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Map of Saxe-Hildburghausen

This square map written in Latin and German depicts the region of Saxe-Hildburghausen, what is today the District of Hildburghausen in south-western…

Map of Halle with Cartouche

This map of Halle is believed to be a later state of another map of Halle held in Carleton’s Special Collections. Published by the Homann firm in…

Map of Halle

The center of this map depicts an overview of the city of Halle, with a profile view and three snapshots of life in the city along the bottom. The…

Cusanus Map

This map depicts central Europe, from the Baltic Sea down to Venice, and from Flanders to the Crimean peninsula. It mainly focuses on cities and the…

Map of Central Europe

The original version of this map, published ca. 1490 in Florence, was created by Henricus Martellus from the previous work of Nicolaus Cusanus.…

Treasury of the True Riches of Salvation

The star chart in Stephan Fridolin’s Treasury of the True Riches of Salvation is a woodcut print depicting Earth at the center of the solar system.…

Description of the March of Brandenburg

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,…

The Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg

This map is titled in English: The Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg: which makes up part of the region of Upper Saxony, divided into its main…

"Hildesia / Hildesheim" from Topographie Niedersachsen

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,…

Prussia, now a province of Germany

This map is an image of the region of Prussia with a city featured prominently in it. It is contained in a  page cut from the Nuremberg Chronicle. The…