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Collection: JFB: Early Atlases

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"Germania" from Ptolemy, Cosmograpiae. Ulm, 1482

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woodcut map

"[Map of India]" from Ptolemy, Cosmographia. Ulm: Leinhart Holle, 1482

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Map from the 1482 Ulm edition of Ptolemy's Cosmographia. From the collection of the James Ford Bell Library

"Africae Tabula Nova [Map of Africa]" from Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, 1570.

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engraved map, hand-colored

"Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio [Map of America]" from Abraham Ortellius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Antwerp, 1570.

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engraved map, hand-colored

"Asiae Nova Descriptio [Map of Asia]" from Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Antwerp, 1570

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engraved map, hand-colored

"[Map of Europe]" from Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Antwerp, 1570.

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engraved map, hand-colored

"Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula [World Map]" from Joan Blaeu, Le grand atlas, ou cosmographie Blauiane en laquelle est exactement descritte la terre, la mer, et le ciel. Amsterdam, 1667.

http://gallery.lib.umn.edu/archive/original/599d1a48ff6498ed0212b1c50c2df0d1.jpg

colored plate, double map

"[Northwest Africa]" from Ptolemy, Cosmographia. Ulm: Leinhart Holle, 1482

http://gallery.lib.umn.edu/archive/original/b8ca55d61bd2eccc612522dd5bdcfc28.jpg

Map from the 1482 Ulm edition of Ptolemy's Cosmographia. From the collection of the James Ford Bell Library

"[World Map]" from Ptolemy, Cosmograpiae. Ulm, 1482

http://gallery.lib.umn.edu/archive/original/762c5731e77392a41396f74adb9dcc20.jpg

woodcut map

"Typus Orbis Terrarum [World Map]" from Abraham Ortellius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Antwerp, 1570.

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engraved map, hand-colored

"Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio [World Map]" from Gerhard Mercator, Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura. Amsterdam, 1628.

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"America sive India Nova [Map of the Americas]" from Gerhard Mercator, Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura. Amsterdam, 1628.

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"Asia noviter delineata [Map of Asia]" from Joan Blaeu, Le grand atlas, ou cosmographie Blauiane en laquelle est exactement descritte la terre, la mer, et le ciel. Amsterdam, 1667.

http://gallery.lib.umn.edu/archive/original/3b7e06843255ad1fc312422f3588cfc1.jpg

colored plate

"Americae nova Tabula [Map of the Americas]" from Joan Blaeu, Le grand atlas, ou cosmographie Blauiane en laquelle est exactement descritte la terre, la mer, et le ciel. Amsterdam, 1667.

http://gallery.lib.umn.edu/archive/original/b86600ce27ee66e5fb2ba084bee432c9.jpg

colored plate

"A General Chart of the West Indias" from John Seller, Atlas maritimus. London, 1675.

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"A chart of the Easternmost part of the East Indies" from John Seller, Atlas maritimus. London, 1675.

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"Planisfero del mondo vecchio, descrito dal P. Coronelli, cosmografo publico [Map of the world]" from Vincenzo Coronelli, Atlante veneto. Venice, 1690.

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"America Settentrionale [Map of Mexico]" from Vincenzo Coronelli, Atlante veneto. Venice, 1690.

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"Africæ nova descriptio [Map of Africa]" from Joan Blaeu, Le grand atlas, ou cosmographie Blauiane en laquelle est exactement descritte la terre, la mer, et le ciel. Amsterdam, 1667.

http://gallery.lib.umn.edu/archive/original/0bfefd82823cba85baef3bcd8b8246b4.jpg

colored plate

"Asia" from Vincenzo Coronelli, Atlante veneto. Venice, 1690.

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"[Map of Egypt and Lybia]" from Ptolemy, Cosmograpiae. Ulm, 1482

http://gallery.lib.umn.edu/archive/original/5ab8ec39075614060b15c8e2b2647bfa.jpg

woodcut map

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