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    Europe, Very Precisely Represented.
    Europa exactissime descripta
    This decorative map of Europe dates from around 1620 and is by Hendrik Hondius (also seen as Henricus Hondius, 1597--1651). Hondius was the son of Jodocus Hondius (1563--1612), a Flemish cartographer and engraver who settled in Amsterdam around 1593 and established a business producing maps and atlases. He is known for reestablishing the rightful famous reputation of Gerardus Mercator. In 1604 Hondius acquired the...
    • Contributor: Louis XIII, King of France - Hondius, Hendrik
    • Date: 1620-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    New Map of Africa.
    Africae Tabvla Nova
    "Africae tabula nova" (New map of Africa) appeared in the first edition (1570) of Theatrum orbis terrarum (Theater of the world) by the Flemish scholar and geographer Abraham Ortelius (1527--98). The map is based on Giacomo Gastaldi's eight-sheet wall map of 1564 and on the 1569 world map by Gerhard Mercator and is the first to reflect accurately the knowledge gained by Europeans about...
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Hogenberg, Franz - Gastaldi, Giacomo - Mercator, Gerhard
    • Date: 1575-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Nova et accuratissima urbis St. Petersburg à Russorum Imperatore Petro Alexiewiz ao. 1703 ad ostium Nevae Fl. conditae et regionis circumjacentis delineatio
    Neue u. accurate Abbildung der von dem grossen Russ. Kaiser Petro Alexiewiz Ao. 1703 an dem Aussfl. dess Neva Stroms erbaueten Statt S. Petersburg samt d. umligend. Gegend
    City map shows individual buildings, gardens, and fence/lot lines. Relief shown by hachures on city map. Notes and index in German. Appears in Seutter's Grosser Atlas worinnen enthalten alle die jenige geographische Universal-Special- und Particular-Mappen, Augsburg, 1734. Previous file number in ink on label in upper right corner of margin: XXVII-113. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image....
    • Contributor: Seutter, Matthaeus
    • Date: 1734
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    Belgian Ath, Called Aeth and Ath in French / F. de Witt.
    Athum belgicé Aeth et Ath Gallicé dictum / F. de Witt
    This map, showing the fortifications surrounding the city of Ath, is the work of Frederik de Wit (1630-1706), the founder of a dynasty of three generations of Dutch map publishers, all named Frederik. The de Wit firm produced many kinds of maps, but specialized in maps of cities and atlases of city maps. Located in present-day Hainaut province in French-speaking Belgium, Ath was conquered...
    • Contributor: Wit, Frederik De
    • Date: 1694-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Americae et proximar regionvm orae descriptio.
    Americae et proximar regionum orae descriptio
    Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Second state. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 95-34 Vault
    • Contributor: Rascicotti, Donato - Massa, Giovanni Battista
    • Date: 1580-01-01
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    [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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    Arabia. This 1616 map is a reprint of a map originally published in 1598 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 map covers the territory from west of the Gulf of Suez to the eastern side of the Arabian Peninsula,...
    • Contributor: Hondius, Jodocus
    • Date: 1598-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Nova Hispania, Nova Galicia, Gvatimala.
    Nova Hispania, Nova Galicia, Guatimala
    Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Ogilby's America and Montanus' De nieuwe en onbekende weerld. 1671. Phillips, Maps of America, pp. 404 and 405. Ogilby, John, America, pp. 238-239. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Ogilby, John - Montanus, Arnoldus
    • Date: 1671-01-01
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    Magnus ducatus Lithuania in suos palatinatus et castellanias divisa, non solum accuratissime delineata, sed etiam plurimis in aliis mappis omissis locis aucta Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Lotter's Atlas géographique de cent et huit cartes générales et spéciales. Augsburg : Tobie Conrad Lotter, Matthieu Seutter, et Jan-Michel Probst ; Nuremburg : Heritiers de Homan, 1778. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Lotter, Tobias Conrad - Lotter, Georg Friedrich
    • Date: 1778-01-01
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    Mappa gubernii Sibiriensis, continens provincias Toboliensem et Jenisejensem, comp. I. Tresscott. Two-toned map with hydrographic detail. Obshchegeograficheskai︠a︡ karta. Naneseny reki s pritokami, naselennye punkty, granit︠s︡y gubernii. Kartogr. setka. Dolgota ot Ferro. Original map at: Russian State Library Общегеографическая карта. Нанесены реки с притоками, населенные пункты, границы губернии. Картогр. сетка. Долгота от Ферро.
    • Contributor: Frolov, K. - Kuvakin, I. - Treskot, Johann
    • Date: 1776-01-01
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    Typvs orbis terrarvm Relief shown pictorially. Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 19-85 Vault
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham
    • Date: 1628-01-01
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    Geografia tavole moderne di geografia de la maggior parte del mondo di diversi avtori raccolte et messe secondo l'ordine di Tolomeo con i disegni di molte città et fortezze di diverse provintie ... ga10 2006-03-10 sent to CMT Relief shown pictorially. Phillips, 3392 Each plate or leaf is numbered with pencil, pen-and-ink, or both, with some numbers crossed out. Map 79 is printed on blue paper. Strips of paper affixed to the margins of some plates. Rebound in brown leather incorporating original tooled front and back boards. Includes manuscript table of contents, which does not correspond exactly...
    • Contributor: Lafréry, Antoine
    • Date: 1575-01-01

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    Typus geographicus, Chili a Paraguay Freti Magellanici &c. In Latin and French. Includes inset of city of Santiago. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Ovalle, Alonso De - Homann Erben (Firm) - Techo, Nicolás Del
    • Date: 1733-01-01
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    Theatrvm orbis terrarvm.
    Theatrum orbis terrarum
    Relief shown pictorially. Catalogus auctorum includes 92 names. Epigram on t.p. verso has 16 lines. Includes 53 map sheets, with descriptive text on verso. List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 374, copy 1 Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici, Ort 1 Includes "De Mona druidum insula" by H. Llwyd. Exhibited: A world of names, 1990. Exhibited: Images of the World, 1984. Available also...
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Llwyd, Humphrey - Diesth, Aegid. Coppenius (Aegidius Coppenius)
    • Date: 1570-01-01

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    Orbis terrae novissima descriptio Includes two wind charts, compass rose, lunar chart, climatic zones, armillary sphere, notes and illustrations In upper right corner: I. LC copy mounted on cloth. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Leclerc, Jean - Mercator, Gerhard - Hondius, Jodocus
    • Date: 1602-01-01
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    World Map on Double Cordiform Projection. This world map on two sheets is an early work of the famous Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator (1512--94). Only two copies of the map are extant: this one from the American Geographical Society Library, and one at the New York Public Library. This is also the first map to apply the name America to the North American continent as well as to South America...
    • Contributor: Mercator, Gerhard
    • Date: 1538-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Vera totius expeditionis nauticæ : descriptio D. Franc. Draci ... Shows routes around the world of Sir Francis Drake between 1577 and 1580 and Thomas Cavendish between 1586 and 1588. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift of the estate of Robert H. Power. Includes text, 2 ancillary maps showing landing at California and Java, 2 ancillary views showing Drake's welcome at Moluccas and Drake's ship cast...
    • Contributor: Power, Robert H. - Hondius, Jodocus
    • Date: 1595-01-01
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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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    Alexandri magni imperium et expeditio per Europam, per Africam et potissimum per Asiam Relief shown pictorially. Includes list of numbered notes and inset showing continets of Africa, Europe, and Asia. LC copies annotated in inks to show boundaries and mounted on linen. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Moulart-Sanson, Pierre
    • Date: 1712-01-01
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    Theatrum historicum ad annum Christi quadringentesimum : in quo tum Imperii Romani tum Barbarorum circum incolentium status ob oculosponitur pars orientalis Shows nations and their borders in color. Relief shown pictorially. Includes globe-shaped inset titled "Supplementum Theatro Historicum" showing continents of Africa, Europe, Asia and northern boundaries of Australia, all with different colors. LC copy has a typewritten paper card: Modern Geography, John Senex, 1708-1725 (cong. Library Washington 550). Property of Andrew Arthur Benton, New York, N. Y. LC copy stamped on: 626888. Available also...
    • Contributor: L'isle, Guillaume De
    • Date: 1725-01-01
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    Typus orbis universalis. Appears in Claudius Ptolemaeus' Geographia. Text on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated in black ink on verso: 187. Vault
    • Contributor: Münster, Sebastian
    • Date: 1550-01-01
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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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    Nova delineatio totius orbis terrarum
    Nouveau carte du monde
    Shirley, Rodney W. Mapping of the world. 1983, 417 Relief shown pictorially. Includes illustrations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Title in Latin and French. Most place names in Latin, some in Dutch.
    • Contributor: Aa, Pieter Van Der
    • Date: 1703-01-01
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    Brasilia. From the author's De Nieuwe en onbekende weereld: of Beschryving van America en 't zuid-land..., 1671 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. LC copy mounted on cloth backing.
    • Contributor: Meurs, Jacob Van - Montanus, Arnoldus
    • Date: 1671-01-01
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    Saint Augustine Map, 1589. This engraved hand-colored map or view-plan by Baptista Boazio depicts Sir Francis Drake's attack on Saint Augustine on May 28-29, 1586. Boazio, an Italian who worked in London from about 1585 to 1603, made maps to illustrate accounts of English expeditions and campaigns. He prepared a series of maps marking Drake's route for Walter Bigges' work on Drake's expedition to the West Indies, first...
    • Contributor: Boazio, Baptista - White, John
    • Date: 1589-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page