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Marquisate of Brandenburg, with the Duchies of Pomerania and Mecklenburg

This map is a representation of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, and Pomerania (modern day northeastern Germany and northwestern Poland) from an atlas by…

Magdeburg

This 1577 printed map provides a bird’s eye view of Magdeburg, a central city in Germany situated along the Elbe. When Braun and Hogenberg decided to…

Dukedom of Prussia leaves Poland and joins Brandenberg

This map is a rectangular map of the Baltic area from about 38˚ to 45˚ longitude and from about 53˚ to 56˚ latitude. The latitude and longitude are…

Road to Rome map

This is a facsimile of a rare colored version of a black and white woodcut map that highlights routes to travel from central European countries to…

Walsperger World Map

The map displays Europe, Africa, and Asia and is oriented with south at the top of the page. It marks Christian cities with red dots, and all other…

Frankfurt on the Oder River

On an off-white rectangular sheet of paper, a rectangular colorful woodcut print of the city of Frankfurt an der Oder is surrounded by a black frame…

Uranometria

Uranometria contains 52 plates engraved by Alexander Mair, measuring 2’ in length (parallel to the spine) and 1’ in width. The first plate is the…

Magdeburg

This is a city view woodcut of the city of Magdeburg from the Nuremberg Chronicle, an incunable, or early printed book, published in 1493 that…

Ptolemaic World Map

A world map showing Europe, Africa, and Asia, with the Indian Ocean bounded on all sides by land, which shows the influence of the maps associated…

Pfinzing Atlas

The Pfinzing Atlas is a bound collection (47 x 70 cm) of twenty-eight maps and descriptions that was created in 1594 by Nuremberg merchant Paul…