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Grands Voyages & Petits Voyages, The Complete De Bry , Theodor de Bry (1528–1598) and sons Johann Theodor & Johann Israel de Bry (1590–1634)Theatro d'el Orbe de la Tierra , Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598) (1641)LIBER CHRONICARUM , Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514) (12 July 1493)Composite atlas, without title , Reinier and Josua Ottens, with maps by Visscher, De Wit, Delisle, Jaillot, Covens & Mortier, Schenk, Valk and others (No date, but 1730 or shortly after)Delle navigationi et viaggi , Giovanni Battista Ramusio (1563; 1583; 1565)Begin ende Voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie , Isaac Commelin (compiler and editor) (1646)DELLE NAVIGATIONI (1613, 1583, 1606) , Giovanni Battista Ramusio (1485-1557) (Vol. 1: 1613; Vol. 2: 1583; Vol. 3: 1606)Los desastres de la guerra , Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) (1892)Six views of the Franciscan missions of California , F. Mela Medina (c. 1950)Oost-Indische voyagien , Joost Hartgers (collector & printer); various authors (1648)Le nouveau Theatre du Monde ou la Geographie Royale , Pieter van der Aa (text by Gueudeville and Ferrarius) (1713)Margarita Philosophica Nova , Gregor Reisch (1512)Delle navigationi et viaggi , Giovanni Battista Ramusio (1613; 1583; 1606)Weltbuch, with Schmidel on the Rio de la Plata and von Staden on Brazil , Sebastian Franck (with Ulrich Schmidel and Hans von Staden) (1567)Spieghel der Australische navigatie , Jacob le Maire; Antonio de Herrera; Pedro Ordóñez de Ceballos (1621–1622)Oost ende West-Indische Spiegel , Joris van Spilbergen; with Jacob le Maire and Willem Schouten, Australische Navigatien (1619)Cosmographicus liber Petri Apiani, restitutus per Gemmam Phrysium (with) Gemma Frisius, Libellus de locorum describendorum ratione , Peter Apian and Gemma Frisius (1533)La historia del Mondo Nuovo , Benzoni, Girolamo (1565)John Huighen van Linschoten his Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies , Jan Huygen van Linschoten (translated by William Phillip) (1598)Prima pars descriptionis itineris navalis in Indiam Orientalem , Willem Lodewijcksz (1598)Almanach nova (Ephemerides): the years 1516 to 1531, from the Venice edition of 1504 , Johann Stoffler (1504)Cursus quattuor mathematicarum artium liberalium , CIRUELO, Pedro (1516-1528)Libro primo della Historia de l'Indie Occidentali (with) Libro secondo delle Indie Occidentali (with) Libro ultimo del Summario delle Indie Occidentali , Peter Martyr d'Anghiera and Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo, with an anonymous letter on the conquest of Peru, the volume probably assembled by Giovanni Battista Ramusio (1534)Liber Chronicarum (the Nuremberg Chronicle): the Creation of the World, the seven opening leaves in contemporary colour , SCHEDEL, Hartmann (12 July 1493)Rerum et urbis Amstelodamensium historia , Isaac Pontanus (Johannes Isacus Pontanus) (1611)Isolario di Benedetto Bordone, de tutte l'Isole del mondo , Benedetto Bordone (1534)De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America en 't Zuid-Land , MONTANUS, Arnoldus (Arnold van den Berg, c. 1625-1683) (1671)Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America , John Gabriel Stedman; the plates after his own drawings, engraved by William Blake, Francesco Bartolozzi and others (1806)Arte breve y muy provechosa de cuenta castellana y Arithmetica , Gutierrez de Gualda, Juan (1566)Achtzehenter Theil der Newen Welt , Levinus Hulsius (after Antonio de Herrera) (1623)Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae navigationum , Joris van Spilbergen; with Jacob le Maire, Navigationes Australes (1619)L'Ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale des Provinces Unies vers l'Empereur de la Chine, ou Grand Cam de Tartarie, faite par les Srs. Pierre de Goyer, & Jacob de Keyser , NIEUHOF, Johan (Jean Nieuhoff); translated by Jean LE CARPENTIER (1665)GEOGRAFIA , Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) (1597–1598)Faulas de Isop, filosof moral preclarissim, y de altres famosos autors. Corregidas de nou, e historiadas ab major claredat, que fins vuy se sian vistas. Preceheix la vida de Isop, dividida en capitols, y en estampas representada , Aesop (Isop) (n.d., c. 1790)Epitome du theatre du monde , Abraham Ortelius (1588)Oost-Indische en West Indische voyagien: drie seylagien by Noorden om na de coninckrijcken van Cathay ende China (Eerste voyage) , Gerrit de Veer (Willem Barentszoon) (1619)Contrafactur des Scharmutzels der Hollender wider die Portugesen in dem Flus Balusabar (Singapore and the Singapore Strait) , DE BRY, Johann Theodor and Johann Israel (1606)Atlas historique, ou Nouvelle introduction à l'histoire, à la chronologie et à la géographie ancienne et moderne. Tome V: Asie (the Asia volume) , CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham; dissertations by Nicolas GUEUDEVILLE (1719 (first edition of the volume))’t Historiael Journael van Joris van Spilbergen naer Oost-Indien (Ceylon) , Joris van Spilbergen (1617)Relacion del viaje que por orden de su Magestad y acuerdo del Real Consejo de Indias hizieron los capitanes Bartolome Garcia de Nodal y Gonzalo de Nodal , Bartolomé García de Nodal and Gonzalo de Nodal (1769)Oost ende West Indische Spieghel , Joris van Spilbergen (text by Jan Cornelisz May) (circa 1663)Polyhistor, rerum toto orbe memorabilium (with) Pomponius Mela, De situ orbis , C. Julius Solinus and Pomponius Mela (1543)Libro de reloges solares , Roiz, Pedro (1575)Historisch ende wijdtloopigh verhael van 'tghene de vijf schepen … door de Straet Magellana … wedervaren is; Sebalt de Weert , Barent Jansz Potgieter (1617)Verhael van de eerste Schipvaert by 't Noorden om , Gerrit de Veer (1650)Ormus (Persian Gulf) , Barent Langenes (map engraved by Jodocus Hondius or Petrus Kaerius) (1598)Descriptio Chorographica Indiae Orientalis, Delineationem Imperii, sive Regni Magni Mogol Exhibens (The Mughal Empire) , DE BRY, Johann Theodor and Johann Israel, after William Baffin (1628)Astronomicae Tabulae (the Alphonsine Tables) , Alphonsus X, King of Castile and Leon (1553)Opusculum de sphera mundi, cum commentario Petri Ciruelli , SACROBOSCO, Johannes de; CIRUELO, Pedro (1526)Imperii Abassini Tabula Geographica (Ethiopia) , Francesco Eschinardi (1674)Geographia Universalis, Allgemeine Welt-Beschreibung , Antoine Pherotée de la Croix (1697)Descriptiones, quotquot extant, regionum atque locorum , GIOVIO, Paolo (Paulus Jovius) (1561)Amacao (Macao): the first printed view of Macao , DE BRY, Johann Theodor and Johann Israel (1607)Lombardia quae Sedes Belli in Italia est , Frederik de Wit (c. 1700 to 1706)Historisch Journael, Spilbergen's Voyagie naar Oost-Indien (1601–1604) , Joris van Spilbergen (with Wolfhart Harmanszoon & Cornelis van Veen) (1646)Journael van 't geene vijf Schepen van Rotterdam in 't Jaer 1598 … na de Straet Magalanes varende … Capiteyn Sebald de Weert , Sebald de Weert (1663)Waerachtigh verhael van de tweede Schipvaerd op Oost-Indien (van Neck & van Warwijck) , Jacob van Neck & Wijbrant van Warwijck (1646)Epitome cronicorum seculi moderni / Kurtzer Begriff der gedenckwurdigen Sachen (1500-1604) , MAYR, Johann (of Freising) (1604)Atlas Curieux oder Neuer und Compendieuser Atlas, a volume with 56 engraved maps & charts , Gabriel Bodenehr (c. 1704)L'Amerique Meridionale, dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences , DE L'ISLE, Guillaume (1700)Iaponia Regnum (The Kingdom of Japan, with Korea) , BLAEU, Joan (after Martino Martini) (1655-1672 (plate first published 1655; Blaeu issue without text))Journael van de Nassausche vloot, ofte beschrijvingh van de voyagie om den gantschen aerd-kloot, gedaen met elf schepen onder 't beleyt van admirael Jacques L'Hermite , Jacques L'Hermite (1646)Eerste schipvaerd der Hollandsche Natie naar Oost-Indien , Willem Lodewijckszoon (1646)FOUR SIXTEENTH-CENTURY REGIONAL MAPS OF AFRICA , Laurent Fries; Sebastian Münster; Giovanni Antonio Magini & Girolamo Porro (1525–1597)De vita et moribus Ignatii Loiolae libri III , Giovanni Pietro Maffei, S.J. (1585)Malacca and Sumatra , Barent Langenes (maps engraved by Jodocus Hondius or Petrus Kaerius) (1598)L'Amérique Méridionale et Septentrionale, dressée sur les nouvelles découvertes et dernières relations des meilleurs navigateurs de ce temps (The Americas with portraits of the explorers) , DESNOS, Louis Charles (1776)The East Indies from Malacca and Sumatra to New Guinea, with an inset of the island of Buton (Oost ende West-Indische Spiegel, plate 19) , SPILBERGEN, Joris van (1619)Les Principales Forteresses, Ports &c. de l'Amérique Septentrionale (The principal fortresses and harbours of North America and the West Indies) , COVENS, Johannes and MORTIER, Cornelis (after Henry Popple) (c. 1737-1745)Generale beschrijvinghe van Indien , Johan van Twist (1646)Turcici Imperii Descriptio (The Ottoman Empire), first plate , ORTELIUS, Abraham (1571)Descriptiones, quotquot extant, regionum atque locorum , GIOVIO, Paolo (Paulus Jovius) (1571)Mare Rubrum (the Red Sea) , Barent Langenes (map engraved by Jodocus Hondius or Petrus Kaerius) (1598)TOTIUS AMERICAE SEPTENTRIONALIS ET MERIDIONALIS NOVISSIMA REPRAESENTATIO , Johann Baptist Homann (First state, c. 1710)Descripcion del Destricto del Audiencia de la Española (The Caribbean: Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and the Spanish Main) , HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de (1601)CARTE DU ROYAUME DU MEXIQUE ET DE LA FLORIDE , Henri Abraham Chatelain, after Guillaume Delisle (c. 1719)Tijpus Freti Magellanici, quod Georgius Spilbergius cum classe lustravit (The Strait of Magellan) , SPILBERGEN, Joris van, and Nicolaes van GEELKERCKEN (1619)Turcici Imperii Descriptio (The Ottoman Empire), second plate, Spanish edition , ORTELIUS, Abraham (1588)LES INDES ORIENTALES , Nicolas de Fer (Originally 1709; probably the Danet issue, c. 1728)Oost en West Indische Voyagie , Joris van Spilbergen (c. 1663)Cuba Insula / Hispaniola Insula / Insula Iamaica / Ins. S. Ioannis / I.S. Margareta cum confiniis (Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Margarita) , MERCATOR, Gerard / HONDIUS, Jodocus (1606 (this impression from a French text edition, 1609-1633))VIRGINIAE PARTIS AUSTRALIS, ET FLORIDAE PARTIS ORIENTALIS , Willem Janszoon Blaeu (c. 1640–1644; second state)Tabula VIII Asiae: Scythia extra Imaum Montem and Serica (Central Asia and the land of silk) , PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius, and Lorenz FRIES (1522)INSULAR. ALIQUOT AEGAEI MARIS ANTIQUA DESCRIP. , Abraham Ortelius (Copperplate first issued 1584; later Latin-text example)Angliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae, sive Britannicarum Insularum Descriptio , Abraham Ortelius (1575)De eerste schipvaerd der Hollandsche natie naer Oost-Indien , Cornelis de Houtman (1645)Arabia , Barent Langenes (map engraved by Jodocus Hondius or Petrus Kaerius) (1598)INSULAR. ALIQUOT AEGAEI MARIS ANTIQUA DESCRIP. , Abraham Ortelius (Early 17th century (copperplate first issued 1584; Latin text on verso))Jing Hu Hang Yong mingxi quantu. A Comprehensive Map: Nanking, Shanghai, Hangchow and Ningpo , SHANGHAI GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY (Shanghai Yudi Xueshe) (1937)Tabula VIII Asiae: Scythia extra Imaum Montem and Serica (Central Asia and the land of silk), Lyon 1535 , PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius, and Lorenz FRIES (1535)DESCRIPTIO ACCURATA TERRAE PROMISSAE / LA TERRE SAINTE MODERNE , Nicolas de Fer, after Philippe de la Rue (1720)Descripcion de las Yndias del Norte (Spanish North America: Mexico, Florida, Central America and the Caribbean) , HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de (c. 1726-1730)Descripcion de las Yndias del Norte (Spanish North America: Mexico, Florida, Central America and the Caribbean) , HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de (c. 1726-1730)Terra Sancta, sive Promissionis, olim Palestina (The Holy Land) , DE WIT, Frederick (c. 1670-1680 (plate first published c. 1662-1666))ANGLIAE REGNI FLORENTISSIMI NOVA DESCRIPTIO , Abraham Ortelius, after Humphrey Llwyd (Plate added 1573; probably an early Latin impression)Amsterdam (Plan of Amsterdam) , MERIAN, Caspar (and Matthäus Merian the Elder) with Martin Zeiller (1659 (plate first published 1654))Map of the Ancient World (Europe, Africa, Asia) , G. A. Magini & L. Cernoti (after Ptolemy) (1597)Isola Cuba Nova , RUSCELLI, Girolamo (after Giacomo Gastaldi) (1561 or later)Tierra Nova (South America) , RUSCELLI, Girolamo (after Giacomo Gastaldi) (1561 (or the reissue of 1562))Peru (the Viceroyalty of Peru, from Ecuador to northern Chile) , JANSSONIUS, Joannes (c. 1640)Hispaniae et Portugalliae Regna (Spain and Portugal) , VISSCHER, Nicolaes (II) (c. 1690-1700 (second plate, c. 1688; the first plate c. 1677))ASIAE RECENTISSIMA DELINEATIO , Johann Baptist Homann (probably c. 1716–1720)CHILONIUM, VULGO KYELL , Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg (First published 1588)Carte de Moscovie, Russia and the Ukraine (a pair of maps) , Guillaume De L'Isle (c. 1706)Estats de l'Empire du Grand Seigneur des Turcs, en Europe, en Asie et en Afrique (The Ottoman Empire), à l'usage de Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne , JAILLOT, Alexis-Hubert, after Nicolas Sanson (1696)Tratado de barnices y charoles , Cantelli, Genaro (1735)Mexicana (Mexico and New Spain) , Petrus Bertius (plate engraved in the Van den Keere and Hondius workshop) (1602)Hispaniae Veteris Descriptio (Ancient Spain and Portugal) , JANSSONIUS, Joannes (engraved by Abraham Goos) ([1652 or later])Lewardum, Occidentalis Frisiae Opp. 1580 / Franicher, Nobilium hominum in Frisia Occidentali ut plurimum saedes (Leeuwarden and Franeker) , BRAUN, Georg and HOGENBERG, Frans (1581 or later (Latin text edition of Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Book III))Atlas historique, généalogique, chronologique et géographique de A. Le Sage (comte de Las Cases), avec des augmentations par J. Marchal, de Bruxelles , LE SAGE, A. (Emmanuel-Augustin-Dieudonné, comte de LAS CASES); MARCHAL, J. (1827 (the tables dated 1823-1827))Florida zoo als het van de Spaanschen en Franschen wordt bezeten (Florida as held by the Spanish and the French) , SANSON, Nicolas (engraved by Anthonie de Winter) (1705)Brasil Nuova Tavola (Brazil) , RUSCELLI, Girolamo (after Giacomo Gastaldi) (1561 (or the reissue of 1562))Isola Spagnola Nova , RUSCELLI, Girolamo (after Giacomo Gastaldi) (1561 or later)Descripcion de las Yndias de Mediodia (South America) , HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de (c. 1726-1730)THREE MAPS OF THE SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER , Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (probably c. 1757)HOLSATIAE DESCRIPTIO / RUGIAE, USEDOMIAE ET IULINAE , Abraham Ortelius (Copperplate from 1584)Traité d'horlogiographie, contenant plusieurs manieres de construire, sur toutes surfaces, toutes sortes de lignes horaires, & autres cercles de la sphere , SAINTE-MARIE-MAGDELEINE, Dom Pierre de (1680)South America, with its several Divisions, Governments &c. , Laurie & Whittle (c. 1794)Descripcion del Destricto del Audiencia de Nueva España (The Audiencia of New Spain, Mexico) , HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de (c. 1726-1730)Journael ende verhael van alle het gene dat ghesien ende voor-ghevallen is op de reyse gedaen door Pieter Willemsz. Verhoeven , Pieter Willemsz. Verhoeff (Verhoeven) (1646)Descripcion del Audiencia del Nuevo Reino (The Audiencia of the New Kingdom of Granada, Colombia) , HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de (c. 1726-1730)Descripcion del Audiencia del Nuevo Reino (The Audiencia of the New Kingdom of Granada, Colombia) , HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de (c. 1726-1730)Descripcion del Destricto del Audiencia de Lima (The Audiencia of Lima, Peru) , HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de (c. 1726-1730)Descripcion de la Audiencia de Panama (The Audiencia of Panama, the Isthmus) , HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de (c. 1726-1730)Descripcion de la Audiencia de Panama (The Audiencia of Panama, the Isthmus) , HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de (c. 1726-1730)Descripcion de la Provincia de Chile (The Province of Chile) , HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de (c. 1726-1730)Leodiensis Dioecesis Typus (Prince-Bishopric of Liège) , ORTELIUS, Abraham (engraved by Johannes Baptista van Doetecum, after Jan van Schille) (1587 or 1598 (French text edition; plate first published 1584))ASIA, WITH ITS ISLANDS AND DIFFERENT REGIONS , Robert Laurie & James Whittle (Copperplate 1794; issued in an atlas edition of 1814)Descripcion del Audiencia del Quito (The Audiencia of Quito, Ecuador) , HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de (c. 1726-1730)Sicilia (Sicily) , LANGENES, Barent; BERTIUS, Petrus; HONDIUS, Jodocus II (1618 (plate of 1616))TABULA GERMANIAE , Sebastian Münster (probably 1540)Descripcion del Audiencia de Guatimala (The Audiencia of Guatemala, Central America) , HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de (c. 1726-1730)Cefalonia (Cephalonia, Ionian Islands) , LANGENES, Barent; BERTIUS, Petrus (1602-1603 (second Latin edition))Descripcion del Audiencia de los Charcas (The Audiencia of Charcas, Bolivia) , HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de (c. 1726-1730)Descripcion del Audiencia de los Charcas (The Audiencia of Charcas, Bolivia) , HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de (c. 1726-1730)Descripcion del Audiencia de los Charcas (The Audiencia of Charcas, Bolivia) , HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de (c. 1726-1730)De Antillische Eilanden, waar onder zyn de Lucaysche en Caribesche (The West Indies) , SANSON, Nicolas (engraved by Anthonie de Winter) (1705)CARTE DE LA NOUVELLE ANGLETERRE, NOUVELLE YORCK ET PENSILVANIE , Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (c. 1757)ROME AND THE THEATRE OF VERONA , Sebastian Münster (Cosmographia edition of 1598)TAVOLA NUOVA DI GERMANIA , Girolamo Ruscelli, after Giacomo Gastaldi (probably the edition of 1562 (plate from 1561))Zuider America (South America) , SANSON, Nicolas (engraved by Anthonie de Winter) (1705)BESCHREIBUNG ENGELLANDTS UND SCHOTTLANDTS , Sebastian Münster (German Cosmographia edition of 1598)CARTE DE L’AMÉRIQUE MÉRIDIONALE , Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (probably 1754)Duynkercke (Dunkirk) , BRAUN, Georg and HOGENBERG, Frans (1575-1612 (plate first published 1575))Indoustan ou Etats du Mogol avec les établissements Français (India) , ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, Gilles and Didier; DELAMARCHE, Charles-François (c. 1806 (plate first published 1749, revised for the metric edition))The King of Arakan riding out in state (from Wouter Schouten, Oost-Indische Voyagie) , SCHOUTEN, Wouter (1676 or 1708)Americae nona & postrema pars , Theodor de Bry (issued by his sons Johann Theodor and Johann Israel de Bry); José de Acosta, Bernard Janszoon on Sebald de Weert, and Olivier van Noort (1602)La preclara Narratione di Ferdinando Cortese della Nuova Hispagna , Hernán Cortés (20 August 1524)TOTIUS AFRICAE NOVA REPRAESENTATIO , Johann Baptist Homann (c. 1715)