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Hartmann Schedel Ptolemaic Worldmap

Nurenberg Chronicle

1493

The Admiral map by Martin Waldseemüller. 1513

Waldseemüller Geographia

1513

The Ptolemaic Worldmap by Waldseemuller 1513

Waldseemüller Geographia

1513

Sphera Volgare Novamente Tradotta, of Fra Mauro

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

1537

Carta marina Nova Tabulas Navigators Chart of the World

Giacomo Gastaldi

1548

Marine Astrolabe Portuguese

Portugues early Astrolabe

1575

Carta Marina o Da Navigare, Chart of the World

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

1581

Christopher Columbus Ligur terroribus Oceani superatis alterius pene

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

1592

Universi Orbis Descriptio ad usum Navigatium, by Keschedt

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

1597

Astrolabium. Americus Vespuccius.

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

1605

In Sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco Commentarius

Sacro Bosco by Christophorus Calvius

1607

Arte del Navigare

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

1609

Portolan map mediteranian sea

original manuscriptmap on vellum by the Oliva family

1620

Maghelan crossing the strait of Maghelan

from:Newe Welt und Americanische Historien

1631

Christophe Colombs'embarque à Palos. le 3 Août 1492

1902

A book of Discovery. The history of the World's Exploration

1912

Abraham Zacuto's Almanach perpetuum celestium motuum

facsimile from 1915 of this important work about the suns declination, dating from 1473

1915

7 Inch diameter Mariner’s Astolabe

Replica of the one found at the island Valencia near Ireland Copy of the one in Greenwich

1960

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