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Chart of the Principal Animals of the World in their Respective Regions, 1830s

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Colton Pocket Map of the United States, 1855

Map

Map of the Square and Stationary Earth, 1893

Flat-Earth

Ortelius World Map, 1564

Map

Map of Paris, 1550

Paris

Portolan Chart by Jorge Aguiar, 1492

Portolan II

First map to use the name ‘America’, 1507

America

Panoramic Maps of Italian Cities, 1704

Venice

World’s Oldest Map

1

Claude Bernou’s Map of America, 1681

America

Gerard van Schagen World Map, 1689

Map

Map of the North Atlantic by Ortelius, 1595

Atlantic

Mogg Pocket Map of London, 1806

Mogg

Rhine Panorama, 1909

Rhine 2

John Ogilby’s Road Atlas, 1675

Ogilby

Mountains and Rivers of the World, 1823

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Disneyland Map, 1962

Disney

The Carta Marina, 1539

1

Map of Ireland According to the Act of Settlement 1653 and Subsequent Orders

1

Evolution of the Map of Africa

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Map of the Last U.S. Slave Census 1860

map

Map of Undersea Cables, 1901

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Evolution of the London Underground Map, 1889-2002

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WWI Map from Japan

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World map in a Fool’s Head c.1590

Fool's Map

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