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    Harmonia macrocosmica, seu, Atlas universalis et novus, totiu...
    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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    [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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    Theatrvm 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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    Theatrvm 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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    Le 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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    Geografia tavole moderne di geografia de la maggior parte del... 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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    [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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    [Celestial globe gores] Title provided by cataloger. Likely proof sheets, as lines for the tropics and the ecliptic are missing. Earliest known celestial gores. Bound in the Schöner Sammelband. Gores trimmed and mounted on paper. LC copy annotated by Schöner. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation.
    • Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Schöner, Johann
    • Date: 1517
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    [Fragmentary celestial globe gores] Title provided by cataloger. Bound in the Schöner Sammelband. Found in the binding of the Sammelband in 1905, mounted on paper, and bound in. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation.
    • Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Schöner, Johann
    • Date: 1517
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    [Fragmentary terrestrial globe gores] Relief shown pictorially. Bound in the Schöner Sammelband. Found in the binding of the Sammelband in 1905, mounted on paper and bound in. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation.
    • Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Schöner, Johann
    • Date: 1517
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    Carta marina navigatoria Portvgallen navigationes, atqve toci...
    Carta marina navigatoria Portugallen navigationes, atque tocius cogniti orbis terre marisque formam naturam situs et terminos nostris temporibus recognitos et ab antiquorum traditione differentes, eciam quor vetusti non meminerunt autore, hec generaliter indicat
    Relief shown pictorially. Includes text and illustrations. Bound in the Schöner Sammelband. Sheet 6 appears to be a proof copy and was laid in after the Sammelband was bound. All sheets except for sheet 6 annotated in ink and red ink by Johann Schöner. All sheets bear a watermark of a triple pointed crown. Sheet 9 has a paper patch within a shield covering...
    • Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Schöner, Johann - Waldseemüller, Martin
    • Date: 1516
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    [Manuscript copy of sheet 6 of Waldseemüller's Carta marina] Title provided by cataloger. Relief shown pictorially. Includes text and illustrations. Originally bound in the Sammelband. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation. Acquisition control number: 2015-052.
    • Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Schöner, Johann - Waldseemüller, Martin
    • Date: 1516
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    [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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    Cartes 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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    A collection of plans of fortifications and battles, 1684-170... 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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    Toonneel der steden van de Vereenighde Nederlanden, met hare ... 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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    Russischer Atlas, welcher in einer general-Charte und neunzeh... 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 - Imperatorskai︠a︡ Akademīi︠a︡ Naukʺ (Russia) - Kirilov, Ivan Kirillovich
    • Date: 1745-01-01
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    Karte von Kleinasien
    Karte von Kleinasien in 24 Blatt
    Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows Turkey and small areas of northern Syria and Iraq. Title from sheets. German. Place names in Turkish. Some place name also in German and/or Latin. LC copy includes two second editions of sheet BII (1912 and 1914) and third editions of sheets AIV (1914), AV (1915), BV (1915), and DIV (1911). LC copy imperfect: lacking sheet...
    • Contributor: Kiepert, Richard
    • Date: 1908-01-01
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    Novvs atlas Sinensis.
    Novus atlas Sinensis
    Covers 16 provinces of China, Korea, and Japan. Relief shown pictorially. Includes text. Philips 3186 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. On verso of shelflist card: At the end of the atlas are "Byvoeghsel van't koninckryck Catay; door I. G.," xviii p., and "Historie van den Tartarischen oorlog," 40 p.
    • Contributor: Martini, Martino
    • Date: 1655-01-01
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    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
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    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
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    Imagines coeli meridionales Earliest known European printed star chart. Originally bound in the Schöner Sammelband. LC copy annotated by Johann Schöner. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Stabius, Johannes - Dürer, Albrecht - Schöner, Johann
    • Date: 1515
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    [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
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    Planisphaerium coeleste : secundum restitutionem Hevelianam e... Hevelius style, Eimmart format; hemispheres, ecliptic pole to ecliptic, with non-Ptolemaic constellations. Warner p. 164 Stamped in blue ink in lower left margin: 316A. Includes 6 diagrams and 4 globes and armillary spheres. Detached from Lotter, T.C. Atlas novus. Augustae Vindelicorium, [1772]. Phillips 3513. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Lotter, Tobias Conrad
    • Date: 1772-01-01
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    Planisphaerium coeleste Stamped in blue ink in lower left margin: 76A. Includes 6 diagrams. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Date: 1850-01-01
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    Mappa selenographica : totam lunae hemisphaeram visibilem com... Scale not given. "Secundum projectionem orthographicam." Relief shown by hachures and shading. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Contributor: Mädler, Johann Heinrich - Beer, Wilhelm - Simon Schropp'sche Hof-Landkartenhandlung
    • Date: 1834-01-01
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    [Genoese world map 1457] Title from Stevenson's text. In lower right corner: E.O. Cockayne, Boston. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. See GA307 1457.G4 S7 for text by E.L. Stevenson. LC copy mounted on cloth and laminated.
    • Date: 1912
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    Noua, et integra uniuersi orbis descriptio
    Nova, et integra vniversi orbis descriptio | Nova, et integra universi orbis descriptio
    Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy mounted on paper, mounted on linen.
    • Contributor: Fine, Oronce
    • Date: 1531-01-01
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    Tabula noua totius orbis.
    Tabula nova totius orbis
    Relief shown pictorially. Woodcut that appears in an edition of Ptolemy's Geographia published in 1541. Includes illustrations and notes. LC copy stamped on in lower left corner: 0 676. Manuscript "246" in upper right corner. Indecipherable drawing off the lower west coast of Africa. Manuscript inscriptions and red bordered label with manuscript "40/48" on verso. Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 47 Available also...
    • Contributor: Trechsel, Gaspard - Fries, Lorenz - Ptolemy
    • Date: 1541-01-01
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    Typus orbis descriptione Ptolemaei. Relief shown pictorially. Woodcut that appears in edition of Ptolemy's Geographia published in 1541. Includes illustrations of winds. LC copy stamped on in lower left corner: 0 674. Mounted on cloth and laminated. Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 47 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Trechsel, Gaspard - Fries, Lorenz - Ptolemy
    • Date: 1541-01-01
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    Typus 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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    Das erst general inhaltend die Beschreibung und den Circkel d...
    Erst general oder gemeine Tafeln innhaltend den gantzen Umbkreiss und Kugel der Welt
    Woodcut oval map within illustrated border, showing clouds and winds. Includes entwined initials "DK" in lower left corner, standing for the woodcutter David Kandel. Appears in German edition of Sebastian Münster's Cosmografia. Includes illustrations. Text and illustrations on verso. Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 92 Gift ; Mrs. Ellett ; November 7, 1950. Map in Latin. Title and text on verso in German....
    • Contributor: Kandel, David - Münster, Sebastian - Henricpetri, Sebastian
    • Date: 1569-01-01
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    Typvs orbis terrarvm
    Typus orbis terrarum
    Oval map within illustrated border, showing clouds. Appears in Latin edition of Ortelius's Theatrum orbis terrarum. Includes illustrations. Latin text on verso. In lower left: cum privilegio. Has a crack and re-engraved clouds in lower left corner, which, according to Shirley, dates the map to 1579 or later. LC copy mounted on cloth. Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 122 Available also through the...
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Hogenberg, Frans
    • Date: 1579-01-01
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    Typvs orbis terrarvm
    Typus orbis terrarum
    Oval map within illustrated border, showing clouds. Appears in Latin edition of Ortelius's Theatrum orbis terrarum. Includes illustrations. Latin text on verso. In lower left: cum privilegio. Has a crack and re-engraved clouds in lower left corner, which, according to Shirley, dates the map to 1579 or later. Differs from LC's 1579[?] edition in having a more noticeable crack in lower left corner. Also...
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Hogenberg, Frans
    • Date: 1584-01-01
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    Typvs orbis terrarvm.
    Typus orbis terrarum
    Oval map within illustrated border, showing clouds. Includes illustrations. Appears to be an etched, probably unauthorized copy of an edition of Ortelius's map, possibly made in Italy. This map copies the re-engraved clouds in lower left corner, which, according to Shirley, dates the map to 1579 or later. The word "occidens" on the left edge of the map reads bottom to top rather than...
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham
    • Date: 1579-01-01
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    Die erst general Tafel die Beschreibung und den Circkel des g...
    Erste Landtafel begreifft in sich der ganzen Erdkugel
    Oval map within illustrated border. Woodcut. Appears in Sebastian Münster's Cosmografia. Prime meridian: Ferro. Includes notes. Text and illustration on verso. LC copy mounted in paper frame. Label on verso inscribed "101/52". Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 163 Title and text in German. Place names in Latin. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Münster, Sebastian - Henricpetri, Sebastian
    • Date: 1588-01-01
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    Typvs orbis terrarvm Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 18-85
    • Contributor: Hondius, Jodocus
    • Date: 1589-01-01
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    Orbis terrae novissima descriptio Includes two wind charts, compass rose, lunar chart, climatic zones, armillary sphere, notes and illustrations In upper right corner: I. LC copy mounted on cloth. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Leclerc, Jean - Mercator, Gerhard - Hondius, Jodocus
    • Date: 1602-01-01
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    Tipus orbis terrarum Relief shown pictorially. Includes ancillary maps of America, Europe, Africa, and Asia in border. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
    • Contributor: Solis, Hermando De
    • Date: 1603-01-01
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    Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula Dated 1606 in statement of dedication. Relief shown pictorially. Described in: The mapping of the world / Rodney W. Shirley. London : Holland Press, 1983. No. 255, state 2. Includes ill. and 2 insets. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 20-85
    • Contributor: Ende, Josua Van Den - Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
    • Date: 1606-01-01
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    Typvs orbis terrarvm Relief shown pictorially. Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 19-85 Vault
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham
    • Date: 1628-01-01
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    Noua orbis terrarum delineatio singulari ratione accommodata ...
    Nova orbis terrarum delineatio singulari ratione accommodata meridiano tabb. Rudolphi astronomicarum
    Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Johannes Kepler's Tabvlae Rudolphinae. Ulm : Johannes Saur, 1627-30. Prime meridian based on the astronomer Tycho Brahe's observatory in Denmark. Map drawn in three parts (left to right): 1 half-hemisphere (15 cm. radius), 1 hemisphere (29 cm. in diameter), and 1 half-hemisphere (15 cm. radius). Shirley, Rodney W. Mapping of the world. 1983, p. 358-9 Bricker, Charles. Landmarks of...
    • Contributor: Walch, J. P. (Johann Philipp) - Kepler, Johannes - Eckebrecht, Philipp
    • Date: 1630-01-01
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    Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula
    Briefve declaration de la division, forme & singularitez du monde
    Includes two ancillary celestial hemispheres, notes, and illustrations. LC copy has text in French on three sheets framing the map on right, left, and lower margins. This text was published by Jean le Clerc, and does not seem to be directly related to the map. The entire composite sheet is mounted on cloth. Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 341 Map in Latin. Text...
    • Contributor: Le Roy, Henri - Lochom, Michel Van - Le Clerc, Jean - Hondius, Jodocus
    • Date: 1636-01-01
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    Orbis terrarum typus de integro multis in locis emendatus Includes illustrations of the seasons and the elements, notes, and two celestial hemispheres. Illustrations of costumes: Hispani -- Galli -- Itali -- Germani -- Angli -- Belgae -- Groenlandi -- Chinenses -- Javani -- Guineenses -- Peruuiani -- Magellanici. LC copy mounted on cloth, with mended tears and all margins ragged. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Visscher, Claes Jansz - Goos, Pieter
    • Date: 1639-01-01
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    Nova 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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    Nova totivs terrarvm orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabvl...
    Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula
    Includes northern and southern celestial hemispheres, charts of longitude, notes, and illustrations of the four elements. LC copy mounted on paper. Shirley, Rodney W. Mapping of the world. 1983, 360 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Tavernier, Melchior
    • Date: 1643-01-01
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    Orbis terrarum typus de integro multis in locis emendatus Includes illustrations of the seasons and the elements, notes, and two celestial hemispheres. Illustrations of costumes: Hispani -- Galli -- Itali -- Germani -- Angli -- Belgae -- Groenlandi -- Chinenses -- Javani -- Guineenses -- Peruuiani -- Magellanici. LC copy mounted on cloth, rubbed, discolored. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Visscher, Claes Jansz - Goos, Pieter
    • Date: 1652-01-01
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    Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula Relief shown pictorially. Includes text, 2 ancillary celestial hemispheres, and ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 2001-24
    • Contributor: Hondius, Jodocus
    • Date: 1655-01-01
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    Orbis vetus et orbis veteris utraque continens, terrarumq[ue]... Relief shown pictorially. "Cum privilegio regis ad Vicennium." Shows California as an island. Appears in Sanson's Cartes generales de toutes les parties du monde. Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 400 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Mariette, Pierre - Sanson, Nicolas - Somer, J.
    • Date: 1657-01-01
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    Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula Relief shown pictorially. Includes col. ill. Insets: Polus arcticus -- Polus antarcticus -- Polus septentrionalis -- Systema mundi juxtamentem Claudii Ptolemaei Alexand -- Genuinum mundi systema secundum N. Copernici hypothesin -- Polus meridionalis. Mounted on cloth. LC copy imperfect: Fold-lined vertically in half. Pin holes in cloth tape in all corners. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Wit, Frederik De
    • Date: 1660-01-01
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    [Nova et accuratissima totius terrarum orbis tabula]. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes col. ill. in margins. Vault
    • Contributor: Blaeu, Joan
    • Date: 1664-01-01
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    Novissima totius terrarum orbis tabula Shows California as an island. Includes illustrations, including scenes of the four seasons. Ancillary maps and charts: Incrementum et decrementum dierū -- Phasis lunae naturalis -- Hypothesis Tychonican -- Hypothesis Ptolomaica -- Phasis lunae artificialis -- Hypothesis Copernicana. Appears in Seller's Atlas maritimus. LC copy trimmed to neat line on left, right and bottom margins. Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 460 Available also...
    • Contributor: Seller, John
    • Date: 1675-01-01
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    Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula. Relief shown pictorially. Includes two ancillary polar hemispheres and illustrations. LC copy foldlined, with three pin holes in lower margin. Hand coloring to delineate continental boundaries only. Shirley, Rodney W. Mapping of the world. 1983, 499 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Wit, Frederik De
    • Date: 1680-01-01
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    Nova orbis tabvla in lvcem edita
    Nova orbis tabula in lucem edita
    Relief shown pictorially. Appears in the author's Atlas. Amsterdam, 1688? Includes maps of the north polar region and south polar region and col. ill. Vertically fold-lined in half. Mounted on paper, mounted on cloth. LC copy imperfect: Pin holes in cloth tape at fold and in all corners. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Wit, Frederik De
    • Date: 1688-01-01
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    Orbis terrarum nova et accuratissima tabula Relief shown pictorially. Appears in the author's Atlas minor. Amsterdam, 1690? Includes ancillary maps of north polar region and south polar region and col. ill. Mounted on cloth. LC copy imperfect: Fold-lined vertically in half. Minor losses along upper half of fold. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Visscher, Nicolaes
    • Date: 1690-01-01
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    Nova orbis tabula, ad usum serenissimi Burgundiae Ducis
    Mappe monde ou description du globe terrestre & aquatique presentée a Monseigneur Le Duc de Bourgogne
    Relief shown pictorially. French. Titles in Latin and French. Includes ill. Accompanied by: Tables geographiques des division du globe terrestre par le Sr. Sanson geographe ordinaire du Roy / a Paris : Chez Hubert Jaillot (on sheet 64 x 54 cm., unmounted, fold-lined horizontally in half). Mounted on cloth. LC copy imperfect: Fold-lined vertically in half. Pin holes in cloth tape in all corners....
    • Contributor: Jaillot, Alexis Hubert
    • Date: 1694-01-01
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    Mappe-monde, dressé sur les observations de mrs. de l'Academi...
    Nova orbis tabula ad usum serenissimi Burgundiae ducis
    Relief shown pictorially. Includes illustrations and 4 small hemispherical polar projections. Appears in Sanson's Atlas nouveau. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. French. Alternate title only in Latin.
    • Contributor: Mortier, Pierre - Sanson, Nicolas
    • Date: 1696-01-01
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    A new map of the terraqueous globe according to the ancient d... Appears in his New sett of maps both of antient and present geography. Publication information from 1700 edition. Includes illustrations, notes, and list of abbreviations. Lacking "I" underneath dedication, which is present in editions of the atlas published from 1718 onward. Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 608 English title and text and place names in western hemisphere. Latin place names in eastern hemisphere....
    • Contributor: Burghers, Michael - Wells, Edward
    • Date: 1700-01-01
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    Nova delineatio totius orbis terrarum
    Nouveau carte du monde
    Shirley, Rodney W. Mapping of the world. 1983, 417 Relief shown pictorially. Includes illustrations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Title in Latin and French. Most place names in Latin, some in Dutch.
    • Contributor: Aa, Pieter Van Der
    • Date: 1703-01-01
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    Orbis vetus et orbis veteris utraque continens, terrarumq[ue]... Relief shown pictorially. "Cum privilegio regis ad Vicennium 1704." Lacking text directly above and below hemispheres present in other 1704 edition. Shows California as an island. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Sanson, Nicolas - Somer, J.
    • Date: 1704-01-01
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    Orbis vetus et orbis veteris utraque continens, terrarumq[ue]... Relief shown pictorially. "Cum privilegio regis ad Vicennium 1704." Includes text directly above and below hemispheres lacking in other 1704 edition. Shows California as an island. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Sanson, Nicolas - Somer, J.
    • Date: 1704-01-01
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    Planisphere terrestre, suivant les nouvelles observations des...
    Planispherium terrestre secundum recentiores astronomorum observationes
    Relief shown pictorially. Centered on the North Pole. Includes illustrations and notes. This map appears as map 2 in Gueudeville's Le nouveau theatre du monde of 1713, as map 27 in volume 1 of Ottens' Atlas maior, 1641-1729, and as map 5 in volume 1 of Covens and Mortier's Atlas nouveau, 1683-1761. LC copy mounted on cloth. French. Parallel title and notes also in...
    • Contributor: Gueudeville, Nicolas - Cassini, Jacques - Goeree, Jan - Gouwen, Gilliam Van Der - Aa, Pieter Van Der - Ottens, R. (Reinier) - Cóvens Et Mortier
    • Date: 1713-01-01
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    A new map of the terraqueous globe according to the ancient d... Includes illustrations, notes, and list of abbreviations. Includes "I" underneath dedication, which is present in editions of the atlas published from 1718 onward. LC copy has all margins trimmed. Right and left margins ragged. Red bordered label with manuscript "591/1" on upper left corner of verso. English title and text and place names in western hemisphere. Latin place names in eastern hemisphere. Available also...
    • Contributor: Burghers, Michael - Wells, Edward
    • Date: 1718-01-01
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    Planisphere terrestre, suivant les nouvelles observations des...
    Planispherium terrestre secundum recentiores astronomorum observationes
    Relief shown pictorially. Centered on the North Pole. Includes illustrations and notes. A version of this map appears as map 2 in Gueudeville's Le nouveau theatre du monde of 1713, as map 27 in volume 1 of Ottens' Atlas maior, 1641-1729, and as map 5 in volume 1 of Covens and Mortier's Atlas nouveau, 1683-1761. LC copy trimmed to neat line, mounted on paper...
    • Contributor: Gueudeville, Nicolas - Cóvens Et Mortier - Goeree, Jan - Gouwen, Gilliam Van Der - Ottens, R. (Reinier) - Cassini, Jacques
    • Date: 1721-01-01
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    Mappe-monde, dressé sur les observations de mrs. de l'Academi...
    Nova orbis tabula ad usum serenissimi Burgundiae ducis
    Relief shown pictorially. Includes illustrations and 4 small hemispherical polar projections. This edition includes "Routes de Mr. Halley" and "Glaces vues par Mr. Halley" off the east coast of South America. LC copy trimmed to neat line, and mounted on paper, sheet 55 x 80 cm. In manuscript in upper right corner of backing sheet "I". French. Alternate title only in Latin. Available also...
    • Contributor: L'isle, Guillaume De - Cóvens Et Mortier
    • Date: 1730-01-01
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    Mappe-monde, dressé sur les observations de mrs. de l'Academi...
    Nova orbis tabula ad usum serenissimi Burgundiae ducis
    Relief shown pictorially. Includes illustrations and 4 small hemispherical polar projections. This edition does not include "Routes de Mr. Halley" and "Glaces vues par Mr. Halley" off the east coast of South America, but does include the limits of "Terre Australe et inconnue Magellanique". LC copy trimmed to neat line on left and right margins. This edition of the map is not found in...
    • Contributor: L'isle, Guillaume De - Cóvens Et Mortier
    • Date: 1740-01-01
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    Diversi globi terr-aquei : statione variante et visu interced... 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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    Scientia terrarum et coelorum : or, the heavens and earth ast...
    Heavens and earth astronomically and geographically delineated and display'd
    Relief shown by hachures. "As the act directs 20th November 1772." Includes extensive text, tables, and many small astronomical maps, as well as the larger maps and charts listed below. Ancillary maps and diagrams: The solar system -- The Northern Hemisphere -- The Southern Hemisphere -- An astronomical latitude & longitude analemma -- An universal scale of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, secants, &c.,...
    • Contributor: Kitchin, Thomas - Dunn, Samuel
    • Date: 1772-01-01
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    Mappa totius mundi : adornata juxta observationes dnn. academ... Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Tobias Conrad Lotter's Atlas géographique de cent et huit cartes générales et spéciales. Augsburg, 1778. Includes note, ill., and ancillary maps of the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere. Date principally obscured. Vertically fold-lined in half, mounted on cloth. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: L'isle, Guillaume De - Lotter, Tobias Conrad
    • Date: 1775-01-01
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    Mappa totius mundi : adornata juxta observationes dnn. academ... Relief shown pictorially. Includes note, illustrations, and ancillary maps of the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere. LC copy imperfect: small loss close to left margin. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: L'isle, Guillaume De
    • Date: 1775-01-01
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    [Sphendonē], hoc est, fvnda Posidonii.
    Sphendonē, that is, the world of Posidonii | Dionysius in the world traveled by the Greeks
    From Bertius' Ancient Geography. Paris, 1630. In Latin and Greek. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Posidonius - Bertius, Petrus
    • Date: 1630-01-01
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    Erster gedruckter Globus, Martin Hylacomylus (Waltzemüller) :... Relief shown pictorially on "Zweiter" globe. Titles in German. Place names in Latin. "Phot.-lith. im k.k.t.u.a. Militär-Comité." According to Shirley's Mapping of the world, 1993, the "Zweiter" globe was created by an unknown cartographer in Ingolstadt around 1518, not by Peter Apian in 1524, and the Waldseemüller gores were created in Strassburg in 1507. Original version of Waldseemüller gores : [Strassburg?, 1507]. Original version...
    • Contributor: Apian, Peter - Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Militär-Comité - Waldseemüller, Martin
    • Date: 1879-01-01
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    Globus 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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    [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 hemisphere: I. Hondius Lectori S. In locorum longitudine ... Longitudines incepimus non ab Insulis Fortunatis ut Ptolome[us], sed ab iis quae acores vocantur quod acus nautica ibi recta in septentrionem vergat Vale....
    • Contributor: Rossi, Giuseppe DI - Hondius, Jodocus
    • Date: 1615-01-01
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    [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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    [Globus terrarum] Relief shown pictorially. Gores for a 16.3 cm. globe. Title supplied by cataloger. Includes watermark. Includes ill. LC copy: Pencil annotations across bottom. LC copy imperfect: Central horizontal and vertical fold lines. Liquid staining on upper and lower right and left. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no.: 2004-3
    • Contributor: Jollain, Gérard - Blacus, G. I.
    • Date: 1666-01-01
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    Vera totius expeditionis nauticæ : descriptio D. Franc. Draci... Shows routes around the world of Sir Francis Drake between 1577 and 1580 and Thomas Cavendish between 1586 and 1588. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift of the estate of Robert H. Power. Includes text, 2 ancillary maps showing landing at California and Java, 2 ancillary views showing Drake's welcome at Moluccas and Drake's ship cast...
    • Contributor: Power, Robert H. - Hondius, Jodocus
    • Date: 1595-01-01
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    Antiqvissima 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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    Nova et accvrata Poli Arctici : et terrarum circum iacentium ... Coloring with water colors and illumination with gold and silver ascribed to D.J. v. Santen. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 2-81 Vault
    • Contributor: Jansson, Jan - Santen, Dirck Jansz Van
    • Date: 1650-01-01
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    Die neuwen Inseln, so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem l...
    Title on verso: New weldt oder Inseln, so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land India ligen
    Relief shown pictorially. South America labeled in German, geographic features otherwise in Latin. Appears in the author's Cosmographei. Basel, Switzerland. 1550. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Exhibited: Rivers, edens, empires: Lewis & Clark and the revealing of America, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., July 24-Nov. 29, 2003. Fold-lined.
    • Contributor: Münster, Sebastian
    • Date: 1550-01-01
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    Tabula nouarum insularum, quas diuersis respectibus Occidenta...
    Tabula novarum insularum, quas diversis respectibus Occidentales & Indianas vocant | Nouus orbis, qui insulas habet Indici Oceani
    Relief shown pictorially. Has the word "Americam" in South America. Appears in the author's Cosmographiae universalis. Basel, Switzerland. 1559. Woodcut. Includes illustrations. LC copy imperfect: Fold-lined. Missing extreme upper right corner, minor losses to lower-middle of map. South America also labeled in German. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Münster, Sebastian
    • Date: 1559-01-01
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    Americae et proximar regionvm orae descriptio.
    Americae et proximar regionum orae descriptio
    Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Second state. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 95-34 Vault
    • Contributor: Rascicotti, Donato - Massa, Giovanni Battista
    • Date: 1580-01-01
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    [Map of the Western Hemisphere] Title plate to Nova Reperta, a series of engravings after drawings by Stradanus published by Galle in Antwerp. Shows Christopher Columbus pointing to a map of the Western Hemisphere. New France and Florida are indicated in North America. In addition to the map, notable developments in science and technology of the late 16th century are illustrated. Mounted on paper. LC copy imperfect: Margins trimmed....
    • Contributor: Straet, Jan Van Der - Galle, Théodore
    • Date: 1590-01-01
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    Pervviae avriferae regionis typvs / La Florida / auctore Hier...
    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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    Americae sive novi orbis proximarvmqz regionum orae descriptio.
    Americae sive novi orbis proximarumqz regionum orae descriptio
    Relief shown pictorially. Attributed to: Johannes Metellus. Appears in the author's Speculum orbis terrae, 1602. Described in: The mapping of North America / Philip D. Burden. 1996. p. 176-7. Latin text on verso. Fold-lined. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vendor: George Tobolowsky Acquisitions control no. 2004-052
    • Contributor: Matal, Jean
    • Date: 1602-01-01
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    America, noviter delineata Relief shown pictorially. Includes insets of Greenland and Antarctica and ill. of native figures and town views in margins. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 45-83 Vault
    • Contributor: Jansson, Jan - Hondius, Jodocus
    • Date: 1622-01-01
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    Nova America descriptio Relief shown pictorially. Sheet issued as part of a set of 5 maps; one map covers entire world and 4 maps cover individual continents. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Control no.: 2001-25
    • Contributor: Jollain, Gérard - Visscher, Nicolaes
    • Date: 1657-01-01
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    Novissima et accuratissima totius Americae descriptio Relief shown pictorially. Includes illustrated cartouche, illustrations, and historical note in upper left corner. Shows California as an island. LC copy mounted on cloth, with artificial leather border. Stamped on verso: 1489. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Visscher, Nicolaes
    • Date: 1660-01-01
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    Americae nova descriptio Relief shown pictorially. A re-engraved version of a map previously published for Henri Seile in 1652 under the title "Americae descriptio nova" and subsequently re-published from the same engraving as the 1652 map for Phillippi Chetwood in 1666. Appears in Peter Heylyn's "Cosmography in four books", 1677. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
    • Contributor: Seile, Anne - Vaughan, Robert
    • Date: 1663-01-01
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    Americæ descriptio nova Relief shown pictorially. From the Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Appears in Peter Heylyn's Cosmography in four books, 1670. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Another copy filed in Rare Book Roon, G114.H62. Acquisitions control no. 20-82 Vault
    • Contributor: Chetwind, Philip - Trevethen, William - Rosenwald, Lessing J. (Lessing Julius)
    • Date: 1660-01-01
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    America noviter delineata Relief shown pictorially. Includes insets of north and south polar regions, and ill. of native figures and town views in margin. Prime meridian: Ferro. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 39-84
    • Contributor: Todeschi, Pietro - Hondius, Jodocus
    • Date: 1670-01-01
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    Totius Americae nova et exacta tabula ex optimis tum geograph...
    Totivs Americae nova et exacta tabvla ex optimis tvm geographorvm tvm aliorvm scriptis collecta et ad hodiernam regnorvm principatvvm et maiorvm partivm distinctionem accomodata
    Relief shown pictorially. Also shows Iberian peninsula and west coast of Africa. Not attributable to Blaeu, but instead derived from Cornelius Danckert's 1647 map of the same title, according to Burden's The mapping of North America, 1996. Includes polar stereographic inset and ill. Copy imperfect: lacking eastern sheet. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no....
    • Contributor: Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo De - Danckerts, Cornelis - Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
    • Date: 1679-01-01
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    Americam utramque : aliis correctiorem Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Dedicated to "Iacobo Boreel" by G. van Keulen. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 10-87 Vault
    • Contributor: Keulen, Gerard Van
    • Date: 1700-01-01
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    Totius Americae Septentrionalis et Meridionalis novissima rep... Relief shown pictorially. Appears in the author's Neuer atlas bestehend in auserlesenen und allerneuesten land-charten über die gantze Welt. Nuremburg, 1707. Includes cartouche with text and title cartouche. Vertically fold-lined at center. Mounted on cloth. In manuscript ink in upper right margin: "13." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Homann, Johann Baptist
    • Date: 1707-01-01
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    America Septentrionalis novissima ; America Meridionalis accu... Relief shown pictorially. Map contains 2 separate titles for North America and South America. Includes ill. of figures in title area. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Schenk, Peter
    • Date: 1709-01-01
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    L'Amerique dressé sur les observations
    Title from cartouche: America | America
    Relief shown pictorially. Central map flanked by 10 views of cities and towns on each side, printed on 3 strips of paper. Publisher information on separate sheets, pasted over the original de Wit imprint which was printed on the same strip as the lowest town views. Title also printed separately. 9 leaves of text below central map. Beneath title: I. Ottens excudit cum privilegie...
    • Contributor: Wit, Frederik De - R. & J. Ottens
    • Date: 1730
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    Carte d'Amerique dressée pour l'usage du Roy. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: L'isle, Guillaume De - Buache, Philippe
    • Date: 1780-01-01