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1574 Ruscelli Map of Russia (Muscovy) and Ukraine - Geographicus - Moschovia-porcacchi-1572

1574 Ruscelli Map of Russia (Muscovy) and Ukraine - Geographicus - Mos...

A beautiful example of Girolamo Ruscelli's c. 1574 map of Moscovie. Covers modern day Russia and the Ukraine from the Arctic to the Crimea and as far east as the Caspian Sea. Interest in this area peaked in W... More

Cellarius ptolemaic system - Public domain old map

Cellarius ptolemaic system - Public domain old map

From Andreas Cellarius Harmonia Macrocosmica, 1660/61. Chart showing signs of the zodiac and the solar system with world at centre. Plate 2: SCENOGRAPHIA SYSTEMATIS MVNDANI PTOLEMAICI - Scenography of the Ptol... More

Cellarius ptolemaic systemFXD - Public domain old map

Cellarius ptolemaic systemFXD - Public domain old map

From Andreas Cellarius Harmonia Macrocosmica, 1660/61. Chart showing signs of the zodiac and the solar system with world at centre. Plate 2: SCENOGRAPHIA SYSTEMATIS MVNDANI PTOLEMAICI - Scenography of the Ptol... More

Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster) p 078
Present-Day Palestine and the Holy Land - 1400s

Present-Day Palestine and the Holy Land - 1400s

"Present-day" Palestine and the Holy Land (Palestina Moderna et Terra Sancta), an extra-Ptolemaic regional map from Seven Days of Geography, Francesco Berlinghieri’s expanded edition of Ptolemy’s Geography (Ge... More

Africa minor 1561, Girolamo Ruscelli (3824354-recto)

Africa minor 1561, Girolamo Ruscelli (3824354-recto)

Africa minor nuova tavola. Relief shown pictorially. Map covers North and West Africa. Detached from La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, and based on a 1548 edition by Giacomo Gastaldi. (Description f... More

Africa Northeast 1561, Girolamo Ruscelli (3824671-recto)

Africa Northeast 1561, Girolamo Ruscelli (3824671-recto)

A New Map of Marmarcia (Marmarcia Nuova Tavola) Relief shown pictorially. Map covers Egypt and Northeast Africa. Detached from La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, and based on a 1548 edition by Giaco... More

Egypt 1561, Girolamo Ruscelli (3824971-recto)

Egypt 1561, Girolamo Ruscelli (3824971-recto)

"A New Map of Egypt" (Egitto Nuova Tabula), depicting the Nile Delta.Pictoral relief of Egypt, detached from La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, and based on a 1548 edition by Giacomo Gastaldi. (Sourc... More

Egypt 1618, Gerardus Mercator (4156661-recto)

Egypt 1618, Gerardus Mercator (4156661-recto)

Meridiani equidistant pro ratione 56, paralleli 30 1/2. Title across top: Appendix III. Tabulae Afr: Based on Ptolemy's Geography. Map covers Nile River Delta. (Description from: North West University Library)

Egypt 1620, Gerardus Mercator (4248301-recto)

Egypt 1620, Gerardus Mercator (4248301-recto)

Appendix tab. III. Africæ, Ægyptum inferiorem exhibens meridiani equidistant pro ratione paralleli 30 1/2. Appendix .III. Tabulae Afr: Relief shown pictorially. Map based on Ptolemy's geography. (Description f... More

Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster) p 075
Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster) p 081
Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster) p 090
Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster) p 102
Mapa Wegier, Polski, Prus i Woloszczyzny, 1525. czwarte strassburskie wydanie, ptolemejskiej mapy Waldseemüllera z 1507 r.zamieszczone w wydaniu dziela Claudii Ptolemaei Geographicae enarrationis.

Mapa Wegier, Polski, Prus i Woloszczyzny, 1525. czwarte strassburskie ...

A fragment of Poland, Hungary and Germany map [Claudii Ptolemaei Geographicae enarrationis] by Martin Waldseemüller (1507), published in 1525 (Strassburg).

Gemaniae-Tabula-(Sebastian-Muenster)

Gemaniae-Tabula-(Sebastian-Muenster)

A Map of Germany (Germaniae Tabula), printed at Basel in 1540 by Sebastian Münster for his Cosmography (Cosmographie) from a woodcut. An extra-Ptolemaic map, facing south. Deutsch: Germaniae Tabula (Basel 154... More

Giovanni Antonio Magini. Moscoviae Imperivm. 1608

Giovanni Antonio Magini. Moscoviae Imperivm. 1608

Latina: Moscoviae Imperivm English: The map of Muscovite Empire includes also the territory of old Livonia and the North-eastern part of the Baltic Sea. The map depicts the end of the 16th century – the begin... More

Sebastian Münster, Ptolemy. Terra Sancta XVI. NOVA TABVLA. Basel; Henricus Petri. 25.5 x 34.5 cm. 1540

Sebastian Münster, Ptolemy. Terra Sancta XVI. NOVA TABVLA. Basel; Henr...

Terra Sancta XVI. NOVA TABVLA [Basel: Henricus Petri] 25.5 x 34.5 cm. Woodcut Color ALW0751

Polonia Et Ungaria XX Nova Tabula, detail of Kyiv episcopate (“Kyouia epatus”)

Polonia Et Ungaria XX Nova Tabula, detail of Kyiv episcopate (“Kyouia ...

Detail of Kyiv from Sebastian Münster’s 1552 map of Poland and Hungary, including Kyiv episcopate (Kyouia epatus = Kyovia episcopatus), Belarus (Russia Alba), Vyshhorod (Visigrod), Kaniv (Caniow), Cherkasy (Cz... More

Tabula Nova Helvetiae - Public domain vintage map

Tabula Nova Helvetiae - Public domain vintage map

A New Map of Switzerland, an extra-Ptolemaic map from the Vienna edition of the Geography produced by Laurent Fries.

Polonia Et Ungaria XX Nova Tabula - Public domain map

Polonia Et Ungaria XX Nova Tabula - Public domain map

Polonia Et Ungaria XX Nova Tabula- Munster’s modern map of Poland and Hungary, from the rare 1552 Geographia edition, the only one to feature coordinate bars provided at top and bottom.

Schedelsche Weltchronik d 287

Schedelsche Weltchronik d 287

Deutsch: Dies ist ein Scan des historischen Buches: English: This is a scan of the historical document: