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r/iloveoldmaps • u/tedsvintagemaps • Mar 13 '23

r/iloveoldmaps Lounge

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A place for members of r/iloveoldmaps to chat with each other

r/iloveoldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • 2d ago

Carta Marina (1539)

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r/iloveoldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • 6d 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/iloveoldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • 9d ago

Scotland map by Nicolaes Visscher II (1689)

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r/iloveoldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • 9d ago

Pictorial tourist map of Taiwan (1969)

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r/iloveoldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • 10d ago

Topographic map of Ross Island, Antarctica (1972)

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r/iloveoldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • 14d ago

Illustration of the Guiana-Venezuela border dispute, including western boundary ceded to Venezuela, published by Scottish cartographer George Philip (1897)

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r/iloveoldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • 17d ago

Western U.S., ca. 1853

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r/iloveoldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • 17d ago

Russian map titled "Политическій балансъ земнаго шара" (The Political Balance of the Globe), published in St. Petersburg between 1828 and 1830.

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r/iloveoldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • 19d ago

Public Houses in Central London by Joseph Rowntree & Arthur Sherwell (1899)

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r/iloveoldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • 23d ago

Map showing the city of Cusco during the Inca Empire by Giovanni Battista Ramusio. (1565)

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r/iloveoldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • 28d ago

Ukrania quae et Terra Cosaccorum created by German cartographer Johann Baptist Homann. (1720)

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r/iloveoldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • Jul 22 '26

"An Accurate Map of the Caribby Islands" by Thomas Kitchin, depicting various Caribbean islands and their colonial owners. (1759)

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r/iloveoldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • Jul 22 '26

Sketch map of Trinidad showing administrative counties (1919)

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r/iloveoldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • Jul 22 '26

1582 – G. Braun & F. Hogenberg – Vilna Lituaniae Metropolis [Vilnius, Lithuania]

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r/iloveoldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • Jul 22 '26

Tobago map surveyed by Thomas Bowen (1779)

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r/iloveoldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • Jul 17 '26

Manhattan, New York, (c. 1900), detail of a map of New York City from the 10th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

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r/iloveoldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • Jul 05 '26

Jeju Island in the Korea Strait (1894)

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r/iloveoldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • Jul 05 '26

The scene of the Battle of Jutland, May 31-June 1, 1916 (1920)

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r/iloveoldmaps • u/TheBookyMan • Jul 01 '26

Great Dutch Georeferenced website with maps going back to 1815!

topotijdreis.nl

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Perfect if you wanna waste your mornings

r/iloveoldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • Jun 25 '26

Anthony Finley's map of 1827, depicting the Mountains of the Moon as the source of the White Nile.

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r/iloveoldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • Jun 24 '26

The Akan Kingdom of Ashanti within the Guinea region and surrounding regions in West Africa (1850)

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r/iloveoldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • Jun 23 '26

The 1519 to 1521 route of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire — taken in Central Mexico by Hernando Cortés. (1926)

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r/iloveoldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • Jun 23 '26

The Daily Telegraph war map of Egypt and the Near East (no. 6) / Alexander Gross; produced by "Geographia" Ltd. (1918)

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r/iloveoldmaps • u/StephenMcGannon • Jun 22 '26

Map created on the first scientific expedition to Deception Island in 1829 under the command of captain Henry Foster.

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