Thursday, March 8, 2012

World Map 18th Century

Description: World map created by the German or Dutch cartographer Herman(n) Moll in 1709.


Description: World map (1745) from an unknown author.



Description: World map from the French cartographer Nicolas de Fer, published in 1722.



Description: The so-called "Zheng He map" is a Chinese world map, probably produced in 1763 at the base of Zheng He's voyages.



Description: Engraved world map by the German cartographer Leonhard Euler first published 1753 in his school atlas "Geographischer Atlas".
 


Description: World map with the trade winds from the German or Dutch cartographer Herman(n) Moll first published in England 1719. Picture from Atlas Minor, 3rd edition, London 1736.



Description: World map from the German geographer and cartographer Johann Baptist Homann, published in Nürnberg 1707.



Description: World map made by the French geographer Guillermo Delisle in 1707.



Description: World map of the Turkish encyclopedist Ibrahim Hakki Erzurumi published in 1756.



Description: World map published by Vasily Kipriynov at the beginnung of the 18th century.


 

1 comment:

  1. These are most interesting, and a very nice collection indeed.

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