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