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Map[Globus terrarum] Relief shown pictorially. Gores for a 20 cm. globe. Title supplied by cataloger. Date from Shirley's Mapping of the world, 1993. Includes ill. LC copy: Sheet 1 annotated in pencil in upper...
- Contributor: Fürst, Paul - Habrecht, Isaac
- Date: 1612-01-01
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MapAbyssinia, or the Empire of Prester John.
Abissinorum sive Pretiosi Ioannis Imperiu Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612) was a Flemish cartographer and publisher of maps and a central figure in the golden age of Dutch cartography. He was responsible for publishing the maps of Gerhard Mercator...- Contributor: Mercator, Gerhard - Hondius, Jodocus
- Date: 1619-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapCivitates orbis terrarvm. "Privilegium Caesareae maiestatis, which occurs in each volume generally on the reverse of the title page, refers to Francis Hogenberg as the author's collaborator."--Phillips. Colophon of v. 1: Coloniae Agrippinae, apud Petrum...
- Contributor: Braun, Georg - Brachel, P. Von - Rantzau, Henrik - Hoefnagel, Jacob - Hoefnagel, Joris - Hogenberg, Abraham - Novellanus, Simon - Hogenberg, Frans - Hierat, Anton - Deventer, Jacob Van
- Date: 1612-01-01
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CollectionMilitary Battles and Campaigns This category contains maps showing campaigns of major military conflicts including troop movements, defensive structures and groundworks, roads to and from sites of military engagements, campsites, and local buildings, topography and vegetation....
- Date: 1570
Collection Items: View 4,495 Items
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CollectionCities and Towns This category includes maps that depict individual buildings to panoramic views of large urban areas. These maps record the evolution of cities illustrating the development and nature of economic activities, educational and...
- Date: 1500
Collection Items: View 3,763 Items
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MapParaguay, or the Province of the Rio de la Plata, with the Adjacent Regions Tucamen and ...
Paraguay, ó prov. de Rio de La Plata, cum regionibus adiacentibus Tucuman et Sta. Cruz de la Sierra / Guiljelmus Blaeuew excudit This map of Paraguay and the Rio de la Plata basin is the work of Willem Blaeu (1571-1638), the founder of a famous Dutch mapmaking dynasty. Blaeu studied astronomy, mathematics, and globe-making...- Contributor: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
- Date: 1616-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapVenezuela with the Southern Part of New Andalusia.
Venezuela cum parte Australi Novae Andalusiae This 17th-century map of Venezuela and a part of New Andalusia, provinces of the Spanish Empire located in present-day Venezuela, is a copy of an earlier map published in Amsterdam by Henricus...- Contributor: Hondius, Hendrik
- Date: 1612-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapDescription of the New Route to the South of the Strait of Magellan Discovered and Set ...
Coarte vanda niewe passage bezunden de Strate Magellani ontdet en deurgesenlt inden iare 1616 Door Willem Schoute van Hoor In June 1615, Dutch navigators Jacob Le Maire (circa 1585--1616) and Willem Corneliszoon Schouten (circa 1567--1625) set out in two ships, the Eendracht and the Hoorn, from the Dutch port of Texel....- Contributor: Le Maire, Jacob - Schouten, Willem Corneliszoon
- Date: 1619-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapSketch of Mälaren Lake and Neighboring Areas.
Meler lacvs adiacentivmqve terrarvm delineatio This engraved map of Lake Mälaren is the only extant copy of one of the first maps printed in Sweden. It was drafted by Andreas Bureus in 1614 and is regarded as...- Contributor: Bure, Anders
- Date: 1614-01-01
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Collection[Maps of Maine--regions Db--Ka]
Alternate supplied title: Maine title collection drawer 31 | Alternate supplied title: Maine title collection--regions Db--Ka | Maine title collection drawer 31 | Maine title collection--regions Db--Ka This record covers single maps covering regions of Maine, which are not represented in the LC database by separate catalog records. This collection includes single printed maps and photocopies of printed or...- Date: 1615-01-01
- Resource: Drawer 31 folder covers - 30 pages
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MapTabula Russiae ex autographo, quod delineandum curavit Foedor filius Tsaris Boris desumta ... No. 2 Karta iz izdaniia: Atlas Aziatskoi Rossii.- SPb., Pereselencheskoe Upravlenie, kartogr. art. Zav. A.F. Marks, 1914. Otpechatano v Kartograficheskom zavedenii Iu. Iu. Gash. Kopiia s karty Gesselia Geritsa, izdannoi V.Kordtom. Original...
- Contributor: Gerritsz, Hessel
- Date: 1613-01-01
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MapMuriel H. Parry map collection The collection consists of some 871 maps that are largely pictorial. Muriel H. Parry, a librarian for the U.S. State Department, compiled the maps and several were deaccessioned from the State Department's...
- Contributor: Parry, Muriel H. - Chase, Ernest Dudley - Clegg, Ernest - Shelton, Hal - Gill, Macdonald - Harrison, Richard Edes - Wallingford, Daniel K.
- Date: 1538
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MapOrbis terrarum descriptio duobis planis hemisphaeriis comprehe[n]sa Includes notes and illustrations including the garden of Eden, the last judgement, and the four seasons. LC copy mounted on paper, wrinkled, with some staining and pin holes in all corners. French...
- Contributor: Geylekerck, Nicolaes - Jansz, Jan
- Date: 1618-01-01
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MapHauslab-Liechtenstein map collection The Hauslab-Liechtenstein map collection contains some 10,000 manuscript and printed sheets. A large portion of these map and atlas sheets were compiled by the Austrian cartographer and general Franz Ritter von Hauslab....
- Contributor: Hauslab, Franz - Johann II, Fürst Von Und Zu Liechtenstein
- Date: 1500
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CollectionFinding Our Place in the Cosmos: From Galileo to Sagan and Beyond A thematic collection exploring changing models of the universe through time, ideas of life on other words and Carl Sagan’s place in the tradition of science. It features manuscripts, rare books, celestial...
- Contributor: Druyan, Ann - Sagan, Carl - Macfarlane, Seth
- Date: 1495
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MapMap of the Atlantic Ocean, 1613. This 1613 map of the Atlantic Ocean and of parts of Europe, Africa, and North and South America was made in the French port city of Havre de Grace by Pierre de...
- Contributor: Vaulx, Pierre De, Flourished 17th Century
- Date: 1613-01-01
- Resource: - 2 pages
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Map[Terrestrial globe gores]. Relief shown pictorially. Title supplied by cataloger. Reissued by Giuseppe di Rossi in 1615. Dedication in upper hemisphere: Illmo. viro optimaraq. artium amatori et Fautori D. Paulo Mellino Romano ... In lower...
- Contributor: Rossi, Giuseppe DI - Hondius, Jodocus
- Date: 1615-01-01
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CollectionGeneral Maps This category includes maps that typically portray the physical environment and a variety of cultural elements for a geographic area at a particular point in time. The maps in this category show...
- Date: 1290
Collection Items: View 6,739 Items
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MapExquisita & magno aliquot mensium periculo lustrata et iam retecta Freti Magellanici facies : eijgentlicke asbeeldinghe ... Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. From Gerardus Mercator's Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra. 1611. Oriented with north to the bottom. Includes panoramic view and col....
- Contributor: Hondius, Jodocus
- Date: 1611-01-01
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MapA Modern Map of Spain.
Nova Hispaniae Descriptio Nova Hispaniae Descriptio (A modern map of Spain) is the first map bordered by cartouches, one of the most attractive developments of 17th century Dutch cartography. Cartouches were used to supplement the...- Contributor: Mercator, Gerhard - Hondius, Jodocus
- Date: 1610-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Collection[Maps of Maine--regions Q-Z]
Alternate supplied title: Maine title collection drawer 36 | Alternate supplied title: Maine title collection--regions Q-Z | Maine title collection drawer 36 | Maine title collection--regions Q-Z Most maps before 1800 are photocopies or facsimiles. This record covers single maps covering regions of Maine, which are not represented in the LC database by separate catalog records. This collection includes...- Date: 1615-01-01
- Resource: Maine, Drawer 36 maps folder covers - 49 pages
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MapTabula Russiae ex autographo, quod delineandum curavit Foedor filius Tzaris Boris desumta; et ad fluvias Dwinam, ... Dopolnitel'nai︠a︡ karta: Perspektivnyĭ plan goroda Moskvy (1610g.). Orientirovan na zapad.Illi︠u︡strat︠s︡ii: muzhskie figury v nat︠s︡ional'noĭ russkoĭ odezhde. Karta Rossii izvestnogo niderlandskogo geografa i kartografa G. Gerritsa, izdana v Asterdame v 1614g. V kartushe...
- Contributor: Gerritsz., Hessel
- Date: 1614-01-01
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MapKingdom of Galicia.
Gallæcia Regnum The first printed map of Galicia with dedicated cartographic plotting was the "Descripción del Reyno de Galizia" (Description of the Kingdom of Galicia) by Hernando Ojea (circa 1560-1615). That map appeared in...- Contributor: Mercator, Gerhard - Hondius, Jodocus
- Date: 1619-01-01
- Resource: - 2 pages
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MapGeographical Map of New France Made by Mr. de Champlain of Saintonge, Ordinary Captain for the ...
Carte geographiqve de la Novvelle Franse faictte par le Sievr de Champlain Saint Tongois cappitaine ordinaire povr le Roy en la marine New France was born more than four centuries ago as a result of the determination and talents of Samuel de Champlain (1574--1635), a native of Saintonge, France. Champlain embarked for Canada from...- Contributor: Pelletier, David - Champlain, Samuel De
- Date: 1612-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapLeo Belgicus. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Map railroad exhibit, March 22 to April 15, 1965. Vault
- Contributor: Hondius, Jodocus
- Date: 1611-01-01