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MapMarchionatus Sacri Romani Imperii. 1 inset. Illustrations of city and landmarks included. In Latin, in black and white. Shows city plan, transportation routes, terrain, waterways, in and around the city of Antwerp, Belgium. Map of Antwerp, Belgium.
- Contributor: Visscher, Claes Jansz
- Date: 1640-01-01
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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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MapDucatus Limburg
Description of the Dutchie of Limbvrg : Catalog Record Only Covers the present-day provinces of Limburg (Netherlands) and Limburg (Belgium). Relief shown pictorially. Map title and principal place-names in Latin; text on verso in English. The 2 bar-scales indicate "Milliaria Germanica communia" and "Milliaria Gallica communia". Sheet removed from unidentified atlas (vertical fold-line at center of sheet, page numbers "233, 234" on verso). LC copy imperfect: Darkened, brittle, missing small edge sections, rubber-stamped on...- Contributor: Hondius, Hendrik
- Date: 1640
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MapBrazil: of the Noble Class, of Loves, and of Letters....
Brasilia: front generis nobilitate armerum et litterarum This map of Brazil is the work of Joan Blaeu (1596-1673), one of the most famous Dutch cartographers. Blaeu was trained as a lawyer, but eventually joined the Amsterdam studio of his father, the cartographer Willem Blaeu. Together with his father and brother Cornelis, Joan Blaeu published the Atlas Novus (New atlas), an 11-volume work consisting of 594 maps. Joan Blaeu later became the...- Contributor: Blaeu, Joan
- Date: 1640-01-01
- Resource: - 2 pages
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MapA Chart of Magellan by the Route of Tierra del Fuego.
Tabula Magellanica qua Terrae del Fuego This map of "Magellanica," the land south of the Strait of Magellan, is by Willem Janszoon Blaeu, a leading Dutch cartographer and map publisher and the founder of a family of distinguished mapmakers that included his sons Joan and Cornelis. Born in the Netherlands in 1571, between 1594 and 1596 Blaeu studied in Denmark under the astronomer Tycho Brahe, where he developed skills as...- Contributor: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
- Date: 1640-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapAmerica noviter delineata Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes insets of north and south polar regions. Acquisitions control no. 3-85
- Contributor: Boisseau, Jean - Picart, H. (Hugues) - Hondius, Jodocus
- Date: 1640-01-01
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MapAfricae nova tabula Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes watermark. Acquisitions control no. 6-85
- Contributor: Boisseau, Jean - Picart, H. (Hugues) - Hondius, Jodocus
- Date: 1640-01-01
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MapPatriarchatus Alexandrini geographica descriptio. Catalog Record Only Relief shown pictorially. From an atlas of ancient history. Collection of maps of the ancient world, drawn by Nicolas Sanson (d'Abbeville), his sons and other students and successors. Maps date from 1640-1717 ; British Museum, Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829. Imprint notes...
- Contributor: Tavernier, Melchior - Sanson, Nicolas
- Date: 1640