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A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours. (Calendar month of August)
1450 BOOK OF HOURS - A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours. (Calendar month of August)
Date: Paris, ca. 1450
Miniature of a burial scene.
1470 - Large miniature set in full borders, by the Maitre François, with the miniature showing a burial scene in a churchyard
Date: Paris ca. 1470
Tercia Etas Mundi. Folium.XLVI (An English town view)
1493 SCHEDEL, H. - Tercia Etas Mundi. Folium.XLVI (An English town view)
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Destruccio Iherosolime.
1493 SCHEDEL, H. - This early woodblock-printed view shows Jerusalem's destruction.
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Prima Etas Mundi. IX (with Eve nursing Kain and Abel)
1493 SCHEDEL, H. - Prima Etas Mundi. IX (with Eve nursing Kain and Abel) A "highly desirable narrative leaf."
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Secunda etas mundi. Folium XIII.
SCHEDEL, H. - Nuremberg, 1493 - This world map provides a window onto the late medieval imagination, published the year that Columbus returned to Europe after discovering...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Venecie. [Venice] Foliu XLIIII](/uploads/cache/29716-250x250.jpg)
Venecie. [Venice] Foliu XLIIII
1493 SCHEDEL, H. - Venecie. [Venice] Foliu XLIIII
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Quinta Asie Tabvla.
1513 PTOLEMY, C. / WALDSEEMÃœLLER, M. - Quinta Asie Tabvla.
Date: Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1513
![.Taprobana Ins. Tabula XII Asiae. [Sri Lanka.]](/uploads/cache/27928-250x250.jpg)
.Taprobana Ins. Tabula XII Asiae. [Sri Lanka.]
1535 - PTOLEMY, C. - The mythical island of Taprobana, which originally became associated with Sri Lanka.
Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
![.Tabula III Asiae. [Caucasus and Armenia.]](/uploads/cache/27894-250x250.jpg)
.Tabula III Asiae. [Caucasus and Armenia.]
1535 PTOLEMY, C. - .Tabula III Asiae. [Caucasus and Armenia.]
Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
1540 BOOK OF HOURS - Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Tabula nova utriusque Indiae.
1541 PTOLEMY, C. / FRIES, L. - Tabula nova utriusque Indiae.
Date: Vienne, 1541
Tabula Superioris Indiae & Tartariae maioris. (Modern Map of China, Japan, etc.)
1541 FRIES, L. - Tabula Superioris Indiae & Tartariae maioris. (Modern Map of China, Japan, etc.)
Date: Vienne, 1541
Tabula Asiae VII.
1542 MÃœNSTER, S. - Tabula Asiae VII.
Date: Basle, 1542
Universalis Cosmographia.
1548 HONTER, J. - Universalis Cosmographia.
Date: Zurich, Froschauer, ca. 1546/1548
Typus Universalis Terrae, Iuxta Modernorum Distinctionem Et Extensionem Per Regna Et Provincias.
1553 APIANUS, P. - World map in a FIRST BLOCK, from Gregor Reisch's Magarita Philisophica, published in Basel
Date: Antwerp c.1544-1553
Sumatra.
1556 GASTALDI, G. / RAMUSIO, J. B. - Sumatra.
Date: Venice, 1556
Moscovia Sigismundi Liberi Baronis In Herberstein, Neiperg et Gutehnag Anno M.D XLIX
1556 HALBERSTEIN, S. - Moscovia Sigismundi Liberi Baronis In Herberstein, Neiperg et Gutehnag Anno M.D XLIX
Date: Basle, 1556
![[Sea monsters] De regni Settentrionali Monstri marini & terrestri…](/uploads/cache/49169-250x250.jpg)
[Sea monsters] De regni Settentrionali Monstri marini & terrestri…
1558 MÜNSTER, S. - [Sea monsters] De regni Settentrionali Monstri marini & terrestri…
Date: Basel, 1558
![Amphitheatri Veronen[sis] diligens et accurata delineatio…](/uploads/cache/49136-250x250.jpg)
Amphitheatri Veronen[sis] diligens et accurata delineatio…
1560 LAFRERI, A. - Amphitheatri Veronen[sis] diligens et accurata delineatio…
Date: Rome, Antonio Lafreri, ca. 1560
Die neüwen Inseln/ so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land Indie ligen.
1561 MÃœNSTER, S. - The earliest and one of the most important separate maps to show both Americas
Date: Basle 1561
Tierra Nueva.
1561 RUSCELLI, G. - Tierra Nueva.
Date: Venice, 1561
Il Cuscho citta principale della provincia del Peru.
1564 DE BELLE-FOREST, Fr. - Il Cuscho citta principale della provincia del Peru.
Date: Lyons, 1564
I Europa / Das dritteil der Welt.
1548 STUMPF, J. - woodcut printed map of Europe with South to the top
Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
( II Germania) / Tütschland.
1566 STUMPF, J. - ( II Germania) / Tütschland.
Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
![IL GOLFO DI VENETIA [Gulf of Venice].](/uploads/cache/49393-250x250.jpg)
IL GOLFO DI VENETIA [Gulf of Venice].
1568 FORLANI, P. - IL GOLFO DI VENETIA [Gulf of Venice].
Date: Venice,1568
![[Title page for] Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.](/uploads/cache/47940-250x250.jpg)
[Title page for] Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
1570 ORTELIUS, A. - [Title page for] Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
Date: Antwerp, after 1570
Novae Urbis Hierosolymitanae topographica delineatio . . .
1571 DE JODE, G. - Novae Urbis Hierosolymitanae topographica delineatio . . .
Date: Antwerp, 1571
Benedict. Arias Montanus Sacrae Geographiae Tabulam Ex Antiq
1572 ARIAS MONTANUS, B. - Benedict. Arias Montanus Sacrae Geographiae Tabulam Ex Antiq
Date: Anvers 1571 /1572
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
1573 ORTELIUS, A. - One of the most important maps of the sixteenth century— in a second plate of Abraham Ortelius's map of the Americas
Date: Antwerp, 1573
Cypri Insulae Nova descript. 1573.
1574 ORTELIUS, A. - This is a beautiful example, in the earliest obtainable version of the best map of Cyprus made to date
Date: Antwerp, 1574
Temperance (Temperantia) from The Virtues.
1580 BREUGHEL, P. - Temperance (Temperantia) from The Virtues.
Date: Antwerp, Hieronymus Cock, 1580
Tafel der Lender darin der Apostel Paulus geprediget hat.
1581 BÃœNTING, H. - Tafel der Lender darin der Apostel Paulus geprediget hat.
Date: Magdeburg, 1581
Descrittione di M. Lodovico Guicciardini patritio Fiorentino, di tutti i Paesi Bassi,...
1581 GUICCIARDINI, L - Descrittione di M. Lodovico Guicciardini patritio Fiorentino, di tutti i Paesi Bassi,...
Date: Antwerp, Plantin, 1581
Universe Europae Maritime Eiusque Navigationis Descriptio. Generale Pascaerte van Europa . . .
1584 WAGHENAER, L.J. - This general chart of north-western European coastal waters is from the rare pilot-guide De Spiegel der Zeevaerdt , printed by Christopher Plantin ...
Date: Leyden, 1584
Mercurius.
1585 DE VOS, M. - Mercurius.
Date: Antwerp, 1585
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Belchrijuinghe vande zee custen van Engelandt. . .
1585 WAGHENAER, L.J. - Belchrijuinghe vande zee custen van Engelandt. . .
Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Caerte der Noordt cufte van Engelandt, beginnende van Robinhodes baij tot Coket Eijlandt. . . .
1585 WAGHENAER, L.J. - Caerte der Noordt cufte van Engelandt, beginnende van Robinhodes baij tot Coket Eijlandt. . . .
Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
De custen van een deel van Denemarken en Swede. . .
1585 WAGHENAER, L.J. - De custen van een deel van Denemarken en Swede. . .
Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
![Imposita saxo Jacob cervice quiescens Aligeros scalas vidit imre choros. Gene[sis] 28](/uploads/cache/47690-250x250.jpg)
Imposita saxo Jacob cervice quiescens Aligeros scalas vidit imre choros. Gene[sis] 28
1585 DE JODE, G. - Imposita saxo Jacob cervice quiescens Aligeros scalas vidit imre choros. Gene[sis] 28
Date: Antwerp, 1585
De Zee-Kuste vant Landt te Noort-oosten sorterende onder Norweghen ende eendeels onder Sweden alsoe tlandt aldaer in zijn gedaente is, van Distelberch tot Waersberghe.
1585 WAGHENAER, L.J. - De Zee-Kuste vant Landt te Noort-oosten sorterende onder Norweghen ende eendeels onder Sweden alsoe tlandt aldaer in zijn gedaente is, van Diste...
Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
![Anverpia, nobile in Barbantia oppidum, parrim maritimum . . . [Antwerp]](/uploads/cache/26518-250x250.jpg)
Anverpia, nobile in Barbantia oppidum, parrim maritimum . . . [Antwerp]
1585 BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F. - Anverpia, nobile in Barbantia oppidum, parrim maritimum . . . [Antwerp]
Date: Cologne, 1585
Novus de Leone Belgico eiusq topographia atq. Historica descriptione liber (…). Rerumque in Belgio maxime gestarum, inde ab anno Christi M.D.LIX. Usque ad annum M.D.LXXXVII perpetua narratione continatus.
1588 VON AITSINGER, M. - Novus de Leone Belgico eiusq topographia atq. Historica descriptione liber (…). Rerumque in Belgio maxime gestarum, inde ab anno Christi M.D.L...
Date: Cologne, Gerardus Campensis for Frans Hogenberg, 1588
POLONIAE finitimarumque locorum descrip:tio. Auctore WENCESLAO GRODECCIO. Polono.
1592 ORTELIUS, A. - POLONIAE finitimarumque locorum descrip:tio. Auctore WENCESLAO GRODECCIO. Polono.
Date: Antwerp, 1592
Americae Pars Magis Cognita. Chorographia nobilis & opulentae Peruanae Provinciae, atque Brasiliae, . . . MDXCII
1592 DE BRY, Th. - Americae Pars Magis Cognita. Chorographia nobilis & opulentae Peruanae Provinciae, atque Brasiliae, . . . MDXCII
Date: Frankfurt, 1592
La Florida/ Peruviae Auriferae regionis Typus/ Guastecan.
1592 ORTELIUS, A. - La Florida/ Peruviae Auriferae regionis Typus/ Guastecan.
Date: Antwerp, 1592
(South America) - Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae, dictae Peruvianae, a R. de la Plata, Brasiliam Pariam, et Castellam auream una cum omnibus…
1593 LINSCHOTEN, J.H. van - Decorative map of South America, which goes as far north as part of Florida, is extremely well-detailed along the coast.
Date: Amsterdam, 1593
Lutetia Furens. Das ist : Die wütende Statt PARIS.
1594 /. S. - Lutetia Furens. Das ist : Die wütende Statt PARIS.
Date: France ca.. 1594
(Island of Pearls) Perlarum insula ob unionum copiam sic dicta.
1594 DE BRY, Th. - (Island of Pearls) Perlarum insula ob unionum copiam sic dicta.
Date: Frankfurt, 1594
Peregrinatie Jesu Christu Een ordentliche beschrijvinge des Heijligen landts....
1595 VAN DOECTECUM, J. - Peregrinatie Jesu Christu Een ordentliche beschrijvinge des Heijligen landts....
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1595
Nova et recens emendata totius Regni Ungariae una cum adiacentibus et finitimis regionisbus delineatio.
1596 VAN DOETECUM, J. - Nova et recens emendata totius Regni Ungariae una cum adiacentibus et finitimis regionisbus delineatio.
Date: Amsterdam, Cornelius Nicol, 1596
![Calecuty Regnum [ Indian Ocean between Madagascar, Ethiopia, southern Arabia]](/uploads/cache/36115-250x250.jpg)
Calecuty Regnum [ Indian Ocean between Madagascar, Ethiopia, southern Arabia]
1596 BOTERO,G. - Very rare and unusual map depiction of the Indian Ocean
Date: Cologne, 1596
Hollandiae Antiquorum Catthorum..
1598 ORTELIUS, A. - Hollandiae Antiquorum Catthorum..
Date: Antwerp, 1598
A cidade de Angra na ilha de Iesuxpo da Tercera..
1598 VAN LINSCHOTEN, J.H. - Spectacular perspective view of the harbor and town of Angra on the island of Terceira
Date: Amsterdam, 1598
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
1598 ORTELIUS, A. - An extremely rare Dutch edition of Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, illustrated with 92 maps, 91 maps numbered 1-91, in beautiful contemporary color...
Date: (Amsterdam, Corn. Claesz.) ?, 1598
Faber piscis, Asellus minor, Conger, Alburinus. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
1598 COLLAERT, A. (after) - Faber piscis, Asellus minor, Conger, Alburinus. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Virulus marinus. Cete (Whale and whaling scene)
1598 COLLAERT, A. (after) - Virulus marinus. Cete (Whale and whaling scene)
Date: Antwerp, after 1598
![Candia [Map of Crete]](/uploads/cache/45233-250x250.jpg)
Candia [Map of Crete]
1598 ROSACCIO, Giuseppe. Small map of the island Crete, published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia".
Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Jerusalem.
1598 ROSACCIO, G. - Jerusalem.
Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Christophorus Columus Ligur Indiarum Prim invet A°1492
1599 DE BRY, Th. - Christophorus Columus Ligur Indiarum Prim invet A°1492
Date: Frankfurt a.M. 1597 - 1599
Le Nouveau miroir des voiages marins de la navigation de la mer occidentale & orientale.
1600 WAGHENAER, L.J. - A second and final French edition of this important sea atlas.
Date: Antwerp, Chez Iean Bellere, a l’Aigle d’or, l’An M.CCCCCC - 1600
Geometria, from The Seven Liberal Arts.
1600 SADELER, J. / DE VOS, M. - Geometria, from The Seven Liberal Arts.
Date: Antwerp, 1570 - 1600
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
1601 ORTELIUS, A. - His third and last world map, dated 1587. The earlier border of clouds has been replaced by a more intricate and elegant lattice of strapwork and swag
Date: Antwerp, 1592/1601
Insula Tiberina.
1602 DUCHETTI, C. / ORLANDINI, J. - Insula Tiberina.
Date: Rome, 1585-1602
Islandia.
1603 ORTELIUS, A. - Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island, a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flo...
Date: Antwerp, 1603
Contrafactur des Scharmutz els der Holander (Singapore)
1603 DE BRY, Th. - Rare and beautiful map of the Strait of Singapore
Date: Frankfurt, 1603
Christophorus Clavius Bambergensis e societate iesu aetatis suae anno LXIX.
1606 VILLAMENA, F. - Christophorus Clavius Bambergensis e societate iesu aetatis suae anno LXIX.
Date: Rome, 1606
Norwegia.
1606 LANGENES, B. / BERTIUS, P. - Norwegia.
Date: Amsterdam, 1606
(Sea-chart of Catalunia, Languedoc, Provence, Cote d'Azur, Riviera, Corsica with Marseille, Cannes, Nice, Monaco.)
1607 BARENTSZ, W. - (Sea-chart of Catalunia, Languedoc, Provence, Cote d'Azur, Riviera, Corsica with Marseille, Cannes, Nice, Monaco.)
Date: Amsterdam, 1607
Polus Arcticus cum vicinis regionibus.
1608 MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J. - Rare map of the North Pole, shown as a rocky island surrounded by 'in-drawing seas' between four huge islands
Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Latvia/ Estonia. Livonia.
1609 HONDIUS, J. / MERCATOR, G. - Latvia/ Estonia. Livonia.
Date: Amsterdam, 1595-1609
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio.
1609 MERCATOR, R. - Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio.
Date: Amsterdam, 1595-1609
Gelriae, Cliviae, Finitimorumque Locorum Verissima Descriptio.
1612 ORTELIUS, A. / GALLE, TH. - Gelriae, Cliviae,... Rare map of Gelderland and Limburg, published by Philippe Galle.
Date: Antwerp, after 1612
Hydrograhica descriptio
1612 BARENTSZ, W. - Hydrograhica descriptio
Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Nova et accurata Foederatarum Provinciarum Inferioris Germaniae descriptio… 1615 P.Kaerius.
1615 VAN DEN KEERE, P. - The earliest known printed general map specifically devoted to the Dutch Republic
Date: J.Janssonius, Arnhem, 1615
De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Jesu, ex P. Matthaei Ricci.
1615 RICCI, M. / TRIGAULT, N. - De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Jesu, ex P. Matthaei Ricci.
Date: Augustæ Vind. (Augsburg), C. Mangium, 1615
