I love these maps from Edward Quin's Historical Atlas Containing Maps of the World at Twenty-One Different Periods (1830). It's a more artful version of Leonard Outhwaite's Unrolling the Map: The Story of Exploration (1935) that I previously mentioned here.
Via BibliOdyssey.
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do you know how can i buy reproductions of the maps?
This site seems to be offering affordable reproductions:
http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~685~70074:-Covers-to--An-Historical-Atlas--In
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