Facsimile-atlas to the early history of cartography
Subtitle: with reproductions of the most important maps printed in the XV and XVI centuries
By: Translated from the Swedish original by Johan Adolf Ekelöf and Clements R. Markham
Publisher: Printed by P. A. Norstedt
Published: 1889
Place of publication: Stockholm
Language: eng; swe
Number of pages: 141
Subjects: Early maps; Cartography; History
Notes: At head of title: A. E. Nordenskiöld.

Translation of Facsimile-atlas till kartografiens äldsta historia.

"Catalogus auctorum tabularum geographicarum, quotquot ad nostram cognitionem hactenus pervenere; quibus addidimus, ubi locorum, quando, et a quibus excusi sunt": p. 125-130.
Table of contents: title: The geographical atlas of Ptolemy.; title: Editions of Ptolemy's geography.; title: Pseudo-editions of Ptolemy. Ptolemy's errors and merits.; title: Ancient, not Ptolemaic maps.; title: Extension of Ptolemy's oikumene towards the north and north-west.; title: The first maps of the New world and of the newly discovered parts of Africa and Asia.; title: Terrestrial globes from the 15th and the first part of the 16th century.; title: Map-projections.; title: The end of the early period of cartography, 1520-1550.; title: The transition to, and the beginning of, the modern period. Jacopo Gastaldi. Philip Apianus. Abraham Ortelius. Gerard Mercator.