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MapCarta marina navigatoria Portvgallen navigationes, atqve tocius cogniti orbis terre marisqve formam natvram sitvs et terminos nostris temporibvs recognitos et ab antiqvorum traditione differentes, eciam qvor vetvsti non meminervnt avtores, hec generaliter ...
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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Map[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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Map[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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MapPlanisphaerivm Aratevm sive Compages Orbivm Mvndanorvm ex hypothesi Aratea in plano expressa.
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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Map[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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MapUniversalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii alioru[m]que lustrationes
Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorū que lustrationes "Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world map was the first map to depict a separate Western hemisphere with the Pacific as a separate ocean. The map grew out of an ambitious project in Saint-Dié, Lorraine (in present-day France), during the early 1500s, to document and update new geographic knowledge derived from the Portuguese and Spanish explorations of the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Waldseemüller's map...- Contributor: Waldseemüller, Martin
- Date: 1507
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MapNoua, 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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MapTabula 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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MapTypus 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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MapTypus 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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MapDas erst general inhaltend die Beschreibung und den Circkel des gantzen Erdtrichs und Moeres.
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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MapTypvs 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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MapTypvs 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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MapTypvs 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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MapDie erst general Tafel die Beschreibung und den Circkel des gantzen Erdtrichs und Meers innhaltende.
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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MapTypvs 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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MapOrbis 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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MapTipus 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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MapNova 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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MapTypvs 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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MapNoua orbis terrarum delineatio singulari ratione accommodata meridiano tabb. Rudolphi astronomicarum
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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MapNova 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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MapOrbis 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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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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MapNova totivs terrarvm orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabvla : carta vniverselle de tovt le monde
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