Wu 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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Da 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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[Da Ming yu di tu].
大明與地图 | Atlas of the Ming Empire
Title supplied. Copy imperfect: acquired copy has holes on some pages. Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; Warner purchase; 1929, no. 10. Previous call number: G2305 .D3 1566 Vault Shelf Shows 18 maps, includes 13 provinces, 2 zhili, and general maps during (嘉靖年間) Jianjing period. Taiwan is not shown, and Macau is not marked…
Contributor:
Warner, Langdon
Date:1547-01-01
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[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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Huang qing di li tu
Based on map engraved by Li Zhaoluo in 1832. Prime meridian: Beijing. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Previous call no.: G2305.T9 1856
Contributor:
LI, Zhaoluo - Hu, Xiyan
Date:1856-01-01
Map
Novvs atlas Sinensis
Novus atlas Sinensis
Covers 16 provinces of China, Korea, and Japan. Relief shown pictorially. Includes text. List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 3186 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. On verso of shelflist card: At the end of the atlas are "Byvoeghsel van't koninckryck Catay; door I. G.," xviii p., and "Historie van den Tartarischen oorlog," 40…
Contributor:
Martini, Martino
Date:1655
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Tian di tu juan
天地图卷
Covers Beijing, Nanjing, Shandong, Shanxi, Shanxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Henan, Huguang, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunan, Guizhou, Dongbei zhu yi, Dong nan zhu yi, and Xi bei zhu yi of Ming Dynasty. Shows 15 provinces, their capital cities, and prefectural cities in each province. Translated title: Atlas of the Ming Empire. Pen-and-ink. Includes astronomical chart and text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web…
Contributor:
Hummel, Arthur W. (Arthur William)
Date:1621
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Xia lan zhi zhang.
遐覽指掌。 | Viewing distant places in the palm of your hand
Covers Beijing, Nanjing, Shandong, Shanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunan, Guizhou, Nü zhen du si wei suo, Dong nan zhu yi, Xi bei zhu yi of Ming Dynasty. Cover title. Pen-and-ink. "Hai wai you jie"--T.p. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes astronomy chart. Gift; Arthur William Hummel; 1930, no. 1. Previous…
Contributor:
Hummel, Arthur W. (Arthur William)
Date:1647-01-01
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[Tian di tu]
245-02/$1 天地图。 | Panel title: Guang yu tu | Alternate title in English: Atlas of heaven and earth
Shows celestial sphere, China as a whole, and 15 provinces fo the Ming Dynasty, Chinese Turkestan, and the "South Seas", including Japan, Philippines, Java, Sumatra, Calicut, Bagdad, etc. Covers Beijing, Henan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Nanjing, Shandong, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Huguang, Yunan, Guizhou, Dongbei Nüzhe, Dong nan zhu yi, and Xi bei zhu yi. Wood block print with place names labeled by hand.…
Contributor:
Hummel, Arthur W. (Arthur William) - Zuo, Junheng
Date:1601
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Fen ye yu tu.
分野與圖 | Atlas of the realm: cosmology and provinces
Covers Beijing, Nanjing, and 13 other provinces of Ming Dynasty. Cover title. Pen-and-ink. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes astronomy chart. Previous call no.: G2305.F4
Date:1601-01-01
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[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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Tian xia zong yu tu
天下總輿圖
Covers the world, 17 provinces of Qing Dynasty, Xinjiang, and Mongolian tribes. Shows administrative system of Jiaqing period (1801-1820). Wood block print. Gift; Arthur William Hummel; 1930, no. 3. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Previous call no.: G2305.T46
Date:1890
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Huang He xia you zha ba tu.
黃河下游閘垻圖 | Qianlong Huang He xia you zha ba tu | Embankment atlas along the lower reaches of the Yellow River
Shows dikes, sluice gates, bridges in the area where the Grand Canal meet the Yellow River in Jiangsu Province. Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Previous call no.: G2307.Y4 Q5 1753 Vault Shelf Previous call no.: G2307.H8C5 17-- Vault
Date:1749-01-01
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Guangdong yu tu
Wood block print. Includes text which explains boundaries and distance. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Previous call no.: G2308.K8W82 1685 Vault
Contributor:
Jiang, Yi - Han, Zuodong
Date:1685-01-01
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Zhili yu tu quan ce
直隷與圖全冊 / | Zhili yu di tu ce | Atlas of Zhili Province
Covers Hebei Sheng and Chengde fu. Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the bottom. Based on "Huang chao yi tong yu tu" by Li Zhaoluo and "Zhi li yi cang tu" by Fang Guangcheng. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text which indicates the number of villages in each administrative unit and…
Contributor:
Xu, Zhidao
Date:1859-01-01
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Xinjiang quan tu
新疆全图
Shows the topography, cities, villages and roads with the military posts in the Xinjiang. Also shows the administrative system and local divisions of Xinjiang before the 24th year of Emperor Qianlong (1759). Relief shown pictorially. Cover title. Pen-and-ink. Translated title: Atlas of Xinjiang Province. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes maps of "Xihu quan tu" and…
Contributor:
Hummel, Arthur W. (Arthur William)
Date:1759
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Anlan yuan zhi Hangzhou fu xing gong dao li tu shuo
安瀾園至杭州府行宮道里圖说 | Alternate title in English: Illustrated route map from Anlanyuan to Hangzhou
Covers the route from the Anlanyuan garden in Haining Zhou to the travel palace inside Hangzhou Fu, Zhejiang Province. Shows sluides, dikes, bridges, road, and military posts. Wood block print. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text which explains distance between each stop on the route, as well as the dike re-built projects. Previous call number:…
Date:1765
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Ch'ŏnha chido.
天下 地圖
Gift; Robert A. and Rosalinda Yangas; 2011. Leaves are joined end to end in a scroll. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes description of 13 provinces in China. Imperfect: Last map soiled and torn in the middle. 中國圖 -- 日本國圖 -- 琉球國圖 -- 東國 八道 大總 -- 咸鏡道 -- 平安道 -- 黄海道 -- 江原道 -- 京畿道…
Date:1800-01-01
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[Chosŏn chido]
Around the scroll is a piece of heavy modern paper with what may be an account of the atlas written in Sino-Korean. Purchased from Bruce F. Hunt circa 1968. Mr. Hunt had been asked to sell the atlas by a rural church to whom it had been given by one of the members. Title supplied by cataloger. Scroll: 36 x 345 cm. (each of…
Date:1800-01-01
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Yŏjido.
Title from cover. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Ocean areas colored blue. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Date:1800-01-01
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Nansenbushū bankoku shōka no zu
南瞻部洲萬國掌菓之圖 / | Bankoku shōka no zu
Shows the world, based on knowledge from numerous famous Chinese and Japanese classics and Buddhism. Depths shown pictorially. Wood block print. Map and author, Hōtan, listed in Imago Mundi's Review of early cartography, v. 10, 1954. "... prototype of Buddhist world maps." Bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 94-37
Contributor:
Sōshun
Date:1710-01-01
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Karta puteĭ soobshchenīi︠a︡ Azīatskoĭ Rossīi
Wall map showing railroads, navigable rivers, highways, and shipping routes. Relief shown by shading. Also covers Manchuria. St. Petersburg (Pulkovo) meridian. Includes note. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy rubber-stamped, annotated in red ink to show Russian railroad survey routes in Mongolia and Manchuria.
Contributor:
Russia. Ministerstvo Puteĭ Soobshchenīi︠a︡. Otdi︠e︡l Statistiki I Kartografīi - Kartograficheskoe Zavedenīe A. Ilʹina
Date:1901-01-01
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Karta i︠u︡zhno-ussurīĭskago krai︠a︡.
Shows numbered areas proposed for new settlement (kolonizat︠s︡īi︠a︡) and proposed roads. Also covers "Primorskai︠a︡ oblastʹ". Relief shown by shading. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index of settlement areas. LC copy torn at fold lines, annotated in pencil.
Contributor:
Kartograficheskoe Zavedenīe A. Ilʹina
Date:1870-01-01
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Afghanistan-China Boundary. 4-69.
Scale ca. 1:250,000. "Source of Data: Office of the Geographer, Department of State." "75610." Includes location map. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
Contributor:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency