Ortelius World Map (1570)

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Europa regina in the 1570 Cosmographia

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1529 Map of the Americas - by Diego Ribero

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Paris circa 1575

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Mercator's 1595 map of the Arctic

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1504 Ostrich Egg Globe - Made on the lower halves of two ostrich eggs, this is the oldest known depiction of the Americas on a globe

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1513 map of Lorraine (Lotharingia) printed in 3 colours (black, red, and brown). This was the first printed of that Duchy and is considered the earliest known specimen of printing in colours

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1538 map of Asia

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1561 map of the world

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1570 map of the Americas - by Abraham Ortellius

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Map of Western Africa by Lázaro Luis (1563)

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1591 Map showing the Florida and Cuba Region

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Map of Africa, published by Abraham Ortellius in 1588. A sea battle is depicted in cartouche in the lower right corner, and a number a sea monsters roam the Atlantic Ocean

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Feudal Map of Japan between 1564-73 (published 1905)

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Position of the north magnetic pole since 1590

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Europe about 1560 - from "Historical Atlas" by William R. Shepherd, 1923

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Ortelius World Map (1570), from the first modern world atlas

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World map surrounded by illustrations of wind heads, 1542

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Cairo, Egypt in the 16th century - by Ottoman cartographer Piri Reis

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The Americas, or A New and Precise Description of the Fourth Part of the World (1562)

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1561 map of Silesia by Martin Helwig ; north at the bottom

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Asia in the Form of Pegasus - 1581

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1550 Map of South America labeled in German, geographic features otherwise in Latin. Relief shown pictorially.

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Magellan's Circumnavigation of the Earth, from the Portolan Atlas by Battista Agnese, c. 1544.

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Beautifull 1593 map of Flushing (Vlissingen) in the Netherlands

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Frankfurt, Germany by Conrad Faber of Kreuznach (1552)

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1595 map of Africa

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Map of the World Known to Europe at the Death of Charles V (1551)

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Bavarian land boards from 1568 - by Philipp Apian

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Typus Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius, 1570 (french version)

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The first map whose borders featured female figures as symbols of major geographic regions (Amsterdam, 1594)

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1541 world map reduced from that of Waldseemüller (1513), onto which Fries has added the five kings of Russia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka (Taprobana), and Thailand (Mursuli), along with a mammoth in the upper left corner near Greenland (which is depicted as a peninsula).

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1584 Gdansk, Kaliningrad, Konigsberg, Prussia: Baltic Sea Coastline to Memel (Klaipeda)

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1584 map of Florida, based on the expeditions of Hernando de Soto (1539-1543)

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Asia 1574

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Cornwall 1579

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World in 1567 | Ali Macar Reis map

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First European Map of Tenochtitlan (1524)

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Cuba, Jamaica and Hispaniola. 1562

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1580 Map of Greece and western Turkey

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1570 Map with Armenia at the centre / by F. V. Dourado

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The 1502 Cantino World Planisphere. From an unknown Cartographer, this is the Oldest Known Map of Portugese Land Discoveries

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1537 map of Europe in the shape of a Queen - designed by Johannes Putsch

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Bonsignori's Map of Italy 1577

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Map of the Southern hemisphere, 1593 / by Gerard de Jode

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1552 map of Corsica - by Sebastian Munster

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Map of Eastern Canada from a 1565 Atlas

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A map of New France made by cartographers Jan Doetecom, Petrus Plancius, and Cornelis Claesz (1592-1594)

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Descriptio Germaniae inferioris, on the backside of the map "Niderlandt", 1573

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Map of Europe, 1550

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1593 world map drawn as two hemispheres on north and south polar projection

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Great Britain and Ireland 1569

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1525 Map of Alanya by Piri Reis

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Kingdom of Livonia 1573.

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Map of the roman city of Ostia, 1588

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Medieval map (1559) of the Black Sea / by Diego Homen

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Map of Iceland, published in Additamentum IV to Ortellus' map collection in Antwerp 1590. It far surpassed earlier maps of Iceland in accuracy

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Indiae orientalis insvlarvmqve adiacientivm typvs. Map of India, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea and NW America 1570

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Composite Map of the World (1587) - with additional spheres and labels in the four corners

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Cyprus, 1573

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1571 Africa Map by Abraham Ortelius

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1584 Ortelius map of the Western Hemisphere

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Sebastian Münster's 1561 map of the Americas

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1597 map of the island of Tinos (Tine) in Greece - by Venetian Giacomo (Jacomo) Franco

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Carta marina, an early map of the Nordic countries, made around end of Kalmar Union and start of Denmark-Norway (1539)

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Persian Map of the World (1537)

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Map of Iceland from the 1539 Carta Marina

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1544 World Map by the German scientist Sebastian Muenster

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16th century map of Spain and North Africa

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South America 1575

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Decorative map of the Western Hemisphere published in 1562.

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Bristol, England, 1478. From The Maire of Bristowe is Kalendar by Robert Ricart, common clerk of Bristol (1478 to 1506)

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Map of Portugal, 1561 in the "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" (1570) de Abraham Ortelius

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1570 Map of Northern Europe

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The European section of the Waldseemüller map, 1507

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Expanded 17th century Ottoman world map based on one originally composed in 1525 and dedicated to Sultan Süleyman I ("The Magnificent") by Piri Reis

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Map of Zeeland, the Netherlands, in 1580 (high-res version in comments)

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1570 map of the Americas - by Abraham Ortelius

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Spot the differences: Dordrecht 1545 and modern day

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Aerial plan of Chester, England, 1585

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1595 map of the Indian Ocean showing the First Dutch Expedition routes around the Cape of Good Hope to Sumatra and Java, Indonesia

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Ptolemy's map. Produced in Strasbourg, 1513

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Africae tabula nova. Map of Africa 1570

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1595 circular map of the Western Hemisphere

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Kingdom of Sardinia 16th century map

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Universale Descrittione Di Tutta la Terra Conosciuta Fin Qui (Universal Description of the All the Known Earth So Far) Paolo Forlani 1568

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The unusual route taken by two Russian Tu-160 bombers on their way to Syria

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America sive novus orbis ... ; (America or the New World ...) Theodor de Bry (1528-1598), illustrator and engraver Frankfurt, 1596

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Ortelius map of Europe 1595

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Carta Marina / drawn by Martin Waldseemüller in 1516. This is a remix of both fantastical and official testimony of the world. King Manuel of Portugal is riding a sea monster close to the southern coast of Africa, a symbol of the Portuguese control over the marine route between Africa and India

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Similar map of Amsterdam 1567

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The monsters of Islandia (first edition 1590, this one 1608, Ortelius) Full information on FB @worldofMappaMundi

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1525 Piri Reis Map of the Island of Rhodes, Greece

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1598 Map of London by Sebastian Münster

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Indiae Orientalis Insularumque Adiacientium Typus - Abraham Ortelius - 1570 (India, South east, and east Asia)

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1596 map of east and southeast Asia

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"Carta universal en que se contiene todo lo que del mundo se ha descubierto fasta agora, hizola Diego Ribero cosmographo de su magestad, año de 1529"

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Bruges, Belgium by Marcus Gerards 1562

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Historical map representing the Roman Empire (1592)

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1519 map of the Indian Ocean and surroundings

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