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Map[Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc.].
Portolan atlas containing 10 maps Pen-and-ink and watercolor, on vellum. Each double-page illumination is 21 x 29 cm. Compass rose on inside back cover. Dedicated to Hieronymus Ruffault, Abbot of St. Vaast. Title provided by cataloger. "Maps 1, 2, and 10 show America. No. 1 shows the Gulf of California which Ulloa discovered in 1539. On the same map Yucatan is shown as an island, and the east and...- Contributor: Agnese, Battista
- Date: 1544-01-01
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MapMapamondi. Relief and depths shown pictorially. Title from first word of descriptive text on first facsim. leaf. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. In Catalan; introd.; uncaptioned in Spanish by J. Vernet and D. Romano. Traditionally attributed to A. Cresques, with the possible collaboration of his son, J. Cresques. Facsim. of the 1375 ed. of the Catalan atlas,...
- Contributor: Bibliothèque Nationale De France - Cresques, Abraham
- Date: 1959-01-01
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MapCartes et tables de la géographie physique ou naturelle Relief shown pictorially. "Présentées au Roi le 15 mai 1757". Phillips, 220 Engraved title page. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: map titled "Planisphere physique, où l'on voit du pole septentrional ce que l'on connoît de terres et de mers ... vigies" removed and cataloged separately.
- Contributor: L'isle, Guillaume De - Buache, Philippe
- Date: 1757-01-01
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Map[Zee-atlas]
Loots atlas Nautical charts with numerous place-names along coastlines. Depths shown by soundings. Title from citation in Philip Lee Phillips' A list of geographical atlases, p. 246. Most maps in Dutch; text and titles in Dutch, French, English, or Latin on some maps. List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 3464 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image....- Contributor: Loots, Johannes
- Date: 1705
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Map[Portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea, western Europe, and the northwest coast of Africa]. Title supplied by cataloger. Attributed to Joan Oliva by John Wolter in A portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea and western European waters, with a world map, 1987. Pen-and-ink and watercolor on vellum. World map painted on paper affixed to vellum. Six blank paper pages precede and follow the 10 vellum pages of maps. Circular watermarks on pp. [3] and [19]. Bound in contemporary...
- Contributor: Oliva, Joan
- Date: 1590-01-01
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MapAtlas maritimus or, the sea-atlas : being a book of maratime (sic) charts describing the coasts, capes, headlands, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers, the bays, roads, harbours, rivers, and ports in most ...
Sea-atlas, containing an hydrographical description of the sea-coasts of most of the known parts of the world Relief shown pictorially on some maps. Depths shown by soundings on some maps. Engraved title page. Phillips, 3455 Includes "Mapp of the world" on engraved title page. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Accompanied by manuscript note from the dealer, Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles dated Nov. 4, 1909 (on sheet 26 x 21 cm., folded in...- Contributor: Thornton, John
- Date: 1700-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialClaudii Ptolemei viri Alexandrini mathematice discipline philosophi doctissimi Geographie opus nouissima traductione e Grecorum archetypis castigatissime pressum, ceteris ante lucubratorum multo prestantius ...
Geographie opus nouissima traductione e Grecorum archtypis castigatissime pressum, ceteris ante lucubratorum multo prestantius | Geographie opus novissima traductione e Grecorum archetypis castigatissime pressum, ceteris ante lucubratorum multo prestantius | Geographi[a]e opus nouissima traductione e Gr[a]ecorum archtypis castigatissime pressum, c[a]eteris ante lucubratorum multo pr[a]estantius Jacopo d'Angelo's Latin translation from the Greek of Ptolemy's Geographia. "This edition was commenced by ... Martin Waltzemüller ... about the year 1505 ... Mathias Ringmann ... was also employed on the work. The modern maps were prepared by Waltzemüller, and most of them--perhaps all--engraved as early as 1507. The completion of the text, however, was delayed; and in 1508 all of the material...- Contributor: Ringmann, Matthias - D'angelo, Jacopo - Ptolemy - Übelin, Georg - Essler, Jacob - Waldseemüller, Martin - Schott, Johann - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Belin, Georg - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1513-01-01
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MapCarta universal en que se contiene todo lo que del mundo se ha descubierto fasta agora In lower margin: The second Borgian map by Diego Ribero, Seville 1529. "Reproduced from the original in the Museum of the 'Propaganda' in Rome, lent by His Holiness Pope Leo XIII, by W. Griggs, London." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Ribero, Diego
- Date: 1887-01-01
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MapTypus orbis universalis. Appears in Claudius Ptolemaeus' Geographia. Text on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated in black ink on verso: 187. Vault
- Contributor: Münster, Sebastian
- Date: 1550-01-01
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MapVniversale descrittione di tvtto il monde
Universale descrittione di tutto il monde Relief shown pictorially. Probably the second state of the map. Differs from the first state in the reworking of Tierra del Fuego to include the Straits of Magellan. Presents Staten Island, west of Tierra del Fuego, as an island, presumably based on the observations of Hendrik Brouwer in 1643. Differs from the state owned by the Harry Ransom Center by the presence of a...- Contributor: Rosaccio, Giuseppe
- Date: 1643-01-01
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MapDiversi globi terr-aquei : statione variante et visu intercedente, per coluros tropicorum, per ambos polos et particul. sphaerae zenith in planum delineati orthographici prospectus ; quibus additae pro mutatione horizontis hifferentes sphaerae ... Relief shown pictorially. Includes notes, illustrations, four diagrams, and eight ancillary maps showing variant hemispheres. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Seutter, Matthaeus
- Date: 1740-01-01
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MapMappe monde nouvelle Relief shown pictorially. Includes text and illustrations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Le Rouge, Georges-Louis
- Date: 1744-01-01
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MapMappe monde nouvelle Relief shown pictorially. Includes text and illustrations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Le Rouge, Georges-Louis
- Date: 1744-01-01
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MapSankai yochi zenzu.
山海輿地全圖 Scale ca. 1:27,000,000 at the equator. Wood block print, hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows continents and oceans of the world at about 1600. Based on Matteo Ricci's World map which was published in China in 1602. Includes text. At head of text: Chikyū bankoku sankai yochi zenzu setsu. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2- Contributor: Ricci, Matteo - Nagakubo, Sekisui
- Date: 1785-01-01
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MapDa Qing wan nian yi tong tian xia quan tu.
大清万年一统天下全图 | The great Qing Dynasty's complete map of all under heaven Scale ca. 1:2,500,000. Covers from Korea to India, from Russia to Brunei. Shows the world known to the Chinese, with China at the center of the map. Wood block print. Relief shown pictorially. Based on the original map drawn by Huang Qianren in 1767. Hummel purchase 1930, no. 18. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text....- Contributor: Hummel, Arthur W. (Arthur William) - Huang, Qianren
- Date: 1811-01-01
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MapGlobo terrestre Relief shown pictorially. Gores for a 34 cm. globe. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; Summit Enterprise, Inc.; May 2003. All sheets folded horizontally, with paper hinges on verso, and traces of color on edges. Some acid offset on gore sheets. Four sheets of gores and 1 sheet with zodiacs and 2 polar calottes.
- Contributor: Calcografia Camerale (Rome, Italy) - Cassini, Gio. Ma. (Giovanni Maria)
- Date: 1790-01-01
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MapPlanisphere physique, où l'on voit du pole septentrional ce que l'on connoît de terres et de mers ... vigies Relief shown by hachures. Projection centered on North Pole. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy removed from its copy of Buache's Cartes et tables de la géographie physique ou naturelle. À Paris: sur le Quay de l'Horlage, [1757].
- Contributor: L'isle, Guillaume De - Desbruslins - Buache, Philippe
- Date: 1756-01-01
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MapAntiqvissima orbis delineatio.
Antiquissima orbis delineatio Relief shown pictorially. Publication information from text. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Briet, Philip
- Date: 1649-01-01
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MapThe geography of the great solar eclipse of July 14 MDCCXLVIII : exhibiting an accurate map of all parts of the Earth in which it will be visible, with the North Pole, ... Shows the path of the eclipse. Relief shown pictorially. Includes 24 diagrams showing the eclipse as seen from different cities. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy mounted on paper along with seven other maps and diagrams taken from various publications. All images within hand drawn frames colored yellow. All but two of the diagrams are...
- Contributor: Cave, Edward - Smith, George
- Date: 1748
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MapJing 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