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Johann Bayer’s 12 Maps Of The Zodiac – 1603

Hand-coloured engravings from Johann Bayer's star atlas 'Uranometria Omnium Asterismorum' ...

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Striking Photographs of The Lunar Surface from The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite (1874)

British scientists James Nasmyth and James Carpenter's detailed close-ups of the lunar surface made from plaster models. ...

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Mammoth Color Charts For The Second Coming (1912)

Pastor Clarence Larkin illustrated his books with many intricate charts interpreting prophecy and explaining God’s action in history ...

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19th Century Chart of Principal Ports and Places Distances from Washington DC

'Exhibiting at one view the names of about thirteen hundred of the principal ports and places in the world, with their bearings per compass, and their distances expressed in geographical miles from the city of Washington' ...

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Gorgeous Celestial Maps and Illustrations From A 19th Century American Atlas

Highlights from Yaggy's Geographical Portfolio - 'Comprising Physical, Political, Geological, and Astronomical Geography' ...

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MacDonald Gill’s Wonderful Maps for W.H. Smith & Son and the Empire Marketing Board (1931)

In the 1930s the British high-street store W.H.Smith & Son operated a vast commercial empire and they commissioned artist MacDonald Gill to produce a map of the company's world. ...

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13 Outlines of Various Countries – Funny Maps From The 1860s

"Beautiful England - on her Island throne - Grandly she rules - with half the world her own; From her vast empire the sun ne'er departs: She reigns a Queen - Victoria Queen of Hearts" ...

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The Famous Wonderground Map of London Town Made Time Travel Possible (1914)

In 1863, the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground train line opened London. After ...

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Victorian Maps of Very Different Male and Female Hearts

In A Map of the Open Country of a Woman’s Heart - Exhibiting its internal communications, and the ...

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The Distances Between New York Streets And Phantom Avenues (1892)

New York City's grid system is not an exact science. Streets are not equally ...

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The Universalis Cosmographia (1507): The First Time America Was Named On A Map

In April 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller (11 September 1470 – 16 March 1520) became ...

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12 Satirical Maps Of World War One

These maps offer perspectives on Europe at the onset of World War One in 1914. They are all ...

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