Plano del Golfo de Catarro.
Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Watermarks: LVG; and, bottom half of Strasburg fleur-de-lis. Pen-and-ink. Mounted on cloth backing. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Annotated in brown ink in upper left corner: Del Ferrol. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right corner: 155. Vault
Date:1700-01-01
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Slavonia, Croatia, Bosnia, and a part of Dalmatia.
Sclavonia, Croatia, Bosnia cum Dalmatiae parte
Gerard Mercator's 1590 Sclavonia, Croatia, Bosnia cum Dalmatiae parte (Slavonia, Croatia, Bosnia, and a part of Dalmatia) is the best representation of Bosnia made up to that time. One of the oldest items in the cartographic collections of the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the map was published by the well-known Blaeu firm in Amsterdam. Shown are villages, towns, rivers, and…
Turkey in Europe: According to New Observations by the Gentlemen at the Royal Science Academy.
Turquie en Europe : Suivant les Nouvelles Observations de Messrs de l'Academie Royale des Sciences
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733) was a Dutch publisher and bookseller, based in Leiden, who specialized in reissuing maps acquired from earlier mapmakers. Van der Aa's major work was the elaborate Galerie Agréable du Monde (The pleasurable gallery of the world), a compendium of some 3,000 maps in 66 parts, bound in 27 volumes, and completed in 1729. Presented here is van der Aa's…
General Map of European Turkey, Greece and the Ionian Islands.
Carte générale de la Turquie d'Europe, de la Grèce et des Iles Ioniennes
Adrien-Hubert Brué (1786-1832) was a French geographer and cartographer who as a young man accompanied the explorer Nicolas Baudin on his 1800-1803 voyage to New Holland (Australia). Brué returned to France to become an important geographer, associated with the Institut Geographique de Paris and geographer to the king. His Grand atlas universel (Large universal atlas) was first published in 1816 and issued in revised…
European Turkey as the Theater of War between the Turks and the Russians.
Turquie d'Europe pour Servir au théâtre de la guerre des Turcs et des Russes
This map shows southeastern Europe during the Crimean War (1853-56) that pitted Russia against the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) and its allies Britain, France, and Sardinia. The western European powers backed the Turks in order to block Russia's expansion into the Black Sea region, which they believed threatened their positions in the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Many of the war's major battles were fought…
Geographical Map of Modern Northern Greece.
Mappa Geographica Graeciae Septentrionalis Hodiernae sive Provinciarum Macedoniae, Thessaliae et Albaniae in qua ultima Provincia Habitationes sitae Gentis Montenegrianae in Comitatu Zentanensi expressae sunt, unacum finitimis Regionibus atque Insulis
The long subtitle of this Latin map of northern Greece explains that it depicts "the provinces of Macedonia, Thessaly, and Albania, in the last one of which the dwellings of the Montenegrin people located in the county of Zenta are indicated, together with the neighboring regions and islands, drawn by very recent and new auxiliary troops according to the rule of correct projections in…
Map of the Turkish Empire.
Turcici Imperii Imago
This map shows the Ottoman Empire as it appeared in the early 17th century. It details Ottoman territories in Asia, Africa, and Europe, and includes Persia, Transcaucasia, Ethiopia, and other surrounding lands. Topographic features, place-names, and populations are definitively marked, although the nomenclature of the time differs markedly from that used today. The Red Sea is termed the Sea of Mecca, for example, and…
Lands of the Emperor of the Turks or the Ottoman Sultan in Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Estats de l'empire du Grand Seigneur des Turqs ou Sultan des Ottomans en Asie, en Afrique, et en Europe
This map shows the Ottoman Empire as it was conceived in Europe in the last quarter of the 17th century. It is a reprint, dated 1679, of an earlier edition possibly included in a series of world atlases published by Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667) in the middle of the century. The map shows geological features, such as rivers, deserts, and mountain ranges. Cities and towns…
Book/Printed MaterialMontenegro. "Authorities": p. [80]-82.
MapPlano del Golfo de Catarro. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Watermarks: LVG; and, bottom half of Strasburg fleur-de-lis. Pen-and-ink. Mounted on cloth backing. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Annotated in brown ink in upper left corner: Del Ferrol. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right corner: 155. Vault
MapSlavonia, Croatia, Bosnia, and a part of Dalmatia.
MapTurkey in Europe: According to New Observations by the Gentlemen at the Royal Science Academy.
MapGeneral Map of European Turkey, Greece and the Ionian Islands.
MapEuropean Turkey as the Theater of War between the Turks and the Russians.
MapGeographical Map of Modern Northern Greece.
MapMap of the Turkish Empire.
MapLands of the Emperor of the Turks or the Ottoman Sultan in Asia, Africa, and Europe.