Collection Items

  • Map
    Atlas designed to illustrate Burritt's Geography of the heave... Cover title. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Burritt, Elijah H. (Elijah Hinsdale) - Mattison, Hiram
    • Date: 1856
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    Charte der Gebirge des Mondes nach eigenen Beobachtungen in d... Relief shown by contours and shading. Title from cover. Unbound in portfolio. Accompanied by hardbound text: xii, 303, [1] p. : tables ; 31 cm. Also accompanied by softbound text: Kurze Erläuterung zu J. Schmidt's Mondcharte, in 25 Sectionen, Berlin : In Commission bei D. Reiner, 1878 : 19, [1] p. ; 30 cm. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as...
    • Contributor: Dietrich Reimer Verlag (Berlin, Germany) - Prussia (Germany). Ministerium Der Geistlichen, Unterrichts- Und Medizinal-Angelegenheiten - Schmidt, J. F. Julius (Johann Friedrich Julius)
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    [Four diagrams of Solar eclipses]. Title devised by cataloger. Appears in: Universal Geography, Johanne Bunone, London, 1711. In upper right margin: p. 30. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy stamped in black ink in lower margin: 626888.
    • Contributor: Buno, Johannes
    • Date: 1711
  • Map
    Systema mundi Tychonicum : secundum celeberrimorum astronomor... Appears in his Grosser Atlas uber die gantze Welt. Nurnberg, 1716. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Discoloration along fold line. Bottom edge and center fold repaired with cardboard on verso.
    • Contributor: Homann, Johann Baptist
    • Date: 1716
  • Map
    Systema solare et planetarium ex hypothesi Copernicana secund... Appears in his Grosser Atlas uber die gantze Welt. Nurnberg, 1716. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Discoloration along fold line. Lacking lower corners. Stamped on verso: 5985.
    • Contributor: Homann, Johann Baptist
    • Date: 1716
  • Map
    A scheme of the Solar system with the orbits of the planets a... Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated in ink on verso: Whiston's Solar System.
    • Contributor: Whiston, William - Senex, John
    • Date: 1720
  • Map
    A scheme of the Solar system with the orbits of the planets a... Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy stamped in blue ink in lower left margin: 82A. LC copy imperfect: Darkened, use-worn, losses along edges, mounted on cloth.
    • Contributor: Whiston, William - Senex, John
    • Date: 1720
  • Map
    The Solar System, with the orbits of 5 remarkable comets. Appears in: A complete system of geography / Emanuel Bowen. London, 1747. 2 vol[s]. Includes diagrams of: Oblique sphere -- Right sphere -- Parallel sphere. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy typed in lower margin: 626888, N41. LC copy has handwritten in pencil in lower left margin: A complete system of geography, 2 vol[s], Emanuel...
    • Contributor: Bowen, Emanuel
    • Date: 1747
  • Map
    The solar system displayed. "To the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the State of Massachusetts & to the Philosophical Society of Pennsylvania this plate is most humbly dedicated by their most obedient humble servant Bartholomew Burges." Appears in: A Short Account of the Solar System and of Comets in General (Boston: B. Edes, 1789). Includes illustrations of terrestrial and celestial globes and "A Table of the...
    • Contributor: Norman, John - Burges, Bartholomew
    • Date: 1789
  • Map
    A plan or map of the Solar System projected for schools & aca... "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1846, by Hall Colby, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated in black ink in lower right margin: Deposited Oct. 8, 1846. LC copy imperfect: Shellacked, use-worn,...
    • Contributor: Jones & Newman - Colby, Hall
    • Date: 1846
  • Map
    Gran tavola cosmografica contenente le rotazioni annuali terr... Includes text, four hemispherical views of the Earth showing night and day and different times and latitudes, and colored illustrations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Discoloration along edges, torn and repaired, wrinkles, and loses along edges.
    • Contributor: Villa, Ignazio
    • Date: 1855
  • Map
    The solar system. In lower right margin: 7. Includes diagrams of: Theory of the Seasons -- Eclipses -- Theory of Tides -- Phases of the Moon -- Mariner's Compass. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Adam and Charles Black (Firm)
    • Date: 1885
  • Map
    Erde und Planeten, Erde und Mond Appears in: Sydow-Wagners methodischer Schul-Atlas. 1923, 1926 and 1928 editions. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy mounted on cloth.
    • Contributor: Justus Perthes (Firm : Gotha, Germany) - Wagner, Hermann - Sydow, E. Von (Emil)
    • Date: 1923
  • Map
    La sphere artificielle ou armilaire oblique : elevée sur l'ho... Includes diagrams of the Copernican, Brahean, Cartesian, and Ptolemaic systems, maps of the Sun and Moon, Venus, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, and two diagrams showing the Earth's parallels. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy stamped on verso: 3641. Trimmed and mounted in right margin, another image of an armillary sphere: La sphere du monde, selon...
    • Contributor: Starckman, P. - Fer, Nicolas De - Picart, Bernard
    • Date: 1716
  • Map
    Mars : MEC-1 Prototype.
    MEC-1 Prototype
    "Base 101. Base information Aug. 1962." "Lithographed by ACIC 7-65." "Prepared with the advisory assistance of E.C. Slipher of the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona." Includes notes, statistical data, and 6 inset polar maps of Northern and Southern Summer tilted at varying angles. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Aeronautical Chart and Information Center (U.S.)
    • Date: 1962
  • Map
    The figure of the World. In upper right corner: p. 2. includes text and 4 diagrams. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy has red-bordered label affixed to verso, with 516/1 written in ink. Left margin trimmed.
    • Date: 1650
  • Map
    [Three maps of the cosmological systems of Ptolemy, Copernicu... Title supplied by cataloger. Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy assembled from three separate maps, trimmed and mounted on sheet. LC copy imperfect: loss in center of lower margin of Copernican map.
    • Contributor: Fer, Nicolas De
    • Date: 1669
  • Map
    Planisphaerii coelestis hemisphaerium meridionale : calculatu... Shows hemispheric view with signs of the Zodiac and the constellations shown picorially. "Cum Privilegio Pontissimorum D D Ordinum Hollandiae et Westfrisiae". Appears in: Atlas nouveau contenant toutes les parties du monde, où sont exactement marqués les empires, monarchies, royaumes, états, républiques &c. Amsterdam: J. Cóvens et C. Mortier, [1683-1761]. Includes tables and notes concerning stars. Insets: Solis observation novissima -- Lunae effigies, nuper...
    • Contributor: Cóvens Et Mortier - Allard, Carel
    • Date: 1700
  • Map
    Planisphaerivm Aratevm sive Compages Orbivm Mvndanorvm ex hyp...
    Planisphaerium Arateum sive Compages Orbium Mundanorum ex hypothesi Aratea in plano expressa
    Appears in Andreas Cellarius' Harmonia macrocosmica. Amstelodami : Apud Gerardum Valk & Petrum Schenk, 1708. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy accompanied by photocopy. LC copy hand colored. Stamped in blue ink in lower left margin: 309A.
    • Contributor: Schenk, Peter - Cellarius, Andreas - Valck, G. (Gerard)
    • Date: 1708
  • Map
    [Collection of nine images including astronomical instruments... Title devised by cataloger. English, French and Latin. James Ferguson article from Gent. Mag. March 1769. Nine printed images and two panels of printed text mounted on paper within hand drawn frames colored yellow. From various sources, unidentified except for the Ferguson article. Mounted on cloth and stamped in blue ink in lower left margin: 312A. Available also through the Library of Congress Web...
    • Contributor: Ferguson, James
    • Date: 1769
  • Map
    Introduction a la géographie: carte des diverses positions de...
    Carte des diverses positions de la sphere, des systhèmes de l'Univers, des planettes, des eclypses &
    Appears in Didier Robert de Vaugondy's Atlas d'étude, pour l'instruction de la jeunesse, composé de trente-cinq cartes. A Paris : Chez C.F. Delamarche, Géographe, rue du Foin S. Jacques, au Collège de Me. Gervais, 1797. Includes "Sphere Armillaire oblique," "Globe celeste", "Globe terrestre", and diagrams of systems by Ptolemy, Copernicus, Tycho Brahe and Descartes; diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses and 12 illustrations of...
    • Contributor: Delafosse, Jean-Baptiste - Robert De Vaugondy, Didier - Delamarche, Charles François
    • Date: 1791
  • Map
    A celestial planisphere, or map of the heavens "Entered according to Act of Congress Septr. 1st. 1835 by F.J. Huntington of the State of Connecticut." "Pl. VIII." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Fragile, taped along vertical fold line.
    • Contributor: Burritt, Elijah H. (Elijah Hinsdale) - Huntington, Francis Junius - Evans, William Gardner
    • Date: 1835
  • Map
    Stars of the first 5 magnitudes visible in Northern latitudes
    Stars of the first five magnitudes visible in Northern latitudes
    Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy photocopy with slightly different typography and mounted on cloth is similar to LC original printed copy. LC copy mounted on cloth.
    • Contributor: Dilks, Albert W.
    • Date: 1909
  • Map
    Stars of the first 5 magnitudes visible in Northern latitudes
    Stars of the first five magnitudes visible in Northern latitudes
    Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy hand colored. LC copy has blue crayon on verso: 14207/1909. LC copy imperfect: Torn in half along vertical fold line.
    • Contributor: Dilks, Albert W.
    • Date: 1909
  • Map
    USAF lunar wall mosaic : LEM-1B.
    Lunar earthside hemisphere
    "Mosaic compiled November 1962." "Lithographed by ACIC 3-63." Relief shown by shading. Lunar coordinates: W 0⁰--E 0⁰/N 90⁰--S 90⁰. Includes "Lunar data" and "Graphic data." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Aeronautical Chart and Information Center (U.S.)
    • Date: 1962
  • Map
    The geography of the great solar eclipse of July 14 MDCCXLVII... 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
  • Map
    Eclipse of the sun, 1846 : April 25
    Magnificent Eclipse of the Sun, April 25th, 1846 : this is the greatest Eclispe visible to the United States until May 26th, 1854
    "Deposited in the Clerk's Office for the Southern District of New York February 21, 1846." Includes notes and world map showing path of eclipse. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy accompanied by broadside mounted on cloth with map: Text in two columns; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 22 x 17 cm. LC copy has...
    • Contributor: Smith, ASA
    • Date: 1846
  • Map
    Eclipsis solis ad 25. Julii ao. 1748 in Europa a spectandae n...
    Eclipsis solis nova delineatio | Nieuwe afbeeldinge der zons verduystering, die op den 25. July 1748 over Europa gezien zal worden, waar in niet alleen de Grootheyd, maar ook de tyd van het begin midden en eynde, voor alle plaatzen, op een geheel nieuwe manier word aangetoond | Nieuwe kaart van Europa na de alderlaatste ondekking / int licht gebracht te Amsterdam by Isaak Tirion
    Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Tirion, Isaak - Houttuyn, M. (Martinus)
    • Date: 1748