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Book/Printed MaterialNouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise et du Thibet: contenant les cartes générales & particulieres de ces pays, ainsi que la carte du royaume de Corée; la plupart levées ... This atlas was prepared to accompany J. B. Du Halde's Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine ... La Haye, 1736. cf. Avertissement. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D
- Date: 1737-01-01
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MapHarmonia macrocosmica, seu, Atlas universalis et novus, totius universi creati cosmographiam generalem, et novam exhibens : in quâ omnium totius mundi orbium harmonica constructio, secundum diversas diversorum authorum opioniones, ut et uranometria ...
Atlas universalis et novus Phillips, 4274 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index. Some plates engraved by Johannes van Loon. In addition to the 29 plates specified in the table of contents, there is an additional plate between plates 4 and 5, an additional plate between plates 19 and 20, and 3 additional plates following plate 29. Rebound and conserved...- Contributor: Schenk, Peter - Loon, J. Van - Cellarius, Andreas - Valck, G. (Gerard)
- Date: 1708-01-01
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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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MapTheatrvm orbis terrarvm.
Theatrum orbis terrarum Relief shown pictorially. Colophon: 20 Mai 1570. Catalogus auctorum includes 87 names. T.p. verso blank. Includes 53 map sheets, with descriptive text on verso. Acid offset on facing pages. Blank leaves inserted between map sheets. Front cover displays the name and arms of Jean, comte de Hoya, bishop of Münster and Osnabrück (1566-74). Phillips, 3389 Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici, Ort 1A Includes "De Mona...- Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Llwyd, Humphrey - Diesth, Aegid. Coppenius (Aegidius Coppenius)
- Date: 1570-01-01
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MapTheatrvm orbis terrarvm.
Theatrum orbis terrarum Relief shown pictorially. Catalogus auctorum includes 92 names. Epigram on t.p. verso has 16 lines. Includes 53 map sheets, with descriptive text on verso. List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 374, copy 1 Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici, Ort 1 Includes "De Mona druidum insula" by H. Llwyd. Exhibited: A world of names, 1990. Exhibited: Images of the World, 1984. Available also...- Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Llwyd, Humphrey - Diesth, Aegid. Coppenius (Aegidius Coppenius)
- Date: 1570-01-01
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MapEl atlas abreviado, ò compendiosa geografia del mvndo antiguo, y nvevo : segun està oy dia dividido, ilustrada con quarenta y quatro mapas, nuevemente abiertas y explicadas en castellano
Compendiosa geografia del mvndo antiguo, y nvevo | Title from engraved title page: Atlas Relief shown pictorially. Title page printed in black and red. Includes index. Maps numbered with the page before which they are bound. LC copy leather bound. Phillips, 5965 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Afferden, Francisco De
- Date: 1711
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MapLe theatre du monde, ou, Novvel atlas
Novvel atlas Relief shown pictorially. French text. Maps in Latin. Maps by numerous cartographers, as well as Willem and Joan Blaeu. Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici, Bl 16 A Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy assembled from loose sheets. LC copy imperfect: Lacking 16 maps: Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula -- Regiones sub polo arctico...- Contributor: Blaeu, Joan - Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
- Date: 1647-01-01
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MapGeografia tavole moderne di geografia de la maggior parte del mondo di diversi avtori raccolte et messe secondo l'ordine di Tolomeo con i disegni di molte città et fortezze di diverse provintie ... ga10 2006-03-10 sent to CMT Relief shown pictorially. Phillips, 3392 Each plate or leaf is numbered with pencil, pen-and-ink, or both, with some numbers crossed out. Map 79 is printed on blue paper. Strips of paper affixed to the margins of some plates. Rebound in brown leather incorporating original tooled front and back boards. Includes manuscript table of contents, which does not correspond exactly...
- Contributor: Lafréry, Antoine
- Date: 1575-01-01
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Map[Geografia tavole moderne di geografia]. Relief shown pictorially. Some maps entirely in Italian, some maps entirely in Latin. Title derived by cataloger from title page of bound Lafréry atlas. Seventeen loose sheets that appear in atlases sold by Antoine Lafréry. Phillips, 5917 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Forlani, Paolo - Gastaldi, Giacomo - Lafréry, Antoine
- Date: 1575-01-01
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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. Philips 3464 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated in pencil on some maps....- Contributor: Loots, Johannes
- Date: 1705-01-01
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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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MapCartes et plans de l'Amerique.
Cartes geograp Ameriqu Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Dates on maps vary from 1717 to 1744. Title and date annotated in ink within etched title cartouche. Plates numbered in ink with a title often annotated on verso. A composite atlas of maps of North and South America and adjacent islands and oceans predominantly by Jacques Nicolas Bellin, including 17 manuscript maps, of which 8 are...- Contributor: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
- Date: 1745-01-01
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MapA map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto
America Septentrionalis Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Title from plate 17. Originally published as 1 map on 20 sheets. LC copy bound. Index map bound-in. Phillips. Maps of America, p. 569 On title cartouche (plate 17): C. Lempriere inv. & del., B. Baron, sculp. Includes notes, dedication, 4 views, and 17 harbor insets. Stamped in blue ink on verso of plates: U.S. Coast Survey...- Contributor: Baron, Bernard - Popple, Henry - Austen, Stephen - Toms, W. H. (William Henry) - Lemprière, C. (Clement) - Willdey, Thomas
- Date: 1733-01-01
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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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Map[Portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea, northwest Europe, and northwest Africa] Title supplied by cataloger. Pen-and-ink on vellum. Statement of responsibility from leaf 8, the map of the Black Sea. Bound in red velvet. LC Nautical charts on vellum, 11 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Purchase; Ludwig Rosenthal, Munich; 1914.
- Contributor: Scotto, Giacomo
- Date: 1590-01-01
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MapA collection of plans of fortifications and battles, 1684-1709 : [Europe] Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Title from cover of composite atlas. Dates on maps range from 1684 to 1709. List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 5152 An atlas factice of 117 hand col. maps on 115 sheets. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Register in French. Maps in French, Dutch, Latin, and English....
- Contributor: Baillieu, Gaspar De - Beeck, Anna
- Date: 1709-01-01
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MapToonneel der steden van de Vereenighde Nederlanden, met hare beschrijvingen Dutch. Some maps in Latin. Phillips, 3076 Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, 43:121.1 Date from Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici from the list of burgomasters elected in 1652 in the text about Delft. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Engraved title page with letterpress title pasted on. LC copy bound in cream vellum, embossed and gilded.
- Contributor: Blaeu, Joan
- Date: 1652-01-01
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MapLa Germanie inférieure de Petrus Keerius : c'est à dire nouvelles et exactes cartes géographiques des XVII provinces dicelle
Germanie inférieure de P. Keerius Relief shown pictorially. "Montanus expanded the text, Pieter van den Keere's Germania inferior, 1617"--Tooley's Dict. of mapmakers, Rev. ed. K-P, p. 272. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Stains on some pages. List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 4048 Includes index.- Contributor: Montanus, Petrus - Keere, Pieter Van Den
- Date: 1622
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MapGrand atlas d'Allemagne en LXXXI feuilles, dedié a sa majesté Joseph II, Empereur des Romains : avec privilege de sa majesté Imperiale Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. unk82037922 upgraded to RDA and LCCN 2021588719 (ga15 2021-03-04)
- Contributor: Jaeger, Johann Wilhelm Abraham
- Date: 1789
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Map[Portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea and western Europe]. Title supplied by cataloger. Pen-and-ink, watercolor, and gilding on vellum. Half of charts 1 and 5 are attached respectively to the inside of the front and back boards. The other halves of these charts and charts 2 to 4 are mounted on four paper boards. Bound in contemporary tooled and gilded brown leather, with modern repairs at spine and edges. LC Nautical charts on...
- Contributor: Brémond, Jean André
- Date: 1670-01-01
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MapNicolai Gerbelij in descriptionem Graeciae Sophiani, praefatio. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Sophianos, Nikolaos - Gerbel, Nicolaus
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MapRussischer Atlas, welcher in einer general-Charte und neunzehen special-Charten das gesamte russische Reich und dessen angräntzende Länder, nach den Regeln der Erd-Beschreibung und den neuesten Observationen vorstellig macht. Relief shown pictorially. Text in German. Maps titles in Latin and place names in Russian in the Latin alphabet. Engraved maps. Prepared under the direction of Ivan Kirilov and, from 1726, Joseph Nicolas Delisle. cf. Bagrow-Skelton, Hist. of Cartography, p. 175. Phillips, 3109 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy with red leather spine over marbled...
- Contributor: L'isle, Joseph Nicolas De - Imperatorskaiï¸ a︡ AkademÄ«iï¸ a︡ Naukʺ (Russia) - Kirilov, Ivan Kirillovich
- Date: 1745-01-01
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Map[Atlas von Liefland, oder von den beyden Gouvernementern u. Herzogthümern Lief- und Ehstland, und der Provinz Oesel : entworfen nach geometrischen Vermessungen, den neusten astronomischen Beobachtungen und nach sorgfaeltiger Untersuchung und Kentnis ...
Atlas de la Livonie ou des deux Gouvernemens et Duchés de Livonie et d'Esthonie, avec la Province d'Oesel : Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Sheet titles and legends in German and French. Geographic features in German. Title from title sheet of Copy 2. Maps engraved by Carl Jäck, F. Guimpel, F.G. Franz, and J.N. Champion. Prime meridian: Ferro. Unbound. Similar version described in: Allgemeine geographische ephemeriden. Vol. 34, Jan.-Apr. 1811, p. 80-2. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as...- Contributor: Guimpel, Friedrich - Franz, F. G. - Jaettnig, Karl - Champion, J. N. - Hartknoch, Johann Friedrich - Mellin, Ludvig August - Krause, Johann Wilhelm
- Date: 1798-01-01
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MapDa 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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