A HOUSE OF PROVENANCE
CARTOGRAPHER’S DREAM
The world, as the great mapmakers dreamed it — the only planet we have, and the most beautiful thing we have ever tried to draw. Museum-grade, for your wall.
↓ set sail
skip the voyage → enter the map room“For as long as we have wandered, we have longed to see the whole of it at once.”
III · PORT OF CALL · N 0° — THE WHOLE EARTH
The Great World Maps
The masterpieces of seeing the world entire — Waldseemüller naming America, Mercator, Blaeu.
Enter the collection →IV · PORT OF CALL · W 74° — LANDFALL
The Continents
The heart of the circumnavigation — the finest single map of each landmass, passed in turn.
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V · PORT OF CALL · E 35° — INTO THE PAST
Mappæ Mundi
Sailing into the deep past, when the world was still half-legend.
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VI · PORT OF CALL · E 4° — THE DREAM
Cartographic Wonders
The map at its most dreamlike — a queen, a lion, the country of love, a world drawn as a heart.
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VII · PORT OF CALL · E 12° — SKYWARD
Cities, Globes & the Heavens
The voyage's end and lift — a bird's-eye city, the globe unpeeling into gores, and the sky opening above.
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“This is the world — turning, singular, and the most beautiful thing we have ever tried to map.”
A house of provenance
We do not invent the map. We recover it — the print-resolution scan of the exact plate a mapmaker engraved, centuries ago, verified against the institution that holds it.
Five ways in
Choose your port of call.
The century, or the shape of the wonder — every path leads to a map worth keeping.
N 0° — THE WHOLE EARTH
The Great World Maps
The masterpieces of seeing the world entire — Waldseemüller naming America, Mercator, Blaeu.
Enter the collection →
W 74° — LANDFALL
The Continents
The heart of the circumnavigation — the finest single map of each landmass, passed in turn.
Enter the collection →
E 35° — INTO THE PAST
Mappæ Mundi
Sailing into the deep past, when the world was still half-legend.
Enter the collection →
E 4° — THE DREAM
Cartographic Wonders
The map at its most dreamlike — a queen, a lion, the country of love, a world drawn as a heart.
Enter the collection →
E 12° — SKYWARD
Cities, Globes & the Heavens
The voyage's end and lift — a bird's-eye city, the globe unpeeling into gores, and the sky opening above.
Enter the collection →
Three steps, one real map.
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Verified at the source
Every scan traces to a named institution — the Library of Congress, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the National Library of Israel — with a source link that resolves, not a stock photo.
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Rights, checked twice
An old map isn't automatically free to resell — an institution's own scan can carry its own restrictions. We check before we sell, not after.
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Printed to last
Archival pigment ink on museum-grade cotton rag, or gallery canvas, framed in your choice of black, white, natural oak, or walnut.
The catalog
Maps we have already recovered.
The Waldseemüller Map
1507 · Martin Waldseemüller & Matthias Ringmann
America's birth certificate.
The Cantino Planisphere
1502 · Anonymous Portuguese cartographer
A state secret, smuggled out of Portugal.
Typus Orbis Terrarum
1570 · Abraham Ortelius
The world map from the first modern atlas.
Mercator's World Map
1569 · Gerardus Mercator
The projection that let sailors steer a straight line.
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis
17th century · Willem & Joan Blaeu
The Dutch Golden Age at its most magnificent.
A New and Accurat Map of the World
1627 · John Speed
The great English world map, ringed with wonders.
On your wall
Four frames, one archive.
Every heirloom-framed print ships in your choice of moulding — black, white, natural oak, or walnut — set under glass, ready to hang. The map inside is always the same real scan.
Made to outlast us.
From an instant download to an heirloom frame — the same real map, at the weight you want to give it.
Digital Download
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
from $29.00
Archival Print
Archival pigment ink on museum-grade cotton-rag stock, unframed. Rated 100+ years.
from $69.00
Gallery Canvas
Gallery-wrapped canvas on solid wood stretcher bars — the map, made for the wall.
from $195.00
Heirloom Frame
Archival print set in your choice of gallery frame under glass — ready to hang.
from $289.00
Linen-Backed Panel
The antique-dealer's mount: the print laid down on conservation linen, edges bound — how the great maps were kept.
from $545.00