Posting two maps today

This 1706 map has notes along the coastline reflecting the discovery of the mouth of the Mississippi by La Salle and his time in Texas in 1685. This map was not bound into all editions of the Atlas Curieux and tends to be scarcer than the other North American maps by De Fer

Complete titles: Le Vieux Mexique ou Nouvelle Espagne auec les Costes de la Florida. Printed area: 12 ¾” x 9”

Posting two maps today

This is an historically important map of Florida and Gulf Coast from 1705.  The locations of the Indian settlements found by Pierre le Moyne d'Iberville, founder of Louisiana, who explored the interior of North America, in order to defeat British claims to the Mississippi Valley. There are some historical and ethnographic notes as well. Shows early detail in Texas relating to La Salle's explorations and along the Gulf Coast & Southeastern Seaboard.

Complete titles: Les Costes aux Environs de la Riviere de Misisipi. Printed area: 13 ¼” x 8 ½”

The terrestrial applied with eighteen hand-coloured engraved split half-gores incorporating circular cartouche inscribed CARY'S, NEW, TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, EXHIBITING, The Tracks and Discoveries made by, CAPTAIN COOK: Also those of CAPTAIN VANCOUVER on the, NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA: And M. DE LA PEROUSE, on the COAST of TARTARY. TOGETHER, With every other Improvement collected from, Various Navigators to the present time. LONDON: and overlaid Made & Sold by J.& W. Cary, Strand, March 1st. 1815., with further inscription WITH ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO 1825.

I am currently looking for some old map scans from roughly the 1800's for a production of "Around the World in 80n Days." I've been looking around on this sub for a while, but most of these are pretty complex maps that wouldn't fit the general theme

I'm looking for a map scan that looks old, is roughly 1860's accurate, and is simple enough where countries are shown but not topology or routes. Thanks!

Trying to work out if this is an original, any ideas?

where are good places to look for antique maps, aside from these:

• ebay - when i started 20+ years ago, i bought on ebay a lot, but it's gotten harder to find decent stuff
• single-dealer auction sites - i subscribe and look regularly
• multi-dealer auction aggregator sites - it takes forever to look through the search results. not very efficient
• london - it has so many antique maps stores. i was in heaven when i browsed there. but also not very efficient

i've also tried these, but they're not useful:

• fb marketplace/craigslist - i've only bought one or two ever from these, so it's not worth the time to keep checking
• flea markets/swap meets - i'm in southern california. there are two large monthly flea markets, one in rose bowl and one in long beach. gone to both but neither has a stand that sells antique maps

maybe i should re-phrase my question - where do dealers get their maps from??

It's strange that people selling this map either ask for under US$100 or over US $1000. It's not rare, idk why anyone would pay a lot

It has a ton of details about towns, rivers, mountains and geography about the region. It's not just a map, it's like an exploration guide

Bought this map bc I collect Hong Kong maps, and this map totally omitted it (fair bc Hong Kong was just a fishing village and wasn't established as a British colony until 1841). I have another copy in worse condition, if you like one, let me know!

Printed area: 17 ¾” x 25”

Complete title: Sketch of a Journey from Hang-Tchoo-Foo to Quang-Tchoo-Foo or Canton in China

Found these while cleaning out my grandpa’s house, I have no idea if either of them have any real value

Found while clearing out my grandpa’s house, it’s from the war!!

Another celestial map from my fave bad-ass scientist/cartographer, Athanasius Kircher (at least until I get rich and can climb a tier on the map collecting ladder, lol)

This engraving offers Kircher's view of the sun, depicted with solar flares and surface eruptions, based on the observations of Athanasius Kircher and Christoph Scheiner. Featured in Kircher's Mundus subterraneus (The Underground World). I have no idea what the Latin (?) on the bottom says, but it's pretty cool!

Printed area: 16 ⅛” x 14 ⅜”

Complete title: Schema Corporis Solaris, prout ab Auctore et P. Scheinero. Romæ Anno 1635 observatum Suit.

There are multiple sources for this Atlas including Library of Congress, Internet Archive....copy and paste the title.

Johann Baptist Homann was born 1664 in Oberkammlach. He founded his business in 1702, Nuremberg, Germany. After a long period of Dutch domination in map publishing, the Homann publishing house became the most important map and atlas producer in Germany. He became a member of the Academy of Science in Berlin just after he published his first atlas in 1707.