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This map is a representation of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, and Pomerania (modern day northeastern Germany and northwestern Poland) from an atlas by…
This map displays the Brandenburg March, a borderland in northeastern Germany in 1598. The map is engraved and shows the town names, rivers and lakes,…
This portolan chart of the Mediterranean, drawn in 1508 by Andrea Benincacsa, is illustrated on a complete piece of parchment. Benincasa, the son of…
The Atlante Nautico is a collection of ten maps made in 1436 by “Andreas Biancho de Veneciis” as attested on the first page. Besides containing 15th…
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…
The Plan of Rome by Antonio Tempesta, created by Antonio Tempesta in 1593, is an enormous map of the city that stretches across 12 separate plates.…
Battista Agnese was one of the most prolific Venetian cartographers of the second half of the sixteenth century. Although he is often written off as…
This map is a mappamundi that illustrates Beatus of Liebana’s Girona Codex, one of the most highly decorated manuscripts of his Commentary on the…
The Descriptionis Ptolemaicae augmentum by Cornelis van Wytfliet is the only regional atlas published during the first hundred years of atlas…
This striking specimen, commissioned for Charles V of France (r. 1364-1380) and probably made by Majorcan Cresques Abraham, is a unique hybrid of…