Collection Items
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MapUniversalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii alioru[m]que lustrationes
Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorū que lustrationes "Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world map was the first map to depict a separate Western hemisphere with the Pacific as a separate ocean. The map grew out of an ambitious project in Saint-Dié, Lorraine (in present-day France), during the early 1500s, to document and update new geographic knowledge derived from the Portuguese and Spanish explorations of the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Waldseemüller's map...- Contributor: Waldseemüller, Martin
- Date: 1507
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MapMappe-monde, dressé sur les observations de mrs. de l'Academie royale des sciences et quelques autres et sur les memoires les plus recens
Nova orbis tabula ad usum serenissimi Burgundiae ducis Relief shown pictorially. Includes illustrations and 4 small hemispherical polar projections. Appears in Sanson's Atlas nouveau. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. French. Alternate title only in Latin.- Contributor: Mortier, Pierre - Sanson, Nicolas
- Date: 1696-01-01
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MapNova delineatio totius orbis terrarum
Nouveau carte du monde Shirley, Rodney W. Mapping of the world. 1983, 417 Relief shown pictorially. Includes illustrations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Title in Latin and French. Most place names in Latin, some in Dutch.- Contributor: Aa, Pieter Van Der
- Date: 1703-01-01
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MapMappa totius mundi : adornata juxta observationes dnn. academiae regalis scientiarum et nonnullorum aliorum secundum annotationes recentissimas Relief shown pictorially. Includes note, illustrations, and ancillary maps of the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere. LC copy imperfect: small loss close to left margin. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: L'isle, Guillaume De
- Date: 1775-01-01
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MapNova Belgica et Anglia Nova. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north towards the right. Includes two views "Modus muniendi apud Mahikanenses" and illustrations including an illustrated cartouche. No text on verso. LC copy trimmed to outer neat line and mounted on paper. Lightly hand colored in green only. Stamped on verso: 7610. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Place names in Latin...
- Contributor: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
- Date: 1630-01-01