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MapUniversalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii alioru[m]que lustrationes
Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorū que lustrationes "Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world map was the first map to depict a separate Western hemisphere with the Pacific as a separate ocean. The map grew out of an ambitious project in Saint-Dié, Lorraine (in present-day France), during the early 1500s, to document and update new geographic knowledge derived from the Portuguese and Spanish explorations of the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Waldseemüller's map...- Contributor: Waldseemüller, Martin
- Date: 1507
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Map[Portolan chart of the Pacific coast from Mexico to northern Chile]. Seems to be in Spanish. Title supplied by cataloger. Pen-and-ink; black, brown, green, and red. Trimmed to a rough rectangle. Matted and mounted between sheets of transparent lucite. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes col. ill. Imperfect: Some tears on edge and several holes. LC Nautical charts on vellum ; 10
- Date: 1500-01-01
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Map[Portolan chart of the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and the coasts of Europe and northwest Africa]. Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines. Title devised by cataloguer. Contains 4 compass roses in a circle centered in Italy to the north of Rome and half of a fifth on the trimmed center left edge. Pen-and ink in brown, red, and green, with possible traces of gilding. The chart appears to have been cropped at the left and possibly the...
- Date: 1500-01-01