Passion For Maps exclusively licenses one of the finest rare, antique world map and atlas collections outside of museum and university archives. Using state-of-the-art photographic and digital technologies, we have created a spectacular library of images. Our digitalization project will be completed in stages over the next several years. Click on the category links below to view Passion For Maps images.

Passion for Maps has also licensed a fine collection of antique continent and regional maps from Discovery Maps which include the set of five (5) world and continent maps first published by Willem Janzoon Blaeu in 1630. Using the same state-of-the-art photographic and digital technologies, we have created spectacular images of the Discovery Maps collection. To view these images, click here.

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Cellarius Celestial Atlas Collection

The Earth's orbit and the Northern hemisphere (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)	Christianized chart of the Southern hemisphere (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)
Christianized chart of the Eastern sky (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)	Tycho Brahe's system of the universe (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)
Cover Page (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)	Three dimensional Ptolemaic system (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)
Comparative sizes of the heavenly bodies (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)	Earth's orbit around the Sun (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)
Southern sky with constellations (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)	Half each of the Northern and Southern hemispheres (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)
Planetary movements (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)	Tycho Brahe's world (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)
Climate zone theories (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)	Copernican system of the universe (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)
Lunar phases and eclipses (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)	Copernican view of the universe (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)
The universe (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)	Ptolemaic view of the universe (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)
Northern hemisphere (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)	Ptolemaic view of the universe (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)
Longitudes (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)	The Moon's rotations (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)
Ptolemaic view of the World (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)	The Sun's path (Cellarius Celestial Atlas)