Our Rare Map Gallery charts the extraordinary journey from the virtually unknown New World, all
terra incognita, to a collection of fledgling Colonial encampments, to a group of bustling 19th century cities. We've perfectly re-created these important, historic maps for your home and office. Each one of these beautiful time machines will provide years of fascination, enjoyment and conversation. "
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What Our Customers SayBegin at the beginning: Our exclusive First Views of the New World Collection presents the classic, rare maps that were the first to show the discoveries of Columbus, Cabot, Cortés and Magellan. For the first time in history, you can own flawless reproductions of the 1507-8 Ruysch World Map, the 1513 Waldseemuller Tabula Terre Nove, the 1524 Cortés maps of Mexico City and the Gulf of Mexico, and more.Discover our Visualizing New World Discoveries Collection, beginning with the 1570 Ortelius “mother map” of the world. Or see how 17th-century politics literally shaped the way Europeans saw the world in our New England Discoveries Collection. Explore John Smith’s 1612 map of Virginia and Samuel de Champlain’s 1612 map of New France.
Choose your coast and tour our Antique New York Maps and Old California Map Collection.
Thank your lucky stars while you contemplate Heresy: The Maps that Redefined Heaven and Earth – the Church banned both Mercator’s Projection and Copernicus' "theory", gloriously depicted by Cellarius. Enter the Claiming the West Collection to trace America’s westward expansion from early Spanish and French settlements to the mad dash of California gold-rushers.
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