25
WW 114	1834	World - principal rivers. Very unusual projection centred on the North Pole and showing the great rivers, with known lengths as well as other large bodies of inland water. About 90 rivers are shown! This large engraved map has original hand outline colouring.	J & C Walker for the SDUK	Unmounted Coloured	335x410	20 RESERVED
WW 049	1835	The World - Double Hemisphere map from Bell's System of Geography. Alaska is Russian America, Australia consists of New South Wales. South Australia and New Holland. Later outline colouring. Centre join as this was printed on two joined sheets.	T. Starling	Unmounted Coloured	360x200	40
WW 047	1835	The World - Countries of the Ancient World Exhibiting the Probable Settlement of the Descendants of Noah - the descendants of Gomer [via Japhet] populated Western Europe but Russia stems from the line of Tubal whilst the Moscovites are descendants of Meshack!.	A. Fullarton	Unmounted Coloured	250x200	25
WW 048	1835	The World - as known to the Ancients - purports to show all places of which the "ancients" had any knowledge. Leaves out most of Africa, China, the East after Java. Some strange legends revealed. Light outline colouring. Scale in Roman. Greek, Persian and British measurements.	A. Fullarton	Unmounted Coloured	240x195	25
WW 028	1838	"The World" or the world as it was known to the Greeks and the Romans in classical times. Titled Orbis Veteribus Notus. Sri Lanka was Taprobana, Malaysia was Chersonesus, European Russia was Sarmatia. The map has been used - we have cleaned it up. Original colouring.	Sidney Hall for Samuel Butler	Mounted Coloured	345x300	22
WW 113	1841	Eastern Hemisphere - elegant single hemisphere map showing Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia [no New World]. Shows limits of exploration as Africa interior is largely white space [no great lakes] and Australia has few settlements. Faint outlines of Antarctic continent most northerly shores. This large engraved map has original hand outline colouring.	J & C Walker for the SDUK	Unmounted Coloured	335x410	25
WW 077	1843	World - Map of the Principal Countries of the Ancient World. Large and quite elegant work of scholarship. Extends from Carthage & Italy to Persepolis and south to Aethiopia and north beyond the Balkans. 2 lower insets show the Roman Empire and the Persian Empire. Designed for easy readability and invaluable to a student of Ancient or Biblical History.	W. Hughes	Unmounted Coloured	610x440	25
WW 077A	1843	World - Map of the Principal Countries of the Ancient World. Large and quite elegant work of scholarship. Extends from Carthage & Italy to Persepolis and south to Aethiopia and north beyond the Balkans. 2 lower insets show the Roman Empire and the Persian Empire. Designed for easy readability and invaluable to a student of Ancient or Biblical History. Pretty hand colouring but various small stains and so greatly reduced in price.	W. Hughes	Unmounted Coloured	610x440	12
WW 066	1843	World - Ethnographical [by Language Groups] and World by Racial Groups. 2 very large folded , engraved and hand coloured maps - few minor dilapidations but both maps are sound and without tears in image areas. Plus!!! Original 3 page letterpress explanation of the works by Dr. Prichard himself - the latter somewhat stained. Fascinating works of Victorian scholarly endeavour.	H. Bailliere for Dr. J. C. Prichard	Unmounted Coloured	640x550 [each]	40 [the pair]
WW 061	1852	World as Known to the Ancients "Orbis Veteribus Notus". Fine hand coloured engraved map which consists of the north of Africa, Europe, Asia Minor, India and Malaysia - all with classical names {Hibernia, Lusitania, Taprobana, Moesia and so forth. Very pleasant to look at and infinitely interesting.	George Philip	Unmounted Coloured	305x245	20
WW 062	1852	World - Eastern Roman Empire at its height - Greece to Armenia and Iraq, Syria and Egypt. Hundreds of place names from antiquity in these Provinces and surrounding Kingdoms. A good looking hand coloured engraved map.	George Philip	Unmounted Coloured	245x305	16
WW 116	1854	Islands in the Atlantic. The lovely Tallis map which has 5 inset maps of Madeira, Azores, Canary Islands, Bermudas and Cape Verde Islands. There are lovely engraved vignettes of Funchal in Madeira, Villa Franca,Pico and Payal in the Azores, the Chapel in the Rock at St. Vincente and one of Teneriffe . The vignettes were drawn and engraved by H. Winkles, the map by J. Rapkin with his usual ornamented border. Original outline colouring, later hand colour on vignettes. One centrefold as issued.	John Tallis & Company	Unmounted Coloured	360x270	65
WW 097	1860	World - as known to the Ancients [Europe, Northern Africa, Southern Asia]. Neatly drawn and engraved on stout paper, some original colouring.	W. Hughes for A & C Black	Unmounted Coloured	445x325	12
WW 004	1861	Basin of the North Atlantic (Labrador to Gulf of Guinea) - a mine of information in an attractive outline coloured map	Johnston	Unmounted Coloured	495x610	15
WW 098	1871	World in Hemispheres. Hand coloured in outline. Very clean attractive map which has repair due to detachment at centre [originally on 2 joined sheets]. Also some damage in corners which would be invisible if mounted and framed. Nice but very cheap.	Keith Johnston for William Blackwood	Unmounted Coloured	460x360	10
WW 058	1874	The Pacific Ocean with hand outline colouring on an engraved folio map. usefully puts a scale to the many island groups. Plain but quite attractive.	Stanfords	Unmounted Coloured	425x315	6
WW 055	1874	The World as Known to the Ancients - Sheet I - Europe, North Africa, Carthaginian settlements in West Africa, Asia Minor - handsome, large, engraved map with original hand outline colouring.	Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.	Unmounted Coloured	320x410	12
WW 056	1874	The World as Known to the Ancients - Sheet II - The Middle East, South Russia, India, Ceylon [Taprobana], Indo-China, part of Malaysia. - handsome, large, engraved map with original hand outline colouring.	Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.	Unmounted Coloured	320x410	12
WW 076	1875	World - Charted on Mercator's projection [centred on Long. 180]. This fine, very large lithographic map was hand coloured in outline and showed brand new finds in exploration. Faintly thumbed and some separation in margin at original fold, repaired but still visible. These minor defects reflected in bargain price.	Keith Johnston for William Blackwood & Sons.	Unmounted Coloured	630x490	25
WW 073	1875	World - Charted on Mercator's projection [centred on Long. 180]. This fine, very large lithographic map was hand coloured in outline and represents the pinnacle of Victorian map-making achievement.	Keith Johnston for William Blackwood & Sons.	Unmounted Coloured	630x490	40
WW 117	C.1876	World in Hemispheres. Attractive map with original litho colouring and interesting details of highest mountains at foot, longest rivers at top. Handsomely double mounted in board colours to match the map itself.	William Collins, Sons & Co.	Mounted Coloured	430x365	30
WW 045	1881	The World - as mentioned in the Bible - essentially Asia Minor and Southern Europe. Insets show the extent of the world as known to the Hebrews, the world as peopled by the descendants of Noah and a map of Sheba, Ophir etc.	J. Bartholomew	Unmounted Coloured	270x215	10
WW 037	1882	The Shores of the Mediterranean. Shows the submarine telegraph lines and many other features. Well drawn and coloured. Some water discolouration on right - hardly touches map area at all. £4.00 extra if required mounted.	W.G. Blackie	Unmounted Coloured	360x255	5
WW 043	1883	The World in Hemispheres, nicely coloured and presented, two original folds, from an old Chambers Encyclopaedia.	J. Bartholomew/W & AK Johnston	Mounted Coloured	565x343	23
WW 105	1884	The World in Hemispheres - very attractive and clean double hemisphere map, lightly outline coloured by continents, pretty when framed.	Keith Johnston F.R.S.E.	Unmounted Coloured	480x370	28
WW 111	1885	World. Very rare example of a world map on Sir J. Herschel's Projection from The Popular Atlas. This conical projection shows more accurately the relative sizes of continents and distances. Also, unlike other maps of the period a real effort is made to map the coast of the Antarctic continent. Sea distances are marked as also the prevailing ocean currents making this as much a work of scholarship as it is an attractive map.	J. Bartholomew for Geo. Philip & Son	Unmounted Coloured	460x340	32
WW 034	1898	Celestial map in two panels showing the Northern and Southern Celestial Hemispheres. Handsomely drawn and coloured, without any blemish.	Bartholomew	Mounted Coloured	510x350	22
WW 029	1898	The World as known to the Ancients, Europe, the Middle East, North Africa.	Bartholomew	Unmounted Coloured	400x295	12
WW 053	1898	The World - Hemispheres, physical. Many other graphics in borders - Mountain Heights, Berghaus Star Projection of the World, Solar and Lunar Eclipses, Moon phases and more. Slight repair on bottom crease.	Bartholomew	Unmounted Coloured	430x310	12
WW 005	1902	North Atlantic Shipping Routes, political map with a vast amount of information	Bartholomew	Unmounted Coloured	360x490	6
WW 075	1920	World - sparkling condition! Fine, large map showing Time Zones, Cables, Wireless Stations as well as the updated political structure. Good looking map and a mine of information as well.	Alexander Gross for Geographia.	Unmounted Coloured	640x500	20