The Moluccas, Page from a Portolan Atlas by Lopo Homem and Pedro Reinel, circa 1519

Detail of North Africa & Europe from the Catalan Atlas by Abraham Cresques (1325-87) 1375

Atlas of Charles V, Map of Mecia De Viladestes, a Portulan of Europe and North Africa, 1413

Atlas Coelestis Seu Harmonia Macrocosmica, 18th Century

Map Tracing Magellan's World Voyage, Once Owned by Charles V, 1545

Atlas Geographicus, 1725

World Map with Globe

Map of North America, Published by T. Stackhouse, 1783

Detail from the Catalan Atlas, 1375

Map of Paris and Its Surroundings, from "Oisivetes"

The Siege of Dieppe in 1589, 1589-92

Lutetia or the First Plan of Paris, from Caesar, Strabo, Emperor Julian and Ammianus Marcellinus

Plan of the Port and Arsenal of Brest, 1676

Views of the Port of San Julian, Patagonia

Plan of the Battle of Blenheim Between the Imperial Army and Franco-Bavarian Army, 13 August 1704

The World on Mercator's Projection

Geo-Hydrographic Mappamonde

Hand Colored Map of Iceland, 1595

Detail from a Map of Paris in the Reign of Henri II Showing the Quartier Des Ecoles, 1552

Plan of the Royal Garden of the Medicinal Plants in Paris, 1641

Map of North and South America, from the "Sala Del Mappamondo" (Hall of the World Maps," c. 1574-75)

Map of the First Discoveries of Christopher Columbus (1450-1506)

Map of Rocroi, from "Atlas De Louis XIV," 1683-88

Plan of the Town of La Rochelle, 1736

Plan of Constantinople

Map of Countries First Discovered by Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) 1500

Map of Boston and Environs French, C 1755

Map of Asia

Map of the Town and Citadel of Bellisle, from the "Atlas Louis XIV," 1683-88