Exploring the Early Americas
The Jay I. Kislak Collection
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Waldseemüller Maps Interactive
About This Object
Examine the only surviving copies of what are arguably two of the most important maps in the history of cartography, the 1507 and 1516 world maps by Martin Waldseemüller.
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