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    Yu ji tu
    禹跡圖     This rubbing is of a Chinese map engraved in stone in the seventh year of the Fouchang era of the Qi state (1136). The stele survives in the Forest of Steles in...

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    Hua yi tu. Stone rubbing dated 1903? Original stone was engraved in Fuchang 7 nian, i.e. 1136 A.D. The stone is now in the Forest of Stone Steles Museum in Xi'an, China. Covers China in...
    • Date: 1136
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    Yu ji tu.
    禹迹图.     Stone rubbing dated 1903? One of the earliest stone maps, it consists of 5,110 grids, each grid is approximately 100 li. Original stone was engraved in Fuchang 7 nian, i.e. 1136 A.D....
    • Date: 1136
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    Hua yi tu. Stone rubbing dated 1903? Original stone was engraved in Fuchang 7 nian, i.e. 1136 A.D. The stone is now in the Forest of Stone Steles Museum in Xi'an, China. Covers China in...
    • Date: 1136
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    Yu ji tu.
    禹迹图.     Scale ca. 1:5,000,000. Stone rubbing dated 1933? One of the earliest stone maps, it consists of 5,110 grids, each grid is approximately 100 li. Original stone was engraved in Fuchang 7 nian,...
    • Date: 1136
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    Hua yi tu. Scale not given. Stone rubbing dated 1933? Original stone was engraved in Fuchang 7 nian, i.e. 1136 A.D. The stone is now in the Forest of Stone Steles Museum in Xi'an, China....
    • Date: 1136
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    Lu guo zhi tu
    魯國之圖     Lu guo zhi tu (Map of Lu State) is the rubbing of a stone stele, erected by Yu Shunkai in the 24th year (1154) of the Shaoxing reign of Southern Song. The...
    • Contributor: Yu, Shunkai, 1097
    • Date: 1154
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Pingjiang tu.
    平江图.     Stone rubbing dated between 1858 and 1869. One of the earliest and biggest stone rubbing maps in China. Original stone was engraved in 1229 under Li Shoupeng. The map is now in...
    • Contributor: Gamble, William
    • Date: 1229
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    [Map of the Far East and adjacent Pacific].
    Map-with-ship     The map, in its ornamental frame, occupies the right side of the sheet. Drawing of a ship and an eight-line explanation of Roman numerals on left side of the sheet. Place names...
    • Contributor: Polo, Marco
    • Date: 129?
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    [Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea ca. 1320-1350 : manuscript chart of the Mediterranean and Black ... Anonymous nautical chart in portolan style probably drawn in Genoa. Covers Mediterranean Sea from the Balearic Islands to the Levantine coast; also covers western part of Black Sea. Oldest original cartographic artifact...
    • Date: 1320
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    [Manuscript copy of 1367 manuscript chart of the Mediterranean, with the Black and Caspian Seas, and ... Title provided by cataloger. Manuscript copy of the manuscript original in the Biblioteca Palatina of Parma (Ms.Parm.1612). Pen-and-ink and gouache on two sheets of vellum. Includes illustrations. LC Nautical charts on vellum,...
    • Contributor: Pizigano, Francesco - Sardi, Agostinho
    • Date: 1367
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    Li dai di li zhi zhang tu
    历代地理指掌图     Li dai di li zhi zhang tu (Handy geographical maps through the ages) is the earliest existing historical atlas of China, first printed during the Song dynasty. This edition was printed during...
    • Contributor: Zhao, Liangfu
    • Date: 1368
    • Resource: - 71 pages

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    Mappamundi. Little is known about the 15th-century Venetian geographer and cosmographer Giovanni Leardo, beyond the fact that three of his world maps have survived from late-medieval times, signed by their creator. This is...
    • Contributor: Leardo, Giovanni, Flourished 1440
    • Date: 1452
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Palestine. This Latin woodcut map of Palestine is from the Rudimentum Novitiorum (A handbook for beginners), which is a history of the world published in Lübeck, Germany, in 1475 and contains what are...
    • Contributor: Burchardus De Monte Sion, 13th Century - Brandis De Schass, Lucas
    • Date: 1475
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Sixth Map of Asia.
    Sexta Asiae Tabula     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...
    • Contributor: Sweynheim, Konrad, 1477 - Ptolemy, 2nd Century
    • Date: 1478
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    Sixth Map of Asia.
    Sexta Asiae tabula     Several editions of Ptolemy's Geographia (Geography), translated into Latin from the original Greek, were published in Europe in the 15th century. This map is from the 1478 edition, which was published in...
    • Contributor: Ptolemy, 2nd Century
    • Date: 1478
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Geography.
    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...
    • Contributor: Sweynheim, Konrad, 1477 - Ptolemy, 2nd Century - Buckinck, Arnold
    • Date: 1478
    • Resource: - 228 pages

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    Present-Day Palestine and the Holy Land.
    Palestina moderna et Terra Sancta     This map of Palestine and the Holy Land was published in Florence around 1480 and was included in Francesco Berlinghieri's expanded edition of Ptolemy's Geographia (Geography). Berlinghieri, an Italian scholar and diplomat,...
    • Contributor: Ptolemy, 2nd Century - Berlinghieri, Francesco - Todescho, Nicolo
    • Date: 1480
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Sixth Map of Asia.
    Tabvla Sexta De Asia     This map of the Roman province of Asia is from Ptolemy's Geographia, which was published in 1482 in an edition by Francesco Berlinghieri. The depiction of Arabia is regarded as the basis...
    • Contributor: Ptolemy, 2nd Century - Berlinghieri, Francesco
    • Date: 1482
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Atlas of the Azores and Madeira Islands.
    Atlas das Ilhas de Açores e Madeira     This 16th-century pen-and-ink watercolor map, from an atlas of Madeira and the Azores, shows the island of Madeira. This island was discovered in 1419 by captains sailing for Prince Henry the Navigator...
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    The Sigüenza Map.
    El Mapa de Sigüenza     This map is a cartographic history of the migration of the Aztec from Aztlán to Tenochtitlan. Created in the pictographic style typical of the central Mexican and Puebla valleys during the Post-Classical...
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    Maritime Atlas. This work is an illuminated and illustrated maritime atlas, referred to as the Walters Deniz atlası. It is one of the earliest Ottoman atlases, tentatively dated to around the mid-16th century. The...

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    [Portolan chart of the Pacific coast from Mexico to northern Chile]. Seems to be in Spanish. Title supplied by cataloger. Pen-and-ink; black, brown, green, and red. Trimmed to a rough rectangle. Matted and mounted between sheets of transparent lucite. Available also through the...
    • Date: 1500
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    Portolan Chart. The first maritime charts were produced at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. Their main purpose was to represent with the greatest possible accuracy coastlines and ports, for which reason...
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    Nautical Planisphere. This nautical map of the world was produced by the Genoese cartographer Nicolo di Caverio based on Portuguese documents. The map can be dated to 1506, as it contains no reference to...
    • Contributor: Caverio, Nicolo DI
    • Date: 1504
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Portolan Chart (Old World). Among the geographic manuscripts in the Bavarian State Library is a series of the most important portolan charts that have come down to the present. These charts consist of a single piece...
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    Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii alioru[m]que lustrationes.
    Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorū que lustrationes     "Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world map was the first map to depict a separate Western hemisphere with the Pacific as a separate ocean. The map grew out of an ambitious project in Saint-Dié,...
    • Contributor: Waldseemüller, Martin
    • Date: 1507
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    Imagines coeli meridionales Earliest known European printed star chart. Originally bound in the Schöner Sammelband. LC copy annotated by Johann Schöner. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Provenance:...
    • Contributor: Stabius, Johannes - Dürer, Albrecht - Schöner, Johann - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1515
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    Carta marina navigatoria Portvgallen navigationes, atqve tocius cogniti orbis terre marisqve formam natvram sitvs et terminos ...
    Carta marina navigatoria Portugallen navigationes, atque tocius cogniti orbis terre marisque formam naturam situs et terminos nostris temporibus recognitos et ab antiquorum traditione differentes, eciam quor vetusti non meminerunt autore, hec generaliter indicat     Relief shown pictorially. Includes text and illustrations. Bound in the Schöner Sammelband. Sheet 6 appears to be a proof copy and was laid in after the Sammelband was bound. All sheets except...
    • Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Schöner, Johann - Waldseemüller, Martin
    • Date: 1516

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    [Manuscript copy of sheet 6 of Waldseemüller's Carta marina]. Title provided by cataloger. Relief shown pictorially. Includes text and illustrations. Originally bound in the Sammelband. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Provenance: Gift of...
    • Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Schöner, Johann - Waldseemüller, Martin
    • Date: 1516
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    [Fragmentary terrestrial globe gores]. Relief shown pictorially. Bound in the Schöner Sammelband. Found in the binding of the Sammelband in 1905, mounted on paper and bound in. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site...
    • Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Schöner, Johann
    • Date: 1517
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    [Celestial globe gores]. Title provided by cataloger. Likely proof sheets, as lines for the tropics and the ecliptic are missing. Earliest known celestial gores. Bound in the Schöner Sammelband. Gores trimmed and mounted on paper....
    • Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Schöner, Johann
    • Date: 1517
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    [Fragmentary celestial globe gores]. Title provided by cataloger. Bound in the Schöner Sammelband. Found in the binding of the Sammelband in 1905, mounted on paper, and bound in. Available also through the Library of Congress Web...
    • Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Schöner, Johann
    • Date: 1517
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    Nautical Atlas of the World, Folio 6 Recto, North Atlantic Ocean. The map presented here is from the Miller Atlas in the collections of the National Library of France. Produced for King Manuel I of Portugal in 1519 by cartographers Pedro Reinel, his...
    • Contributor: Homem, Lopo, Flourished - Manuel I, King of Portugal - Reinel, Jorge, Active 16th Century - Reinel, Pedro, Born Approximately 1464 - Holanda, António De
    • Date: 1519
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Nautical Atlas of the World, Folio 2 Recto, Northeastern Atlantic Ocean and Northern Europe and Folio ... The map presented here is from the Miller Atlas in the collections of the National Library of France. Produced for King Manuel I of Portugal in 1519 by cartographers Pedro Reinel, his...
    • Contributor: Homem, Lopo, Flourished - Manuel I, King of Portugal - Reinel, Jorge, Active 16th Century - Reinel, Pedro, Born Approximately 1464 - Holanda, António De
    • Date: 1519
    • Resource: - 2 pages

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    Nautical Atlas of the World, Folio 3 Recto, Northern Indian Ocean with Arabia and India and ... The map presented here is from the Miller Atlas in the collections of the National Library of France. Produced for King Manuel I of Portugal in 1519 by cartographers Pedro Reinel, his...
    • Contributor: Homem, Lopo, Flourished - Manuel I, King of Portugal - Reinel, Jorge, Active 16th Century - Reinel, Pedro, Born Approximately 1464 - Holanda, António De
    • Date: 1519
    • Resource: - 2 pages

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    Nautical Atlas of the World, Folio 4 Recto, Magnus Sinus and Folio 4 Verso, China Sea ... The map presented here is from the Miller Atlas in the collections of the National Library of France. Produced for King Manuel I of Portugal in 1519 by cartographers Pedro Reinel, his...
    • Contributor: Homem, Lopo, Flourished - Manuel I, King of Portugal - Reinel, Jorge, Active 16th Century - Reinel, Pedro, Born Approximately 1464 - Holanda, António De
    • Date: 1519
    • Resource: - 2 pages

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    Nautical Atlas of the World, Folio 5 Recto, Southwestern Atlantic Ocean with Brazil. The map presented here is from the Miller Atlas in the collections of the National Library of France. Produced for King Manuel I of Portugal in 1519 by cartographers Pedro Reinel, his...
    • Contributor: Homem, Lopo, Flourished - Manuel I, King of Portugal - Reinel, Jorge, Active 16th Century - Reinel, Pedro, Born Approximately 1464 - Holanda, António De
    • Date: 1519
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Nautical Atlas of the World, Circular World Map of the Portuguese Hemisphere and Title Page. The map presented here is from the Miller Atlas in the collections of the National Library of France. Produced for King Manuel I of Portugal in 1519 by cartographers Pedro Reinel, his...
    • Contributor: Homem, Lopo, Flourished - Manuel I, King of Portugal - Reinel, Jorge, Active 16th Century - Reinel, Pedro, Born Approximately 1464 - Holanda, António De
    • Date: 1519
    • Resource: - 2 pages

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    Nautical Atlas of the World, Folio 6 Verso, The Mediterranean Sea. The map presented here is from the Miller Atlas in the collections of the National Library of France. Produced for King Manuel I of Portugal in 1519 by cartographers Pedro Reinel, his...
    • Contributor: Homem, Lopo, Flourished - Manuel I, King of Portugal - Reinel, Jorge, Active 16th Century - Reinel, Pedro, Born Approximately 1464 - Holanda, António De
    • Date: 1519
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Sixth Map of Asia.
    Tabula VI Asiae     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...
    • Contributor: Pirckheimer, Willibald - Ptolemy, 2nd Century - Regiomontanus, Joannes
    • Date: 1525
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Map of America by Diego Ribero 1529. Spanish; title in English. Pen-and-ink and blue watercolor, mounted on cloth, mounted on paper. Traced from a map by Diego Ribero. On label affixed in upper right corner: 41. Available also through...
    • Contributor: Kohl, J. G. (Johann Georg) - Ribero, Diego - Kohl, J. G.
    • Date: 1529
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    Noua, et integra uniuersi orbis descriptio
    Nova, et integra universi orbis descriptio | Nova, et integra vniversi orbis descriptio     "Oronce Fine (1494-1555), also known by his Latinized name of Orontius Finaeus Delphinatus, was born in Briançon, France and trained as a medical doctor at the University of Paris. He was appointed...
    • Contributor: Fine, Oronce
    • Date: 1531
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    A Modern and Complete Map of the World by the Royal Mathematician Oronce Fine of the ...
    Recens et integra orbis descriptio. Orontius F[inaeus] Delph[inas], Regis[s] mathematic[us] facebiat     An astronomer and mathematician, from 1531 the first chair of mathematics in the Collège Royal (the present-day Collège de France), Oronce Fine (1494--1555) was one of the first French scholars to work...
    • Contributor: Finé, Oronce
    • Date: 1534
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Portolan Atlas of Battista Agnese.
    Portolano     This portolan atlas is attributed to Battista Agnese (1514-64), one of the most important Italian Renaissance cartographers. Of Genoese origin, Agnese was active in Venice from 1536 until his death. He is...
    • Contributor: Agnese, Battista - Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy - Sforza DI Santa Fiora, Guido Ascanio
    • Date: 1536
    • Resource: - 19 pages

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    World Map on Double Cordiform Projection. This world map on two sheets is an early work of the famous Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator (1512--94). Only two copies of the map are extant: this one from the American Geographical...
    • Contributor: Mercator, Gerhard
    • Date: 1538
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    General Atlas of All the Islands in the World.
    Islario general de todas las islas del mundo     Islario general de todas las islas del mundo (General atlas of all the islands in the world) is the greatest work by Seville cosmographer Alonso de Santa Cruz (1505--67). The atlas was...
    • Contributor: Santa Cruz, Alonso De
    • Date: 1539
    • Resource: - 717 pages

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    [The Oztoticpac lands map]. "Dated at approximately 1540, this map, a Mexican pictorial document with writing in Spanish and Nahuatl, relates to a lawsuit concerning the estate of Don Carlos Ometochtli Chichimecatecotl, an Aztec lord and...
    • Date: 1540
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    Typus orbis descriptione Ptolemaei. Relief shown pictorially. Woodcut that appears in edition of Ptolemy's Geographia published in 1541. Includes illustrations of winds. LC copy stamped on in lower left corner: 0 674. Mounted on cloth and...
    • Contributor: Trechsel, Gaspard - Fries, Lorenz - Ptolemy
    • Date: 1541
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    Nautical Atlas of Battista Agnese. Battista Agnese (1514-64) was a masterful geographer and mapmaker. Born in Genoa, he worked in Venice from 1536 to 1564 and became one of the most important figures in Renaissance cartography. Researchers...
    • Contributor: Agnese, Battista
    • Date: 1541
    • Resource: - 23 pages

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    Tabula noua totius orbis.
    Tabula nova totius orbis     Relief shown pictorially. Woodcut that appears in an edition of Ptolemy's Geographia published in 1541. Includes illustrations and notes. LC copy stamped on in lower left corner: 0 676. Manuscript "246" in...
    • Contributor: Trechsel, Gaspard - Fries, Lorenz - Ptolemy
    • Date: 1541
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    A New, More True and Complete Description of the Whole World, First Published by Alonzo de ...
    Nova verior et integra totivs orbis descriptio nvne primvm in lvcem edita per Alfonsvm de sancta crvz Cæsaris Charoli V archicosmographvm, MDXLII     Alonzo de Santa Cruz (1505--67) was a well-known Spanish cartographer. As cosmographer at the Casa de contratación, the business enterprise in Seville that had a monopoly on the trade with the New...
    • Contributor: Santa Cruz, Alonso De
    • Date: 1542
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    L'Amérique centr[ale] Shows North America south of Canada including the Caribbean. Traced from a ms. world map created for Henri II in 1542 as reproduced in Jomard's Les monuments de la geographie (plate XIX.1),...
    • Date: 1542
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    [Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc.].
    Portolan atlas containing 10 maps     "Battista Agnese, one of the most important Italian Renaissance cartographers, was born in Genoa. He worked in Venice in the period 1536-64, and in about 1544 he produced this sumptuous and well-executed...
    • Contributor: Agnese, Battista
    • Date: 1544

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    Atlas of Battista Agnese.
    Atlas de Battista Agnese     Battista Agnese (circa 1500--1564) was an Italian cartographer, born in Genoa, who worked in Venice between 1536 and 1564 and became one of the most important figures in Renaissance cartography. He created...
    • Contributor: Agnese, Battista
    • Date: 1544
    • Resource: - 17 pages

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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....
    • Contributor: Warner, Langdon
    • Date: 1547

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    Tierra nveva.
    Tierra nueva     Shows the Atlantic coast from Labrador to north Florida. Publication information from atlas. Text titled "Della terra nova del Bacalaos" on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as...
    • Contributor: Gastaldi, Giacomo - Ptolemy
    • Date: 1548
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    Yu di zong tu
    輿地總圖     The author of this work is unknown. The name of the person who copied the manuscript appears at the end of the work, signed Zhou Yousheng. Some have attributed authorship to Ai...
    • Contributor: Zhou, Yousheng
    • Date: 1550
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    Tenochtitlán, 1521. This topographical map of Mexico City and its surroundings dates from around 1550, some three decades after the conquest of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán by Hernán Cortés in 1521. Tenochtitlán was...
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    Typus orbis universalis. Appears in Claudius Ptolemaeus' Geographia. Text on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated in black ink on verso: 187. Vault
    • Contributor: Münster, Sebastian
    • Date: 1550
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    [Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, the coasts of western Europe and North ... Title provided by cataloger. Pen-and-ink and gouache. Matted and mounted between sheets of transparent lucite, 76 x 102 cm. Irregularly shaped, with neck to the left. Includes bar scales with unidentified divisions...
    • Contributor: Olives, Jaume
    • Date: 1550
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    [Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and connecting seas]. Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines. Does not cover Black Sea. Title devised by cataloguer. Oriented with north to the right (indicated by fleurs-de-lys). Contains 11 compass roses in...
    • Date: 1550
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    Die neuwen Inseln, so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land India ligen.
    Title on verso: New weldt oder Inseln, so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land India ligen     Relief shown pictorially. South America labeled in German, geographic features otherwise in Latin. Appears in the author's Cosmographei. Basel, Switzerland. 1550. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a...
    • Contributor: Münster, Sebastian
    • Date: 1550
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    Nautical Chart of the Mediterranean Basin.
    Carta nautica del bacino del Mediterraneo     This portolan nautical chart, of Catalan origin, illustrates the coastal areas of the Mediterranean Sea with a wealth of detail, with toponyms of the inhabited areas shown without regard to political-territorial divisions....
    • Contributor: Prunes, Mateus, Flourished
    • Date: 1553
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    Sketches for the Great Map of Bavaria from 1563, Part 1. Topographical Map of Bavaria 47 ...
    Vorzeichnungen für die Grosse Karte Bayerns von 1563, Teil 1: Topographische Karte von Bayern 47° 46' bis 47° 54' nördl. Breite     Between 1554 and 1561, by order of Duke Albrecht V, Philipp Apian (1531-89) carried out a topographical survey of Bavaria (without using triangulation), on which was based the first mathematically measured map...
    • Contributor: Apianus, Philippus - Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria
    • Date: 1554
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    Sketches for the Great Map of Bavaria from 1563, Part 2. Topographical Map of Bavaria 47 ...
    Vorzeichnungen für die Grosse Karte Bayerns von 1563, Teil 2: Topographische Karte von Bayern 47° 54' bis 48° 2' nördl. Breite     Between 1554 and 1561, by order of Duke Albrecht V, Philipp Apian (1531-89) carried out a topographical survey of Bavaria (without using triangulation), on which was based the first mathematically measured map...
    • Contributor: Apianus, Philippus - Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria
    • Date: 1554
    • Resource: - 9 pages

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    Sketches for the "Great Map of Bavaria" from 1563, Part 3. Topographical Map of Bavaria 48 ...
    Vorzeichnungen für die Grosse Karte Bayerns von 1563, Teil 3: Topographische Karte von Bayern 48° 10' bis 48° 14' nördl. Breite     Between 1554 and 1561, by order of Duke Albrecht V, Philipp Apian (1531-89) carried out a topographical survey of Bavaria (without using triangulation), on which was based the first mathematically measured map...
    • Contributor: Apianus, Philippus - Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria
    • Date: 1554
    • Resource: - 5 pages

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    Sketches for the "Great Map of Bavaria" from 1563, Part 4. Topographical Map of Bavaria 48 ...
    Vorzeichnungen für die Grosse Karte Bayerns von 1563, Teil 4: Topographische Karte von Bayern 48° 15' bis 48° 18' nördl. Breite     Between 1554 and 1561, by order of Duke Albrecht V, Philipp Apian (1531-89) carried out a topographical survey of Bavaria (without using triangulation), on which was based the first mathematically measured map...
    • Contributor: Apianus, Philippus - Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria
    • Date: 1554
    • Resource: - 6 pages

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    Sketches for the "Great Map of Bavaria" from 1563, Part 5. Topographical Map of Bavaria 49 ...
    Vorzeichnungen für die Grosse Karte Bayerns von 1563, Teil 5: Topographische Karte von Bayern 49° 14' bis 49° 18' nördl. Breite     Between 1554 and 1561, by order of Duke Albrecht V, Philipp Apian (1531-89) carried out a topographical survey of Bavaria (without using triangulation), on which was based the first mathematically measured map...
    • Contributor: Apianus, Philippus - Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria
    • Date: 1554
    • Resource: - 5 pages

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    Sketches for the "Great Map of Bavaria" from 1563, Part 6. Topographical Map of Bavaria 49 ...
    Vorzeichnungen für die Grosse Karte Bayerns von 1563, Teil 6: Topographische Karte von Bayern 49° 19' bis 49° 22' nördl. Breite     Between 1554 and 1561, by order of Duke Albrecht V, Philipp Apian (1531-89) carried out a topographical survey of Bavaria (without using triangulation), on which was based the first mathematically measured map...
    • Contributor: Apianus, Philippus - Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria
    • Date: 1554
    • Resource: - 3 pages

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    Sketches for the "Great Map of Bavaria" from 1563, Part 7. Bird's-eye View of Bavaria at ...
    Vorzeichnungen für die Grosse Karte Bayerns von 1563, Teil 7: Vogelschauplan grösseren Masstabes von Bayern an der böhmischen Grenze, diese ist rot markiert     Between 1554 and 1561, by order of Duke Albrecht V, Philipp Apian (1531-89) carried out a topographical survey of Bavaria (without using triangulation), on which was based the first mathematically measured map...
    • Contributor: Apianus, Philippus - Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria
    • Date: 1554
    • Resource: - 6 pages

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    Sumatra. This fine woodcut map of Sumatra is the first separate map of an Indonesian island to be based on actual empirical data. It is based on Delle Navigationi et Viaggi (Navigations and...
    • Contributor: Ramusio, Giovanni Battista - Parmentier, Jean - Gastaldi, Giacomo - Parmentier, Raoul, 1529
    • Date: 1556
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    Guang yu tu : er juan
    廣輿圖 : 二卷 /     Woodblock print. Shows the Great Wall of China, the defense sturctures of the military towns along the border and the coast. Also shows the number of soldiers and horses stationed in the...
    • Contributor: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Zhu, Siben - Luo, Hongxian
    • Date: 1558
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    [Chart of the Mediterranean, Black Sea, and the coasts of western Europe and northwest Africa] Title provided by cataloguer. Catalan and Latin. Catalan titles for the illustrations and Latin statement of responsibility. Oriented with north to the right. Contains 5 wind roses. Pen-and-ink and goauche. Includes 2...
    • Contributor: Prunes, Mateus
    • Date: 1559
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    Tabula nouarum insularum, quas diuersis respectibus Occidentales & Indianas uocant.
    Tabula novarum insularum, quas diversis respectibus Occidentales & Indianas vocant | Nouus orbis, qui insulas habet Indici Oceani ...     Relief shown pictorially. Has the word "Americam" in South America. Appears in the author's Cosmographiae universalis. Basel, Switzerland. 1559. Woodcut. Includes illustrations. LC copy imperfect: Fold-lined. Missing extreme upper right corner, minor...
    • Contributor: Münster, Sebastian
    • Date: 1559
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    Portugalliae : que olim Lusitania, nouissima & exactissima descriptio "Fernando Alvares Seco (fl. 1561-85) was a Portuguese mathematician and cartographer who made the first known map of Portugal. It was engraved by Sebastiano del Re and published in Rome in 1561....
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Seco, Fernando Alvares
    • Date: 1560
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    New Map of the Arabia Felix (South-Eastern Arabian Peninsula).
    Arabia Felice nvova tavola     This map of Arabia Felix is a copper-plate engraving dating from 1561, after Giacomo Gastaldi's map of 1548. It shows the Arabian Peninsula, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Strait of Hormuz, and part...
    • Contributor: Gastaldi, Giacomo - Ruscelli, Girolamo, Died Approximately 1565
    • Date: 1561
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    Carta marina nuova tavola. Text and ill. on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
    • Contributor: Gastaldo, Jacopo
    • Date: 1561
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    Americae sive qvartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio
    Americae sive quartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio     "In 1554, Diego Gutiérrez was appointed principal cosmographer to the king of Spain in the Casa de la Contratación. The crown commissioned the Casa to produce a large-scale map of the western...
    • Contributor: Cock, Hieronymus - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Gutiérrez, Diego
    • Date: 1562
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    Russiae, Moskoviae et Tartariae descriptio. No. 1 Karta iz izdaniia: Atlas Aziatskoi Rossii.- SPb., Pereselencheskoe Upravlenie, kartogr. art. Zav. A.F. Marks, 1914. Za ramkoi karty perevody nadpisei na karte Otpechatano v Kartograficheskom zavedenii Iu. Iu. Gash. Kopiia...
    • Contributor: Jenkinson, Anthony
    • Date: 1562
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    Asiento present hordenat a payon les responsions dels pezos e mezures : delahun boch al altre ... Diagrammatic map of weights and measures in use in 27 Mediterranean and European seaports. Oriented with north to the right. Each port city is represented by a vignette of a prominent local...
    • Contributor: Domenech, Arnald - Roselli, Piero
    • Date: 1563
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    The Drawing of the Modern Geography of the Whole Africa.
    Il disegno della geografia moderna de tutta la parte dell'Africa     This rare map from 1564 printed on eight copperplates is the finest and most important large-scale map of Africa produced in the 16th century. Earlier maps were mostly printed from woodcuts; copperplates...
    • Contributor: Licinus, Fabricius - Gastaldi, Giacomo
    • Date: 1564
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    [Portolan chart of the Pacific coast from Guatemala to northern Peru with the Galapagos Islands]. "Presented here is a detailed Spanish portolan chart on vellum of the Pacific Coast from Guatemala to northern Peru, including the Galapagos Islands. The face of the map, shown first, has a...
    • Date: 1565
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    [Plan of Mexico City]
    Mexico     Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; John (Jack) M. Raymond; July 2016. In top margin: 308.
    • Contributor: Gastaldi, Giacomo
    • Date: 1565
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    Brazil.
    Brasil     This early map of Brazil is by Jacopo Gastaldi (circa 1500-circa 1565), a Piedmontese cartographer who worked in Venice and rose to the position of cosmographer of the Venetian Republic. Gastaldi produced...
    • Contributor: Ramusio, Giovanni Battista - Gastaldi, Giacomo
    • Date: 1565
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    Universale della nuovamente parte del mondo ritrovata. Relief shown pictorially. In upper left corner: 455. In upper right corner: 456. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
    • Contributor: Gastaldi, Giacomo
    • Date: 1565
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    Vniversale descrittione di tvtta la terra conoscivta fin qvi.
    Universale descrittione di tutta la terra conosciuta fin qui     Relief shown pictorially. Based on an earlier map by Giacomo Gastaldi. From the Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress, no. 1304. Originally printed on 2 sheets, each 48 x 40 cm. Available also...
    • Contributor: Forlani, Paolo - Bertelli, Ferando - Rosenwald, Lessing J. (Lessing Julius) - Gastaldi, Giacomo
    • Date: 1565
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    [Map of eastern Canada]. Relief shown pictorially. From Giovanni Battista Ramusio's Terzo volvme delle navigationi et viaggi ...? 1565? pp. 424-425? In upper left margin: 424. In upper right margin: 425. Available also through the Library...
    • Contributor: Ramusio, Giovanni Battista
    • Date: 1565
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    World Map in two Hemispheres (Bonne Projection), 1566. This world map in two hemispheres using the Bonne projection is by the Norman hydrographer Guillaume Le Testu (1509-72). Bonne maps used a modified conical map projection from circa 1500; the parallels...
    • Contributor: Le Testu, Guillaume
    • Date: 1566
    • Resource: - 2 pages

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    World Map, 1566. This portolan world map, drawn by Nicolas Desliens in 1566, synthesizes Norman hydrographic knowledge in the mid-16th century. It is one of two world maps by Desliens known to exist; the other...
    • Contributor: Desliens, Nicolas, Active
    • Date: 1566
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    A New Depiction of the Whole of Hungary.
    Nova totius Ungariae     This rare map of Hungary was produced by Matthias Zündt in 1567. Zündt (circa 1498--1572) was an engraver, sculptor, and goldsmith from Nuremberg who produced 13 copper-plate engraved maps and views between...
    • Contributor: Zündt, Matthias
    • Date: 1567
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    [Maps of Alaska, from approximately 1568 to 1880].
    Alternate supplied title: Alaska title collection--drawer 1 | Alternate supplied title: Alaska title collection--general 1568-1880     This record covers single general maps of Alaska, which are not represented in the LC database by separate catalog records. This collection includes single printed maps and photocopies of printed or manuscript...
    • Date: 1568
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    Mediterranean Sea Region 1569. This portolan chart by the prominent Italian cartographer and engraver Paolo Forlani is the first sea chart engraved and printed on copperplate. Forlani was born in Verona but flourished in Venice in...
    • Contributor: Forlani, Paolo
    • Date: 1569
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Das erst general inhaltend die Beschreibung und den Circkel des gantzen Erdtrichs und Moeres.
    Erst general oder gemeine Tafeln innhaltend den gantzen Umbkreiss und Kugel der Welt     Woodcut oval map within illustrated border, showing clouds and winds. Includes entwined initials "DK" in lower left corner, standing for the woodcutter David Kandel. Appears in German edition of Sebastian Münster's Cosmografia....
    • Contributor: Kandel, David - Münster, Sebastian - Henricpetri, Sebastian
    • Date: 1569
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    [Map of western South America]. Relief shown pictorially. Title supplied by cataloger. Attributed to Gerard Mercator? Cf. Philip D. Burden's letter, April 14, 1994, to James Flatness. In cartouche: Celeberrimæ prouinciæ in America versus occidentem ... Andreas...
    • Contributor: Mercator, Gerhard - Thevet, André
    • Date: 1569
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    Theatrvm orbis terrarvm.
    Theatrum orbis terrarum     Relief shown pictorially. Catalogus auctorum includes 92 names. Epigram on t.p. verso has 16 lines. Includes 53 map sheets, with descriptive text on verso. List of geographical atlases in the Library of...
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Llwyd, Humphrey - Diesth, Aegid. Coppenius (Aegidius Coppenius)
    • Date: 1570

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    Theatrvm orbis terrarvm.
    Theatrum orbis terrarum     Relief shown pictorially. Colophon: 20 Mai 1570. Catalogus auctorum includes 87 names. T.p. verso blank. Includes 53 map sheets, with descriptive text on verso. Acid offset on facing pages. Blank leaves inserted...
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Llwyd, Humphrey - Diesth, Aegid. Coppenius (Aegidius Coppenius)
    • Date: 1570

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    Representation of the Turkish Empire.
    Turcici Imperii descriptio     The Flemish geographer and scholar Abraham Ortelius (1527-98) published the first edition of his Theatrum orbis terrarum (Theater of the world) in 1570. It contained 53 maps, each with a detailed commentary....
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Gastaldi, Giacomo
    • Date: 1570
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    Cosmographical Map or Universal Description of the World with the Actual Path of the Winds.
    Carte cosmographique ou universelle description du monde avec le vrai traict des vents     This world map, made in Dieppe, northern France, in 1570, is thought to be the only extant map by Jean Cossin (also seen as Jehan and Johan Cossin), a hydrographer from Dieppe...
    • Contributor: Cossin, Jean
    • Date: 1570
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    Map of Denmark from the Atlas "Theatrum orbis terrarum".
    Daniae Regni Typus     The Flemish scholar and geographer Abraham Ortelius (1527--98) published the first edition of his Theatrum orbis terrarum (Theater of the world) in 1570. Containing 53 maps, each with a detailed commentary, it...
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Antoniszoon, Cornelis, Born 1499 - Jordan, Marcus
    • Date: 1570
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    Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni tÿpus. Covers northern Asia. Relief shown pictorially. From Abraham Ortelius's atlas: Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm, 1603 ed. Hand col. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text,...
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Vrients, Jan Baptista
    • Date: 1570
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    [San Juan de Ulúa Watercolor on vellum. Upper corners damp marked, with very slight marking of the drawing. Mounted on cloth. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, 46 Available also through the Library of Congress web site...
    • Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Eraso, Cristóbal De
    • Date: 1570
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    [San Juan de Ulúa Ground plan of a projected fortress.
    • Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Eraso, Cristóbal De
    • Date: 1570
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    Colonia Agrippina (Present-Day Cologne) Accurately Described in the Year 1571.
    Colonia agrippina anno domini MDLXXI exactissime descripta     This bird's-eye view of Cologne in 1571 is from the collection of cityscapes and broadsheets that once belonged to the Swedish statesman Count Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1622-86). It is the...
    • Contributor: Mercator, Arnold
    • Date: 1571
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Map of the Sea. The Carta marina of the Swedish geographer and historian Olaus Magnus is one of the earliest accurate cartographic depictions of the Scandinavian peninsula. Drafted in Rome in 1539, by one of the...
    • Contributor: Magnus, Olaus
    • Date: 1572
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    [Mapa del Golfo y costa de la Nueva España : desde el Río de Panuco hasta ... Relief shown pictorially. Shows the coast from the vicinity of the Cape Fear River in North Carolina of the United States, location of Indian settlements, and lakes and rivers in the region...
    • Contributor: Archivo General De Indias - Santa Cruz, Alonso De
    • Date: 1572
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    Jiang xi quan sheng tu shui
    江西全省圖說     This lively and colorful volume contains a collection of 37 maps of Jiangxi province from the Ming dynasty: a general map (26 by 56 centimeters) and 36 maps of individual prefectures and...

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    [Geografia tavole moderne di geografia]. "Antoine du Pérac Lafréry (1512-77) was a French engraver who settled in Rome, probably in the early 1540s, where he became a celebrated publisher of maps. Lafréry assembled and bound collections of...
    • Contributor: Forlani, Paolo - Gastaldi, Giacomo - Lafréry, Antoine
    • Date: 1575

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    Geografia tavole moderne di geografia de la maggior parte del mondo di diversi avtori raccolte et ... Relief shown pictorially. Phillips, 3392 Each plate or leaf is numbered with pencil, pen-and-ink, or both, with some numbers crossed out. Map 79 is printed on blue paper. Strips of paper affixed...
    • Contributor: Lafréry, Antoine
    • Date: 1575

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    View of Algiers, Seat of Power of the Saracens, in the Numidian Province of Africa and ...
    Algerii Saracenorum vrbis fortissimæ, in Numidia Africæ Prouincia structæ, iuxta Balearicos fluctus Mæditerranei æquoris Hispaniam contra, Othomanorum Principum jmperio redactæ, imago     Shown here is one of the earliest printed maps of the city of Algiers. The map was created in 1575 by Georg Braun (1540 or 1541-1622) and Franz Hogenberg (circa 1535-90) and...
    • Contributor: Braun, Georg - Hogenberg, Franz
    • Date: 1575
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    New Map of Africa.
    Africae Tabvla Nova     "Africae tabula nova" (New map of Africa) appeared in the first edition (1570) of Theatrum orbis terrarum (Theater of the world) by the Flemish scholar and geographer Abraham Ortelius (1527--98). The map...
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Hogenberg, Franz - Gastaldi, Giacomo - Mercator, Gerhard
    • Date: 1575
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    Sixth Map of Asia, Including Arabia Felix, Carmania, and the Arabian Gulf.
    Tab. VI : Asiæ, Arabiam felicem, Carmaniam ac sinum Persicum     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...
    • Contributor: Ptolemy, 2nd Century - Mercator, Gerhard
    • Date: 1578
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    Sixth Map of Asia: Which Includes Arabia Felix, Carmania, and the Persian Gulf.
    Asiae Tabula VI: Arabiam Felicem, Carmaniam Ac Sinum Persicum     This map from Ptolemy's Geographia was published in 1578 and reprinted on many occasions between 1584 and 1704. It is much more finely engraved than maps in previous Ptolemy editions. The map...
    • Contributor: Ptolemy, 2nd Century
    • Date: 1578
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    Representation of the Turkish Empire.
    Turcici Imperii Descriptio     The Flemish geographer and scholar Abraham Ortelius (1527-98) published the first edition of his Theatrum orbis terrarum (Theater of the world) in 1570. It contained 53 maps, each with a detailed commentary....
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Gastaldi, Giacomo
    • Date: 1579
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    A New Description of Asia.
    Asiae nova descriptio     The Flemish geographer and scholar Abraham Ortelius (1527-98) published the first edition of his Theatrum orbis terrarum (Theater of the world) in 1570. It contained 53 maps, each with a detailed commentary....
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham
    • Date: 1579
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    Ixcatlán, Santa María, Mexico. This map from Ixcatlán, Santa María, in the present-day state of Oaxaca, Mexico, is from the Relaciones Geográficas collection in the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin....
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    Typvs orbis terrarvm
    Typus orbis terrarum     Oval map within illustrated border, showing clouds. Appears in Latin edition of Ortelius's Theatrum orbis terrarum. Includes illustrations. Latin text on verso. In lower left: cum privilegio. Has a crack and re-engraved...
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Hogenberg, Frans
    • Date: 1579
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    Typvs orbis terrarvm.
    Typus orbis terrarum     Oval map within illustrated border, showing clouds. Includes illustrations. Appears to be an etched, probably unauthorized copy of an edition of Ortelius's map, possibly made in Italy. This map copies the re-engraved...
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham
    • Date: 1579
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    Cempoala, Mexico. This map from Zempoala in the present-day state of Veracruz, Mexico, is from the Relaciones Geográficas collection in the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin. Dating from...
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    Culhuacán, Mexico. This map from Culhuacán in the present-day Delegación de Ixtapalapa, Mexico City, is from the Relaciones Geográficas collection in the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin. Dating...
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    Atlas with Portolan Charts of the Old World and New World, 1580.
    Portulano     This atlas of portolan charts of the old and the new worlds consists of 16 double leaves made from fine white parchment, bound in costly red morocco leather (made from fine goatskin)...
    • Contributor: Dourado, Fernando Vaz, 16th Century
    • Date: 1580
    • Resource: - 65 pages

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    Americae et proximar regionvm orae descriptio.
    Americae et proximar regionum orae descriptio     Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Second state. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 95-34 Vault
    • Contributor: Rascicotti, Donato - Massa, Giovanni Battista
    • Date: 1580
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    Cholula, Tlaxcala, Mexico. This map from Cholula in the present-day state of Puebla, Mexico, is from the Relaciones Geográficas collection in the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin. Dating from...
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    Le novveav monde descovvert et illvstre de nostre temps
    Nouveau monde descouvert et illustre de nostre temps     Relief shown pictorially. Woodcut. Includes illustrations and notes. Described in the Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of current acquisitions, v. 6 no. 3 May 1949. p. 20-21. LC copy mounted on cloth....
    • Contributor: Chaudière, Guillaume - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Thevet, André
    • Date: 1581
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    La herdike enterprinse faict par le Signeur Draeck D'Avoir cirquit toute la Terre Includes two inset maps and a portrait of Francis Drake. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, 48 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Gift of Hans...
    • Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Sype, Nicola Van
    • Date: 1581
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    Muchitlan, Tlaxcala, Mexico. This map from Zumpango del Río in the present-day state of Guerrero, Mexico, is from the Relaciones Geográficas collection in the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin....
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    Pervviae avriferae regionis typvs / La Florida / auctore Hieron. Chiaues ; Gvastecan reg.
    Florida | Guastecan reg. | Gvastecan reg. | Peruuiae auriferae regionis typus     "Abraham Ortelius (1527-98) was a Flemish engraver and businessman who traveled widely to pursue his commercial interests. In 1560 he became interested in scientific geography during a voyage with Gerardus Mercator. Ortelius's...
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Hurtado De Mendoza, Diego - Chaves, Geronimo - Plantin, Christophe
    • Date: 1584
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    Codex Totomixtlahuaca.
    Códice Totomixtlahuaca     This indigenous pictographic document is a colonial-era map from the Mixtecan, Tlapaneca, and Nahua cultural area in the present-day state of Guerrero, Mexico. It refers, principally, to the settlement called Totomixtlahuacan and...
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    Typvs orbis terrarvm
    Typus orbis terrarum     Oval map within illustrated border, showing clouds. Appears in Latin edition of Ortelius's Theatrum orbis terrarum. Includes illustrations. Latin text on verso. In lower left: cum privilegio. Has a crack and re-engraved...
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Hogenberg, Frans
    • Date: 1584
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    Description of the Holy Land.
    Beschreibung des Heiligen Landes     This woodcut map of 1585 shows the Holy Land as it would have appeared at the time of Jesus, divided into Galilee, Samaria, and Judea. The map appeared in the Itinerarium Sacrae...
    • Contributor: Bünting, Heinrich
    • Date: 1585
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    Atlas of Joan Martines.
    Atlas de Joan Martines     This manuscript atlas by Joan Martines, cosmographer to King Philip II of Spain, dated 1587, represents the combination of two cartographic schools that existed at the time of its creation. The older...
    • Contributor: Martines, Joan
    • Date: 1587
    • Resource: - 19 pages

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    Das heilig Lande mit Ausztheilung der zwoelff Geschlechter.
    Palaestina, des heiligen Landes Beschreibung mit sampt den anstossenden Laendern und Voelctern alss die Ammoniter, Jdumeer [sic], Araber, u.     Relief shown pictorially. Title and text in German. Place names in Latin. Appears in Sebastian Munster's Cosmographey. Basel : Sebastian Petri, 1588. Exhibition: Jordanian Display, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., May 25-27,...
    • Contributor: Münster, Sebastian - Henricpetri, Sebastian
    • Date: 1588
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    Die erst general Tafel die Beschreibung und den Circkel des gantzen Erdtrichs und Meers innhaltende.
    Erste Landtafel begreifft in sich der ganzen Erdkugel     Oval map within illustrated border. Woodcut. Appears in Sebastian Münster's Cosmografia. Prime meridian: Ferro. Includes notes. Text and illustration on verso. LC copy mounted in paper frame. Label on verso inscribed "101/52"....
    • Contributor: Münster, Sebastian - Henricpetri, Sebastian
    • Date: 1588
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    Saint Augustine Map, 1589. This engraved hand-colored map or view-plan by Baptista Boazio depicts Sir Francis Drake's attack on Saint Augustine on May 28-29, 1586. Boazio, an Italian who worked in London from about 1585 to...
    • Contributor: Boazio, Baptista - White, John
    • Date: 1589
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    Wallachia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania.
    Walachia, Servia, Bulgaria, Romania     Gerard Mercator (1512--94) was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders (Belgium). His given name was Gerard de Kremer or Cremer. "Mercator," meaning "merchant," is a Latinized version of his Flemish last name. He...
    • Contributor: Mercator, Gerhard
    • Date: 1589
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    Typvs orbis terrarvm Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 18-85
    • Contributor: Hondius, Jodocus
    • Date: 1589
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    [La Coruña. El Ferrol, Spain] "This English manuscript double chart, in pen and water colors, on vellum, shows the harbors of La Coruña and El Ferrol in Spain. The date, localities depicted, and provenance of the charts...
    • Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1589
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    [La Coruña. El Ferrol, Spain] Ink on paper. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, 50b Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Gift of Hans P. and Hanni Kraus.
    • Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1589
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    Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam vera descriptio. Anno Do: M D LXXXVIII Intended to accompany: Ubaldini, Petruccio. A discourse concerninge the Spanishe fleete invadinge Englande in the yeare 1588. Some of the plates are signed by Robert Adams, artist, and Augustine Ryther, engraver. The...
    • Contributor: Ryther, Augustine - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, Robert - Ubaldini, Petruccio
    • Date: 1589

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    [Map and views illustrating Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage, 1585-6]. The first engraving is a map of Drake's voyage [showing Europe, western Africa, northern South America, and eastern North America]; the four other engravings consist of bird's-eye battle plan views of the...
    • Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Boazio, Baptista - Croftes - Bigges, Walter - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1589

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    [Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and Black Seas with the west coast of Spain and Portugal] Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines. Title provided by cataloguer. Fragmentary signature on upper right portion leading into neck reads "Io Placid...". Oriented with north to the right (indicated...
    • Contributor: Oliva, Placido
    • Date: 158?
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    [Portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea, western Europe, and the northwest coast of Africa]. "Portolan charts came into use on sailing vessels in the Mediterranean Sea toward the end of the 13th century. Made for and, in many cases, by seamen, these nautical maps were characterized...
    • Contributor: Oliva, Joan
    • Date: 1590

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    Journey and Life of the Patriarch Abraham.
    Abrahami Patriarchae peregrinatio et vita     This map tracing the life of the patriarch Abraham was published in Antwerp in 1590 by Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), the Flemish publisher who created the world's first atlas. It is the first...
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Stella, Tilemannus
    • Date: 1590
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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...
    • Contributor: Mercator, Gerhard
    • Date: 1590
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    Americæ pars, nunc Virginia dicta : primum ab Anglis inuenta, sumtibus Dn. Walteri Raleigh, Equestris ordinis ... Scale ca. 1:1,700,000. Has watermark. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Pictorial map. Covers coastal region from Cape Fear to Chesapeake Bay. From Thomas Hariot's A...
    • Contributor: Bry, Theodor De - White, John - Harriot, Thomas
    • Date: 1590
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    [Map of the Western Hemisphere] Title plate to Nova Reperta, a series of engravings after drawings by Stradanus published by Galle in Antwerp. Shows Christopher Columbus pointing to a map of the Western Hemisphere. New France and...
    • Contributor: Straet, Jan Van Der - Galle, Théodore
    • Date: 1590
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    [Portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea, northwest Europe, and northwest Africa] Title supplied by cataloger. Pen-and-ink on vellum. Statement of responsibility from leaf 8, the map of the Black Sea. Bound in red velvet. LC Nautical charts on vellum, 11 Available also through...
    • Contributor: Scotto, Giacomo
    • Date: 1590

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    Floridae Americae provinciae recens & exactissima descriptio auctorè Iacobo le Moyne cui cognomen de Morgues, qui ... Relief shown pictorially. Shows Florida region, northeastern coastline, Port Royal, Fort Caroline, Cuba, rivers, cities, and other geographical entities. Mounted on cloth backing. Published in Le Moyne's Brevis narratio eorum quae in...
    • Contributor: Le Moyne De Morgues, Jacques
    • Date: 1591
  • Map
    [The Codex Quetzalecatzin].
    Mapa de Ecatepec-Huitziltepec | Codex Ehecatepec and Huitziltepec | Charles Ratton Codex     Shows genealogical information and land ownership for the Nahuatl "de Leon" family from 1480-1593. Map covers southern Puebla from the church of Todos Santos, Ecatepec (now suburb to the north east of...
    • Date: 1593
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    Description du pays armorique à pres Bretaigne. Scale ca. 1:1,100,000. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 651/1
    • Contributor: [Tavernier, Melchoir]
    • Date: 1594
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    The Island and City of Metropolitan Goa of India.
    A ilha e cidade de Goa metropolitana da India     Jan Huyghen van Linschoten (1563-1611) was a Dutch traveler and explorer who spent six years (1583-89) in Goa, an important trading center on the west coast of India that Portugal annexed in...
    • Contributor: Linschoten, Jan Huygen Van
    • Date: 1595
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Vera totius expeditionis nauticæ : descriptio D. Franc. Draci ... Shows routes around the world of Sir Francis Drake between 1577 and 1580 and Thomas Cavendish between 1586 and 1588. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster...
    • Contributor: Power, Robert H. - Hondius, Jodocus
    • Date: 1595
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    Fushimi jōka machiezu.
    伏見城下町絵図.     Cadastral map showing landownership in Fushimi, Kyoto. Relief shown pictorially. Title will be "Fushimi jōka ezu" inferred from OPAC https://kochizu.gsi.go.jp/items/156, Nov. 25, 2020. Date, scale, and authorship of the map are not...
    • Date: 1595
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    Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra.
    Atlas | Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra | Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura     The first part, originally published in 1585, is composed of three fascicles, each with a special t. p.: Galliæ tabulę geographicæ ; Belgii Inferioris geographicæ tabulę ; Germaniae tabulę geographicæ. The second...
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Mercator, Rumold - Mercator, Gerhard
    • Date: 1595

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    Map Outlining the Maritime Coasts of Arabia Felix, the Meccan Shores, and also the Red Sea, ...
    Deliniantur in hac tabula, Orae maritimae Abexiae, freti Mecani ; al. Maris Rubri ; Arabiae, Ormi, Persiae, suprà Sindam usque Fluminis Indi, Cambaiae Indiae & Malabaris, Insulae Ceylon, Choromandeliae, & Orixae, fluvii Gangis, & Regni Bengalae, situs item Sinuum, Insularum, Scopulorum, Pulvinorum, Vadorum, profunditatumque, dictis oris adjacentium, cum genuinis Singulorum locorum Nominibus, prout ab expertissimis navium Gubernatoribus Lusitanicis, indigetantur     Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1563-1611) was a Dutchman whose contributions to cartography were of great significance in breaking the Portuguese monopoly on trade and navigation in the late 16th century and in...
    • Contributor: Linschoten, Jan Huygen Van - Langren, Henricus F. Ab (Henricus Florentius)
    • Date: 1596
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    The Description of the Coast of Guinea, Manicongo, and Angola, and so Proceeding Forwards beyond the ...
    Typus orarum maritimarum Guineae, Manicongo, & Angôlae ultra promontorium Bonae Spei     This highly decorative map of the southwestern coast of Africa was published in 1598 in Iohn Hvighen van Linschoten: His Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies Devided into Foure...
    • Contributor: Linschoten, Jan Huygen Van - Langren, Arnold Florent Van
    • Date: 1596
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Bird's-Eye View of Amsterdam, 1597.
    Amsterdam anno 1597     This bird's-eye view of Amsterdam in 1597 is from the collection of cityscapes and broadsheets that once belonged to the Swedish statesman Count Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1622-86). In the upper...
    • Contributor: Bast, Pieter
    • Date: 1597
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Von den newen Inseln : der Statt Themistitan in den newen Inseln gelegen/figurierung. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated in ink: "From an unidentified German edition of Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia Universalis, 1597 or later. Bought...
    • Contributor: Münster, Sebastian
    • Date: 1597
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    [Maps of California, from 1597 to 1851].
    Alternate supplied title: California title collection--drawer 1 | Alternate supplied title: California title collection--general 1597 to 1851     This record covers single maps of California as a whole, which are not represented in the LC database by separate catalog records. This collection includes single printed maps and photocopies of printed...
    • Date: 1597
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    Hiberniae, Britannicae Insvlae nova descripto. "Abraham Ortelius (1527-98) was a Flemish engraver and businessman who traveled widely to pursue his commercial interests. In 1560 he became interested in scientific geography during a voyage with Gerardus Mercator. Ortelius's...
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham
    • Date: 1598