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MapIxcatlán, 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. Dating from between 1578 and 1586, the Relaciones Geográficas are responses to a questionnaire initiated by the Spanish crown in 1577, requesting information about Spanish-held territories in the Americas. The questionnaires covered...
- Date: 1579-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Map[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 Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes col. ill. Imperfect: Some tears on edge and several holes. LC Nautical charts on vellum ; 10
- Date: 1500-01-01
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MapMuchitlan, 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. Dating from between 1578 and 1586, the Relaciones Geográficas are responses to a questionnaire initiated by the Spanish crown in 1577, requesting information about Spanish-held territories in the Americas. The questionnaires covered...
- Date: 1582-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapCarta geográfica de Brasile Catalog Record Only VA 397-923 U.S. Copyright Office
- Contributor: Ramusio, Giovanni Battista
- Date: 1556
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Map[Portolan chart of the Pacific coast from Guatemala to northern Peru with the Galapagos Islands]. Spanish. Title supplied by cataloger. Pen-and-ink; black, blue, green, and red. Trimmed to a rough rectangle. Matted and mounted between sheets of transparent lucite. LC Luso-Hispanic world, 28 LC Nautical charts on vellum, 9 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes col. ill. Imperfect: Some tears on edge and several holes.
- Date: 1565-01-01
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MapMapa universal de 1508. Catalog Record Only Reproduccion y commentario publicados por Carlos Sanz. Text on verso.
- Contributor: Ruysch, Johannes
- Date: 1508
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Map[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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MapAtlas 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 one was the traditional school of Majorca, which specialized in decorative portolan maps that by this time were obsolete with regard to the geographic information they conveyed. The newer one was the...- Contributor: Martines, Joan
- Date: 1587-01-01
- Resource: - 19 pages
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Collection[Maps of the Caribbean area, from approximately 1511 to 1970]
Caribbean area title collection | Caribbean title collection Catalog Record Only This record covers single maps of the Caribbean area, 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 the Caribbean area as a whole and regions and physical...- Date: 1511
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MapGeneral 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 begun during the reign of Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain Charles V and finished in that of his son King Philip II, to whom it was dedicated. It consists of...- Contributor: Santa Cruz, Alonso De
- Date: 1539-01-01
- Resource: - 717 pages
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MapNautical 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 differ on the total number of manuscript atlases created by Agnese; he produced at least 39 portolan, or maritime, atlases, ten of them signed and dated. All are distinguished by their neat...
- Contributor: Agnese, Battista
- Date: 1541-01-01
- Resource: - 23 pages
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Map[Manuscript maps of the Philippines showing place names and nautical information]. Catalog Record Only Title devised by cataloger. Positive and negative photocopies of manuscript maps. In Spanish. "Tracing related to variant manuscript map forming part of an atlas compiled by pilots Jaymez Martinez Fortún and Diego Martin in 1565, and held by the Archivo General de Indias, no. 1-1-1/23. Map reproduced in The Philippine Islands / ed. by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson (Cleveland: The Arthur...
- Contributor: Retana, W. E. (Wenceslao Emilio)
- Date: 1565
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MapCholula, 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 between 1578 and 1586, the Relaciones Geográficas are responses to a questionnaire initiated by the Spanish crown in 1577, requesting information about Spanish-held territories in the Americas. The questionnaires covered such topics...
- Date: 1581-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Collection[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 or manuscript single maps as well as 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...- Date: 1597-01-01
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MapPlano de la ciudad de Tenochtitlan en le ano de 1519 Catalog Record Only Late 19th-century reconstruction of plan of Tenochtitlan in 1519. Relief shown by contours. Gift; U.S. Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; May 2014. Copy imperfect: Fragile, water staining vertically along left side, major losses along edges. Includes text and 3 insets.
- Contributor: Batres, Leopoldo - United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
- Date: 1519
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MapMap 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 the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Kohl, J. G. (Johann Georg) - Ribero, Diego
- Date: 1529-01-01
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MapTenochtitlán, 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 founded in the 14th century on an island in the salt lake of Texcoco. Upon occupying the city, the Spanish pulled down its central parts and replaced the Aztec temples with buildings...
- Date: 1550-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Map[Golfo y costa de la Nueva España Catalog Record Only 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. Photocopy. [Sevilla : Archivo General de Indias, 1977?] 1 map ; 18 x...
- Contributor: Archivo General De Indias - Santa Cruz, Alonso De
- Date: 1572
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MapPortulano de Mateo Prunes de 1563 : [la Cuenca Mediterránea y cuenca del Mar Negro]
Portulano Mateo Prunes 1563 Catalog Record Only Shows names of harbors along the coastlines of the Mediterranean and Black seas. Statement of attribution on the original in Latin; accompanying letter and text in Spanish and English. Title from accompanying letter of certification. Facsim. of a ms. portolan chart on vellum in the Naval Museum of Madrid. Original version: 1563. In accompanying letter of certification: Number XVIII of an edition that ......- Contributor: A. Y N. Ediciones (Firm) - Prunes, Mateus - Martín-Merás, María Luisa - Museo Naval (Spain)
- Date: 1563
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MapCulhuacán, 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 from between 1578 and 1586, the Relaciones Geográficas are responses to a questionnaire initiated by the Spanish crown in 1577, requesting information about Spanish-held territories in the Americas. The questionnaires covered such...
- Date: 1580-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Map[Lienzo Vischer I; map of Tecamachalco Catalog Record Only Scale not given. Relief shown pictorially. Second generation photocopy prepared in 1974 by Photo-duplication Services, Wayne State University, Detroit. Original manuscript map in Museum für Völkerkunde, Basel, Switzerland. Terms in pictographs. Shows area around and southeast of Tecamachalco, Puebla, Mexico accompanied by genealogical information on the ruling caciques of the town from 1325 to 1557. Accompanied by: Notes on Lienzo de Tecamachalco. 2 l....
- Date: 1557
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MapCodex 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 states that the document was written in 1584. It is an indigenous colonial map that makes abundant use of Mesoamerican pictorial conventions and includes many texts written in Nahuatl, the most widespread...- Date: 1584-01-01
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Map[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 as a raster image. Gift of Hans P. and Hanni Kraus.
- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Eraso, Cristóbal De
- Date: 1570-01-01
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Map[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: 1570-01-01