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Book/Printed MaterialHistoria general de los hechos de los castellanos en las Islas i Tierra Firme del Mar Oceano, "En quatro decadas desde el año de 1492 hasta el de 1531. De cada primera al Rey Nu[est]ro Señor." Each volume (8 "decades" and Descripción de las Indias Ocidentales) has special engraved t.p. Engraved borders on title pages incorporate portraits of Inca leaders and prominent Spaniards, New World landscapes and historical vignettes. The first 4 decades and the Descripción were printed in 1601 by…- Contributor: Herrera Y Tordesillas, Antonio De - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1601
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MapDraught of the R. Ibbeville. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Pittman, Philip
- Date: 1770-01-01
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MapA draught of the Missisippi [sic] River from Balise up to Fort Chartres.
Draught of the Mississippi River from Balise up to Fort Chartres Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Pittman, Philip
- Date: 1770-01-01
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MapL'hydrographie françoise : recueil des cartes générales et particulières qui ont éte faites pour le service des vaisseaux du roy, par ordre des Ministres de la marine, depuis 1737, jusqu'en 1765. Phillips, 587 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
- Date: 1737-01-01
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MapA map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto
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 - Baron, Bernard - Lemprière, C. (Clement) - Toms, W. H. (William Henry) - Popple, Henry
- Date: 1733-01-01
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MapThe New England coasting pilot from Sandy Point of New York, unto Cape Canso in Nova Scotia and part of Island Breton : with the courses and distances from place to place, … Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. The year of publication has not been established conclusively. Cf. Le Gear, Clara Egli. "The New England Coasting pilot of Cyprian Southack." Imago mundi xi (1954): 137-144. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy has title altered with manuscript notation in ink to read: The New England coasting pilot…- Contributor: Southack, Cyprian
- Date: 1734-01-01
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MapCarte de la découverte faite l'an 1673 dans l'Amérique septentrionale. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Liebaux - Marquette, Jacques
- Date: 1681-01-01
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MapCarte de la decouverte faite l'an 1673 dans l'Amerique Septentrionale Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Liebaux - Marquette, Jacques
- Date: 1681-01-01
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MapCarte generale de la terre : ou mappe monde auec les quatre principau & sistemes & les figures des sept planetes le tout selon les nouvelles obseruations. Relief shown pictorially. Includes text, illustrations, including an armillary sphere and astronomical diagrams, table showing various units of measurement, and measurements of the size of the earth. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Danet, Guillaume
- Date: 1729-01-01
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MapMappe-monde, carte universelle de la terre : dressee sur les relations les plus nouvelles soumises aux observations astronomiques les plus recentes ou sont marqueés les nouvelles découvertes Relief shown pictorially. Includes illustrations and text, and ten astronomical diagrams. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Nolin, Jean Baptiste
- Date: 1794-01-01
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MapLa herdike enterprinse faict par le Signeur Draeck D'Avoir cirquit toute la Terre Includes two inset maps and a portrait of Francis Drake. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, 48 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Gift of Hans P. and Hanni Kraus.- Contributor: Sype, Nicola Van - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1581
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MapL' hemisphere meridional pour voir plus distinctement les terres australes Relief shown pictorially. Includes text and "Plan et vue du Cap de la Circoncision". LC copy stamped on: 321. Annotated "Early American maps, no. 8" in upper left corner. Trimmed to neat line, laminated and mounted on cloth. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Text in English and Dutch.- Contributor: L'isle, Guillaume De - Bouvet De Lozier, Jean-Baptiste Charles
- Date: 1745-01-01
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MapHemisphere meridional pour voir plus distinctement les terres australes
Carte de l'hemisphere meridional | Nieuwe caart van de zuider halve wereld Relief shown pictorially. Includes text and "Plan et vue du Cap de la Circoncision". LC copy imperfect: foldlined. Mended tear from top to bottom in left half. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Text in English and Dutch.- Contributor: L'isle, Guillaume De - Bouvet De Lozier, Jean-Baptiste Charles
- Date: 1750-01-01
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MapAmericae sive qvartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio
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 Hieron. Chiaues ; Gvastecan reg
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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Map[Map of the Western Hemisphere] Title plate to Nova Reperta, a series of engravings after drawings by Stradanus published by Galle in Antwerp. Shows Christopher Columbus pointing to a map of the Western Hemisphere. New France and Florida are indicated in North America. In addition to the map, notable developments in science and technology of the late 16th century are illustrated. Mounted on paper. LC copy imperfect: Margins trimmed.…- Contributor: Galle, Théodore - Straet, Jan Van Der
- Date: 1590-01-01
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MapL'Amerique divisée en ses principales parties où sont distingués les uns des autres les estats : selon quils appartiennent presentement aux differents souverains de l'Europe : dressée sur les relations les plus … 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: Daudet, Jean-Louis - Bailleul, Nicolas
- Date: 1752-01-01
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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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Map[Map of the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico].
Hispaniola and Puerto Rico Relief shown pictorially. Shows coastal features, administrative districts, and settlements on the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons by comparison with his other Dutch maps in Henry Harrisse collection. Described in Terrae incognitae, v. xvi, 1984. Richard W. Stephenson's The Henry Harrisse collection ... , p. 40; the first volume has binder's title "Manuscript maps of the…- Contributor: Vinckeboons, Joan
- Date: 1639-01-01
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Map[Map of California shown as an island]. Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault- Contributor: Library of Congress - Vinckeboons, Joan
- Date: 1650-01-01
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MapManatvs gelegen op de Noot [sic] Riuier. Manuscript. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Covers New York City region. Pictorial map showing buildings and points of interest. Depths shown by soundings. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Described in Terrae incognitae, v. xvi, 1984. Richard W. Stephenson's The Henry Harrisse collection ... , p. 40; the third volume has binder's title "Manuscript maps of New-Netherland and Manhattan…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Vinckeboons, Joan
- Date: 1670-01-01
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Map[Rasquño de las provincias de la Nuevo Mexico
Photograph of Mapa del Nuevo Mexico / por el cosmografo Enrico Martinez Black and white photograph of manuscript map in the Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain. Shows the travel of Juan de Oñate through northern Mexico, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas between 1598 and 1602. Title from verso of original. Unpublished facsimile. Original version: 1602? 1 ms. map. Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain. Simancas. Descubrimientos. Nuevo Mexico. Descubrimientos, descripciones y poblaciones del Nuevo…- Contributor: MartÃnez, Enrico
- Date: 1906-01-01
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MapCarte de la Nouvelle France, Scale ca. 1:6,000,000. Manuscript, pencil and pen-and-ink. "Rather more than 1/4 of the whole map." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text. Index to points of interest on verso. Accompanied by manuscript text. [4] p. Vault AACR2- Contributor: Thoreau, Henry David - Champlain, Samuel De
- Date: 1850-01-01
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MapAmérique septentrionale Relief shown pictorially and by shading. Prime meridian: [Paris]. Mounted on cloth backing. From his 1658 (i.e. 1660) Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde (Phillips 4260). First state: Lacks shading along border for Lake Ontario. Phillips. Maps of America, p. 560 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Peyrounin, A. - Mariette, Pierre-Jean - Sanson, Nicolas
- Date: 1650-01-01
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MapNouvelle decouverte de plusieurs nations dans la Nouvelle France en l'année 1673 et 1674.
Joliet's map, 1674 From the Jesuit Relations, vol. 59, p. facing 86. 8 x 10 film negative available in G&M Reading Room. Part of the Missisippi River exhibit. Original version: [S.l. : s.n., 1674] Facsimile. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Joliet, Louis - Burrows Brothers Company
- Date: 1896-01-01