ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS IN VOL, XL 



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North-western portion of Nicolaus Germanus's first revision of 



Ptolemy's map of the world (after 1466) 277 



Map of the North by Nicolaus Germanus (before 1482) 278 



Part of a Catalan compass-chart of the fifteenth century, pre- 

 served at Milan 280 



Europe on the mappamundi in the Geneva MS. of Sallust of 



about 1450 282 



North-western portion of Andreas Walsperger's mappamundi 



of 1448 283 



North-western portion of Fra Mauro's mappamundi of 1457-59, 



preserved at Venice 285 



Northern Europe on the Genoese mappamundi of 1447 or 1457. . 287 



Northernmost Europe and the north polar regions on Behaim's 



globe, 1492 288 



A portion of the Laon globe of 1493. [After d'Avezac] 290 



Hypothetical chart of the variation of the compass in the At- 

 lantic, circa 1500 308 



North-western portion of Juan de la Cosa's map of 1500. ... 310, 311 



Northern portion of the map of the world of 1544, attributed 



to Sebastian Cabot 320 



Portion of Pedro Reinel's map, beginning of the sixteenth 



century 321 



Portion of Michael Lok's map, London, 1582 323 



North-western portion of Robert Thome's map, of 1527 (copy 



of a Spanish map of the world) 334 



Portion of the " Cantino " map of 1502, preserved at Modena 350, 351 



Portion of an anonymous Portuguese chart of about 1520, pre- 

 served at Munich 354 



Portion of Diego Ribero's map of 1529 357 



Portion of Maggiolo's map of 1527 [Harrisse, 1892] 358 



The newly discovered north-western lands made continuous 



with Asia, on Maggiolo's map of 151 1 359 



The eastern coast-line of Newfoundland, with possibly the 



southern part of Labrador 364 



Reconstruction of an equidistant chart on which the coasts are 

 laid down from magnetic courses without regard to the 

 variation 371 



North-western portion of the " King " map, an anonymous 



Italian mappamundi of about 1502 373 



Northern portion of an anonymous Italian chart, a little later 



than 1503, In the Oliveriana Library at Pesaro 375 



Northern portion of an Italian map, possibly drawn by 



Pilestrina, 151 1 37y 



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