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Cartographer: Pomponius Mela
Title: : 'Novellae etati ad Geographie...'
Date: 1482 Size: 8 x 6 inches
Published: Venice
Description: Ptolemaic world map displayed within a classical portico and surrounded by windheads. This rare piece was printed by Erhard Ratdolt. [Shirley 8]. Framed.
Map Ref: WLD4112

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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. Coloured. [Shirley 19]
Map Ref: WLD3888

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Cartographer: Gregorius Reisch
Title: : [Untitled Ptolemaic World Map]
Date: 1503 Size: 17 x 12 inches
Published: Freiburg
Description: Important early world map, the first printed map to acknowledge the dawning Age of Discovery. [Framed] [Shirley 22]
Map Ref: WLD4361

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Cartographer: Bernardo Sylvanus
Title: : [Untitled Cordiform World Map]
Date: 1511 Size: 22 x 16 inches
Published: Venice
Description: Rare and magnificent woodblock world map, the first to use the cordiform (heart-shaped) projection and the earliest atlas map to show the New World and Japan. Printed in black with red lettering. [Framed] [Shirley 32]
Map Ref: WLD4428

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Cartographer: Claudius Ptolemy
Title: : Generale Ptholemei
Date: 1513 Size: 23 x 18 inches
Published: Strasbourg
Description: Woodcut Ptolemaic world map by one of the greatest early mapmakers, Martin Waldseemuller. "One of the most attractive Ptolemaic world maps produced". [Shirley 34] [Framed]
Map Ref: WLD4427

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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. Framed. [Shirley 45]
Map Ref: WLD4353

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Cartographer: Martin Waldseemuller
Title: : Orbis Typus Universalis
Date: 1520 Size: 23 x 17 inches
Published: Strasbourg
Description: The "Admiral's Map" showing the discoveries of Columbus and Vespucci in the New World. Drawn by Martin Waldseemuller, the man who "named" America. Framed. [Shirley 35]
Map Ref: WLD4278

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Cartographer: Laurent Fries
Title: : Orbis Typus Universalis Iuxta Hydrographorum Traditionem Exactissime Depicta
Date: 1525 Size: 19 x 13 inches
Published: Strasbourg
Description: Important early map of the world, the third to use the name 'America'. A fascinating fusion of the new discoveries with classical knowledge. Strong impression. [Shirley 48]
Map Ref: WLD4402

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Cartographer: Benedetto Bordone
Title: : [Oval Projection World Map]
Date: 1528 Size: 15 x 10 inches
Published: Venice
Description: Early woodcut Map of the World in Oval Projection. [Shirley 59]
Map Ref: WLD4096

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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]
Map Ref: WLD3491

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Cartographer: Johannes Honter
Title: : Vniversalis Cosmographia
Date: 1561 Size: 8 x 12 inches
Published: Basel
Description: Early world map from Honter's updated 'Rudimentum', on a cordiform projection. German text. [Shirley 108]
Map Ref: WLD3884

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Cartographer: Abraham Ortelius
Title: : Typus Orbis Terrarum
Date: 1579 Size: 20 x 15 inches
Published: Antwerp
Description: Seminal map of the world by the compiler of the first Atlas. Notable for its distinctive cloud border, misshapen South America and depiction of the North Pole as four islands. Coloured. [Shirley 122]
Map Ref: WLD4311

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Cartographer: Abraham Ortelius
Title: : Typus Orbis Terrarum
Date: 1592 Size: 19 x 14 inches
Published: Antwerp
Description: A cornerstone map of the world on an oval projection and with the latest corrections, particularly on the coast of South America. Vibrant original colour. [Shirley 158]. Framed.
Map Ref: WLD4185

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Cartographer: Cornelis De Jode
Title: : Totivs Orbis Cogniti Vniversalis Descriptio
Date: 1593 Size: 21 x 15 inches
Published: Antwerp
Description: RARE: Extraordinary world map on a rectangular projection with two circular projections of the eastern and western hemisphere at the top corners. This is a reissue of the 1589 map for the atlas 'Speculum', [Shirley 165]
Map Ref: WLD4331

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Cartographer: Abraham Ortelius
Title: : Typus Orbis Terrarum
Date: 1595 Size: 19 x 14 inches
Published: Antwerp
Description: A cornerstone map of the world on an oval projection and with the latest corrections, particularly on the coast of South America. Shirley 158.
Map Ref: WLD3828

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Cartographer: Matthias Quad
Title: : Typvs Orbis Terrarvm, ad Imitationem Vniversalis Gerhardi Mercatoris
Date: 1596 Size: 12 x 9 inches
Published: Cologne
Description: Map of the World after Mercator, attributed to Quad. Black and White. Framed. [Shirley: 197]
Map Ref: WLD2603

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