Valletta A beautifully engraved and richly detailed birds-eye plan of the harbour and city of Valletta seen from the northwest. Left hand corner map of Malta and Gozo with decorative... More info
Paris commented by Braun “Paris is the capital of the most highly productive Kingdom of France, on account of its incredible size, the nobility, merchants and burghers, its number of... More info
Moscou This map was originally made by Hessel Gerritsz (1581-1632). In 1617 he was appointed the first official cartographer of the VOC, which brought him in a special position to... More info
Welsh counties of Merioneth and Montgomery A decorative Welsh counties map by Jan Jansson, published in Amsterdam during the first half of the seventeenth century. It shows the mid-western Welsh... More info
Lodovico Guicciardini (1521-1589) Lodovico Guicciardini, an Italian writer and merchant from Florence, arrived in Antwerp in 1541 and lived there until he died in 1589. His best-known work, the Descrittione... More info
The Azimuth Projection The Mercator projection is not useful for a so-called polar projection. For the North Pole projection, the North Pole is projected perpendicularly from the South Pole and... More info