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MapHauslab-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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Map[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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MapTabula nouarum insularum, quas diuersis respectibus Occidenta...
Tabula novarum insularum, quas diversis respectibus Occidentales & Indianas vocant | Nouus orbis, qui insulas habet Indici Oceani Relief shown pictorially. Has the word "Americam" in South America. Appears in the author's Cosmographiae universalis. Basel, Switzerland. 1559. Woodcut. Includes illustrations. LC copy imperfect: Fold-lined. Missing extreme upper right corner, minor losses to lower-middle of map. South America also labeled in German. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Münster, Sebastian
- Date: 1559-01-01
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MapGuang yu tu : er juan
廣輿圖 : 二卷 / Woodblock print. Shows the Great Wall of China, the defense sturctures of the military towns along the border and the coast. Also shows the number of soldiers and horses stationed in the border towns, and ethnic groups in the border area.. Enlarged Universal terrestrial atlas of China. Covers Yellow River, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, and the administrative divisions of China in Ming Dynasty....- Contributor: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Zhu, Siben - Luo, Hongxian
- Date: 1558-01-01
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MapDie neuwen Inseln, so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem l...
Title on verso: New weldt oder Inseln, so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land India ligen Relief shown pictorially. South America labeled in German, geographic features otherwise in Latin. Appears in the author's Cosmographei. Basel, Switzerland. 1550. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Exhibited: Rivers, edens, empires: Lewis & Clark and the revealing of America, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., July 24-Nov. 29, 2003. Fold-lined.- Contributor: Münster, Sebastian
- Date: 1550-01-01
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Map[Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, the ... 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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Map[Chart of the Mediterranean, Black Sea, and the coasts of wes... 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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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