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    [Maps of Maine, from 1620 to 1795]
    Maine title collection drawer 1 | Maine title collection--general 1620-1795
    All maps in this collection are photocopies or facsimiles. This record covers single maps of Maine as a whole, which are not represented in the LC database by separate catalog records. This collection includes photocopies of printed or manuscript single maps as well as printed facsimiles. To request a specific map or for more information, contact a reference librarian in the Geography & Map...

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    [Maps of Czechoslovakia from approximately 1620 to 1970] Catalog Record Only This record covers single maps of Czechoslovakia, which are not represented in the LC database by separate catalog records. This collection includes single printed maps and photocopies of printed or manuscript single maps as well as some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books or periodicals, and printed facsimiles. These maps cover Czechoslovakia as a whole, regions of Czechoslovakia, provinces, and cities and towns....
    • Date: 1620
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    Yu di quan tu = [Complete atlas of China]
    輿地全圖 = [Complete atlas of China] Catalog Record Only
    Call number to be updated to G2305 .Y8 1620 unk84035873 upgraded to RDA and LCCN 2021590064 replaced (ga37 2021-03-23)
    • Date: 1620
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    Alexandri magni excursus et expeditio in Asiam Catalog Record Only Shows route of Alexander's military campaign through Central Asia and Northeast Africa creating one of the largest empires of the ancient world streching from Greece to Egypt and into present day Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan. Relief shown pictorially. Title from panel.
    • Contributor: Blanchin, Jean
    • Date: 1620
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    Military Battles and Campaigns This category contains maps showing campaigns of major military conflicts including troop movements, defensive structures and groundworks, roads to and from sites of military engagements, campsites, and local buildings, topography and vegetation. Some of the maps are manuscripts drawn on the field of battle, while others are engraved including some that have manuscript annotations reflecting the history of the battle or campaign. A significant...
    • Date: 1570

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    Europe, Very Precisely Represented.
    Europa exactissime descripta
    This decorative map of Europe dates from around 1620 and is by Hendrik Hondius (also seen as Henricus Hondius, 1597--1651). Hondius was the son of Jodocus Hondius (1563--1612), a Flemish cartographer and engraver who settled in Amsterdam around 1593 and established a business producing maps and atlases. He is known for reestablishing the rightful famous reputation of Gerardus Mercator. In 1604 Hondius acquired the...
    • Contributor: Louis XIII, King of France - Hondius, Hendrik
    • Date: 1620-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Muriel H. Parry map collection The collection consists of some 871 maps that are largely pictorial. Muriel H. Parry, a librarian for the U.S. State Department, compiled the maps and several were deaccessioned from the State Department's library. Formats in the collection include single map and maps in books, magazines, calendars, and advertisements. In addition, there are maps on napkins, gift cards, cloth, etc. Included are maps by Ernest...
    • Contributor: Parry, Muriel H. - Chase, Ernest Dudley - Clegg, Ernest - Shelton, Hal - Gill, Macdonald - Harrison, Richard Edes - Wallingford, Daniel K.
    • Date: 1538
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    Finding Our Place in the Cosmos: From Galileo to Sagan and Beyond A thematic collection exploring changing models of the universe through time, ideas of life on other words and Carl Sagan’s place in the tradition of science. It features manuscripts, rare books, celestial atlases, newspaper articles, sheet music and movie posters.
    • Contributor: Druyan, Ann - Sagan, Carl - Macfarlane, Seth
    • Date: 1495

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    Terra Firma cum Novo Regno Granatense et Popayan Catalog Record Only Shows portions of Costa Rica and Panama. Relief shown pictorially. In upper margin: Museo Británcio 1620. Copied from original in British Museum. Pen-and-ink. Annotated in blue pencil. Canal Zone Library map checklist number: 21. Vault
    • Date: 1620
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    [Maps of Iceland from approximately 1620 to 1970] Catalog Record Only This record covers single maps of Iceland, which are not represented in the LC database by separate catalog records. This collection includes single printed maps and photocopies of printed or manuscript single maps as well as some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books or periodicals, and printed facsimiles. These maps cover Iceland as a whole, regions of Iceland, provinces, and cities and towns....
    • Date: 1620
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    Nova et recens emendata totius Regni Ungariæ una cum adiacentibus et finitimis regionibus delineatio Map of Hungary and adjacent parts of the Danube River Valley showing populated places occupied by the invading Turks and places remaining Christian (unoccupied). Covers the Danube River Valley from Vienna (upstream) to a point just above the entrance of the Caraş River (downstream--present-day Romanian border). Relief shown pictorially. Title, notes, and principal place-names in Latin. Note at lower right: Vera delineatio accurataq[ue] tabula...
    • Contributor: Claesz, Cornelis - Keere, Pieter Van Den - Doetecam, Jan Van
    • Date: 1620-01-01
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    General Maps This category includes maps that typically portray the physical environment and a variety of cultural elements for a geographic area at a particular point in time. The maps in this category show a geographic area larger than a city or town and do not display a subject that is part of one of the thematic categories.
    • Date: 1290

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    Hauslab-Liechtenstein map collection The Hauslab-Liechtenstein map collection contains some 10,000 manuscript and printed sheets. A large portion of these map and atlas sheets were compiled by the Austrian cartographer and general Franz Ritter von Hauslab. These were later acquired by Prince Jordan II of Liechtenstein, whose own maps complemented the Hauslab collection, hence the name Hauslab-Liechtentstein. Within the collection there are examples of various types of map...
    • Contributor: Hauslab, Franz - Johann II, Fürst Von Und Zu Liechtenstein
    • Date: 1500
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    America, siue, India Nova : ad magnae Gerardi Mercatoris aui vniversalis imitationem in compendium redacta
    America, sive, India Nova Catalog Record Only
    Relief shown pictorially. Gift; John (Jack) M. Raymond; July 2016. Ancillary maps: Golfo Mexicano -- Cvba -- Haiti nunc Hispaniola. Text of map in Latin; text on verso in French. Includes notes and decorative floral border. Text on verso: L'Ameriqve, pages 69 and 72.
    • Contributor: Mercator, Michael
    • Date: 1620
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    Italia di Gio : Ant. Magini, data in luce da Fabio suo figliulo ... Catalog Record Only Engraved title-page with woodcut border. Caption title (p. 1): L'Italia descritta in generale ...
    • Contributor: Magini, Giovanni Antonio - Magini, Fabio
    • Date: 1620
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    Cities and Towns This category includes maps that depict individual buildings to panoramic views of large urban areas. These maps record the evolution of cities illustrating the development and nature of economic activities, educational and religious facilities, parks, street patterns and widths, and transportation systems.
    • Date: 1500

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