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MapGran tavola cosmografica contenente le rotazioni annuali terresti corrispondenti al sole : veduta dai poli per meglio far conoscere l'alternativa delle ombre e della luce : con sue refrazioni, posizione della luna ... Includes text, four hemispherical views of the Earth showing night and day and different times and latitudes, and colored illustrations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Discoloration along edges, torn and repaired, wrinkles, and loses along edges.
- Contributor: Villa, Ignazio
- Date: 1855
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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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MapVniversale descrittione di tvtto il monde
Universale descrittione di tutto il monde Relief shown pictorially. Probably the second state of the map. Differs from the first state in the reworking of Tierra del Fuego to include the Straits of Magellan. Presents Staten Island, west of Tierra del Fuego, as an island, presumably based on the observations of Hendrik Brouwer in 1643. Differs from the state owned by the Harry Ransom Center by the presence of a...- Contributor: Rosaccio, Giuseppe
- Date: 1643-01-01
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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
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapGlobo terrestre Relief shown pictorially. Gores for a 34 cm. globe. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; Summit Enterprise, Inc.; May 2003. All sheets folded horizontally, with paper hinges on verso, and traces of color on edges. Some acid offset on gore sheets. Four sheets of gores and 1 sheet with zodiacs and 2 polar calottes.
- Contributor: Calcografia Camerale (Rome, Italy) - Cassini, Gio. Ma. (Giovanni Maria)
- Date: 1790-01-01
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MapMappamundi. 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 the oldest world map held in the library of the American Geographical Society, and it is considered the finest example of a medieval mappamundi in the Western hemisphere. Leardo's two other maps,...
- Contributor: Leardo, Giovanni, Flourished 1440
- Date: 1452-01-01
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MapMappa mondo o vero carta generale del globo terestre : rapresentato in due planisferi è nouamente coretta e in piu parte aumentata secondo le relatione piu recente LC copy lightly hand colored, showing political boundaries only. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Luillier, J. - Sanson, Nicolas
- Date: 1684-01-01
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MapCarta 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: 1561-01-01
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MapNuovo planisferio cosmografico orografico universale ed orologico mondiale per uso di generale istruzione Circular south polar projection surrounded by a ring showing the mountains of the world, a ring showing constellations, and six female figures representing times of the day. Includes text. Printed in blue. LC copy sectioned in four and mounted on cloth. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Villa, Ignazio
- Date: 1858-01-01