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"Columbus" MapThe “Columbus” Map (Carta de Cristóbal Colón) combines a portolan chart and a mappamundi on a single piece of parchment. In only four colors (red,…
"Hildesia / Hildesheim" from Topographie NiedersachsenMatthäeus Merian the Elder was born in Basel (modern Switzerland) in 1593. He began his career as a stained glass designer, but switched to engraving,…
Agas Map of LondonThe Agas Map of London or Civitas Londinum, a woodcut printed from 8 blocks, presents a city view of London and its surrounding environs designed to…
Atlante NauticoThe 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…
Atlas maior of 1655At the start of the 1600s, there was an economic and artistic boom in Amsterdam and the Hondius publishing house was the primary map publishing house.…
Atlas or cosmographical meditations upon the fabric of the worldPublished posthumously, this atlas is the culmination of Gerald Mercator’s cosmographic work. Mercator planned for the atlas to have five parts: a…
Atlas UniversalThe Atlas Universal by Diogo Homem, completed in the mid 16th century, is a world atlas containing 19 entries covering a multitude of different…
Book of PhysiognomyContrary to its title, the Liber Physiognomiae is not primarily a text of physiognomy but rather astrology, describing the prevailing belief that the…
Book of the Islands of the ArchipelagoThe Liber Insularum Archipelagi is an island book (insularium in Latin, isolario in Italian) written by a Florentine monk Cristoforo Buondelmonti…
Carta MarinaOlaus Magnus’ Carta Marina, published in 1539, is an impressively detailed map of Scandinavia, made of nine woodblock-printed panels in full color. It…