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INTRODUCTION (Original 1/22/17 - Last updated 12 October 2024)

Monographs

302  La Espanola, Columbus, 1492-93

303  The first printed ‘map’ pictures of the New World, Columbus and Verardus, 1492-93

304   Sketch maps of the equatorial belt of the world, Columbus and Verardus, 1493

305   Portolan World Chart Juan de la Cosa, 1500

306   World Map, Alberto Cantino, 1502

307   World map, Nicolo Caveri [Canerio], 1502-04

307.1  King-Hamy world map, 1502

307.2  Kuntsmann I, Atlantic Chart, Pedro Reinel, 1504

307.3  Fano-Maggiolo world map, 1504

308  World Map, Giovanni Matteo Contarini & Francesco Roselli, 1506

309  Kuntsmann II, 1502-06

309.1 Kuntsmann III, 1501-02

309.2 Rostock Map, 1505, America Vespucci

310  Universalis Cosmographia Secundum Ptholomei Traditionem e Et Americi Vespucci Aliorum Lustrationes, Martin Waldseemüller, 1507; 12 globe gores in the Cosmographiae Introductio, Martin Waldseemüller, 1507

312 Egerton Portolan Atlas, 1508

313  Universalior Cogniti Orbis Tabula, Ex recentibus confecta observationibus, Johannes Ruysch, 1507-08

314   The Lenox Globe, 1503-07

315   Oval world map, Francesco Rosselli, 1508

315.5 Oliveriana/Pesaro world map

316   Polar World Map, Vesconte Maiolo [de Maggiolo], 1511

316.2 Montalboddo Fracan [Fracanzano], Africa, 1508-12

318   World map, Bernard Sylvanus 1511

319   Hemisphere Maps, Johannes de Stobnicza, 1512,

320   Martin Waldseemüller’s Tabula Terre Nove, Admiral’s Maps (1513) and Carta Marina, , 1516

322   Chart of the Ocean Sea, Piri Reis, 1513

322.1 Henricus Glareanus, De geometriae principiis ad sphaerae astronomicae noticiam neces sariis. caput primum,

 1513

322.2 Maggiolo, Vesconte, Portolan chart of the Mediterranean, 1513

323   Aurelius World Map, 1514

324   Universalis Cosmographie Descriptio Tam In Solido Quem Plano, Louis Boulengier, 1514

327   Globe Gores, Leonardo da Vinci, 1514

328   Globes, Johann Schöner, 1515, 1520, 1523, 1533

328.2 Maggiolo, portolan chart, 1516

328.3 Dolfin Bonaldo world map, 1519

329   Ingolstadt/Nordenskiöld Globe Gores, 1508

329.1 The Atlas Miller, 1519

330 Kuntsmann IV, 1519

330.1 Kuntsmann V, 1519

331  Peter Apianus world maps, 1520

332  Alonso Aluarez Pineda chart, 1519

332.2 Magellan’s Globe, 1522

332.3 Lorenz Fries map of China, 1522

333  La Salade Nouvell, 1521

333.1  Geocarta Nautica Universale, Giovanni [Juan] Vespucci, 1523

333.2 The Brixen Globes, 1522

334  Mexico City, Gulf of Mexico, Ferdinand Cortes, 1524

335  Juan Vespucci, Totius orbis descriptio tam veterum quam recentium geographorum . . ., 1524

336  Nuno Garcia de Toreno, Salviati Planisphere, 1525-26

337   De Orbis Situ . . ., Franciscus Monarchus [Francois Le Moyne], 1526-30

338   World map, Juan Vespucci, 1526

339 Castiglioni world map, 1524

340   World map, Vesconte Maiolo [de Maggiolo], 1527

341   De Summa Totius Orbis, Pietro Coppo, 1520

342.1  Green (Quirini) Globe, 1515-28

343  World Map in Bordone’s Isolario, 1528

343.1 Boke of Idrography, Jean Rotz, 1542

344  Noua et integri universi orbis descriptio [Paris Gilt or De Bure Globe], 1528

346  Carta Univeral En que se contiene todo lo que del mondo Se ha descubierto fasta agora: Hizola Diego Ribero Cosmographo de Su Magestad: Año de 1529.  La qual Se devide en dos partes conforme a la capitulcio que hizieron los catholicos Reyes de españa, y El Rey don Juan de portugal e la Villa de tordessilas: Año de 1494, Diego Ribero, 1529

347  World Map, Girolamo de Verrazano, 1529

351  Bailly’s Globe [Verrazano Globe], 1530

352  Daniel’s Dream Map, or the Wittenberg World Map, Hans Lufft, 1530

352.1 Oronce Fine, Nova et Integra Universi Orbis Descriptio, 1531

352.2 Urb Lat 274 world map. 1530

353  Typus Cosmographicus Universalis, S. Grynaeus/H. Hoblein/S. Münster, 1532-55

355  Joachim Von Watte, Typus Cosmographicus Universalis, 1534

356  Oronce Fine, Recens et Integra Orbis Descriptio, 1534

356.1 Jorge Reinel, Europe/Africa, 1534

357  Paris Wooden Globe, 1535

359  Georg Hartmann globe gores

363  Nancy Globe, 1530-1540

364  Caspar Vopel, Nova et integra universi orbis descriptio, 1534

365.1  Brazil, from the Nautical Atlas, 1538

366  Carta Marina, Olaus Magnus, 1539

367   The Ulpius Globe, 1542

368  Jean Rotz, map of North America and West Indies, Chart of the Gulf of Mexico, 1542

370  Guillaume Brouscon, portolan atlas, 1543

371.1 Battista Agnese, world, 1544

372  Sebastian Cabot, world map, 1544

373.1 Mapa del Golfo y costa de la Nueva Espana, . . .

375  Pedro de Medina (Valladolid), world map, with wind blowers

376  Universale, Giacomo Cosmographo In Venetia MDXXXXVI, 1546

377  Sebastian Münster, Typus Orbis Univeralis [from:  Geographia Universalis vetus et nova…], 1540

378   Pierre Descelier’s Planisheres, a.k.a. The Dauphin Map, 1546, 1550, 1553

379  Johann Honter, Universalis Cosmographia, from Rudimentorum Cosmographiæ, 1546

381   Die Nüw Welt [The New Islands], Sebastian Münster, 1546

381.10  TheVallard Atlas , 1547

382.1 Harleian Map, 1542-44

383   Carta Marina Nova Tabula, Giacomo Gastaldi, 1548

383.1 Giacomo Gastaldi, Universale Novo, 1548

384.2 Battista Agnese, Portolan Atlas, 1550

384.3 Francesco Ghisolfi, Portolan Atlas

386  Florentine Goldsmith’s Map, Giorgio Calapoda, 1552

387  Globes and globe gores by Fransiscus Demongenet, 1552

388 Chart of the Atlantic, Bastiam Lopes, 1558

390  Michael Tramezinus, a map of the world in two hemispheres, 1554

390.1 Nova et integra universi orbs, 1554-1599

390.2 Bonifatius Amerbach globe, 1555

391   Ii disegno del Discoperto della nova Franza, ii quale s’ehauuto ultimarnente dalle novissima navigatione de’ Franzesi in que. . . , Bolognini Zaltieri/Paolo Forlani, 1566

392 Guillaume Le Testu Cosmographie Universelle, 1555

393  Giacomo Gastaldi, La Nouva Francia - Terra de Labrorador, 1565

393.1 L'Amérique centr[ale]

393.2 Alonso de Santa, Islario general de todas las islas del mundo, 1560

393.3 Nicolas Desliens, world map, 1541

394 Sancho Gutierrez world map, 1551

395  Diego Homen, Queen Mary I Atlas, 1558

396 Kemãl ile Naks Olinmis Cümle-I Cihãn Nemunesi [Fully Illustrated Exposition of the World in Its Entirety], Tunuslu Hajji Ahmed, 1559

397 Abraham Ortelius world map, 1564

398  Universale Descrittione Di Tutta la Terra Conosciuta Fin Qui, Paolo Forlani, 1565

399  Domingos Teixeira Planisphere, 1573

400   Americae sive qvartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio / avtore Diego Gvtiero Philippi Regis Hisp. etc. Cosmographo  Hiero. Cock excvde 1562; Hieronymus Cock excude cum gratia et priuilegio 1562.

401  Cornelis van Wytfliet, Florida et Apalche, 1597

402   Jost Amman, Globus Terrestris, 1564-78

404  Giovanni Francesco Camocio, Cosmographia Universalis Et Exactissima Iuxta Postremam Neotericorum Traditionem, 1567-93

406  World Map, Gerard Mercator, 1569

407   Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio, Gerard Mercator, 1595

407.2 Ottoman World Maps, 1565

408 Juan López de Velasco, 1580

409.1  Universal Atlas, Fernado Vaz Dourado, 1568-71

410H  Chinae olim Sinarum regionis, nova descriptio, Abraham Ortelius/Ludovico Georgio (Luis Jorge de Barbuda), 1584

410.6 Anthony Jenkinson, Nova absolutaque Russsiae Moscovia et Tartaria, 1562 

411 Americae pars, Nunc Virginia dicta, prinum ab Anglis inuenta Dn Wallen Raleigh, John White, 1585

413.1 Atlante Universale: Europe, 1565

415.2  Marius Cartarus Viterbiensis autor incidebat Romae MDLXXVII cum privilegio, Mario Cartaro, 1577

416  Joan Martines, Portolan Atlas, 1578

417 Heinrich Bünting, 1581

418  John Dee, A General Map of the Arctic Regions showing parts of North America, 1582

419  Michael Lok, Illustri viro, domino Philippo Sidnaeo Michael Lok civis Londinensis hanc chartam dedicabat: 1582.

420 Urbano Monte polar world map, 1587

421.4 Jodocus Hondius/William Rogers, A mapp of the north part of the equinoctial . ., 1587

422 Mapamundi Realizado Por El Cartografo Real De Felipe Ii En 1588, Christian Sgrooten

422.1 Universi Orbis Descriptio Ad Usum Navigantium, 1596, Giovanni Magini,

423  Johannes Oterschaden, Silver Terrestrial Globe, 1575-1600

424 Nova et integra universi Orbis descriptio, Willem Nicholai, 1603

428  Johannes Myritius, Universalis Orbis Descriptio... Cogimur E Tabula Pictos Ediscere Mundos, 1590

431  Jacques Le Moyne, Floridae Americae Provinciae Recens & exactissima descriptio Auctore Iacobo le Moyne cui cognomen de Morgues, Qui Laudonnierum, 1591

431.6  Skálholt Map, Sigurd Stefansson/Thord Thorláksson, 1570-90

432  Cornelis de Jode, Americæa Pars Borealis, Florida, Baccalaos, Canada, Corterealis, 1593

433  Cornelis de Jode, Hemispheriu ab Aequinoctiali Linea, ad Circulu Poli Arctici / Hemispheriu ab Aequinoctiali Linea, ad Circulu Poli Atarctici, 1593

436.1  Linschoten’s Asia, Henricus Van Langren and Jan Huygen Van Linschoten, 1595

441  Matteo Ricci's 1602 Kunyu Wanguo Quantu  坤輿萬國全圖

442 Francesco Sambiasi’s world map, 1639

443 Jodocus Hondius, Virginiae Item et Floridae Americae Provinciarum, nova Descriptio, 1609-36

444.1 Jodocus Hondius, China, 1606-34

445  John Smith, Virginia. Discovered and Discribed by Captain John Smith . . . 1606

448  China, 1609

447.1  Jodocus Hondius, America, 1606

458  Chinese Terrestrial Globe, 1623 by Manuel Dias [Yang Manuo] and Nicolo Longobardi [Long Huamin]

461 North Part of America…, Henry Briggs, 1625

462  China, 1625

462.1 Chung kuo t'u, 1653

464 John Speed, Continental Maps, 1626

466  Ralph Hall, Virginia, 1636

466.1  Gerard Mercator/Jodocus Hondius, China, 1606 

472  John Farrer, A mapp of Virginia discoueretod ye Fallsand in it's Latt, :, 1651

474  Nicholas Sanson/Pierre Mariette, Le Nouveau Mexique, et La Floride: 'I'i re e de diverses Cartes, et Relations, 1656-79

475 Universale Descrittione di tutto il Mondo di Gioseppe Rosaceio Cosmographo…1642

476 Nicholas Visscher, NOVI BELGII NOVAEQUE ANGLIAE NEC NON PARTIS VIRGINIAE TABULA, 1650-84

477  Novissima et accuratissima totius Americae Descriptio per N. Visscher, 1658

479  John Obilby's Britannia Atlas, 1675

482  Willem Blaeu, Nova et Acurata Totius Americae Tabula au G. [B.]., 1608-1673

484.2 Lidai Fenye Tu Gujin Renwu Tuji (歴代分野図古今人物図跡)

483 A New Discription of Carolina By Order of the Lords Proprietorsc.1673

485 New England, W. Hubbard, 1677

486 Carte Universelle du Monde, Pierre DuVal, 1679

487 La Gran Tartaria., Cantelli da Vignola, 1693

488  Vincenzo Maria Coronelli maps and globes, 169

492  World Maps, Heinrich Scherer, 1699

493 Federick de Wit, America, 1730

494 Nicolas de Fer’s 1699 map of America

501 Joseph da Costa e Miranda, world map 1706

500.6 Pieter Vander Aa, America, 1706

510  Nansenbushu Bankoku Shoka No Zu [Outline Map of All Countries of the Universe], Zuda Rokashi Hotan, 1710 (including the following maps:

 Yeoji jeondo [Yoji Chondo] [Complete terrestrial map], 

 Da Ming Hun Yi Tu [Great Ming Amalgamated Map], 1389, 

 Hunyi jiangli lidai guodu zhi tu, 1470, 

 Chugoku Zenzu [Complete Map of China], ca. 1568, 

 Daimin Kyuhen Bankoku Jinseki Rotei Zenzu, 1645, and the 

 Dàmíng jiǔ biān wànguó rén jì lùchéng quán tú, 1645

511  Nicholas De Fer, Carte de la Mer du Sud et de la Mer du Nord : ou se trouve les costes d'Amerique, d'Asie, d'Europe et d'Afrique situées sur ces mers /par N. de Fer, Géographe de sa Majesté Catholique ; P. Starckman sculpsit, 1713 + Herman Moll, A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye Continent of North America (London, 1715) + Henri Abraham Châtelain, Carte tres curieuse de la mer du sud, contenant des remarques nouvelles et tres utiles, 1719

512 Philipp Johann von Strahlenberg, map of the Russian Empire, 1730

520  Johann Baptiste Homann, Amplissimae Regionis Mississipi Seu Provinciae Ludovicianae A R.P. Ludovico Hennepin Francisc Miss In America Septentrionali Anno 1687

520.1 A New Map of America From the latest Observations Revised by J. Senex Most humbly Inscribed Lower left: I. Harris Fecit., John Senex, 1720

523.3 Henrick De Leth, Carte Nouvelle de la Mer du Sud, dressee par Ordre des principaux Directteurs des Memoires les plus recents et des Relations des Navigateurs les plus Modernes . . ., 1730

524 Herman Moll, North America, 1720

531  Henry Popple, A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements, 1733

532  Richard Seale, Map of North America With the European Settlements & whatever else is remarkable in ye West indies, from the latest and best Observations, 1744

533 Thomas Jefferys,  North America from the French of Mr. D'Anville Improved with the Back Settlements of Virginia and Course of Ohio Illustrated with Geographical and Historical Remarks,1755

534 John Mitchell, A map of the British and French dominions in North America,1755

543  Gabriel Tatton; Benjamin Wright, Noua et rece Terraum et regnorum Californice, nouse Hi spani.ee , Mexicance, et Peruvice, una cum exacta absolutaq orarum Sinus Mexicani, ad Insulam Cubam usq Orcemaritimce ad Mare austriacum dclinealio, 1600-1616

550  Joseph Nicholas De L’Isle & Philippe Buache, Carte Des Nouvelles Decouvertes Au Nord de la Mer de Sud, Tant a l'Est de la Siberie et du Kamtchatcka, Qu'a l'Ouest de la Nouvelle France, Dressee sur les Memoires . . . 1750

560.3  Antonio Zatta, America Settentrionale divisa ne' suoi principali Stati . . ., 1776

702 Katip Celebi, Cihannuma [The mirror of the world], 1732

770 Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D’Anville, Didier Robert de Vaugondy, A new map of North America: with the British, French, Spanish, Dutch & Danish dominions on that great continent, and the West India Islands, according to the definitive treaty concluded at Paris 10th February 1763

771 Etats-Unis de L'Amerique Septentrionale avec les isles royale... Charles Francois Delmarche, 1785

780.5 Abel Buell, A NEW AND CORRECT MAP OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA, 1783

790 Islamic World Map, 1790

800.8  J.H. Colton, Map Of The United States Of America, The British Provinces, Mexico and the West Indies, 1846

801 John Tallis, Illustrated Atlas, 1851

802 Le Tour du Monde en un Clin d’Oeil, 1876

 

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