Map of the World made by Arab cartographer Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi in 1154 at court of Roger II of Sicily
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Historical map of Italy by Girolamo Andrea Martignoni, 1721
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Sandro Botticelli, Mappa dell’Inferno (Map of Hell) from Dante's 'Divine Comedy', c.1480-c.1495
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Piri Reis, Map of the Island of Bozjah (Tenedos) Off the Coast of Anatolia
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Piri Reis, Map of the Nile with various oases on each as far as Sīdī Maʿrūf from Book on Navigation
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Piri Reis - Map of the fortress of Alanya (Turkey) from Book on Navigation, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.658, fol. 329a
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Page from 'Atlas for The Blind' 1837
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Saul Steinberg, Autogeography, 1966
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Jaro Hess, The land of make believe. 1930
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Detail of Asia and the Middle East from Abraham Cresques' Catalan Atlas, 1375
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The Ebstorf Mappa Mundi, made by Gervase of Ebstorf in the 1290s, was found in Ebstorf, Germany in 1843
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Nanzenbushu bankoku shoka no zu (Buddhist map of the World) by Rokashi, Kyoto,1710. first world map printed in Japan
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Yayoi Kusama - The Island (no. 4), 1953.
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And possibly my favorite:
BOHEMIAE ROSA, by Chr. Vetter, Vienna, 1668, a map representing Bohemia as a rose centred on Prague.
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Juan Downey. Map of America. 1975. Colored pencil, pencil, and acrylic on map on board
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Faith Ringgold. “United States of Attica.” 1972. Offset lithograph. (55 × 69.6 cm)
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Map of the World, from Jean Corbichon's translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus's 'De proprietatibus rerum' (late 15th century)
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