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Book/Printed MaterialModern geography. A description of the empires, kingdoms, states, and colonies; with the oceans, seas, and isles; in all parts of the world: including the most recent discoveries, and political alterations: Digested ... "Catalogue of maps, and of books of voyages and travels": v. 2, p. 792-802. Vols. 1 and 2 have supplements containing corrections and additions 1817.- Contributor: Pond, John - Pinkerton, John - Nicolle De La Croix
- Date: 1811
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Book/Printed MaterialUniversal Geography for Children. Geography textbooks were very popular as basic education tools during the 19th-century National Revival in Bulgaria. Between 1824 and 1878, some 43 different titles or editions of this genre were published. Universal Geography for Children by Ivan Bogorov, or Bogoev (1818--92), appeared early in this tradition. Bogorov's book was a translation from the Russian of a work, also entitled Universal Geography, by Vasilii Bardovskii...- Contributor: Bardovskiĭ, Vasiliĭ Stepanovich - Bogorov, Ivan Andreev
- Date: 1843
- Resource: - 436 pages
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MapGeography.
Clavdii Ptholemei Alexandrini philosophi Cosmographia Claudius Ptolemaeus (circa 100--circa 170), known as Ptolemy, was an astronomer, mathematician, and geographer of Greek descent who lived and worked in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. In his Geography, Ptolemy gathered all the geographic knowledge possessed by the Greco-Roman world. He used a system of grid lines to plot the latitude and longitude of some 8,000 places on a map that encompassed the...- Contributor: Sweynheim, Konrad, 1477 - Ptolemy, 2nd Century - Buckinck, Arnold
- Date: 1478
- Resource: - 228 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialKratkoe politīcheskoe zemleopisanīe za obūchenīe na bolgarskoto mladenchestvo
Kratkoe politicheskoe zemleopisanie za obuchenie na bolgarskoto mladenchestvo The Brief Political Geography for the Instruction of Bulgarian Youth is the first general geography in Bulgarian. It was published in Kragujevac, Serbia, with the financial backing of the Serbian prince Miloš Obrenović. World Digital Library.- Contributor: Neofit - Miloš Obrenovi - Peter - Early Bulgarian Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Plochev, Todor D.
- Date: 1835
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Biblical geography of Asia Minor, Phœnicia, and Arabia. Ernst Friedrich Karl Rosenmüller (1768-1835) was a German Orientalist and theologian. He was born in Hesselberg, Bavaria, and studied in Erlangen, Giessen, and in Leipzig under his father Johann Georg, also a theologian. The younger Rosenmüller became professor of Arabic and Oriental languages at Leipzig, where he devoted many years to his colossal, 24-part collection, Scholia in Vetus Testamentum, a major exegetical work on...- Contributor: Rosenmüller, Ern. Frid. Car - Robinson, Edward - Morren, N. (Nathaniel) - Smith, Eli
- Date: 1841
- Resource: - 376 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialGeneral Geography in Brief for the Whole World. Published in 1843 with the support of many private donors, General Geography in Brief for the Whole World is a reworking in Bulgarian of Samuel Goodrich's American textbook, Peter Parley's Method of Telling about Geography to Children, but from the Greek translation produced by American missionaries rather than the original English. Other Greek-language geography texts also inspired aspects of this work, notably William Channing...- Contributor: Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) - Fotinov, Konstantin Georgiev
- Date: 1843
- Resource: - 251 pages
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MapGeographic Map of Brazil.
Carta geografica del Bresil This map of Brazil was published by Giovanni Battista Albrizzi (1698-1777), a prominent Venetian publisher of books and maps. The notes on the map, in Italian, include various speculative remarks about the people and the geography of the interior of Brazil, then still largely unknown to Europeans. Albrizzi, who inherited his business from his father, was part of a family active in publishing and...- Contributor: Albrizzi, Giovanni Battista
- Date: 1740
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapGeographic Map of Europe.
Mappa geographico da Europa This map of Europe was published in Brazil before or shortly after the outbreak of World War I in late July of 1914. The table at the upper left of the map lists the population and size of the armies and navies of the two competing alliances in Europe, the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente. Italy is listed as a member of the...- Contributor: Companhia Souza Cruz Indústria E Comércio
- Date: 1914
- Resource: - 1 page
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Book/Printed MaterialThe oriental geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the tenth century. Ascribed by Ouseley in his translation to Muḥammad ibn Ḥauḳal and by Sprenger in the catalogue of his manuscripts (no. 1) to Aḥmad ibn Sahl (Abü Zaid) al-Balkhī. In 921 al-Balkhī wrote a geographical work in which the maps were the important part. Ca. 951, al-Iṣṭakhrī wrote a revision of al-Balkhī's work, commonly known as the "Kitāb al-aḳāiīm," in which he extended the description...- Contributor: Ouseley, William - Iṣṭakhrī, Ibrāhīm Ibn Muḥammad - Muḥammad Ibn Ḥauḳal - Balkhī, Aḥmad Ibn Sahl
- Date: 1800
- Resource: - 376 pages
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Photo, Print, DrawingVelikoe kni︠a︡zhestvo Finli︠a︡ndskoe.
Великое княжество Финляндское. This card is one of a souvenir set of 82 illustrated cards-one for each province of the Russian Empire as it existed in 1856. Each card presents an overview of a particular province's culture, history, economy, and geography. The front of the card depicts such distinguishing features as rivers, mountains, major cities, and chief industries. The back of each card contains a map of...- Date: 1856
- Resource: - 2 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialMirʼāt al-arz̤, yaʻnī, Mukhtaṣar-i jughrāfiyah-i ʻālam : barā-yi ṭalabā-yi madāris-i qalamraw-i Afghānistān va mamālik-i maḥrūsah-i ān
Mukhtaṣar-i jughrāfiyah-i ʻālam Brief geography of the world; a textbook of geography for Afghan students during the reign of Ḥabibullah Khān, the Amir of Afghanistan. Mirʼāt al-arz̤ (Mirror of the world) is a text on geography, written for Afghan students. The work begins with a discussion of general topics, such as the shape of the Earth and its rotational motion and revolution about the sun, the great...- Date: 1905
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Book/Printed MaterialJughrāfīyah-ʼi kūchak Jughrāfīyah-ʼi kūchak (A small geography) is a geography text for students. It begins with a definition of geography ("the science that reveals to us cities, mountains and the rivers on the earth") and a discussion of the cardinal directions. The basic features of the earth's surface are then defined and in some cases (as with continents and oceans) clarified by the listing of examples....- Contributor: Afghanistan. Vizārat-I Maʻārif
- Date: 1922
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Book/Printed MaterialGeographical Studies of the Valleys of Andorra.
Études géographiques sur la Vallée d'Andorre Jean François Bladé (1827-1900) was a French lawyer, historian, and folklorist. He was one of the great French historical investigators of the 19th century. Driven by his desire to understand the French vegueria (ancient administrative division) in Andorra, he wrote Études géographiques sur la Vallée d'Andorre (Geographical studies of the valleys of Andorra), a compendium on the geography, ethnography, and history of Andorra. Unlike...- Contributor: Bladé, Jean-François
- Date: 1875
- Resource: - 136 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialMaʻrifat al-arz̤
/ | Vizārat-i Maʻārif, Riyāsat-i Dār al-Taʼlīf | Maʻrifat al-arḍ As is stated in the introductory chapter, the subject of Maʻrifat al-arz̤ (Knowledge of the Earth, or Introduction to geology) is "the structure and the continual evolution that [the Earth] has been subject to in prior eons and at the present time." The work thus can be regarded as an introductory text on geology. Following the introduction are 20 chapters on topics ranging from...- Contributor: Afghanistan. Vizārat-I Maʻārif. Riyāsat-I Dār Al-Tāʼlīf - Arjumand - Kātib Hazārah, Fayz̤ Muḥammad
- Date: 1926
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Photo, Print, DrawingZemli︠a︡ donskikh kazakov.
Земля донских казаков. This card is one of a souvenir set of 82 illustrated cards-one for each province of the Russian Empire as it existed in 1856. Each card presents an overview of a particular province's culture, history, economy, and geography. The front of the card depicts such distinguishing features as rivers, mountains, major cities, and chief industries. The back of each card contains a map of...- Date: 1856
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Book/Printed MaterialEssays on Northwestern Mongolia: Results of the 1879--1880 Travels for the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. Grigorii Nikolaevich Potanin (1835--1920) was a Russian scholar and public figure, a pioneer of regional studies, and an expert on the cultural life of Siberia. Learned as a geographer, historian, ethnographer, and naturalist, he traveled extensively to parts of present-day Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China, beginning with his military service. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Saint Petersburg in 1859--61. He and...- Contributor: Potanin, G. N. (Grigoriĭ Nikolaevich)
- Date: 1883
- Resource: - 389 pages
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Photo, Print, DrawingK puteshestvii︠u︡ na Amur, sovershennomu ot Sibirskogo otdela Imperatorskogo russkogo geograficheskogo obshchestva : Al'bom risunokov.
К путешествию на Амур, совершенному от Сибирского отдела Императорского русского географического общества : Альбом рисуноков. This album was produced by the Siberian Branch of the Imperial Russian Geographic Society. It contains 17 drawings of the Amur River region in the Russian Far East, showing both natural and cultural scenes. Many of the illustrations highlight the confluence of important rivers in the region. Others show the dress and habitats of the indigenous peoples from throughout the Amur basin. The drawings...- Contributor: Russian Geographical Society
- Date: 1860
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Book/Printed MaterialA Historical, Geographical, and Statistical Description of the Russian Empire. Volume 1, Book 3. Olonetsk Province. This work by the historian and statistician Ivan Ilych Pushkarev (1808--48) is a historical and statistical description of the Russian province of Olonetsk, containing information about its geography, people, economic development, and government institutions. It was conceived as a fundamental work based on the materials of the ministries and statistical committees of the provinces. Pushkarev planned to publish 18 volumes with the descriptions of...- Contributor: Pushkarev, Ivan
- Date: 1845
- Resource: - 131 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialA Historical, Geographical, and Statistical Description of the Russian Empire. Volume 1, Book 4. Vologda Province. This work by the historian and statistician Ivan Ilych Pushkarev (1808--48) is a historical and statistical description of the Russian province of Vologda, containing information about its geography, people, economic development, and government institutions. It was conceived as a fundamental work based on the materials of the ministries and statistical committees of the provinces. Pushkarev planned to publish 18 volumes with the descriptions of...- Contributor: Pushkarev, Ivan
- Date: 1846
- Resource: - 175 pages
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MapGeographical Chart of the Valleys of Andorra.
Carte Geographique De La Vallée D'Andorra The Consell General de les Valls (General Council of the Valleys, the elected assembly of Andorra) commissioned the geographic engineer to the king of France to create this map of the Valleys of Andorra, taking advantage of his presence in Andorra while on a work assignment for the Carte générale de la France (General map of France). The latter was a project then coordinated...- Contributor: Lengelée, Nicolas - Andorra. General Council of the Valleys
- Date: 1777
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Book/Printed MaterialHistory of Corea, ancient and modern; with description of manners and customs, language and geography The Reverend John Ross was a Presbyterian minister who, in 1872, left his native Scotland to become a missionary in China. He opened a school for boys in 1873 and, having mastered Chinese, in 1877 published Mandarin Primer: Being Easy Lessons for Beginners, designed to help English speakers learn Chinese. After working for a time in Xin Zhuang, Liaoning Province, he moved to the...- Contributor: Ross, John
- Date: 1879
- Resource: - 445 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialCosmography.
Cosmographia The Greek astronomer, mathematician, and geographer Claudius Ptolemaeus (circa 100--circa 178), known as Ptolemy, was a theoretician of geocentrism who collected his geographical works in the Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis (Introduction to geography) in eight books. This work, which was considered the summation of all the geographical knowledge of the Greco-Roman world, was largely neglected in the West during the Middle Ages. It came back into...- Contributor: Nicolaus Germanus, Active 15th Century - Ptolemy, 2nd Century - Jacobus, Angelus De Scarperia, Approximately 1360-Approximately 1410
- Date: 1460
- Resource: - 132 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialTravels in Beloochistan and Sinde; accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries... Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde is a first-hand account of a journey taken in 1810-11 through parts of present-day India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq. The author, Henry Pottinger (1789-1856), was a lieutenant in the East India Company who, along with a friend and fellow officer, Captain Charles Christie, volunteered to undertake a mission to the region between India and Persia (present-day Iran), about...- Contributor: Pottinger, Henry
- Date: 1816
- Resource: - 469 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems. Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Mas'udi (circa 896--956 AD, 283--345 AH) was an Arab historian and geographer, known as the "Herodotus of the Arabs." He was one of the first scholars to combine history and scientific geography in a large-scale work. Muruj adh-dhahab wa ma'adin al-jawhar (The meadows of gold and mines of gems) is a book of world history that combines...- Contributor: Masʻūdī, Died 956
- Date: 1927
- Resource: - 578 pages
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MapWest India Islands and the Approaches to the Panama Canal.
West India Islands, & the Approaches to the Panama Canal This large folding map, issued by the London Geographical Institute during World War I, shows the islands of the Caribbean Sea and the approaches to the Panama Canal. The canal had opened to traffic in early 1914, shortly before the outbreak of the war. Protection of the canal against possible sabotage by Germany was a concern of U.S. military planners in World War I...- Contributor: London Geographical Institute
- Date: 1915
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