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WLD3373
Cartographer: Hartmann Schedel
Title: : Secunda Etas Mundi
Date: 1493      Size: 19 x 14 inches
Published: Nuremberg
Description: Published in the Nuremberg Chronicle, this striking woodcut is one of the earliest collectible world maps: Framed:
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WLD3249
Cartographer: Gregorius Reisch
Title: : [Ptolemaic World]
Date: 1503      Size: 17 x 12 inches
Published: Freiburg
Description: Earliest printed map to refer to the discoveries of the Age of Discovery, small clean restored tear. [Shirley 22]
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WLD3756
Cartographer: Johann Ruysch
Title: : Universalior Cogniti Orbis Tabula
Date: 1507      Size: 22 x 16 inches
Published: Rome
Description: Seminal world map on two sheets and the first obtainable to show the Americas. [Shirley 25].
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WLD3552
Cartographer: Bernardo Sylvanus
Title: : [The World]
Date: 1511      Size: 16 x 22 inches
Published: Venice
Description: Magnificent and rare cordiform world map. The earliest atlas map to show the New World and Japan. [Shirley 32]
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WLD3575
Cartographer: Bernardo Sylvanus
Title: : [Ptolemaic World]
Date: 1511      Size: 22 x 15 inches
Published: Venice
Description: Ptolemaic world map on an oval projection. Rare woodcut with red letterpress. [Shirley 31]
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WLD3298
Cartographer: Martin Waldseemuller
Title: : Generale Ptholemei
Date: 1513      Size: 23 x 17 inches
Published: Strassburg
Description: Ptolemaic projection. The "Generale Ptolemei" from this most celebrated of cartographers. [Shirley 34]
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WLD3605
Cartographer: Peter Apian
Title: : Tipus Orbis Universalis
Date: 1520      Size: 16 x 11 inches
Published: Vienna
Description: First available map with the name "America". Strong imprint of a RARE and magnificent early cordiform world map. Trimmed as is usual. [Shirley 45]
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WLD3726
Cartographer: Martin Waldseemuller
Title: : Orbis Typus Universalis
Date: 1520      Size: 23 x 17 inches
Published: Strassburg
Description: The "Admiral's Map" Discoveries of Columbus and Vespucci by the man who "named" America. [Shirley 35] False margins on upper and lower edges. (FR)
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WLD3733
Cartographer: Oronce Fine
Title: : Nova et Integra Universi Orbis Descriptio
Date: 1531      Size: 17 x 14 inches
Published: Paris
Description: Celebrated cordiform map of the world showing notable geographical innovations for the time. [Shirley 66]
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WLD3491
Cartographer: Simon Grynaeus
Title: : Typus Cosmographicus Universalis
Date: 1532      Size: 22 x 15 inches
Published: Paris
Description: Oval world map. Beautiful, early map with illustrated borders engraved by Holbein and Munster. [Shirley 67]
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WLD3577
Cartographer: Hans Lufft
Title: : Der Prophet
Date: c. 1535      Size: 8 x 13 inches
Published: Wittenberg
Description: Daniel's dream. Woodcut printed map of Europe, Africa and Asia with a decorative border.
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WLD3494
Cartographer: Apianus & Frisius
Title: : Libri Cosmo. Harvm Rervm Hanc Svme Figvrationem.
Date: c. 1540      Size: 5 x 6 inches
Published: Strassburg
Description: Rare circular map of the Old World surrounded by windheads including skulls representing the plague-bringing winds of the south.
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WLD3717
Cartographer: Laurent Fries
Title: : Tabula Nova Totius Orbis
Date: 1541      Size: 20 x 14 inches
Published: Vienne
Description: Fries' reduction of Waldseemuller's world map. One of earliest available maps to name "America" [Shirley 49]
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WLD3346
Cartographer: Jan Honter
Title: : Vniversalis Cosmographia
Date: 1546      Size: 7 x 11 inches
Published: Zurich
Description: World map on cordiform projection. Early Black and White map based on Waldseemuller. Framed. [Shirley 86]
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WLD3810
Cartographer: Sebastian Munster
Title: : Typus Universalis
Date: 1550      Size: 15 x 11 inches
Published: Basle
Description: Oval Projection. Early woodcut of the world with a border of clouds and windheads.[Shirley92]
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WLD3145
Cartographer: Girolamo Ruscelli
Title: : Orbis Descriptio
Date: 1561      Size: 10 x 7 inches
Published: Venice
Description: Double hemisphere world map in Black and White. [Shirley 110]
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