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    Wu bei zhi Wood block print. "Juan 240" shows Zheng He's voyager route from Nanjing, passing through South East Asia, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, all the way to Persian Gulf. Early Qing Dynasty ed., prefaced Tianqi 1 (1621). Juan (chapter) 240 is one of 80 volumes in 8 cases (30 x 19 cm.). "Wu bei zhi juan er bai si shi." Available also through the Library of...
    • Contributor: Mao, Yuanyi
    • Date: 1644

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    Da Ming yi tong shan he tu.
    大明一统山河图 | Tae Myong iltʻong sanha to | The great Ming Dynasty's atlas of mountains and seas
    Probably drawn by Wonhaksaeng. Covers Ming Dynasty, Korea, and Manchuria. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Warner purchase, 1927, no. 6. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Previous call no.: G2305.W6 1721
    • Contributor: Warner, Langdon
    • Date: 1721-01-01

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    [Da Ming yu di tu].
    大明與地图 | Atlas of the Ming Empire
    Title supplied. Copy imperfect: acquired copy has holes on some pages. Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; Warner purchase; 1929, no. 10. Previous call number: G2305 .D3 1566 Vault Shelf Shows 18 maps, includes 13 provinces, 2 zhili, and general maps during (嘉靖年間) Jianjing period. Taiwan is not shown, and Macau is not marked...
    • Contributor: Warner, Langdon
    • Date: 1547-01-01

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    [Da Qing fen sheng yu tu].
    [大清分省舆图] | Provincial atlas of the great Qing Dynasty
    Shows administrative divisions of 18 provinces in Qing period. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Title supplied. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Previous call number: G2305 .D35 1782 Vault Shelf Previous call number: G2305 .T15 17-- Vault
    • Date: 1754-01-01

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    Huang qing di li tu Based on map engraved by Li Zhaoluo in 1832. Prime meridian: Beijing. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Previous call no.: G2305.T9 1856
    • Contributor: Hu, Xiyan - LI, Zhaoluo
    • Date: 1856-01-01

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    Tian di tu juan
    天地图卷
    Covers Beijing, Nanjing, Shandong, Shanxi, Shanxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Henan, Huguang, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunan, Guizhou, Dongbei zhu yi, Dong nan zhu yi, and Xi bei zhu yi of Ming Dynasty. Shows 15 provinces, their capital cities, and prefectural cities in each province. Translated title: Atlas of the Ming Empire. Pen-and-ink. Includes astronomical chart and text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web...
    • Contributor: Hummel, Arthur W. (Arthur William)
    • Date: 1621
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    Xia lan zhi zhang.
    遐覽指掌。 | Viewing distant places in the palm of your hand
    Covers Beijing, Nanjing, Shandong, Shanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunan, Guizhou, Nü zhen du si wei suo, Dong nan zhu yi, Xi bei zhu yi of Ming Dynasty. Cover title. Pen-and-ink. "Hai wai you jie"--T.p. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes astronomy chart. Gift; Arthur William Hummel; 1930, no. 1. Previous...
    • Contributor: Hummel, Arthur W. (Arthur William)
    • Date: 1647-01-01

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    [Tian di tu]
    245-02/$1 天地图。 | Panel title: Guang yu tu | Alternate title in English: Atlas of heaven and earth
    Shows celestial sphere, China as a whole, and 15 provinces fo the Ming Dynasty, Chinese Turkestan, and the "South Seas", including Japan, Philippines, Java, Sumatra, Calicut, Bagdad, etc. Covers Beijing, Henan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Nanjing, Shandong, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Huguang, Yunan, Guizhou, Dongbei Nüzhe, Dong nan zhu yi, and Xi bei zhu yi. Wood block print with place names labeled by hand....
    • Contributor: Zuo, Junheng - Hummel, Arthur W. (Arthur William)
    • Date: 1601

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    Fen ye yu tu.
    分野與圖 | Atlas of the realm: cosmology and provinces
    Covers Beijing, Nanjing, and 13 other provinces of Ming Dynasty. Cover title. Pen-and-ink. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes astronomy chart. Previous call no.: G2305.F4
    • Date: 1601-01-01

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    [Huang yu quan lan fen sheng tu].
    [皇與全覽分省圖] | Zhongguo ge sheng di tu | The Kangxi provincial atlas of China
    Covers Zhili, Shengjing, Shandong, Shanxi, Jiangnan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Henan, Huguang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunan, Guizhou. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Prime meridian: Beijing. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; W.W. Rockhill; 1884. Previous call no.: G2305.C92 18--
    • Contributor: Rockhill, William Woodville
    • Date: 1721-01-01

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    Tian xia zong yu tu
    天下總輿圖
    Covers the world, 17 provinces of Qing Dynasty, Xinjiang, and Mongolian tribes. Shows administrative system of Jiaqing period (1801-1820). Wood block print. Gift; Arthur William Hummel; 1930, no. 3. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Previous call no.: G2305.T46
    • Date: 1890

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    Huang He xia you zha ba tu.
    黃河下游閘垻圖 | Qianlong Huang He xia you zha ba tu | Embankment atlas along the lower reaches of the Yellow River
    Shows dikes, sluice gates, bridges in the area where the Grand Canal meet the Yellow River in Jiangsu Province. Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Previous call no.: G2307.Y4 Q5 1753 Vault Shelf Previous call no.: G2307.H8C5 17-- Vault
    • Date: 1749-01-01

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    Guangdong yu tu Wood block print. Includes text which explains boundaries and distance. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Previous call no.: G2308.K8W82 1685 Vault
    • Contributor: Jiang, Yi - Han, Zuodong
    • Date: 1685-01-01
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    Zhili yu tu quan ce
    直隷與圖全冊 / | Zhili yu di tu ce | Atlas of Zhili Province
    Covers Hebei Sheng and Chengde fu. Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the bottom. Based on "Huang chao yi tong yu tu" by Li Zhaoluo and "Zhi li yi cang tu" by Fang Guangcheng. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text which indicates the number of villages in each administrative unit and...
    • Contributor: Xu, Zhidao
    • Date: 1859-01-01

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    Xinjiang quan tu.
    新疆全图
    Shows the topography, cities, villages and roads with the military posts in the Xinjiang. Also shows the administrative system and local divisions of Xinjiang before the 24th year of Emperor Qianlong (1759). Relief shown pictorially. Cover title. Pen-and-ink. Translated title: Atlas of Xinjiang Province. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes maps of "Xihu quan tu" and...
    • Contributor: Hummel, Arthur W. (Arthur William)
    • Date: 1759-01-01

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    Anlan yuan zhi Hangzhou fu xing gong dao li tu shuo
    安瀾園至杭州府行宮道里圖说 | Alternate title in English: Illustrated route map from Anlanyuan to Hangzhou
    Covers the route from the Anlanyuan garden in Haining Zhou to the travel palace inside Hangzhou Fu, Zhejiang Province. Shows sluides, dikes, bridges, road, and military posts. Wood block print. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text which explains distance between each stop on the route, as well as the dike re-built projects. Previous call number:...
    • Date: 1765
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    Nansenbushū bankoku shōka no zu
    南瞻部洲萬國掌菓之圖 / | Bankoku shōka no zu
    Shows the world, based on knowledge from numerous famous Chinese and Japanese classics and Buddhism. Depths shown pictorially. Wood block print. Map and author, Hōtan, listed in Imago Mundi's Review of early cartography, v. 10, 1954. "... prototype of Buddhist world maps." Bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 94-37
    • Contributor: Sōshun
    • Date: 1710-01-01
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    [Aihun, Luosha, Taiwan, Nei Menggu tu]
    [艾渾,羅刹,台灣,蒙古圖] | Pictorical maps of Aihun, Russia, Taiwan and Mongolia
    Scales differ. Manuscript on silk. Relief shown pictorially. Pictorial map. Bird's-eye view. Covers four frontier regions of the Manchu Dynasty, Aihun area, a military colony since the middle of the 17th century on the north banks of the Amur, Russian camp in eastern Siberia, Taiwan and Pescadores Islands, and Inner Mongolia. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image....
    • Date: 1697-01-01
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    Hua yi tu. Stone rubbing dated 1903? Original stone was engraved in Fuchang 7 nian, i.e. 1136 A.D. The stone is now in the Forest of Stone Steles Museum in Xi'an, China. Covers China in Nan Song Dynasty, from east to the sea, including Korea to the west of Pamier area, from north to the Great Wall, northeast to Heilongjiang region, to the south of Hainan Island....
    • Date: 1136-01-01
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    Hua yi tu. Stone rubbing dated 1903? Original stone was engraved in Fuchang 7 nian, i.e. 1136 A.D. The stone is now in the Forest of Stone Steles Museum in Xi'an, China. Covers China in Nan Song Dynasty, from east to the sea, including Korea to the west of Pamier area, from north to the Great Wall, northeast to Heilongjiang region, to the south of Hainan Island....
    • Date: 1136-01-01
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    Hua yi tu. Scale not given. Stone rubbing dated 1933? Original stone was engraved in Fuchang 7 nian, i.e. 1136 A.D. The stone is now in the Forest of Stone Steles Museum in Xi'an, China. Covers China in Nan Song Dynasty, from east to the sea, including Korea to the west of Pamier area, from north to the Great Wall, northeast to Heilongjiang region, to the south...
    • Date: 1136-01-01
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    San cai yi guan tu
    三才一貫圖 / | Map of the three powers unified
    Wood block print. Relief shown pictorially. Primary coverage includes maps of China and the world, and astronomical map of the polar regions (northern and southern hemispheres). Includes chronological table of Chinese history (the dynasties), charts of the 8 phenomena, maps of the planets and their orbits, excerpts of Chinese classic literature (Daxue), etc., and other writings. Available also through the Library of Congress Web...
    • Contributor: Lü, Weifan - Lü, Fu
    • Date: 1722-01-01
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    Jing ban tian wen quan tu
    京板天文全图 / | Complete map of astronomy and the Qing Empire
    Scale not given. Shows two hemispheres, the territory, administrative divisions, and topographical features of the Qing Empire. Wood block print, hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Based on map of China drawn by Huang Lizhou in 1673. Includes text, lists of provinces, and maps of 2 hemispheres. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Previous call number: G7820 1800...
    • Contributor: Huang, Zongxi - Ma, Junliang
    • Date: 1790-01-01
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    [Zhongguo tu]. Title devised by cataloger. Annotated on verso: "From original owned by Thomas W. Fina, 7400 Rebecca Drive, Alexandria, VA." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Date: 1800-01-01
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    Yu di quan tu.
    舆地全图。 | Complete map of imperial territory
    Scale ca. 1:4,000,000. Covers an area from Tula River in the north to the Great Wall and Wanlishitang Islands in the South China Sea, and from Korea in the east to the Pamirs in the west. Wood block print, hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Hummel purchase 1930, no. 4. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes list...
    • Contributor: Hummel, Arthur W. (Arthur William)
    • Date: 1798-01-01