antique maps
Old world charts
Antique maps are old maps valued for their historical, artistic, or collectible significance rather than navigational accuracy.
The threshold for "antique" varies—generally pre-1900, though some dealers set earlier cutoffs.
Collectors prize them for cartographic curiosities, decorative appeal, and as windows into how earlier eras understood geography: The antique map showed California as an island.
- maritime chartsNavigation maps for sailors
- engravingCarving into hard surfaces
- parchmentTreated hide for manuscripts
- vellumPrepared calfskin for writing
- portolan chartsMedieval coastal navigation maps
here be dragons · sea monsters · hand-coloring · cartography · rare book dealer · auction houses · atlases · terra incognita · treasure map · lithography · framed · gilt frame · globe · surveyor · yellowed · etching · navigation · coastline
- Public Domain ArtMona Lisa, Starry Night, classical paintings, old masters, Renaissance art
- mapsroad map, world map, atlases, street map, regional map
- collectiblesbaseball cards, commemorative stamps, rare coins, mementos, rare stamps
- vintage aestheticsvintage posters, vintage fashion, retro fonts, sepia tones, aged paper
- 20th century world mapsatlas, globe, world atlas, map legend, map key
- ancient mapsnautical charts, portolan charts, maritime charts, world map, navigation charts
antique mapsGPS
Satellite-based location technology
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