1. Major Empires
31 B.C - 1949. U-Spatial (University of Minnesota). Greatest extents of the British, Mongol, and Roman Empires during their territorial peaks. The spatial extent of each empire represents the territo...
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2. Karten und Pläne zur Palästinakunde aus dem VII. bis XVI. Jahrhundert.
between 1100 and 1400. Jerusalem--Maps.
3. Primer mapa conocido de Espaéa
1482. Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Spain--Maps--Early works to 1800--Facsimiles.
4. Mapa universal de Ptolomeo (S. II) Impreso en Roma en 1490
1490. Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Scale not given; 1 map: color; sheet 36 x 50 cm World maps--Early works to 1800--Facsimiles. Carlos Sanz.
5. The Atlantic Ocean showing the track of Columbus's flagships 'Santa Maria' & 'Nina', 1492-1493. : according to his own dead reckoning
between 1492 and 1493. Raisz, Erwin, 1893-1968. Columbus, Christopher--Travel--Maps.
6. Model af København år ca. 1500
1500. Relief shown pictorially.; Shows borders.; "Publised by James Wyld (successor to Mr. Faden) Geographer to His Majesty. Charing Cross. East. 1833." ... publisher location not identified (publisher not identified).
7. The Missing Link
Early Modern Period and 1500-1800. Benito-Vessels, Carmen. This interactive guide intends to accompany Carmen Benito-Vessels’ research (https://www.anle.us/publicaciones/biblioteca-digital/espana-y-la-cost...
8. Afrique de la mappemonde Portugaise anonyme de 1502.
1502. France. Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques and Mappemonde Portugaise anonyme de 1502. Trs lgrement rduite. From Bulletin de geographie historique et descriptive, v. 1, 1886. Map is opp. p. 382. Discussion of map, p. 147-160. 1 map; 8...
9. 3325 M.S. Fragment of contemporary Spanish map with inscription relating to the Magellan Expedition.
1521. Magalhães, Fernão de, -1521--Maps--Facsimiles.
10. Mapa universal de 1538
1538. Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594. Scale not given; 1 map in 2 sections; on sheet 35 cm World maps--Early works to 1800--Facsimiles. Carlos Sanz.
11. Tabula Asiae X.
1540. Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552 and Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Cartographic Details: Scale not given. Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Ptolemy's Geographia universalis, 1540 edition, revised & edition by Se... Apud Henricum Petrum; Basiliae.
12. [Europe as a woman].
![[Europe as a woman].](https://geo.btaa.org/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBdHhmIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--ee8b9003e42e41a34a3683af01f01f0008347bad/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lKYW5CbFp3WTZCa1ZVT2hKeVpYTnBlbVZmZEc5ZlptbDBXd2RwQWNndyIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoidmFyaWF0aW9uIn19--fb19b03b9eb4e78013d4cfb2b84169f3537e0279/a222b3ef-8d0b-4d77-85b0-65bfc23b5369.jpeg)
1550. Putsch, Johann. Map of Europe in the form of a woman, with her head facing Africa and labled as Hispania and the bottom of the woman's dress labled as Greece, Bulg...
13. Civitas Londinum.; Publisher's title: Plan of London (circa 1560-1570) by Ralph Agas
1560-1570. Agas, Ralph, 1545-1621. Relief shown pictorially. Bird's-eye-view. Includes ill., text and coats-of-arms. 1 view on 8 sheets; 70 x 182 cm, sheets 59 x 44 cm and 44 x 59 cm.
14. Africa minor nuova tavola.
1561. Ptolemy, active 2nd century and Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565. 1 map; 18 x 25 cm Scale approximately 1:21,000,000 ; Relief shown pictorially ; Map covers North and West Africa ; Place names in Latin and Italian... Appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi.
15. Africa nuova tavola.
1561. Ptolemy, active 2nd century and Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565. 1 map; 18 x 25 cm Scale approximately 1:35,000,000 ; Relief shown pictorially. ; Map covers Africa south of 10°N latitude ; Place names in Latin an... Appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi.
16. Egitto nuova tavola.
1561. Ptolemy, active 2nd century and Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565. 1 map; 18 x 25 cm Scale approximately 1:3,000,000 ; Relief shown pictorially ; Place names in Latin and Italian. Text on verso in Italian ; Detache... Appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi.
17. Marmarcia nuova tavola.
1561. Ptolemy, active 2nd century and Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565. 1 map; 18 x 25 cm Scale approximately 1:22,000,000 ; Relief shown pictorially ; Map covers Egypt and Northeast Africa ; Place names in Latin and It... Appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi.
18. Mauritania nuova tavola.
1561. Ptolemy, active 2nd century and Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565. 1 map; 18 x 24 cm Scale approximately 1:26,000,000 ; Relief shown pictorially ; Map covers West Africa and most of North Africa ; Place names in La... Appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi.
19. Tabula Aphricæ I.
1561. Ptolemy, active 2nd century and Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565. 1 map; 18 x 25 cm Scale approximately 1:10,000,000 ; Relief shown pictorially ; Map covers Northwest Africa ; Place names in Latin and Italian. Tex... Appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi.
20. Tabula Aphricæ II.
1561. Ptolemy, active 2nd century and Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565. 1 map; 18 x 25 cm Scale approximately 1:9,600,000 ; Relief shown pictorially ; Map covers central North Africa ; Place names in Latin and Italian. ... Appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi.
21. Tabula Aphricæ III.
1561. Ptolemy, active 2nd century and Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565. 1 map; 18 x 25 cm Scale approximately 1:8,700,000. ; Relief shown pictorially ; Map covers Egypt and Northeast Africa ; Place names in Latin and It... Appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi.
22. Africa
1562. Forlani, Paolo. 1 map : hand colored; 44 x 60 cm Paulo Forlani, Veronese ; Scale approximately 1:20,000,000 ; Relief shown pictorially ; Dedication to Thomaso Rave... Publisher not identified.
23. Il disegno de geografia moderna del regno di Polonia, e parte del ducado di Moscouia, con parte della Scandia, e parte de Sueuia, con molte regioni, in quelli et la prouincia de Vstiuga e quella di Seuera in sino al mare maggiore
1562. Gastaldi, Giacomo, approximately 1500-approximately 1565. Relief shown pictorially. "Con gratia et priuilegio del sumo po[n]tifice papa pio iiij per anni x e del sere.mo senato di Vene[ti]a p[er] anni xv.". [Venezia : s.n.], 1562.
24. Il disegno de geografia moderna del regno di Polonia, e parte del ducado di Moscouia, con parte della Scandia, e parte de Sueuia, con molte regioni, in quelli et la prouincia de Vstiuga e quella di Seuera in sino al mare maggiore [sheet 1]
1562. Gastaldi, Giacomo, approximately 1500-approximately 1565. Relief shown pictorially. "Con gratia et priuilegio del sumo po[n]tifice papa pio iiij per anni x e del sere.mo senato di Vene[ti]a p[er] anni xv.". [Venezia : s.n.], 1562.
25. Il disegno de geografia moderna del regno di Polonia, e parte del ducado di Moscouia, con parte della Scandia, e parte de Sueuia, con molte regioni, in quelli et la prouincia de Vstiuga e quella di Seuera in sino al mare maggiore [sheet 2]
1562. Gastaldi, Giacomo, approximately 1500-approximately 1565. Relief shown pictorially. "Con gratia et priuilegio del sumo po[n]tifice papa pio iiij per anni x e del sere.mo senato di Vene[ti]a p[er] anni xv.". [Venezia : s.n.], 1562.
26. Floridae Americae provinciae: recens and exactissima descriptio; auctore Jacobo le Moyne.
1564. Le Moyne de Morgues, Jacques, 1533?-1588. To accompany Le Moyne's narrative 979 F6L. Reproduction, probably late 19th cent. 1 map; 37 x 46 cm.
27. Fort Caroline : erected 1564.
1564. Not drawn to scale; 1 view; 10 x 12 cm, on sheet 22 x 14 cm Fort Caroline National Memorial (Jacksonville, Fla.)--Aerial views.
28. Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio.
1570?. Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598. Relief shown pictorially. On verso: Text and plate number "2." Appeared as pl. 2 in his Theatrum orbis terrarum. Antwerp, 1570. Decorative cartouch...
29. Americae sive novi orbis nova descriptio
1570. Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598. 1 map: hand colored; Relief shown pictorially; (In Ortel (Abraham). Theatrum orbis terrarum. fol. Antiverpiæ, apud Ægid Coppenium Diesth, 1570); Cu... Abraham Ortelius.
30. Americae sive novi orbis nova descriptio
1570. Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598. 1 map: hand colored; Relief shown pictorially; (In Ortel (Abraham). Theatrum orbis terrarum. fol. Antiverpiæ, apud Ægid Coppenium Diesth, 1570); Cu...
31. Cambriae typus
1570 to 1612?. 1 map : hand colored; 33 x 48 cm Scale approximately 1:780,000 ; (W 4°46'-- W 3°04'/N 53°42'-- N 52°25'). ; Relief shown pictorially.; Includes ill... [Henricus Hondius & Johannes Janssonius].
32. Londinum feracissimi Angliæ regni metropolis
1572. Braun, Georg, 1540 or 1541-1622. From: Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates orbis terrarum, 1572.; Hand colored view of the city of London showing sites along the Thames River including a... Braun & Hogenberg (Cologne).
33. Lvtetia vulgari nomine Paris : vrbs Galliæ maxima Sequanä nauigabili flumine irrigatur nobili gente mercator frequariä vniuersirate excellenti stupendi operis templo B. Mariæ, Palario Regio alijs que præsfantiflimus ædiificijs tribunali úquiflimorum Judicum & pulcherrimis epigraphijs florentiflima
1572. Braun, Georg, 1540 or 1541-1622. Note at lower right corner.; Printed on verso: "8." 25 x 49 centimeters, on sheet 42 x 54 centimeters Not drawn to scale City Maps. Bey Godfrid von Kempen in verlegung Francisci Hogenbergers (Co?lln).
34. Taprobana Insvla
1572. Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552. Cartographic Details: Scale not given. (E 79°22'00"--E 82°04'00"/N 10°02'00"--N 5°43'00") Relief shown pictorially. Likely from Cosmographiae Unive...
35. Illustris ciuitatis Conimbriae in Lusitania ad flumen Jllundam effigies.
1573 to 1620?. Braun, Georg, 1540 or 1541-1622. 1 view : hand colored; 28 x 45 cm Scale not given (W 008°25ʹ10ʺ/N 40°12ʹ20ʺ) ; Relief shown pictorially.; Possibly derived from original drawing by... [publisher not identified].
36. Tab. I. Africæ, in qua Mauritania Tingitana et Cæsariensis : medius meridianus 16, reliqui ad hunc inclinati sunt pro ratione parellelorum 29 et 34 ad circulum maximum
circa 1578. Ptolemy, active 2nd century and Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594. 1 map : hand colored; 32 x 46 cm Scale approximately 1:4,930,000 ; Title across top: Africæ I. Tab: ; Based on Ptolemy's Geography ; Relief shown p... Publisher not identified.
37. Asiae nova descriptio
1579. Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598. A part of Terra Australis Incognita shown south of Nova Guinea. 36 x 49 centimeters Scale approximately 1:24,000,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps.
38. Typvs orbis terrarvm
1579. Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598. Oval map within illustrated border, showing clouds.; Appears in Latin edition of Ortelius's Theatrum orbis terrarum.; Hand colored.; Includes illus... Abraham Ortelius (Antwerp).
39. Açores Insulae
1584. 1 map; 30 x 44 cm Scale approximately 1:1,700,000 (W 29°10ʹ--W 22°20ʹ/N 36°30ʹ--N 41°12ʹ) ; Relief shown pictorially.; 'Longitudo huius description... [publisher not identified].
40. Chinae, olim sinarum regionis, nova descriptio; auctore Ludovico Georgio.
1584. Barbuda, Luis Jorge de, fl. 1575-1599 and Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the right. Includes ill. and decorative cartouches. On verso: La China, p. 118. From Ortellius' Th...
41. Poland, 1584 (Raster Image)
1584. Grodecki, Wacław, 1535?-1591, Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598, and Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589. This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Poloniae finitimarumque locorum descriptio. It was published by: Auc... Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library.
42. Tartariae sive magni chami regni typus.
1584. Dahl, James, former owner, Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598, and Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589, printer. This is map no. 92 of the author's Theatrvm orbis terrarvm. Antwerpiae, 1584. Cf. U.S. Library of Congress. Division of Maps. A list of geographica...
43. Die erst general Tafel die Beschreibung und den Circkel des gantzen Erdtrichs und Meers innhaltende
1588. Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552. Oval map within illustrated border.; Appears in Sebastian Münster's Cosmografia (published circa 1588).; Prime meridian: Ferro.; Includes text.; Te... Sebastian Henricpetri (Basel).
44. America pars, Virginia dicta, 1590
1590. Map showing Virginia and surrounding areas, 1590. First map to show and name the Chesapeake Bay. 31 x 42 cm; 1 images; color. White, John and Theodor de Bry.
45. Typus orbis terrarum: quid ei potest videri magnum in rebus humanis, cui aeternitas omnis, totius que mundi nota sit magnitudo
1590. Hogenberg, Frans, approximately 1539-1590. 1 map: color; Hand col; "Cum privilegio." Scale approximately 1:81,800,000 (W 180°--E 180°/N 90°--S 90°).
46. Indiae orientalis insvlarvmqve adiacientivm typvs
1592. Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598. Relief shown pictorially.; Includes title in cartouche, coat of arms and illustrations of ships, mermaids, and sea monsters.; Includes southwest se... (Antwerp).
47. Africæ vera forma, et situs.
1593. Jode, Gerard de, approximately 1516 or 1517-1591. 1 map; 32 x 45 cm Gerard de Jode ; Scale approximately 1:28,000,000 ; Relief shown pictorially ; Text on verso ; Antwerp : Formis Hæredum Gerardi d... Formis Hæredum Gerardi de Jode.
48. Africa : ex magna orbis terrȩ descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris desumpta; studio & industria G.M. Iunioris
1595. Mercator, Gerard, approximately 1565-1656 and Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594. 1 map : hand colored; 38 x 47 cm Gerhard Mercator ; Scale approximately 1:26,000,000 ; Relief shown pictorially ; 'Cum previlegio.' ; Verso pages n... Publisher not identified.
49. America siue India Nova ad magnae Gerardi Mercatoris aut Vniversalis imitationem in compendium redacta
approximately 1595. Mercator, Michael. 1 map: color; (In Mercator (Gerhard). Atlas. Ed. 10° (11th ed.) fol. Amsterodami, sumptibus H. Hondij, 1630); Insets: Golfo Mexi Cano; Haiti nunc H...
50. Anglesey ; Wight Vectis olim ; Garnesay ; Iarsay.
1595?. 4 maps on one sheet hand colored; 15 x 20 cm and 15 x 21 cm on sheet 51 x 59 cm Scales differ. ; Per Gerardum Mercatorem, cum privilegio; Text in L... [publisher not identified].