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MapMappe-monde, ou carte générale du monde : dessignée en deux p... Relief shown pictorially. Shows California as an island. LC copy stamped on: 480B. Mounted on cloth. Annotations in Australia. Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 390 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Rivière - Mariette, Pierre - Sanson, Nicolas
- Date: 1651-01-01
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MapAssyria vetvs diuisa in Syriam, Messopotamiam, Babyloniam, et...
Assyria vetus divisa in Syriam, Messopotamiam, Babyloniam, et Assyriam "Little is known about the French mapmaker Philippe de La Rue. He was associated with the pioneering French cartographer Nicolas Sanson, and specialized in Biblical themes. In 1651, he published La Terre sainte en six cartes géographiques (The Holy Land in six maps), the first collection of maps laid out in a chronological sequence around a unifying theme. La Rue's goal was to trace...- Contributor: La Rue, Philippe De - Mariette, Pierre - Somer, J.
- Date: 1651
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CollectionGeneral 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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