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    Fac-simile of Holmes-map of the province of Pennsylvania : wi... Shows rural landholders' names and lots in the Philadelphia region. Alternate title at top: A map of the improved part of the province of Pennsylvania in America : begun by William Penn, proprietor and governor thereof, anno 1681. Facsim. "Reproduced from the original in the Philadelphia Library by the anastatic process." Original version: A map of the province of Pennsilvania : containing the three...
    • Contributor: Smith, Lloyd P. (Lloyd Pearsall) - Greene, Robert - Holme, Thomas - Thornton, John
    • Date: 1687-01-01
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    Totius Africæ accuratissima tabula Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Wit, Frederik De
    • Date: 1688-01-01
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    Mappe-monde, dressé sur les observations de mrs. de l'Academi...
    Nova orbis tabula ad usum serenissimi Burgundiae ducis     Relief shown pictorially. Includes illustrations and 4 small hemispherical polar projections. Appears in Sanson's Atlas nouveau. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. French. Alternate title only in Latin.
    • Contributor: Mortier, Pierre - Sanson, Nicolas
    • Date: 1696-01-01
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    Mare mediterraneum, exhibens oras hispaniæ, galliæ, italiæ, m... Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Valk, Leonard - Valck, G. (Gerard)
    • Date: 1695-01-01
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    Civitates orbis terrarvm. "Privilegium Caesareae maiestatis, which occurs in each volume generally on the reverse of the title page, refers to Francis Hogenberg as the author's collaborator."--Phillips. Colophon of v. 1: Coloniae Agrippinae, apud Petrum à Brachel, sumptibus auctorum. Colophon of v. 6: Colonię Agrippinę, Antonius Hierat & Abrahamus Hoghenberg. Collaborators and artists whose works these maps were based on include George and Jacob Hoefnagel, Simon Novellanus,...
    • Contributor: Braun, Georg - Brachel, P. Von - Rantzau, Henrik - Hoefnagel, Jacob - Hoefnagel, Joris - Hogenberg, Abraham - Novellanus, Simon - Hogenberg, Frans - Hierat, Anton - Deventer, Jacob Van
    • Date: 1612-01-01
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    Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north towards the right. Includes two views "Modus muniendi apud Mahikanenses" and illustrations including an illustrated cartouche. No text on verso. LC copy trimmed to outer neat line and mounted on paper. Lightly hand colored in green only. Stamped on verso: 7610. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Place names in Latin...
    • Contributor: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
    • Date: 1630-01-01
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    [Tian di tu]
    245-02/$1 天地图。 | Panel title: Guang yu tu | Alternate title in English: Atlas of heaven and earth     Shows celestial sphere, China as a whole, and 15 provinces fo the Ming Dynasty, Chinese Turkestan, and the "South Seas", including Japan, Philippines, Java, Sumatra, Calicut, Bagdad, etc. Covers Beijing, Henan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Nanjing, Shandong, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Huguang, Yunan, Guizhou, Dongbei Nüzhe, Dong nan zhu yi, and Xi bei zhu yi. Wood block print with place names labeled by hand....
    • Contributor: Zuo, Junheng - Hummel, Arthur W. (Arthur William)
    • Date: 1601
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    Noua orbis terrarum delineatio singulari ratione accommodata ...
    Nova orbis terrarum delineatio singulari ratione accommodata meridiano tabb. Rudolphi astronomicarum     Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Johannes Kepler's Tabvlae Rudolphinae. Ulm : Johannes Saur, 1627-30. Prime meridian based on the astronomer Tycho Brahe's observatory in Denmark. Map drawn in three parts (left to right): 1 half-hemisphere (15 cm. radius), 1 hemisphere (29 cm. in diameter), and 1 half-hemisphere (15 cm. radius). Shirley, Rodney W. Mapping of the world. 1983, p. 358-9 Bricker, Charles. Landmarks of...
    • Contributor: Walch, J. P. (Johann Philipp) - Kepler, Johannes - Eckebrecht, Philipp
    • Date: 1630-01-01
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    Amérique septentrionale Relief shown pictorially and by shading. Prime meridian: [Paris]. Mounted on cloth backing. From his 1658 (i.e. 1660) Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde (Phillips 4260). First state: Lacks shading along border for Lake Ontario. Phillips. Maps of America, p. 560 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Mariette, Pierre-Jean - Peyrounin, A. - Sanson, Nicolas
    • Date: 1650-01-01
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    [Maps of Pennsylvania--cities and towns Red--Ridley]
    Pennsylvania title collection--cities and towns Red--Ridley | Pennsylvania title collection--drawer 192     Most maps in this collection before 1800 are photocopies or facsimiles. This record covers single maps of Pennsylvania cities and towns, 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 and may also include some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books or periodicals, and printed facsimiles....
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    Carte des trois Arabies : tirée en partie de l'Arabe de Nubie... Relief shown pictorially. Exhibition: Jordanian Display, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., May 25-27, 2005. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Mariette, Pierre - Sanson, Nicolas - Somer, J.
    • Date: 1654-01-01
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    Tabula Russiae ex autographo, quod delineandum curavit Foedor... No. 2 Karta iz izdaniia: Atlas Aziatskoi Rossii.- SPb., Pereselencheskoe Upravlenie, kartogr. art. Zav. A.F. Marks, 1914. Otpechatano v Kartograficheskom zavedenii Iu. Iu. Gash. Kopiia s karty Gesselia Geritsa, izdannoi V.Kordtom. Original map at: National Library of Russia From the atlas "Атлас Азиатской России."
    • Contributor: Gerritsz, Hessel
    • Date: 1613-01-01
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    Mappa mondo o vero carta generale del globo terestre : rapres... 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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    Mediterranean Sea divided into its Principall parts or seas Based on La Mer Mediterraneʹe divisee en ses Principales Parties, ou Mers by Nicolas Sanson. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Berry, William - Sanson, Nicolas
    • Date: 1680-01-01
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    Arabia. This 1662 Latin map of Arabia is a copy of an earlier map by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638), the founder of the Blaeu cartographic firm. It is one of the first maps to show internal features of the Arabian Peninsula. Mountains are depicted, oases denoted by trees, and points used to indicate pearl deposits in the Arabian Gulf. The map uses dotted lines to...
    • Contributor: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
    • Date: 1622-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Americae nova descriptio Relief shown pictorially. A re-engraved version of a map previously published for Henri Seile in 1652 under the title "Americae descriptio nova" and subsequently re-published from the same engraving as the 1652 map for Phillippi Chetwood in 1666. Appears in Peter Heylyn's "Cosmography in four books", 1677. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
    • Contributor: Seile, Anne - Vaughan, Robert
    • Date: 1663-01-01
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    [Maps of New York--various subjects Cao-Ek]
    New York title collection--drawer 22 | New York title collection--various subjects Cao-Ek     Most maps earlier than 1800 in this collection are photocopies or facsimiles. This record covers single maps of New York as a whole covering various subjects, 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 and may also include some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books...
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    Virginia Relief shown pictorially. This map was issued with but not integral to Historia mundi, and is either inserted or pasted in some copies, appearing in various locations in the text. Phillips, 451 Phillips, 4255 Includes ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 24-85
    • Contributor: Hall, Ralph
    • Date: 1636-01-01
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    [Maps of Pennsylvania--cities and towns West Newton--Wilkes B...
    Pennsylvania title collection--cities and towns West Newton--Wilkes Barre to 1900 | Pennsylvania title collection--drawer 205     Most maps in this collection before 1800 are photocopies or facsimiles. This record covers single maps of Pennsylvania cities and towns, 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 and may also include some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books or periodicals, and printed facsimiles....
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    Map of the Atlantic Ocean, 1601. This portolan map of the Atlantic Ocean, made by Guillaume Levasseur in 1601, reflects the high level of accuracy achieved by French mapmakers of the Norman school of hydrographers, who by this time had been charting the Atlantic for well over a century. The map is also a rich store of historic place-names. For Canada, it provides 28 place-names extracted from the writings of...
    • Contributor: Levasseur, Guillaume, 1643
    • Date: 1601-01-01
    • Resource: - 2 pages
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    [New England, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland]. Relief shown pictorially. Title provided by cataloger. LC copy mounted on cloth. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Stirling, William Alexander
    • Date: 1624-01-01
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    Toonneel der steden van de Vereenighde Nederlanden, met hare ... Dutch. Some maps in Latin. List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 3076 Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, 43:121.1 Date from Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici from the list of burgomasters elected in 1652 in the text about Delft. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Engraved title page with letterpress title pasted on. LC copy bound in cream vellum,...
    • Contributor: Blaeu, Joan
    • Date: 1652
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    [Chart of the South Atlantic Ocean with the coasts of Brazil ... Title provided by cataloger. Pen-and-ink and gouache. Matted and mounted between sheets of transparent lucite, 76 x 101 cm. Includes illustrations. LC Nautical charts on vellum, 21 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Thornton, John
    • Date: 1681-01-01
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    Edo ōezu, eiri
    江戶大繪圖・繪入 /     Cover title. Wood block print, hand colored. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially. Japanese. Cadastral map showing landowners. Includes distance chart. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 650/1; 651/2
    • Contributor: Hayashi, Yoshinaga
    • Date: 1683-01-01
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    Pascaert van Nieuw Nederlandt Virginia, ende Nieuw-Engelandt ... Shows northeast coast of the United States from New England to Virginia including coastal features and other geographical entities. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons by comparison with his other Dutch maps in Henry Harrisse collection. Described in Terrae incognitae, v. xvi, 1984. Richard W. Stephenson's The Henry Harrisse collection ... , p. 40; the second volume has binder's title "Manuscript maps Atlantic...
    • Contributor: Vinckeboons, Joan
    • Date: 1639-01-01
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    Terrae Sanctae, qua Promissionis terra, est Syriae pars ea, q... Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Stella, Tilemann
    • Date: 1600-01-01
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    Accurately Delineated Ichnographic Plans of All the Cities an...
    Theatrum ichnographicum omnium urbium et præcipuorum oppidorum Belgicarum XVII     Theatrum ichnographicum omnium urbium et præcipuorum oppidorum Belgicarum XVII Provinciarum peraccurate delineatarum (Accurately delineated ichnographic plans of all the cities and towns in the seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands), commonly known as the De Wit Atlas, is a city atlas containing maps and prints of key monuments in Dutch cities. The name comes from its creator, Frederick de Wit (1630-1706), an influential cartographer, engraver,...
    • Contributor: Wit, Frederik De
    • Date: 1699-01-01
    • Resource: - 136 pages
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    Novvelle et exacte description dv globe terrestre
    Nouvelle et exacte description du globe terrestre     Includes illustrations of the seasons and the elements, notes, and two celestial hemispheres. According to Shirley, the map is based on one by Visscher, rather than Blaeu. Illustrations of costumes: Francois -- Espaignolz -- Italiens -- Allemans -- Anglois -- Hollandois -- Cevx de lisle de Groenland -- Les Chinois -- De lisle de Java -- De la Gvinee -- Dv Perov -- De...
    • Contributor: Visscher, Claes Jansz - Fer, Antoine De - Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
    • Date: 1645-01-01
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    America Septentrionalis divisa in suas principales partes et ... Relief shown pictorially. Mounted on cardboard. Copy imperfect: Stained and torn along fold lines Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Hofmann, Johann Jacob - Sanson, P. D.
    • Date: 1679-01-01
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    Novissima totius terrarum orbis tabula Shows California as an island. Includes illustrations, including scenes of the four seasons. Ancillary maps and charts: Incrementum et decrementum dierū -- Phasis lunae naturalis -- Hypothesis Tychonican -- Hypothesis Ptolomaica -- Phasis lunae artificialis -- Hypothesis Copernicana. Appears in Seller's Atlas maritimus. LC copy trimmed to neat line on left, right and bottom margins. Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 460 Available also...
    • Contributor: Seller, John
    • Date: 1675-01-01
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    [Chart of the Mediterranean, the coast of Portugal, and the n... 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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    Delineatio generalis Camporum Desertorum vulgo Ukraina : cum ... "Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan was a French engineer who worked in Poland between 1630 and 1647. He built fortifications in Ukraine, most of which was then under Polish control, took part in battles with the Cossacks and Tatars, and in 1639 traveled by boat down the Dnieper (Dnipro, in Ukrainian) River. Beauplan produced two important early maps of Ukraine that were based on...
    • Contributor: Hondius, Willem - Beauplan, Guillaume Le Vasseur
    • Date: 1648
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    Yŏch'udo.
    輿墜圖. | Tongguk yŏjido     Korean (Hanmun). Cover title. In case. Rice paper maps attached to cardboard leaves. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. December 7, 1938 538662. Estimated date based on the presence, on the map of China, of 湖廣省, a jurisdiction which ceased to be in the year 1644. Stamp on first leaf: 官崎 藏書. 東國 八道 大總啚 - 京畿道 -...
    • Contributor: Korean Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1600-01-01
    • Resource: kwŏn 1 - 15 pages
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    A Current and Correct Depiction of Arabia Felix, Arabia Petra...
    Arabie Felicis, Petraeae et Desertae nova et accurata delineatio     This map from 1658 was published by Johannes Janssonius (1588-1664), or Jan Jansson. Jansson was born in Arnhem, the son of Jan Jansson the Elder, a publisher and bookseller. Jansson's maps are similar to those of Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638), the founder of the Blaeu cartographic firm, and Jansson is sometimes accused of copying from his rival, but many of his maps predate those...
    • Contributor: Jansson, Jan
    • Date: 1658-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    [Maps of New York--various subjects Geology 1895-1970]
    New York title collection--drawer 25 | New York title collection--various subjects Geology 1895-1970     This record covers single geological maps of New York 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 and may also include 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...
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    [Shandong, Zhili, Shengjing hai jiang tu]
    [山東, 直隷, 盛京海疆圖] | Coastal map of Shandong, Zhili, and Shengjing     Scale ca. 1:125,000. Title supplied. Oriented with north to the left. Relief shown pictorially. Pictorial map. Shows coastal defenses of Shandong, Hebei, and Liaoning Provinces. Hummel gift 1962, no. 6. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Prev. call#: G7822.C6R4 1700 .S4 Vault Shelf AACR2
    • Contributor: Hummel, Arthur W. (Arthur William)
    • Date: 1634-01-01
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    Paskaarte vertonende alle de zekusten Europe Shows Europe and the North Atlantic. Oriented with west toward the north. Includes illustrations and inset. LC Nautical charts on vellum, 18 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Goos, Pieter
    • Date: 1660-01-01
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    Turkish Empire.
    Tvrcicvm imperivm     This detailed map of the Turkish Empire at the height of its powers was produced in Amsterdam by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) in about 1635, when the Ottoman territories included the Balkans, Anatolia, the Levant, and parts of Hungary, Ukraine, North Africa and Arabia. The map centers on the eastern Mediterranean (marked Mare Syriacum, or Syrian Sea) and northern Arabia, and it extends from...
    • Contributor: Blaeu, Joan - Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
    • Date: 1635-01-01
    • Resource: - 2 pages
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    Isole Antili, la Cuba e la Spagnuola Gift of the estate of Jessica Lee. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 95-11 Vault
    • Contributor: Lee, Jessica - Coronelli, Vincenzo
    • Date: 1690
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    [Maps of Maine--regions A-Da]
    Alternate supplied title: Maine title collection drawer 30 | Alternate supplied title: Maine title collection--regions A-Da | Maine title collection drawer 30 | Maine title collection--regions A-Da     This record covers single maps covering regions of Maine, 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 and may also include some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books or periodicals, and printed facsimiles. These maps show regions, such as rivers, lakes, islands and national forests,...
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    [Map of the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico].
    Hispaniola and Puerto Rico     Relief shown pictorially. Shows coastal features, administrative districts, and settlements on the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons by comparison with his other Dutch maps in Henry Harrisse collection. Described in Terrae incognitae, v. xvi, 1984. Richard W. Stephenson's The Henry Harrisse collection ... , p. 40; the first volume has binder's title "Manuscript maps of the...
    • Contributor: Vinckeboons, Joan
    • Date: 1639-01-01
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    Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae : nec non partis Virginiae tabul... Stokes, Iconography, p. 147 (vol. 1), lists dates as 1651-55. See Map collectors circle, #24. Phillips, 465 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes view "Nieuw Amsterdam op t eylant Manhattans." Vault
    • Contributor: Visscher, Nicolaes
    • Date: 1690-01-01
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    A chart of the Caribe Ilands [sic] Oriented with north to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
    • Contributor: Thornton, John
    • Date: 1680-01-01
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    Africa. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes notes, ill., and cartouche with text. Fold-lined. LC copy imperfect: Margin in upper and lower left corner of sheet cut out. Pin holes in margins of all corners.
    • Contributor: Florimi, Matteo - Arnoldi, Arnoldo DI
    • Date: 1600-01-01
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    Arabia. This map of 1616, with Latin place names, is a reprint of a work by Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612), a Flemish cartographer and engraver who settled in Amsterdam in about 1593 and established a business that produced globes and the first large maps of the world. The place names on the map are unclear. "Coromanis" is shown on many older maps as located in present-day...
    • Contributor: Hondius, Jodocus
    • Date: 1616-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula Relief shown pictorially. Includes col. ill. Insets: Polus arcticus -- Polus antarcticus -- Polus septentrionalis -- Systema mundi juxtamentem Claudii Ptolemaei Alexand -- Genuinum mundi systema secundum N. Copernici hypothesin -- Polus meridionalis. Mounted on cloth. LC copy imperfect: Fold-lined vertically in half. Pin holes in cloth tape in all corners. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Wit, Frederik De
    • Date: 1660-01-01
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    Palace of the Elector of Brandenburg.
    Residentia Electoralis Brandenburgica     This birds-eye view map offers a detailed picture of the Berlin palace of the elector of Brandenburg as it appeared in 1688. The residence was part of a large fortress that Frederick William I (1620--88) ordered built following the end of the Thirty Years' War (1618--48) in Germany. Construction began in 1650 under the direction of the architect and engineer, Johann Gregor Memhardt (1607--78),...
    • Contributor: Schultz, Johann Bernhard, 1695
    • Date: 1688-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Partie meridio. le du royaume d'Irlande, ou sont la province ... Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Mariette, Pierre-Jean - Sanson, Nicolas
    • Date: 1665-01-01
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    Nova America descriptio Relief shown pictorially. Sheet issued as part of a set of 5 maps; one map covers entire world and 4 maps cover individual continents. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Control no.: 2001-25
    • Contributor: Jollain, Gérard - Visscher, Nicolaes
    • Date: 1657-01-01
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    A description of the sea coasts ... in the East Indies
    Hack's descript of ye East Indies | Also known as: Buccaneer atlas     Covers the coasts of eastern Africa, India, and the East Indies. Relief shown pictorially. Each drawing bears a brief description with soundings, distances and facts regarding anchorages and navigation of rivers which might be of value in pirating activities. This atlas is known as the "Buccaneer atlas" because it results from the experience of Hacke in association with Captain Bartholomew Sharpe, the notorious Buccaneer...
    • Contributor: Hacke, William
    • Date: 1690
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    Le nouveau Mexique, appelé aussi Nouvelle Grenade et Marata, ... Relief shown pictorially. Has watermarks. "Avec privilege du Roy, 168." Wheat, C.I. Mapping of the transmississippi West, 66 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes "Avertissement," list of provinces and notable towns, text, and decorative cartouche.
    • Contributor: Coronelli, Vincenzo - Nolin, Jean Baptiste - Du Tralage, Jean Nicolas
    • Date: 1685-01-01
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    Orbis terrarum typus de integro multis in locis emendatus Includes illustrations of the seasons and the elements, notes, and two celestial hemispheres. Illustrations of costumes: Hispani -- Galli -- Itali -- Germani -- Angli -- Belgae -- Groenlandi -- Chinenses -- Javani -- Guineenses -- Peruuiani -- Magellanici. LC copy mounted on cloth, rubbed, discolored. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Visscher, Claes Jansz - Goos, Pieter
    • Date: 1652-01-01
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    Xia lan zhi zhang.
    遐覽指掌。 | Viewing distant places in the palm of your hand     Covers Beijing, Nanjing, Shandong, Shanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunan, Guizhou, Nü zhen du si wei suo, Dong nan zhu yi, Xi bei zhu yi of Ming Dynasty. Cover title. Pen-and-ink. "Hai wai you jie"--T.p. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes astronomy chart. Gift; Arthur William Hummel; 1930, no. 1. Previous...
    • Contributor: Hummel, Arthur W. (Arthur William)
    • Date: 1647-01-01
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    [Maps of landholdings in the part of Prince George's County (... Shows landholdings as of the 1790's. Depths shown by soundings. Title devised by cataloger. Manuscript--lead pencil tracings. Oriented with north to the right. Includes text and notes. LC copy lacks sections in center and along edges; mounted on cloth backing. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Phillips. Washington 464 Vault DCP
    • Contributor: Beatty, Chas. (Charles) - Orme, Arch. (Archibald)
    • Date: 1667-01-01
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    Map of the Kingdom of Aragon by Juan Bautista Labaña.
    Aragón de Ioan Baptista Lavaña     This map is the oldest known image of Aragon, the first Spanish map produced according to scientific procedures, and the most important map for 17th- and 18th-century Spanish cartography. It became the basis for all subsequent maps of the region, and is the only one that was made using direct measurement and surveys. The map was created by order of the Deputation of the...
    • Contributor: Leonardo De Argensola, Lupercio - Lavanha, João Baptista
    • Date: 1675-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Mappe-monde, ou carte generale du globe terrestre : represent... Relief shown pictorially. Appears in atlases published after Sanson's death by his heirs. LC copy: fold lined, with liquid staining from left and right margins to middle of hemispheres. Lightly hand colored to mark political boundaries. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Mariette, Pierre - Sanson, Nicolas
    • Date: 1678-01-01
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    Map of the Turkish Empire.
    Turcici Imperii Imago     This map shows the Ottoman Empire as it appeared in the early 17th century. It details Ottoman territories in Asia, Africa, and Europe, and includes Persia, Transcaucasia, Ethiopia, and other surrounding lands. Topographic features, place-names, and populations are definitively marked, although the nomenclature of the time differs markedly from that used today. The Red Sea is termed the Sea of Mecca, for example, and...
    • Contributor: Mercator, Gerhard - Hondius, Jodocus
    • Date: 1600-01-01
    • Resource: - 2 pages
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    Carte de l'Amerique Septentrionnale : depuis le 25, jusqu'au ... Copied between 1909 and 1910 from the original 1688 ms. in the Archives du dépôt des cartes et plans de la marine. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. In margin: Bibliotheque du Depot des cartes et plans de la Marina, Paris, Atlas 4040B, piece n. 3. Includes indexed inset of view "Quebec comme il se voit du cóté de l'est." Available also through the Library of Congress...
    • Contributor: Franquelin, Jean Baptiste Louis
    • Date: 1688-01-01
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    [Quanzhou Fu yu di tu shuo].
    [泉州府輿地图说] | Fujiang Sheng hai fang tu | Illustrated atlas of Quanzhou Prefecture     Covers land and territory in Quanzhou Prefecture. Shows cities, towns, and military posts in Quanzhou fu. Title supplied. Previous supplied title: Quanzhou fu tu shuo. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Fragile, torn at fold lines. Previous call no.: G2308.F8F9
    • Date: 1602-01-01
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    Irlandiae regnum. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Mercator, Gerhard
    • Date: 1600-01-01
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    Neue Land Tafel von Hungarn : und dessenincorporirten Königre... Map of Hungary and adjacent parts of the Danube River Valley showing populated places occupied by the Turkish invaders and places remaining Christian (unoccupied). Covers the Danube River Valley from Vienna (upstream) to the entrance of the Aluta (Olt) River (downstream). Relief shown pictorially. Title, notes, directories, and principal place-names in German. LC copy imperfect: Fold-lined (vertically), paper-taped on verso. Includes text, notes, historical...
    • Contributor: Sandrart, Jakob Von
    • Date: 1664-01-01
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    Modern and Completely Correct Map of the Entire World.
    Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula     This mid-17th century "modern and completely correct map" of the entire world was printed in Amsterdam by Joan Blaeu (1596-1673), a member of the Blaeu family that helped to define mapmaking during the Dutch golden age. Beginning in the 16th century, the Blaeu firm produced some of Europe's most renowned maps, globes, and atlases. After studying under Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, Joan's father, Willem...
    • Contributor: Blaeu, Joan
    • Date: 1659-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Venezuela, cum parte Auftrali Novae Andalausiae. Place names in Spanish. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. 2 copies; 1 copy as of 07/27/98 Vault
    • Contributor: Hondius, Hendrik
    • Date: 1630-01-01
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    Nova Virginiae tabvla
    Nova Virginiae tabula     Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the right. "Militaria Germanica communia 15 pro Uno gradu." Copy Imperfect: Darkened, lower left margin torn, losses along left edge, and mounted on cloth backing. Map collectors circle, No. 45, pages 29-30. Includes text, illustrations of Powhatan in Royal State founded Smith's engraving and the figure of an Indian founded on De Bry, and coat-of-arms. Latin description...
    • Contributor: Gryp, Dirck - Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
    • Date: 1630-01-01
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    Accuratissima Brasiliæ tabula. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the right. Item 67 in LC G&M Leo Belgicus exhibit, Nov. 1993 to May 1994. Includes insets of "Baya de todos os Sanctos" and "Villa d'Olinda de Pernambuco" and ill. Text on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
    • Contributor: Hondius, Hendrik
    • Date: 1630-01-01
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    [Maps of Pennsylvania--counties Cao--Chester to 1849]
    Pennsylvania title collection--counties Cao--Chester to 1849 | Pennsylvania title collection--drawer 63     Most maps before 1800 in this collection are photocopies or facsimiles. This record covers single maps covering counties of Pennsylvania, 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 and may also include some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books or periodicals, and printed facsimiles. These...
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    Judaea, or the Holy Land, Which is Divided into the Twelve Tr...
    Iudaea seu Terra Sancta quae Hebraeorum sive Israelitarum in suas duodecim Tribus divisa     This map of the Holy Land by Guillaume Sanson (1633-1703) and Alexis Hubert Jaillot (1632?-1712) is an enlargement of a previous map by Sanson's father, Nicolas Sanson (1600-67). The map shows the division of Biblical Israel among the Twelve Tribes and is based on information found in the Bible. The younger Sanson took over the family publishing business after his father's death and had...
    • Contributor: Jaillot, Alexis-Hubert - Sanson, Guillaume
    • Date: 1696-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    A Drawing (with a Western Perspective) of the East Indies fro...
    Occidentalior Tractus Indiarum Orientalium a Promontorio Bonae Spei ad C. Comorin     This portolan map by the Dutch engraver, publisher, and map seller Frederick de Wit (1629 or 1630-1706) shows the Indian Ocean from the Cape of Good Hope to the west coast of India (Malabar). The map was first published in 1675 and was reprinted in 1715. It is oriented with east at the top. Kishm is placed in the present-day United Arab Emirates (UAE)...
    • Contributor: Wit, Frederik De
    • Date: 1675-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    [Globus terrarum] Relief shown pictorially. Gores for a 20 cm. globe. Title supplied by cataloger. Date from Shirley's Mapping of the world, 1993. Includes ill. LC copy: Sheet 1 annotated in pencil in upper right "W. Lowery" and in ink in upper left "27". Sheet 4 annotated in ink in upper right "114" and lower left "26". LC copy imperfect: Lacking sheet 2. Central vertical fold...
    • Contributor: Fürst, Paul - Habrecht, Isaac
    • Date: 1612-01-01
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    [Map of Lesser Antilles]. Depths shown by soundings. Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons by comparison with his other maps in Henry Harrisse collection. Oriented with north to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault Acquisitions control no. 99-13
    • Contributor: Vinckeboons, Joan
    • Date: 1650-01-01
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    South Sea. Pacific Ocean.
    Mar Pacifico. By Hessel Gerritsz. Met Octroy van de E.H.M. Heeren de Staten Generael der Vereenichde Nederlanden . Duytsche mÿlen vÿftien voor een graedt     This map of the South Sea, or Pacific Ocean, was made in 1622 by the Dutch cartographer Hessel Gerritsz, who was the official cartographer to the Dutch East India Company and a prominent engraver and publisher. It was not intended as a navigational map, but as a luxurious work for the directors of the company. Regions represented include the Asian coast (named Sina and...
    • Contributor: Gerritsz, Hessel
    • Date: 1622-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    The figure of the World. In upper right corner: p. 2. includes text and 4 diagrams. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy has red-bordered label affixed to verso, with 516/1 written in ink. Left margin trimmed.
    • Date: 1650
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    Fez and the Kingdom of Morocco.
    Fessæ et Marocchi regna     In 1604, a decade after the death of Gerhard Mercator (1512-94), one of the great cartographers of all time, the globe maker, engraver, and publisher Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612) bought the plates to Mercator's atlas from his grandsons. Hondius then worked with his brother-in-law, the engraver Pieter van der Keere, to add about 40 new maps to Mercator's atlas to create what became known as...
    • Contributor: Mercator, Gerhard - Hondius, Jodocus
    • Date: 1606-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Orbis terrarum typus de integro multis in locis emendatus Includes illustrations of the seasons and the elements, notes, and two celestial hemispheres. Illustrations of costumes: Hispani -- Galli -- Itali -- Germani -- Angli -- Belgae -- Groenlandi -- Chinenses -- Javani -- Guineenses -- Peruuiani -- Magellanici. LC copy mounted on cloth, with mended tears and all margins ragged. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Visscher, Claes Jansz - Goos, Pieter
    • Date: 1639-01-01
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    A mapp of ye improved part of Pensilvania in America, divided... Shows rural landholders' names and lots in Philadelphia, Chester, and Bucks Counties. Third issue. Includes indexes of landholders, inset of "The city of Philadelphia, two miles in length and one in breadth," and coat of arms. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
    • Contributor: Lea, Philip - Harris, John - Holme, Thomas
    • Date: 1687-01-01
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    America noviter delineata Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes insets of north and south polar regions. Acquisitions control no. 3-85
    • Contributor: Boisseau, Jean - Picart, H. (Hugues) - Hondius, Jodocus
    • Date: 1640-01-01
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    Map of Northern America and Part of Southern America from the...
    Carte de l'Amérique septentrionale et partie de la méridionale depuis l'embouchure de la rivière St Laurens jusqu'à l'isle de Cayenne avec les nouvelles découvertes de la rivière de Mississipi ou Colbert     Attributed to the Abbé Claude Bernou and dated 1681, this very beautiful mural map of North America and the Gulf of Mexico is from the Navy Hydrographic Office Collection in the National Library of France. The collection goes back to Jean-Baptise Colbert (1619-83), minister of finance under King Louis XIV, whose objective was to gather knowledge about all the seacoasts of the world. The...
    • Contributor: Bernou, Claude
    • Date: 1681-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Dordracvm ; Briela. Perspective map not drawn to scale. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Bird's-eye-view. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. From Pierre d'Avity's Newe archontologia cosmica, engraved by Matthaeus Merian. Indexed for points of interest. LC copy has stamp in lower left corner (823B) Ink inscription in upper right corner (68).
    • Contributor: Avity, Pierre D - Merian, Matthaeus
    • Date: 1646-01-01
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    America Settentrionale colle nuoue scoperte fin al'anno 1688,...
    America Settentrionale colle nuove scoperte fin al'anno 1688, divisa nelle sue parti secundo lo stato     Relief shown pictorially. Shows California as an island. Appears in the author's Atlante veneto, 1691-1697. Includes notes and illustrations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy folded, with hinges for binding.
    • Contributor: Coronelli, Vincenzo
    • Date: 1688-01-01
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    Belgii novi, angliæ novæ, et partis Virginiæ : novissima deli... Relief shown pictorially. Taken from Jan Jansson's Atlantis majoris, 1657, no. 59. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
    • Contributor: Jansson, Jan
    • Date: 1657-01-01
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    A map of Virginia and Maryland Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially. From: Speed, John, The Theatre of the Empire of Great-Britain, London, 1676. Includes coat of arms. On verso: Description of Maryland and Virginia. Stamped in blue ink in lower left corner: 15C. Copy imperfect: Water staining and losses along the edges. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Lamb, Francis - Chiswell, Richard - Speed, John - Bassett, Thomas
    • Date: 1676
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    Plantas 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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    Nova et acurata totius Africae tabula
    Title from cartouche: Africa | Title of Latin text: Nova Africae descriptio | Title of Dutch text: Beschryvinge van Africa | Title of French text: Nouvelle description l'Afrique     Relief shown pictorially. Includes 2 diagrams, text, and illustrations. Title strip printed separately from map. Text in right, left and bottom margins by Nicolaes Visscher. Printed separately from map. Illustrations of local residents/costumes in left margin: Senagenses -- Mercator, dominvs, servus in Guinea -- Guinearum mvlieres et ancilla -- Cabo Lopes Gonsalvi accolae -- Magnates in Congo -- Miles Congensis cum femina -- Promontorii...
    • Contributor: Visscher, Nicolaes - Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
    • Date: 1657
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    Lands of the Emperor of the Turks or the Ottoman Sultan in As...
    Estats de l'empire du Grand Seigneur des Turqs ou Sultan des Ottomans en Asie, en Afrique, et en Europe     This map shows the Ottoman Empire as it was conceived in Europe in the last quarter of the 17th century. It is a reprint, dated 1679, of an earlier edition possibly included in a series of world atlases published by Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667) in the middle of the century. The map shows geological features, such as rivers, deserts, and mountain ranges. Cities and towns...
    • Contributor: Sanson, Nicolas
    • Date: 1679-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Description du pais des Hurons. Shows part of Ontario extending from Georgian Bay on the north (Partie du Grand Lac des Hurons) to Lake Ontario on the south and from Lake Huron on the west to Lake Simcoe on the east (Lac Oventarenk). Relief shown pictorially. Bequeathed to the Library of Congress by Henry Harrisse. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
    • Contributor: Harrisse, Henry
    • Date: 1651-01-01
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    [Aihun, Luosha, Taiwan, Nei Menggu tu]
    [艾渾,羅刹,台灣,蒙古圖] | Pictorical maps of Aihun, Russia, Taiwan and Mongolia     Scales differ. Manuscript on silk. Relief shown pictorially. Pictorial map. Bird's-eye view. Covers four frontier regions of the Manchu Dynasty, Aihun area, a military colony since the middle of the 17th century on the north banks of the Amur, Russian camp in eastern Siberia, Taiwan and Pescadores Islands, and Inner Mongolia. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image....
    • Date: 1697-01-01
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    Map for the Clarification of Land Titles in New France, 1678.
    Carte pour seruir à l'éclaircissement du Papier Terrier de la Nouvelle-France     This large and beautiful map by Jean-Baptiste Franquelin (1651--after 1712), later the royal hydrographer in Quebec, shows the French presence in the Saint Lawrence valley and Atlantic Canada in 1678. For 20 years from the early 1670s, maps by Franquelin accompanied reports to France sent by the highest officials in its American territories. This map was dedicated to Jean-Baptise Colbert (1619-83), minister of finance...
    • Contributor: Franquelin, Jean-Baptiste
    • Date: 1678-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Noort Rivier in Niew Neerlandt. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Shows the Hudson River from Manhattan Island to Albany, natural features, and other geographical entities in the region. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons by comparison with his other Dutch maps in Henry Harrisse collection. Described in Terrae incognitae, v. xvi, 1984. Richard W. Stephenson's The Henry Harrisse collection ... , p. 40; the third volume...
    • Contributor: Vinckeboons, Joan
    • Date: 1639-01-01
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    [Maps of Pennsylvania--cities and towns--Lock--Lz]
    Pennsylvania title collection--cities and towns Lock--Lz | Pennsylvania title collection--drawer 134     Most maps before 1800 in this collection are photocopies or facsimiles. This record covers single maps of Pennsylvania cities and towns, 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 and may also include some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books or periodicals, and printed facsimiles....
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    Africae nova tabula Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes watermark. Acquisitions control no. 6-85
    • Contributor: Boisseau, Jean - Picart, H. (Hugues) - Hondius, Jodocus
    • Date: 1640-01-01
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    Mappe-monde, ou carte générale du monde : dessignée en deux p... Relief shown pictorially. Shows California as an island. LC copy stamped on: 480B. Mounted on cloth. Annotations in Australia. Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 390 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Rivière - Mariette, Pierre - Sanson, Nicolas
    • Date: 1651-01-01
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    Caert vande Svydt Rivier in Niew Nederland. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Shows the region of the Delaware Bay and river, natural features, and other geographical entities. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons by comparison with his other Dutch maps in Henry Harrisse collection. Described in Terrae incognitae, v. xvi, 1984. Richard W. Stephenson's The Henry Harrisse collection ... , p. 40; the third volume has binder's title...
    • Contributor: Vinckeboons, Joan
    • Date: 1639-01-01
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    West-Indische paskaert waer in de graden der breedde over wed... Shows the west coast of North America from Belle Isle, Newfoundland, both coasts of South America, mediterranean Europe, and the east coast of Africa. Includes illustrations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Goos, Pieter
    • Date: 1660-01-01
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    Shandong tong sheng yun he quan yuan shui li quan tu
    山东通省运河泉源水利全图     This map, folded as in accordion pleating, a style also known as sutra binding, has no frames on the pages. Executed in the traditional Chinese painting style, the map depicts the Grand Canal in Shandong Province during the middle of Qing dynasty, with south on the right and north on the left. This section of the Grand Canal began from Huanglin Zhuang, the juncture...
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    [Maps of Pennsylvania, from approximately 1680 to 1754]
    Pennsylvania title collection--drawer 1 | Pennsylvania title collection--general 1680-1754     Most maps in this collection are photocopies or facsimiles. Title supplied by cataloger.
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    New Persia, Armenia, Anatolia and Arabia.
    Nova Persiæ, Armeniæ, Natoliæ, et Arabiæ     This highly decorative map of the Middle East is by the Dutch engraver, publisher, and map seller Frederick de Wit (1629 or 1630-1706). It was published in Amsterdam in about 1666. The map covers the regions from present-day Turkey and Egypt to Afghanistan and the Arabian Peninsula, the Red Sea, the Nile River, Cyprus, Asia Minor, the Gulf of Aden, Armenia, the Caspian Sea,...
    • Contributor: Wit, Frederik De - Sanson, Nicolas
    • Date: 1666-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    [Map of a part of the island of Cuba and of the Bahamas]. Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 156 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
    • Contributor: Vinckeboons, Joan
    • Date: 1650-01-01
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    Les Deserts D'Egypte, De Thabaide D'Arabie, De Sirie, &c. : o... Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Michallet, Estienne
    • Date: 1693-01-01
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    An Ancient map of Panama, showing territorial divisions and o... Shows Isthmus of Panama and northwestern South America. Transferred from the collection of the Canal Zone Library-Museum, 1980. Title typewritten in right margin prior to reproduction. LC copy annotated in pencil, on verso, with Canal Zone Library map checklist number: 113. LC copy imperfect: Dark and difficult to read. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
    • Date: 1631
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    A Modern Map of Spain.
    Nova Hispaniae Descriptio     Nova Hispaniae Descriptio (A modern map of Spain) is the first map bordered by cartouches, one of the most attractive developments of 17th century Dutch cartography. Cartouches were used to supplement the geographical information provided by a map as well as to add aesthetic appeal. In this map, which is based on a plate made by Gerard Mercator (1512--94), the cartographic image is surrounded...
    • Contributor: Mercator, Gerhard - Hondius, Jodocus
    • Date: 1610-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page