![GYGER, Hans Conrad Nova descriptio ditionis Tigurinae, regionumq[ue] finitimarum = Neüe Beschreibung der Landschafft Zürich.](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/10752_1H.jpg?x80550)
Gyger’s rare map of the Canton of Zurich: “the earliest relief map in existence”
By GYGER, Hans Conrad, 1685
![PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Martin WALDSEEMULLER [World map]](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2290_1H.jpg?x80550)
Waldseemuller’s modern world map
By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Martin WALDSEEMULLER, 12th March, 1513].
The Heber copy of the first Strassburg edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia; the first ‘modern’ atlas
By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Martin WALDSEEMULLER, 1513
The first ‘modern’ printed map of Switzerland
By WALDSEEMULLER, Martin, 1513].
First map in an edition of Ptolemy to name America
By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius, 1525
A patriotic map of Switzerland
By BODENEHR, Johann Georg, 1698 [?but 1770].
First map in an edition of Ptolemy to name “America” in fine original colour
By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius, 1525
![[HOLLAR, Wenceslaus after Martinus MARTINI] Lucerna Helvetiorum Vulgo Lucernn](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/18353_1H.jpg?x80550)
Lucerne
By [HOLLAR, Wenceslaus after Martinus MARTINI], c1645].
First map in an edition of Ptolemy to name “America”
By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius, 1525
The home of Heidi
By GYGER, Conrad, 1632-37.
An unrecorded state of Dobree's chart of Guernsey
The Consolidation of Cartography
