Historical Maps of Europe

**Psychonaut** · 01-25-2009, 01:05 AM

Here's Part I of a great collection I happened upon some time ago.

**Psychonaut** · 01-25-2009, 01:07 AM

Part II

**Psychonaut** · 01-25-2009, 01:10 AM

Part III

**Psychonaut** · 01-25-2009, 01:13 AM

Part IV

**Psychonaut** · 01-25-2009, 01:15 AM

Part V

**Psychonaut** · 01-25-2009, 01:18 AM

Part VI

**Psychonaut** · 01-25-2009, 01:20 AM

Part VII, the last one.

**Daos** · 04-15-2010, 09:01 AM

The Carta Marina by Olaus Magnus (1490-1557) is the earliest detailed map of the Nordic countries. It took twelve years to finish. The first copies were printed in 1539 in Venice. Its existence had long been considered apocryphal, until a copy was discovered in Munich in 1886. Another copy, found in Switzerland in 1962, now resides at Carolina Rediviva, Uppsala, Sweden.

The map is divided in 3×3 sheets with the dimension 55x40 cm (height×width), each made from a separate woodcut block. The notes on the map in Latin were translated by Olaus himself into the Italian and German language. Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus (Rome, 1555) is a much larger commentary on the map.

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**Gálvez** · 03-02-2011, 04:57 PM

A nice map from 1617 with decorative borders, where you can see drawings of the main European cities and the dressing customs of the people. It was done by Willem Baeuw, who belonged to a well-known family of Dutch cartographers.