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  • Map
    La herdike enterprinse faict par le Signeur Draeck D'Avoir cirquit toute la Terre Includes two inset maps and a portrait of Francis Drake. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, 48 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Gift of Hans P. and Hanni Kraus.
    • Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Sype, Nicola Van
    • Date: 1581-01-01
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    Le novveav monde descovvert et illvstre de nostre temps
    Nouveau monde descouvert et illustre de nostre temps
    Relief shown pictorially. Woodcut. Includes illustrations and notes. Described in the Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of current acquisitions, v. 6 no. 3 May 1949. p. 20-21. LC copy mounted on cloth. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1305 Gift ; Lessing J. Rosenwald ; June 29, 1948. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Chaudière, Guillaume - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Thevet, André
    • Date: 1581-01-01
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    Pervviae avriferae regionis typvs / La Florida / auctore Hieron. Chiaues ; Gvastecan reg.
    Peruuiae auriferae regionis typus | Florida | Gvastecan reg | Guastecan reg
    Shows portion of Central America, northwestern South America, southern United States, and coast of Tamaulipas in Mexico. Relief shown pictorially. Includes illustrations. Transferred from the collection of the Canal Zone Library-Museum, 1980. Map in Latin. French text on verso. Annotated in pencil, on verso, with Canal Zone Library map checklist number: 28.
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Hurtado De Mendoza, Diego - Chaves, Geronimo - Canal Zone Library-Museum
    • Date: 1598-01-01
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    L'Amérique centr[ale] Shows North America south of Canada including the Caribbean. Traced from a ms. world map created for Henri II in 1542 as reproduced in Jomard's Les monuments de la geographie (plate XIX.1), 1842-1862 (Phillips 251). Reversed in lower left: 1556?. Oriented with south to the top. Pen-and-ink and red paint on tracing paper. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 83 Available also through the Library of Congress...
    • Date: 1542-01-01
  • Collection
    [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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    [Maps of Alaska, from approximately 1568 to 1880]
    Alternate supplied title: Alaska title collection--drawer 1 | Alternate supplied title: Alaska title collection--general 1568-1880
    This record covers single general maps of Alaska, 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 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 librarian in...
    • Date: 1568
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    Description du pays armorique à pres Bretaigne. Scale ca. 1:1,100,000. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 651/1
    • Contributor: [Tavernier, Melchoir]
    • Date: 1594-01-01
  • Map
    Cosmographical Map or Universal Description of the World with the Actual Path of the Winds.
    Carte cosmographique ou universelle description du monde avec le vrai traict des vents
    This world map, made in Dieppe, northern France, in 1570, is thought to be the only extant map by Jean Cossin (also seen as Jehan and Johan Cossin), a hydrographer from Dieppe known in his time as an excellent maker of marine maps. It is entitled Carte cosmographique ou universelle description du monde avec le vrai traict des vents (Cosmographical map or universal description...
    • Contributor: Cossin, Jean
    • Date: 1570-01-01
    • Resource: - 2 pages

  • Map
    World Map in two Hemispheres (Bonne Projection), 1566. This world map in two hemispheres using the Bonne projection is by the Norman hydrographer Guillaume Le Testu (1509-72). Bonne maps used a modified conical map projection from circa 1500; the parallels appeared as equally spaced concentric arcs of a circle and the maps had a straight vertical central meridian. The Norman school of hydrographers was active in the French maritime province of Normandy,...
    • Contributor: Le Testu, Guillaume
    • Date: 1566-01-01
    • Resource: - 2 pages

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    World Map, 1566. This portolan world map, drawn by Nicolas Desliens in 1566, synthesizes Norman hydrographic knowledge in the mid-16th century. It is one of two world maps by Desliens known to exist; the other dates from 1541. The map is oriented with south at the top and north at the bottom, giving it an upside-down look to the modern viewer. La Nouvelle France occidentalle (Western New...
    • Contributor: Desliens, Nicolas, Active
    • Date: 1566-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page