Vintage Maps

Figure 7. Olliva's map associated to the oblique conic projection and the protocol in Fig. 4. Figure 4 See the entire article: Assigning map projections to portolan maps

Figure 6. Sideri’s map associated to the oblique conic projection and the protocol in Fig. 4. Figure 4 See the entire article: Assigning map projections to portolan maps

Figure 5. Europe and the Mediterranean Sea are represented in the oblique conic projection (in red) as well as the frame of Sideri’s map (in black), after the fitting. The comparison with Fig. 1 confirms the proper choic...

Figure 4. The projection parameters protocol. See the entire article: Assigning map projections to portolan maps

Figure 3. The normal cylindrical projection (in red). The frame of the portolan-map (in black) is oriented with the left side parallel to the Atlantic Iberian coasts. See the entire article: Assigning map projections to...

Figure 2. The normal conic projection (in red). The frame of the portolan-map (in black) is oriented with the left side parallel to the Atlantic Iberian coasts. See the entire article: Assigning map projections to portol...

Chryssoula Boutoura* e-Perimetron, Vol.1, No. 1, Winter 2006 [40-50] www.maplibrary.gr/e_perimetron | ISSN 1790-3769 Assigning map projections to portolan maps Keywords: Late medieval and renaissance cartography; nautica...

Recueil des Principaux Plans des Ports et Rades de la Mer Mediterranée..., 1779

Date: 1764 taken from: Joseph Roux, Recueil des principaux plans des ports et rades de la Mer Mediterranee, Marseille 1764

From the Invitation to the Stavros Paspalas Lecture on Archaeological Research on Kythera. Lecture entitled: Kythera: A Mediterranean Island Through Time. The island of Kythera, best known for its mythological and litera...

1683 Map of CERIGO Kithira Island 1st ed. by Allain Manesson Mallet

Engraved map, printed ca. 1650. 11 x 6.5 cm.

I know this category is called "Vintage Maps" but this satellite picture is so beautiful that, for lack of anywhere better to put it, I'll dare to place it here. Note the prominence of the huge airport which, I am told,...

Classic Colton treatment in this attractive steel plate map of the region. Original hand color distinguishes regional boundaries. From: http://www.antique-atlas.co.uk/greece.html

Map of the island of Cerigo, the southernmost Ionian Island, Cythera (Greek:Kythera). Copper plate engraved map on a page from atlas of Tomaso Porcacchi, Isole del Mondo published in Padua c1585. Relevant text in Italian...

R. LAPIE (Attributed) “La Laconie, La Messénie et L'Ile de Cythère” Paris c. 1820. Colored. 6X8¼. Attractive small chart of the southern end of the Peloponnesos (Greece) and below it the island of Cythère, (Kythera). Dep...

BRITISH ADMIRALTY “Mediterranean. Grecian Archipelago.” London 1863. (updated to 1966.) B/W. 26X39. Splendid chart shows the Grecian coastal regions with islands from Athens & Salamis Bay down to the island of Kriti (Cre...

Kythera, ca. 16th century. From, The Island of Kythera: A social history, George. Leontsinis. There are a number of other vintage maps of Kythera re-produced in this superior and important history of Kythera.

Map from 1690 by Olfert Dapper, a dutch doctor who was much interested in far away lands and who was part of the second and third Dutch expeditions to China.

Dr. Richard Leonard 1899.