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Columbus Map

This 15th-century map combines a portolan chart and a world map. Anonymous and not precisely dated, the map is separated into two distinct spaces,…

Khalili Portolan Atlas

With 62 sheets on Venetian paper stained with black splotches throughout, the Khalili Portolan Atlas combines minimalist portolan charts depicting the…

Walsperger World Map

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…

Road to Rome map

This is a facsimile of a rare colored version of a black and white woodcut map that highlights routes to travel from central European countries to…

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…

Dukedom of Prussia leaves Poland and joins Brandenberg

This map is a rectangular map of the Baltic area from about 38˚ to 45˚ longitude and from about 53˚ to 56˚ latitude. The latitude and longitude are…

Magdeburg

This 1577 printed map provides a bird’s eye view of Magdeburg, a central city in Germany situated along the Elbe. When Braun and Hogenberg decided to…

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…

Prussia

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

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…