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  • Map
    [Tian di tu]
    245-02/$1 天地图。 | Panel title: Guang yu tu | Alternate title in English: Atlas of heaven and earth
    Shows celestial sphere, China as a whole, and 15 provinces fo the Ming Dynasty, Chinese Turkestan, and the "South Seas", including Japan, Philippines, Java, Sumatra, Calicut, Bagdad, etc. Covers Beijing, Henan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Nanjing, Shandong, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Huguang, Yunan, Guizhou, Dongbei Nüzhe, Dong nan zhu yi, and Xi bei zhu yi. Wood block print with place names labeled by hand....
    • Contributor: Zuo, Junheng - Hummel, Arthur W. (Arthur William)
    • Date: 1601
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    Fen ye yu tu.
    分野與圖 | Atlas of the realm: cosmology and provinces
    Covers Beijing, Nanjing, and 13 other provinces of Ming Dynasty. Cover title. Pen-and-ink. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes astronomy chart. Previous call no.: G2305.F4
    • Date: 1601-01-01
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    [Quanzhou Fu yu di tu shuo].
    [泉州府輿地图说] | Fujiang Sheng hai fang tu | Illustrated atlas of Quanzhou Prefecture
    Covers land and territory in Quanzhou Prefecture. Shows cities, towns, and military posts in Quanzhou fu. Title supplied. Previous supplied title: Quanzhou fu tu shuo. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Fragile, torn at fold lines. Previous call no.: G2308.F8F9
    • Date: 1602-01-01
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    Kun yu wan guo quan tu
    坤輿萬國全圖 | Great universal geographic map
    Relief shown pictorially. Title from Web page (viewed on April 20, 2010). Sheets individually numbered, e.g. Si fu. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Online version of the map on an exhibition at the Library of Congress that opened from Jan. 12 to April 17, 2010. The main map shows an oval shaped world map, includes insets...
    • Contributor: Ricci, Matteo - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division
    • Date: 1602-01-01
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    Orbis 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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    Tipus 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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    Nova 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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    America. Relief shown pictorially. Described in: The mapping of North America / Philip D. Burden. 1996. p. 165. Includes notes, ill., and cartouche with text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Fold-lined. LC copy imperfect: Margin in upper and lower left corner of sheet cut out. Pin holes in margins of all corners.
    • Contributor: Florimi, Matteo - Arnoldi, Arnoldo DI
    • Date: 1600-01-01
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    Americae sive novi orbis proximarvmqz regionum orae descriptio.
    Americae sive novi orbis proximarumqz regionum orae descriptio
    Relief shown pictorially. Attributed to: Johannes Metellus. Appears in the author's Speculum orbis terrae, 1602. Described in: The mapping of North America / Philip D. Burden. 1996. p. 176-7. Latin text on verso. Fold-lined. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vendor: George Tobolowsky Acquisitions control no. 2004-052
    • Contributor: Matal, Jean
    • Date: 1602-01-01
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    Nova et rece terraum et regnorum Californae, nouae Hispaiae M... Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Vault
    • Contributor: Wright, Benjamin - Tatton, Gabriel
    • Date: 1600-01-01
  • Map
    Descripsion des costs, pts., rades, illes de la Nouuele Franc... Shows coast of North America from western Nova Scotia to Cape Cod. Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink with green wash. Vellum chart collection, no. 15. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes table of longitude calculations in upper right corner, title cartouche, and decorative scale not specifying measurement. Stamped on verso at lower left: 540. Imperfect: Vertically fold-lined...
    • Contributor: Champlain, Samuel De
    • Date: 1607-01-01
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    Descripsion des costs, pts., rades, illes de la Nouuele Franc... Covers the coast of North America from western Nova Scotia to Cape Cod. Pictorial map. Original title. Facsim. title: Champlain map of the northeast coast of North America, 1607, a facsimile from the Library of Congress. Facsim. of a ms. chart on vellum in the collection of the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress. From a limited ed. of 500 copies. Accompanied by...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Champlain, Samuel De - Modelski, Andrew M.
    • Date: 1607-01-01
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    [Maps of Maine--cities and towns Fm-Gard]
    Alternate supplied title: Maine title collection drawer 52 | Alternate supplied title: Maine title collection--cities and towns Fm-Gard | Maine title collection drawer 52 | Maine title collection--cities and towns Fm-Gard
    Most maps in this collection before 1800 are photocopies or facsimiles. This record covers single maps of Maine cities and towns, 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...
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    [Maps of New York to 1774]
    Alternate supplied title: New York title collection--drawer 1 | Alternate supplied title: New York title collection--general to 1774 | New York title collection--drawer 1 | New York title collection--general to 1774
    All maps in this collection are photocopies or facsimiles. This record covers general single maps of New York as a whole, 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 mapsand may also include some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books or periodicals, and printed facsimiles. To...
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    Old Panama (about 1600) Transferred from the collection of the Canal Zone Library-Museum, 1980. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Negative. Indexed. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
    • Date: 1600-01-01
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    Europae.
    Evropae
    Relief shown pictorially. Includes notes, ill., and cartouche with dedicaton and text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Fold-lined. LC copy imperfect: Margin in upper and lower left corner of sheet cut out. Pin holes in margins of all corners.
    • Contributor: Florimi, Matteo - Arnoldi, Arnoldo DI
    • Date: 1600-01-01
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    Irlandiae regnum. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Mercator, Gerhard
    • Date: 1600-01-01
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    Baptista Boazio's Irlandiæ c. 1606 = Irlandiæ accvrata descri...
    Irlandiæ accvrata descriptio | Irlandiæ accurata descriptio
    Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the right.
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Vrients, Jan Baptista - Boazio, Baptista
    • Date: 1606-01-01
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    Asia. Relief shown pictorially. Includes notes, ill., and cartouche with text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Fold-lined. LC copy imperfect: Margin in upper and lower left corner of sheet cut out. Pin holes in margins of all corners.
    • Contributor: Florimi, Matteo - Arnoldi, Arnoldo DI
    • Date: 1600-01-01
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    Terrae Sanctae, qua Promissionis terra, est Syriae pars ea, q... Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Stella, Tilemann
    • Date: 1600-01-01
  • Map
    Sunshū fuchū oshiro no zu.
    駿州府中御城之圖
    Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Shows the plan, and the layout of the Sunpujō castle in Shizuoka-shi, Japan. Ms. the copier and the date not known. Title from title piece mounted on cover. "Tōkyō Teikoku Daigaku zōhon ni yori eisha." Copy has a label "Isseido Tōkyō Kanda" mounted on verso of the map. Copy has a previous owner's seal "Sasamori Bunko" stamped. Available also through the...
    • Contributor: Tōkyō Teikoku Daigaku
    • Date: 1607-01-01
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    Insulæ Indicæ cum terris circumvicinis.
    Insvlæ Indicæ cvm terris circvmvicinis
    Covers the East Indies including the Philippines, Malay Archipelago, and Ceylon. Relief shown pictorially. Exchange; Yale University Library; 29 Aug. 1934. In Latin. Has vertical fold line at center of sheet. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes embellished title cartouche, 4 bar scales of "Milliaria" (Germanica, Hispanica, Gallica, Italica & Anglica), and ill. of sailing ships....
    • Date: 1600-01-01
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    Africa. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes notes, ill., and cartouche with text. Fold-lined. LC copy imperfect: Margin in upper and lower left corner of sheet cut out. Pin holes in margins of all corners.
    • Contributor: Florimi, Matteo - Arnoldi, Arnoldo DI
    • Date: 1600-01-01
  • Map
    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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    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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    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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    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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    Military Battles and Campaigns This category contains maps showing campaigns of major military conflicts including troop movements, defensive structures and groundworks, roads to and from sites of military engagements, campsites, and local buildings, topography and vegetation. Some of the maps are manuscripts drawn on the field of battle, while others are engraved including some that have manuscript annotations reflecting the history of the battle or campaign. A significant...
    • Date: 1570

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