Anyone collect historic maps?

[Gelston]

I just bought my first one. Must get moar.

Moar

MOAR FUCKING MAPS

I got this one
https://raremaps.com/gallery/detail/56555#

[Taernath]

What the flaming nerd shit is this

[Gelston]

What the flaming nerd shit is this

Like GS nerd shit, except this site has maps for up to 180 grand from the 1400s.

[Gelston]

I would never pay 180 grand for a map. Unless I had lots of cash. Then I probably would. I'd totally have a map room.

[Gelston]

I'm going to make a map room anyways.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

I bought a book about 100 years old that is maps of the US which I love. I LOVE maps. Makes me feel very indiana jones.

edit to add: I perhaps will take a few choice photos of it. It looks like a book of the map you purchased, along with some homey stuff about agriculture and the like on random pages.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Uh, I could draw this map better.

https://raremaps.com/gallery/detail/56982/medieval-world-map-anonymous

[Gelston]

Uh, I could draw this map better.

https://raremaps.com/gallery/detail/56982/medieval-world-map-anonymous

Haha, I saw that one the other day. I was trying to figure out how you read it. I found Rome, and then.... It isn't easy to figure out. You basically have to picture it as if you're at the maps level and looking out and you can see forever, instead of top down like most maps.

[Velfi]

https://i.imgur.com/xxjsTjo.gif

[BriarFox]

Haha, I saw that one the other day. I was trying to figure out how you read it. I found Rome, and then.... It isn't easy to figure out. You basically have to picture it as if you're at the maps level and looking out and you can see forever, instead of top down like most maps.

It's centered on Jerusalem, which was believed the be the center of the world. North is to the left, noted as "Septentriales," Latin for the seven northern stars (the Big Dipper, but then called the Wagon or Plough usually). It mostly shows the Mediterranean region. I've never seen one quite like it before. Very cool.

[Gelston]

Notice it has Petra on there as well (Petrapoitf), and for some reason it is on fire. Maybe to indicate it is ruins.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

My statement stands. I could make a better map.

[Gelston]

My statement stands. I could make a better map.

Yours wouldn't be worth 24 grand! Invent time travel, however....

[BriarFox]

Notice it has Petra on there as well (Petrapoitf), and for some reason it is on fire. Maybe to indicate it is ruins.

Yeah, the fire is interesting. I think the word is "Petrapolis," which is "City of Petra." That "f' is an old form for an s.

[Gelston]

Yeah, the fire is interesting. I think the word is "Petrapolis," which is "City of Petra." That "f' is an old form for an s.

Yeah it is Petra. The city was a ruin long before this map was made, even though the map itself is over 500 years old.... But they still visited it back then the same way we visit it today. If only they knew it would later be featured in an Indiana Jones movie!

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Like, you give that "map" to people who you want to get lost trying to use it.

[Gelston]

Like, you give that "map" to people who you want to get lost trying to use it.

It looks like that map was an insert in a book. Probably basically like a globe. You get an idea of where shit is, but you don't generally go out on the road trying to get places using a globe.

[Archigeek]

I have a globe that pre-dates Oklahoma. It has no date on it, so we had to figure it out via political boundaries. Eastern Europe was a big help. My recollection is that we ended up around 1887, but it's been a few years. The globe was also made out of plaster, so it's pretty heavy.

[Gelston]

I like looking at the maps of Louisiana, especially around where I live. So many towns that used to exist that were either absorbed by my city or just ceased to exist. Also neat seeing about 200 years ago where my city us located, was once a lake. Now just a river.

And what we now call Caddo Lake was Lake Pisaquie. Also saw an Old Cado Village and a Cado Village. Never heard of either before and I'm wondering if that is where the Caddo Indians lived.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

I’ll see what Louisiana looks like in my maps and share it here

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Here you go. Not great I know, but it's a badass map book.

937693779378

[Ardwen]

There is a crazy map of the supernatural from several hundred years ago that was on one of the various reality shows, if I can find a link I will. I love old maps as art, some of them are spectacular.

[Ardwen]

https://www.themappamundi.co.uk

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Not sure why it sized all those down. FU GSplayers corner!

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

In any case, I hate opening up the map book from 1898... if you can't tell it got water damaged at some point and is crusty as fuck. The pages are very prone to tear when I flip through it and they always come with mold dust.

I hate opening, but love it too. There is shit about politics in it, weather, crops and cost of beef. Pretty cool stuff.

[Ardwen]

My house in Boston had a room that was wallpapered in nautical Charts always loved the idea of a map room, need a much larger man cave now, damn you all!

[Astray]

I remember doing some work in a place where we demo'd a wall and there were drawings that looked like maps on the inside. Had to ditch that job because it might have been of historical significance. I'll see if I can dig up the photo. I think I still have it.

[Methais]

This map lead me to treasure in Astoria, Oregon back in '85:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91tYwK6pjbL._SX425_.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/99/02/3a/99023ae6ab77bfa23ad31c416538e021.jpg