world map

Carta da geographia dos Lusíadas : poema épico de Luís de Camões : wor...

Literary map. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Paris. Red, blue, and black ink and watercolor. Includes 6 ancillary maps. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LMP Vault

World map from BL Eg 2976, f. 62v - Public domain map

An adaptation of Macrobius’s map of the five zones, with North is at the top, and the cardinal points marked with crosses. The names 'hispania, alpes, gades, balearia, sardinia, Sicilia, egiptus and asia' were... More

[World map by Ptolemy] - Public domain vintage map

Illus. in: Claudii Ptholemei Alexandrini philosophi Cosmographia. Rome : Arnoldus Buckinck, 10 Oct. (VI Idus Octobris) 1478. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Le... More

World Map - A map of the world on a piece of paper

Public domain scan of a vintage world map, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

World map - Public domain vintage map

As the first map printed in two colors, this is a monument to map printing. The place names in capital letters were printed in red ink by means of type set into the woodblocks. The decorative windheads, zodiaca... More

[World map] - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

The winds, known collectively as Venti, have long been viewed as both bringers of good fortune and sources of chaos. In ancient Greece and Rome, the winds were seen as personas; gods who brought favorable or di... More

Small circular world map - Public domain vintage map

Apian, a noted German mathematician, astronomer and geographer, compiled several geographical publications during the first half of the 16th century. His work displayed various iterations of the American contin... More

World map - Public domain map engraving

Bordonne, a cartographer and engraver working in Venice, was best known for his isolario or book of islands. First published in 1528, his book included 111 wood cut maps of islands. The world map, a simple outl... More

Noua, et integra uniuersi orbis descriptio /

Public domain scan of manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Typus Cosmographicus Universalis. Book illustration from Library of Co...

World map with ornate border design natives hunting and cannibailzing; elephant; serpent; sea monster. Illus. in: "Mappondo de Johann Huttich" from the 1532 Basel edition of Novus Orbis Regionum. No reference c... More

Paolo Forlani - Vniversale descrittione di tvtta la terra conoscivta f...

Relief shown pictorially. Based on an earlier map by Giacomo Gastaldi. From the Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress, no. 1304. Originally printed on 2 sheets, each 48 x 40 cm. Available also through the L... More

La herdike enterprinse faict par le Signeur Draeck D'Avoir cirquit tou...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Vera totius expeditionis nauticæ : descriptio D. Franc. Draci ... /

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[World map] - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

Regions and Seasons: The winds remained on maps into the 17th century, as illustrated on this 1607 horological diagram, which was used for measuring time. Produced by German mathematician Franz Ritter, this uni... More

[Terrestrial globe gores]. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Title supplied by cataloger. Reissued by Giuseppe di Rossi in 1615. Dedication in upper hemisphere: Illmo. viro optimaraq. artium amatori et Fautori D. Paulo Mellino Romano ... In lowe... More

[Sphendonē], hoc est, fvnda Posidonii., engraving, Library of Congress

From Bertius' Ancient Geography. Paris, 1630. In Latin and Greek. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Noua orbis terrarum delineatio singulari ratione accommodata meridiano...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Vniversale descrittione di tvtto il monde /

Relief shown pictorially. Probably the second state of the map. Differs from the first state in the reworking of Tierra del Fuego to include the Straits of Magellan. Presents Staten Island, west of Tierra del F... More

Karta Ukrainy V.Boplana 1650g. Tekst str. 15

Public domain scan of a vintage map, city plan, atlas, cartoghraphy, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

West-Indische paskaert waer in de graden der breedde over weder zijden...

Shows the west coast of North America from Belle Isle, Newfoundland, both coasts of South America, mediterranean Europe, and the east coast of Africa. Includes illustrations. Available also through the Library ... More

[Nova et accuratissima totius terrarum orbis tabula].

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes col. ill. in margins. Vault

Nieuwe Werelt kaert nautical chart - Public domain map

Public domain scan of a vintage world map, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Pascaerte van Nova Hispania, Chili, Peru, en Gvatimala.

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Orbis terrarum nova et accuratissima tabula /

Relief shown pictorially. Appears in the author's Atlas minor. Amsterdam, 1690? Includes ancillary maps of north polar region and south polar region and col. ill. Mounted on cloth. LC copy imperfect: Fold-lined... More

Weltkarte des Idrisi vom Jahr 1154 n. Ch., Charta Rogeriana /

Relief shown pictorially. Place names in romanized Arabic. Accompanying text in English. Facsimile. Original version: 1154. Oriented with north to the bottom. Originally printed on 6 sheets, each ca. 47 x 68 cm... More

[Collection of nine images including astronomical instruments, celesti...

Title devised by cataloger. English, French and Latin. James Ferguson article from Gent. Mag. March 1769. Nine printed images and two panels of printed text mounted on paper within hand drawn frames colored yel... More

Planisphaerivm Aratevm sive Compages Orbivm Mvndanorvm ex hypothesi Ar...

Appears in Andreas Cellarius' Harmonia macrocosmica. Amstelodami : Apud Gerardum Valk & Petrum Schenk, 1708. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy accompanied by pho... More

Da Qing tong shu zhi gong wan guo jing wei di qiu shi fang yu gu jin t...

Scale ca. 1:60,000,000. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Shows the world in 2 hemispheres. Also shows coordinates and dotted lines on the map. Based on "Zhi fang hui lan si yi tu shuo" produced in 1794. Prime meridi... More

A new and correct map of the world : laid down according to the newest...

Relief shown pictorially. Insets: The northern hemisphere upon the plane of the Equinoctial -- The northern coelestial hemisphere -- A projection of ye world upon equidistant meridians and parallels -- The nort... More

Le globe terrestre représenté en deux plans-hémisphères : dressé sur l...

Scale ca. 1:35,000,000 at the equator. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Includes text, notes, and ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

Nansenbushū bankoku shōka no zu / - Public domain map

Shows the world, based on knowledge from numerous famous Chinese and Japanese classics and Buddhism. Depths shown pictorially. Wood block print. Map and author, Hōtan, listed in Imago Mundi's Review of early ca... More

Johann Baptist Homann - Planiglobii terrestris cum utroq hemisphærio c...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

Planisphaerium coeleste - Public domain vintage map

Coordenadas : E0 -E360 /N90 -N90

Planisphere physique, où l'on voit du pole septentrional ce que l'on c...

Relief shown by hachures. Projection centered on North Pole. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy removed from its copy of Buache's Cartes et tables de la géographi... More

Mappa totius mundi : adornata juxta observationes dnn. academiae regal...

Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Tobias Conrad Lotter's Atlas géographique de cent et huit cartes générales et spéciales. Augsburg, 1778. Includes note, ill., and ancillary maps of the northern hemisphere a... More

[World map] - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Bowles's new and accurate map of the world, or Terrestrial globe : lai...

Shows various expedition routes. Relief shown pictorially. Includes text and col. ill. Ancillary maps: Solar system -- Northern hemisphere -- Southern hemisphere -- Astronomical latitude and longitude analemma ... More

Carte generale de la terre : appliquée a l'astronomie pour l'etude de ...

Relief shown pictorially. Includes text, table of climates, table of coordinates, and ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Fold-lined. On verso in manuscript ink in up... More

Sankai yochi zenzu. - Public domain vintage map

Scale ca. 1:27,000,000 at the equator. Wood block print, hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows continents and oceans of the world at about 1600. Based on Matteo Ricci's World map which was published in ... More

Kemâliyle nakş olunmuş cümle cihan numûnesi /

Relief shown pictorially. Text states the map was translated into Turkish in 967 (Oct. 1559 to Sept. 1560). Map based on Oronce Fine's cordiform map of 1534, according to Shirley's Mapping of the world, 1993. H... More

A new map of the world : with all the new discoveries by Capt. Cook an...

Relief shown pictorially. Also shows lines of magnetic variation and marine wind-direction arrows. "Published as the Act directs, Aug't 1st 1799, by I. Evans, No. 41 Long Lane, West Smithfield." Originally prin... More

Mappemonde - Public domain vintage map

Relieve : líneas perpendiculares normales. Coordenadas : O20 -O20 /N90 -S90 . Meridiano de París ?

Majeure partie des Cantons de Bellinzona et de Lugano et les frontiere...

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More

A new and elegant imperial sheet atlas, comprehending general and part...

Relief shown pictorially and by shading. Map title within ornamental border. Atlas consists of folded maps pasted onto endpapers along spine. Copy annotated in pencil on contents p. Copy imperfect: Torn edges a... More

Da Qing wan nian yi tong tian xia quan tu.

Scale ca. 1:2,500,000. Covers from Korea to India, from Russia to Brunei. Shows the world known to the Chinese, with China at the center of the map. Wood block print. Relief shown pictorially. Based on the orig... More

London - Public domain vintage geogrpaphic map

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Joslin's six inch celestial globe from the best authorities /

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; Philip Colman; Dec. 2002. Imperfect: Some cracking, spotting, and slight losses, and cracking on zodiacal circle. Paired with G31... More

Joslin's six inch terrestrial globe, containing the latest discoveries...

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; Philip Colman; Dec. 2002. Imperfect: Some cracking from mounting at poles, and cracking on zodiacal circle. Paired with G3160 184... More

He mau palapala aina, a me na niele e pili ana. Hookahi ke pai ana.

Microfilm G&M - 3011 LC Hawaii, 25 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

Chart. Historic map, Library of Congress

"...to accompany Report no. 596, made by T. Butler King,..." Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

world-map from "The Dawn of Modern Geography. A history of exploration...

This image has been taken from scan 000597 from volume 02 of "The Dawn of Modern Geography. A history of exploration and geographical science from the Conversion of the Roman Empire to A.D. 900 (c. A.D. 900-126... More

British Empire throughout the world exhibited in one view.

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Colton's illustrated & embellished steel plate map of the world on Mer...

Relief shown by hachures. Includes illustrations of cities and people along filigreed border. Inset: view of Antarctic Continent as seen by the U.S. Ship Peacock, January 19th, 1840. 4 x 29 cm. List of distance... More

Gran tavola cosmografica contenente le rotazioni annuali terresti corr...

Includes text, four hemispherical views of the Earth showing night and day and different times and latitudes, and colored illustrations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image... More

Map showing the telegraph lines in operation, under contract, and cont...

Relief shown by hachures. From the Nathaniel Prentice Banks papers in LC Manuscript Division. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes note. Acquisitions Control no. 20-83

Map of the world shewing the extent and direction of the wind and the ...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Carte figurative et approximative représentant pour l'année 1858 les é...

Map illustrating the general geological features of the country west o...

Public domain scan of an old vintage map, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Carte figurative et approximative des quantitiés de coton en laine imp...

Signed by Charles Minard at lower right. Annotation in pencil in top margin. Includes graph and statistics. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Copy imperfect: Fold-lined.... More

Kankai kōro shinzu / nautical chart - Public domain map

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Kotenseki sōgō mokuroku, 2013-09-11 (環海航路新図 (かんかいこうろしんず), 地図 1枚; 著者: 広瀬包章; 出版事項: 須原屋茂兵衛 <江> 他 3, 文久 2). LC copy has "廣瀬氏藏板" stamped. DLC

Map showing the telegraph lines in operation, under contract, and cont...

Relief shown by hachures. From the Nathaniel Prentice Banks papers in LC Manuscript Division. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes distance list. Acquisitions cont... More

[Map of the world on the Mercator projection].

Shows latitude of Virginia. Title, date, and scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pen-and-ink and pencil over grid, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H200 Available also through the Librar... More

Globus aus der Mitte des XVI Jahrhunderts /

Relief shown pictorially. Dedication: Reverre[n]diss. et illustriss. Do. Do. Urbano Sangelasio episcopo Com[m]ingiensi, Joan[n]es Oterschaden Belga humillime D.D. Original version: [Antwerp? ; s.n., ca. 1603]. ... More

Erster gedruckter Globus, Martin Hylacomylus (Waltzemüller) : gehört w...

Relief shown pictorially on "Zweiter" globe. Titles in German. Place names in Latin. "Phot.-lith. im k.k.t.u.a. Militär-Comité." According to Shirley's Mapping of the world, 1993, the "Zweiter" globe was create... More

[Two illustrations--head-and-shoulders portrait of Gerhard Mercator, f...

Print of Abraham Ortelius based on painting by Peter Paul Rubens. Illus. in Narrative and critical history of America / Winsor. 1886, v. 4, p. 372. Reference copy in BIOG. FILE - Mercator, Gerhard.

Rand McNally & Co.'s new twelve inch terrestrial globe [gores].

Relief shown in hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

Carta universal en que se contiene todo lo que del mundo se ha descubi...

In lower margin: The second Borgian map by Diego Ribero, Seville 1529. "Reproduced from the original in the Museum of the 'Propaganda' in Rome, lent by His Holiness Pope Leo XIII, by W. Griggs, London." Availab... More

Typus universalis terre. Historic map, Library of Congress

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. From: A.E. Nordenskiold Facsimile atlas, 1889.

[Manuṣyaloka, map of the world of man, according to Jain cosomological...

Title provided by cataloger. Gift; Nasli M. Heeramaneck. From western Rajasthan. Gouache on cotton, sewn on to modern cloth backing. Originally folded in accompanying silk brocade covered wooden boards (each 14... More

Rand, McNally & Co.'s indexed atlas of the world map of Bolivia, Ecuad...

Map of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru | Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Rand, McNally & Co.'s indexed atlas of the world map of Germany

Rand, McNally & Co's Germany | Rand, McNally & Co.'s indexed pocket map of Germany showing the separate states, lakes, mountains, rivers, and railroads Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Rand, McNally & Co.'s indexed atlas of the world map of South America

Map of South America | South America Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Rand, McNally & Co.'s indexed atlas of the world map of Turkey in Euro...

Indexed atlas of the world map of Turkey in Europe | Map of Turkey in Europe, Roumania, Servia, Bulgaria and Montenegro Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Rand, McNally & Co.'s indexed atlas of the world : map of Washington, ...

Alternate title below bar scale: Rand, McNally & Co.'s business atlas map of Washington, D.c. Lacks index. LC copy mounted on cloth backing. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. DCP

Map of the square and stationary earth : four hundred passages in the ...

Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; Don Homuth; September 2011. Accompanied by envelope containing illustrations, CD-ROM of Ferguson family... More

Rand, McNally & Co.'s indexed atlas of the world map of Quebec

Map of Quebec | Rand, McNally & Co.'s new business atlas map of Quebec Courtesy of Boston Public Library

World map of A.D. 1544 (the Sebastian-Cabot map)

Sebastian-Cabot map Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Evans' Excelsior globes : manufactured by R. O. Evans and Company.

Advertisement poster for globes has representions of 5 globes and some descriptive text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Map of Boston and adjacent country showing that city to be the geograp...

Relief shown pictorially. Annotated in black ink on verso: Map of Boston. LC copy imperfect: Brittle; portions of edges missing. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; ... More

Antiquissima orbis delineatio. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Publication information from text. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

[Genoese world map 1457].

Title from Stevenson's text. In lower right corner: E.O. Cockayne, Boston. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. See GA307 1457.G457 for text by E.L. Stevenson. LC copy moun... More

The blood-red world : map showing territory of the Earth directly affe...

"Supplement to the Watchman, November 1914." Includes statistical chart. Publisher information on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Daily Mail world map of war and commerce /

Includes color illustrations, charts, and list of the distribution of British fleets in 1914. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy sectioned in two and mounted on cloth.

Mapamundi en proyección de Mercator [Material cartográfico]

Inserta: gráfico de escala para las latitudes crecientes

Map of adventures for boys and girls : stories, trails, voyages, disco...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Maps and Graphics, map of Fossil Sequoia locations.

SEKI Historic Image

Outline of post-war new world map. - Public domain map

F17019 U.S. Copyright Office Scale ca. 1:30,000,000. Shows protectorates and peace-security bases. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text. AACR2: 650/1; 650/2

[50ʺ military globe gores] - Public domain map

CIF17938 U.S. Copyright Office Scale 1:10,000,000. Relief shown by gradient tints. "Copyright by Weber Costello Co. except as to modifications made and materials added by the Government of the United States." A... More

Standard map of the World. - Public domain map

CiF 17060 U.S. Copyright Office Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

Combined Munitions Assignments Board. American and British officials o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of the British Empire armed forces, 19th-20th century war and military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Combined Munitions Assignments Board. Chairman Harry Hopkins, of the C...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Combined Munitions Assignments Board. Chairman Harry Hopkins, of the C...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Combined Munitions Assignments Board. Chairman Harry Hopkins, of the C...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Combined Munitions Assignments Board. American and British officials o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of the British Empire armed forces, 19th-20th century war and military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Combined Munitions Assignments Board. Chairman Harry Hopkins, of the C...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Point 4 around the world. - Public domain map

"O-235951." LC copy mounted on cloth. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Chart of limits of seas and oceans. - Public domain map

Map shows locations of bags, seas, straits, and oceans. Includes indexes by alphabet and number to the bodies of water. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

World Map - Public domain copyright free geographic map

Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia

World Map - Public domain copyright free geographic map

Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia

Joint operations graphic (Ground). - Public domain map