One of the Most Interesting Antique World Maps of the 16th Century A fine example of the Grynaeus / Munster map of the World, considered "from the artistic point of view one of the most interesting of the many world maps turned out in the sixteenth...
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Early Edward Luther Stevenson Reproduction. Detailed heliotype (?) reproduction of a lesser-known but extremely important early manuscript map of the world drawn by Nicolas Desliens at Dieppe in 1541. Desliens's 1541 map predates the other Dieppe...
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A handsome example of the 1542 Lyon edition of Macrobious with the famed woodcut world map illustrating the concept of the world being balanced by a great southern continent. As noted by Shirley: The inhabited world north of the Equator is balanced by...
First edition of Munster's map of the World, one of the most recognized world maps of the 16th century. This example is from the first woodblock (1540-1545), which can be distinguished from the editions of 1550 and after, the later editions being...
Earliest Obtainable Italian World Map to Show the Continent of America by Italy's Premier Sixteenth-Century Mapmaker This is a fine example of Giacomo Gastaldi's map of the world, published in Venice in 1548. It is a reduced version of his first...
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Münster's 1548 Modern Map of the World, an Iconic Image of the Globe Fine example of the second edition of Münster's map of the world, one of the most recognized and influential world maps of the sixteenth century. Munster's map is considered one...
Nice full color example of Munster's first ancient map of the World, based upon the writings of Ptolemy. At the advent of printing in the 15th Century, the geographical works of Ptolemy were at their highpoint. Virtually all of the printed maps in the...
Second Edition of Peter Apian's Cordiform Map of the World Nice example of the second state of Peter Apian's 1544 cordiform world map, the earliest surviving derivative of Gemma Frisius' larger cordiform map of the world, published in 1540. The map...
Including the Frisius-Apian World Map. A very good example of the French-language 1553 Paris edition of Peter Apian's Cosmographia, which was first published in 1524. Apian's 1524 Cosmographia was his greatest work, not least of which for the...
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Detailed Photographic Facsimile of One of the Great Portuguese Manuscript Maps of the World. Impressive early photographic facsimile of the famous portolan world map by Portuguese mapmaker Lopo Homem. The map shows an interesting configuration of the...
Striking example of Porcacchi's world map, first published in 1572. Porcacchi's world map is a finely executed reduction of Camocio's Wall Map of 1567, one of the last wall maps to follow Gastaldi's wall map of 1546. The map shows a narrow strait...
Old color example of the first edition of Ortelius' famous world map. Ortelius' world map is one of the most important and widely disseminated maps of the second half of the 16th Century, forming the base model for a number of other contemporary maps....
Scarce world map by Francois De Belleforest. De Belleforest's scarce map is drawn from the first edition of Ortelius' Typus Orbis Terrarum, with a change to the lower title and text in the upper left corner, outside the neat line. The map Includes a...
Fine, Early World Map from Porcacchi’s Popular Books of Islands Nice example of Porcacchi's early chart of the world, from his bestselling isolario, L'Isole Piu Famose Del Mondo. The map is modeled on a sea chart and is criss-crossed with rhumb...
Striking example of Mercator's map of the World, based upon the writings of Claudius Ptolemy, from a later edition of Gerard Mercator's Tabulae geographicae CI. Ptolemaei ad mentem autoris restitutae et emendatae per G. Mercatorem. This is the...
Gerard Mercator's Map of the World, Based Upon The Work of Claudius Ptolemy Gorgeous example of Mercator's map of the World, based upon the writings of Claudius Ptolemy, from a later edition of Gerard Mercator's Tabulae geographicae CI. Ptolemaei ad...
