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At 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.…
Matthäeus Merian the Elder was born in Basel (modern Switzerland) in 1593. He began his career as a stained glass designer, but switched to engraving,…
This 17th century map from Gerard Mercator’s Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes depicts the region of Prussia along the Baltic Sea (modern day…
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…
King Henry VIII’s map of the British Isles, titled ‘Angliae Figura’, or the shape of England, was the most realistic depiction of Britain at the time,…
Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg’s 16th-century Cities of the World is a six-volume city atlas. Each volume features detailed engravings of cities from…
Cosmographei contains a world map, regional maps, as well as cosmographical maps.The world maps includes, present-day North and South America, as well…
A beautiful example of a portolan chart atlas from the 14th century by Pietro Vesconte highlights the importance of coastal cities in the exploration…
This striking specimen, commissioned for Charles V of France (r. 1364-1380) and probably made by Majorcan Cresques Abraham, is a unique hybrid of…
This map can be understood as a detail of a T-O map of the world. Europe is the fourth part of the world when Asia occupies half the circle and the…