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Typus orbis terrarum - Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the BPL
- Ortelius' book of maps, first published in 1570, is considered the first modern world atlas. It was the first time that a set of…
1570
William Faden. Composite Mediterranean. 1785
- (Composite of) A map of the Mediterranean Sea with the adjacent regions and seas in Europe, Asia and Africa. By William Faden, Geographer…
1785
Jean Baptiste Louis Franquelin - Map of Northernmost America - 1688
- Copied between 1909 and 1910 from the original 1688 ms. in the Archives du dépôt des cartes et plans de la marine. Pen-and-ink and…
1688
Imperial Federation, Map of the World Showing the Extent of the British Empire in 1886 (levelled)
- Everything about the design of this elaborately decorated world map glorifies the late-19th-century British Empire. Cartographically…
1866