Historical Maps of the Western Hemisphere

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	Main Author:		Münster, Sebastian (info)
	Title/Description:		Die Neuwe Islelen so zu Insern Seiten Durch die Kunig von Hispania im Grossen Oceano Gefunder Sindt
	Publication Info:		[Basle: Henricus Petri: 1548]
	Date:		1540
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Ramusio, Giovanni Battista
	Title/Description:		Universale della parte del Mondo Nuovamente Ritrovata
	Publication Info:		Venice: 1556 (first edition); from the 1606 edition of Della Navigationi et Viaggi.
	Date:		1556
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	Main Author:		Ortelius, Abraham (info)
	Title/Description:		Americæ Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio
	Publication Info:		[Antverpiæ, 1570]
	Date:		1570
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	Original Source:		W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library

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	Main Author:		Mercator, Gerardus (info)
	Title/Description:		Americae Sive Novi, Nova Descriptio
	Publication Info:		Unknown source, [1578]
	Date:		1578
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Ortelius, Abraham (info)
	Title/Description:		Americæ Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio
	Publication Info:		[Antwerp] 1587
	Date:		1587
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	Main Author:		Ortelius, Abraham (info)
	Title/Description:		Americæ Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio
	Publication Info:		[Antverpiae: in officina Plantiniana], 1587; from his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of 1592
	Date:		1587
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Ortelius, Abraham (info)
	Title/Description:		Americæ Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio
	Publication Info:		Antwerp: 1587
	Date:		1587
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	Main Author:		Ortelius, Abraham (info)
	Title/Description:		Peruviae Auriferae Regionis Ttypus; La Florida; Guastecan
	Publication Info:		[Antverpiae: ex officina Plantiniana, 1587]
	Date:		1587
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Münster, Sebastian (info)
	Title/Description:		Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio
	Publication Info:		Basil: 1588-1598
	Date:		1588
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	Original Source:		Courtesy of Antique Atlas

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	Main Author:		Ortelius, Abraham (info)
	Title/Description:		Maris Pacifici
	Publication Info:		[Antverpiae: in officini Plantiana], 1589; from his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of 1592
	Date:		1589
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	Main Author:		Mercator, Michael (info)
	Title/Description:		America Siue India Nova
	Publication Info:		[Dvsseldorpii: Execudebat Albertus Busius, 1595]; from The Atlas of 1595
	Date:		1595
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	Main Author:		Mercator, Michael (info)
	Title/Description:		America Siue India Nova
	Publication Info:		[Dvsseldorpii: Execudebat Albertus Busius, 1595]; from The Atlas of 1595
	Date:		1595
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	Main Author:		Botero, Giovanni
	Title/Description:		America
	Publication Info:		Venice: [1596]; from The Relatoni Universali
	Date:		1596
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	Main Author:		Mercator, Gerardus (info)
	Title/Description:		Americae Discrip.
	Publication Info:		[Arnhem: J. Jansson, 1621]
	Date:		1621
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	Main Author:		Hondius, Jodocus (info)
	Title/Description:		America
	Publication Info:		Amsterodami, [ca. 1609?] 1622
	Date:		1622
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	Main Author:		Goos, Abraham (info)
	Title/Description:		America
	Publication Info:		[London: G. Humble], 1626; from John Speed's A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World of 1631
	Date:		1626
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Speed, John
	Title/Description:		America with Those Known Parts in That Unknowne Worlde Both People and Manner of Buildings
	Publication Info:		[London] Are to be sold in Popshead Alley against the Exchange by G. Humble, 1626; discribed and inlarged (sic) by I. S. Abraham Goos, sculpsit.
	Date:		1626
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	Main Author:		Hondius, Henricus (info)
	Title/Description:		America Noviter Delineate
	Publication Info:		[Amsterdam, 1636]; from the G. Mercator et J. Hondii Atlas
	Date:		1631
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	Main Author:		Merian, Matthaus, after Hondius
	Title/Description:		America Nouiter Delineata
	Publication Info:		Frankfort, 1631
	Date:		1631
	Scale:		1:31,680,000
	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Hondius, Jodocus (info)
	Title/Description:		America
	Publication Info:		Amsterodami: [Jodocus Hondius, 1633]; from the 6^th French edition of The Mercator-Hondius Atlas
	Date:		1633
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	Main Author:		Blaeu, Willem Janszoon (info)
	Title/Description:		Americæ Nova Tabula
	Publication Info:		[Amsterdam: apud G. et I. Blaeu, 1635]
	Date:		1635
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Blaeu, Willem Janszoon (info)
	Title/Description:		Americæ Nova Tabula
	Publication Info:		[Amstelodami]: 1635
	Date:		1635
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	Main Author:		Merian, Matthaeus
	Title/Description:		America Noviter Delineata /M. Merian, Fecit.
	Publication Info:		Franckfurti: 1645
	Date:		1646
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	Main Author:		Jansson, Jan (info)
	Title/Description:		America Noviter Delineata
	Publication Info:		[Amsterdam: 1652]
	Date:		1650
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	Main Author:		Jansson, Jan (info)
	Title/Description:		America Noviter Dilineata
	Publication Info:		Amstelodami: 1650
	Date:		1650
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	Main Author:		Picard, Nicholas
	Title/Description:		Nouvelle Description de L'Amerique
	Publication Info:		Paris: 1657
	Date:		1657
	Scale:		1:110,088,000
	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Kircher, Athenasius
	Title/Description:		Mappa Fluxus et Reflurus Rationes in Isthmo Americano...
	Publication Info:		Amsterdam: 1665
	Date:		1665
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	Main Author:		Wit, Frederik de (info)
	Title/Description:		Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americæ Descriptio
	Publication Info:		Amstelodami: 1670?
	Date:		1670
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	Main Author:		Ogilby, John (info)
	Title/Description:		Totius Americae Descriptio
	Publication Info:		[London: for the author, 1671]; from Vol. 2 of The English Atlas
	Date:		1671
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Montanus, Arnoldus
	Title/Description:		Novissima et Arruratissima Totius Americae Descriptio
	Publication Info:		Amsterdam: 1673
	Date:		1673
	Scale:		1:44,352,000
	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Berius, Petrus
	Title/Description:		Carte L'Amerique : Corrigeé, et Augmenteé / Dessus Toutes les Aultres cy Devant Faictes par P. Bertius.
	Publication Info:		[Paris: 1675]
	Date:		1675
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	Main Author:		Allard, Carel
	Title/Description:		Recentissima Novi Orbis, Sive Americæ Septentrionalis et Meridionalis tabula / per Caroli Allard ex officina I. Covens & Mortier cum privilegio.
	Publication Info:		[1680]
	Date:		1680
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	Main Author:		Coronelli, Vicenzo Maria
	Title/Description:		Mare del Nord
	Publication Info:		Venetia, 1680?
	Date:		1680
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	Main Author:		Mallet, Alain Manesson
	Title/Description:		Nouveau Continent avec Plusiers, Isles, et Mers
	Publication Info:		Paris: D. Thierry, 1683; from Mallet's Description de L'Univers
	Date:		1683
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		de Wit, Frederick (info)
	Title/Description:		Totius Americae Descriptio
	Publication Info:		[Amsterdam: 1688?]
	Date:		1688
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Morden, Robert
	Title/Description:		To Captain John Wood This Map of the World drawn according to Mercators Projection humbly dedicated by Robt. Morden & Willm. Berry.
	Publication Info:		London : Sold at ye Atlas in Cornhill & at ye Globe in ye Strand, 1688
	Date:		1688
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	Original Source:		W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library

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	Main Author:		Visscher, Nikolaus (info)
	Title/Description:		Totius Americae Descriptio
	Publication Info:		[Amstelaedami: 1690?]
	Date:		1690
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Coronelli, Vincenzo
	Title/Description:		Planisfero del Mondo Nuovo
	Publication Info:		Venice: 1695
	Date:		1695
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	Main Author:		Visscher, Nikolaus (info)
	Title/Description:		Totius Americae Descriptio
	Publication Info:		[Amstelaedami, Ex officina N. Visscher, 1698]; from The Minor Atlas, c. 1698
	Date:		1698
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