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At the start of the 1600s, there was an economic and artistic boom in Amsterdam and the Hondius publishing house was the primary map publishing house.…
The original version of this map, published ca. 1490 in Florence, was created by Henricus Martellus from the previous work of Nicolaus Cusanus.…
Matthäeus Merian the Elder was born in Basel (modern Switzerland) in 1593. He began his career as a stained glass designer, but switched to engraving,…
This map is an image of the region of Prussia with a city featured prominently in it. It is contained in a page cut from the Nuremberg Chronicle. The…
This map is a representation of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, and Pomerania (modern day northeastern Germany and northwestern Poland) from an atlas by…
This is a city view woodcut of the city of Magdeburg from the Nuremberg Chronicle, an incunable, or early printed book, published in 1493 that…
The Pfinzing Atlas is a bound collection (47 x 70 cm) of twenty-eight maps and descriptions that was created in 1594 by Nuremberg merchant Paul…