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MapAtlas of Christian sites in Egypt Atlas. atlas | 1 atlas (7 p., [6] leaves of plates) : maps ; 28 cm. | by Otto Meinardus. (Statement Of Responsibility). Relief shown by hachures. Includes gazetteer. acquire 1 shelf copy [policy default] (Selection Decision). Courtesy of the Society for Coptic Archaeology, 222 Ramses Street, Cairo, Egypt. (Copyright Notice). Atlas (Form).
- Contributor: Institut Français D'archéologie Orientale Du Caire - Meinardus, Otto Friedrich August - Jamʻīyat Al-Āthār Al-Qibṭīyah (Egypt) - Société D'archéologie Copte
- Date: 1962
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Book/Printed MaterialNouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise et du Thibet: contenant les cartes générales & particulieres de ces pays, ainsi que la carte du royaume de Corée; la plupart levées ... "Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697-1782) was one of the most important French geographers of the 18th century. This map of Guangdong Province in southern China is one of 42 maps in his Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie Chinoise et du Thibet (New atlas of China, Chinese Tartary, and Tibet), published in Holland in 1737 as a companion work to Father J.B....- Contributor: Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D
- Date: 1737
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Book/Printed MaterialOstafrikanische studien, "Die untersuchungen ... in diesem buche ... betreffen hauptsächlich die nordgrenzen Abyssiniens."--p. [3] Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) - Munzinger, Werner
- Date: 1864
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Book/Printed MaterialReport on general survey of British Somaliland 1944 (Colonial development & welfare act. Economic survey & reconnaissance), Published under the authority of the Military government, Somaliland protectorate, 19th May 1945... Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. The illustrative matter is folded in pocket. Prepared by the Survey dept. cf. Introd. Bibliography : p. 12. AACR2 : 651/2- Contributor: British Somaliland. Survey Department
- Date: 1945
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MapWu bei zhi Wood block print. "Juan 240" shows Zheng He's voyager route from Nanjing, passing through South East Asia, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, all the way to Persian Gulf. Early Qing Dynasty ed., prefaced Tianqi 1 (1621). Juan (chapter) 240 is one of 80 volumes in 8 cases (30 x 19 cm.). "Wu bei zhi juan er bai si shi." Available also through the Library of...- Contributor: Mao, Yuanyi
- Date: 1644
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Book/Printed MaterialThe journal of Andrew Ellicott : late commissioner on behalf of the United States during part of the year 1796, the years 1797, 1798, 1799, and part of the year 1800, for ... Signatures: a⁴ B-2P⁴ 2Q², ²a² b-t⁴ u² chi1. Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 4086 Shaw, R.R. American bibliography, 4147 Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, v. 6, p. 148, no. 22216 Appendix: 151, [3] p. at end. Errata: p. [2] at end. LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection....- Contributor: Jefferson Exhibit Collection (Library of Congress) - Ellicott, Andrew - Budd and Bartram - Dobson, Thomas
- Date: 1803
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MapAtlas designed to illustrate Burritt's Geography of the heavens ... Cover title. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Burritt, Elijah H. (Elijah Hinsdale) - Mattison, Hiram
- Date: 1856
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MapHarmonia macrocosmica, seu, Atlas universalis et novus, totius universi creati cosmographiam generalem, et novam exhibens : in quâ omnium totius mundi orbium harmonica constructio, secundum diversas diversorum authorum opioniones, ut et uranometria ...
Atlas universalis et novus Phillips, 4274 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index. Some plates engraved by Johannes van Loon. In addition to the 29 plates specified in the table of contents, there is an additional plate between plates 4 and 5, an additional plate between plates 19 and 20, and 3 additional plates following plate 29. Rebound and conserved...- Contributor: Schenk, Peter - Loon, J. Van - Cellarius, Andreas - Valck, G. (Gerard)
- Date: 1708
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MapSozvi︠e︡zdīi︠a︡ predstavlennyi︠a︡ na XXX tabilt︠s︡akh s opisanīem onykh i rukovodstvom k udobnomu ikh otyskanī i︠u︡ na nebi︠e︡ sostavlennym dli︠a︡ uchebnykhi︠e︡ zavedenīĭ i li︠u︡biteleĭ astrognozīi Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes an engraved title page for the plates, two engraved section titles, one showing stellar magnitude, and thirty celestial charts. Twenty-eight of the charts show the constellations in detail, both as stars and as images of animals, etc., printed in gold on black, with small holes punched out for the high...- Contributor: Reĭssig, K. - Reĭssig, K. (Kornelius)
- Date: 1829
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MapCharte der Gebirge des Mondes nach eigenen Beobachtungen in den Jahren 1840-1874 Relief shown by contours and shading. Title from cover. Unbound in portfolio. Accompanied by hardbound text: xii, 303, [1] p. : tables ; 31 cm. Also accompanied by softbound text: Kurze Erläuterung zu J. Schmidt's Mondcharte, in 25 Sectionen, Berlin : In Commission bei D. Reiner, 1878 : 19, [1] p. ; 30 cm. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as...- Contributor: Dietrich Reimer Verlag (Berlin, Germany) - Prussia (Germany). Ministerium Der Geistlichen, Unterrichts- Und Medizinal-Angelegenheiten - Schmidt, J. F. Julius (Johann Friedrich Julius) - Schmidt, J. F. Julius
- Date: 1878
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Map[Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc.].
Portolan atlas containing 10 maps "Battista Agnese, one of the most important Italian Renaissance cartographers, was born in Genoa. He worked in Venice in the period 1536-64, and in about 1544 he produced this sumptuous and well-executed manuscript atlas in pen-and-ink and watercolor with silver and gold illumination on vellum. The atlas reflects the latest geographic knowledge, gained primarily from voyages by Spanish and Portuguese explorers in the first...- Contributor: Agnese, Battista
- Date: 1544
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MapMapamondi. Relief and depths shown pictorially. Title from first word of descriptive text on first facsim. leaf. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. In Catalan; introd.; uncaptioned in Spanish by J. Vernet and D. Romano. Traditionally attributed to A. Cresques, with the possible collaboration of his son, J. Cresques. Facsim. of the 1375 ed. of the Catalan atlas,...- Contributor: Bibliothèque Nationale De France - Cresques, Abraham
- Date: 1959
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MapTheatrvm orbis terrarvm.
Theatrum orbis terrarum Relief shown pictorially. Colophon: 20 Mai 1570. Catalogus auctorum includes 87 names. T.p. verso blank. Includes 53 map sheets, with descriptive text on verso. Acid offset on facing pages. Blank leaves inserted between map sheets. Front cover displays the name and arms of Jean, comte de Hoya, bishop of Münster and Osnabrück (1566-74). List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 3389 Koeman,...- Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Llwyd, Humphrey - Diesth, Aegid. Coppenius (Aegidius Coppenius)
- Date: 1570
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MapTheatrvm orbis terrarvm.
Theatrum orbis terrarum Relief shown pictorially. Catalogus auctorum includes 92 names. Epigram on t.p. verso has 16 lines. Includes 53 map sheets, with descriptive text on verso. List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 374, copy 1 Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici, Ort 1 Includes "De Mona druidum insula" by H. Llwyd. Exhibited: A world of names, 1990. Exhibited: Images of the World, 1984. Available also...- Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Llwyd, Humphrey - Diesth, Aegid. Coppenius (Aegidius Coppenius)
- Date: 1570
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MapLe theatre du monde, ou, Novvel atlas
Novvel atlas Relief shown pictorially. French text. Maps in Latin. Maps by numerous cartographers, as well as Willem and Joan Blaeu. Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici, Bl 16 A Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy assembled from loose sheets. LC copy imperfect: Lacking 16 maps: Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula -- Regiones sub polo arctico...- Contributor: Blaeu, Joan - Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
- Date: 1647
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MapCartes et tables de la géographie physique ou naturelle Relief shown pictorially. "Présentées au Roi le 15 mai 1757". Phillips, 220 Engraved title page. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: map titled "Planisphere physique, où l'on voit du pole septentrional ce que l'on connoît de terres et de mers ... vigies" removed and cataloged separately.- Contributor: L'isle, Guillaume De - Buache, Philippe
- Date: 1757
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MapGeografia tavole moderne di geografia de la maggior parte del mondo di diversi avtori raccolte et messe secondo l'ordine di Tolomeo con i disegni di molte città et fortezze di diverse provintie ... Relief shown pictorially. Phillips, 3392 Each plate or leaf is numbered with pencil, pen-and-ink, or both, with some numbers crossed out. Map 79 is printed on blue paper. Strips of paper affixed to the margins of some plates. Rebound in brown leather incorporating original tooled front and back boards. Includes manuscript table of contents, which does not correspond exactly to the current arrangement of...- Contributor: Lafréry, Antoine
- Date: 1575
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Map[Geografia tavole moderne di geografia]. "Antoine du Pérac Lafréry (1512-77) was a French engraver who settled in Rome, probably in the early 1540s, where he became a celebrated publisher of maps. Lafréry assembled and bound collections of maps from various sources, which he sold under the title Tavole moderne di geografia...di diversi autori raccolte et messe secondo l'ordine di Tolemeo (Modern geographical maps...from various authors, collected and organized according...- Contributor: Forlani, Paolo - Gastaldi, Giacomo - Lafréry, Antoine
- Date: 1575
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Map[Fragmentary terrestrial globe gores]. Relief shown pictorially. Bound in the Schöner Sammelband. Found in the binding of the Sammelband in 1905, mounted on paper and bound in. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation.- Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Schöner, Johann
- Date: 1517
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MapCarta marina navigatoria Portvgallen navigationes, atqve tocius cogniti orbis terre marisqve formam natvram sitvs et terminos nostris temporibvs recognitos et ab antiqvorum traditione differentes, eciam qvor vetvsti non meminervnt avtores, hec generaliter ...
Carta marina navigatoria Portugallen navigationes, atque tocius cogniti orbis terre marisque formam naturam situs et terminos nostris temporibus recognitos et ab antiquorum traditione differentes, eciam quor vetusti non meminerunt autore, hec generaliter indicat Relief shown pictorially. Includes text and illustrations. Bound in the Schöner Sammelband. Sheet 6 appears to be a proof copy and was laid in after the Sammelband was bound. All sheets except for sheet 6 annotated in ink and red ink by Johann Schöner. All sheets bear a watermark of a triple pointed crown. Sheet 9 has a paper patch within a shield covering...- Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Schöner, Johann - Waldseemüller, Martin
- Date: 1516
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Map[Celestial globe gores]. Title provided by cataloger. Likely proof sheets, as lines for the tropics and the ecliptic are missing. Earliest known celestial gores. Bound in the Schöner Sammelband. Gores trimmed and mounted on paper. LC copy annotated by Schöner. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation.- Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Schöner, Johann
- Date: 1517
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Map[Fragmentary celestial globe gores]. Title provided by cataloger. Bound in the Schöner Sammelband. Found in the binding of the Sammelband in 1905, mounted on paper, and bound in. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation.- Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Schöner, Johann
- Date: 1517
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Map[Manuscript copy of sheet 6 of Waldseemüller's Carta marina]. Title provided by cataloger. Relief shown pictorially. Includes text and illustrations. Originally bound in the Sammelband. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation.- Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Schöner, Johann - Waldseemüller, Martin
- Date: 1516
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MapA new universal atlas, comprising separate maps of all the principal empires, kingdoms & states throughout the world, and forming a distinct atlas of the United States
Universal atlas Relief shown by hachures. Engraved title page. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy quarter bound in brown leather over brown cloth. Acquisitions control no. 2003-14- Contributor: Greenleaf, J. (Jeremiah)
- Date: 1848
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MapA new and elegant general atlas, containing maps of each of the United States. Relief shown pictorially. Most maps engraved by S. Harrison. Some maps engraved by H.S. Tanner or S. Lewis. Map 52 of Louisiana is a reduction by S. Harrison of W. Darby's 4 sheet map issued in 1817. Engraved title page. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Lewis, Samuel - Harrison, Samuel - Darby, William - Tanner, Henry Schenck - Lucas, Fielding
- Date: 1817
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