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The Eastern Mediterranean
1489
The Eastern Mediterranean, Bernhard Breydenbach, 1489 From: Peregrinatio in terram sanctam, Bernhard Breydenbach and Erhard Reuwich, Mainz, 1489.Bernhard Breydenbach (ca. 1440-1497) was a wealthy canon of Mainz Cathedral. During the period of Ap...
Italy (map opened to)
1676
Italy, John Speed, 1626 (1676) In The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine... A Prospect of the most Famous Part of the World... With Many Additions never before Extant. London, Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, London, 1676.Th...
United States
1816
United States, John Melish, 1816Map of the United States of America : with the contiguous British and Spanish possessions / compiled from the latest & best authorities by John Melish. Philadelphia, 1816. Separate publication.John Melish's map brough...
Typo de la carta cosmographica de gaspar vopellio medeburgense
1556
A fine example of this world map, published in Milan as part of Girava's 'Cosmographia…'. On a cordiform projection, and based on the large 12-sheet map by Vopell which is no longer extant.With an unusual configuraton of the Americas. The h...
British Isles
1511
British Isles, Bernard Sylvanus, 1511 Prima Europae Tabula. In: Claudii Ptholemaei Alexdrini liber geographiae… Venice, 1511. Published by Jacobus Pentius de Leucho.Bernard Sylvanus’ atlas is unusual both for its printing, and its map.From...
Copernican universe
1708
Copernican (heliocentric) universe, Andreas Cellarius, 1660 (1708) Planisphaerium Copernicanum Sive Systema Universi Totius Creati ex Hypothesi Copernicana in Plano Exhibitum. In: Atlas Coelestis: seu Harmonia Macrocosmica, Andreas Cellari...
Nuremberg Chronicle: World Map
1493
“The world map is a robust woodcut taken from Ptolemy… What gives the map its present-day interest and attraction are the panels representing the outlandish creatures and beings that were thought to inhabit the furthermost parts of the ea...
The World Centrifuged
August, 1941
“The situation is as of July 7, 1941, and is subject to change without notice” (legend on the map).Issued in the August, 1941, special edition of ‘Fortune Magazine’, devoted to ‘Total War in the US’. The featured map,...
Anchorage & Cook Inlet, Alaska
1983
Published for the ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC (Vol 10, Number 2), this colorful map covers from Anchorage to Seward and NE to Mt McKinley (Denali name not yet present).This is one of the better examples of this genre. Susan Schumacher (who was on the maga...
Complete Map of the Airlines of K.N.I.L.M
c1935
Featuring a Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra, or “Lockheed 14”, the flagship of the KNILM passenger fleet, soaring over the East India archipelago and parts of Southeast Asia, formerly the Dutch East Indies, and now modern Indonesia. The rou...
