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Collection[Maps of Pennsylvania--cities and towns--Mos--New B]
Pennsylvania title collection--cities and towns Mos--New B | Pennsylvania title collection--drawer 138 Most maps before 1800 in this collection are photocopies or facsimiles. This record covers single maps of Pennsylvania 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 and may also include some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books or periodicals, and printed facsimiles....- Date: 1682-01-01
- Resource: Pennsylvania, Drawer 138 maps folder covers - 59 pages
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MapFortress of Ormuz: Plans of Plazas and Forts of Portuguese Possessions in Asia and Africa.
Fortaleza de Ormuz This drawing shows the Portuguese fort at Ormuz, located on the Persian Gulf island of Hormuz. In its heyday, Ormuz was one of the most important ports in the Middle East, controlling trading routes between India and East Africa. Before coming under Portuguese control in the early 1500s, Ormuz was a city-state that flourished as an independent kingdom. Its prime location along trade routes...- Date: 1600-01-01
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MapDescription de la Nouvelle France, ou, sont remarquées les diverses habitations des françois, despuis la première descouverte jusques à present, receuillie et dressée sur diverses relations modernes. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 8-85B Vault
- Date: 1660-01-01
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MapMaps: 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: 1630
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MapOrbis terrarum descriptio duobis planis hemisphaeriis comprehe[n]sa Includes notes and illustrations including the garden of Eden, the last judgement, and the four seasons. LC copy mounted on paper, wrinkled, with some staining and pin holes in all corners. French map of the North Pole affixed to the back, with manuscript commentary. Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 295 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Geylekerck, Nicolaes - Jansz, Jan
- Date: 1618-01-01
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MapLe Bresil. From his 1658 (i.e. 1660) Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde (Phillips 4260). Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Sanson, Nicolas
- Date: 1656-01-01
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Collection[Maps of Maine--cities and towns Portland subjects A-Z]
Alternate supplied title: Maine title collection drawer 61 | Alternate supplied title: Maine title collection--cities and towns Portland subjects A-Z | Maine title collection drawer 61 | Maine title collection--cities and towns Portland subjects A-Z Title supplied by cataloger. This record covers single maps of Portland, Maine, showing various subjects, which are not represented in the LC database by separate catalog records. This collection includes single printed maps and may also include photocopies of printed or manuscript single maps as well as some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books or periodicals, and printed facsimiles. To request a specific...- Date: 1630-01-01
- Resource: Maine, Drawer 61 maps folder covers - 32 pages
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MapPaskaarte om achter Yrlant om te zeylen, van Hitlant tot aen Heÿssant. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Doncker, Hendrick
- Date: 1658-01-01
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MapCarte de l'Amerique : corrigeé, et augmenteé, dessus toutes les aultres cy devant.
Carte de l'Ameriqve : Relief shown pictorially. Appears in the author's Carte generale de France et de ses nouuelles acquisitions. Paris, 1661. Includes inset of the north pole region, inset of the south pole region, text in margin surrounding map, and ill. Vertically fold-lined at center. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vendor: Richard B. Arkway/Cohen & Taliaferro Acquisitions control no....- Contributor: Berey, Nicolas
- Date: 1661-01-01
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MapOrbis vetus et orbis veteris utraque continens, terrarumq[ue] tractus arcticus et antarticus ex Platone, Theopompo sive Aeliano, Manilio &tc. Relief shown pictorially. "Cum privilegio regis ad Vicennium." Shows California as an island. Appears in Sanson's Cartes generales de toutes les parties du monde. Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 400 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Mariette, Pierre - Sanson, Nicolas - Somer, J.
- Date: 1657-01-01
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MapA chart of the Caribe Ilands [sic] Oriented with north to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
- Contributor: Thornton, John
- Date: 1680-01-01
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MapEdo ōezu, eiri
江戶大繪圖・繪入 / Cover title. Wood block print, hand colored. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially. Japanese. Cadastral map showing landowners. Includes distance chart. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 650/1; 651/2- Contributor: Hayashi, Yoshinaga
- Date: 1683-01-01
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Map[Map of the Peninsula of Florida]. Depths shown by soundings. Shows the Peninsula of Florida and adjacent islands from Rio de las Flores and includes coastline, coastal features, and pictorial representation of palm trees along the Atlantic Coast near St. Augustine with most of geographic names in Spanish. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons by comparison with his other Dutch maps in Henry Harrisse collection. Described in Terrae incognitae,...
- Contributor: Vinckeboons, Joan
- Date: 1639-01-01
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MapThe English pilot, describing the sea-coasts, capes ... in the northern and southern navigation, shewing the courses and distances ... and many other necessary things belonging to the practical part of navigation, ... According to the preface, Seller had planned the work in 4 books. The Brit. Mus. Cat. v. 218, 698 lists a copy with the third book of which 24 pages were published. Each volume also has special title page. Vol. 1 has 25 maps of which the 3d is in duplicate; the 12th (as recorded in P. L. Phillips, A list of geographical atlases....
- Contributor: Seller, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Darby, John
- Date: 1671
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CollectionCities 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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MapVenezuela with the Southern Part of New Andalusia.
Venezuela cum parte Australi Novae Andalusiae This 17th-century map of Venezuela and a part of New Andalusia, provinces of the Spanish Empire located in present-day Venezuela, is a copy of an earlier map published in Amsterdam by Henricus Hondius (1597--1651). Hondius was the son of Jodocus Hondius (1563--1612), a Flemish cartographer and engraver who settled in Amsterdam in about 1593 and established a business that produced globes and the first...- Contributor: Hondius, Hendrik
- Date: 1612-01-01
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MapNova et acurata totius Asiae tabula
Title from cartouche: Asia | Title of Latin text: Nova Asiae descriptio | Title of Dutch text: Beschryvinge van Asia | Title of French text: Nouvelle description toute l'Asie Relief shown pictorially. Includes inset of south polar region, diagram, text, and illustrations. Title strip printed separately from map. Text in right, left and bottom margins by Nicolaes Visscher. Printed separately from map. Illustrations of local residents/costumes in left margin: Syrie et Caramanna -- Arabes -- Armenivs, Persae -- Bramenis, Gvzaratvs -- Malabarri et Balagvatae --Pegvani -- Avreae Chersonesi Incolae - Insvlani Svmatrae. Illustrations...- Contributor: Visscher, Nicolaes - Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
- Date: 1657
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MapMap of France's Post Offices.
Carte particulière des postes de France Drawn by Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (circa 1632-1712) in 1690, the Carte particulière des postes de France (Particular map of the post offices of France) was preceded by the work of geographer Nicolas Sanson (1600--67), including his 1632 Carte géographique des Postes qui traversent la France (Geographical map of post offices throughout France). The evolution of the mapping of the postal network sheds light on various...- Contributor: Cordier, Louis, 1711 - Jaillot, Alexis-Hubert
- Date: 1690-01-01
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MapLes Deserts D'Egypte, De Thabaide D'Arabie, De Sirie, &c. : ou Sont exactement Marques Les Lieux Habitez Par Les Saincts Peres Des Deserts. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Michallet, Estienne
- Date: 1693-01-01
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MapGeographic Chart of the Kingdom of Chile.
Tabula Geographica Regni Chile This map by the Chilean Jesuit priest Alonso de Ovalle (1601--51) appears in his book Histórica Relación del Reyno de Chile (Historical narration about the kingdom of Chile), considered the first history of the country. The map is the result of a major descriptive effort begun during Ovalle's first trip to Europe, as "Procurator" of Chile, in 1641. At the time, the Jesuits needed...- Contributor: Ovalle, Alonso De - Society of Jesus
- Date: 1646-01-01
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MapDescripsion des costs, pts., rades, illes de la Nouuele France faict selon son vray méridien : avec la déclinaison de la ment de plussieurs endrois selon que le sieur de Castes le ... 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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MapEstats de l'empire dv Grand Seignevr des Tvrqs ou Svltan des Ottomans en Asie, en Afriqve, et en Evrope
Estats de l'empire du Grand Seigneur des Turqs ou Sultan des Ottomans en Asie, en Afrique, et en Europe Covers the Ottoman Empire and adjacent regions of the Middle East. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Hand colored to emphasize the boundaries of the constituent states and provinces. LC copy imperfect: Vertically fold-lined at sheet center. Includes inset of Algerian/Tunisian littoral of Africa, bar scales for French leagues/German miles, and embellished title cartouche (with 3 Turkish [?] head figurations). Available also through the...- Contributor: Sanson, Nicolas
- Date: 1654-01-01
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MapOld 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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MapNew England. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Vault
- Contributor: Laet, Joannes De
- Date: 1624-01-01
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MapMappe-monde, ou carte generale du globe terrestre : representée en deux plan-hemispheres : reveiie et changée en plusieurs endroits suivant les relations les plus recentes Relief shown pictorially. Appears in atlases published after Sanson's death by his heirs. LC copy: fold lined, with liquid staining from left and right margins to middle of hemispheres. Lightly hand colored to mark political boundaries. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Mariette, Pierre - Sanson, Nicolas
- Date: 1678-01-01