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MapCeylon. 7-68. Scale ca. 1:4,000,000. Relief shown by shading. "Base 59367." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2- Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Date: 1968-01-01
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MapSri Lanka. "Base 802513 6-00." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Date: 2000-01-01
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MapNautical Atlas of the World, Folio 3 Recto, Northern Indian Ocean with Arabia and India and Folio 3 Verso, Southern Indian Ocean with Insulindia on the Left, and Madagascar on the Right. 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. The maps were richly decorated and illuminated by…- Contributor: Manuel I, King of Portugal - Homem, Lopo, Flourished - Reinel, Jorge, Active 16th Century - Reinel, Pedro, Born Approximately 1464 - Holanda, António De
- Date: 1519-01-01
- Resource: - 2 pages
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MapPlantas das fortalezas, pagodes & ca. da ilha de Ceilão. Relief shown pictorially only on map of Ceylon as a whole. Date annotated in pencil on title page. Pen-and-ink over pencil. Watercolor also on maps of Colombo, Negombo, and Ceylon as a whole. Watermarks: pennant on a staff flanked by a G and a 3 or a B; circle divided into quarters topped with a d and an S. Bound in vellum with liquid…- Date: 1650-01-01
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MapCeylon administrative divisions. "Base 55551 11-67." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Date: 1967-01-01
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MapSri Lanka. "Base 802735AI (C00127) 3-01." Relief shown by shading. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Date: 2001-01-01
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MapMap Outlining the Maritime Coasts of Arabia Felix, the Meccan Shores, and also the Red Sea, the Arabian Peninsula, Hormuz, Persia, from Sinda to the Indus River, Khambhat in India and Malabar, …
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 opening up southern Asia to the Dutch and later the English. As a young man, van Linschoten spent four years in Spain learning a trade. He then made his way to Lisbon,…- Contributor: Langren, Henricus F. Ab (Henricus Florentius) - Linschoten, Jan Huygen Van
- Date: 1596-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapCeylon. 7-68. Scale ca. 1:2,400,000. "Base 59366." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2- Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Date: 1968-01-01
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MapSri Lanka. "Base 802734AI (C00127) 3-01." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Date: 2001-01-01
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MapCeylon. 9-70. Scale 1:1,000,000. "Base 77644." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2- Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Date: 1970-01-01
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MapThe Big Island of Ceylon, or Ilanare, Called Chilan by the Arabs, Persians and Chinese.
t Groot Eiland Ceilon, of Ilanare, by d'Arabiers, Persianen en Chineezen, Chilan genoemd This fine map of Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) was originally drawn to illustrate an account by the Portuguese historian João de Barros (1496-1570) of the voyage to Asia that Lopo Soares de Albergaria (circa 1453-circa 1532) made in 1515 on behalf of King Manuel I of Portugal. Relief is shown pictorially, north is oriented to the right, and scale is given in Dutch, Spanish,…- Contributor: Barros, João De - Aa, Pieter Van Der
- Date: 1707-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapSri Lanka. Relief shown by shading. "Base 802514 6-00." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Date: 2000-01-01
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MapFrom the Shores of Gujarat, Malabar, Bengal and Malacca, to the Kingdom of Siam and China in the East.
De Kusten van Guzaratte, Malabaar, Bengale en Malacca, met die van't Magtig Koninkryk Siam, tot aan China bestevend This attractive map of Southeast Asia was published in Leiden in 1700 and covers, to the west most of India; as far east as southern China and the Korean Peninsula; and to the south Thailand, most of the Malay Peninsula, and northern Sumatra. The map may have been created in the 16th century as a later record of the voyage that Lopo Soares de…- Contributor: Aa, Pieter Van Der
- Date: 1707-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page