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Cartographer: Claudius Ptolemy
Title: : Octava Europe Tabula
Date: 1490 Size: 21 x 15 inches
Published: Rome
Description: Very early map known as an incunable showing what in modern terms would be Russia in Europe and the Baltic States but as known in the classical period. Published in Rome.
Map Ref: RUS2512

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Cartographer: Claudius Ptolemy
Title: : [Eastern Europe and Russia]
Date: 1535 Size: 19 x 13 inches
Published: Lyon
Description: Ptolemaic woodcut map of eastern Poland, European Russia, and the Baltics from the 1535 printing of Ptolemy's "Geographia", edited by Michael Servetus and published by Gaspar & Melchior Treschel.
Map Ref: RUS2532

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Cartographer: Sebastian Munster
Title: : De Polonia
Date: 1558 Size: 7 x 11 inches
Published: Basel
Description: Russia in Europe from the seminal 16th century work, the 'Cosmographia'.
Map Ref: RUS2390

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Cartographer: Giacomo Gastaldi
Title: : [Muscovy]
Date: 1562 Size: 15 x 11 inches
Published: Venice
Description: Muscovy. Rare black and white copper engraved map of the "Lafreri" School. Showing illustrated figures of inhabitants of this mysterious land. Tipped into extended margins as issued by the publisher.
Map Ref: RUS1110

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Cartographer: G. & C. De Jode
Title: : Livoniae Provinciae ac Eivs - Moscoviae Maximi Amplissimi Qve Dvcatvs
Date: 1593 Size: 20 x 13 inches
Published: Antwerp
Description: Rare double map of Livonia and Muscovy. Russia is based on the map of Anthony Jenkinson, English Ambasador to the Tsar.
Map Ref: RUS1783

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Cartographer: Matthias Quad
Title: : Moscoviae Imperium
Date: 1600 Size: 12 x 9 inches
Published: Cologne
Description: Early copper-engraved map of the Empire of Muscovy (modern-day Russia) from the Baltic Sea to the Urals.
Map Ref: RUS2571

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Cartographer: Petrus Bertius
Title: : Russia
Date: 1616 Size: 5 x 4 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Moscovia. Miniature map. Coloured.
Map Ref: RUS2254

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Cartographer: Samuel Purchas
Title: : Moscovia
Date: 1625 Size: 7 x 6 inches
Published: London
Description: Early decorative map of Russia from Novgorod in the upper-left to Moscow in the lower-right. English descriptive text below and on the verso. Coloured.
Map Ref: RUS2579

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Cartographer: Mercator Hondius
Title: : Moscovia
Date: 1635 Size: 7 x 5 inches
Published: London
Description: Map of the region northwest of Moscow with the city marked on the lower right corner of the map. M. Sparke English edition. Coloured.
Map Ref: RUS2488

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Cartographer: Mercator Hondius
Title: : Russia cum Consinijs
Date: 1635 Size: 8 x 6 inches
Published: London
Description: Miniature map of European Russia. Rare Michael Sparke edition with English text on verso. Coloured.
Map Ref: RUS2503

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Cartographer: Jan Jansson
Title: : Novissima Russiae Tabula
Date: c. 1640 Size: 21 x 18 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Jansson edition of Henricus Hondius's celebrated map of European Russia based on information brought back to Amsterdam by the Dutch merchant Isaac Massa. Original hand-colour.
Map Ref: RUS2574

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Cartographer: C. & N. Visscher
Title: : Tabula Russiae
Date: 1651 Size: 21 x 17 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Beautiful Russian map on the Gerritz model embellished with several illustrations.
Map Ref: RUS1905

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Cartographer: Adam Olearius
Title: : A Map of ye Province of Kilan as it lies on ye Caspian Sea
Date: 1662 Size: 12 x 11 inches
Published: London
Description: Province of Kilan. On the Southern part of the Caspian Sea. Coloured.
Map Ref: RUS1155

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Cartographer: John Speed
Title: : A Map of Russia
Date: 1676 Size: 20 x 15 inches
Published: London
Description: The first English atlas map of Russia added posthumously to Speed's atlas in 1676. Broadly covering the region known as European Russia, it is derived from contemporary Dutch maps. Coloured.
Map Ref: RUS2509

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Cartographer: Alain Manesson Mallet
Title: : Moscovie
Date: 1683 Size: 4 x 6 inches
Published: Paris
Description: Russia in Europe. Miniature map with a decorative title cartouche in which the Russian crown rests on a large animal pelt. Coloured.
Map Ref: RUS2408

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Cartographer: Robert Morden
Title: : Moscovie or Rvssie
Date: 1688 Size: 6 x 5 inches
Published: London
Description: Miniature map of Eastern Russia with special note to its major town and cities. Coloured.
Map Ref: RUS2404

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