Exploring the Early Americas

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Maya Portrayal of the Cosmos (side) (136.00.00)

Maya Portrayal of the Cosmos
Carved bowl with swirl patterns. Guatemalan Lowlands. AD 200–500. Burnished black-brown ceramic. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (136.00.00)

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T–O Map of the World (138.00.00)

T–O Map of the World
Isidore, Bishop of Seville. Etymologiae (Etymologies). Augsburg: Guntherus Ziner, 1472. Vollbehr Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division (138.00.00)

Paolo Forlani’s 1560 World Map (149.01.00)

Paolo Forlani’s 1560 World Map
Paolo Forlani (fl. mid-sixteenth century). Untitled world map in Antoine Lafrery’s (1512–1577) Geografia tavole moderne di geographia (Modern geography of the greater part of the world). Rome: Antoine Lafrery, 1575? Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (149.01.00)

Picturing the Universe (139.01.01)

Picturing the Universe
Bartholomaeus Anglicus. Le proprietaire des choses (The Properties of Things). Lyon: Johannes Siber, 1486. Rosenwald Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (139.01.01)

1482 Ulm Ptolemy (140.02.00)

1482 Ulm Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy. Geographia. Ulm: Lienhart Holle, 1482. Hain Collection, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (140.02.00)

Cosmographiae Introductio (141.01.00)

Cosmographiae Introductio
Martin Waldseemüller and Mathias Ringmann. Cosmographiae Introductio. St.-Dié: 1507. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (141.01.00)

1507 World Map (145.02.00)

1507 World Map
Claudius Ptolemy. In hoc opere haec continentur Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei a plurimis uiris utriusq[ue] linguae doctiss (Continuations of the Geographiae of Cl. Ptolemaeus by many learned men in their own languages). Rome: Bernardinum Venetum de Vitalibus, 1507. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (145.02.00)

1512 Stobnicy Map (146.00.01)

1512 Stobnicy Map
Jan ze Stobnicy. Introductio in Ptolomei comosgraphia[m] cu[m] longitudinibus et latitudinibus et cuvitatum celebrioriu (Introduction to the cosmography of Ptolemy. . . .). Krakow: Florian Ungleri, 1512. Facsimile. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (146.01.00)

Enhanced View of the World (147.01.02)

Enhanced View of the World
Julius C. Solinus. CIoannis Camertis Minoritani, artium, et sacrae theologiae doctoris, in C. Iulii Solini Polyistor ra enarrationes. Vienna: Johann Singrenium, 1520. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (147.00.00)

The Sixteenth-Century World (148.02.00)

The Sixteenth-Century World
Nouus orbis regionum ac insularum. . . . (News of the regions and islands of the world. . . .). Basel: Johannes Heruagium, 1532. Johann Huttich, comp., with preface by Simon Grynäus. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (148.02.00)

On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (149.00.02)

On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Nicolaus Copernicus. De Revolutionibus orbium caelestium (On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres). Nuremberg: Johannes Petrus, 1543. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (149.00.02)

Antoine Floriano’s World Map in Globe Gores (148.03.00)

Antoine Floriano’s World Map in Globe Gores
Antonio Floriano (fl. mid-sixteenth century). Untitled globe gores in Antoine Lafrery (1512–1577), Geografia tavole moderne di geographia. Rome: Antoine Lafrery, 1575? Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (148.03.00)

Earth-Centered Universe (140.03.00)

Earth-Centered Universe
Johannes de Sacro Bosco (ca. 1195–1256). Sphaera mundi (The sphere of the world). Venice: 1490. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (140.03.00)

Italian Adventurer Ludovico de Varthema (146.02.00)

Italian Adventurer Ludovico de Varthema
Ludovico de Varthema (ca. 1470–1517). Itinerario de Ludouico de Varthema . . . (Travels of Ludovico de Varthema). Venice: Zorzi di Rusconi, 1517. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (146.02.00)

Korean World Map (139.02.00)

Korean World Map
Ch’onhado (World Map) from Chonha Chido (Map of the World). Hand-copied manuscript map. Korea: mid-eighteenth century, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (139.02.00)

Oronce Fine’s Cordiform map of the World, 1531 (147.02.00)

Oronce Fine’s Cordiform map of the World, 1531
Oronce Fine (1494–1555). Nova, et universi orbis description. . . . Paris?: Orontius Fineus, 1531. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (147.03.00)

Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean Sea (138.03.00)

Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean Sea
Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea. Genoa?: ca. 1320–1350. Manuscript chart on vellum. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (138.03.00)

Ptolemaic World Map (141.02.00)

Ptolemaic World Map
Hartmann Schedel. Liber Chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (141.02.00)

Venetian Sailing Directions (145.03.00)

Venetian Sailing Directions
Nicolo Stolfo. Drawings of zodiacs, hands, and divisions of time in Portolano. Venice: 1499. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (145.03.00)

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1507 World Map (142.00.00)

1507 World Map
Martin Waldseemüller. Universalis cosmographia secunda Ptholemei traditionem et Americi Vespucci aliorum que lustrations. [Strasbourg?]:1507 [imprint later than 1515]. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (142.00.00)

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