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A map of Manhattan with Hudson River, East River and Long Island, drawn 1661/64.

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A map of the world in the shape of a heart by Orontius,1536, now in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.

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A painted map of the Arabian peninsula, 1540, by G. B. Ramusio, retouched in 1762 by Francesco Grisellini, now in the Doge's Palace, Venice.

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A map of England and Scotland, drawn circa 1250 by the monk Matthew Paris in the monastery in St. Albans.

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A bird's-eye view of Goa in a copperplate engraving circa 1600.

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