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MapTerra sancta sive promissionis, olim Palestina recens delineata, et in lucem edita per Nicolaum Visscher. Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Nicolaes Visscher's Atlas contractus orbis terrarum. Exhibition: Jordanian Display, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., May 25-27, 2005. Includes inset showing the twelve tribes of Israel and ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Visscher, Nicolaes
- Date: 1659-01-01
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MapIudæa seu Terra Sancta, quæ Hebræorum sive Israelitarum in suas duodecim tribus divisa : secretis ab invicem Regnis Iuda et Israel expressis insuper sex ultimi temporis ejusdem terræ provincijs Relief shown pictorially. Title from cartouche. Alternate title in upper margin: Iudæa seu Terra Sancta, quæ Hebræorum sive Israelitarum terra, in suas duodecim tribus divisa : eæ vero sunt cis Iordanem tribus Iuda ... provincijs / ex conatibus geographicis Gulielmi Sanson Nicolai filij ... 1696. In cartouche: Avec privilège du Roy. Includes embellished title and legend cartouches; notes at foot of cartouches. Gift; Henry...
- Contributor: Jaillot, Alexis Hubert - Cordier, Louis - Sanson, Guillaume
- Date: 1696-01-01
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MapPervviae avriferae regionis typvs / La Florida / auctore Hieron. Chiaues ; Gvastecan reg.
Peruuiae auriferae regionis typus | Florida | Gvastecan reg | Guastecan reg Shows portion of Central America, northwestern South America, southern United States, and coast of Tamaulipas in Mexico. Relief shown pictorially. Includes illustrations. Transferred from the collection of the Canal Zone Library-Museum, 1980. Map in Latin. French text on verso. Annotated in pencil, on verso, with Canal Zone Library map checklist number: 28.- Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Hurtado De Mendoza, Diego - Chaves, Geronimo - Canal Zone Library-Museum
- Date: 1598-01-01
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Map[Map and views illustrating Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage, 1585-6]. The first engraving is a map of Drake's voyage [showing Europe, western Africa, northern South America, and eastern North America]; the four other engravings consist of bird's-eye battle plan views of the cities of Santiago, Santo Domingo, Cartagena, and St. Augustine, Florida. 4 bird's-eye views and 1 map. Relief shown pictorially on bird's-eye views. Voyage map in English; city maps in Latin. Title supplied...
- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Boazio, Baptista - Croftes - Bigges, Walter - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1589
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MapThe Province of Tierra Firme and the New Kingdom of Granada and Popayán.
Terra Firma et Novum Regnum Granatense et Popayan This map of 1631 by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571--1638) shows Central America and the northwestern part of South America, including all or parts of Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. A Dutch text on the reverse of the map explains the geography of the regions depicted, which encompassed the Spanish viceroyalty of New Granada and the province of Popayán, which took its name from the colonial...- Contributor: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
- Date: 1631-01-01
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MapSystema mundi Tychonicum : secundum celeberrimorum astronomorum Tychonis de Brahe et Io. Baptistae Riccioli S.I. hypotheses concinnatum 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
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Map[Chart of the Mediterranean, Black Sea, and the coasts of western Europe and northwest Africa] Title provided by cataloguer. Catalan and Latin. Catalan titles for the illustrations and Latin statement of responsibility. Oriented with north to the right. Contains 5 wind roses. Pen-and-ink and goauche. Includes 2 bar scales in unidentified units, and many illustrations throughout. LC Nautical charts on vellum, 7. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Prunes, Mateus
- Date: 1559-01-01
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MapMappa gubernii Irkutensis complectens provincias Irkutensem, Jakutensem, et Udinensem. Comp. I. Tresscott. Zaglavie karty dano v kartushe. Ramka s vin'etkami. Bumaga s filigran'i︠u︡. Pokazany granit︠s︡y provint︠s︡ii. Naneseny reki s pritokami, gornye khrebty, krupnye naselennye punkty. Original map at: Russian State Library Заглавие карты дано в картуше. Рамка с виньетками. Бумага с филигранью. Показаны границы провинции. Нанесены реки с притоками, горные хребты, крупные населенные пункты.
- Contributor: Kuvakin, I. - Khudianov, E. - Treskot, Johann
- Date: 1776-01-01
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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 right "W. Lowery" and in ink in upper left "27". Sheet 4 annotated in ink in upper right "114" and lower left "26". LC copy imperfect: Lacking sheet 2. Central vertical fold...
- Contributor: Fürst, Paul - Habrecht, Isaac
- Date: 1612-01-01
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Map[Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea and western part of the Black Sea] ; [Portolan chart of the Aegean Sea and part of the Mediterranean Sea including Crete]
Portolan chart of the Aegean Sea and part of the Mediterranean Sea including Crete | Mediterranean Sea charts 1640 Shows names of harbors along the coastlines of the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, and adjoining waters. Relief shown pictorially on the Mediterranean Sea chart. Statement of attribution from the Aegean Sea chart. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Titles devised by cataloguer. Aegean Sea chart oriented with north to the right. The 2 charts are half-joined at...- Contributor: Cavallini, Giovanni Battista
- Date: 1640-01-01
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MapAlexandri magni imperium et expeditio per Europam, per Africam et potissimum per Asiam Relief shown pictorially. Includes list of numbered notes and inset showing continets of Africa, Europe, and Asia. LC copies annotated in inks to show boundaries and mounted on linen. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Moulart-Sanson, Pierre
- Date: 1712-01-01
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MapGlobus aus der Mitte des XVI Jahrhunderts
Title within gores: Nova et integra universi orbis descriptio Relief shown pictorially. Dedication: Reverre[n]diss. et illustriss. Do. Do. Urbano Sangelasio episcopo Com[m]ingiensi, Joan[n]es Oterschaden Belga humillime D.D. Original version: [Antwerp? ; s.n., ca. 1603]. Date of original from Shirley's Mapping of the world. Gores for a 17 cm. globe. Includes ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy marked "20." in blue pencil in lower...- Contributor: Oterschaden, Johannes - Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Militär-Comité
- Date: 1879-01-01
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MapGuyana, or, the Kingdom of the Amazons.
Guiana, siue, Amazonum Regio This map of colonial Guiana (present-day Suriname) is the work of Jan Jansson (died 1664), a Dutch cartographer who married into the Hondius family of illustrious mapmakers. Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612) and his sons, Jodocus and Henricus, engraved maps of the Americas and Europe, and were instrumental in popularizing the work of Gerard Mercator, the developer of the Mercator Projection that allowed navigators to use...- Contributor: Jansson, Jan
- Date: 1600-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapBird's-Eye View of Amsterdam, 1597.
Amsterdam anno 1597 This bird's-eye view of Amsterdam in 1597 is from the collection of cityscapes and broadsheets that once belonged to the Swedish statesman Count Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1622-86). In the upper right is a key, in Dutch, listing important landmarks in the city, including churches, city hall, and bridges. The map is by Pieter Bast (circa 1570-1605), a Dutch cartographer and engraver, who...- Contributor: Bast, Pieter
- Date: 1597-01-01
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MapAmericae sive qvartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio
Americae sive quartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio Covers North and South America with the adjacent seas. Relief shown pictorially. From the Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress, no. 1303. Originally printed on 6 sheets. Described in Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, v. 6, no. 3 (May 1949), p. 18-20. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1303 Includes texts in cartouche, statements of dedication, coats-of-arms, ill. of allegorical figure "Victoria",...- Contributor: Cock, Hieronymus - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Gutiérrez, Diego
- Date: 1562-01-01
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MapAmerica Septentrionalis divisa in suas principales partes et status seu Dominatus regis Galliæ, Castilliæ, Angliæ, Sueciæ, Danliæ, et Batavorum Relief shown pictorially. Mounted on cardboard. Copy imperfect: Stained and torn along fold lines Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Hofmann, Johann Jacob - Sanson, P. D.
- Date: 1679-01-01
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MapNova totivs terrarvm orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabvla
Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula | Beschrijvinghe des geheelen aerdtrycx Relief shown pictorially. Date from dedication. Assembled from two sheets. Appears in Jansson's Nieuwen atlas, volume 1, 1657. Includes notes. Illustrations include images of the four elements and portraits of Julius Caeser, Ptolemy, Mercator and Hondius. Latin. Text on verso in Dutch. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Jansson, Jan - Hondius, Jodocus
- Date: 1641-01-01
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MapDas heilig Lande mit Ausztheilung der zwoelff Geschlechter.
Palaestina, des heiligen Landes Beschreibung mit sampt den anstossenden Laendern und Voelctern alss die Ammoniter, Jdumeer [sic], Araber, u. Relief shown pictorially. Title and text in German. Place names in Latin. Appears in Sebastian Munster's Cosmographey. Basel : Sebastian Petri, 1588. Exhibition: Jordanian Display, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., May 25-27, 2005. Includes notes. LC copy imperfect: Central fold line with 2 stains at center, mended tear in central right margin. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster...- Contributor: Münster, Sebastian - Henricpetri, Sebastian
- Date: 1588-01-01
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MapImperii sinarum nova descriptio. Relief shown pictorially. Appears in: Clüver's Introductionio in universam geographiam tam veterem quam novam ... Venduntur Amstelaedami : Apud Joannem Wolters, 1697. In upper right corner: Tab. 37. Includes ill. LC copy stamped on: 626888. In pencil on recto and ink on verso: 34. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Clüver, Philipp
- Date: 1697-01-01
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MapTabula Mexicae et Floridae : terrarum Anglicarum, et anteriorum Americae insularum, item cursuum et circuituum fluminis Mississipi dicti. Shows the extent of New Spain and Florida, New France, the American colonies, and the West Indies, rivers, towns, and trade routes. Text in Latin. Title from caption. Relief shown pictorially. Measures east from unidentified prime meridian. Includes ill. Appears in : Maps of Texas and the Southwest, 1513-1900 / James C. Martin and Robert Sidney Martin. Austin : Texas State Historical Association, 1999....
- Contributor: Schenk, Peter
- Date: 1710-01-01
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MapTerritorii Jakutensis pars orientalis. Setka geograficheskikh koordinat. Obshchegeograficheskai︠a︡ karta vostochnoĭ chasti I︠A︡kutskogo uezda. Rel'ef pokazan perspektivnym izobrazheniem, tak zhe naneseny osnovnye naselennye punkty, lesa. Dal'niĭ Vostok, sev.-vost. Original map at: Russian State Library Сетка географических координат. Общегеографическая карта восточной части Якутского уезда. Рельеф показан перспективным изображением, так же нанесены основные населенные пункты, леса. Дальний Восток, сев.-вост.
- Contributor: Frolov, K. - Treskot, Johann
- Date: 1770-01-01
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MapAmerica Septentrionalis a Domino d'Anville in Galliis edita nunc in Anglia. Coloniis in interiorem Virginiam deductis nec non Fluvii Ohio cursu aucta notisque geographicis et historicis illustrata et ad bellum praesentis temporis ... Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro and London. Place names and descriptive notes in English. Appears in author's Atlas geographicvs maior. 1753-59 [i.e. 1781; v. 1, 1759] LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 69 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes German text relating to English and French territorial claims. LC copy...
- Contributor: Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D - Homann Erben (Firm)
- Date: 1777-01-01
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MapTabula geographica qua pars Rusiae Magnae : Pontus Euxinus seu Mare Nigrum et Tartaria Minor cum finitimis Bulgariae Romaniae et Natoliae Provinciis Relief shown pictorially. Watermark. Minimal level cataloging record. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Homann, Johann Baptist
- Date: 1720-01-01
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MapRegni Mexicani seu Novæ Hispaniæ, Ludovicianæ, N. Angliæ, Carolinæ, Virginæ et Pensylvaniæ necnon insvlarvm archipelagi Mexicani in America Septentrionali, Scale ca. 1:10,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Pictorial map. Lowery, 473 Includes historical notes. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Homann Erben (Firm) - Homann, Johann Baptist
- Date: 1759-01-01
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MapBelgii novi, angliæ novæ, et partis Virginiæ : novissima delineatio. Relief shown pictorially. Taken from Jan Jansson's Atlantis majoris, 1657, no. 59. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
- Contributor: Jansson, Jan
- Date: 1657-01-01