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Cities of the WorldGeorg 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…
UranometriaUranometria contains 52 plates engraved by Alexander Mair, measuring 2’ in length (parallel to the spine) and 1’ in width. The first plate is the…
The Atlas of Borso D'EsteAround 1466 Nicolaus Germanus was able to convert information contained in Ptolemy’s Geography into an atlas of the world that he would eventually…
MagdeburgThis is a city view woodcut of the city of Magdeburg from the Nuremberg Chronicle, an incunable, or early printed book, published in 1493 that…
"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,…
Creation with Cosmographical DiagramThe map is a painted woodcut from the 1534 edition of the Luther Bible and is found at the beginning of Genesis in the Old Testament. There are two…
Fra Mauro MappamundiOriginating sometime between 1448 and 1460, Fra Mauro’s remarkably detailed and complex world map was created at the monastery of San Michele on…
Map of FlorenceAt only two feet by four feet, the Map of Florence (Veduta della Catena) engraving depicts an intricate city view of Florence, Italy. Expressive, wavy…
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…
Zone MapThis circular map of the world spans the entirety of the open two pages of the Liber Floridus. It is so large, in fact, that the top fifth or so of…