title: Claudius Ptolemy- The World

artist:

date: 1482

source: Decorative Maps by Roderick Barron - ISBN|1851702989

credit: Decorative Maps by Roderick Barron - ISBN 1851702989

description: The world map">world map from Leinhart Holle's 1482 edition of Nicolaus Germanus's emendations to Jacobus Angelus's 1406 Latin translation of Maximus Planudes's late-13th century rediscovered Greek manuscripts of Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography.

title: Catherine de Médicis Louvre

artist:

anonymous

 

date: circa 1580

medium: Technique oil oak panel

dimensions: Size cm 30 25

current location: Richelieu, LangSwitch :Museum:Louvre

source: [[User:Siren-Com|Siren-Com]]

credit: Siren-Com

title: 1875 Meiji 8 Japanese Map of the World Geographicus - World-meiji8-1875

artist: link

date: 1875 (dated: Meiji 8)

dimensions: Size unit=in width=36 height=28

source: Pocket Map (Independent Issue) Geographicus-source

credit: This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, a specialist dealer in rare maps and other cartography of the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, as part of a cooperation project.

description: An exceedingly rare find. This is a Japanese map of the world dated to the 8th year of the Emperor’s Meiji’s reign, or 1897. Depicts the entire world on a hemisphere projection with smaller polar projections in the upper left and right quadrants. The national boundaries and geography in general is vague, as is common to Japanese maps of this period. Color coded according to region with Japan itself in bright red. Several harbor plans and views adorn the bottom portions of the map. All text in Japanese. Folds into its original boards.

title: 0 Marie de Médicis Frans Pourbus le Jeune - Louvre (INV1710) - (2)

artist: Frans Pourbus the Younger

date: 1610

medium: Oil on canvas

dimensions: Size cm 307 186

current location: Institution:Louvre-Lens Prêt du Institution:Louvre

source: [[User:Jean-Pol GRANDMONT|User:Jean-Pol GRANDMONT]] (2013)

credit: User:Jean-Pol GRANDMONT (2013)

title: 0 Marie de Médicis Frans Pourbus le Jeune - Louvre (INV1710) - (1)

artist: Frans Pourbus the Younger

date: 1610

medium: Oil on canvas

dimensions: Size cm 307 186

current location: Institution:Louvre-Lens Prêt du Institution:Louvre

source: [[User:Jean-Pol GRANDMONT|User:Jean-Pol GRANDMONT]] (2013)

credit: User:Jean-Pol GRANDMONT (2013)

title: Falmouth Harbour - Lord Burghley's Atlas (1579), ff.15v-16 - BL Royal MS 18 D III

artist: Christopher Saxton

date: 1579

current location: Institution:British Library

source: Image taken from Lord Burghley's atlas Originally published/produced in London, 1579. BritishLibraryImageServices|id=c13233-28 |flickr=12459585214 British Library image |url=|ms-shelfmark=Royal MS 18 D III |cim-msid=|cim-coll=16 |cim-nstart=180403 |dips=|ms-digi=|hasLicense=yes

credit: This file has been provided by the British Library from its digital collections.

Catalogue entry: Royal MS 18 D III

title: 1375 Atlas Catalan Abraham Cresques

artist: Abraham Cresques

date: 1375

source: [link Bibliothèque Nationale de France]

credit: Bibliothèque Nationale de France

description: atlas from the 14th century attributed to Abraham Cresques.

title: Saxton's Frontispiece

artist:

date: 1579

current location: [[Wikipedia:Folger Shakespeare Library|Folger Shakespeare Library]]

source: Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection

credit: Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection

description: Frontispiece to Saxton's atlas of the Counties of England and Wales

title: Cedid Atlas Title Page

artist: Mühendishane Matbaası (publisher)

date: 1803

medium: technique drawing mounted=paper

dimensions: Size unit=cm width=53 height=36

source: Creator: Bassem Fleifel

credit: Original source

description: Cedid atlas Title Page, the first modern atlas to be published in the Ottoman Empire and the Muslim world.