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    Muriel H. Parry map collection Catalog Record Only 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 StateDepartment's library. Formats in the collection include single map and maps in books, magazines, calendars, and advertisements. In addition, there are maps on napkins, gift cards, cloth, etc. Included are maps by Ernest Clegg,...
    • 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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    Portolano maps. Catalog Record Only Portolano, photographed from: Handschriftensammlung Handschrift Nr. 12925 (5 pages) In Nationalbibliothek, Wien.
    • Date: 1539
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    Chiu pien tʻu lun. Catalog Record Only Replaced unk81036119 upgraded to RDA and 2021587920 ga16 2021-09-07 Reminder: Establish heading [Hsü, Lun, chin shih 1524] [from old catalog] ga16 2021-09-07 Call number to be updated to G2306.R4 H 1538
    • Contributor: Hsü, Lun
    • Date: 1538
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    World Map on Double Cordiform Projection. This world map on two sheets is an early work of the famous Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator (1512--94). Only two copies of the map are extant: this one from the American Geographical Society Library, and one at the New York Public Library. This is also the first map to apply the name America to the North American continent as well as to South America...
    • Contributor: Mercator, Gerhard
    • Date: 1538-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    General Atlas of All the Islands in the World.
    Islario general de todas las islas del mundo
    Islario general de todas las islas del mundo (General atlas of all the islands in the world) is the greatest work by Seville cosmographer Alonso de Santa Cruz (1505--67). The atlas was begun during the reign of Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain Charles V and finished in that of his son King Philip II, to whom it was dedicated. It consists of...
    • Contributor: Santa Cruz, Alonso De
    • Date: 1539-01-01
    • Resource: - 717 pages

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    A Modern and Complete Map of the World by the Royal Mathematician Oronce Fine of the Dauphiné.
    Recens et integra orbis descriptio. Orontius F[inaeus] Delph[inas], Regis[s] mathematic[us] facebiat
    An astronomer and mathematician, from 1531 the first chair of mathematics in the Collège Royal (the present-day Collège de France), Oronce Fine (1494--1555) was one of the first French scholars to work with cartography. His world map in the shape of a heart belongs to a group of 18 heart-shaped projection maps published between 1511 and 1566. Inspired by one of the projections described...
    • Contributor: Finé, Oronce
    • Date: 1534-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    General 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 a geographic area larger than a city or town and do not display a subject that is part of one of the thematic categories.
    • Date: 1290

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    [Egypt, Nile Delta, and Palestine]. Catalog Record Only Title devised by cataloger. Relief shown by landform drawings. Fine-cut woodblock map of Egypt and what is now southern Israel and parts of Palestine, including as far north as Jerusalem and Jericho. From: "Quae intus continentur Syria, Palestina, Arabia, Aegyptus, Schondia, Holmiae."
    • Contributor: Ziegler, Jacob
    • Date: 1532
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    [Egyptus and Marmarica]. Catalog Record Only Relief shown by landform drawings. Fine-cut woodblock map of Egypt and Marmarica (area between Egypt and Cyrenaica - present day Libya), or what is currently known as the Egyptian Western Desert. From "Quae intus continentur Syria, Palestina, Arabia, Aegyptus, Schondia, Holmiae."
    • Contributor: Ziegler, Jacob
    • Date: 1532
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    Carta marina 1539 Catalog Record Only Pictorial map of Scandinavia and the North Sea region. Shows sheet letters of the author's 9-sheet map: A thru I. In lower margin: Carta Gothica. Facsimile. Original version: Carta marina et descriptio septemtrionalivm terrarvm ac mirabilivm rervm in eis contentarvm / diligentissime elaborata anno Dn̄i 1539 ; Olavs Magnvs Gotvs Lincopfn̄. [Linköping, Sweden? : s.n., 1539]. Includes text and coats of arms.
    • Contributor: Olaus, Magnus - Uppsala Universitetsbibliotek
    • Date: 1539
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    Nova Anglia Catalog Record Only Relief shown pictorially. Gift; John (Jack) M. Raymond; July 2016. A woodcut. Appears in: Giovanni Battista Ramusio's Delle navigationi et viaggi [Viaggi volume 30 ; pages 308-309].
    • Contributor: Hondius, Henry
    • Date: 1532
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    Maps: Bach to Baseball Cards - Conservation Highlights (Preservation, Library of Congress) Maps - Bach to Baseball Cards: Preserving the Nation's Heritage at the Library of Congress
    • Date: 1514
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    Portolan Atlas of Battista Agnese.
    Portolano
    This portolan atlas is attributed to Battista Agnese (1514-64), one of the most important Italian Renaissance cartographers. Of Genoese origin, Agnese was active in Venice from 1536 until his death. He is likely to have directed a full-fledged printing house where his maps were made. He produced approximately 100 manuscript atlases, of which more than 70 still exist, either with his signature or attributed...
    • Contributor: Agnese, Battista - Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy - Sforza DI Santa Fiora, Guido Ascanio
    • Date: 1536-01-01
    • Resource: - 19 pages

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    Typvs cosmographicvs Vniversalis.
    Typus cosmographicus Universalis Catalog Record Only
    Relief shown pictorially. Gift; John (Jack) M. Raymond; July 2016. Appears in Simon Grynaeus' Novus Orbis Regionum, Basle, 1532. Includes text and illustrations. Inscription on verso.
    • Contributor: Holbeinn, Hans
    • Date: 1532
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    [Manuscript world map of 1531 by Vesconte Maggiolo]. Catalog Record Only
    • Contributor: Maggiolo, Vesconte
    • Date: 1531
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    Nova Anglia Catalog Record Only Relief shown pictorially. Gift; John (Jack) M. Raymond; July 2016. A woodcut. Appears in: Giovanni Battista Ramusio's Delle navigationi et viaggi [Viaggi volume 30 ; pages 308-309].
    • Contributor: Hondius, Henry
    • Date: 1532
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    Cities 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 religious facilities, parks, street patterns and widths, and transportation systems.
    • Date: 1500

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    Finding 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 atlases, newspaper articles, sheet music and movie posters.
    • Contributor: Druyan, Ann - Sagan, Carl - Macfarlane, Seth
    • Date: 1495

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    Muriel 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 library. Formats in the collection include single map and maps in books, magazines, calendars, and advertisements. In addition, there are maps on napkins, gift cards, cloth, etc. Included are maps by Ernest...
    • 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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    Nova Anglia Catalog Record Only Relief shown pictorially. Gift; John (Jack) M. Raymond; July 2016. A woodcut. Appears in: Giovanni Battista Ramusio's Delle navigationi et viaggi [Viaggi volume 30 ; pages 308-309].
    • Contributor: Hondius, Henry
    • Date: 1532
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    Oceanvnvs occidentalis.
    Oceani occidentalis seu terrae novae tabula Catalog Record Only
    Relief shown pictorially. Appears in: Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 Ptolemy, as copied by Laurent Fries' (c1490-c1532) 1522 Strassburg edition of Ptolemy, Michael Servet's edition of Ptolemy, 1535. Gift; John (Jack) M. Raymond; July 2016. Latin text on verso.
    • Contributor: Waldseemüller, Martin
    • Date: 1535
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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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    Hauslab-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. These were later acquired by Prince Jordan II of Liechtenstein, whose own maps complemented the Hauslab collection, hence the name Hauslab-Liechtentstein. Within the collection there are examples of various types of map...
    • Contributor: Hauslab, Franz - Johann II, Fürst Von Und Zu Liechtenstein
    • Date: 1500
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    [Maps of Australasia, from approximately 1530 to 1970]
    Australasia title collection Catalog Record Only
    This record covers single maps of Australasia, which are not represented in the LC database by separate catalog records. This collection includes single printed maps and photocopies of printed or manuscript single maps as well as some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books or periodicals, and printed facsimiles. These maps cover Australasia as a whole and regions and physical features of Australasia as...
    • Date: 1530
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    Nova Anglia Catalog Record Only Relief shown pictorially. Gift; John (Jack) M. Raymond; July 2016. A woodcut. Appears in: Giovanni Battista Ramusio's Delle navigationi et viaggi [Viaggi volume 30 ; pages 308-309].
    • Contributor: Hondius, Henry
    • Date: 1532