Langenes' Miniature Map of the Maluku Islands Printed Area Measurement_53.5 x 46.5 cm This map of Scandinavia is

This map of Scandinavia is from Wyld's New General Atlas

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This is an allegoricial engraving by Jospeh Montalegre of Nuremberg after Johannes Degler for Jesuit scholar Heinrich Scherer’s Atlas Marianus

Langenes' Miniature Map of the Maluku Islands Printed Area Measurement_53.5 x 46.5 cm This map of Scandinavia isMoluccae Insulae This map shows the Maluku Islands (or Moluccas), part of the volcanic Indonesian archipelago known to contemporary Europeans as the spice islands. They were the focus of Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and English attempts to control the lucrative spice trade. The map was engraved by Jodocus Hondius or Pieter van den Keere for the 'Caert thresoor', a miniature atlas first published in 1598. From 1600 it was also used in the earlier