1522 reduction by Laurentz Fries of Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 map of India and Southeast Asia. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.01233 Print Map I... Show more1522 reduction by Laurentz Fries of Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 map of India and Southeast Asia. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.01233 Print Map Item-ID: 1140448 BIB-ID: 1729748 Show less
emendata a F. de Wit ; Joannes Lhuilier fecit 1662. Countries, states and islands outlined in different colours. Pictorial relief. Decorative title... Show moreemendata a F. de Wit ; Joannes Lhuilier fecit 1662. Countries, states and islands outlined in different colours. Pictorial relief. Decorative title cartouche. Verso: "17" in pencil. Koeman, v.3, p.214 map [80]; p.196 Wit 7 lists "India Orientalis" as plate 17; Nordenskiöld, v.2 p.312 [69], p.317 [85], with "17" preceding title. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.01229 Print Map Item-ID: i11404449 BIB-ID: 1172787 Show less
Authore P. Du Val. I. Somer Sculp. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.01198 Print Map Item-ID: i11404619 BIB-ID: 1172804 Show moreAuthore P. Du Val. I. Somer Sculp. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.01198 Print Map Item-ID: i11404619 BIB-ID: 1172804 Show less
conatibus D. Robert de Vaugondy ; El. Haussard fecit. Carton : "India." Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.01189 Print Map Item-ID: i11404760 BIB-ID:... Show moreconatibus D. Robert de Vaugondy ; El. Haussard fecit. Carton : "India." Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.01189 Print Map Item-ID: i11404760 BIB-ID: 1172819 Show less
Relief shown pictorially This wood-cut covers Egypt and neighbouring regions with series of mountains surrounding it. Covers: 47°-64°E. 22°-32° Main... Show moreRelief shown pictorially This wood-cut covers Egypt and neighbouring regions with series of mountains surrounding it. Covers: 47°-64°E. 22°-32° Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00934 Print Map Item-ID: i11402477 BIB-ID: 1172590 Show less
ex praecipuis Olearii, Tavernieri, Relandi aliorumque recentium authoreum scriptis concinnatam luci publicae exponit Io. Baptista Homann. Relief... Show moreex praecipuis Olearii, Tavernieri, Relandi aliorumque recentium authoreum scriptis concinnatam luci publicae exponit Io. Baptista Homann. Relief shown pictorially. "Cum privilegio sac. cæsarece majestatis." Map of Persian Empire shown with regional divisions. Neighbouring countries are also marked. Also shown countries of Arabian Gulf. Covers: 60°-105°E. 23°-51°N. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00939 Print Map Item-ID: i11403317 BIB-ID: 1172674 Show less
In Latin and German Relief shown pictorially. Nebensacht.: Africa, Lybia, Morenlandt, mit allen Koenigreichen, so jetziger zeit darumb gefunden... Show moreIn Latin and German Relief shown pictorially. Nebensacht.: Africa, Lybia, Morenlandt, mit allen Koenigreichen, so jetziger zeit darumb gefunden werden. - Alternativtitel auf d. Rücks.: Africa. Africe deß gantzen Lands gemeine Beschreibung ... - Ohne Kartennetz, ohne Maßstabsangaben. Map of Africa marked with big number of rivers. River Niger is flowisng horizontally. There is big lake in the southern Africa. Main Heritage Display General HC.MAP.00900 Print Map Item-ID: i11402325 BIB-ID: 1172575 Show less
Map of northern part of Africa with relief shown pictorially. Plate [16] from: La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino / Ptolemy. Venetia :... Show moreMap of northern part of Africa with relief shown pictorially. Plate [16] from: La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino / Ptolemy. Venetia : Appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00592 Print Map Item-ID: i11401977 BIB-ID: 2762481 Also available as electronic reproduction. London: The British Library [2007-2009]. Show less
This is a beautiful, original map of the African continent, from the 1575 edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius. This is the fifth... Show moreThis is a beautiful, original map of the African continent, from the 1575 edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius. This is the fifth state of the copperplate, still the date 1570 is present in the cartouche, which was removed between 1606 and 1612 (van den Broecke). At the time of its publication it was the most expensive book ever produced. Between 1570 and 1612, it was issued in 31 editions and 7 languages. This map of Africa is based upon Gastaldi's 8 sheet wall map and Mercator's world map of 1569. The map was the first widely disseminated modernized map of Africa in the latter part of the 16th Century and became the standard map of the continent until well into the 17th Century. Relief shown pictorially. Title in decorative strapwork cartouche flanked by two caryatids. Map of Africa including part of Asia. Three sea monsters appear in the ocean and three ships are engaged in battle in the Indian Ocean. Map is based on the Gastaldi 8-sheet wall map of 1564 and Mercator's wall map of 1569 with some modifications engraved by Frans Hogenberg. Scale derived from latitude lines. Coordinates converted to Greenwich meridian. Latin text on verso with title: "Africa." Last line of text: "Ximo, habes litteras Ioannis Baptistae Rhamusi, & Hieronymi Fracastorij" points to the map published in a 1592 Latin edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum--(Van den Boecke, Koemans 31:041) From: Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00274 Print Map Item-ID: i11400687 BIB-ID: 1845455 Abraham Ortelius was born 1527 in Antwerp. He studied mathematics, Greek and Latin and travelled a lot across Europe. He established a business in dealing with books and drawing maps. His first remarkable map was a 8 sheet world map in the year 1564, but only three copies have survived. In 1570 he issued the "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum", the first modern "Atlas" with uniformly sized maps in a systematic collection. The term "Atlas" was not used until Mercator introduced it 20 years later. Most of the maps in Theatrum were engraved by Frans Hogenberg. Atlas Despite its expense, it was a big success and around 7000 copies were printed until 1612, in many editions and six different languages. Beside the Theatrum, Ortelius compiled a series of historical maps and published it in the "Parergon Theatri," which was bound with the Theatrum from 1579 onwards, or published separately. Show less
auct. Hen. Hondio. Decorated with sailing ships, fish and other animals. Map of African continent probably taken from Mercators Atlas and made some... Show moreauct. Hen. Hondio. Decorated with sailing ships, fish and other animals. Map of African continent probably taken from Mercators Atlas and made some improvements. Arabian peninsula is shown but the Persian Gulf is hindered by the title cartonche. Pictures of monsters, pirates and ships at sea. Wild animals are depicted in the continent. Dutch text about the continent on the back of the map. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00696 Print Map Item-ID: i11402064 BIB-ID: 1172549 Show less
Map of India, west of the Ganges. Relief shown pictorially. Includes names of places and natural features. In margin: Climatic and latitudinal notes. A... Show moreMap of India, west of the Ganges. Relief shown pictorially. Includes names of places and natural features. In margin: Climatic and latitudinal notes. Appears in the author's Geographia, edited by Bernard Sylvanus. Venetiis : Per Iacobum Pentium de Leucho, anno Domini 1511. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00319 Print Map Item-ID: i11400869 BIB-ID: 1728363 Show less
Trapezoidal map. The map covers Persia .Series of land masses . Some parts of Persian Gulf shown. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00205 Print Map I... Show moreTrapezoidal map. The map covers Persia .Series of land masses . Some parts of Persian Gulf shown. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00205 Print Map Item-ID: i1140047x BIB-ID: 1172390 Show less
ex Bilibaldi Pirckeymberi tralatione, sed ad Graeca & prisca exemplaria à Michaele Villanovano secundò recogniti, & locis innumeris denuò castigati... Show moreex Bilibaldi Pirckeymberi tralatione, sed ad Graeca & prisca exemplaria à Michaele Villanovano secundò recogniti, & locis innumeris denuò castigati. Excudebat Gaspar Trechsel. This is among early woodblock map of Persia.Gothic bastard lettering used, names underlined by red. Towns represented by small circle.Mountains represented pictorially. From: Gaspar Treschel's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00206 Print Map Item-ID: i11400481 BIB-ID: 1172391 Show less
This is the second map of the Arabian Peninsula ever printed, preceded only by the Bologna edition of Ptolemy in 1477. It is an Important early map... Show moreThis is the second map of the Arabian Peninsula ever printed, preceded only by the Bologna edition of Ptolemy in 1477. It is an Important early map of the Arabian peninsula and adjoining regions, which first appeared in the 1478 Rome edition of Ptolemys "Geography" created under the direction of Conrad Swenheym who apprenticed with Guttenberg, and published after Swenheyms death in 1477 by Arnold Buckinck. The present map in an excellent example of Cornad Swenheyms finely engraved map of Arabia based upon Ptolemy. As noted by Rodney Shirley, "The new copper plates engraved at Rome for the 1478 edition of Ptolemys "Geography" are much superior in clarity and craftsmanship to those of the Bologna edition. There is evidence that work on the Rome edition had been started in 1473 or 1474, and several of the plates may well have been engraved before those printed by Taddeo Crivelli at Bologna in 1477, many consider the Rome plates to be the finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerhard Mercator engraved his classical world atlas of 1578, Conrad Swehnheyms 1478 edition of Ptolemys work is also of tremendous importance as the first set of maps to employ the "punched letter" printing process. The map includes the towns of Medina "Lathrippa", and the archeological sites of Zubarah "Catara", and Al-Dur "Domana". The run of the edition is not known, but it is considered to be scarce, and is therefore rare and important. Until the 1477 edition was definitively dated, the 1478 edition was believed to be the first ever printed atlas. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00190 Print Map Item-ID: i11401692 BIB-ID: 1845437 Claudius Ptolemaeus (circa 100circa 170) was an influential mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer and also a poet. He was a Greek-Roman citizen and lived in Alexandria, Egypt. Ptolemy was famous for a number of discoveries, out of which the most famous was a theory which expounded that the earth was the center of the universe. The term "geocentric" came to being from this theory. His achievements were considered paramount during his time and quite a number of astronomers followed it religiously (especially the Greeks), until the 17th century. Later on, the works of Ptolemy evoked more controversies and arguments than any other mathematician or geographer. Even though many of his theories were proven to be incorrect, he was among the early astronomers and mathematicians who contributed a great deal to mathematics, geography and astronomy. Show less
This Latin text Arabian Peninsula map was published in Europe in the 16th century. This map is from the 1525 edition, which was published in... Show moreThis Latin text Arabian Peninsula map was published in Europe in the 16th century. This map is from the 1525 edition, which was published in Argentoragi [i.e. Strasbourg]. This is important early map of the Middle East from the works of Claudius Ptolemy, and nice example map of the Arabian Peninsula, Persian Gulf and adjoining regions. This map was made by Copper plate engraving and letters are given around the edge for reference to the gazetteer. Map of the Arabian Peninsula. Relief shown pictorially. Includes names of places and natural features. In margins: climatic and latitudinal notes. Descriptive text within ornamental borders on verso. Appears in the author's Geographia, translated by Willibald Pirckheimer, with annotations by Joannes Regiomontanus. Argentoragi [i.e. Strasbourg] : Iohannes Grieningerus, communibus Iohannis Koberger impensis excudebat, anno a Christi Natiuitate 1525 tertio Kal[endas] Apriles. Published in Strasbourg. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00164 Print Map Item-ID: i11401618 BIB-ID: 1842115 Show less
Map of ancient Scythian lands in Central Asia, to the east of the Pamir Mountain range. Relief shown pictorially. Includes names of places and... Show moreMap of ancient Scythian lands in Central Asia, to the east of the Pamir Mountain range. Relief shown pictorially. Includes names of places and natural features. In margin: Climatic and latitudinal notes. Appears in the author's Geographia, edited by Bernard Sylvanus. Venetiis : Per Iacobum Pentium de Leucho, anno Domini 1511. The map covers the region of South Asia. There is land-mass and rivers are represented by triple lines.Names are in red roman characters.Damaged at cetre but repaired. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00320 Print Map Item-ID: i11400870 BIB-ID: 1172430 Text in Latin. Show less
Relief shown pictorially Trapezoidel map The map covers Arabia Petrae, Arabia Deserta and only part and without any details. Arabia Felix. border... Show moreRelief shown pictorially Trapezoidel map The map covers Arabia Petrae, Arabia Deserta and only part and without any details. Arabia Felix. border shown in dotted lines. Rivers in double lines and mountains pictorially. Towns are represented by circle with names in bold. Sea shaded around the coast. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00313 Print Map Item-ID: i11400821 BIB-ID: 1172425 Show less
sumptibus Io. Baptista Hommani. Relief shown pictorially. "Cum privil. S.C.M. Grat." Scales given in "milliaria Germanica, "milliaria Turcica," and ... Show moresumptibus Io. Baptista Hommani. Relief shown pictorially. "Cum privil. S.C.M. Grat." Scales given in "milliaria Germanica, "milliaria Turcica," and "mill. Italica." Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.01209 Print Map Item-ID: i1140470x BIB-ID: 2763673 Show less
Map of India with relief shown pictorially. Plate [26] from: La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino / Ptolemy. Venetia : Appresso Vincenzo... Show moreMap of India with relief shown pictorially. Plate [26] from: La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino / Ptolemy. Venetia : Appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.01055 Print Map Item-ID: i11402921 BIB-ID: 1172635 In Latin. Show less
Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00066 Print Map Item-ID: i11401436 BIB-ID: 2762467 Show moreMain Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00066 Print Map Item-ID: i11401436 BIB-ID: 2762467 Show less
