SEXTANS 211- AC Roman Rebublic

Nurenberg Chronicle

Waldseemüller Geographia

Waldseemüller Geographia

Ptolemaeus Claudius

Sacro Bosco by Fra Mauro: Sphera Volgare Novamente Tradotta, con molte notande additioni di geometria, cosmographia, arte navicatoria

facsimile of the 1539 and 1572 map

Petri Apiani and Gemma Frisius: Cosmopraphia, per Gemmam Phrysius, apud Louanienses Medicum ac Mathematicum insignem,Denuo restituta. Additis de eadem re ipsius Gemma Phry. Libellis, quos sequens pagina docet. MD XL

Munster's Cosmographia

Giacomo Gastaldi

Gemmae Phrsysii Medici ac Mathematici

Woodblock map of Scandinavia with latitude and Longitude coordinates.

1961 Facsimile of the famous Worldmap from Rotterdam

Box-shaped gold-plated brass universal equinoctial sundial with lid and hanging eye. The lid serves as a universal equinoctial sundial. The engravings and decorations with leaf and flower motifs are blacked.
Dated 1572. Probably not used at sea.

Portugues early Astrolabe

Coignet Michiel, De Zeevaert oft Conste van ter Zee te varen + Nieuwe onderwijsinge op de principaelste puncten der Zeevaert. Very rare first edition of this important work for the navigation in the Low Countries

Ruscelli's map published in ' Geopraphia de Claudio Tolomeo' of 1581

Italian print of the sieg of Antwerp

Spiegel der Zeevaert, Latin edition of Lucaz Janszoon Waghenaer

1591 Phls Galle Engraving: Lapis Polaris Magnes. From Nova repertes illustrating the invention of the Compass

Circa 1592 engraving “Christophorus Columbus Ligur…”, by Adriaen Collaert (1560-1618) after Stradanus. Antwerp

Four maps from 'Geographicae Universae tum veteris novae . . .' Auctore Io. Ant. Magino. Cologne, P. Keschedt, 1597. - Pirate edition after Magini's original work of 1596

Ortelius' Periplus published in his Parergon

Titel page of the 16000 French edition of 'Spieger der Zeevaert'

From Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern Atlas of the World: Zelandicarum Insularum exactissima et nova descriptio autoro d. Iacobo a Daventria (Deventer)

The oblong edition by Lucas Jannsz. Waghenaer

circa 1605 Two Prints by Jan Van der Straer or Stradanus: 'Astrolabium. Americus Vespuccius. cum quattuor Stellis crucem silente nocte repperit'

Sacro Bosco by Christophorus Calvius

Pedro de Medina: The first navigation book describing the compass and astrolabe

Jan Vanden Brouck

from Hondius/Mercator Atlas

First and colloured edition of the discovery of Cape Hoorn and the Lemaire Street: Journael ofte Bechryvinghe van de Wonderlijcke reyse ghedaen door Willem Cornelisz Schouten van Hoorn inde Jaren 1615, 1616; 1617

Willem Jantz. ( = Willem Blaeu): Oost ende West-Indische spiegel der 2 leste navigatien, ghedaen inden jaeren 1614.15.16.17 ende 18

Frontpiece of the Mercator Hondius Atlas

original manuscriptmap on vellum by the Oliva family

De Decker Ezechiel

from:Newe Welt und Americanische Historien

Adrianus Metius

English edition of 'Zeespiegel' van Willem Blaeu

Discovery of the Longitudes method by Johannes Plancius from 'Nova Reperta

William Blaeu landmap of the 17 Provinces, oriented to the west

English nocturnal for ‘ Both Bears’

map of vicinity of Zandvliet

Map of the Northsea, north to the left : Tabula Portum maris Septentrionalis à parte quae Tessel usque quae Hooften appellatur

Map of the the Dutch and Flemish caost, with A panoramic view of Dunkerque and a coastal profile of Calais and surroundings.

sea chart depicts the coast at Dunkerque oriented with north at bottom by an elegant compass rose

Dudley's chart of the southern Cornish coast. First map with latirudes and longitudes according to the Mercator projection:

Map of the british Isles, by Johannes Janssonius,north to the right

Varenius Berhardus, first edition

Portolaan vellum map of Europe by Pieter Goos