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Secunda etas mundi.

Description: Map shows the pre-Columbus world, based on Ptolemy's Geographia. Jerusalem is at the center of the map; the Indian Ocean is an enclosed area; and Scandinavia, southern Africa and the Far East are not shown. Twelve winds, depicted as heads surrounding the map, are named as well as major places. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1493
Creator: Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Map of Europe as queen]

Description: Map shows a stylized Europe in the form of a woman. [Spain] is her head and [Gaul], [Germany], [Denmark], [Poland], [Hungary], [Greece], [Bulgaria], [Macedonia], and Scythia are the remainder of her body. Europe is shown surrounded by Africa, [England], [Scotland], [Scandinavia], and Asia. Includes text in lower margin. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: [1550..1570]
Creator: Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552
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Orbis descriptio.

Description: Map shows known and assumed mid-sixteenth century geographic outlines and place names of continents and islands in the eastern and western hemispheres. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1561
Creator: Ptolemy, active 2nd century
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Perusini agri [Umbria, Italy].

Description: Map shows cities and villages pictorially in the region of Umbria, Italy during the late-sixteenth century. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1584
Creator: Danti, Ignazio, 1536-1586
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Fionia

Description: Map shows towns on the Danish islands of Fionia [Fyn], Alsen, Arr, Langeland in the Baltic Sea. Scale not given.
Date: 1595
Creator: Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
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Typus orbis terrarum, ad imitationem universalis Gerhardi Mercatoris : cuius secundum tam veterum quàm recentiorum supputationem 5400 miliaria Germanica ambitus complectitur..

Description: Map shows geography and place names of the eastern and western hemispheres as known during the late sixteenth century. Includes notes, Cicero quotation, and portrait of Jesus. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: [1596..1624]
Creator: Quad, Matthias, 1557-1613
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Descrittione del mappamondo.

Description: Map huge Antarctic land mass as "Terra Incognita" and the five known continents. Includes text describing the world. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1621~
Creator: Porcacchi, Thomaso, ca. 1530-1585?
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Leodiensis Dioecesis

Description: Map shows early to mid-seventeenth century cities, towns, forested areas, and marshlands in the diocese of Liège and adjacent areas near the Meuse River valley. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: [1630..1650]
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Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula.

Description: Map shows major cities and physical features for Europe, Asia, and Africa, with vague depiction beyond New Guinea for the Eastern Hemisphere; major settlements for South America, Central America, New Spain, and the eastern and southern portions of North America, and a vague depiction of the Pacific Coast, with California as an island, for the Western Hemisphere. Insets: "Julius Cæsar," "Claudius Ptolomeus Ale.," "Iudocus Hondius Flander," and "Gerardus Mercator Flander." Scale not given.
Date: 1641
Creator: Hondius, Hendrik, b. 1573
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L'Hydrographie ou description de l'Eau c'est a dire des mers, golfes, lacs, destroits [sic.], et rivieres principales, qui sont dans la surface du globe terrestre.

Description: Map shows five continents with a part of Australia labeled "Beach," faint outline traces of "Terre Australe Magellanique et Incogneue" at bottom of eastern hemisphere, "Nouvelle Guinee" in western part of the Pacific Ocean just south of the equator, and "Californie Isle." Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1652
Creator: Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
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Hos Globos Terracqueum, ac Cœlestem dicat, et donat Rm̃o P.D. Sigismundo Pollitio à Placentia Prœposito Generali Monachorum Eremitorum S. Hyeronimi Congreg: Lombardiæ, P.M. Coronelli, Cosmographus P.

Description: Map shows world continents and oceans, with vague boundaries for parts of Australian coast, Antarctica, and Pacific coast of North America. Scale not given.
Date: [1683..1716]
Creator: Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718
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L'Amerique meridionale et septentrionale : dressée selon les dernieres relations et suivant les nouvelles decouvertes dont les points principaux sont placez sur les observations de Mss. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences.

Description: Map shows late seventeenth century geography, cities, political borders, and points of interest in North America, South America, and parts of England and France. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:29,000,000].
Date: 1699
Creator: Fer, Nicolas de, 1646-1720
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Mappe-monde dressé sur les observations de mrs. de l'Academie royale des Sciences et quelques autres et sur les memoires les plus recens à son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le Duc de Chartres.

Description: Map shows major cities, political boundaries, and physical features of six continents; incomplete coastlines of North America, Nouvelle Hollande [Australia], and northeast Asia; coastline of Nouvelle Guinee [New Guinea] and Nouvelle Hollande are shown to be contiguous. Includes dates and routes of exploration. Relief shown pictorially. No scale indicated.
Date: 1700
Creator: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
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Mappe-monde dressé sur les observations de mrs. de l'Academie royale des Sciences et quelques autres et sur les memoires les plus recens à son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le Duc de Chartres.

Description: Map shows major cities, political boundaries, and physical features of six continents; incomplete coastlines of North America, Nouvelle Hollande [Australia], and northeast Asia; coastline of Nouvelle Guinee [New Guinea] and Nouvelle Hollande are shown to be contiguous. Includes dates and routes of exploration. Relief shown pictorially. No scale indicated.
Date: 1700
Creator: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
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Nouvelle carte de la mer Mediterranee [Sheet 1].

Description: Map shows coastline of Africa, Europe, and the Middle East from the Strait of Gibraltar to the coast of Syria. Includes illustrated title cartouche. Index to ports and islands. Sheets have 35 cm. overlap. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1700
Creator: Berthelot, François, hydrographer
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Nouvelle carte de la mer Mediterranee [Sheet 2].

Description: Map shows coastline of Africa, Europe, and the Middle East from the Strait of Gibraltar to the coast of Syria. Includes illustrated title cartouche. Index to ports and islands. Sheets have 35 cm. overlap. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1700
Creator: Berthelot, François, hydrographer
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Mappemonde ou description generale du globe terrestre.

Description: Map shows known extent of the world with six continents; partial coastline of "Nouvelle Hollande" [Australia] connected to coastline circling the lower globe; California as an island; political boundaries. Includes dates of discoveries and explorers voyages. Insets: "Le Soleil Salon le Pere Kircher" and "La Lune Selon Monsieur Cassini." Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: [1705..1721]
Creator: Chatelain, Henri Abraham
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

A new map of the world according to Wrights alias Mercators projection &c. : drawn from the newest and the most exact observations together with a view of the general and coasting trade winds, monsoons or the shifting trade winds with other considerable improvements &c. by Ier: Seller and Cha: Price Hydrographers to the Queen at the Hermitage staires and at their shopp nex't the Fleece Taverne in Cornhill.

Description: Map shows known continent geography, cities, political boundaries, and place names. Inset: [North Polar view]. Scale [ca. 1:45,000,000].
Date: 1706
Creator: Moll, Herman, d. 1732
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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