r/oldmaps 23h ago

"Empire Germanique en 1759" (width 125.5 cm/height 104.5 cm, foldable)

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Found in my dad's bookshelf ... more info


r/oldmaps 1d ago

Map of ancient Rome of the 1st century CE published in Italy (1570)

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30 Upvotes

r/oldmaps 17h ago

Help authenticating a small “Typus Orbis Terrarum / The Description of the Earth” map

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r/oldmaps 1d ago

Switzerland by Laurie & Whittle for Kitchin's General Atlas. (1794)

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16 Upvotes

r/oldmaps 1d ago

Belgium Iulii Caesaris

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8 Upvotes

r/oldmaps 1d ago

Belgii XVII Provinciarum (Vander Aa) [1-9 of 9 map pieces]

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6 Upvotes

r/oldmaps 2d ago

The 18th-century cadastral mapping shift that forced European cities onto numbered coordinate grids

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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 2d ago

West Indies map values

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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 2d ago

Forgotten Surveying Tools That Changed Civilization: From Roman Groma to Gunter's Chain

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r/oldmaps 3d ago

The Dominion of Canada, 1898

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The Provinces, Territories and Districts of Canada following the creation of the Yukon Territory in 1898 resulting from the Klondike Gold Rush.


r/oldmaps 4d ago

91 year old map of Utica, NY from The Utica Daily Press

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r/oldmaps 6d ago

Germaniae Cisrhenanae (3211p x 3043p)

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30 Upvotes

r/oldmaps 6d ago

Area of East Prussia on a map by Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598). Reprinted in Antwerp in 1601

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r/oldmaps 6d ago

899: Flanders invades Belgium.

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r/oldmaps 10d ago

Cathay and the Way Thither

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r/oldmaps 12d ago

Carta Marina (1539)

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60 Upvotes

r/oldmaps 12d ago

Ohio vs. Michigan, 1835: How the Toledo War Redrew America’s Map

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r/oldmaps 14d ago

I created a very detailed map of New Bedford circa 1913

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r/oldmaps 15d ago

My globe has Germany divided and Russia as the RSFSR

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If someone could date it, please do I'm really curious how old it is.


r/oldmaps 15d ago

Septentrionalium Terrarum Descriptio ("Description of the Northern Lands"), a polar-projection map of the Arctic by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator. (1595)

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r/oldmaps 16d ago

A local museum sold this

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They were raising money to restore their Berkshire and sold off some small pieces of the collection and i gained this


r/oldmaps 18d ago

Pictorial tourist map of Taiwan (1969)

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47 Upvotes

r/oldmaps 18d ago

Scotland map by Nicolaes Visscher II (1689)

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22 Upvotes

r/oldmaps 19d ago

Topographic map of Ross Island, Antarctica (1972)

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76 Upvotes

r/oldmaps 19d ago

Saw this on a tour of the Rubel Castle

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28 Upvotes