Relief shown pictorially. Place names in Latin, English and Dutch. Includes decorative cartouche and empty cartouche, and four views of whaling industry. Hand-colored. Text in Latin on verso. Published in Amstelodami [Amsterdam], Ioannem...
Latin. Shows northern latitudes not previously recorded on a printed map. Attributed to Claudius Ptolemaeus. From the first woodblock atlas of the Latin translation of Ptolemy's Geography. Cut by Johannes Schnitzer of Armsheim, as evidenced by...
A slightly enlarged version of Gastaldi's 1548 Ptolemy; in 1561 a new translation of Ptolemy by Ruscelli was published in Venice by Valgrisi, and the same map plates were used for Latin editions in 1562 and 1564. Relief shown pictorially. Text on...
Relief shown pictorially. Ancillary maps in upper corners and lower left corner: Frisland Insula -- Farre insule [Feroe Islands] -- Scetland Insulae [Shetland Islands]. Shows arctic regions in which oceans flow into a polar sea through streams...
Relief shown pictorially. Map of the world, showing "America von Christophoro Columbo in Mahmen des Konigs In Castilien Erstlich Orfundejm Jahr 1492, und von Americo Vesputio den Kahmen emy = fangen A.1499". Lettering in both Latin and German. ...
Hand colored. Latin and English with text in French on verso. Includes decorative cartouche, small illustrations of ships throughout, and coat of arms and dedication to Guilielmo Backer de Corneliis. From the Blaeus' Theatrum orbis terrarum,...
The competition was open to Alaska schoolchildren between grades 7 and 12. Benson was a 13 year old student at the Jessie Lee MIssion Home in Seward. The competition was organized by the American Legion, who collected a total of 142 entries from...
Relief shown pictorially. "Per livinum algoet auctorem Gerardus de Lode excudebat." "Ioannes a Duetecu Lucas a Duetecu fecerunt." Includes numerous small illustrations of ships and sea creatures. Latin text on verso: Svetia, Gothia et...
A reduced version of the De l'Isle/Buache map published by the Prussian Academy of Science & Literature, published by Euler, a German mathematician who was with the St. Petersburg Academy. Shows routes of Russian discoveries in 1723, 1732, and...
Naval chart, which is a slightly enlarged version of Gastaldi's Ptolemy published in 1548. In 1561 a new translation of Ptolemy by Ruscelli was published in Venice by Valgrisi, and Latin editions in 1562 and 1564 used the same map plates. This copy...
Relief shown pictorially. A map of the northwest coast of America, comprising "Anian Regnum" and "Quivira Regnum", with the arctic circle to the north (present-day Alaska). It appeared as No. 14 in Wytfliet's Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum,...
Relief shown pictorially. Illustrated. Hand colored. From Ortelius' Theatrum orbis terrarum. Cf. Lowery. Lettering on map part Latin, part Spanish. Text on verso in Spanish. Intaglio engraving.
Relief shown pictorially. Illustrated. Hand colored. From Ortelius' Theatrum orbis terrarum. Cf. Lowery. Lettering on map part Latin, part Spanish. Text on verso in Spanish. Intaglio engraving.
Shows routes of Barentsz' voyage. State 1 of T. de Bry's adaptation of Willem Barentsz' 1598 map; lacks Latin title and statement of scale found in state 2. Illustrated with compass rose, ships and fanciful sea creatures. Hand colored; 28 x 36...