Selected items from my Ottoman Empire Maps collection. These original maps are sorted by the publication date and the cartographer. Some maps have been used in atlas and books even after the death of cartographers. If the cartographer is unknown, instead of the cartographer, the publisher is listed. The city in the name of the map is the city where the atlas or the book was published.
1561 - Ptolemy/Ruscelli - Europæ Tabula IX
1561 Ptolemy/Ruscelli Map: Europæ Tabula IX
The map comes from Ruscelli's 'Ptolemaeus La Geographia' which
published new (Tabula Nova) maps along with Ptolemy's
originals.
The map is from the 1561 first edition of the atlas, published in
Venice.
This wood block printed Ptolemaic map is one of earliest printed representation of south eastern Europe and Balkan countries including Byzantium. The Danube river flows across the region from west to east. Byzantium, soon to be Constantinople, is marked on the Bosphorus between the Black and Aegean Seas.
Outline hand coloring.
1561 - Ptolemy/Ruscelli - Europæ Tabula IX
1578 - Münster - Constantinople
A woodcut view of Istanbul/Constantinople from Münster's German edition of the Cosmographia.
1578 - Münster - Constantinople
1595 - Ortelius - Thraciae Veteris Typus
Antique map of Ancient Thrace, 1595, A. Ortelius, (1649, J. Janssonius), after G. Gastaldi
Title: ΘΡΑΚΗ. Thraciæ Veteris Typvs [Thraciae Veteris Typus] (Map of Ancient Thrace)
Cartouche I: Loca Circa Byzantium Incertae Positionis (Uncertain Places Around Byzantium)
Cartouche II: Thraciae Aliquot Incogniti Situs Loca (Several Unknown Locations in Thrace)
1595 - Ortelius - Thraciae Veteris Typus
1598 - Porchacchi-Mangini - Natolia olim Asia Minor
1598 - Porchacchi-Mangini - Natolia olim Asia Minor
1620 - Porcacchi - Constantinopoli
Copper etching from "L'Isole piu Famose del Mondo" (The most famous islands of the world) by Thomas Porcacchi (1530 - 1585) and engraved by Girolamo Porro. The first edition of this work was published in Venice in 1572. This is from the second edition, 1620 published in Padua. A very attractive and uncommon early 17th century map of the city of Constantinople/Istanbul. This wonderful birds-eye view shows a delightful level of detail, including major geographical features such as individual buildings, small islands off the coast, a nice compass rose, and numerous sailing ships. Amazing how many individual buildings are depicted, including quite a variety across the Golden Horn at Pera.
1620 - Porcacchi - Constantinopoli
1668 - Clüver - Persia ex Adamo Oleario
Adam Olearius (September 24, 1599 – February 22, 1671), was a German scholar, mathematician, geographer and librarian who became secretary to the ambassador sent by Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, to the Shah of Safavid Persia (Iran), and published two books about the events and observations during his travels.
This map by Clüver is based on Adam Olearius' travels.
1668 - Clüver - Persia ex Adamo Oleario
1686 - Clüver - Thraciae - Amsterdam
Map of Thrace by Clüver published in Amsterdam in 1686. Sheet measures 5" x 5 1/4." Image area measures 4 3/4" x 5."
1686 - Clüver - Thraciae - Amsterdam
1686 - Mallet - Partie Occidentale de la Mer Mediterranee
Mer Mediterranée Selons Les Modernes./ Partie Orientale De La Mer Mediterranée./ Partie Occidentale De La Mer Mediterranée. 1685 Three miniature maps on one sheet of the Mediterranean. ARTIST/CARTOGRAPHER/ENGRAVER: Allain Manesson Mallet (1630-1706), a French cartographer and engineer IMAGE SIZE: Approx Overall page size 13 x 21cm approximately (5 x 8 inches); image size 10.5 x 14.5cm approximately (4 x 5.5 inches) PROVENANCE: "Description de l'Univers, contenant les differents systemes du Monde, les Cartes generales & particulieres de la Geographie Ancienne & Moderne: Les Plans & les Profils des principales Villes & des autres lieux considerables de la Terre; avec les portraits de Souverains qui y commandent, leurs Blasons, Titres & Livrees: Et les Moeurs, Religions, Gouvernements & divers habillemens de chaque Nation", dedie'e au Roy, par Allain Manesson Mallet. Paris, Chez Denys Thierry, Rue S. Jacques, MDCLXXXIII [First edition, Paris, 1683] TYPE: Copperplate map
