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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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    Cholula, Tlaxcala, Mexico. This map from Cholula in the present-day state of Puebla, Mexico, is from the Relaciones Geográficas collection in the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin. Dating from between 1578 and 1586, the Relaciones Geográficas are responses to a questionnaire initiated by the Spanish crown in 1577, requesting information about Spanish-held territories in the Americas. The questionnaires covered such topics...
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    Tenochtitlán, 1521. This topographical map of Mexico City and its surroundings dates from around 1550, some three decades after the conquest of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán by Hernán Cortés in 1521. Tenochtitlán was founded in the 14th century on an island in the salt lake of Texcoco. Upon occupying the city, the Spanish pulled down its central parts and replaced the Aztec temples with buildings...
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    [San Juan de Ulúa Ground plan of a projected fortress.
    • Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Eraso, Cristóbal De
    • Date: 1570-01-01
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    World Map in two Hemispheres (Bonne Projection), 1566. This world map in two hemispheres using the Bonne projection is by the Norman hydrographer Guillaume Le Testu (1509-72). Bonne maps used a modified conical map projection from circa 1500; the parallels appeared as equally spaced concentric arcs of a circle and the maps had a straight vertical central meridian. The Norman school of hydrographers was active in the French maritime province of Normandy,...
    • Contributor: Le Testu, Guillaume
    • Date: 1566-01-01
    • Resource: - 2 pages

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    World Map, 1566. This portolan world map, drawn by Nicolas Desliens in 1566, synthesizes Norman hydrographic knowledge in the mid-16th century. It is one of two world maps by Desliens known to exist; the other dates from 1541. The map is oriented with south at the top and north at the bottom, giving it an upside-down look to the modern viewer. La Nouvelle France occidentalle (Western New...
    • Contributor: Desliens, Nicolas, Active
    • Date: 1566-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    [Portolan chart of the Pacific coast from Guatemala to northern Peru with the Galapagos Islands]. Spanish. Title supplied by cataloger. Pen-and-ink; black, blue, green, and red. Trimmed to a rough rectangle. Matted and mounted between sheets of transparent lucite. LC Luso-Hispanic world, 28 LC Nautical charts on vellum, 9 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes col. ill. Imperfect: Some tears on edge and several holes.
    • Date: 1565-01-01
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    Sketches for the "Great Map of Bavaria" from 1563, Part 4. Topographical Map of Bavaria 48 Degrees 15 Minutes to 48 Degrees 18 Minutes North Latitude.
    Vorzeichnungen für die Grosse Karte Bayerns von 1563, Teil 4: Topographische Karte von Bayern 48° 15' bis 48° 18' nördl. Breite
    Between 1554 and 1561, by order of Duke Albrecht V, Philipp Apian (1531-89) carried out a topographical survey of Bavaria (without using triangulation), on which was based the first mathematically measured map of a large region. In 1563, he completed a large-scale version on vellum, to a scale of 1:40,000, which was unfortunately destroyed after 1720. A copy of the original that was produced...
    • Contributor: Apianus, Philippus - Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria
    • Date: 1554-01-01
    • Resource: - 6 pages

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    [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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    Sketches for the "Great Map of Bavaria" from 1563, Part 5. Topographical Map of Bavaria 49 Degrees 14 Minutes to 49 Degrees 18 Minutes North Latitude.
    Vorzeichnungen für die Grosse Karte Bayerns von 1563, Teil 5: Topographische Karte von Bayern 49° 14' bis 49° 18' nördl. Breite
    Between 1554 and 1561, by order of Duke Albrecht V, Philipp Apian (1531-89) carried out a topographical survey of Bavaria (without using triangulation), on which was based the first mathematically measured map of a large region. In 1563, he completed a large-scale version on vellum, to a scale of 1:40,000, which was unfortunately destroyed after 1720. A copy of the original that was produced...
    • Contributor: Apianus, Philippus - Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria
    • Date: 1554-01-01
    • Resource: - 5 pages

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    [The Codex Quetzalecatzin]
    Alternate title from dealer's publication: Mapa de Ecatepec-Huitziltepec | Alternate title from dealer's publication: Codex Ehecatepec and Huitziltepec | Alternate title from dealer's publication: Charles Ratton Codex
    Shows genealogical information and land ownership for the Nahuatl "de Leon" family from 1480-1593. Map covers southern Puebla from the church of Todos Santos, Ecatepec (now suburb to the north east of modern-day Mexico City), and Lake Texcoco (now the National Reserve "El Caracol") to the church of Santa Cruz Huitziltepec, Pue at the lower right, with the lower portion of the map crossed...
    • Date: 1593
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    [Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and connecting seas]. Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines. Does not cover Black Sea. Title devised by cataloguer. Oriented with north to the right (indicated by fleurs-de-lys). Contains 11 compass roses in a circle centered on Sicily, 2 additional roses in Iberia, and rhumb lines connecting all roses and some central points without roses. Manuscript: pen-and-ink (brown) and dark watercolors. LC Nautical charts on...
    • Date: 1550-01-01
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    [Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, the coasts of western Europe and North America, with Madeira and the Canary Islands and part of the Baltic Sea] Title provided by cataloger. Pen-and-ink and gouache. Matted and mounted between sheets of transparent lucite, 76 x 102 cm. Irregularly shaped, with neck to the left. Includes bar scales with unidentified divisions and many illustrations. LC Nautical charts on vellum, 6 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Purchase; Ludwig Rosenthal, Munich; 1914.
    • Contributor: Olives, Jaume
    • Date: 1550-01-01
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    Sketches for the "Great Map of Bavaria" from 1563, Part 6. Topographical Map of Bavaria 49 Degrees 19 Minutes to 49 Degrees 22 Minutes North Latitude.
    Vorzeichnungen für die Grosse Karte Bayerns von 1563, Teil 6: Topographische Karte von Bayern 49° 19' bis 49° 22' nördl. Breite
    Between 1554 and 1561, by order of Duke Albrecht V, Philipp Apian (1531-89) carried out a topographical survey of Bavaria (without using triangulation), on which was based the first mathematically measured map of a large region. In 1563, he completed a large-scale version on vellum, to a scale of 1:40,000, which was unfortunately destroyed after 1720. A copy of the original that was produced...
    • Contributor: Apianus, Philippus - Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria
    • Date: 1554-01-01
    • Resource: - 3 pages

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    [Portolan chart showing the east coast of North America from the Caribbean to Newfoundland]
    Title from dealer's description: Manuscript portolan of the North American coast from Texas to Labrador
    Shows geographic discoveries made by Jacques Cartier during his voyages to Canada in 1534 to 1536. Title provided by cataloger. Pen-and-ink and watercolor on vellum. Attributed to Bartolomeu Velho. This chart, found in England in 1961 in a 17th century binding, is the upper left section of a larger map. Includes many coastal place names, images of three flags, and bar scale without legible...
    • Contributor: Velho, Bartolomeu
    • Date: 1560
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    [The Oztoticpac lands map]. Aztec pictorial document showing litigation map of Oztoticpac, an estate in Texcoco, ca. 1540. Title derived from The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, "The Oztoticpac Lands Map of Texcoco 1540," v. 23, no. 2, April 1966, pp. 76-116. Red and black ink. Worm holes. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 559 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault...
    • Date: 1540-01-01
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    Atlas of Joan Martines.
    Atlas de Joan Martines
    This manuscript atlas by Joan Martines, cosmographer to King Philip II of Spain, dated 1587, represents the combination of two cartographic schools that existed at the time of its creation. The older one was the traditional school of Majorca, which specialized in decorative portolan maps that by this time were obsolete with regard to the geographic information they conveyed. The newer one was the...
    • Contributor: Martines, Joan
    • Date: 1587-01-01
    • Resource: - 19 pages

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    [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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    [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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    Sketches for the "Great Map of Bavaria" from 1563, Part 7. Bird's-eye View of Bavaria at the Border to Bohemia, Marked in Red.
    Vorzeichnungen für die Grosse Karte Bayerns von 1563, Teil 7: Vogelschauplan grösseren Masstabes von Bayern an der böhmischen Grenze, diese ist rot markiert
    Between 1554 and 1561, by order of Duke Albrecht V, Philipp Apian (1531-89) carried out a topographical survey of Bavaria (without using triangulation), on which was based the first mathematically measured map of a large region. In 1563, he completed a large-scale version on vellum, to a scale of 1:40,000, which was unfortunately destroyed after 1720. A copy of the original that was produced...
    • Contributor: Apianus, Philippus - Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria
    • Date: 1554-01-01
    • Resource: - 6 pages

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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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    [Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and Black Seas with the west coast of Spain and Portugal] Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines. Title provided by cataloguer. Fragmentary signature on upper right portion leading into neck reads "Io Placid...". Oriented with north to the right (indicated by fleurs-de-lys). Contains 10 small and 4 large compass roses centered on Sicily. LC Nautical charts on vellum, 14 Pen-and-ink and goauche, with traces of gilding. Includes 2 scale bars in unidentified...
    • Contributor: Oliva, Placido
    • Date: 1580-01-01
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    [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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    Asiento present hordenat a payon les responsions dels pezos e mezures : delahun boch al altre de tots los presents bochs nnomenats los quals son cap e regiment de la mercadoria hordenat ... Diagrammatic map of weights and measures in use in 27 Mediterranean and European seaports. Oriented with north to the right. Each port city is represented by a vignette of a prominent local tower and the vignettes are connected by rhumb lines. Manuscript: pen-and-ink (light brown) and watercolors. Includes notes and an aerial view of the walled city of Siena in the upper margin (neck...
    • Contributor: Domenech, Arnald - Roselli, Piero
    • Date: 1563-01-01
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    Sketches for the Great Map of Bavaria from 1563, Part 1. Topographical Map of Bavaria 47 Degrees 46 Minutes to 47 Degrees 54 Minutes North Latitude.
    Vorzeichnungen für die Grosse Karte Bayerns von 1563, Teil 1: Topographische Karte von Bayern 47° 46' bis 47° 54' nördl. Breite
    Between 1554 and 1561, by order of Duke Albrecht V, Philipp Apian (1531-89) carried out a topographical survey of Bavaria (without using triangulation), on which was based the first mathematically measured map of a large region. In 1563, he completed a large-scale version on vellum, to a scale of 1:40,000, which was unfortunately destroyed after 1720. A copy of the original that was produced...
    • Contributor: Apianus, Philippus - Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria
    • Date: 1554-01-01
    • Resource: - 9 pages