French geographer Nicolas de Nicolay (1517-1583) travelled through most of Europe and the Near East. His knowledge of the Baltic, however, was rather sketchy, as his map of Europe from 1544 shows. It names the Baltic Sea as Sea of Ice (Mare glaciale) and shows a coastline that is only approximately accurate when it comes […]
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Nova Et Exquisita Descriptio Navigationum Ad Praecipuas Mundi Partes Cartographer/Engraver/Publisher: Nicolas de Nicolay [S.ll], 1544 Copper engraving, 88 x 57 cm
A copper engraving depicting Europe adorns the title page of this town atlas issued by Dutch publisher Frederick de Wit. De Wit’s atlas includes older town maps from the publishing houses of Blaeu and Janssonius. In addition to Oldenburg, this book of Europe’s most illustrious towns and cities contains maps of Osnabrück, Lüneburg and Hildesheim
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Evropa Cartographer/Engraver/Publisher: Frederick De Wit Aus: Theatrum praecipuarum totius Europae ubium Amsterdam [um 1698] Copper engraving
„And the distance to Tallinn being not much less than 300 German miles, a long journey, taking the land route through Prussia and Livonia, even if there were no other hindrance, nor one such to arise en route, with such a wench, one would still have to calculate 3 whole months for the trip’s completion
The way through the southern Baltic is the only one of the three routes that only lead over land. It passes through larger cities such as Berlin, Warsaw, Vilnius and Riga and was attractive to diplomatic travelers and scholars because of the cultural sights and collections they could visit along the way. It is the