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The first modern atlas, prepared by Martin Waldseemüller using the translation of Mathias Ringmann. this is one of the most important editions of Ptolemy, containing many new regional maps.

Twenty new maps based on contemporary knowledge were included in addition to the traditional body of twenty-seven Ptolemaic maps derived from the 1482 Ulm edition. Schott's edition was commenced by the most famous of all early sixteenth-century cosmographers, Martin Waldseemüller and his associate Mathias Ringmann,.

The FIRST EDITION of Sebastian Münster’s "Geographia Universalis", published in 1540. This was a new and important edition of Ptolemy, with redesigned maps and the text revised by Münster based on the Willibald Pirckheimer Latin translation with corrections of 1535 by Servetus.
The Geographia was landmark work which contained, along with the Ptolemaic maps, several of the most significant modern maps in the history of cartography.

One of the rarest of French illustrated incunables. The Mer des histoires (‘A sea of stories’) is the French adaptation of the Latin Rudimentum novitiorum, an abridged history of the world, first published at Lübeck in 1475.
This famous volume contained the first detailed printed maps ever produced. Two separate blocks of the world map were made for French issues of the Mer de Hystoires, the first in Paris in 1488 and the second in Lyons in 1491.
“Whereas the earlier La Mer des Hystoires map of 1488 remained close to the Rudimentum Novitiorum prototype, this second (and reduced) derivation of 1491 betrays the work of a thinking individual”

Amsterdam, 1661
The Dutch-German mathematician and cosmographer Andreas Cellarius is well known to map historians and historians of astronomy as the author of the Harmonia Macrocosmica (first published in 1660), a folio-sized work that is commonly regarded to be one of the most spectacular cosmographical atlases that was published in the second half of the seventeenth century.

Among the greatest decorative works of early cartography is a series of arresting maps showing The Netherlands and Belgium in the shape of a lion.

The English Pilot, The Fourth Book ... By the Information of divers Navigators of our own and other nations.
LONDON, Printed for William Fisher at the Postern on Tower-Hill, and John Thornton at the Plat in the Minories, MDCLXXXIX. Folio

The first edition of Mortier's Atlas Maritime, "Neptune François", one of the most spectacular cartographical works ever produced.
According to Koeman: "...the most expensive sea-atlas ever published in Amsterdam ... Its charts are larger and more lavishly decorated than those of any preceding book of this kind. For the engraving and etching Mortier had recruited the most qualified artists.

Rare French Sea Atlas of the coasts of Africa, Australia, the Red Sea, India, the East Indies, Indochina and Formosa. With 31 large engraved maps of which 13 are double-page and 18 full-page.
D'' Après de Mannevillette (1707-1780) was a famous French sailor and hydrograph. During a voyage to China in 1728 he succeeded in correcting the latitudes of many places using new instruments. Back in France he devised a plan to correct and publish all the existing maps of the route to China: the Res Sea, the coasts of India, Malaya, the northern parts of Indonesia, Indochina and China.