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Maps and Mapping of Norway

Sea Charts of Norway

Printed Maps of Scandinavia and the Arctic, 1482-1601
William B. Ginsberg

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[Download PDF] Table of Contents (and illustration of Mercator's 1595 map of Scandinavia)
[Download PDF] Preface
[Download PDF] Entry #10: Sebastian Münster's first map of Scandinavia (1540)
[Download PDF] Entry #47: Theodore de Bry's reduced-sized version of Barents's map of the Arctic (1599)
[Download PDF] Appendix 3 (first two pages): English translation of the Opera Breve of Olaus Magnus (1539) [This is the first time that an English translation of the Opera Breve has been published.]
[Download PDF] Appendix 4: Decision-tree algorithm for identifying the German editions of Münster's second map of Scandinavia (1544-1578)

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