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Map of the Southern Part of the Calabrian Peninsula and the Straits of Messina by Piri Reis (Ottoman, 1465–1555) Baltimore, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.658, fol. 213b.

Map of Constantinople, 1573, Simon Pinargenti.

“Multilingual Europe, showing the genealogy of the languages, together with the alphabets and modes of writing of all peoples” Gottfried Hensel, 1741.

A woodcut map of Thomas More’s Utopia, from Umberto Eco’s survey of history’s greatest imaginary lands.

The New Island Behind Hispania by Sebastian Münster, 1540.

This was the first separate map of the Americas. Note the dismembered human tied to a tree in South America near the text Canibali, and the city of Temistitan (or Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City)

A mythical map of Wales in Tales from the Mabinogion by Margaret Jones, 1980.

A map of Côte d'Azur, 1925.

A map of Crimea by the Ottoman geographer Piri Reis, c. 1521.

A bird’s eye map of Oregon City, 1896. (David Rumsey Historical Map Collection)

Leo Belgicus, a seventeenth century stylised map of the Low Countries.