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) |