Collection Items
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MapA map of the British Empire in America with the French and Sp...
America Septentrionalis Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Title from plate 17. Originally published as 1 map on 20 sheets. LC copy bound. Index map bound-in. Phillips. Maps of America, p. 569 Sheet of paper (25 x 19 cm.) listing the numbered plates mounted on preliminary leaf. On title cartouche (plate 17): C. Lempriere inv. & del., B. Baron, sculp. Available also through the Library...- Contributor: Seale, Richard William - Toms, W. H. (William Henry) - Baron, Bernard - Popple, Henry - Lemprière, C. (Clement)
- Date: 1733-01-01
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MapAmericae sive qvartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descri...
Americae sive quartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio Covers North and South America with the adjacent seas. Relief shown pictorially. From the Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress, no. 1303. Originally printed on 6 sheets. Described in Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, v. 6, no. 3 (May 1949), p. 18-20. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1303 Includes texts in cartouche, statements of dedication, coats-of-arms, ill. of allegorical figure "Victoria",...- Contributor: Cock, Hieronymus - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Gutiérrez, Diego
- Date: 1562-01-01
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MapPervviae avriferae regionis typvs / La Florida / auctore Hier...
Florida | Guastecan reg | Gvastecan reg | Peruuiae auriferae regionis typus "Abraham Ortelius (1527-98) was a Flemish engraver and businessman who traveled widely to pursue his commercial interests. In 1560 he became interested in scientific geography during a voyage with Gerardus Mercator. Ortelius's major work, Theatrum orbis terrarum (Theater of the world), was published in Antwerp in 1570, at the threshold of the golden age of Dutch cartography. Theatrum presented the world in its component...- Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Hurtado De Mendoza, Diego - Chaves, Geronimo - Plantin, Christophe
- Date: 1584
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MapL'Amerique divisée en ses principales parties où sont disting... Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Map framed with thirty images, each with a short text, describing the history of the Americas, primarily after European contact, but including some images of precolumbian history. LC copy mounted on paper. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 17-84
- Contributor: Bailleul, Nicolas - Daudet, Jean-Louis
- Date: 1752-01-01