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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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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: 1708-01-01
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MapEl atlas abreviado, ò compendiosa geografia del mvndo antiguo, y nvevo : segun està oy dia dividido, ilustrada con quarenta y quatro mapas, nuevemente abiertas y explicadas en castellano
Compendiosa geografia del mvndo antiguo, y nvevo | Title from engraved title page: Atlas Relief shown pictorially. Title page printed in black and red. Includes index. Maps numbered with the page before which they are bound. LC copy leather bound. Phillips, 5965 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Afferden, Francisco De
- Date: 1711
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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: 1757-01-01
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Map[Zee-atlas]
Loots atlas Nautical charts with numerous place-names along coastlines. Depths shown by soundings. Title from citation in Philip Lee Phillips' A list of geographical atlases, p. 246. Most maps in Dutch; text and titles in Dutch, French, English, or Latin on some maps. List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 3464 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image....- Contributor: Loots, Johannes
- Date: 1705
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MapAtlas maritimus or, the sea-atlas : being a book of maratime (sic) charts describing the coasts, capes, headlands, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers, the bays, roads, harbours, rivers, and ports in most ...
Sea-atlas, containing an hydrographical description of the sea-coasts of most of the known parts of the world Relief shown pictorially on some maps. Depths shown by soundings on some maps. Engraved title page. Phillips, 3455 Includes "Mapp of the world" on engraved title page. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Accompanied by manuscript note from the dealer, Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles dated Nov. 4, 1909 (on sheet 26 x 21 cm., folded in...- Contributor: Thornton, John
- Date: 1700-01-01
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MapCartes et plans de l'Amerique.
Cartes geograp Ameriqu Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Dates on maps vary from 1717 to 1744. Title and date annotated in ink within etched title cartouche. Plates numbered in ink with a title often annotated on verso. A composite atlas of maps of North and South America and adjacent islands and oceans predominantly by Jacques Nicolas Bellin, including 17 manuscript maps, of which 8 are...- Contributor: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
- Date: 1745-01-01
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MapCarte de l'Amerique septentrionale pour servir à l'histoire de la Nouvelle France "Dheulland Sculp." Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Heulland, Guillaume D - Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
- Date: 1734-01-01
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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 On title cartouche (plate 17): C. Lempriere inv. & del., B. Baron, sculp. Includes notes, dedication, 4 views, and 17 harbor insets. Stamped in blue ink on verso of plates: U.S. Coast Survey...- Contributor: Baron, Bernard - Popple, Henry - Austen, Stephen - Toms, W. H. (William Henry) - Lemprière, C. (Clement) - Willdey, Thomas
- Date: 1733-01-01
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MapThe Atlantic Neptune, L.C. copy no. 1, with some 170 items; originally bound in 3 narrow folio volumes. Vol. 2, has general t.p. dated 1780, and 3 sectional title pages dated 1781, 1780, and 1780 respectively. Charts dated 1774 to 1782. L.C. copy imperfect: General and sectional title pages and contents leaf to v. 1 wanting. Cf. H. N. Stevens. Catalogue of the Henry Newton Stevens collection...
- Contributor: Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet)
- Date: 1780
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MapThe Atlantic Neptune, L.C. copy no. 13, with 65 items. Charts dated 1775 to 1777. The general t.p. of v. 3 is dated MDCCLXXVI (1776), but a second roman numeral "I" following the first has been imperfectly erased on the sheet, indicating that the imprint date was originally MDCCLXXVII (1777). The sectional t.p. to v. 3 includes the reference to Lord Howe. L.C. copy imperfect: Charts of...
- Contributor: Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet)
- Date: 1777
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MapThe Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, L.C. copy no. 15, with 80 items. The first chart in the volume, "The coast of Nova Scotia, New England, New York, New Jersey, the Gulph and River of St. Lawrence," with imprint date Nov. 1, 1780, has an engr. note referring to the fishing rights of the French and the Americans, presumably added after the Treaty of Paris, 1783. Charts and views dated...
- Contributor: Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet)
- Date: 1780
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MapThe Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, L.C. copy no. 17, with 154 items. Vol. 1 has imprint date 1780; v. 2 has general t.p. dated 1781, and 3 sectional title pages dated 1781, 1780, and 1780 respectively. Charts dated 1774 to 1782. Vol. 1 includes the "Preface," followed by "Contents of the charts," engraved on 1 leaf, listing 3 to 36 numbered items in 2 columns, an inserted title, no....
- Contributor: Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet)
- Date: 1781
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MapThe Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, L.C. copy no. 18, with 63 items. Charts dated 1775 to 1780. Consists of charts and views of the Nova Scotia series and of the combined St. Lawrence-New York sections. The engr. general t.p. of v. 1 is the original issue, dated 1777. The general title to the 2d volume is omitted. Sectional title pages to the St. Lawrence and New York sections are...
- Contributor: Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet)
- Date: 1778
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MapThe Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, L.C. Copy no. 19, with 112 items. Vols. 1 and 2 dated 1779; v. 3, without general t.p., has sectional t.p. to the New England section dated 1780. Charts and views dated 1775 to 1780. Two engr. sheets, headed "Contents of the charts" and "Views of the coast of Nova Scotia," respectively, follow the general title by v. 1 and are repeated after the...
- Contributor: Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet)
- Date: 1779
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MapThe Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, L.C. copy no. 20, with 25 items. Consists of the New England section only, in contemporary binding, probably issued in 1780. The general t.p. to v. 1 accompanying it, however, belongs with the Nova Scotia series of charts. In various dated "editions" the New England charts appear with general title pages called v. 2, 3, or 4, but not v. 1. The printed sectional...
- Contributor: Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet)
- Date: 1780
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MapThe sea coast of Nova Scotia; exhibiting the diversities of the coast, and the face of the country near it: the banks, rocks, shoals, soundings, &c. Together with remarks and directions for ... L.C. copy no. 21 of the Atlantic Neptune, with 52 items. Charts dated 1775 to 1778. This collection seems to have been sold separately, without the general t.p., but with the sectional title. The Nova Scotia title, a leaf of "General remarks," and a leaf of "References" are repeated in each volume. Vol. 1 has an engr. table of contents listing 14 numbered items;...
- Contributor: Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet)
- Date: 1777
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Map[The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, L.C. copy no. 22. Charts dated 1777 to 1780. Consists of the St. Lawrence and New York sections of the Atlantic Neptune, which in early "editions" formed b. 4, in 2 unnumbered pts., of the four series of charts. Each section has its own special t.p., but the general t.p. is wanting, probably indicating that this copy was sold separately. Presumably both sectional title...
- Contributor: Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet)
- Date: 1780
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MapA collection of plans of fortifications and battles, 1684-1709 : [Europe] Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Title from cover of composite atlas. Dates on maps range from 1684 to 1709. List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 5152 An atlas factice of 117 hand col. maps on 115 sheets. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Register in French. Maps in French, Dutch, Latin, and English....
- Contributor: Baillieu, Gaspar De - Beeck, Anna
- Date: 1709-01-01
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MapGrand atlas d'Allemagne en LXXXI feuilles, dedié a sa majesté Joseph II, Empereur des Romains : avec privilege de sa majesté Imperiale Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. unk82037922 upgraded to RDA and LCCN 2021588719 (ga15 2021-03-04)
- Contributor: Jaeger, Johann Wilhelm Abraham
- Date: 1789
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MapRussischer Atlas, welcher in einer general-Charte und neunzehen special-Charten das gesamte russische Reich und dessen angräntzende Länder, nach den Regeln der Erd-Beschreibung und den neuesten Observationen vorstellig macht Relief shown pictorially. Text in German. Maps titles in Latin and place names in Russian in the Latin alphabet. Engraved maps. Prepared under the direction of Ivan Kirilov and, from 1726, Joseph Nicolas Delisle. cf. Bagrow-Skelton, Hist. of Cartography, p. 175. LC copy with red leather spine over marbled paper boards. List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 3109 Available also through...
- Contributor: L'isle, Joseph Nicolas De - Imperatorskai︠a︡ Akademīi︠a︡ Naukʺ (Russia) - Kirilov, Ivan Kirillovich
- Date: 1745
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Map[Atlas von Liefland, oder von den beyden Gouvernementern u. Herzogthümern Lief- und Ehstland, und der Provinz Oesel : entworfen nach geometrischen Vermessungen, den neusten astronomischen Beobachtungen und nach sorgfaeltiger Untersuchung und Kentnis ...
Atlas de la Livonie ou des deux Gouvernemens et Duchés de Livonie et d'Esthonie, avec la Province d'Oesel : Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Sheet titles and legends in German and French. Geographic features in German. Title from title sheet of Copy 2. Maps engraved by Carl Jäck, F. Guimpel, F.G. Franz, and J.N. Champion. Prime meridian: Ferro. Unbound. Similar version described in: Allgemeine geographische ephemeriden. Vol. 34, Jan.-Apr. 1811, p. 80-2. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as...- Contributor: Guimpel, Friedrich - Franz, F. G. - Jaettnig, Karl - Champion, J. N. - Hartknoch, Johann Friedrich - Mellin, Ludvig August - Krause, Johann Wilhelm
- Date: 1798-01-01
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MapDa Ming yi tong shan he tu.
大明一统山河图 | Tae Myong iltʻong sanha to | The great Ming Dynasty's atlas of mountains and seas Probably drawn by Wonhaksaeng. Covers Ming Dynasty, Korea, and Manchuria. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Warner purchase, 1927, no. 6. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Previous call no.: G2305.W6 1721- Contributor: Warner, Langdon
- Date: 1721-01-01
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Map[Da Qing fen sheng yu tu].
[大清分省舆图] | Provincial atlas of the great Qing Dynasty Shows administrative divisions of 18 provinces in Qing period. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Title supplied. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Previous call number: G2305 .D35 1782 Vault Shelf Previous call number: G2305 .T15 17-- Vault- Date: 1754-01-01
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Map[Huang yu quan lan fen sheng tu].
[皇與全覽分省圖] | Zhongguo ge sheng di tu | The Kangxi provincial atlas of China Covers Zhili, Shengjing, Shandong, Shanxi, Jiangnan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Henan, Huguang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunan, Guizhou. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Prime meridian: Beijing. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; W.W. Rockhill; 1884. Previous call no.: G2305.C92 18--- Contributor: Rockhill, William Woodville
- Date: 1721-01-01
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