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MapLeo Belgicus. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Map railroad exhibit, March 22 to April 15, 1965. Vault
- Contributor: Hondius, Jodocus
- Date: 1611-01-01
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MapExquisita & magno aliquot mensium periculo lustrata et iam retecta Freti Magellanici facies : eijgentlicke asbeeldinghe der Magellanischer Strate die nu met veel gevaers eitelijeke Maenden doorsien van nieus ondecktis. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. From Gerardus Mercator's Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra. 1611. Oriented with north to the bottom. Includes panoramic view and col. ill. Text on verso. LC copy annotated in pencil in lower right margin: Gravure de 1570 par Ortelius. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift;...
- Contributor: Hondius, Jodocus
- Date: 1611-01-01
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MapTabula Russiae ex autographo, quod delineandum curavit Foedor filius Tzaris Boris desumta; et ad fluvias Dwinam, Zuchanam, aliaque Loca, quantum ex tabulis et notitus ad nos delatis fieri poluit, amplificata : ac ... Dopolnitel'nai︠a︡ karta: Perspektivnyĭ plan goroda Moskvy (1610g.). Orientirovan na zapad.Illi︠u︡strat︠s︡ii: muzhskie figury v nat︠s︡ional'noĭ russkoĭ odezhde. Karta Rossii izvestnogo niderlandskogo geografa i kartografa G. Gerritsa, izdana v Asterdame v 1614g. V kartushe otmecheno, chto ona vypolnena po avtografu t︠s︡arevicha Fedora Borisovicha (Godunova), a takzhe po kartam i svedenii︠a︡m, kotorye. Original map at: National Library of Russia Дополнительная карта: Перспективный план города Москвы (1610г.). Ориентирован...
- Contributor: Gerritsz., Hessel
- Date: 1614-01-01
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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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Map[Terrestrial globe gores]. Relief shown pictorially. Title supplied by cataloger. Reissued by Giuseppe di Rossi in 1615. Dedication in upper hemisphere: Illmo. viro optimaraq. artium amatori et Fautori D. Paulo Mellino Romano ... In lower hemisphere: I. Hondius Lectori S. In locorum longitudine ... Longitudines incepimus non ab Insulis Fortunatis ut Ptolome[us], sed ab iis quae acores vocantur quod acus nautica ibi recta in septentrionem vergat Vale....
- Contributor: Rossi, Giuseppe DI - Hondius, Jodocus
- Date: 1615-01-01
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MapKingdom of Galicia.
Gallæcia Regnum The first printed map of Galicia with dedicated cartographic plotting was the "Descripción del Reyno de Galizia" (Description of the Kingdom of Galicia) by Hernando Ojea (circa 1560-1615). That map appeared in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theater of the world) of Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), in the edition by Antwerp publisher Jan Baptista Vrients of 1603. The map, despite its many errors, was not soon...- Contributor: Mercator, Gerhard - Hondius, Jodocus
- Date: 1619-01-01
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MapA Modern Map of Spain.
Nova Hispaniae Descriptio Nova Hispaniae Descriptio (A modern map of Spain) is the first map bordered by cartouches, one of the most attractive developments of 17th century Dutch cartography. Cartouches were used to supplement the geographical information provided by a map as well as to add aesthetic appeal. In this map, which is based on a plate made by Gerard Mercator (1512--94), the cartographic image is surrounded...- Contributor: Mercator, Gerhard - Hondius, Jodocus
- Date: 1610-01-01
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MapCivitates orbis terrarvm. "Privilegium Caesareae maiestatis, which occurs in each volume generally on the reverse of the title page, refers to Francis Hogenberg as the author's collaborator."--Phillips. Colophon of v. 1: Coloniae Agrippinae, apud Petrum à Brachel, sumptibus auctorum. Colophon of v. 6: Colonię Agrippinę, Antonius Hierat & Abrahamus Hoghenberg. Collaborators and artists whose works these maps were based on include George and Jacob Hoefnagel, Simon Novellanus,...
- Contributor: Braun, Georg - Brachel, P. Von - Rantzau, Henrik - Hoefnagel, Jacob - Hoefnagel, Joris - Hogenberg, Abraham - Novellanus, Simon - Hogenberg, Frans - Hierat, Anton - Deventer, Jacob Van
- Date: 1612-01-01
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MapTabula Russiae ex autographo, quod delineandum curavit Foedor filius Tsaris Boris desumta ... No. 2 Karta iz izdaniia: Atlas Aziatskoi Rossii.- SPb., Pereselencheskoe Upravlenie, kartogr. art. Zav. A.F. Marks, 1914. Otpechatano v Kartograficheskom zavedenii Iu. Iu. Gash. Kopiia s karty Gesselia Geritsa, izdannoi V.Kordtom. Original map at: National Library of Russia From the atlas "Атлас Азиатской России."
- Contributor: Gerritsz, Hessel
- Date: 1613-01-01
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MapAbyssinia, or the Empire of Prester John.
Abissinorum sive Pretiosi Ioannis Imperiu Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612) was a Flemish cartographer and publisher of maps and a central figure in the golden age of Dutch cartography. He was responsible for publishing the maps of Gerhard Mercator (1512-94), the single most important cartographer of the age of discovery, after he bought the plates to Mercator's atlas from his grandsons. Hondius then worked with his brother-in-law, the engraver Pieter van...- Contributor: Mercator, Gerhard - Hondius, Jodocus
- Date: 1619-01-01
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MapSketch of Mälaren Lake and Neighboring Areas.
Meler lacvs adiacentivmqve terrarvm delineatio This engraved map of Lake Mälaren is the only extant copy of one of the first maps printed in Sweden. It was drafted by Andreas Bureus in 1614 and is regarded as a forerunner to his map of the Nordic countries of 1626. It has a dedication in Latin from Bureus to his patron Jacob van Dijk: "This small map I bequeath in the...- Contributor: Bure, Anders
- Date: 1614-01-01
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Map[Globus terrarum] Relief shown pictorially. Gores for a 20 cm. globe. Title supplied by cataloger. Date from Shirley's Mapping of the world, 1993. Includes ill. LC copy: Sheet 1 annotated in pencil in upper right "W. Lowery" and in ink in upper left "27". Sheet 4 annotated in ink in upper right "114" and lower left "26". LC copy imperfect: Lacking sheet 2. Central vertical fold...
- Contributor: Fürst, Paul - Habrecht, Isaac
- Date: 1612-01-01
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MapParaguay, or the Province of the Rio de la Plata, with the Adjacent Regions Tucamen and Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
Paraguay, ó prov. de Rio de La Plata, cum regionibus adiacentibus Tucuman et Sta. Cruz de la Sierra / Guiljelmus Blaeuew excudit This map of Paraguay and the Rio de la Plata basin is the work of Willem Blaeu (1571-1638), the founder of a famous Dutch mapmaking dynasty. Blaeu studied astronomy, mathematics, and globe-making with the Danish scholar Tycho Brahe before establishing his mapmaking studio in Amsterdam. In 1633, he was appointed mapmaker of the Dutch East India Company. In 1635, together with his sons Joan...- Contributor: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
- Date: 1616-01-01
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MapArabia. This map of 1616, with Latin place names, is a reprint of a work by 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 large maps of the world. The place names on the map are unclear. "Coromanis" is shown on many older maps as located in present-day...
- Contributor: Hondius, Jodocus
- Date: 1616-01-01
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