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MapGeographic Map of Brazil.
Carta geografica del Bresil This map of Brazil was published by Giovanni Battista Albrizzi (1698-1777), a prominent Venetian publisher of books and maps. The notes on the map, in Italian, include various speculative remarks about the people and the geography of the interior of Brazil, then still largely unknown to Europeans. Albrizzi, who inherited his business from his father, was part of a family active in publishing and...- Contributor: Albrizzi, Giovanni Battista
- Date: 1740-01-01
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MapItalia Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Change call number to G6711.A3 1850 .I8
- Date: 1850-01-01
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MapPortolan 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...
- Date: 1502-01-01
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MapMappa dell' America Settentrionale : ove sono rappresentati esattam. i paesi e loro limiti controversi che hanno dato motivo alla guerra presente fra la Francia e l'Inghilterra. Shows eastern United States and southeastern Canada. Relief shown pictorially. Attributed to: Jacques Nicolas Bellin. Described in: New England in early printed maps, 1513 to 1800 / Barbara B. McCorkle. 2001. p. 147. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; Summit Enterprises; May 2003. Includes notes. Fold-lined. Annotation in blue ink in upper right corner. Acquisitions control...
- Contributor: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
- Date: 1758-01-01
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MapVniversale 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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MapVenezia. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Wagner & Debes
- Date: 1886-01-01
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MapPiano della città e porto dell' Havana. Scale ca. 1:24,000. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1815 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. From Il gazzettiere americano. 1763. v. 2. Indexed. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Vanni, Violante - Pazzi, Giuseppe
- Date: 1763-01-01
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Map[Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea and western part of the Black Sea] ; [Portolan chart of the Aegean Sea and part of the Mediterranean Sea including Crete]
Portolan chart of the Aegean Sea and part of the Mediterranean Sea including Crete | Mediterranean Sea charts 1640 Shows names of harbors along the coastlines of the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, and adjoining waters. Relief shown pictorially on the Mediterranean Sea chart. Statement of attribution from the Aegean Sea chart. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Titles devised by cataloguer. Aegean Sea chart oriented with north to the right. The 2 charts are half-joined at...- Contributor: Cavallini, Giovanni Battista
- Date: 1640-01-01
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MapAmerica settentrionale divisa ne' suoi principali stati. Scale ca. 1:21,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. From the authors' Atlante novissimo. 1785 v. 4, no. 23. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 651
- Contributor: Antonio Zatta E Figli
- Date: 1785-01-01
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Map[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 in Arabic. Chinese in two columns, on right side of map. Text in Venetian Italian. Undetermined authenticity. Provenance unverified. Pen-and-ink. Further description of map appeared in article: Bagrow, Leo, 1948. The maps...- Contributor: Polo, Marco
- Date: 1290-01-01
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Map[Chart of the Mediterranean, the coast of Portugal, and the northwest coast of Africa] Title devised by cataloguer. Oriented with north to the right. Contains 16 wind roses. Creator could be Giovanni Battista Cavallini, his son Pietro, or the Cavallini workshop. Pen-and-ink and goauche. Includes 3 bar scales in unidentified units and many illustrations throughout. LC Nautical charts on vellum, 20 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Cavallini, Giovanni Battista
- Date: 1678-01-01
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MapCarta della colonia Eritrea Relief shown by hachures, form lines, and spot heights. Includes various editions of some sheets. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Istituto Geografico Militare (Italy)
- Date: 1909-01-01
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Map[Portolan chart of the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and the coasts of Europe and northwest Africa]. Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines. Title devised by cataloguer. Contains 4 compass roses in a circle centered in Italy to the north of Rome and half of a fifth on the trimmed center left edge. Pen-and ink in brown, red, and green, with possible traces of gilding. The chart appears to have been cropped at the left and possibly the...
- Date: 1500-01-01
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MapNuova pianta geografica della Tripolitania e Cirenaica con le conquiste italiane Relief shown by hachures. "Supplemento straordinario della rivista mondiale "Settimana illustrata"." Includes 7 portraits of Italian military figures, flags showing cities held by Turkey and Italy, and 1912 calendar showing saints' days. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Change call number date to 1912.
- Date: 1912-01-01
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MapPiano della città , e porto di Sant'. Agostino. Scale ca. 1:47,000. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the right. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1640 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 651/1; 650/2; 700/1; 700/2
- Contributor: Vanni, Violante - Pazzi, Giuseppe
- Date: 1763-01-01
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MapCarta della provincia di Salerno. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Studio F.M.B.
- Date: 1966-01-01
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Map[Geografia tavole moderne di geografia]. Relief shown pictorially. Some maps entirely in Italian, some maps entirely in Latin. Title derived by cataloger from title page of bound Lafréry atlas. Seventeen loose sheets that appear in atlases sold by Antoine Lafréry. Phillips, 5917 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Forlani, Paolo - Gastaldi, Giacomo - Lafréry, Antoine
- Date: 1575-01-01
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MapView of Algiers, Seat of Power of the Saracens, in the Numidian Province of Africa and Situated on the Edge of the Balearic Current in the Mediterranean Sea, across from Spain, under ...
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 appeared in their Civitates orbis terrarum (The cities of the world), which was published in Cologne, Germany in six volumes between 1572 and 1616. The Civitates was an extraordinary cartographic achievement that...- Contributor: Braun, Georg - Hogenberg, Franz
- Date: 1575-01-01
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MapCarta geografica della Florida nell' America settentrionale. Scale ca. 1:6,250,000. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1378 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 651/2
- Contributor: L'isle, Guillaume De
- Date: 1750-01-01
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MapTierra 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 a raster image.- Contributor: Gastaldi, Giacomo - Ptolemy
- Date: 1548-01-01
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MapCarta dimostrativa della Etiopia, in 6 fogli e 2 aggiunte alla scala di 1 000 000
Carta dimostrativa dell' Etiopia Relief shown by spot heights. Geographic coverage complete in 8 sheets. LC has 2 copies of the Omo sheet. LC copy imperfect: Sheets for Massaua and Assab wanting. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Italy. Esercito. Corpo DI Stato Maggiore - Italy. Ministero Della Guerra
- Date: 1894-01-01
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MapPiano della città , e porto di Sant'. Agostino. Scale ca. 1:47,000. Relief shown pictorially. Soundings shown in feet. Oriented with north to the right. Appears in Il Gazzettiere americano, 1763, v. 1 and Atlante dell' America, 1777. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1640 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Vanni, Violante - Pazzi, Giuseppe
- Date: 1763-01-01
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MapAddis Ababa region, Ethiopio Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Title supplied by cataloger. Geographic coverage complete in 4 sheets. Includes index diagram. LC copy imperfect: Sheet one wanting. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Italian East Africa. Comando Superiore Forze Armate. Ufficio Superiore Topocartografico
- Date: 1937-01-01
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Map[Portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea, western Europe, and the northwest coast of Africa]. Title supplied by cataloger. Attributed to Joan Oliva by John Wolter in A portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea and western European waters, with a world map, 1987. Pen-and-ink and watercolor on vellum. World map painted on paper affixed to vellum. Six blank paper pages precede and follow the 10 vellum pages of maps. Circular watermarks on pp. [3] and [19]. Bound in contemporary...
- Contributor: Oliva, Joan
- Date: 1590-01-01
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