In the historical map holdings of the ULB, the works of Flemish-Dutch cartographers are a focal point: Willem Blaeuw, Jodocus Hondius, Jan Jansson, Lucas Jacob Waghenaer, and especially Gerhard Mercator. The text printing of their atlases was done in Düsseldorf. In Cologne, an independent cartographic tradition developed in the second half of the 16th century with Johannes Metellus and Matthias Quad, which is also present in the collection. The very accurate maps of the course of the Rhine published at the end of the 18th century by Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking, the Electoral Palatine water engineer in the Duchy of Berg, represent the last high point of the regional cartographic tradition.
Cursus Padi per Longobardiam A Fonte Usque Ad Ostia
Cum Fluminibus, Quae Illum Se Exonerant et adjacentibus Ducatibus ac Principatibus, Quos Interluit Et Qui Confines Sunt, Tribus Combinandis Tabellis accuratissime et juxta recentißimam designationemNova Et Accurata Ducatus Cliviae Et Comitatus Marchiae Cum Finitimis Provinciis Delineatio
Cum Gratia et Privil. S. R. I. Vicariatus in partibus Rheni, Sueviae et Iuris FranconiciNova et exactissima Geographica Delineatio Insulae Corfu seu Corsulae
tanquam primariae et Clavis maris Ionii, cum finitimis transmarinis Graeciae oppidis et portubusNovissima et Accuratior Tabella Magni Ducatûs Hetruriae
complectens hodie tria Territor: Florentium Pisanum et Senense cum Insula Elba et locis quibusdam Vallis Magrae. etc.Præfecturæ Principatus Querfurtensis Dahmiana Et Iüterboccensis
cum vicinia oppidis, vicis, pagis accurate distinctaLe royaume de France
fait conforme aux cartes, imprimées, et manuscrittes, desmees sur la situation des lieux et conferees avec les itineraires anciens et modernesS[acri] R[omani] I[mperii] Principat[us] et Archiepiscopatus Salisburgensis mappa Geographica
delineatus in qua Subjectæ appertinent[ur] finitimae Regiones et Ditiones accuratiss[imae] ab oculos ponuntur