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Envisioning the World: The First Printed Maps, 1472 - 1700

First Name: 
Henry
Last Name: 
Wendt
Sonoma County Museum | Santa Rosa, CA | 2010

An extraordinary collection of world maps, dating from 1472 to 1700, found a permanent home in the Historic Maps Collection of the Princeton University Library in 2013. Collected by Henry Wendt, Class of 1955, and his wife, Holly, the thirty items had been traveling around the country for three years as an exhibition, “Envisioning the World: The First Printed Maps, 1472-1700.”  

For more see: https://blogs.princeton.edu/rbsc/2013/05/28/envisioning-the-world/

Visit the online exhibition