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    [Mapa del Golfo y costa de la Nueva España : desde el Río de Panuco hasta el cabo de Santa Elena ...]. 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 to the Pánuco River in Mexico; the interior is as far north as the latitude of the Tennessee River. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image....
    • Contributor: Archivo General De Indias - Santa Cruz, Alonso De
    • Date: 1572-01-01
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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 as a raster image. Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation.
    • Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Schöner, Johann
    • Date: 1517
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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 Florida are indicated in North America. In addition to the map, notable developments in science and technology of the late 16th century are illustrated. Mounted on paper. LC copy imperfect: Margins trimmed....
    • Contributor: Straet, Jan Van Der - Galle, Théodore
    • Date: 1590-01-01
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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. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1305 Gift ; Lessing J. Rosenwald ; June 29, 1948. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Chaudière, Guillaume - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Thevet, André
    • Date: 1581-01-01
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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 they were called portolanos. When seafarers ventured out into the open sea, they entered their new discoveries on the charts. A Portuguese law stipulated that every ship had to carry two serviceable...
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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. It was the first true atlas in the modern sense: a bound book of map plates and accompanying text specifically produced to give a uniform, complete presentation. More than 7,300 copies of...
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham
    • Date: 1579-01-01
    • Resource: - 2 pages

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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 any discovery made after this year. The map has three scales of lengths at the top. On the left border is a scale of latitudes from 55° south to 70° north. A...
    • Contributor: Caverio, Nicolo DI
    • Date: 1504-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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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 through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text and ill. Vault
    • Contributor: Forlani, Paolo - Bertelli, Ferando - Rosenwald, Lessing J. (Lessing Julius) - Gastaldi, Giacomo
    • Date: 1565-01-01
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    An atlas of England and Wales
    Binder's title: Saxton's atlas | Title from "List of geographical atlases": Saxton's maps of England and Wales
    Binder's title: Saxton's atlas. London, 1573-79. Interleaved. Front. (port. of Queen Elizabeth) dated 1579; maps, dated 1574-79, are drawn by Christopher Saxton and engraved by Augustine Ryther, Remigius Hogenberg, Leonard Terwoort, Nicholas Reynolds, Cornelius Hogius and Francis Scatter. Most of the leaves have watermark: bunch of grapes. Degrees and minutes of latitude and longitude have been added to border of general map of England...
    • Contributor: Walsingham, Francis - Saxton, Christopher - Terwoort, Lenaert - Scatter, Francis - Hooghe, Cornelis De - Ryther, Augustine - Hogenberg, Remigius - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1579

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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 single maps as well as some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books or periodicals, and printed facsimiles. To request a specific map or for more information, contact a reference librarian in...
    • Date: 1568
  • Map
    Maps: Bach to Baseball Cards - Conservation Highlights (Preservation, Library of Congress) Maps - Bach to Baseball Cards: Preserving the Nation's Heritage at the Library of Congress
    • Date: 1540
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    Sketches for the "Great Map of Bavaria" from 1563, Part 3. Topographical Map of Bavaria 48 Degrees 10 Minutes to 48 Degrees 14 Minutes North Latitude.
    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 of a large region. In 1563, he completed a large-scale version on vellum, to a scale of 1:40,000, which was unfortunately destroyed after 1720. A copy of the original that was produced...
    • Contributor: Apianus, Philippus - Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria
    • Date: 1554-01-01
    • Resource: - 5 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 upper right corner. Indecipherable drawing off the lower west coast of Africa. Manuscript inscriptions and red bordered label with manuscript "40/48" on verso. Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 47 Available also...
    • Contributor: Trechsel, Gaspard - Fries, Lorenz - Ptolemy
    • Date: 1541-01-01
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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 1603, made maps to illustrate accounts of English expeditions and campaigns. He prepared a series of maps marking Drake's route for Walter Bigges' work on Drake's expedition to the West Indies, first...
    • Contributor: Boazio, Baptista - White, John
    • Date: 1589-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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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 known in his time as an excellent maker of marine maps. It is entitled Carte cosmographique ou universelle description du monde avec le vrai traict des vents (Cosmographical map or universal description...
    • Contributor: Cossin, Jean
    • Date: 1570-01-01
    • Resource: - 2 pages

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    Maps: Bach to Baseball Cards - Conservation Highlights (Preservation, Library of Congress) Maps - Bach to Baseball Cards: Preserving the Nation's Heritage at the Library of Congress
    • Date: 1514
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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 s karty Dzhenkinsona, izdannoi V.Kordtom. Original map at: National Library of Russia From the atlas "Атлас Азиатской России."
    • Contributor: Jenkinson, Anthony
    • Date: 1562-01-01
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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 studied philosophy and theology at the University of Leuven, and developed an interest in astronomy and mathematics. He produced his first map, of Palestine, in 1537. He went on to create numerous...
    • Contributor: Mercator, Gerhard
    • Date: 1589-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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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 Jay I. Kislak Foundation. Acquisition control number: 2015-052.
    • Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Schöner, Johann - Waldseemüller, Martin
    • Date: 1516
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    [Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc.].
    Portolan atlas containing 10 maps
    Pen-and-ink and watercolor, on vellum. Each double-page illumination is 21 x 29 cm. Compass rose on inside back cover. Dedicated to Hieronymus Ruffault, Abbot of St. Vaast. Title provided by cataloger. "Maps 1, 2, and 10 show America. No. 1 shows the Gulf of California which Ulloa discovered in 1539. On the same map Yucatan is shown as an island, and the east and...
    • Contributor: Agnese, Battista
    • Date: 1544-01-01

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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 laminated. Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 47 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Trechsel, Gaspard - Fries, Lorenz - Ptolemy
    • Date: 1541-01-01
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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 1510 and was to occupy for the next 450 years. Linschoten was employed as bookkeeper to the local archbishop. After returning to the Netherlands, he wrote two books containing valuable information about...
    • Contributor: Linschoten, Jan Huygen Van
    • Date: 1595-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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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: 1594-01-01
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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 Nanying (1583--1646), a late-Ming essayist and literary critic, who wrote a work entitled Yu Gong tu zhu (Explanatory text to the map of the Yu Gong), the central concept of which was...
    • Contributor: Zhou, Yousheng
    • Date: 1550
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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 son Jorge Reinel, and Lopo Homem and miniaturist António de Holanda, the atlas contains eight maps on six loose sheets, painted on both sides. This map (folio 1 recto in the atlas)...
    • Contributor: Homem, Lopo, Flourished - Manuel I, King of Portugal - Reinel, Jorge, Active 16th Century - Reinel, Pedro, Born Approximately 1464 - Holanda, António De
    • Date: 1519-01-01
    • Resource: - 2 pages