Showing posts with label Maps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maps. Show all posts

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)