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Collection Gallery 1:
This gallery includes ten woodcut and copperplate engraving maps depicting the earliest explorers' reports of the New World. Click here for background on this gallery, including the legend of Quivira, a mythical kingdom thought to be enormously wealthy and civilized. Coronado first heard of Quivira during a expedition north of Mexico into what is now the American Southwest.
Click on any of the thumbnail images of the maps below for a close up view and a written history/description of each. Each enlarged image page also offers you the option to click an arrow to move forward or back through the maps, without returning to this page.
All of the maps in this gallery include "audio tours" (mp3), featuring collection owner Henry Wendt describing the significance and history of the particular map.
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Sebastian Münster,
Tabula novarum insularum
Basel, 1544
(Woodcut)
Audio Tour |
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Giacomo Gastaldi (attr.), Universale della parte del mondo nuovamente ritrovata
Venice, 1565
(Woodcut)
Audio Tour
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Tomaso Porcacchi,
Mondo Nuovo
Venice, 1576
(Copperplate Engraving)
Audio Tour
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Abraham Ortelius,
Maris Pacifici
Antwerp, 1589
(Copperplate Engraving)
Audio Tour
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Cornelis de Jode,
Quivirae Regnu
Antwerp, 1593
(Copperplate Engraving)
Audio Tour
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Cornelus van Wytfliet
Limes Occidentis Quivira et Anian
Louvain, 1597
(Copperplate Engraving)
Audio Tour
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Gerard Mercator,
Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio.
Amsterdam, 1595
(Copperplate Engraving)
Audio Tour
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Jodocus Hondius
Septentrio America
Amsterdam, 1606
(Copperplate Engraving)
Audio Tour
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Carta particolare della America e parte maestrale dal C. di Cedros
Florence, 1647
(Copperplate Engraving)
Audio Tour
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Carte prima, Generale d'America dell'India Occidentale e Mare del Zur Florence, 1646
(Copperplate Engraving)
Audio Tour
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Click on any of the map images for larger views and a written description of each.
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