World Map 17th Century

Description: Exceptional map of the world made by the Dutch publisher Jan Jansson (Johannes Janssonius) in 1650. Such maps, showing comtemporary geopraphy with ancient place names, were popular in the post-renaissance period.

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World Map 19th Century

Description: World map made by the English cartographer, engraver and publisher Aaron Arrowsmith in 1812.

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World Map 19th Century

Description: Map of the world centered on America prepared by the American atlas publisher Joseph Hutchins Colton in 1852.

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World Map 17th Century

Description: World map by the Dutch-German cartographer Andreas Cellarius published in 1661.

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World Map 19th Century

Description: Japanese world map in two hemispheres dating to 1848 by Shincho Kurihara and Heibe Chojiya.

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World Map 17th Century

Description: A New And Accurat Map Of The World published by the Belgian engraver Peter van den Keere in 1646.

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World Map 18th Century

Description: World map created by the German or Dutch cartographer Herman(n) Moll in 1709.

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World Map 19th Century

Description: Political world map illustrated by the English artist Walter Crane showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886.

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World Map 16th Century

Description: World map of the Portuguese cartographer Domingo Teixeira drawn in 1573 with the sea routes of Vasco da Gama and Hernando de Magallanes. Moreover the map shows the the meridian of Tordesillas, which devided the new discovered lands between Spain and Portugal.

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World Map 18th Century

Description: World map (1745) from an unknown author.

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World Map 11th Century

Description: "Cotton" of Anglo-Saxon world map (c. 1040) appears in a copy of a classical work on geography (British Library; Cotton MSS, Tib. B. V, folio 56.)

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