Caption: A Moon map from Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas (1881) by Richard Andree (1835--1912).
This Moon map is point inverted from the way the Moon looks on the sky---thus the cardinal directions NSEW are all 180° rotated from most modern Moon maps. Why is it point inverted? A Keplerian telescope and other telescopes of similar design without further corrections give a point inverted image. Thus, point inverted Moon maps show what most observers see looking at the Moon without the further axis inversion caused by a star diagonal. There are ways of correcting for the point inversion and axis inversion, but most observers do NOT bother with those. They just get used to the inversions.
The strong trend at least since the 1960s is to NOT include the point inversion on Moon maps since after all it is just an artifact of the telescope and it always takes an explanation for people who like Moon maps and whole Moon images, but are NOT observers.
As one can see, by the later 19th century, the most prominent lunar features (including lunar craters) on the near side of the Moon had been mapped and given their modern names.
The far side of the Moon was NOT seen until the Soviet space program probe Luna 3 orbits 1959 Oct07. So are there are NO full pre-1959 Moon maps of the far side.
However, because of the lunar libration, we do see ∼ 59 % of the Moon's surface from the Earth (see Wikipedia: Tidal locking: Occurrence: Earth's Moon: ∼ 59 %), but only very nearly 50 % at one time, of course. So some pre-1959 Moon maps probably did show a bit of the far side probably in special maps to the side of the main Moon map.
Credit/Permission:
Richard Andree (1835--1912),
1881
(uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
by User:Grombo,
2006) /
Public domain.
Image link: Wikimedia Commons:
File:MoonMap1.jpg.
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