Maps: 1501 - 1552
1507 Beneventano:
"Tabula moderna
Polonie..."
1511
Bernardus
Sylvanus:
"OCTAVA
EVROPA
TABVLA."
1511 Sylvanus: DETAIL
image of his world map in
cordiform (heart- shaped)
projection. Complete map:
1511 B. Sylvanus world
map ENTIRE
1513 Martin
Waldseemuller: "Tabula
moderna Sarmatiae..."
1536 Martin
Waldseemuller:
"SARMATIA"
1541 Lorenz (Laurent)
Fries - Claudius Ptolemy -
M. Servetius: "Tabula
Nova Poloniae," Lyon.
12.09 x 14.29 inches.
Servetius (Publisher) was
tried by Calvin for
heresy, and burned at
the stake along with a
number of his books. From
www.alexandremaps.com
1548 Giacomo Gastaldi:
"POLONIA ET HVNGARIA
NOVA TABVLA." From
Gastaldi's edition of
Ptolemy's "La Geografia..,"
begun 1542, published in
Venice in 1548.  From
www.raremaps.com
1548 Giacomo Gastaldi: "PRVSSIA ET LIVONIA NOVA."
Based on a map by  Claudius Ptolemy , in uncolored
and colored versions, from "La Geography." Colored
version from National Library of Estonia: www.nlib.ee
1548 Giacomo Gastaldi:
"TABVLA EVROPAE
VIII."
1550 Sebastian Munster: "Du royaume &
detoute la region de Pologne..." Also a
DETAIL image.
1550: "POLONIA ET VNGARIA XV NOVA
TABVLA."
1550: "Landtafel des Ungerlands/Polands
/Preussen/Littaw/Walachei/ Bulgarei."
1552: "Nouuelle defcription de Poloigne &
Hongrie," Basle. AK-27
1552: "POLONIA ET VNGARIA XX NOVA
TABVLA."
1552 Sebastian Munster: "SEPTENTRION-
ALES REGIONES XVIII NO TAB."
1520 Abraham Ortelius:
"TABVLA.MODERNA.SAR
MATIE...POLONIE..." From
the National Museum of
Lithuania.
1552  Sebastian
Munster: "MODERNA
EVROPAE DESCRIPTIO,"  
from his "Cosmographia."
1535 Lorenz (Laurent) Fries: (Untitled),
Strassburg, 18 x 12 inches. from an
edition of Ptolemy's "Geographia"
published by Melchior and Gaspar
Trechsel. From www.raremaps.com
1540, 1542  Sebastian Munster: "EVROPA PRIMA NOVA TABVLA,"13.5 x 10 inches / 33
x 27 cm, Basle, in both the first, 1540 edition on the left, and the 1542 version on the
right, both woodcuts from his "Geographia," the first atlas to include maps of every
continent. The left, 1540, map is from jpmaps.co.uk; the right, 1542, map is from www.raremaps.com
1548 Johann Stumpf: (Europe), 15 x 12
inches,  Zurich. Rare untitled variant
edition of Stumpf's map of Europe, oriented
with south at the top, from his
"Schweytzer Chronick." From
www.raremaps.com
1542, 1545  Sebastian Munster: "TABVLA EVROPAE VIII,"
10.9 x 13.3 inches, text in Latin, in from "Geographia
Universalis, Vetus et Nova, complectens Cladii Ptolemaei
Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII" (first edition 1540),
published by Heinrich Petri. Also a DETAIL images of the
1542 and 1545 maps compared. 1542 map from
www.sanderusmaps.com; 1545 map from lusarag on eBay
1550 Giacomo Gastaldi: "Desciptione de la
Moscovia..." Venice, 15.5 x 10.5 inches,
based on the work of Baron Sigismund von
Herberstein, who had visited Moscow
twice as Emperor Maximillian I's
ambassador to Russia. From
www.raremaps.com
1542                                               1545
1542 DETAIL                                 1545 DETAIL
1545 DETAIL images
The same 21 words are listed in each version, but the
list has been reset: 1542's "Badatiu" has become
"Badatium" in the 1545 version
1545 - 1560  Sebastian Munster: "Poland and Hungary," from the same plate, 14 x 10 inches, as published in his "Cosmographia Universalis."
with 500 woodcuts, and 24 double-page maps, from 1544 until 1628.
1550: "POLONIAE  ET VNGARIAE NOVA
DESCRIPTIO." Basle. From www.raremaps.com
1560: "Nuoua descrizzione della Polonia, &
dell' Vngaria." From www.raremapscom
1545: "Landtafel des Ungerlands/Polands
/Preussen/Littaw/Walachei/ Bulgarei."
From  http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/