Marine map depicting seas of the Nothern Europe region was drawn by Olaus Magnus and printed as parchment engraving in Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus, Venice (Italy) in 1539.
The navigation chart created by Thomaso Porcacchi was printed as copper engraving in L'Isole piu famose del mondo - S. Galignani and G. Porro, Venice (Italy) in 1572.
This decorative compass rose (windrose) was part of an ancient book issued by the famous French cartographer Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville (1600/1667) and re-edited bei TERRES in Naples in 1794.