Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Early Printed Maps

In anticipation of my talk next week (4/13) on "Early Printed Maps," today's post highlights several of our collection's cartographic items. Time is a bit short for me this week (SAA in Seattle), so today's entry is heavy on images and light on text.

"Angliae Heptarchia" from William Lambarde, A Perambulation of Kent (1596)
"Bedford" by Christopher Saxton (1610?)
Map of London from Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia (1628)
Europe as Map/Monarch, from Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia (1628)
World Map from Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia (1628)
"The description of the holy Land" from [The Bishop's Bible] (1602)
"Africae Descriptio Nova" from Peter Heylyn, Cosmography (1670)
"Americae Descriptio Nova" from Peter Heylyn, Cosmography (1670)

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