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    APPENDIX

    Plate 1: Jean Mansel, Mappa Mundi (ca. 1460)

    Plate 2: Johannes Putsch, ‘Europa Regina’ (1537) in


    Hans Neusiedler’s Das Ander Buch (1544)
    Plate 3: Gerardus Mercator, Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio (1569)

    Plate 4: Abraham Ortelius, Tipus Orbis Terrarum (1570)


    Plate 5: Matthias Quad, Tipus Orbis Terrarum (1592)

    Plate 6: Abraham Ortelius, ‘Frontispiece’


    in Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570)
    Plate 7: Gerardus Mercator, ‘Frontispiece’
    in Atlas Sive Cosmographicae (1595)

    Plate 8: ‘Europa’, ‘Asia’, ‘Africa’ and ‘America’


    in Philip Galle’s Prosopographia (ca. 1585)
    Plate 9: ‘Europa’, ‘Asia’, ‘Africa’ and ‘America’
    in Adriaen Collaert’s Four Continents (ca. 1588)
    Plate 10: Petrus Plancius, Orbis Terrarum Tipus (1594)

    Plate 11: ‘Europa’, ‘Asia’, ‘Africa’ and ‘America’


    in Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia (1603)
    Plate 12: Peter Paul Rubens, The Four Rivers of Paradise (ca. 1615)

    Plate 13: Frans Francken the Younger, Allegory on the Abdication


    of Emperor Charles V in Brussels (ca. 1630)
    Plate 14: Henricus Hondius, Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis (1630)

    Plate 15: Tympanum of the Rear Façade of


    the Royal Palace of Amsterdam (1648)
    Plate 16: Personification of the Río de la Plata at
    the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (1651)

    Plate 17: Johannes Blaeu, ‘Frontispiece’


    in Atlas Maior (1662)
    Plate 18: Nicolaes Visscher, Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis (1652)

    Plate 19: Juan Correa, The Four Parts of the World (1675-1700)

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