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Historical Maps on the Web

Maps of ‘Asia’

Oldest to Newest

Carte van Nova Zembla – 1646

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India – 1700-1792

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A new and accurate map of Nubia & Abissinia, :together with all the kingdoms tributary thereto, and bordering upon them. – 1747

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India – 1760

india1760_1905

Bowles’s New Pocket Map of the Discoveries Made by the Russians on the North West Coast of America – 1780

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Principal Seats of War – Europe and India – 1788-1815

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Chart of the N.W. Coast of America and the N.E. Coast of Asia, Explored in the Years 1778 and 1779 / prepared by Heny. Roberts, under the immediate inspection of Capt. Cook; engraved by W. Palmer.

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Pyongyang, Korea 1800?

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Yeojido Korean atlas

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The Growth of European and Japanese Dominions in Asia since 1801

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