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Universalis Cosmographia
Universalis Cosmographia
Credit: Martin Waldseemüller, Library of Congress
Universalis Cosmographia, the Waldseemüller wall map dated 1507, is the first map to include the name "America" and the first to depict the Americas as separate from Asia. There is only one surviving copy of the map, which was purchased by the Library of Congress in 2001 for $10 million.