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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…

Atlas maior of 1655

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.…

Geography of Africa

Livio Sanuta’s Geografia dell’Africa contains 12 two-page black and white maps, sketched by Livio and engraved by his brother Giulio, depicting Africa…

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…

Prussia

This 17th century map from Gerard Mercator’s Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes depicts the region of Prussia along the Baltic Sea (modern day…

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…

View with a Chain

This large (52 in. x 23 in.) woodcut from the 1470s or early 1480s attributed to Francesco Rossselli depicts the entire city of Florence and the Arno…

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…