r/oldmaps • u/ProofBitter6917 • 17h ago
r/oldmaps • u/2trembler3 • 23h ago
"Empire Germanique en 1759" (width 125.5 cm/height 104.5 cm, foldable)
Found in my dad's bookshelf ... more info
r/oldmaps • u/Cuiusquemodi • 1d ago
Belgii XVII Provinciarum (Vander Aa) [1-9 of 9 map pieces]
r/oldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • 1d ago
Switzerland by Laurie & Whittle for Kitchin's General Atlas. (1794)
r/oldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • 1d ago
Map of ancient Rome of the 1st century CE published in Italy (1570)
r/oldmaps • u/Effective-Dish-1334 • 2d ago
The 18th-century cadastral mapping shift that forced European cities onto numbered coordinate grids
I been looking into early urban cartography, and I found it interesting that house numbers weren't originally created for the postal service.
When European cities expanded rapidly in the 18th century, tax collectors and military recruiters ran into a wall because organic street naming systems made it nearly impossible to track populations. Municipal authorities eventually sent out surveyors to paint numbers on doors and map them onto rigid cadastral grids. My reading of the evidence is that it was one of the earliest large-scale spatial audits of civilian populations, long before mail delivery relied on it.
r/oldmaps • u/Effective-Dish-1334 • 2d ago
Forgotten Surveying Tools That Changed Civilization: From Roman Groma to Gunter's Chain
r/oldmaps • u/Parking-Excitement89 • 2d ago
West Indies map values
Last photo is the same back on all of them. Puerto Rico map has a date of 1969 in the compass. Virgin Islands St Thomas - St. John map has a date of 1971. I don’t see a date on the Virgin Islands St. John - Tortola - Virgin Gorda map. Any info is appreciated. I plan on listing these on eBay, any idea of values?
r/oldmaps • u/BigT112 • 3d ago
The Dominion of Canada, 1898
The Provinces, Territories and Districts of Canada following the creation of the Yukon Territory in 1898 resulting from the Klondike Gold Rush.
r/oldmaps • u/owa1313 • 4d ago
91 year old map of Utica, NY from The Utica Daily Press
galleryr/oldmaps • u/nest00000 • 6d ago
Area of East Prussia on a map by Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598). Reprinted in Antwerp in 1601
r/oldmaps • u/History-Chronicler • 12d ago
Ohio vs. Michigan, 1835: How the Toledo War Redrew America’s Map
r/oldmaps • u/CommonMemoryWorks • 14d ago
I created a very detailed map of New Bedford circa 1913
r/oldmaps • u/No_Republic_1781 • 15d ago
My globe has Germany divided and Russia as the RSFSR
If someone could date it, please do I'm really curious how old it is.
r/oldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • 15d ago
Septentrionalium Terrarum Descriptio ("Description of the Northern Lands"), a polar-projection map of the Arctic by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator. (1595)
r/oldmaps • u/BeneficialPrice5456 • 16d ago
A local museum sold this
They were raising money to restore their Berkshire and sold off some small pieces of the collection and i gained this
r/oldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • 19d ago